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Fri Mar-04-05 01:57 AM
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What was your favorite Childhood show? Not Animated. |
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Here are a few of mine:
The New Zoo Review
Capitan Kangaroo
HR Puff N Stuff
The Monkeys show for kids
Gumby
Buy the way, I was a child of the early to mid 70's.
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Fri Mar-04-05 01:59 AM
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Bozo the Clown (the one on WGN-I saw another and hated it) and the Electric Company.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:01 AM
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2. Pryor's Place and Captain Kangaroo! |
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:01 AM
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3. Howdy Doody; and Kukla, Fran and Ollie . . . |
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:04 AM
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I have an autographed picture of Buffalo Bob from the 1995 NY toy fair. May he rest in peace
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:07 AM
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8. Oh, wow ! Maybe you should "Antiques Roadshow" it?! n/t |
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:18 AM
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13. It is framed next to me shaking hands with the Big Dog |
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and bunches of famous racers from the 70's & 80's. I can't remember a single bit of any of the shows, but in the fifties and early sixties, I was glued to the TV after school.
Then I discovered cars and girls. And the rest is history.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:03 AM
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4. The Capitan, Zoom, Sesame Street, Electric Company |
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Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 02:12 AM by tridim
PBS up and down the board.
Edit: Mr. Rogers too.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:05 AM
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7. Wow, thats four people who have mentioned Capitan Kangaroo |
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:05 AM
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:07 AM
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...and Kapitan Kangaroo. Captain Penny (regional) and later...Laugh In
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Sat Mar-05-05 01:26 AM
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31. I'm not sure "animated" doesn't include "puppets"... |
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...but, yes, I loved Supercar. I even used to have the LP. And I was always trying to build myself a Supercar out of cardboard boxes...and getting hugely disappointed that I could never get it to look right.
During my last year in L.A. (1963-64) channel 9 had an afternoon kid's show called "Nine Island" -- really a "wrapper" show around the usual cartoon serials. Anyway, it supposedly took place on a mysterious island shaped like a "9"...with a futuristic studio where the host (can't remember his name) ran the show with the help (?) of a wise-cracking computer named the Weisenheimer. I used to think the island was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:09 AM
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10. Ummmm, I watched . . . |
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The Electric Company, Sesame Street, and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood with my kids when they were little . . . great stuff. I recall the first show of Sesame Street . . .
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:10 AM
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11. You can't do that on Television |
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There's never been another kids show like it.
After that, Electric Company, Sesame Street, and 3-2-1 Contact.
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Fri Mar-04-05 08:26 AM
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With the addition of Kids Incorporated and Clarissa Explains it All.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:11 AM
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Captain Kangaroo and Three's Company
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:37 AM
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22. I loved Dark Shadows.... |
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People now think its weird that a Soap Opera could be a Gothic Horror, but when I was young, it was as part of daytime TV as As the World Turns. Loved it.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:29 AM
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Captain Kangaroo Sherry Lewis with Lambchop Kukla Fran and Ollie Mister Ed Please Don't Eat The Daisies
And not too many people remember this one.... The Paul Winchell Show with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smith. Jerry and Knucklehead were ventriloquist dummies, Jerry being the smarter of the two of course, and their schtick was very reminiscent of the Smothers Brothers, Tommy and Dickie :-) Another show I liked way back when.
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Sat Mar-05-05 03:09 AM
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40. officially I am old, I remember ALL of these |
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did you know Paul Winchell invented an artificial heart valve?
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:43 AM
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15. Not Sure If This Qualifies, But |
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one of my favorite shows from my childhood was Highway To Heaven. Damn, that was what Christianity was SUPPOSED to be about. About helping out downtrodden people. Not about treading on the already down and out in the name of Jesus.
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Fri Mar-04-05 02:45 AM
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and reading rainbow...LOVED that show. o, and mr rogers of course. and wishbone!! wishbone was the SHIT
can you tell i watched PBS a lot? that's all we ever watched before we got satellite... that's how i inherited my love of british comedy
child of the early 90's :P
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:03 AM
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Still one of my favs today.
