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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 01:57 AM
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What was your favorite Childhood show? Not Animated.
Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 01:58 AM by Quixote1818
Here are a few of mine:

The New Zoo Review

Capitan Kangaroo

HR Puff N Stuff

The Monkeys show for kids

Gumby

Buy the way, I was a child of the early to mid 70's.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 01:59 AM
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1. Captain kangaroo
Bozo the Clown (the one on WGN-I saw another and hated it) and the Electric Company.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:01 AM
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2. Pryor's Place and Captain Kangaroo!
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:01 AM
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3. Howdy Doody; and Kukla, Fran and Ollie . . .
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/H/htmlH/howdydoodys/howdydoodys.htm
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/K/htmlK/kuklafrana/kuklafrana.htm
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:04 AM
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5. Mine too :=)
I have an autographed picture of Buffalo Bob from the 1995 NY toy fair. May he rest in peace
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:07 AM
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8. Oh, wow ! Maybe you should "Antiques Roadshow" it?! n/t
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:18 AM
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13. It is framed next to me shaking hands with the Big Dog
and bunches of famous racers from the 70's & 80's. I can't remember a single bit of any of the shows, but in the fifties and early sixties, I was glued to the TV after school.

Then I discovered cars and girls. And the rest is history.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:03 AM
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4. The Capitan, Zoom, Sesame Street, Electric Company
Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 02:12 AM by tridim
PBS up and down the board.

Edit: Mr. Rogers too.
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:05 AM
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7. Wow, thats four people who have mentioned Capitan Kangaroo
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:05 AM
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6. Diver Dan
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:07 AM
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9. Supercar!!
...and Kapitan Kangaroo.
Captain Penny (regional)
and later...Laugh In
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 01:26 AM
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31. I'm not sure "animated" doesn't include "puppets"...
...but, yes, I loved Supercar. I even used to have the LP. And I was always trying to build myself a Supercar out of cardboard boxes...and getting hugely disappointed that I could never get it to look right.

During my last year in L.A. (1963-64) channel 9 had an afternoon kid's show called "Nine Island" -- really a "wrapper" show around the usual cartoon serials. Anyway, it supposedly took place on a mysterious island shaped like a "9"...with a futuristic studio where the host (can't remember his name) ran the show with the help (?) of a wise-cracking computer named the Weisenheimer. I used to think the island was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:09 AM
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10. Ummmm, I watched . . .
Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 02:10 AM by TaleWgnDg
The Electric Company, Sesame Street, and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood with my kids when they were little . . . great stuff. I recall the first show of Sesame Street . . .
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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:10 AM
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11. You can't do that on Television
There's never been another kids show like it.

After that, Electric Company, Sesame Street, and 3-2-1 Contact.
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RaleighNCDem Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 08:26 AM
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29. Me too
With the addition of Kids Incorporated and Clarissa Explains it All.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:11 AM
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12. Dark Shadows
Captain Kangaroo
and
Three's Company
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:37 AM
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22. I loved Dark Shadows....
People now think its weird that a Soap Opera could be a Gothic Horror, but when I was young, it was as part of daytime TV as As the World Turns. Loved it.
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underseasurveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:29 AM
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14. Soupy Sales
Captain Kangaroo
Sherry Lewis with Lambchop
Kukla Fran and Ollie
Mister Ed
Please Don't Eat The Daisies

And not too many people remember this one....
The Paul Winchell Show with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smith. Jerry and Knucklehead were ventriloquist dummies, Jerry being the smarter of the two of course, and their schtick was very reminiscent of the Smothers Brothers, Tommy and Dickie :-) Another show I liked way back when.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:09 AM
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40. officially I am old, I remember ALL of these
did you know Paul Winchell invented an artificial heart valve?
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:43 AM
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15. Not Sure If This Qualifies, But
one of my favorite shows from my childhood was Highway To Heaven. Damn, that was what Christianity was SUPPOSED to be about. About helping out downtrodden people. Not about treading on the already down and out in the name of Jesus.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 02:45 AM
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16. Sesame Street!
Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 02:45 AM by realisticphish
and reading rainbow...LOVED that show. o, and mr rogers of course. and wishbone!! wishbone was the SHIT

can you tell i watched PBS a lot? that's all we ever watched before we got satellite... that's how i inherited my love of british comedy

child of the early 90's :P
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:03 AM
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17. Batman
Still one of my favs today.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:19 AM
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20. Batman on TV means...Batgirl!
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 08:13 AM
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27. Icky girl!
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:15 AM
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18. No fair. Gumby was animated!
I don't have any favorites. We had crap live shows in Canada. (Except for the shows on CBC. God forbid you should dis Mr. Dressup or the Friendly Giant!)

