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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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14 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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  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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