What did you watch?

@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
August 10, 2023 9:49am CST
My parents got a TV when I was very small. I remember watching the Today show with Dave Garroway in a high chair. I also watched Davy Crockett as a child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(miniseries) I also remember the show The Swamp Fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swamp_Fox_(TV_series) and, of course Zorro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro_(1957_TV_series) All of these were Disney programs. I remember watching Gunsmoke too. Honestly, looking back on when I watched them, I believe I was mostly watching for the horses. I know that after I started riding in 1963 my love of Westerns trailed off. Why watch them when I can ride them? I didn't stop completely, but a lot. I know I'm old, and I'm pretty sure many of you have never seen these shows, but I just wanted to know if you have seen or heard of them and what you watched when you were a child. I did watch Saturday morning programing, not all cartoons back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Garroway
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
10 Aug 23
One of my oldest brothers used his first paycheck to buy dad a television when I was little. I remember watching Davy Crockett and Zorro. Dad loved watching Gunsmoke, so of course, that's what everybody watched. Dad liked Westerns, too. We raised and rode horses on our farm but still watched Westerns anyway.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Aug 23
Well, I was a city gal who was horse crazy. My wife's dad likes Westerns, but I suspect it is more because the mythos is pretty simple, good guys, bad guys the good guys win.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
11 Aug 23
@ElicBxn I understand. Dad always watched any John Wayne movies that came out on television.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Aug 23
@DaddyEvil I did love John Wayne. In fact, I dreamed I married him, but ended up in bed with Glen Campbell - this was about a year before the movie they were in together came out.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
10 Aug 23
I only read about Dave Garroway, never saw him that I remember. I was a child of the 60s, but even then I had limited tastes: Bewitched, Hogan’s Heroes, The Rat Patrol (I had a schoolgirl crush on Christopher George), and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (another schoolgirl crush, this one on Edward Mulhare).
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Aug 23
I've never been a fan of sitcoms, but I remember watching Hogan's Heroes... I did like war sitcoms, go figure. I did watch The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, not exactly a crush on Edward Mulhare, liked him. Did develop a genuine hate for Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Lynde from Bewitched. I realize they are a type, but I still hate them. Oh, besides war sitcoms, I liked The Addams Family, not The Munsters because they are a take on The Honeymooners and I hated that too.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
11 Aug 23
@ElicBxn — I have to agree about Charles Nelson Reilly. He was ANNOYING on anything and everything he appeared in.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Aug 23
@FourWalls yep, annoying barely covers the start of my issues with him...
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Amber
@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
10 Aug 23
My late mom said when I was three, I would watch a show called, Emergency! Apparently, it was like an older, clean, non gory version of the show, ER. The reruns would air during the day, and I’d have conversations about Dixie and Roy with her. I have no idea what I liked so much about the show.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Aug 23
My wife liked Emergency! I watched it a bit, but you always have to remember that I was 7 years older. By the time Emergency was on I was in college and then working. Shows on during the day were when I was working later.
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Toni
@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
11 Aug 23
When I was very young, there was no cable tv and there were only three local channels. They start the show at noon. So as a kid, I would watch noon times shows, cartoons in the afternoon. My father and I would watch sitcoms in the evening.
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@sallypup (69156)
• Centralia, Washington
11 Aug 23
Do you still ride? When you were a kid, what color and breed of horse did you have? I'm just nosy and curious. I shared life for a couple of years with a red and white gelding. I have zero balance and cruddy knees now so I can't even ride a stationary bike these days!
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
11 Aug 23
No, I do not ride now. I never had a horse, but I rode at a stable with lots of horses. However, my favorite horse, well, pony really, was a buckskin mare with a bald face. She was smart and fun. If I have a chance to paint a horse, I always paint it to look like her. Her name was Sundown, but when I talk about her and when I paint her, they are always "Sunnys." In fact, I wrote her into a story on AO3 (Archive of Our Own,) it is a Classic Trek story called Heroes Retreat. My balance is fine and my knees are amazingly pretty good considering what Sundown did to them the first time I rode her. But I'm nearly 70 and I have pain issues, so I try to avoid things that would increase my pain.