What are your oldest TV memories from childhood?

[stoopified]

Among my earliest TV meories:
Magiilah Gorilla animated cartoon by Topper Toys
Daktari- featuring Leo the cross-eyed lion.
The Invaders- scifi about invaders from space.When they took human form they twisted the pinkies.
Lost in Space-the robot saying Danger Will Robinson,Danger.
Rat Patrol- loved them sandune jumping jeeps.
Gentle Ben -Dennis Weaver,Clint Howard and a BIG bear
Flipper Lloyd Bridges,two boys and a dolphin.
Mod Squad-who knew being a narc was so cool?.
Room 222-Karen Valentine.'nuff saud. Anyhow try to stick to childhood memories not rerun memories.That is why Gilligans Island,Leave It to Beaver and Andy Griffith Show disn't make my list.

[sooner_born_1960]

I recall watching The Rifleman.

[Mongo]

My first ever memory was trying to sneek in my parents room to watch "The Thing" with them. They kept warning me to go back to bed. I snuck back in about the time the alien thing popped out of the stomach.

scarred me for life

[yermom]

dude, you can't discount Gilligan's Island reruns...

i'm thinking the oldest one i can name are Sesame Street, Electric Company and Captain Kangaroo

[jk the sooner fan]

saturday mornings - Land of the Lost

alot of Gilligans Island, Brady Bunch, and Batman after school

[Viking Kitten]

My first specific TV memory is from All in the Family - watching the birth of Little Joey. I remember this clearly because I found the whole thing rather embarrassing so I went and hid under the couch. I would have been about four. I have general memories of watching shows like the Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Marcus Welby and Sesame Street though.

[Chuck Bao]

"The Millionarie". I guess I remember the show because I was just a little kid and asked my mom if we were rich.

She said: "no, but we're just on the rich side of poor."

Most of those 50s and 60s TV shows I watched in re-runs, so I'm a bit confused on when I first watched them.

I do know that I got a big kick out of watching the "Rifleman" re-runs and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches after school.

[sooneron]

Adam 12
Emergency!
Hawaii Five-O
All In the Family

The strange thing is, my oldest most burned in visual is that foreboding night shot of the White House at night during Watergate - I was about 5-6 at the time.

[Petro-Sooner]

Romper Room
Incredible Hulk
Dukes of Hazard
The Fall Guy

[royalfan5]

Davey and Goliath
Masters of the Universe
Transformers
Thundercats.

[jk the sooner fan]

adam-12 - now there's a memory, when i was 12 or 13, my grandmother took me out to california to see where i was born, etc......we toured Universal Studio's and got our picture taken in the Adam 12 car, both of us wearing the police cap...

i used to watch that show often

[stoopified]

Most of those 50s and 60s TV shows I watched in re-runs, so I'm a bit confused on when I first watched them.

Bingo that is why I excluded reruns from my list.

[Howzit]

dude, you can't discount Gilligan's Island reruns...



Reruns? I remember watching it in black and white because we didn't have one of those new fangled color ones yet.

My eariest tv memory is watching Captain Kangaroo every morning.

I also remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and all the screaming girls, and the old man wondering wtf they were all screaming about.

I remember the tv coverage of Jack Ruby being shot, and how freaked out my parents were.

[Mjcpr]

Reruns? I remember watching it in black and white because we didn't have one of those new fangled color ones yet.

My eariest tv memory is watching Captain Kangaroo every morning.

I also remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and all the screaming girls, and the old man wondering wtf they were all screaming about.

I remember the tv coverage of Jack Ruby being shot, and how freaked out my parents were.

Did the dinosaurs interfere with your TV reception?

[crawfish]

My parents tell me I was a huge "Gunsmoke" fan as a little tyke. I really don't remember watching it, though, so I guess it wouldn't be my oldest tv "memory".

Sesame Street, Electric Company, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers - those are the earliest I remember. I remember being upset when we moved from the D.C. area to Norman because Sesame Street wasn't on TV there yet (it came a few months later).

[crawfish]

Reruns? I remember watching it in black and white because we didn't have one of those new fangled color ones yet.

