Now what were we talking about? LOL

Can't remember what I had for breakfast but can recall countless details from childhood. What's up with that?🙃

Every generation thinks that. I wouldn't trade my time with any other. And I'll be saying the same thing about today when I'm 80 or whatever.

MrCZLover It was simpler for us because we were children

A time of racism when all social problems were hidden and ignored.

@@senojah That is true but at least the morality shown in those old TV shows was far closer to the standards taught in the Bible than the evil, satanic garbage into which TV today has degenerated.

Of course we enjoyed it more then . We were kids . Being a kid is the greatest .

Those days people lived happily and calm but nowadays many became crazy and anxious.

@@thg2123 I thought all this electronic bullshit was supposed to help us?.There are some things about yesteryear that were better. Btw how many guys had a crush on Diana Rigg as emma peel in the popular British television show the Avengers!. I know I did.

Gloria: You bet. I had a favorite cartoon show that I loved watching on Saturday mornings when I was a small kid back in the late '50s. The name long forgotten.

Cartoon time was late afternoon after school.

True. 200 channels now days consist of 75 usless sports, another 50 or so of usless shopping channels with the remaining devoted to the ''trending'' usless crap.

Between TZ and Hitchcock my mom's had no problem getting me to bed.

Hey Lenny.. .I agree. I used to love to watch "Lost in Space" and Twilight Zone and Bonanza etc.

I was born in Manhattan NYC in May 1954. My parents moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1957. We also had 3 channels in black and white, the channels were 3, 5 and 8. I do remember seeing some of the shows shown here. Sky King was a good show to watch. I also watched reruns of the 1950's Highway Patrol series, and also Combat, Around 1965, some UHF channels came into use and my parents bought a receiver that let our TV receive those channels.

Lenny Anders. Ciao from Sicily. Do you remember the Littlest Hobo? Now how about, Calling all Cars, Police Station, US Marshal, The Detectives, Ozzy and Harriet, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Red Skelton Show, Behind Closed Doors, Code -- 3, Dragnet? And God only knows how many more. God Bless. PS. Don't forget, The Mickey Mouse Club and Walt Disney Presents.

I only remember the name.

Yes and one of the boys, I think was Packy!

Loved Fury!

I loved fury with Peter Graves I was disappointed with this video.

Thanks so much for posting the link! I had no idea!

@49jubilee we got 3 channels but only if you walked outside and spun the antenna around till the person inside hollered "it's good there".

49jubilee - No cable then. Just electricity and antenna. Cable came much later and became popular because, for a fee, you no longer had to watch commercials! Dang, where did THAT go wrong?

Me, too. A 12" console was the norm. I remember when we got our new 19" TV... it was super to have a bigger screen.

Cambridge UK 1950s: We had a little Pye 8” wooden TV with a Perspex magnifier precariously hanging in front of the screen. Continual rolling of frames made it frustrating to watch. The Lone Ranger was my favourite series and Whirly Birds rescue helicopter.

I made a good living repairing TV and installing roof top antennas. I have FIOs now but get better quality video of my simple dipole. Yeah the number of stations are limited, but free. America likes FREE dom. My cell phone has a crank on it.

Do you remember - Leo Gorcey would say to another man "I'll lay you out like a rug" but he said that as an East Side Kid?

@@bobbyfrancis8957 Yep, classic

Slip after being corrected on poor grammar, "I was usin' the past tense."

Huntz Hall's son, Gary Hall, became an Episcopal priest and was dean of Washington (D.C.) Cathedral for a while. And the reason I happened to know that was because someone made a derisive comment in the local paper and he wrote in to defend his father. Gary Hall was born in 1949.

For some bizarre reason I was always up early on Saturday morning turning on the t.v. waiting seemingly forever for it to "warm up" and then watching a test pattern. After the National Anthem and being told that the station subscribed to the Seal of Good Practice on would come The Big Picture.

@@johnzeszutko5661 I think you're the first person I know that watched The Big Picture besides me.

