back in the olden days,,,

[michael clubb]

Back when you actually had to get up to turn the channel on the tv, then fiddle with the rabbit ears and the tuner knob to get a pretty good picture, there were some great shows. Clem Cadiddlehopper came up on one of my crossword puzzles and that got me thinking. Anyone here ever watch the Red Skelton show? How about Sea Hunt, with Loyd Bridges? What were you favorite shows from way-back-when? Did the whole family gether round to watch them?

[Snagg]

I dug cartoons and "Creature Feature" monster movies. Most TV shows didn't do much for me until the mid-60's rolled around and the wave of largely laughable science fiction came in - I'm looking at you, "Lost In Space" and "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea". Did love more thought-provoking stuff like "Star Trek", "The Prisoner", "The Invaders" (Creeping paranoia, anyone?), and of course, "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits". Loved "Jeopardy".

Hated stuff like "Gilligan's Isle" and "My Mother The Car". Cop shows and medical dramas seemed largely silly. I had a couple of spinster aunts who could have been the inspiration for Patty and Selma on "The Simpsons", except instead of "MacGuyver", their fixation was Jack Lord on "Hawaii Five-O". Kinda disturbing, really.

[Quinn]

Mostly I remember Saturday mornings—Abbott and Costello movies and Bugs Bunny. I remember fighting with my brothers because they wanted to watch the Three Stooges and I wanted to watch Shirley Temple movies.
I remember watching The Waltons with the family. My Dad liked detective shows like Columbo and The Rockford Files.

[Stir Young]

It was big, big stuff when our family friends the Tituses invited us over on Sunday nights to watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" on their color TV. That would have been in the very late 1950s or early '60s, and I would have been about thirteen. It was a media event, I wanna tell ya! Coincidently, Mr Titus was the manager of the TV Department at Sears, Roebuck, where my dad also worked. H-m-m-m-m?

[larry kremis]

I loved Saturday mornings. Sky King, Fury, My Friend Flicka, Rin Tin Tin, The Lone Ranger. Was My Friend Flicka on Sat mornings, I remember Lassie was on Sunday Evening, I think.

My uncle owned a TV store, the first time I saw color tv was at his shop with my dad and other uncles, we watched the World Series in color. I worked for him when I turned 16 and got my drivers license in 1963. I would drive the van and help deliver new TVs. After plugging in the new color TV he would 'degaus' it by waving a circular type wand all around the TV, I think it was to demagnatize it or something.

[P.A.]

An uncle of mine had the first really good color TV I ever saw. I had seen some earlier but they were not good. In Westerns the horses stood still and the color ran. Oddly enough the thing that impressed me the most on his TV was watching The Wild Wild West and James West's horse was black, really really black not dark gray. I use to watch Red Skelton with the family and liked Feddy the Freeloader. Bonanza was my favorite show.

[Aggie]

Roy Rogers, Rawhide and Wagon Train.

[michael clubb]

Wagon Train. Gawd, I loved that show! In fact, I really liked all the westerns. Remember "Raw hide". I still know the song for it. And "Gunsmoke"?

[Aggie]

Rowdy Yeates was great. The young Clint Eastwood.

[Goldilocks46]

In the 50's my family and I liked westerns, too, for the most part. My brother and I liked the early space adventure series too - Captain Video and Captain Midnight. All of us watched TV together in those days, we were a one-TV family.
I bought my own small TV when "Big Valley" and "Star Trek" were scheduled for the same time slot.

[Jaylee53]

I liked "Johnny Quest"....thought he was hot....:-D