Childhood TV Programmes

[Smithy]

What were your favourite programmes as a child? What did you love to watch on the TV growing up?

 

[Marie Mallory]

Smitty ,it was another world than what you've known, ready?

 

[Marie Mallory]

 

[Krystal]

Lassie
My friend Flicka
Flipper

 

[Axel Slingerland]

The Adventures of Jonny Quest. It came on Sunday mornings at 10:00a and the only way I could see it was to beg my Mom to let me stay home from Church. She would let me about half the time IF I could quote something from the Bible that the Pastor's Sermon was going to be about that day. We lived a few blocks from the Church, so I would go there on Saturday so I knew what it was going to be about and memorized something about it before I would ask her. I was thinking like a Boy Scout, "Be Prepared."

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

The Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Loved it.

And much later on the spoof The Venture Brothers became a favorite too. It even had an aging, dissipated Jonny in cameo roles from time to time.

Season 1-4 Recap in 8 Minutes | The Venture Bros.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Yeah, I loved cartoons. Still do now and then. Road Runner, Pink Panther, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, all the old classics.

 

[Nancy Hart]

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We did not have a television until I was a teenager, and even then, it was only turned on at night when my mom and dad were going to watch programs that they liked.
They watched Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan, and other similar shows I was mostly not interested in, so usually just went to my bedroom and read a book instead.

We did watch some westerns, and I enjoyed that. Paladin, Johnny Yuma, Gunsmoke, and more that I do not remember. I also liked Perry Mason, and Dragnet.
Since I was a teenager, I didn’t grow up watching Saturday morning cartoons, like many kids did. The television was not turned on at that time of day anyway.

I do remember watching American Bandstand and Mickey Mouse Club sometimes after school; but in the summer (or any nice weather) I was usually out riding my horse after school, and most of the day in the summer when school was out, so very little television when I was growing up, and i still do not watch it , for the most part.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

We usually had second-hand TV sets passed down from relatives. There were many years when we had sets that only got two channels, and some years no set at all. Right after high school I had a job paying enough for me to buy a tiny 9-inch Admiral TV that Summer. For the first time I learned we had a couple of local UHF channels.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I also liked Perry Mason...

When one of my boys was three, when Perry Mason would come on he would start dancing and scat singing along with the intro music. He always hit every note, right on time. After he had been doing that for several months, we made sure he was always in the living room at 8:00p when it came on every day.

One day, after his little show my wife Jain and I started clapping. He turned and faced us and took a bow. That's when I knew he had inherited my natural tendency to be a performer. He's in the Navy now, stationed at the Washington Navy Yard in DC, and plays guitar and is the lead vocalist for a blues rock jazz band. He's a 4th generation guitarist.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Not an old kids' show, this 1998 anime targets adults (not in a bad way). Surprising depth and insight into life. Great soundtrack. The characters will linger in your memory with their personal stories of tragedy.

There is an excellent English dub, one of the best. Though created in Japan the story is very western in tone. The trailer may make it look a bit silly, but most of the episodes are not... aside from a couple of wacky ones.

26 episodes, and one movie that fits within a gap in the series.

 

[Mary Stetler]

We did not have a television until I was a teenager, and even then, it was only turned on at night when my mom and dad were going to watch programs that they liked.
They watched Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan, and other similar shows I was mostly not interested in, so usually just went to my bedroom and read a book instead.

We did watch some westerns, and I enjoyed that. Paladin, Johnny Yuma, Gunsmoke, and more that I do not remember. I also liked Perry Mason, and Dragnet.
Since I was a teenager, I didn’t grow up watching Saturday morning cartoons, like many kids did. The television was not turned on at that time of day anyway.

I do remember watching American Bandstand and Mickey Mouse Club sometimes after school; but in the summer (or any nice weather) I was usually out riding my horse after school, and most of the day in the summer when school was out, so very little television when I was growing up, and i still do not watch it , for the most part.

The Lone Ranger, Fury, Sky King...Didn't you even get to watch Saturday morning? It kept me quiet so my folks could sleep in.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

The Lone Ranger, Fury, Sky King...Didn't you even get to watch Saturday morning? It kept me quiet so my folks could sleep in.

I do not ever remember watching any kind of Saturday morning programming, @Mary Stetler . My mom and dad were both probably up earlier than I was in any case, so there was no reason to watch TV and wait for them to wake up.
In the summertime, we almost always went camping over the weekends, and were gone from Friday afternoon when my dad got home from work, until late Sunday afternoon.

I got my first pony when I was 10, and we did not have a television until I was a teenager, so weekends that we were home , I spent outside riding or taking care of my horse.
As a family, we watched very little television. Even after I grew up and got married, we did not usually own a television, but when we did, my kids liked to watch Saturday morning cartoons.
Now, we do have a TV, but only turn it on when we have tornado threats and need to watch the local news station, and it is just on antenna, so we only get the local stations.