My eariest tv memory is watching Captain Kangaroo every morning.

I also remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and all the screaming girls, and the old man wondering wtf they were all screaming about.

I remember the tv coverage of Jack Ruby being shot, and how freaked out my parents were.

Wow. You're old.

[soonernation]

Watching MASH with the folks.

[Viking Kitten]

Did the dinosaurs interfere with your TV reception?

That's a really stupid question. Like he would even have time to watch TV, what with being chased around by T-Rexes all the time.

[sooneron]

Ooh, I forgot Zoom and Villa Allegre!

[jk the sooner fan]

My eariest tv memory is watching Captain Kangaroo every morning.



oh yeah, forgot about that show.....mr green jeans was cool! :)

[sooneron]

I also forgot HR Puffinstuff! That was trippy goodness.

[C&CDean]

We didn't get our first television until August, 1963. It was a Montgomery-Wards black & white. It took a couple minutes to warm up, and when you shut it off, it would kind of pop, and you'd get a little pinpoint of light for a minute or so afterward. I remember watching the National Anthem when the 3 channels we had back then went off the air at 10:30. I remember watching the test pattern on Saturday morning waiting for cartoons to start. More distinct memories:

I remember Walter Cronkite saying something like "at 10:22 this morning, President John F. Kennedy passed away..."

I also remember Ruby shooting Oswald. I remember watching LBJ getting sworn in on AF-1 with Jackie Snatch standing next to him.

I remember Captain Kanagroo and Mr. Greenjeans. I too watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan (Elvis too).

Gunsmoke, Palladin, Branded, The Rifleman, Combat (starring Vic Morrow), Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters, The Adams Family, Hawaii 5-O, Dragnet, Adam-12, Disney's Wide World of Color (in B&W), Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, the first moonwalk of Neil Armstrong, and a whole lot of other ****.

[dolemitesooner]

I remember watching Skinamax and spanking it and skeeting all over the tv

[C&CDean]

Geez. Doleo has his horn on this morning. Is yermom out of town?

[Howzit]

I also remember Ruby shooting Oswald. I remember watching LBJ getting sworn in on AF-1 with Jackie Snatch standing next to him.



I, of course, meant Ruby shooting Oswald.... :O

[jk the sooner fan]

I remember watching Skinamax and spanking it and skeeting all over the tv

what were you watching all those other times?

[dolemitesooner]

what were you watching all those other times?
Dallas
and Knot's landing .....I had to use my imagination then.


OHH OHH AND

golden girls in sidcation

[Howzit]

Holee carp...I just had a flashback. I remember watching Captain Kangaroo one morning and sticking a bean in my ear. The moisture made it swell, and the little bastard got stuck. Mom had to take me in to the doctor and have him dig it out with some probe thing, with me screaming like a banshee the whole time.

Boy, was mom ****ed.

[C&CDean]

Holee carp...I just had a flashback. I remember watching Captain Kangaroo one morning and sticking a bean in my ear. The moisture made it swell, and the little bastard got stuck. Mom had to take me in to the doctor and have him dig it out with some probe thing, with me screaming like a banshee the whole time.

Boy, was mom ****ed.

Heh. I stuck a cherry seed up my nose - but I don't remember what TV show I was watching, and my dad dislodged it when he rapped me in the back of the head while saying "blow hard boy."

[Chuck Bao]

Oh, my best memories were Channel 12's (Ardmore-Sherman-Denison) Shock Theatre at 10:30pm on Saturday nights. Those old black and white vampire movies are funny now, but they scared the crap out of me back then.

SNL has nothing on that Dr. Jekyll / mad scientist dude and his wife doing the presenting of the feature movie.

[jk the sooner fan]

my step sister stuck a bunch of goobers up her nose at a movie, they had to take her to the ER to get them removed

[soonernation]

Chips (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/61-chips/)

Mork&Mindy (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/73-mork---mindy/)

Sanford&Son (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/289-sanford-and-son/)

Happy_Days (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/135-happy-days/)

The_Bob_Newhart_Show (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/1472-the-bob-newhart-show/)

Hogans_Hero (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/2375-hogans-heroes/)es

Charlies_Angels (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/628-charlies-angels/)

Starsky&Hutch (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/572-starsky---hutch/)

Kojak (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/508-kojak/)

Taxi (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/746-taxi/)

[Flagstaffsooner]

Foreman Scotty. Local stuff.

