I'm so old.....

[Garion_55]

To me, Zoom was a tv show i used to watch when i was little.

As well as New Zoo Review, Electric Company, Banana Splits, Sigmund the Sea monster...

Missing my childhood and my little brother gone 4 years now 8-(

[mr_lebowski]

1. We're gonna zooma zooma zooma zoom ...

Not that I am ... errr ... old enough to remember that, or any of those other fogey shows!

[Garion_55]

2. Lol!

Ultraman during the weekdays hannah Barbara cartoons on Saturdays. Wacky racers. Justice league friends. Wonder Twin powers activate

[mr_lebowski]

4. Ultraman ... and Kimba The White Lion and Speed Racer after school ...

Also, it was Super Friends at the Justice League.

Not that I was there, mind you ... I've just heard ...

[KatyMan]

42. Man that Ultraman opening

Like some kind of goo. I can't find it online but loved it.
Also old school Scooby Doo.

[underpants]

8. Wacky racers.

And at about 10 (or was it 11?) we raced out of the house for our day of adventure.

“I want to be a puh-sychiatrist”
“Beep beep sha bang!”

We watched the exact same shows. I’d forgotten about Zoom.

[consider_this]

26. OMG - that theme song! LOL n/t

[BusyBeingBest]

39. I had to watch a clip of that on youtube to remember that idiotic show.

It was mock-worthy/cheesy back even then. My older brothers made fun of it relentlessly, and we thought it was weird and gross how they were in bare feet.

[TEB]

3. Always wanted to hang out and play

With the banana splits when I was a kid

[Wounded Bear]

5. I'm so old, I pinned Christ's corporal stripes on him...

[TEB]

7. Yes and the $50 extra pay was appreciated

Pvt - three days after pay day activities hey corporal you have $20 I could borrow I’ll hit you back on payday

[emmaverybo]

6. I'm so old my daughter was probably too old for these. Her daycare tuned in to Sesame Street.

It was new. “Experts” thought the visuals might drive children to take YLSD as they got older because they would crave that level of Visual we stimulation. They thought the show could do something to brain waves and that it simulated an LSD kind of experience

Having taken LSD at some point n their journey, the parents knew the puppets and cutting from one little colorful scene to the next didn’t begin to approachLSD.

So I am talking old. My daughter learned some first aid from the show Emergency some years later. Now that’s old.

[Grammy23]

9. I'm so old that my TV was tuned to Captain Kangaroo and his merry bunch.

And before that I watched Miss Frances’ Ding Dong School. My big sister hated that show with a purple passion because she said Miss Frances encouraged her viewers to make big messes like cutting paper up in a million giblets. You can guess who got stuck with cleaning up the mess. 😉

There was also an earlier show I watched but the name escapes me. Viewers had a sheet of some kind of clear plastic that you pressed up to the tv screen. (Like a stiffer version of Saran Wrap.) The show’s host would draw things and the viewer followed along using markers to trace over the drawing. Some years later I remember being told by my parents not to sit too close to the screen so I don’t know how they got away with a show that required you to be close enough to touch the screen! Maybe that’s why it didn’t last.

Geeze, Louise. I am OLD.

[cyclonefence]

13. Winky Dink

Move over, Grammy.

Your friend,
Louise

I remember when nobody I knew owned a TV.

[Grammy23]

17. I think we were the first people on our block to get a tv.

We were also the first Ones to get a dishwasher, a big roll around box with hoses that hooked up to the sink faucet. My sister and I argued over who got to load and unload. Unloading was perceived as the easier job, so there were many fights over who got to do it. Daddy would get so mad at us reminding us frequently that we were lucky to even have a dishwasher. (Which we were!) That was in the 1950s.

[House of Roberts]

28. I remember when TV didn't start until noon.

My mom used to play the radio in the morning before I started going to kindergarten, and during the summer.

[consider_this]

25. Following the Captain...

Does anyone remember the Hap Richards Show - it might have been a New England local thing. I used to love the little live animal story video - like the Hammy adventures in a boat - anyone else? ( I can still here the gentle acoustic guitar theme song)

[UncleNoel]

10. I'm so old I see my grandpa when I look in the mirror

I'm 84. Li"l Amber with Sadie Hawkins Day, Smoos, and all that! bet most of you are mystified by that! Try Ally Pop, Gasoline Alley, and on and on...

[cyclonefence]

14. Our Boarding House n/t

[UncleNoel]

23. Terry and the Pirates (featuring Dragon Lady), Jiggs and Maggie

[pansypoo53219]

11. zoom + morgan freeman.

witchy poo.

[dubyadiprecession]

35. I liked the 'Electric Company' which came on after 'Sesame Street'.

Morgan Freeman used to look a lot like Jimmy Hendrix in those days.

