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Our Miss Brooks with Eve Arden.
The Dobey Gillis (sic) Show. Bob Denver played a beatnick. Manard G. Crebs. Daddy o.
George Putnam commentary. 'It's 10 0clock. Do you know where your children are'?
I was born in '54. I think some of this goes back to the late '50s. If not then the early '60s.
Go back much further and people were watching radio. And had ice boxes! And great cars!!
TV used to go off air late at night. There would be a scene with a wind blown American flag and they played the national anthem. Next a high pitched tone would sound and the screen would be filled with something that looked like an archery target. Just to let you know it was past your bedtime. Child and adult.
And that Captain Kangaroo. The guy never aged. He looked the same when I was 6 'till the day he left us.
I think it was the make-up crew. They have a way of taking a 90 year old bag into a gorgeous kitty.....and a 20 year old man into an ape, lol! Funny, Goldie Hawn, even today at 60-something years old, looks great on camera.
I guess I'm the old guy with the rich parents. We lived in Newark NJ in the late 40s and had a TV with a very small screen and a big, oil filled, magnifying glass. I think we got 2 stations out of NY City. I'm straining my brain to remember some of the shows we watched. I remember a show about the Navy. Don't know the name but the hero was Capt Winslow. That would have been 1949.I was 4. We were not really rich. Must have been upper middle class. I didn't realize until I was an adult that we had a lot of things my friends didn't have.
I would turn on the TV at 3:15 and stare at the test pattern for 15 minutes until the Howdy Doody Show came on. Afterwards, there were 15 minute serials that always had cliffhanger endings. One of these was "Don Winslow Of The Navy" and another was "Hawkeye and The Last Of The Mohicans." The latter was sponsored by an ice cream maker, and I can still remember the scotch plaid design on the container. (Who says advertising doesn't pay?)
My early rememberings of TV would be watching the Disney movie on Sunday at 6:00pm, and for some strange reason (maybe because it was traumatizing) I remember that my parents always watched "Hee Haw" on Saturday at 6:00pm!!
Don't ask me why I suddenly remember all shows that aired at 6:00pm!
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