[swardboy]

Whippersnappers....I watched "The Howdy Doody Show"....man, did wooden puppets scare me back in the day.

[Petro-Sooner]

Station 51. I think thats what it was called. Show about two firemen. Similar to Chips.

[Tailwind]

Wallace and Ladmo, Donna reed, Hazel, The Rifleman ,and wrestling, starring Gorgeous George.

[OUstud]

Double Dare, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and that Express Personnel commercial, the "I got a job" one. :D

[OUinFLA]

What a bunch of youngsters.
Howdy Doody
Buster Brown
Sky King
Cisco Kid
Lone Ranger

Heck I even remember when Durant couldn't get any tv stations at all.
Seems like KTEN was the first available station.

[Newbomb Turk]

Foreman Scotty. Local stuff.

Captain 11 was our local kids show.

I also remember watching Night Gallery with my older brother and sisters - it skeered me.

[TUSooner]

Roy Rogers was my first most-favorite show.
I also liked Superman, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle (sp?) & them about that time .
A bit later, it was all about Westerns. ZILLIONS of em - Bonanza, Gunsmoke, the Rifleman, Paladin /Have Gun Will Travel, Bat Masterson, and the list goes on, with all kinds of guys with unique weapons and stuff.
Combat was my favorite as long as it was on - I absolutely hated to miss it.
And the Warner Bros Bugs Bunny/ Daffy Duck stuff.
And - oh yeah - one of my all time favorites (just before bed time on Sunday nights?) RED SKELTON.

[BajaOklahoma]

Ding-Dong School with Miss Francis
Captain Kangaroo (until we were in high school - it was better than a timer)
Sky King
Roy Rogers
Cisco & Pancho
Mighty Mouse
Looney Tunes
Foreman Scotty
Miss Fran from Storyland (who almost became my stepmother)
Sherri Lewis & Lambchop
Davey & Goliath (Sunday mornings before church)
Bonanza - watched it with my dad just to see the Corvettes
Perry Mason

[Scott D]

Enjoli (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4X4MwbVf5OA)

[C&CDean]

Wallace and Ladmo, Donna reed, Hazel, The Rifleman ,and wrestling, starring Gorgeous George.

Wallace and Ladmo? Were you raised in Phoenix? Down in Tucson we had Marshall K-Gun and Uncle Bob. When we'd go to my cousin's house in Phoenix they had Wallace and Ladmo.

Gorgeous George, Pepe Lopez, Chief Wahoo McDaniels....

[usmc-sooner]

the 6 million dollar man

[OKLA21FAN]

Station 51. I think thats what it was called. Show about two firemen. Similar to Chips.
i think that was 'emergency 51' i still can hear the fire station alarm
http://www.geocities.com/scotts_emergency51/roy_and_johnny_posed.jpg

for me it was 'Dark Shadows' and 'The Rat Patrol'

[olevetonahill]

Any one remember watching any of the Nuremburg trials ?
How "Queen for a day " And No it wasnt about sicem .

[Soonrboy]

remember when you had to let your tv warm up, and the sound would come on long before the picture. fun times.

[sooneron]

Remember the slidey channel changer thing that the cable companies used to issue?- it had a wicked long cable!

[Petro-Sooner]

i think that was 'emergency 51' i still can hear the fire station alarm
http://www.geocities.com/scotts_emergency51/roy_and_johnny_posed.jpg

for me it was 'Dark Shadows' and 'The Rat Patrol'


YES Thats it!!! I'd get the police and firetrucks out and play sirens in the kitchen. I'm sure mom loved it. :D

[pb4ou]

I was a huge Emergency fan as a kid. Also I loved The Incredible Hulk.

Earliest memory? I have to agree with Yermom, it had to be sesame street & the electric company

[Petro-Sooner]

KMG-635

[Petro-Sooner]

Fat Albert
The Muppets.

