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ClevelandBronco 09-26-2016 11:18 PM
Beany and Cecil here. I was a cartoon junkie as a kid.

suzzer99 09-27-2016 12:32 AM
Does anyone remember a live-action show where a giant spider would terrorize people? I'm almost sure it was a weekly show. It would be on after church every week. Freaked me out.

splatbass 09-27-2016 12:32 AM
I remember Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Batman, Laugh-In, My Three Sons and a few others. I have no idea which was the first, but probably Red Skelton.

Darien25 09-27-2016 01:28 AM
Sky King

stumppy 09-27-2016 04:54 AM
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Rep for the first to name this show.

Man, Science fiction has come along way.

loochy 09-27-2016 04:57 AM
AIRWOLF

R Clark 09-27-2016 07:01 AM
We got one sometimes two channels out of Wichita, local show only Iam sure ,called major astro .Dress like astronaut played cartoons always talked about taking a trip to the moon. Pack your bags boys and girls we're leaving tomorrow

ClevelandBronco 09-27-2016 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by stumppy (Post 12452378)
Rep for the first to name this show.

Man, Science fiction has come along way.
It's About Time

KC_Lee 09-27-2016 07:40 AM
Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot. Set me on my love of all things kaiju.

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Frosty 09-27-2016 01:57 PM
Since Sco63 is apparently mining my childhood, I thought I would add another one. Did anyone else watch this as a kid? It wasn't on for very long.

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scho63 09-27-2016 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Frosty (Post 12453140)
Since Sco63 is apparently mining my childhood, I thought I would add another one. Did anyone else watch this as a kid? It wasn't on for very long.

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Watched them on Saturday mornings with the rest of the cartoons. The first cartoon on was Bugs Bunny at 8am. I think the last cartoon on was around 11:30 am and it was the Pink Panther.

There was 3 channels of kids cartoons on Saturday mornings back in the 70's.

scho63 09-27-2016 02:30 PM
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scho63 09-27-2016 02:31 PM
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scho63 09-27-2016 02:31 PM
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stumppy 09-27-2016 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco (Post 12452436)
It's About Time
Correct.

scho63 09-27-2016 02:35 PM
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scho63 09-27-2016 02:36 PM
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Amnorix 09-27-2016 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Buzz (Post 12452057)
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I think that was it, boring as **** for a kid. I could probably enjoy that now.

Oh come on. Even at a young age I enjoyed "while Jim is wrestling with that enraged wild boar, let us pause for a moment -- while sitting in the safety of my studio -- to discuss Mutual of Omaha whole life policies...."

[Meanwhile Jim is engaged in a battle to the death with a boar in the background] ROFL

Lzen 09-27-2016 02:37 PM
Sesame Street

Amnorix 09-27-2016 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 12452230)
This may be my most successful thread of all time. It's still going strong after ten years.

Seriously! My "this day in history" thread barely lasted a year! :D

stumppy 09-27-2016 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 3534197)
We can go with two categories if necessary: animated and non-animated.



As a little kid, I remember the non-animated shows more than the cartoons. I have vague memories of seeing The Red Skelton Show live, as well as an old Three Stooges movie on a Saturday afternoon. At the age of six, I pondered becoming a variety show host. I also have vague memories of The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and I greatly admired the bachelor upstairs neighbor who had the beads instead of a door. And of course, Wonderful World of Disney, which was quite interesting but also annoyingly void of cartoons to be full of such cartoon potential.

On the cartoon front, I remember greatly enjoying Wacky Racers, which I believe is where Dastardly Dan and Muttley got their start. My mom worked in a day-old bread store, and she had a little portable TV that she would set up in the back (inventory) room, where I would watch cartoons on Saturday morning.

I thought it was Dick Dastardly. And don't forget Penelope Pitstop.

Lzen 09-27-2016 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by KC_Lee (Post 12452467)
Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot. Set me on my love of all things kaiju.

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Wow, never heard of that one. Reminds me of the Monster movies with Godzilla. I loved coming home from school and KCTV 5 would be playing Monster Movie week.

scho63 09-27-2016 02:44 PM
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Lzen 09-27-2016 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 12453174)
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:thumb:

I remember watching that before school in the mornings.

scho63 09-27-2016 02:46 PM
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Discuss Thrower 09-27-2016 02:46 PM
Toss up between TNG, Sanford and Son, Larry King, Mr Rogers and Sesame Street.

threebag 09-27-2016 02:48 PM
Probably captain Kangaroo, Major Astro, Romper Room, or Al Goldstien's Midnight Blue.

