Topic: Earliest memories of tv shows

[Neon Genesis]

You know what is weird. My kids will never have this experience. They do not have shared TV shows that they watch with their peers. And shows for them are unstuck from a specific time period. Dr. Who with John Pertwee will be in their childhood as much as the original Scooby Doo and Avatar the last Airbender cartoon

The sad part is that Saturday morning cartoons are fast becoming an extinct species.

[Citizen Skeptic]

My favorite saturday morning cartoons were Johnny Quest and Space Ghost. I also liked the Jetsons and the Beatles cartoons.

[jt512]

Growing up in Detroit, I watched a lot of Canadian shows. The Polka Dot Door and the aforementioned Mr. Dressup and the Friendly Giant. Can't forget Captain Kangaroo either or the New Zoo Review. Born in '67

I was born in Detroit, too, so my list is peppered with local Detroit and Canadian shows.

Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Milky the Clown
Romper Room
The Friendly Giant (I can still hum the theme music)
Captain Jolly
Soupy Sales
Captain Kangaroo
The Shari Lewis Show
Hazel
Car 54 Where Are You?
What's My Line?
You Bet Your Life
Queen for a Day
I've Got a Secret
To Tell the Truth
This is Your Life
Chez H́el̀ene
Ding Dong School
Davey and Goliath
Clutch Cargo
Mighty Mouse
The Johnny Ginger Show
The Three Stooges
The Little Rascals (in syndication)
The Danny Thomas Show
Sing Along With Mitch
People Are Funny

[merlich]

The first television show I ever saw in color was the Flintstones in 1963. I was staying at a hotel in Miami Beach with my parents and the hotel had a TV room with a color set (the room TVs were B&W). I was gobsmacked. I had never seen anything like it.

My family finally got our own color set two years later. Most shows were still in B&W.

[MikeHz]

The first television show I ever saw in color was the Flintstones in 1963. I was staying at a hotel in Miami Beach with my parents and the hotel had a TV room with a color set (the room TVs were B&W). I was gobsmacked. I had never seen anything like it.

My family finally got our own color set two years later. Most shows were still in B&W.

Neither had anyone else. Which is why that show was the topic of conversation on the playground at my school the next day.

[karirafn]

Teddy Ruxpin Cartoon Intro

• I had forgotten about Teddy Ruxpin until I stumbled on to the intro on YouTube. (I had the toy as a kid and I loved those shows.)
• Count Duckula
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• Transformers
• Thundercats
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
• Ghostbusters (the cartoons)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Centurions (I seem to be the only one of my friends who remembers this show)
• Dallas (I was very young when they were showing it here in Iceland but I remember the theme song / intro well. I had no idea what the people were saying (since I didn't understand English at the time nor could I read the subtitles) or even what the show was about.)
• The Berenstain Bears
• The Smurfs

These are not TV shows but a series of feature length animated films but I felt they deserved a mention:

• Lucky Luke
• Asterix
• Tintin

Most of these were of course dubbed in Icelandic, except for the "mature" ones, like Thundercats, GI Joe etc. The cartoons would start at 8 am on Saturday and Sunday mornings on one of the, at the time, two TV stations in Iceland and at 11 am the un-dubbed shows would start. I learned my basic English from the un-dubbed shows. I was pretty much fluent before I started learning English at school (at around 11-12 years old).

edit: And of course the Smurfs' underwater cousin The Snorks.

Cartoons were so much better in the 80's!

[karirafn]

I also remember this one show about some kids living in space that would go into "black holes". I think the bad ones did that. I think the black holes led to another dimension or something that was not in space (earth?) where the good guys lived. The black holes had lids on them I think, like sewer hatches. The bad ones were led by some woman I think ... with white hair ... or the kids had white hair ... or all of them did. One of them had a black star tattooed around one of his/her eye. I think there were only two of the bad space kids.

Does this ring any bells?

[Nat 20]

Does anyone remember the Banana Splits? It was a cartoon variety show for kids.  It was on right before the Monkeys.  That was back around 1980ish on one of our 7 channels. Back before cable.  That is my first memory of TV.  I fuckin loved it.  A couple years ago I acquired the entire series of the Banana Splits.  Totally unwatchable.

[Citizen Skeptic]

Growing up in Detroit, I watched a lot of Canadian shows. The Polka Dot Door and the aforementioned Mr. Dressup and the Friendly Giant. Can't forget Captain Kangaroo either or the New Zoo Review. Born in '67

I was born in Detroit, too, so my list is peppered with local Detroit and Canadian shows.

Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Milky the Clown
Romper Room
The Friendly Giant (I can still hum the theme music)
Captain Jolly
Soupy Sales
Captain Kangaroo
The Shari Lewis Show
Hazel
Car 54 Where Are You?
What's My Line?
You Bet Your Life
Queen for a Day
I've Got a Secret
To Tell the Truth
This is Your Life
Chez H́el̀ene
Ding Dong School
Davey and Goliath
Clutch Cargo
Mighty Mouse
The Johnny Ginger Show
The Three Stooges
The Little Rascals (in syndication)
The Danny Thomas Show
Sing Along With Mitch
People Are Funny

Sing along with Mitch? LOL

Follow the bouncing ball.

[Caffiene]

These are not TV shows but a series of feature length animated films but I felt they deserved a mention:
Tintin

You didnt get the early 90's Tintin TV show in Iceland?

[Boßel]

Samurai Pizza Cats was a cartoon I'd watch during breakfast before school.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXiJYcK4-GU

[karirafn]

These are not TV shows but a series of feature length animated films but I felt they deserved a mention:
Tintin

You didnt get the early 90's Tintin TV show in Iceland?

Ahh I had completely forgotten about those. Yeah we had them.

[Neon Genesis]

Does anyone remember the Banana Splits? It was a cartoon variety show for kids.  It was on right before the Monkeys.  That was back around 1980ish on one of our 7 channels. Back before cable.  That is my first memory of TV.  I fuckin loved it.  A couple years ago I acquired the entire series of the Banana Splits.  Totally unwatchable.

I used to watch this on Cartoon Network back in the early 90s but I haven't seen it in years and I don't remember anything about it other than the weird creatures.

[jt512]

Growing up in Detroit, I watched a lot of Canadian shows. The Polka Dot Door and the aforementioned Mr. Dressup and the Friendly Giant. Can't forget Captain Kangaroo either or the New Zoo Review. Born in '67

I was born in Detroit, too, so my list is peppered with local Detroit and Canadian shows.

Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Milky the Clown
Romper Room
The Friendly Giant (I can still hum the theme music)
Captain Jolly
Soupy Sales
Captain Kangaroo
The Shari Lewis Show
Hazel
Car 54 Where Are You?
What's My Line?
You Bet Your Life
Queen for a Day
I've Got a Secret
To Tell the Truth
This is Your Life
Chez H́el̀ene
Ding Dong School
Davey and Goliath
Clutch Cargo
Mighty Mouse
The Johnny Ginger Show
The Three Stooges
The Little Rascals (in syndication)
The Danny Thomas Show
Sing Along With Mitch
People Are Funny

Sing along with Mitch? LOL

My grandma liked it, and we had only one TV, so I was stuck.

Jay

[Neon Genesis]

You didnt get the early 90's Tintin TV show in Iceland?

I remember watching that on HBO Family and it was quite addicting.  Speaking of Samurai Pizza Cats, does anyone remember Speed Racer?  I remember Dexter's Labatory had an awesome episode where they parodied Speed Racer and they made fun of the horrible dubbing and high speed voice acting.