[pb4ou]

When I was about 6, I wrote a letter to Penny from Lost in Space asking her to come over for a sleepover.

Of course that was way before I knew what Hanky Panky was. In my own defense, I was willing to learn if she came over. :D

[Petro-Sooner]

Pigs in Spaaaaaace.........

[85Sooner]

Batman and robin

[olevetonahill]

route 66

[Salt City Sooner]

Shazam:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9cv3q5iw3mk&mode=related&search=

Land of the Lost:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D6LZzVCpYDY

The Pink Panther:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VnLhvMStUWU

Hong Kong Phooey:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vfeAqlYv2wQ

The Electric Company (Bill Cosby/Morgan Freeman alert):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q_j0vcc70Ig

Rocky & Bullwinkle:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pl7Ww5w2-BI

Six Million Dollar Man:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=woOLEEu8RLI

Chico & the Man:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oXdYrERzrWg

Starsky & Hutch:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bnyUjnoICnI

[Viking Kitten]

When I was about 6, I wrote a letter to Penny from Lost in Space asking her to come over for a sleepover.

Of course that was way before I knew what Hanky Panky was. In my own defense, I was willing to learn if she came over. :D

Oh heck. How could I have left "Welcome Back Kotter" off my previous list? When I was five I wrote John Travolta a letter asking him to marry me. I had the sweet metal lunchbox and everything.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Hoho the Clown
[img=http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/6307/hohoen3.th.jpg] (http://img375.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hohoen3.jpg)

[TUSooner]

KMG-635
853-OKG

Rockford's plate. James Garner once said the 853 was for August, 1953, when Garner got his first acting job, and the OKG is for OKlahoma Garner.

Rockford Files was one of my favorite TV shows ever, but I wasn't exactly a little kid.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

"Plunk yer Magic Twanger, Froggy! Hiya kids, hiya! Nice! I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe. This is my dog, Tyke. He lives with me there, too."

[Sooner24]

Ding-Dong School with Miss Francis
Captain Kangaroo (until we were in high school - it was better than a timer)
Sky King
Roy Rogers
Cisco & Pancho
Mighty Mouse
Looney Tunes
Foreman Scotty
Miss Fran from Storyland (who almost became my stepmother)
Sherri Lewis & Lambchop
Davey & Goliath (Sunday mornings before church)
Bonanza - watched it with my dad just to see the Corvettes
Perry Mason

Throw in Superman, Ho Ho the Clown, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin and Saturday night wrestling with Danny Williams and that looks almost like mine. :eek:

I would get up on Saturday mornings and watch this,

http://www.akdart.com/rca-j.gif


for a couple of hours before the station signed on. :O

[OU4LIFE]

Ultraman, bitches.

http://www.webraw.com/blog/ultraman.jpg

YouTube Ultraman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuppRPWS8ic)

Damn that's some good writing. :D

[afs]

Bewitched
Andy Griffith
I Dream of Jeanne
Star Wars broadcast - not the movie but the Pres. Regan type
the Challenger explosion
CHiPs
Dukes of Hazzard
Price is Right

[rd280z]

Seeing President Eisenhower on TV giving a speech when I was very young

[Tailwind]

Wallace and Ladmo? Were you raised in Phoenix? Down in Tucson we had Marshall K-Gun and Uncle Bob. When we'd go to my cousin's house in Phoenix they had Wallace and Ladmo.

Gorgeous George, Pepe Lopez, Chief Wahoo McDaniels....
Raised in Ajo, 107 miles south of Phoenix.

[SoonerInKCMO]

Watching the Watergate hearings while sitting on the green shag carpet in our living room.

[phead903]

http://images-partners-tbn.google.com/images?q=tbn:CG18CaEspVhzEM:myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/tvhorrorhosts/grafix/mazeppa.jpg

Not my oldest, but one of my favorites...Mazeppa Pompoizodi's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting also with Sherman Oaks and Teddy Jack Eddy!!!

[Soonerus]

What a great thread, I remember many of the same things as C&C Dean, but we must mention Andy Griffith, Lawrence Welk and the primary sporting event was the one baseball game of the week...our TV was like Dean's too...

