When you were a kid tv shows you miss.

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Sky King
My Friend Flicka
Fury
Red Skelton Show
Ed Sullivan
Bewitched
Johnny Quest show
Beanie and Cecil
Warner Bros Cartoons
 

Wagon Train
Rin Tin Tin
That dolphin show..can't remember the name of it.
That diving show..can't remember the name of that one either.....Aiyyy!!!
 

Yes!! Flipper and Sea Hunt!!

I was usually on my bike on weekends, but on the rare times I was home...those were the shows I enjoyed. :)
 
When I was a kid, Sky King was on the radio. There was no TV. Well, there was, but it's not like it was available to ordinary folks in tiny towns. The closest TV station before I was in high school was 300 miles away. About the time I started high school, there was one 110 miles away, but even that "close" there was no cable then so when we were able to watch anything it was mostly snow or a test pattern.
 
Little Rascals, Captain Kangaroo, Abbott and Costello, Life of Riley, My Little Margie, I Married Joan, Topper, etc.
 
I don't think I miss any of the programmes I watched as a child. We had a TV from 1954, which was upgraded periodically. I have seen repeats of the things I liked then, and can't see why I found them so fascinating.
 
Casper
Yogi Bear
The Flintstones
Mr Ed
Heckel & Jeckel
Engineer Bill
The Mickey Mouse Club
The Munsters
....I'm sure there are a lot more I just can't think of right now!
 
Popeye
Yogi Bear
Tom Cat
Johnny Quest
Batman
Mickey Mouse (B/W)
Felix the Cat
Flash Gordon
The Flinstones
Mr. Magoo
Casper
Little Rascals
The Monkeys
Ultraman
Godzilla
The 3 Stooges
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
When I was a kid, Sky King was on the radio. There was no TV. Well, there was, but it's not like it was available to ordinary folks in tiny towns. The closest TV station before I was in high school was 300 miles away. About the time I started high school, there was one 110 miles away, but even that "close" there was no cable then so when we were able to watch anything it was mostly snow or a test pattern.
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I actually remember listening to the radio a lot more than watching TV!
 
Most of the time the only thing showing was the test pattern, a Shawmut Indian I think; programming was only available a few hours a day. I don't remember when the concept of children's programming started since I spent most of my time outside until dark; my earliest memories are of a few cartoons and westerns on Saturday mornings. Since I was not allowed to mess with the TV I was restricted to my parents selections which were evening variety shows. A few years later I was one of those who grew up with Annette on the Mickey Mouse Club and into my teens it was American Bandstand.
 
Some of my favorites can be seen today, some can't :(

The Wonderful World of Disney,
WGN Chicago's Family Classics (with Frazier Thomas)
77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, Magnum PI
Laugh In, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mc Hale's Navy,
The Twilight Zone, Thriller, The Outer Limits,
 
Does anyone remember the program "Rinky-Dink"? You sent away for a piece of transparent plastic that you stuck on the screen and some special markers. Then you traced the shape of an animal's face they showed on tv. The lines went away and all you had was your rendition of the animal and a mouth on the tv set that talked. For some reason, that was a really big deal to us kids. My mother wouldn't send off for the piece of plastic and markers, so one day I drew on the screen with crayons. That was the end of my tv watching for a while.

Another show I remember was Bishop Fulton Sheen's weekly show. Not being Catholic, I thought he was supposed to be the devil. Well, he did come out in that big cape and swirl it around before he sat down....

Then there was Pinky Lee. I was watching when he had his heart attack on screen. One minute he's bouncing around and the next he's clutching his chest and gasping "somebody help me!" The kids on the show were all laughing.....oh, that Pinky!...the things he'd do. Poor guy, he almost died right then and there. You never knew what would happen on live tv.

Speaking of live tv, how about Soupy Sales? Years later I realized that the show actually went over the kids' heads....the humor was definitely adult. Once there was a knock on the on-set door, Soupy went over to answer it and had to pretend he was talking to White Fang or someone, because there was actually a naked woman standing there just out of camera range. It was a practical joke the set people played on him.

There was another children's show host (cannot remember his name or the show name) who thought he was off-camera.....but he wasn't. He said, "Are we off camera? Good. That'll hold the little bastards for another week!". I heard the station was fined heavily by the FCC or whatever it was at that time for that little lapse of decorum.

"Ding Dong School" with Miss Frances. I was a bit old for that, but my sisters watched it religiously.

My all-time favorite was the Ernie Kovacs show. I'll see old episodes of that and still laugh my fool head off.
 
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