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:19 AM
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20. Batman on TV means...Batgirl! |
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:15 AM
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18. No fair. Gumby was animated! |
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I don't have any favorites. We had crap live shows in Canada. (Except for the shows on CBC. God forbid you should dis Mr. Dressup or the Friendly Giant!)
There was one show called Uncle Bobby. Every frikkin' week the prize was a Matchbox Superfast and some squirrel danced around a lot.
Oh, dear Lord, I just remembered a kid's game show called Puppet People. And then there was another one with two pairs of siblings.
Pee-Wee's Playhouse made up for all of that.
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:29 AM
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made me :scared:
How they would pick someone with all the warmth and compassion of Paul Wolfowitz to do a kid's tv show is beyond me.
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:17 AM
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I was a precocious little bugger!
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:24 AM
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21. Captain Kangaroo with Mr Green Jeans |
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Our Gang which I loved Soupy Sales I also watched: I Love Lucy Amos and Andy I Love Bob Doby Gillis Oh Susannah! Topper Lots of Abbott and Costello, Three Stooges, and Marx Brothers Ah, those were the days. My complaint is that they don't show this stuff on satellite.
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:29 AM
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37. Why don't they offer this stuff on satellite tv? |
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All they offer is drivel. Hardly anything from the golden years of television.
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Sat Mar-05-05 03:12 AM
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41. I forgot about Amos/Andy, Dobie, Bob Cummings (Love That Bob) |
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and My Living Doll and who could forget TOPPER
Our Gang, Shirley Temple Theatre
Ozzie Harriet Father Knows Best Make Room for Daddy
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:39 AM
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Bugs Bunny, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, MASK, The Transformers, Centurions, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?, Double Dare, Fun House, Duck Tales, The Super Mario Bros Super Show, and any old game shows that aired on USA Network and the old Family Channel (a good station in the afternoon even though Pat Robertson owned it at the time).
Edit: Oh crap, you said "not animated". Tough shit, I'm not deleting the animated shows I listed. :evilgrin:
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:43 AM
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24. Any NY'ers here remember... |
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Wonderama, Officer Joe Bolton, Capt. Jack McCarthy, Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox, Bungalow Bill, Uncle Floyd, etc.
And if Gumby is acceptable, then I vote for "Davey and Goliath"
...but maybe not Jasper!:)
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Fri Mar-04-05 03:51 AM
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25. No TV when I was a child. I loved the spook shows on radio |
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My father would not let me go to the Sat. movies that ran the weekly style shows. Not because of the shows but he said the movie building was a fire trap.
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Fri Mar-04-05 04:09 AM
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26. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! |
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This bizarre amalgation of live-action and animation was like crack to my Nintendo-addicted mind. Any show that has CAPTAIN LOU ALBANO as Mario deserves all the entertainment awards in the world.
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Fri Mar-04-05 08:21 AM
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28. I saw the debut of Monty Python;s Flying Circus in England |
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I was about 12 but I just loved that show. I remember how badly I thought American TV SUCKED when I came back to the states.
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Fri Mar-04-05 08:31 AM
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I really wish I could see a few episodes now. I have this general feeling that they were unwatchable (for an adult) but I don't remember many of the specifics.
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:04 AM
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32. Soupy Sales...until he told kids to go get money from their parents wallet |
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and mail it to 'Uncle Soupy.' And the network failed to see the humor in Uncle Soupy's joke. Sad.
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:12 AM
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33. The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz |
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Buy the way, I was a child of the early 50's.
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:56 AM
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39. Yep. Lest we forget the Splits.... |
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:22 AM
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35. perry mason (the original) |
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when I was 4, that was my fave
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Sat Mar-05-05 02:30 AM
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38. Hilarious House of Frightenstein |
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was my fav.
Mr Dressup, The Friendly Giant and Sesame Street were the others.
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