And didnt get turned off until parents finished watching the late news,everyday almost and that zenith tv lasted 25 years!

@@brucematheson404 Blond wood with a big dial for turning channels. Ours was used so much the numbers wore off and mom used my model paints to put the channels back on the dial.

@@bobwallace9814 I watched it too. Lived next door to Ft Meade in Maryland.

Yes, and now we have this covid-19 scam, & they have alot of ppl cowering, sheltering in place what a FARCE. The greatest Generation wouldn't have put with the Scamdemic, Lawd have mercy !

@@berzerker1100 I agree. And with the November elections coming up it's not going away anytime soon, I'm afraid. It's now turning into a political agenda to do battle with in Washington.

We became the overprivileged kids of parents, who were the greatest generation! I'm afraid we made a bit of a mess out of the world they saved for us.

Yes, my father endured the great depression, entered the Army during WWII, only to return home and have to drink from the "coloreds only" water fountain. No respect...but we respected my dad and his service as a vet.

@@berzerker1100 - Ditto the same message to you I sent above to Brenda Isajiw, you Trumpturd asshole.

Until the Opthalmologist told her that I wouldn't ruin my eyesight....

Dad "What the Hell are you doing up at this hour? Hey, that's the test pattern you are watching, Get your butt back to bed before you wake up the rest of the house, I don't give a damn if it's Saturday. BED! NOW!"

And don't go in the water for an hour after eating!

@@TomDaly943 I thought that one was still true.

And go outside and play!

Apparently you never got a load of Video Village. Unbridled Consumerism, at its best.

@TheBrabon1 True, however overall people tried to adhere to a higher standard of morality.

@Juke Joint even Black ppl were kinder & gentler in those days. They're a different breed today Lawd have mercy !

@TheBrabon1 but thay was Gawd fearing Gospel singing folk back then, Goodness gracious Lawdy Lawdy.

@TheBrabon1 Black folk were happier back then in da south , even though they never did get their 40 acres & a mule, dang it.

I loved Sky King! My dad loved the roller derby with all those tough girls skating around the track. Haha!

i loved roller derby.san-francisco bay bombers.were my favorit team.take me back in time.

@@georgewatson6622 - I loved/hated Joanie Weston. Charlie O'Connell's family lived around the corner from me when I was a little kid in Queens, NY. I eventually developed a love for my home team, the NY Chiefs.

@@calico7258- For me, those were some of my best childhood memories.

@@klmhookedmoore5847 what part of Queens do you live?

beanie and cecil, one of my favorites

@Daniel Holmes never saw that one, but i'm from Chicago

@Daniel Holmes what geographic area were you living when it was on?

@Seeing itself Tooter lol

All products of the creative team at GAMMA PRODUCTIONS. In pre-FLINTSTONE days, GAMMA had a runaway hit on ABC with ROCKY and his friends. Not actually designed with kiddies in mind, the show was nine parts Cold War socio-political satire, with a sharper edge than the fare from WB. SADLY, the siren song of SATURDAY MORNING merchandising was too much for cartoon companies to ignore. Yes we loved KING LEONARDO, but it was far over the kiddies' heads. KENNY DELMAR's HUNTER was a variation of a character created by comedian ALAN YOUNG, for radio. Delmar perfected the character for FRED ALLEN's radio show. Loooong before MEL BLANC "borrowed" the , I say, the distinctive DIXIECRAT demeanor and drawl, (youall), Delmar presented SENATOR FOGBOUND to radio audiences. Cartoons and early TV gave Blanc the edge, and generations know only of FOGHORN LEGHORN. HEY,, that's showbiz!

Also the submarine. I have a repo of one of those.

@@coleparker yes, we would jam our little hands into the cereal box as soon as it was opened.

lol! I forgot about that. I HAD ONE...COOL!

I also remember the baking soda submarine, the Whirly-Rang, and the cardboards with camping tips from the Indian "Straight Arrow" in the Shredded Wheat boxes.

