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Grew up in a town of 75,000 when I was five years old and we only had CBS and ABC. Saturday morning lineup was:
Roy Rogers, Mighty Mouse Playhouse, Sky King, Rin Tin Tin, and My Friend Flicka. A veritable lifesaver for most moms.
Me too. Disturbing.
Remember Goofus and Gallant in Highlights for Children, that magazine for children found in pediatrics and dentist offices? That Goofus fellow was my hero. Gallant's *** would eventually be kicked in the 2nd floor boys room.
Dan
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I guess it was pretty creepy especially when they inexplicably drifted into religion somehow.
But considering the number of choices we had early Saturday morning it worked for me.
I don't know how many stations you guys had but we had only a handful (then there was UHF stations but the reception made them unusable). And if you remember stations signed on and off so if you you got up too early there was nothing.
The grandkids have 10 zillion choices!
I guess it was pretty creepy especially when they inexplicably drifted into religion somehow.
But considering the number of choices we had early Saturday morning it worked for me.
I don't know how many stations you guys had but we had only a handful (then there was UHF stations but the reception made them unusable). And if you remember stations signed on and off so if you you got up too early there was nothing.
The grandkids have 10 zillion choices!
Most of us, if lucky, had 3 stations, ABC, NBC, CBS and maybe a PBS. You needed an antenna with a rotator to get them all, at least one was UHF. If you were 40 miles or more from a city you might only have one station.
Grew up in a town of 75,000 when I was five years old and we only had CBS and ABC. Saturday morning lineup was:
Roy Rogers, Mighty Mouse Playhouse, Sky King, Rin Tin Tin, and My Friend Flicka. A veritable lifesaver for most moms.
Grew up in a town of 75,000 when I was five years old and we only had CBS and ABC. Saturday morning lineup was:
Roy Rogers, Mighty Mouse Playhouse, Sky King, Rin Tin Tin, and My Friend Flicka. A veritable lifesaver for most moms.
The “small” town I grew up in (population 3,000), offered the big 3, ABC, NBC, and CBS. I watched the same Saturday morning TV shows you did Dan and Saturday morning couldn’t get here soon enough for me. Golden memories of a life and time that now seems so far, far away. ❤️🇺🇸
The “small” town I grew up in (population 3,000), offered the big 3, ABC, NBC, and CBS. I watched the same Saturday morning TV shows you did Dan and Saturday morning couldn’t get here soon enough for me. Golden memories of a life and time that now seems so far, far away. ❤️🇺🇸
I was the youngest of 4 kids,
.We didn't get a TV until late 1955.
On Saturday mornings before TV, we listened to the radio while we cleaned out rooms and the bath room and waxed the hardwood floors .
Buzz Corey - Space Cadet , Big John and Sparky . Sgt Preston of the Yukon , Sky King and The Lone Ranger.
Most of those shows made it to TV .
Also watched Howdy Doody and Andy Devine .
I was the youngest of 4 kids,
.We didn't get a TV until late 1955.
On Saturday mornings before TV, we listened to the radio while we cleaned out rooms and the bath room and waxed the hardwood floors .
Buzz Corey - Space Cadet , Big John and Sparky . Sgt Preston of the Yukon , Sky King and The Lone Ranger.
Most of those shows made it to TV .
Also watched Howdy Doody and Andy Devine .
But did you or any others here have a Winky Dink secret TV code decoder screen cover?
I do remember all these from the past, with a couple of exceptions. I don't remember the Winky Dink secret decoder thingy nor the radio programs. While I remember the Highlights magazine I don't remember the cartoon.
I do remember all these from the past, with a couple of exceptions. I don't remember the Winky Dink secret decoder thingy nor the radio programs. While I remember the Highlights magazine I don't remember the cartoon.
At the end of every Winky Dink show you spread the 'Winky Dink Magic Screen' (a cheap piece of plastic that temporarily stuck to the TV screen) and when certain lines came on you traced the line with a crayon. The lines eventually spelled a secret word that, for example, gave a hint about the next show. You have to be a walking fossil to remember that.
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At the end of every Winky Dink show you spread the 'Winky Dink Magic Screen' (a cheap piece of plastic that temporarily stuck to the TV screen) and when certain lines came on you traced the line with a crayon. The lines eventually spelled a secret word that, for example, gave a hint about the next show. You have to be a walking fossil to remember that.
Claude Kirshner and the Terry Toon Circus with Clowny bursting through a paper banner every show.
That may have been a local show.
Wonderama, Soupy Sales, Andy Devine were probably more widely distributed.
I wonder if anyone remembers the old rudimentary cartoons, like the mice chasing Farmer Gray from the Paul Terry studios which I believe predated Terrytoons. They were usually on early, 6-6:30 AM.
Those were old reruns even when I was a kid.
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