oldest tv programs

mr glassies · Guru

oldest tv programs

copper1 · Guru

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.

obi · Member

Highway patrol with broderick Crawford 1957

EllenajoeL · Senior Member

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. confuse

2foot6 · Senior Member

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. yawn

Cloak · Guru

Fireball XL5
In Melbourne Tonight
Bandstand
The Tarax Club - with uncle Norman & Joffa Boy
The Mickey Mouse Club
Steptoe & Son

Memories eh..

Steve

Happywanderer · The Master

Bonanza
Andy Griffith Show.
Dukes of Hazard.

nomadic1 · Senior Member

I Love Lucy - around 1954 (we lived in England then).

Cruising Cruze · Guru

DAPPERE DODO In Holland in the late 50's

Beth54 · Guru

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...... wink

Dunmowin · Guru

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

Radar · Guru

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.

the rocket · Guru

mr glassies wrote:
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

badgerhel · Veteran Member

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. smile

Cheers

Helen

Pondy · Senior Member

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

johnno02 · Veteran Member

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

bill12 · Guru

Lost in Space-"Danger , Will Robinson!", Countdown,Mickeymouse club(for my sisters ). Homicide, Etc. Bill

Pondy · Senior Member

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

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valiant81 · Guru

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'

QueenKombi · Senior Member

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!!

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barina · Guru

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

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dorian · Guru

I have the full DVD box set of the "Twilight Zone".

BTW, I notice that nobody has mentioned Gilligan's Island.

Beth54 · Guru

valiant81 wrote:
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'

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

2foot6 · Senior Member

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........ biggrin

Beth54 · Guru

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

Beth54 · Guru

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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Jack Mac · Senior Member

Beth54 wrote:
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.

-- Edited by Beth54 on Friday 16th of August 2013 05:10:24 PM

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.

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Delta18 · Guru

The Twilight Zone

And

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (starring a very young Kurt Russell)

Cheers

Jack Mac · Senior Member

Yeah, but I didn't look it up.

biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

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Drifters · Veteran Member

We had a TV for the 1956 Olympics and I remember a match race over 50 metres at the swimming pool when Geoff Corke blitzed some of the worlds best swimmers. Needless to say he was being towed by a nylon cord from the other end of the pool. Dad liked the horses and we had to watch the trots at the Melbourne show grounds every week. I remember all of the ones above but looked forward every week to Paladin, Have Gun Will Travel in 1957 staring Richard Boon

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