[blueyedsooner]

Romper Room -look in the mirror and say my name PLEASE!!!
Fantasy Island
Dukes of Hazzard
Good Times - I remember them breaking in to report on Reagan being shot
Three's Company
One Day at a Time
Land of the Lost
Muppet Show
Fraggle Rock - not that old
Captain Kangaroo
Bewitched
Hoho the clown
Welcome Back Kotter
Mork and Mindy
Family Affair
My Favorite Martian
The Mandrells
Wonder Woman
Electric Company
What's Happening
Alice
Facts of Life
Charlie's Angels
The Love Boat
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Incredible Hulk

[stoopified]

Foreman Scotty,wow I forgot about that show and Ho-Ho the Clown.Felix the Cat and Romper Room.Also I rember The Beatles Yellow Submarine cartoon(didnt like it but remember it,too young to appreciate).

This jogged loose a partial memory,anyone recall a TV show featuring two astronauts and a caveman?Only thing else I recall about it was the tag line ITS ABOUT TIME,ITS ABOUT SPACE.

[captain_surly]

I thought The Rifleman was for adults only because I always had to go to bed when it came on. Also didn't get to see the end of Wizard of Oz till I was damn near grown because it always came on Sunday afternoon and we had to leave for church before it was over. Those flying monkeys gave me nightmares.

When I was in grade school at a tiny town in Leflore county, they would set up a TV in the gym and let the entire school out of class to watch the world series. I still have bad memories of that left handed bastard from the Tigers getting the best of Bob Gibson in 1968.

[C&CDean]

Raised in Ajo, 107 miles south of Phoenix.

No ****? You were raised in Garlicville? It's just down the road from Tucson. Isn't Kitt Peak on the Ajo highway? I remember a chick who was going to school for her nursing degree (she dated and later married a buddy of mine). Anyhow, she was working at a funeral home when a bunch of illegals died over by Ajo (1977ish?). Her job was cutting up the entrails after autopsy so they would all fit back into the body. I learned that day that they also put the brain into the abdomen after autopsy.

So, we're eating carne seca chimichangas with guacamole all over them when she says "we got 6 of those mexican's bodies at the mortuary today. I guess they had drank after shave. And let me tell you, you are what you eat. When we opened those guys up they stunk like hell and were full of maggots." As she scoops up a big ol' chunk of machaca....

Good memories.

[C&CDean]

I thought The Rifleman was for adults only because I always had to go to bed when it came on. Also didn't get to see the end of Wizard of Oz till I was damn near grown because it always came on Sunday afternoon and we had to leave for church before it was over. Those flying monkeys gave me nightmares.

When I was in grade school at a tiny town in Leflore county, they would set up a TV in the gym and let the entire school out of class to watch the world series. I still have bad memories of that left handed bastard from the Tigers getting the best of Bob Gibson in 1968.

Mickey Lolich. And I too got to watch WS games at school.

[TUSooner]

Mickey Lolich. And I too got to watch WS games at school.
We had to take transistor radios to school in San Diego. I loved Bob Gibson and the Cardinals; still hate Lolich for that year.

[TUSooner]

Ahh soonerus -
Nothing said Saturday like the Game of the Week with Pee Wee Reese and Dizzy Dean, sponsored by Fallstaff.

[OUWxGuesser]

Oldest stuff I remember is A-Team and Airwolf. Ahhh to be a toddler in the 80s

[AllAboutThe'O']

Didn't get cable until I was about 8. But I still had a good amount of TV shows to feast on:

The Incredible Hulk
Dukes of Hazzard
The 6 Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman
The Love Boat
Fantasy Island
The Gong Show
The Price is Right
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Superfriends
The $20,000 Pyramid
Pink Panther
The Three Stooges
The Little Rascals

Also, one of our local TV stations (out of Shreveport) would always show "The Big Movie," right after the 10 p.m. news. I still remember the theme song and the opening visuals, of spinning movie reels.

[olevetonahill]

Do remeberin Radio befor TV count ?:cool:

[stoopified]

I can't believe I forgot HOTWHEELS on Saturday morning cartoons.

[Flagstaffsooner]

Any remember the Ida Bee Show on ch 5?:O