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Let’s play.

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Because it’s Friday and that’s what we do here.

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Okay, I’ll date myself.

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Anyone else remember Barnabas Collins?

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An obscure short lived British comedy from the mid ‘70’s.

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What can I say? I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was young. Even as a child I knew it was stupid… but it had Stegosaurs and Triceratops. Claymation et al, I was hooked.

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What long defunct television show did you watch way back when ?

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22 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  2. The very first Huckleberry Hound Show. Bonanza. Cannonball. Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Cannonball, for Canadians when Hockey Night in Canada started in the middle of the second period! Before the game came on there was a Nova Scotia tavern show starring the nation’s pet, Juliette. I could go on. The first movie I saw on television was The Bengal Lancers. (Who dat?)

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      1. Peter Gunn. Wanted: Dead or Alive. Lassie. PANIC! Route 66. You should never have got me started. Mind you, Canada did not get television till lo g after America did. But my best friend’s father bought one anyway, and hooked it up to a 50 ft. high anttena, and we were able to pirate KCND in Minnesota. Kinda grainy though, but we didn’t care.

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      3. Don’t forget TV Repairmen! They would come to the house, take the back off the TV, then hum and haw and ooh and no and really before they ever touched a tube. Then they would play tic tac toe with the tubes on their tester, because all the tubes were working on their own, but not in relay. Of course they never had the key tube with them, and they had to go back to their shop, or maybe the tube store. It was all an act, but every repairman I ever saw played it the same way. And they charged a pretty penny to have us watch them.
        I never wanted to be a TV repairman. Good for me!

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      5. If I remember right, the 1st clour show on Canadian TV was Yogi Bear, but that’s really scratching at my memory. But I’m pretty sure it was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
        The first time I ever saw colour on a movie screen was some kind of treasure hunting movie, possibly The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, or maybe Alladin’s Lamp. Definitely something orienttal. The movie started in black and white, and stayed B&W for most of the show. But when they found the treasure at last, it turned into colour, with shiny gold, twinkling diamonds, red rubies, leather sapphires, green emeralds, etc. That was way cool!

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      7. Yes, and I guess that is the movie I was thinking of, but it seems wrong to me. According to IMDb it was the only 8film that went B&W to colour until 1998. But I specifically remember seeing that on the Saturday afternoon Double Bill: 2 westerns, 1 news reel, 1 cartoon, on the screen, with entry ticket, large popcorn, and large drink — ALL for 1 quarter. Yup, 25 cents. Those were the days.
        Better yet, two theaters within 3 blocks of where I lived.Zlways walked there.
        One fact I did not know,. Colour movies were made in India long before in America.
        Burray for Bollywood

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      8. If they did it with Oz, I’m sure they tried it with other films as well. We had a lovely old theater in my hometown as well. Cheap afternoon matinees… those were the days.

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  4. Time Tunnel, and I remember it mainly because of James Darren, who made my tween heart do a flip at a time when I barely understood physical attraction. Much later he appeared as a 50’s lounge singer in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and middle aged me almost melted into the floor. (“Mom, are you okay?”) He died in 2024 of heart failure, and if I am honest, I think a part of my youth died with him, my childhood crush.

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  5. Good grief the list is endless! We got a tv in the late 40’s – my favorite children’s shows? Magic Cottage; Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Foodini the Great; Andy’s Gang; The Big Top; Yeah there was the Howdy Doody Show, not a favorite of mine, and later The Mickey Mouse Club; Captain Kangaroo; Ding Dong School and Romper Room – but those were all mid 1950’s so I was too old for them actually, my younger brother watched them. And my father loved the Soupy Sales Show, we kids didn’t like it. Oh wait – I loved Winky Dink and You and Gerald McBoing Boing LOL

    If you are thinking shows for adults – oh sweetie way, way, way too many – 75 years of tv shows? It’s a boatload!

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      1. I never watched Captain Kangaroo – I just Googled it – it was on from 1955-1992! And yes, Mr. Green Jeans was on that show.

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  7. Emergency, Adam 12, Captain Kangaroo, Almighty Isis as in the Isis/Shazam hour on Saturday mornings. Not to mention The Dukes of Hazard, CHiPs, Starsky and Hutch, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Waltons, Barney Miller, Fish, All In The Family and MASH. I loved these shows!

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