What was the first adult TV show do you remember?

The first serious show I remember was "Masterpiece Theatre". It was one of my Mom's favorite programs so it was on every week. The stories were way above my understanding but Alistair Cooke had a pleasant voice.
 
I remember watching Bonanza and Perry Mason with my dad. Also, Saturday Night at the Movies on channel 7 (ABC).
 

Bonanza, The Wonderful World of Disney and the local news broadcast are the first television programs I remember watching with my parents.

TV was a big deal, I remember my parents turning on the television a minute or two before a program started to warm it up and gathering us around to watch a specific program or two and off it went. The television was never on from sun up to sun down the way it is in many homes today.
 
There are a few that I remember being on but the first one I remember watching and being aware of was Get Smart. I'd like to say that around age 5 I enjoyed it because of the satirical humor and what it had to say about the US at the time but the truth is I watched it because I had a crush on Barbara Feldon.
 
I think the first shows on TV were all adult oriented (well, if you count Milton Berle:rolleyes:) weren't they? We got our TV around '52. I don't remember any kids shows until later. Maybe I'm confused. It happens a lot.:D
 
Beat the Clock? A game show, and of course, I Love Lucy. Also remember Dave Garroway on Today.
 
I watched The Milton Berle Show and Groucho Marx show with my Grandma and parents sometimes, but it was mostly over my head. Who could forget The $64,000 Question and the Charles Van Doran scandal? Or the show Hit Parade? I remember watching with my parents when the Davy Crocket song was #1 for several weeks.
 
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Before we had television at our home, my parents would play Canasta with friends one Saturday night/week. They had a tv. I would lay on the floor and watch "I Love Lucy" and "December Bride". Once we got our own tv we had a number of shows which simply could not be missed: Have Gun, Will Travel; Gunsmoke; Mannix; Rawhide; Ed Sullivan Show; Lawrence Welk Show; and "I've Got A Secret".
 
I was 19 when my parents bought their first TV. I almost never watched it. After I married at age 25, we watched the TV that my wife already had.
Twilight Zone was one that we liked.
Nine years later we had just moved into a house with a fireplace. We were watching spooky "Die Die My Darling" and a bat flew out of the fireplace and was circling the living room. I opened the front door and as he flew past it, I swatted him with a pillow and sent him outside. When I looked out later, he was gone.
 
Playhouse 90, as I recall. It was called that because it was on for ninety minutes with famous actors of that time and it was live so the actors had to be well rehearsed...
 
I was seven (1957) when my mom and stepdad bought our first TV and I can remember me being their 'remote control' when they wanted the channel changed.

I can recall them watching things like , The Ed Sullivan Show....I love Lucy....You bet your life.....Perry Mason and the The Red Skelton Show.
 
IKE said:
I was seven (1957) when my mom and stepdad bought our first TV and I can remember me being their 'remote control' when they wanted the channel changed.

I can recall them watching things like , The Ed Sullivan Show....I love Lucy....You bet your life.....Perry Mason and the The Red Skelton Show.
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My parents loved Red--Freddy the freeloader, Clem Kadiddlehopper and that bird character he used to do!
 
Mine was Perry Mason. I thought it was on from 10-11 PM. It is very adult show, with complicated twists, etc. It's not something a little kid could follow. But it was on at 8-9 PM. HUH? As I watch the reruns, you never saw any blood or anything. You only got a quick shot of a pristine dead person.

BTW, there are sites where you can see the THREE channel line up 50 -60 years ago.
 
I Love Lucy was already in syndication so I watched the reruns every night. Another show my Mom never missed was MASH. I didn't understand some of the stories but had a crush on Alan Alda.
 
I can remember watching Milton Berle with my parents, back in the days when he was called "Mr. Television." Comedians understood then that they could be hilarious, yet 100% clean. Berle's appearances in drag attire confused me a bit back then...:)
 
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