@@fredericmartin7148 it's all good memories.

I was heartbroken when, after Gramps died, Jeff and his mother moved to the city and left Lassie with Timmy. I couldn't stop crying. In my mind, Lassie will always be Jeff's dog.

Don't forget the Real McCoys, Little Rascals and Amos and Andy

@@garygermain2333 And "I Love Lucy".

I remember that same exact thing. I can’t believe it. Thanks for that great memory.

8:30 for us, I hated. I used to sneak down and watch tv from the steps.

True, except for Friday nights when the parents went out for whatever they did, then it was VAMPIRA coming out of the mist with horror films! . : .

The first show I ever remember watching was Walt Whitey Reno on WOC Davenport. He played a cowboy and showed old western serials.

@@LarryMossey I vaguely remember possibly coming out to the livingroom after hearing some of the opening music to Bonanza. they must have shooed me back to bed right after as I think I was only 3 lol.

Enjoy the little time you have left.

@@dwightpowell6673 I do and I'm only 27 years old. LOL

I envy you meeting Clayton Moore. In the late 1970s he came to Rockford, IL. I made plans to go see him but got called to jury duty. In the early 1980s I moved to Dallas and Clayton made an appearance at a Texas Rangers baseball game. Again I made plans to go see him but AGAIN I got called to jury duty. It just goes to show you: when the Lone Ranger is in town, justice must be served! This is a true story.

Gerald, I, too, got to meet Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carillo when they appeared at a White Sox baseball game in Comiskey Park in Chicago. Renaldo was a very gracious, charming man who spoke with everyone who wanted to meet him and get his autographed photo, but Leo Carillo was a jerk, would not look at anyone, would not speak with anyone, and from a stack of his photos, would just fling the photos in the air with his fingertips--if you wanted his photo, you had to catch one before it hit the ground. ...About Guy Williams, I agree with you that he was the best Zorro in Hollywood history.

What was it like at the time for you when tv started to kick off it mustve been mesmerizing.

Yes I agree, 3/10/49

@@antuliolanderos2386 3 5 1949 I AM 71 NOW

@@avisswope6495 Praise Elohiym/God may He give us more years. Stay Safe.

Absotutely! 1/19/51

You are so very right.

We had a Dumont with doors. Beautiful fine furniture cabinet. Tubes were always in need of replacement.

DuMonts were high end sets, known as the Cadillacs of TVs. My aunt had one. There was also the DuMont TV network, which folded in 1956.

frdjr252 I think the company was located in NJ, which is where we lived, so they must have had good distribution there. I recall that it was frequently in the shop for repairs. Once it started smoking, which scared my Mom. There were DIY vacuum tube testers in candy stores, where my dad would attempt to diagnose problems. I know at one point the repair shop installed what was probably a magnet on the CRT to improve the image. Our second was an RCA color set, from the 1960’s. Far more reliable! We also had a portable b&w TV, but I don’t recall the make.

I never watched "Leave It to Beaver" when originally aired, but I've become addicted to the show on Me-TV.

@@dennisseuling4789 I watched the "Beaver" programs when they were new , sometimes. So I couldn't understand, at first he's a little kid, a couple of years later? - he's suddenly taller and his voice changed! We have a little, scratched 78 rpm record from that time, playing the theme song from the end of the program, a chorus is singing the lyrics to it ," Here we go, with a rum-te- tum, we're having a big parade ... later they're saying, fee-fi- fiddle dee- dee. ...and later cookies and everything, then home sweet home ..." and that's all I remember, I misplaced the record.

"That does not compute."

I kinda remember the 1st two weeks? Rhoda was taken out of a crate - I kept thinking when will he get her some clothes? Instead of being wrapped in sheets? And Bob and his assistant next door, I liked it when she kept using judo on them - but they had to hide her from his sister, so Bob would press a certain button and Rhoda got very stiff - later when the sister found out and got clothes for Rhoda, I think she stopped doing judo and I missed that ...

