What's the first TV show you remember watching?
 

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.

Hmmm...

The Great Space Coaster

Red Skeleton Comedy Show

What can I say? :skip:

Fraggle Rock


My mom also used to tape record the old Downy softener commericals with the talking Teddy Bear.

Little Rascals....Gilligans Island....Beverly Hillbillies....Underdog.....Romper Room...

Launching of Apollo 8 in 1968 in nursery school..first trip around the moon :)

I don't remember. Probably Fraggle Rock or Sesame Street.

My earliest recollection is Dark Shadows,the daytime horror soap with the vampire Barnabas Collins,my grandmother never missed it.

The Time Tunnel.

I do remember when I was about 8 or so going to my friends house and watching tv on Saturday Night. He didn't have cable so we'd watch COPS and America's Most Wanted.

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I used to watch Dinosaurs a lot too.

Thats a great question, outside of cartoons (Hong Kong Phooey, Warner Bros.) i would have to say that this Skynet became TV self aware watching Kung-Fu.

Captain Kangaroo

BAM, how did i forget the Captain, i am SOOO remiss!!!

Oh, yes. Captain Kangaroo. Mr. Greenjeans is imbedded deep within the early-developing parts of my brain.

I don't know if it's chronologically accurate, but I really remember sitting down to watch Maverick (on Sunday evening if my memory serves). The old black and white one with James Garner.

Not sure why, but that really sticks with me. Maybe it was the theme song.

either fraggle rock or david the gnome

Red Skelton
The Gary Moore Show
Twilight Zone (the original series)

The noon news on the local Channel 9 ABC station.

Only because when I was 4 or 5 during the holidays they had a fake Santa dressed up reading letters kids sent in.

That fat bastard never did read my letter. But I got him back because I never bought his seed corn either.

I think Sesame Street.

Batman with Adam West. As a kid I thought it was very realistic & had a major crush on Catwoman Julie Newmar & the episode where she was so greedy & wouldn't give up the golden cats & ultimately fell into the cavern made me cry.

I've seen it now & it's the campiest show ever made. Strange how as a kid I really believe everything that was going on in that show & looking at it now none of it was played serious.

I'm sure the order isn't correct by year but for kid's shows I'd say

HR Puffenstuff(sp?)
The New Zoo Review
Mulligan Stew
Land Of The Lost

My first memories were of Thunderbirds and Rocky and Bullwinkle. Midland, Mich., 1969. I was 3 years old.

I don't actually remember this, but I'm told that when I was toddling I would watch Batman. I'd hold on to the wall to balance myself, and toddle around in my diaper going "doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" ... y'know, the theme song.

lol, i remember land of the lost

dup: Exactly mine

Probably Sesame Street. I'm relatively young.

Adam 12

Sit boo boo sit. Good dog.

I remember the Indian that came on first thing in the morning, a real dull show, he just kind of sat there.

Mr.Dressup, Friendly Giant, and Sesame Street, we only got 2 channels when I was a kid.

Wizzo

There are two that instantly come to mind: Captain Kangaroo and Gunsmoke. I also remember watching the Vietnam War reports on TV.

animated: Speed Racer

Lone Ranger .. Zorro .. Capt. Kangroo .. Daffy Duck .. Stooges .. Combat .. Lawrence Welk ..and on old local Kake Tv out of Wichita.. Freddy Fudd...

About the only ones left to mention from that era are;

Milton Berle
Hit Parade
Ed Sullivan
Jack Benny

Holy Crap, I'm old. :banghead:

The TV at my Grandparents house was only turned on for special occasions, like Lawrence Welk. I remember the commercials best, the new "swept wing Dodge." (1957)

Marshall, Will, and Holly
On a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known.
High on the rapids
It struck their tiny raft.
And plunged them down a thousand feet below...

Magnum P.I.

First TV show I remember watching was M.A.S.H. Still catch it from time to time.

On 2nd thought I believe the first show I really watched was Torey Southwick & Ol' Gus on I believe "Torey Time" or something like that....

anyone remember that show? It was on channel 9 in the afternoon's during the mid 60's.

I figured someone would possibly mention Johhny Sokko & His Flying Robot or Ultra Man

was he on a Topeka station?

Damn, I forgot all about romper room. That would have to be my answer.

HR Puff N Stuff

I can tell already that I will enjoy this thread.

