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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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 Hey Cisco   Hey Pancho.....

We had one of the early colour TV's and our friends and their four children came over for the evening to watch The Wizard of Oz. What a shock everybody got when the show started and it was black and white. It was quite a relief when it changed to colour.

barina wrote:

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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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 Hazel - Shirley Booth

Rin tin Tin - Lee Aakers

We all know Gunsmoke and Bonanza

Superman - George Reeves and Noel Neil

Father Knows Best - Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Eleanor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin.

Can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday though.

Not a big fan of Petticoat Junction but I remember Ed Buchanan was in it.

Connie Stevens played Cricket in Hawaiian Eye, knew it would come to me.

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Jack Mac wrote:

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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.

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 Well aren't you a fountain of knowledge Jack.  I knew all that, but it was stuck in the memory files somewhere. Connie Stevens. I cheated, I looked it up.

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 Hi Beth, Unfortunately the font is stating to run out of water. We got TV just after it came to Qld and I was an addict (well a much as I was allowed).  At that time I thought The Rifleman was the greatest show on TV. Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and Paul Fix.

As I said, I can recall most of the stars of TV series from those days but couldn't tell you the names from most of what I watch now.

A classic (IMO) was Our Miss Brooks with Eve Arden, Gale Gorden (Lucy's BIL in the later Lucy series) and a very young Richard Crenna.

I was what's known as a 'latchkey kid' when I was 5 - which was when we got our first TV (around 1954). I used to invite the other kids in the street in to watch the kids shows in the afternoons after school so I remember well shows like Andy Pandy and the Flowerpot Men. I wasn't big on evening shows then 'cos I went to bed too early but I do remember watching I Love Lucy on Saturday nights because the ice cream man would come around in his cart just before it started so I got an ice cream to eat while I watched it - 5 year old bliss!

Nobody mentioned Crusader Rabbit...
And what about The Three Stooges...

1954? Where was that? TV came to Oz in 1956. Anyway, back to TV shows... I was a huge fan of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Not Only But Also.

Ah, the memories.... we didn't get TV until 1960 and I remember most of the shows previously mentioned. Things that stand out for me include:

Bandstand with Brian Henderson.

Reg Grundy's Wheel of Fortune and Terry Dear's Concentration - two game shows my mother went on in the early 60s and won heaps of prizes. Hardly saw her on them as they were broadcast during the afternoons while I was at school.

The Mavis Bramston Show every Wednesday night was absolutely hilarous - always a talking point on Thursday mornings at school assembly.

And does anybody remember an ABC drama series called Stormy Petrel, set in the early days of the Colony in Sydney and, if I'm not mistaken, centred on the feud between Governor Bligh and John Macarthur - would love to be able to see it again.

The most memorable ads were Mortein's Louie the Fly and the Harris Coffee and Tea ad showing the clipper sailing up Sydney Harbour supposedly in the mid-1800s, and seeing a glimpse of a submarine lurking in the background!

petty coat junction

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I remember a show which starred Gardiner McKay, who had adventures on the South Seas on his yacht the "Tiki". Can anybody remember what that show was called? At the time I was an impressionable teenager, so I "loved" Gardiner McKay... sigh!

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 Adventures in paradise..is the one you are thinking of I used to watch it also..

also I watched

Sea Hunt

Get Smart

Mission Impossible

Consider your verdict

Homicide

The Go Show

6  o'clock rock..i think it was called

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sandsmere wrote:

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The 1956 Olympics .

Have Gun Will Travel .

Bonanza .

Rawhide . . . . . . . . Yeah . . I was right into westerns in those days .

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 My little brother was right into the westerns too...had the little outfit with the hat, vest and gun on his little hip. But he'd sometimes get a little carried away and want to knock us on the head with the gun. Toy guns in those days were damned heavy things too! He even scalped my doll!

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 HaHaHa. Remember quick draw Mcgaw, Whiplash and Cob and Co. I had a leather holster and cap gun (Oh my God) and greased the inside of the holster to draw faster than my mates. Even had a girl who dressed as Annie Oakley. No one wanted to be an itchitybum (indian)

Memories, memories.

Peter

Andy Pandy (ABC?) my favourite was RinTinTin I was in love with Rippley Masters (James Brown) must have been all of 8 or 10

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