Hey , Ken ,
We got them in England , not too long after US release . My overriding memory is that everything was squeaky clean . No bad thing , at least my mom and dad weren’t embarassed to watch the programmes with us .
Nice memories .
Mike
Dang, I’m too young to remember those…NOT! Thanks, Ken.
Really scary…I remember them all!
Thanks for the memories…
Dawg 
Ken Brunt said:Ken,
http://objflicks.com/WhenLifewasInBlack&White.htm
Sheesh, I missed out on a lot. 
First we didn’t have a TV 'til I was almost eighteen, then the Swiss TV broadcasts ran only from 17:00 to 22:00 and there was seldom anything that interested me - sounds much like today.
But once I hit the NA shores watching TV was not too bad for accelerated language acquisition.
Ahh- Arthur Godfrey ! First song Dick Van Dyke, Ben Casey, beaver. I was a tv aholic as a kid.
Todays tv…no westerns. 
Oh, boy. It’s horrible when you still remember the words to the commercial songs… That was a different time than today…one where we were far more idealistic.
And besides, what’s wrong with a 1958 Edsel…I owned one…
Every once in a while we get a new show in the Great White North, this year it is a very topical Little Mosque on the Prairie. If the blurbs in the slide show and the preview snippets on the box are any indication, this could be a hoot playing on all the typical stereotypes.
Oh yeah, New Year’s Eve was the “Ron James Show” on CBC, recorded in Victoria, BC and aimed at the BC audience - warts and all. It was an absolute riot!
They call me a boomer, but most of these were before my time.
I remember way too many of them 
Got stumped on Maverick though, Thought he was Rockford. Same guy, different time.
My grandfather had one of the first TV’s in town when my brother was little and my dad bought one of the first color TVs in our neighborhood when I was about 8. I remember the round tubes and color snow! There were only a few shows on in color and it was a big deal to watch. Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was my favorite and Bonanza my Mom’s.
Life was definitely simpler then. No worry of your little ones asking you what an erection is and why it shouldn’t last more than 4 hours.
JR
Wow! Can you believe it? I can’t remember a single one? :o
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I can’t remember the above either. They were told to me by someone very old and are taken from a strange contraption called “Radio”!
Speaking of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, if I’m not mistaken one of those programs was THE first to be broadcast in stereo. I think It was “Fantasia” and one side of the stereo came from the TV, the other was from the radio. You had to tune the radio to a certain station. That was certainly a big deal back then…
I can remember doing that! Dad had a built in radio and turntable with speakers in the living room. He added another speaker to play in the den where the TV was. Had to run back and forth to get it right. When stereo radio came out you did the same thing…tune in 2 stations to get the stereo…
The speaker to the radio was built into the wall under Mom’s desk in the livingroom. I used to crawl under there on Sunday evening to listen to Jack Benny…! Another favorite radio show was Amos & Andy…!!
Warren! Are you that old?
I just learned that the dog on “Our Gang” was a Pit Bull. Dunno what that has to do with anything.
Ken, thanks for that trip back in time!!
That clip was missing one of my favorites, “The Untouchables”
Fairly violent for its time, kinda stretched the truth in many ways.
The first season of Gilligan’s Island was in black and white.
My 12 year old daughter loves that show.
Paul
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:First TV I met was the one my father bought my grandparents for the coronation in 1953, when we were on "home leave". It was the only TV we saw (and only during summer hols in alternate years with the grandparents) for ... I dunno ... many years. We children were strictly rationed: BBC Children's Hour (4-5 p.m., IIRC) and maybe one evening program, if suitable. And the early evening news. Somewhere in my mid-teens my parents bought one for our home in Rome. Italian TV was pretty dreadful even (or perhaps especially) if you spoke Italian: my mother and sisters did, my father sort of, I never learned (spending nine months a year at school in England kept me away from the sort of contact I would have needed -- i.e. le ragazze ;)). The best part of the evening was the commercials. In those days (early '60s), the commercials were not mixed into the programming, but appeared in one or two blocks during the evening. No commercial could be shorter than 2 or 3 minutes (yes, I said no shorter), and several makers came up with some quite amusing and effective skits and mini-dramas. I remember the ads for Stock 84 (brandy) in which a trench-coated, very suave Agent Stock Ottanta-Quattro smoothly foiled various villainous schemes before sliding off with brandy and woman in hand ... "Stock. Stock Ottanta-Quattro". We switched the TV ON(!) for the commercials, then went back to books and radio (long-wave, classical music mostly) when regular programming resumed. I think my father preferred French brandy, even though he enjoyed Ottanta-Quattro's exploits. Anyway, all the North American programs of those years are terra incognita for me, and much current programming likewise.
First we didn't have a TV 'til I was almost eighteen, then the Swiss TV broadcasts ran only from 17:00 to 22:00 and there was seldom anything that interested me - sounds much like today.
The first color TV in our family came in '68 after I was out of high school and working for Bell of Pa. I bought it as a Christmas present for the family. It was called a “portable” but at close to 100 lbs. that was stretching it. Back then you had to keep fiddlin with the little color adjustment knobs so the people didn’t look green or purple.
Quote:Didn't watch that one very often. It may have been pre-empted by one of the westerns on another channel.
That clip was missing one of my favorites, "The Untouchables" Fairly violent for its time, kinda stretched the truth in many ways.
What a trip down memory lane. Seems like yesterday. If you want another trip and have Serrius radio try chanel 118 and listen to radio shows of the past. Superman, the shadow, green hornet,fiber magee and molly, and on and on. Its great listening when traveling. Later RJD
Yes…a trip down “Memory Lane”…first TV I remember was the Coronation of “Jug Ear’s” mother…I remember all of those great B&W programs, and don’t get me going on radio programs. BRING BACK THE “GOON SHOW”…!!!