There was one show called Uncle Bobby. Every frikkin' week the prize was a Matchbox Superfast and some squirrel danced around a lot.

Oh, dear Lord, I just remembered a kid's game show called Puppet People. And then there was another one with two pairs of siblings.

Pee-Wee's Playhouse made up for all of that.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:29 AM
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36. Uncle Bobby
made me :scared:

How they would pick someone with all the warmth and compassion of Paul Wolfowitz to do a kid's tv show is beyond me.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:17 AM
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19. All in the Family.
I was a precocious little bugger!
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:24 AM
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21. Captain Kangaroo with Mr Green Jeans
Our Gang which I loved
Soupy Sales
I also watched:
I Love Lucy
Amos and Andy
I Love Bob
Doby Gillis
Oh Susannah!
Topper
Lots of Abbott and Costello, Three Stooges, and Marx Brothers
Ah, those were the days.
My complaint is that they don't show this stuff on satellite.
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:29 AM
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37. Why don't they offer this stuff on satellite tv?
All they offer is drivel. Hardly anything from the golden years of television.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:12 AM
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41. I forgot about Amos/Andy, Dobie, Bob Cummings (Love That Bob)
and My Living Doll and who could forget TOPPER

Our Gang, Shirley Temple Theatre

Ozzie Harriet
Father Knows Best
Make Room for Daddy
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:39 AM
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23. A few of mine...
Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 03:41 AM by njdemocrat106
Bugs Bunny, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, MASK, The Transformers, Centurions, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?, Double Dare, Fun House, Duck Tales, The Super Mario Bros Super Show, and any old game shows that aired on USA Network and the old Family Channel (a good station in the afternoon even though Pat Robertson owned it at the time).

Edit: Oh crap, you said "not animated". Tough shit, I'm not deleting the animated shows I listed. :evilgrin:
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NomoBreaks Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:43 AM
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24. Any NY'ers here remember...
Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 03:46 AM by NomoBreaks
Wonderama, Officer Joe Bolton, Capt. Jack McCarthy, Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox, Bungalow Bill, Uncle Floyd, etc.

And if Gumby is acceptable, then I vote for "Davey and Goliath"

...but maybe not Jasper!:)
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:51 AM
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25. No TV when I was a child. I loved the spook shows on radio
My father would not let me go to the Sat. movies that ran the weekly style shows. Not because of the shows but he said the movie building was a fire trap.
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Borgnine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 04:09 AM
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26. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
This bizarre amalgation of live-action and animation was like crack to my Nintendo-addicted mind. Any show that has CAPTAIN LOU ALBANO as Mario deserves all the entertainment awards in the world.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 08:21 AM
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28. I saw the debut of Monty Python;s Flying Circus in England
I was about 12 but I just loved that show. I remember how badly I thought American TV SUCKED when I came back to the states.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 08:31 AM
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30. Land of the Lost
I really wish I could see a few episodes now. I have this general feeling that they were unwatchable (for an adult) but I don't remember many of the specifics.
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:04 AM
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32. Soupy Sales...until he told kids to go get money from their parents wallet
and mail it to 'Uncle Soupy.' And the network failed to see the humor in Uncle Soupy's joke. Sad.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:12 AM
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33. The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz


Buy the way, I was a child of the early 50's.



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bilgewaterbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:14 AM
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34. Hooooollld da bus!
The Banana Splits.
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:56 AM
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39. Yep. Lest we forget the Splits....
Fleagle!
:toast:
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:22 AM
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35. perry mason (the original)
when I was 4, that was my fave
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:30 AM
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38. Hilarious House of Frightenstein
was my fav.

Mr Dressup, The Friendly Giant and Sesame Street were the others.
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