What's the first TV show you remember watching as a kid?

[red dog 1]

Here's mine:

[DUgosh]

1. Captain Kangaroo

Although I much preferred his sidekick Mr. Green Jeans

[Bayard]

11. Yup

And then, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, and Fury.

[electric_blue68]

39. Fury! I remember the horse, not so much the kid. 😄

[Bayard]

43. There was a kid?

[Ocelot II]

2. I think it might have been Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Andy's Gang.

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie. Bet most of you are too young to remember that one.

[electric_blue68]

40. I was thinking "no"; but then I looked it up...

Anyone seeing the photos - I remembered Ollie instantly!

Whether original run, or syndication, idk.

[underpants]

3. Probably the Uncle Al show on WCPO Cincinnati

with his side kick Captain Windy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307409/

[rampartd]

4. my uncle brought in the little black and white set

and hooked it up in time to watch "flash gordon."

i would have been like 2 in 1954so it must have been a rerun.

[Squaredeal]

5. The Sandy Becker Show, Romper Room, the Howdy Doody show and Captain Kangaroo

I don’t recall which came first but my favorite was Sandy Becker. He drew a cartoon character every show and came on early in the day, maybe 9 am. It might have been a regional NY show.

[livetohike]

6. Either Maverick or Your Show of Shows. We

lived with my widowed Grandma until I was 6. An Aunt and two Uncles lived there too. So surrounded by adults 🙂.

[dickthegrouch]

7. Andy Pandy, and Blue Peter

The BBC rules!

[biophile]

8. Bonanza and Captain Kangaroo

Liked Mr Greenjeans better, too

[bobalew]

21. Mr. Greenjeans

was Clara the Clown on Howdi Doodi...

[redstatebluegirl]

9. Captain Kangaroo

My folks always said TV would rot our brains. Little did they know the internet would be right around the corner.

[intheflow]

10. Either Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, or Scooby Doo.

Hard to remember at age 3 or 4.

[blm]

12. I had 5 older sisters, so, it was American Bandstand.

My dad liked Gallant Men and most music shows.

I liked The Little Rascals, Ghoulardi, and all music shows, like Ed Sullivan.

[Boomerproud]

15. Ghoulardi was the father of Paul Thomas Anderson.

Most people probably know that. My brothers and cousins loved that show. It was legendary in Cleveland.

[blm]

19. Ghoulardi's influence has never stopped.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. I don't think my parents ever missed Lawrence Welk.

Ah one and ah two.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. "I Remember Mama".

[some_of_us_are_sane]

14. Lassie

and Captain Kangaroo.

[boonecreek]

16. In Chicago

Ding Dong School with Miss Frances.

[Skittles]

17. Coronation Street

in England

[yellowdogintexas]

18. Howdy Doody I think

Ding Dong School was also a very early one. '=
We did not watch Romper Room

[wnylib]

42. Howdy Doody for me, too.

Some families did not have TVs yet at the time. So neighborhood kids came to our house to watch. We sat on the floor, and my mother brought us snacks.

The TV was a floor model with a small screen that took up about only one quarter of the whole TV. Only black and white, of course.

[Harker]

20. Bozo's Circus on WGN Chicago.

[bobalew]

22. Sky King

1957 ish Boulder, Colorado...

[photokat]

23. Soupy Sales

I don't know if he was just local to the Detroit area or not?

[Cirsium]

29. Yes

He was initially on local TV. He was a neighbor (7 Mile and Meyers) and we would see him in the market occasionally. Starting in 1953 he had a noontime show on WXYZ called Lunch with Soupy Sales.

"Up in the air, junior birdbaths!"

"If you can't make both ends meet, make one vegetable!"

"Hey kids! What word starts with the letter F and ends with uck? That's right - firetruck!"

[rurallib]

24. Mighty Mouse; Heckle and Jeckle; Captain Kangaroo

[Mad_Dem_X]

25. Probably Sesame Street

I don't remember, but it was either that or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

[DURHAM D]

26. American Bandstand

[OLDMDDEM]

27. Captain Kangaroo

[Nittersing]

28. Boomtown!

I think it was out of Boston and we lived in Lexington.

They had a character called Rootin Tootin Snortin Norton!

[Marthe48]

30. Local show, Captain Penny

On a Cleveland, Oh. station. It was probably a 15 or 30 minute show. I liked Captain Penny. He was dressed as a train engineer. He'd talk a little and then show a cartoon. I remember seeing black and white Krazy Kat cartoons. I remember watching other shows as I got older.

[Diamond_Dog]

35. My sister and I loved his Pooch Parade segment

where he’d show off dogs up for adoption at the Animal Protective League.

Do you remember Barnaby, Marthe? “Hi, Neighbor!”

[Marthe48]

36. I forgot about pooch parade

I remember the noon news, Capt. Penny and then Dorothy Fuldheim, a very early talk show. Ans she was a pioneer in newscasting.
I remember Barnaby, and Woodrow the Woodman, who took his place.
Do you remember Mr. Jingaling?

[Diamond_Dog]

37. Yes to all of those.

Mr. Jingaling was on Halle’s Seventh Floor! My parents took me and my sister there a few times at Christmas.

My mother liked to watch Dorothy Fuldheim’s show.

[LoisB]

31. Either Hopalong Cassidy or The Lone Ranger. We did not have a television set but a neighbor

did.

[red dog 1]

47. The Lone Ranger was my favorite program.

(I think it came on Thursday night at 8:30 p.m.)

[legallyblondeNYC]

32. Romper room

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. Captain Kangaroo

and Mr Green Jeans.
I'm pretty sure that Wonderful World of Disney is second on that list.

[electric_blue68]

38. No one's mentioned Gumby yet! Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo...

Probably Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Felix the Cat, Little Lulu cartoon wise.

Having looked some stuff up but didn't find - I remember a children's game show where; you know a physical game board with a "wiggly" drawn path you move your pieces on - well, I remember a wiggly path on the floor of the show that kids moved around on. Have no idea otherwise about it.

[Aristus]

41. "High Chaparral".

Loved it. I grew up in Texas. But when we moved to Arizona, we toured the "Old Tucson" filming location and theme park. I recognized a number of the landscapes in the opening montage.

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[JustKay]

44. Bugs bunny and Lone Ranger

[Chipper Chat]

45. Whatever was on the only channel we could pull in.

WFBM channel 6 indianapolis
1952

[Emile]

46. Sky King

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[lucca18]

48. The Little Rascals❤️