I have no problem there!
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Thas cuz we speak Mercan. You can keep that English on that side of the lake, Bruh!
BTW: If I ever consider a list of my top five SDF posters [[I won't), please know that you are easily one of them. I can't speak for others, but your posts are among the most interesting and educational that I read on these forums.
Remember when the tv weatherman had those maps and a magic marker?
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And a LOT more interesting threads than there are now, with label histories, discographies and record label scans, and comments by people that were there at the time and helped make the music?
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I was talking about the 1940s and early 1950s.
Hey JAI you mean like this! I actually remember watching this local weather report on the news about the Blizzard of '78. I was a senior in high school . It felt kind of weird finding this on the internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQXbAgvtiE
One of my Mom's fond memories is when a local station broadcast a "we are experiencing technical problems, please stand by message". My big brother, who must have been about five years old at the time asked her what was going on. She read the message and he dutifully walked over and stood by the television.
Now that is a funny story. I remember a show called "Land of the Giants". That's where I got the idea that there were really tiny people inside our television set that put on all of the shows! LOL! When our TV we had for most of the 60s finally went kaput! I remember looking inside at all of the tubes to see if I could see any of the little people, hehehehehehehehehe.......
Hah! I remember 'Land of the Giants'. I liked it as well as 'The Time Tunnel'. We used to try to talk my folks into staying up to watch 'The Invaders' and 'The Immortal' but we usually had to be in bed at 9:00 PM. BTW: Remember when you had to go to bed at 9:00 PM?
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Yes! From 1953-1954. But, I usually stayed up until 11:00 - Midnight, or so, reading comic books with a flashlight. There was no TV in kids' rooms back then, and very few regular programmes on Canadian TV then, and nothing on after 10 PM, in any case [[at least in Winnipeg). I can't speak for B.C.,Ontario or Quebec, but I know that in Chacago we shut down one hour earlier than on the 2 US coasts. So, maybe Midwestern Winnipeg's TV was also shut down earlier than B.C. and The Eastern Provinces?
The Invaders caused me to get many spankings. I never remember getting to see a whole episode, so a few Christmases ago I bought the DVD's. Oh yeah, 9 pm was not only the cut off time for us, it was also when "Peyton Place" came on. That was my mom's favorite program that she and her ladies spent the next day on the phone discussing. LOL!
Yep,9:00 on weeknights and we could stay up on friday and saturday,we used to have a latenight horror show called[shock]which ran on cbs on saturday nights at 1am..count[gore devall]came much later.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa,yep i remember sir graves,that show was a hoot.
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Was it "Country Hoedown" on CBC? That show ran from the mid '50s through the mid '60s. It was hosted by Gordie Tapp. He did corny comedy sketches on that show like he did in the '70s on US "Hee Haw".
I also grew up watching "Mr. Dressup" and "The Friendly Giant" on Canadian TV .
The Tommy Hunter Show , eh? LOL!
Remember when you would almost never see a movie star on tv[it was considered career suicide]now it's the opposite.
Because there are few fresh ideas,most of this[new]stuff is as stale as the food on greasy grady's menu.
Remember when one of the kids would have ringworms and have to wear a stocking cap? And get teased unless it was the school bully in which case we would just look the other way.
Yeah. Stage actors and movie stars thought it was beneath them to be on TV. But, even today, once TV actors get into movies, they seem to shun television, unless it's an awards show, of course!
By the time of the 70s, almost all you saw on TV variety shows, aside from Peter Lawford and washed-up comedians.
Legend was that you would get it from wearing someone elses hat.