Yes I remember that. My imagination went wild!

@TheBajemo I remember that show! Schultzy was Alice on the Brady Bunch. Was so glad to see her back. I also remember Ann Sothern. Her n Cummings were fairly decent role models. Years later my kids n I were watching George and Gracie Allen, the one who played God in movies? My daughter would call him "My tv grandpa". So funny!

Yes, I remember, though I liked Bob Cummings much better as a dramatic actor than as a comedian.

Always a cliffhanger at the end of the episode. Had to wait until next week to find out what happened

Definitely. The old Flash Gordon serials starring Buster Crabbe were great. When you watch them today, the bad acting and bargain basement special effects are pure camp. But back then, those serials were terrific!

Yes, I loved Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon. The other outstanding character in that series was Charles Middleton as Ming, The Merciless! And of course, the great classical theme music, Les Preludes, by Franz Liszt!! Even as a little boy, that music had a lot to do with my developing love for classical music.

Yeah, prime time cartoon show which was pretty unusual then!

Was great. I really liked Mr. Ed.

@Larry Mossey yes! Make Saturday morning great again!!

Also in my home town area on friday night was nightmare theater with "Sammy Terry"

Jackie Cooper had a later show called Hennessy. A sitcom about a navy officer who was a doctor.

Nick, So many programs are written by, acted by, paid for by such poorly educated morons they don’t last another season. Thank heavens for that. If you watch any of the recent performers of the new wave called ‘ Concerts’ I bet you very noticed art of singing has deteriorated into just yelling and screaming, many times with a wad of bubble gum in their mouth. Not a pretty sight! Remember Roseanne’s vulgar scratching when she was in the spotlight! Gag! When we were young I always eagerly awaited the playing of The National Anthem before ball games it was a reminder of the courageous men and women who settled the wilderness from sea to shining sea, and lived in America, and answered the call to help destroy tyranny around the earth.

Peter Graves was the pilot in the movie Airplane.

knuck, nuck, nuck, forever!

Now Saturday mornings are any good no great cartoons or westerns or Sky King. Roy Rodgers, all the rest of the Saturday shows. On a black and white small screen TV 😂

Also every weekday afternoon at 3:30

WGN - Lunchtime Little Theater!

Chicago's very own...

Yep. We kids stayed out until dusk. My mom would step out on the porch and had a really loud whistle that we could hear 2 blocks away. That was amazing. We would then jump on our stingray bikes and head home.

All you had in America c1950s was the TV. Impersonal motorways..Buildings everywhere. All our natural resources etc. turned into factories and housing etc. All you had was TV. I used to love the cowboy films ie Gabby Hayes.

But it was all smoke and mirrors. Those wonderful movie stars were having affairs, doing drugs and most were atheists.

@@lookingforonetruechristian7396 AGree most were having affairs, doing drugs but most were churchgoing Catholics or Baptists, Methodiists or Christ Science.

TV shows of the 1950s didn't promote religion, certainly not fundamentalist religion with a patriarchal god. Most writers in early television promoted liberal values like social justice, tolerance, and had hidden messages about labor unions, the right to be different, to fight bigotry and racism. These writers had been through the McCarthy Red scare witchhunts and saw it as their moral duty to confront the hypocrisy and prejudice of their time. Shows of the 1980s often featured right wing themes with macho characters fighting two- dimensional villains who threatened social order.

Leo Carrillo was past Zuma beach in Southern California

Maybe the fact that he would SPONTANEOUSLY EXPLODE, no?

Nunofurdambiznez : So do I :)

There was also Crusader Rabbit, and his pal Rags the tiger. Also King Leonardo. I used to watch Roy Rodgers after school along with the Mouseketeers. Then Highway Patrol.

68 for me

@@JohnPMitten Now I am 68....LOL

It be nice to go back to those times for a few days maybe a week

63 yrs old.i had one of those gas station toys i loved it.what happen to the world.

