ok just for fun whats the earliest tv program you can remember 

mine my names magouley whats yours 

think i was about 8/9 

dibs 

ps no prize

We had an old PYE TV, remember watching bellbird and also remember when a valve blew, the local TV repairer would come and fix it.

The ABC 'test pattern'....it used to be on for hours (or so it seemed to a very small boy in the early 1960's).

I've no idea why the tv was on, mind you.

The best thing on TV was the test pattern and the  Epilogue That meant TV was either coming on or about to finish for the night.Cheers Peter.

We had a TV relatively early, compared to a lot of my friends. Around '59 or '60 I think.

The Mickey Mouse Club

Rin Tin Tin

The Lone Ranger

Texas Rangers

Mr Ed

I could go on and on and on......

I was in love with The Samurai, and it was not the Tom Cruise character.

Hi everyone

My top shows were Rawhide. Wells Fargo (named my son after Dale Robinson), Sugar Foot, Red Skelton Show best of all one night a week and I really loved the man

6 O'clock Rock staring Johnny O'keefe, it will not matter what people say in my eyes as young teenager he was out of this world, I was very lucky to meet him on different times, was there at his shows to be in his presents was great. I never brought a record of his until just resonantly so I really was not a fan but loved him more. 

Beth like you I could go on but these were with out a doubt the ones that got me to do my jobs around the house the quickest so I could watch them.

Most of the test patents would hold our attention for some time, we were the 19th TV in The Entrance and daily we would go about on our bikes counting the aerials up high as we were in a very fringe area from Sydney they were very noticable. Thank you Waltons for the credit as we would not of had one other wise.

What great time to remember. 

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ok just for fun whats the earliest tv program you can remember 

 

mine my names magouley whats yours 

 

think i was about 8/9 

that's mine too and I loved it. skippy for fun too.

 

dibs 

 

ps no prize

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I remember most of those, but especially loved Mr Ed and wonder why they never replayed it decades later as they did with other programmes. Both my parents worked and we had a TV very early. I would be so bored with the programmes I would stand on my head on the lounge with my legs up the wall, just to make the programmes more interesting.

Cheers

Helen 

Yes we had ours very early also,loved Fury and every one used to watch Bob Dyers Pick a Box ( Bob and Dolly )

I remember all of the above,along with the 1956 Olympic Games

Also with Dad,and Dave ,Police Files,Greenbottle,Jack Davey,Dr Paul,and Portia Faces Life

on the Radio.

And I'm only a Young Lad.

John

OK, what about Circus Boy staring one Mickey Dolenz later to have fame with the pop group the Monkeys ,have there cd's

WHAT ABOUT JET JACKSON. ( I must be older that I think) but loving life

-- Edited by Pondy on Friday 16th of August 2013 01:11:14 PM

Hi all;

       I remember the American series that was on in 1957 ? A series called ' Casey Johns ' and stared Alan Hale. Lassie was a nother and what about ' petty coat junction'

Nobody's mentioned the Cisco Kid. It was one of the earliest television shows I ever saw. Rescue 8 was another. I'd watch it through parted fingers, especially one episode where a poor chap got his hand caught in the workings of a clock tower

The Cisco Kid was not really to my taste, but I used to walk home with three sisters and I'd stop off at their house to watch this marvellous thing called television. Unfortunately, their older brother had already commandeered the TV before we got there. That was around 1960.

Dad finally relented and bought a new TV in 1965. I remember the sales people actually bringing out several brands to test them in the house. That's how it was done then!! Dad finally settled on a "Healing," perhaps because of the Healing push-bike he still owned and had been riding since the early thirties! Mum eventually bough him a coloured TV when he became ill. The old Healing sat in the shed until I was married in 1975. We had it as our first TV since we couldn't afford a new one or even a second-hand one. It blew up two weeks later and the repair shop said that it was due to sitting around too long.

How we take television for granted today. Small LCD units are so cheap. Unfortunately, we live in a throw-away world and I wonder what sort of legacy we're leaving our grand kids!!

I remember..

Hazel - the maid of the house

Rin tin tin

Gunsmoke on saturday nights

Bonanza

Zorro

Superman after school

Petticoat Junction

The Beverly Hillbillies

Father knows best

valiant81 wrote:

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Hi all;

       I remember the American series that was on in 1957 ? A series called ' Casey Johns ' and stared Alan Hale. Lassie was a nother and what about ' petty coat junction'

 

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 Casey Jones, steaming and a rollin'... forgot about that one. And Circus Boy.

My early recollection of TV shows are Casey Jones,The Lone Ranger and Robin Hood.It's interesting see the different shows that we remember in a younger life, it also shows our age groups.Keep them coming,it brings back memories of shows forgotten years ago.MAYBE THEY SHOULD RE-RUN THESE SHOWS........

I just realised that this thread should actually be in the 'I digress' section. Maybe Cindy could move it.

How could I have forgotten the Travels of Jamie McFeeters Delta18! Started me on my lifelong love affair with Kurt Russell...in my mind anyway.

Pondy, I knew that about Mickey Dolenz too. Many years after The Monkees, which was also a favourite, and when my kids were young, he produced/directed a Bristish kids show called Metal Mickey. There was a Granny who used to say, 'it's me knees, they give me the jip!' I often use that line now with my crook knees.

All those westerns mentioned below! Sugarfoot, Maverick, Rawhide.

Sunset Strip, and what was the other one that was similar? Which one had Troy Donohue? Another heartthrob. It was set in Hawaii I think.

And of course, I love Lucy.

Sea Hunt.

Beth54 wrote:

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How could I have forgotten the Travels of Jamie McFeeters Delta18! Started me on my lifelong love affair with Kurt Russell...in my mind anyway.

Pondy, I knew that about Mickey Dolenz too. Many years after The Monkees, which was also a favourite, and when my kids were young, he produced/directed a Bristish kids show called Metal Mickey. There was a Granny who used to say, 'it's me knees, they give me the jip!' I often use that line now with my crook knees.

All those westerns mentioned below! Sugarfoot, Maverick, Rawhide.

Sunset Strip, and what was the other one that was similar? Which one had Troy Donohue? Another heartthrob. It was set in Hawaii I think.

And of course, I love Lucy.

Sea Hunt.

 

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 In circus boy Mickey Dolenz was actually Mickey Craddock, but same fellow. Troy Donahue - Surfside six (set in Miami Beach), I think Ty Hardin (Bronco Lane) may have also been in it but not certain, He later came to Australia and starred in Riptide. The other one was Hawaiian Eye with Anthony Eisley, can't quite remember who played Cricket (but it will come to me, bubbly little blonde) and Poncey (spelling) Ponce. Then Bourbon Street Blues with Jack(?) Duggan and Dorothy Provine.

77 Sunset Strip was from memory Efram Zimbalist Jnr, Roger Smith (later married to Ann Margaret) and Ed Byrnes (Kookie)

Travels with Jamie McPheeter also starred Dan O'Herlihy as the father.

Yeah, but I didn't look it up.