Earliest TV shows/specials you remember watching

[Another Fan]

So I found one of the Math programs I used to watch on PBS when I was around 4 to 6 years old.  One of my first memories of watching TV.  Cheesy as anything but still holds a special place in my heart

 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

Mark Spitz swimming in the 1972 Olympics... I was 4.  On a 19" B&W Admirmal TV.

 

I still have full memory of the TV, on it's stand in corner of family room, and shots of the swimming action.

 

And for Gug:  No they weren't nude.  I was 4.  Didn't know what was ahead @ the Jr. High level... 

Edited July 30, 2018 by ExiledInIllinois

[Wacka]

Remember seeing the Leave it to Beaver episode where he got stuck in the giant soup bowl on the billboard (1961). Also I am old enough to remember  the Golden Age of 60s TV in their first run (like  Addams Family, Minsters, Batman, etc )

Edited July 30, 2018 by Wacka

[Gray Beard]

 

 

 

Early 1960s Captain Kangaroo

9 minutes ago, Wacka said:

Remember seeing the Leave it to Beaver episode where he got stuck in the giant soup bowl on the billboard (1961). Also I am old enough to remember  the Golden Age of 60s TV in their first run (like  Addams Family, Minsters, Batman, etc )

I remember that one. It was probably a repeat when I saw it. I was only 4 in 1961. 

[WhoTom]

I vaguely remember watching the Ed Sullivan Show with my parents and older siblings in the late 60s. The first "event" I remember was probably the Apollo 11 Moon landing, but at five, I didn't really grasp the significance of it.

 

I also remember Laugh In and The Odd Couple in the early 70s.

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2018 by WhoTom

[Augie]

The JFK funeral. Horses pulling him down the road. My sister was in the basement playing with a friend. I was annoying them and forced to go upstairs with my parents....and watch history. 

[DrW]

In Germany, TV was not as prevalent as in the US. We did not have a TV until 1968. However, from time to time I watched TV with a classmate who lived in the apartment above ours. My earliest memories: Flipper, dubbed in German; the title song is still recorded in my memory:

"Wir lieben Flipper, Flipper,

Freund aller Kinder,

Grosse nicht minder,

lieben auch ihn,

den klugen Delfin."

 

Translation:

"We love Flipper, Flipper,

friend of all kids,

but he is also

loved by adults,

the smart dolphin."

 

I should add that the Germans were/are masters in dubbing. Shows like "Get Smart" or "I Spy" (German title: "Mit Tennisschlaegern und Kanonen", translated "With Tennis Rackets and Guns") are actually often funnier in the German version than in the American/English original. And the German voice of John Wayne, Arnold Marquis, adds a depth to John Wayne's voice that the original lacks.

 

[row_33]

Sesame Street debut when I was 3

 

 

 

 

[Dr Krentist]

 

[DC Tom]

The Apollo 15 launch.

 

 

[Saxum]

Kennedy assassination report (November 22, 1963). Was 2 years old and remember people crying and asking "Why"? Was told "a bad man killed the president" and I asked what a president was. Not sure what president was afterwards but sure man who killed him was a bad man.

 

[Augie]

5 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

Kennedy assassination report (November 22, 1963). Was 2 years old and remember people crying and asking "Why"? Was told "a bad man killed the president" and I asked what a president was. Not sure what president was afterwards but sure man who killed him was a bad man.

 

 

...yet we still wonder exactly who that man was...

 

I was born in 1959, and remember the horse drawn carriage surprisingly clearly. Is it a true memory, or a memory of a feeling/image? I think it’s a memory.  

[Johnny Hammersticks]

3 hours ago, Augie said:

The JFK funeral. Horses pulling him down the road. My sister was in the basement playing with a friend. I was annoying them and forced to go upstairs with my parents....and watch history. 

 

You probably also watched the battle of Gettysburg.   Must have been a B word in standard definition.

[Augie]

8 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

You probably also watched the battle of Gettysburg.   Must have been a B word in standard definition.

 

WORSE! I could watch, but It was in black and white! And it was on all three channels, so I couldn’t catch any cartoons. (I was young, then.) 

 

Now, you’re kids will probably remember some formerly athletic dude getting an ESPY because he/she got his stuff snipped off and donned a gown, instead af a HS girl with cancer who played hoops and smiled in a way that lit up the world. 

 

 

Hmmm

Edited July 30, 2018 by Augie

[row_33]

1 minute ago, Augie said:

 

WORSE! I could watch, but It was in black and white! And it was on all three channels, so I couldn’t catch any cartoons. (I was young, then.) 

 

Sit there for hours staring at the buffalo on the test pattern screen, sometimes thinking it moved

 

 

[Marv's Neighbor]

It's Howdy Doody Time!"  Buffalo Bob Smith, Clarabell,  Beulah Witch, Flub-a-dub, Dilley Dally....Good times.

 

In Buffalo, TV didn't start till 5PM.  Used to watch the freakin indian on the test pattern, till Howdy clicked on.  Black & White on a 9" screen.  Now people watch movies on their cell phones. 

[Saxum]

46 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

...yet we still wonder exactly who that man was...

 

I was born in 1959, and remember the horse drawn carriage surprisingly clearly. Is it a true memory, or a memory of a feeling/image? I think it’s a memory.  

 

The odd thing I cannot remember who was crying.  Must have been my mother since I cannot imagine my father crying but I have no memory of my mother alive. My father took the kids away when I was three (I was the oldest) to my grandmother's.  

[Gray Beard]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

 

WORSE! I could watch, but It was in black and white! And it was on all three channels, so I couldn’t catch any cartoons. (I was young, then.) 

 

Now, you’re kids will probably remember some formerly athletic dude getting an ESPY because he/she got his stuff snipped off and donned a gown, instead af a HS girl with cancer who played hoops and smiled in a way that lit up the world. 

 

 

Hmmm

That’s what I remember about John Glenn’s rocket launch. 

[Greybeard]

3 hours ago, Marv's Neighbor said:

It's Howdy Doody Time!"  Buffalo Bob Smith, Clarabell,  Beulah Witch, Flub-a-dub, Dilley Dally....Good times.

 

In Buffalo, TV didn't start till 5PM.  Used to watch the freakin indian on the test pattern, till Howdy clicked on.  Black & White on a 9" screen.  Now people watch movies on their cell phones. 

            You forgot Princess SummerFallWinderSpring.   I had the hots for her.   

            The earliest show I can remember was Romper Room.  They had a nice looking lady hosting that show, at least that is what I remember.  

 

           

 

         

 

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Sesame Street, Mr Rodgers, Electric Company, and daytime reruns of Gilligans Island

 

The earliest TV that I remember and can put a date on was the shooting of President Reagan.  And a few years later I remember the Challenger explosion because I was pissed they pre-empted Transformers and GI Joe