Lzen 09-27-2016 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Amnorix (Post 12453185)
Oh come on. Even at a young age I enjoyed "while Jim is wrestling with that enraged wild boar, let us pause for a moment -- while sitting in the safety of my studio -- to discuss Mutual of Omaha whole life policies...."

[Meanwhile Jim is engaged in a battle to the death with a boar in the background] ROFL
Loved Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a kid. I've always been into nature and exotic animals. I still enjoy stuff like that on Nat Geo.

KC Dan 09-27-2016 02:50 PM
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Speed Racer for me though could've just as easy been The Road Runner Show as well

The Franchise 09-27-2016 02:51 PM
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raybec 4 09-27-2016 02:56 PM
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KC_Lee 09-27-2016 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 12453194)
Wow, never heard of that one. Reminds me of the Monster movies with Godzilla. I loved coming home from school and KCTV 5 would be playing Monster Movie week.
Ah those heady days. I recall the afternoon monster movie weeks on KCTV5 myself.

Bet you watched this every Saturday as well. Lord knows I did. :D

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Lzen 09-27-2016 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by KC_Lee (Post 12453244)
Ah those heady days. I recall the afternoon monster movie weeks on KCTV5 myself.

Bet you watched this every Saturday as well. Lord knows I did. :D

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OH yeah, I remember that.

Baby Lee 09-27-2016 03:29 PM
Not sure I can remember what show I first saw, but I think I can remember which show/s I first listened to crying in my bedroom.

I always got in trouble right around the holiday season and the parents punished me by grounding me from the Peanuts and Rankin/Bass specials on TV. I probably got grounded from watching Wizard of Oz a time or two as well.

Parents played it to the hilt, too. Closed my door, but raised the volume. Gave my sister a seat in the middle of the room with a bowl of popcorn and a soda.

I was a hellion as a 4-5 yo, though, so. . .

Frosty 09-27-2016 03:33 PM
It's amazing how many Scooby Doo rip offs there were in the 1970s. Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, The Funky Phantom, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, etc

Baby Lee 09-27-2016 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Frosty (Post 12453256)
It's amazing how many Scooby Doo rip offs there were in the 1970s. Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, The Funky Phantom, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, etc
What was the one with the Olympics theme, where all the characters got together to do 'battle of the network stars.' I remember Grape Ape, and who was that dog that chuckled to himself, . . . Mutley?

Looking back, they just took stock footage from other HB shows, put them on a running track, and put javelins and shotputs in their hands.

EDIT: Laff-a-Lympics

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Used to watch that whenever I went to grandparents.

scho63 09-28-2016 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 12452230)
This may be my most successful thread of all time. It's still going strong after ten years.
I had a discussion with a co-worker and we started to share our childhood cartoons as we are both in our early 50's. That led me to search CP and BOOM, your thread was found! :D

Line Judge 09-28-2016 02:15 PM
1952 Democratic convention. Only 2 channels. CBS NBC. Convention on ALL day long. Nothing else. Every speech. My mother watched it all.

Nickhead 09-28-2016 05:03 PM
interesting:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1999_TV_FDC.JPG

Bwana 09-28-2016 05:07 PM
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Nickhead 09-28-2016 05:28 PM
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supposedly the first commercial on american tv?

Bowser 09-28-2016 05:29 PM
Off the top of my head, Rat Patrol and Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Bowser 09-28-2016 05:29 PM
Probably throw Lassie and Charlie Brown in there, too.

2112 09-28-2016 05:33 PM
Underdog and the bugs bunny road runner hour lol

Nickhead 09-28-2016 05:43 PM
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Bowser 09-28-2016 05:54 PM
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Holy shit. Hadn't thought of this show in literally decades.

Nickhead 09-28-2016 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12454955)
Holy shit. Hadn't thought of this show in literally decades.
pretty dramatic for a kids cartoon. coworker and i had discussions on this show the other day... woulda been during the reboot of voltron. there is a live action of this, but its japanese.