[cyclonefence]

46. Freeman was "Easy Reader" on that show

Remember "Fargo North, decoder?" And my favorite joke of all time, the parrot who keeps asking "who is it?" was on the very first episode.

I was at my first job, as a third-grade teacher, and the advent of this show--and Sesame Street, of course--and was immensely grateful for these shows.

[mwooldri]

12. I'm not this old...

... when there was only one TV channel (BBC Television Service), children's programmes were on at 5pm, and then TV went off the air at 6 pm, in order to allow parents to get their kids to bed - TV would return at 8 pm. When commercial television started in the late 1950s this "toddler's truce" ended

Sample of typical early 1950s BBC TV children's programmes:

The BBC may have wiped a lot of its programmes from the era but they did keep the radio and TV listings - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctv/1952-10-31

[NBachers]

15. I'm so old I used to watch Miss Francis and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie

[TruckFump]

16. Me, too.

Also: Howdy Dowdy. 👋

[argyl]

18. Three channels, all off at midnight. Test pattern until 6:00AM.

[crickets]

43. I kinda miss the signoff. 'High Flight' was inspiring. nt

[gab13by13]

19. I'm so old,

I remember listening to Amos and Andy. I think our nation has returned to those days, and Archie Bunker.

[Vinca]

20. I'm so old "zoom" is what my brother uttered when playing with his Tonka trucks.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Never used Zoom, so I might be like...

... the receptionists in this recent SNL skit:

[zackymilly]

22. I remember our first color TV was a colored film that went over the front of the black and white.

It had a green strip on the bottom (for grass I presume), a red strip in the middle (???), and a blue strip on the top (for sky I presume). We also once had a TV that had a round screen and it was like looking through a cardboard tube. I remember getting some tape and making the screen square-shaped.

[Maru Kitteh]

24. It's the Electric Company!

[JHB]

34. ...with a young actor named Morgan Freeman

[SaveOurDemocracy]

27. I remember Romper Room, Sandy Becker and Captain Kangeroo.

Sandy Becker may have been just NY area.

[BusyBeingBest]

41. Captain Kangaroo, certainly!

[Bettie]

29. I think I'm about the same age!

Because I remember all of those too!

[Ohiogal]

30. Didn't anyone watch the Bugs Bunny cartoons

on Saturday mornings?

Rocky and Bullwinkle after school on weekdays?

[AllaN01Bear]

32. raises hand . guilty as charged.

how about beany and ceicel the cartoon series .

[Ohiogal]

33. Oh yeah!

A Bob Clam-pet car-tooooooon!

I had a plush Cecil hand puppet that talked when you pulled the string.

[BusyBeingBest]

37. It's so sad, all my knowledge of high culture...

really did come from Bugs Bunny cartoons

[crickets]

44. Yes! I am a Warner Bros cartoons fanatic.

I also enjoyed Rocky & Bullwinkle and Underdog, but Bugs was my favorite. Road Runner, Pink Panther/Ant and Aardvark. Wow, I watched a lot of cartoons. They were good ones.

I loved Animaniacs when that came along. The multi-layered cartoons that speak to adults and children at the same time are an art unto themselves.

[argyl]

47. I remember the Popeye cartoons.

I don't think you can find them anymore. The ones when he fought the Japanese were really, and I mean really racist.
You may still be able to find him with Olive Oyl and Bluto but the ones of him in WW II are probably locked in a vault. The Alice the Goon ones were quite bizarre.

[AllaN01Bear]

31. romper room. capt kangaroo, the second series , gzilla. coyote and road runner

star trek, no bloody a .b.c. or d. battle star galactica legacy with loren green. list goes on. first used mic chat , then yahoo messenger . now skype . dont want to learn another interface . i saw my grandpa and 2 grandamas sort of remember where i used to live .(glendora ca) chased trains there . ( the old at and sf pasadena ca sub). and so on. ah memories .

[2naSalit]

36. Those didn't exist yet when I was a kid.

[Dem2]

38. Now I feel old.

Cuz that was my childhood also.

[BusyBeingBest]

40. Always watched Electric Company! Also used to watch a bunch of

cartoons that no one seems to remember anymore, like Tennessee Tuxedo and Fractured Fairy Tales. And Happy Days and Laverne And Shirley and Dukes of Hazzard and Emergency and ChiPs...

[Grammy23]

45. How could I forget Mighty Mouse?

Saturday morning were filled with cartoons like Might Mouse. Here I come to save the day! We sang along to the theme with wild enthusiasm.....time after time.

Later that morning we watched My Friend Flicka and Fury, two horse themed shows. At some point Sky King came on and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. Ah, good memories!