@@georgewatson6622 The 60's culture war. I'm 68

Yes I can remember the folks telling me "Turn the t.v. set on so it can warm up." and it seemingly took forever. For a minute or two an unspoken horror swept the house - Is it on the fritz or will a picture appear?

You are so lucky

Which Popeye cartoon was your favorite? I always like the one when Popeye made his own cartoon !!!

Those were great. Forgot Felix the Cat.

@@jett7499 In the 1960s, I always watched Felix the Cat in the afternoon, never on Saturday mornings. Do you remember that Bill guy hosting their programs? He said the same thing everyday, when he was about to go to the bulletin board; "I dream of Jeannie in the polka-dot bikini." I mean, really, he's hosting a kids show, for crimmeny sakes!

@@bobbyfrancis8957 That's funny Bobby. I vaguely remember that. Those days were so wholesome and pure. Opportunities were ahead, (as they still are without the liberals), but people feared God and loved one another. This liberal party has only created hate, fear, jealousy, and destruction. I pray to God about it and know God will have his will. Take care, Jeff

Brian, surely you remember "The Lone Ranger" on BBC Television? We had our first TV in 1957: an HMV 8" BBC only model. I think "The Cisco Kid" was on ITV in those days.

@@ianblakesley3349 In those days only the posh folks had ITV as well :-( (tv's either could or couldn't pick up the signal, depending on the model). This is true: My elder brother was humiliated in School because he said Popeye used Olive Oil on his car during class questions ... his friends told me what happened and I didn't have a clue as to what they were on about. You mention The Lone Ranger ? well that was what Saturday Cinema was all about ..ummm and Rocket Man, and Hopalong Cassidy and already mentioned Cisco Kid :-)

@@alphalunamare You're right; ITV was expensive in the 1950s (set-top adapters or a new TV with the new channels (TVs then were nearly all made in UK)). Saturday morning children's cinema : 9-penny tickets, Norman Wisdom films. Happy days for us baby-boomers.

Are you kidding, I was born early 60s in the UK and remember watching kids tv in the Summer holidays BBC always started off with Champion the Wonder Horse, then Herges Adventures of Tin Tin, then the Flashing Blade and White Horses. My Parent's got married in 56 and had a tv and their parents got theirs for the coronation in 53, Our local ITV station Tyne Tees, always started their transmission with the very Geordie " Bobby Shaftoe " folk sing.

@@alisonsmith4801 You had ITV ... like was said above, not everyone did. But I did eventually get to see most of those you mention ..I don't recall 'flashing blade'.

My youngest brother was a smart-ass artist (and still is). He used to watch Fat Albert just to get ideas to use with his sandpaper tongue. Nobody could out smart-ass him. And he was great with the comeback.

And thus began cheesy animation.

I could never forget Hanna-Barbara. Yogis Bear, Snagglepuss, Tom & Jerry, Huckleberry Hound, soooooooo many to name. They were worthy products of their time & can never be replaced😭.

@@noahpartic7586 What were their names? The cat and mouse in trenchcoats, Snooper and Blabbermouse? I thought then, those cartoons were unusual, that crime DOES pay. I'll never forget - part of one cartoon, this one crook, in a store, he suddenly grabs this grand piano, and hides it under his coat!

@@bobbyfrancis8957 Who doesn't want to be able to do that for realsies😄?

How about knock knock who,s there? It,s the happy gang. Well common in.

The LoR show was a favorite back in the day. There are lots of episodes on YT.

@Ozzard of Woz I remember that William Bendix appeared on the first episode of the twilight zone. Where he played a guy who took a time machine to the day before Pearl Harbor happened. He tried to warn the soldiers in Hawaii that the Japanese were going to attack, but no one would listen.

Henry Aldrich was originally a radio program, according to my radio reference book "Tune In Yesterday".

Enjoy what little time you have left.

My home town in Illinois was 50 miles from the Quad Cities, so we watched WHBF Rock Island and WOC Davenport and WQAD in Moline.

I just did it again and it took me back 60 years.