2112 09-28-2016 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12454955)
Holy shit. Hadn't thought of this show in literally decades.
I've never seen that. I must be older than you, kid. What about this? Can't embed on iPad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=72rYHuWidSM

Bowser 09-28-2016 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by D2112 (Post 12454966)
I've never seen that. I must be older than you, kid. What about this? Can't embed on iPad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=72rYHuWidSM
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And yeah, you got me by a few, lol. Never saw that mess above. I think Underdog is likely the first cartoon I can remember, along with Tom and Jerry.

Rain Man 09-28-2016 06:17 PM
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supposedly the first commercial on american tv?

The element of surprise must have been tremendous for the first commercial. I bet TV viewers took notes about it.

scho63 09-28-2016 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by D2112 (Post 12454966)
I've never seen that. I must be older than you, kid. What about this? Can't embed on iPad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=72rYHuWidSM
Great minds think alike-posted this a few pages back. :clap:

Awesome cartoon!

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go bo 09-28-2016 07:30 PM
probably the lone ranger and howdy doody (in black and white, of course)...

superman came later (i always loved it when he would bounce bullets off his chest and then duck when the thug threw the empty gun at him LMAO )

BlackHelicopters 09-29-2016 10:23 AM
Gomer Pyle

rico 09-29-2016 10:28 AM
The first show I remember watching (and it went on forever) was an English show called "Are You Being Served?" My parents and grandparents loved watching that. It was on Iowa Public Television. Good show.

Fire Me Boy! 09-29-2016 10:29 AM
I've really been pondering this for a few days, and the earliest thing I can remember watching is this:

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Rain Man 09-29-2016 10:33 AM
I'm trying to remember if my Space Ghost memories were TV or a comic book, but they were definitely early cartoon memories.

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Nickhead 09-29-2016 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy! (Post 12455642)
I've really been pondering this for a few days, and the earliest thing I can remember watching is this:

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i as well have been served.... forgotten but loved that cartoon.

Baby Lee 09-29-2016 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy! (Post 12455642)
I've really been pondering this for a few days,
If we're talking about putting serious thought into it, the earliest memory of something on a TV screen, the earliest I can think of is probably this;

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Definitely remember this. My cousin lived near us for a short time in 74-75 and his dad drove a Gran Tarino.
We drove down to Galveston in that Tarino on vacation and Six Flags over Texas Somewhere was the first amusement park I ever remember going to, and the only one I went to where I was too little for ANYTHING.

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Funnily enough, though understandable since SoSF was never big in syndication, never realized until today that David Soul was on SoSF too.

listopencil 09-29-2016 02:57 PM
It was either the televised special showing of the movie The Wizard of Oz or the first season of Sesame Street. Prior to that I didn't recognize individual shows as distinct events.

listopencil 09-29-2016 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12454974)
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And yeah, you got me by a few, lol. Never saw that mess above. I think Underdog is likely the first cartoon I can remember, along with Tom and Jerry.
I remember that show. I found it mildly amusing as a child. I saw it in syndication.

Baby Lee 09-29-2016 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by stumppy (Post 12452378)
Rep for the first to name this show.

Man, Science fiction has come along way.
My Mother the Capsule?

Easy 6 09-29-2016 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Nickhead (Post 12454942)
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Awesome call, that was my hands down favorite cartoon of all time... cant even begin to tell you how much time I spent drawing the Phoenix and all of the characters

stumppy 09-29-2016 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 12456143)
My Mother the Capsule?
:D
It's About Time

Two astronauts, traveling faster than light, go back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the "natives."


That and Wizard of Oz are the first two I remember. And it had to be in 1966 when I watched them. I remember we were living in El Cajon, Ca. I was 4 yrs. old and completely mesmerized by The Wizard of Oz.

Baby Lee 09-29-2016 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by stumppy (Post 12456168)
:D
It's About Time
Cleveland had already given the serious answer, but I chuckled at my own little jokey answer, so I thought I'd share. ;)

FTR - I wasn't familiar with the show, but I verified CB's answer beforehand.

Baby Lee 09-29-2016 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12454926)
Probably throw Lassie and Charlie Brown in there, too.
Was 'Charlie Brown' a series, or are you talking about the specials?

seclark 09-29-2016 03:34 PM
mornings-romper room & captain kangaroo
night-red skelton show
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