Captain Kangaroo.

Prime time: Red Skelton.

I wish Skipper would join in this thread I'd like to hear his stories of pulling a chair up to the radio to listen to The Shadow

Any one remember "Tory"? It was a local KC show where kids could appear. That is about all I remember except that Tory was later the host on 41 Treehouse Lane.

I remember Uncle Ed,dude did everything from Treehouse Lane to Creature Feature

I never got to stay up and watch the whole show, but I always remember the theme to Hawaii-Five-0 coming on. Sometimes I would feign thirst or hunger to I could stay up and watch a little.

That is the dude. His first gig that I remember was "Tory".

Lost in Space-the chicks on there were hot. Something about go go boots that gets my attention.

Rain Man is either too lazy or making too much money to make his own poll.

Once they start asking for apricoc colored $3it you know the artist has let the mad fame go to 'es head...

Jack Lalanne, Art Linkletter, and the Micky Mouse Club.

Sesame Street or Fraggle Rock.

One, TWO! THREE! Four, five, SIX, seven, eight, NINE!

NEIN!

Mickey Mouse Club

still remember JFK being shot, saw it on B&W TV

Electric Company and Romper Room are the shows that are deepest in my subconscious.

My children have an unbelievable capacity to watch the EXACT same thing over and over and over and over and over.

I'm convicned they'll be able to recite Thomas the Tank Engine, and Harold, episodes from memory when they're my age. It's just unbelievable.

Edit: P.S., I can't recommend Harold and the Purple Crayon more highly for ages 2+. My kids absolutely love it, it's very imaginative, well done, cute, inoffensive, educational, blah, blah, blah. One episode deals with death in a very good manner (Harold's goldfish dies).

http://www.amazon.com/Harold-Purple-...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Gun Smoke and Dark Shadows. Good thing we had a big doberman pincher because after watching Dark Shadows, I'd make him follow me everywhere in the house.

ROFL

Sesame Street.

Yeah, it was called Torey Time and is probably one of the earliest I remember. My brother was in Cub Scouts and got to be on the show and he said hi to me because I was sick at home. I was probably around 4 years old.

Torey...

http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/kcit50/torey-ball.jpg

And Gus

http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/kcit50/olgus.jpg

One more...

http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imag...ris/torey1.jpg

Have you seen the new CSI: Purple Crayon? A team of glib men and beautiful women do gruesome autopsies of the goldfish and examine the crime scene to find out why the goldfish died. I think they're running out of spinoff ideas.


On an unrelated topic, my mom said that when I was a toddler, I would stand in front of the TV watching as "My Three Sons" came on, and I would tap my foot to the same beat as the tapping foot on the intro.

You're mocking me, aren't you? Just because you're ashamed of denying Brian Waters his Super Bowl glory.

And you call yourself a judge. Feh.

I'm a judge and I'll be on the bench for as long as justice needs to be served and this little pump keeps working.

I remember 3

Knight Rider

The Monkees TV show

Shirt Tales

OMG! I have lost track of how many people I have asked if they remember this show. No one ever has. :(

some show that had fire trucks.
charlies angels

wonder woman

that kinda stuff.

Captain Kangaroo (with my Mom in the mornings)
Gunsmoke (sitting on my Dad's lap)
Mickey Mouse Club (with my older sibblings in the afternoon's)

WIBW, Channel 13 with weatherman Gary Wallace.

Anyone from Springfield remember Mike Malibu?

what channel/year?

what was the clown show in the mid 80s on 33?

Thunderbirds. Or maybe Gumby.

Yes, Gumby should've been included in my list, too.

During that time, I had a rubber Gumby toy. I left it on the front lawn one day, and my Dad ran over it with the lawnmower. I looked at the chewed up toy in the grass and said "Gumby all gone. Gumby all gone."

Years later ... when I was in college ... my Mom gave me a Gumby and Pokey toy set for Christmas, to replace the one that got eaten by the mower nearly 20 years earlier.

Mostly, I remember watching Star Trek and Land of the Giants with my dad. I would have been about 3 or 4. I vaguely remember the kids' shows like Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo. About the same time, I remember watching Dark Shadows, I Dream of Jeannie and Gilligan's Island, but I don't think that was until later.

I had forgotten about Gumby. That would have about the same timeframe. There was a similar show about that same time - Davey and Goliath, maybe?