I don’t. But I do remember that goofy ass Mod Squad, but that was in the late '60s.
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It started in the 1959 and went through the sixties. We did not have electricity at our farm until 1955.My father bought both a normal radio and TV. I was allowed to watch TV until 8pm. Most programming was very boring for such a young age.
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Oh this is a gem! What a goofy time these folks were having. Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash is in this one.
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Yep, until Sesame Street came along Saturday morning and Sunday Evenings were pretty well “it” for children’s programming.
In the seventies came local stations doing kids after school programming then the ABC After School Specials.
It’s all kinda gone to hell from there.
A tragic loss at such a young age. The woman’s voice was magic and the old tube based electronics gave it a quality even beyond that.
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Has the longest running TV series of all time gotten a mention yet?
Gunsmoke!
I remember Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green.
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Mr. 'Green Jeans". 
I also recall the Davy Crockett Show and The Swamp Fox .WOW…that was surely a long time ago.
Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone were standard fare in our house. We had a couple of local stations we could pickup (100 miles away) when the weather was right that ran them as their after school children’s programming.
We had a 130’ antenna that gave us line of sight as far as Roswell, NM, Amarillo, and Lubbock Texas.
Being in a very small rural community we didn’t get cable until the Mid to Late seventies.
WE did not have electricity until 1955. An electric water pump in 1957 and finally a septic tank with running water. We had rabbit ears antenna.
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So cruel to the Rabbits.
We all had Rabbit Ears for years.
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For those who were in NY during the mid 50’s
We had “Million Dollar Movie” on channel 9
“This series began in NYC, on local station WOR TV 9, in 1955, and ran for over a decade. It featured top-tier movies, where each feature would run for an entire week, airing twice nightly. This format, that simulated the local neighborhood movie house, was also adopted by other local stations, realizing that this was one way to reach the most viewers, considering the competition from the networks. The first 3 features were “Magic Town” staring James Stewart, “Body And SouL” staring John Garfield”, and “A Double Life"staring Ronald Coleman. Much of the 1930s and 40s library from RKO were featured. As the station was a subsidiary of “RKO General Tire”, many of those films were rental free, to the station. Those RKO films included “King Kong”,“Gunga Din”,“Citizen Kane” and the “Fred Astaire”- “Ginger Rogers” RKO musicals. In the summer of 1957, a few of those RKO films such as “King Kong” and “Top Hat” were aired, one time only, on ABC Network TV, on Saturday nights, after which they returned to be rerun on “Million Dollar Movie”. Today, those RKO films as well as thousands of others are part of " The Turner Classic Movies” vault."
They forget to mention Godzilla!
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We also had old Horror Movies with “Zackerley”
Before Zacherley we had Vampira…in Los Angekes, who began just before my parents moved from Hollywood to NY. The show ran from '54-'55. so I only saw her briefly. The first horror host.
Her opening music theme, also was used in 1980 by Stanley Kubrick, in his movie, The Shining. Kubrick was a New Yorker but managed to see Vampira.
On these horror shows, I saw all the old Frankenstein, Werewolf, Dracula, Mummy movies many times
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If you lived anywhere near New Orleans,Morgus was on your TV screen almost everyday!
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Yes I remember Dragnet. Whats my Line or `To Tell the Truth".
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This is still one of my all time favorite threads here that you created!
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