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pipi_k

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19. OMG you guys

Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:51 AM

Sep 2013

are bringing back so many memories from my own childhood!

Mitch Miller...Lawrence Welk...

I watched Highway Patrol and Sky King and The Life of Reilly

Our Miss Brooks and Topper

One of my favorite game shows was Video Village

And Saturday afternoons there was Tarzan and Jungle Jim (with the requisite person-accidentally-falling-into-the-quicksand scene) and cheesy dinosaur movies.

And when we went to my grandparents' house my grandfather would retire to The Parlor to watch Perry Mason.

So many happy hours with the TV, yet we still found time to get out and play till the street lights came on.

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TV: Your Mind. Controlled. [View all] damnedifIknow Sep 2013 OP

TV should come in IV form mindwalker_i Sep 2013 #1

ROFL "Goodness." Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #6

An anecdote for your post. woo me with science Sep 2013 #2

Television, the Drug of the Nation johnnyreb Sep 2013 #3

LOL! And here I thought I was the only one that posted that video. Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #25

It's been many years since Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" comment. Ron Green Sep 2013 #4

as chomsky said tiny elvis Sep 2013 #5

I probably spent at least 30 hours a week watching TV in elementary school, Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #7

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #9

I think that's one of the reasons we watched Wild Kingdom Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #10

We always went over to my grandparents house to watch it. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #11

Sis, is that you? Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #13

i suspect it was a pretty common experience, back in the day. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #14

That bouncing ball made me dizzy Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #15

OMG you guys pipi_k Sep 2013 #19

"Out of the blue of the western sky comes... Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #21

Lots of western movies back in those days, too. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #22

Johnny Quest pipi_k Sep 2013 #32

The Jonny Quest episode that freaked me out the most Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #33

That wasn't Johnny Quest. kentauros Sep 2013 #34

When I had a radio show back in the mid-90s kentauros Sep 2013 #35

I think we also watched Ted Mack's Amateur Hour Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #18

Thirty-four hours of television per week? Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #8

No clue damnedifIknow Sep 2013 #12

You must have very high standards and a finely developed mind el_bryanto Sep 2013 #20

Well I just find TV boring damnedifIknow Sep 2013 #36

TCM (Turner Classic Movies) for one. kentauros Sep 2013 #17

I do enjoy TCM. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #27

The Documentary Channel recently turned into "Pivot" kentauros Sep 2013 #30

I did not know that about the Documentary Channel ... Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #31

Simpsons quote... Javaman Sep 2013 #16

National Anthem when TV stations signed off at night... MinM Sep 2013 #23

TV sells audiences to advertisers. KurtNYC Sep 2013 #24

so it's fine to post criticism of tv for cali Sep 2013 #26

Good point, cali Link Speed Sep 2013 #29

this is one reason I have not owned a television in more then 20 years.... mike_c Sep 2013 #28