What is your earliest memory of TV? (NYC, music, cartoon)

[Fat Freddy]

My first exposure to TV was the strange blue glow coming from the next door neighbors window.

I had just heard we dropped a huge bomb that blew up Japan and it made everything glow blue.

I thought it had something to do with that.

[NCDave]

I was born at the edge of the Ozarks when TV wasn't available there. I remember seeing Our Miss Brooks when we visited friends in Memphis, probably in 1956.

[tmozer]

I would say 1955. Since my mother worked for RCA we had a round small screen B&W TV before most folks had a TV (and still had it years later - my friends would laugh when they saw it). My first memories was watching Howdy Doodie while eating dinner in front of the TV.

[Just Zola]

I'm a '93 girl, but can barely recall what I watched during my early childhood. Perhaps because I was still living in South Africa, and the TV Channels didn't have much of a clue when it came to quality programming.

When I arrived in the UK in 2001, I remember enjoying "Grange Hill", "Byker Grove", "Sabrina", "Newsround" & "Knightmare" amongst a few others whose names escape me

[the searchers]

My first view of a TV was through the big display window of a store since we didn't own one.

Once we got one at my age it was Kukla, Fran and Ollie or the Howdy Doody Show.

[mag32gie]

Originally Posted by the searchers

My first view of a TV was through the big display window of a store since we didn't own one.

Once we got one at my age it was Kukla, Fran and Ollie or the Howdy Doody Show.

Same here, first ever to sit in front of the TV and watch.

[tmozer]

I remember my first view of a color TV. It was in a restaurant my Grandparents took us to in Wildwood NJ with a long wait for seating. There was a color TV behind the bar (I would guess it was the late 50's, maybe early 60's). The colors were all screwy but I was very impressed.

At home we did not have a color TV until I was in college (late 60's/early 70's). My father put one together from a Heath Kit. It was a million pieces that he had to solder on countless boards. I think it took him a couple months.

[Coney]

Originally Posted by tmozer

I remember my first view of a color TV. It was in a restaurant my Grandparents took us to in Wildwood NJ with a long wait for seating. There was a color TV behind the bar (I would guess it was the late 50's, maybe early 60's). The colors were all screwy but I was very impressed.

At home we did not have a color TV until I was in college (late 60's/early 70's). My father put one together from a Heath Kit. It was a million pieces that he had to solder on countless boards. I think it took him a couple months.

Television programs were still in black and white during the early 60s.

[the searchers]

Although all-electronic color was introduced in the U.S. in 1953, high prices and the scarcity of color programming greatly slowed its acceptance in the marketplace. The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) occurred on January 1, 1954, but during the next ten years most network broadcasts, and nearly all local programming, continued to be in black-and-white.

It was not until the mid-1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers, due in part to the color transition of 1965 in which it was announced that over half of all network prime-time programming would be broadcast in color that autumn. The first all-color prime-time season came just one year later.

[Star10101]

The first programme I can remember watching was Top Of The Pops on the BBC, back in the early 70s. I remember watching it with my brother, and there was Glam Rock at the time, and the artists were all dressed up with their outrageous costumes and platform boots.