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Early TV programs Do You Remember These?
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Early TV programs Do You Remember These?
Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour. 1948 to 1980
A direct descendant of radio's "Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour" (1934-1946), hosted by Major Edward Bowes until his death. After a one-year hiatus, Ted Mack, who had directed Bowes' auditions, revived the show (which lasted into 1952) and brought the concept to the DuMont Television Network. The at-home audience voted by postcard for the favorite, winning performer(s) each week.
i love the voting by post cards
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Yes: saturday mornings with Skylar King, Penny, the Songbird and Flying Crown Ranch! And Fury, My Friend Flicka and Whirleybirds. In the evenings, Disney's version of Zorro with Guy Madison - who later portrayed the father on Lost in Space.
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Zorro was one of my favorites. I also never missed Gunsmoke, the best Western ever made. I still watch it every day on me tv. I also liked watching Hazel , the life of Riley, Andy Griffith, and the 3 stooges. I now watch the reruns of The Love Boat on me tv every Sunday and it releases my stress and for the 2 hours it's on l feel like I'm back in the good old days.
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@sasquatch69wrote:I remember some I used to watch Saturday mornings, Sky King, Sea Hunt, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Sea Hunt was on at night immediately before Twilight Zone.
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@kr6809wrote:Don't remember Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, but do you remember Andy Devine's show? My brother LOVED the "pluck your magic twanger, Froggie". Strange, yes, but what a memory to make me laugh.
I loved the Andy Devine Show. Midnight, the cat, said, "Nice."
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@nanapeteywrote:How about the westerns? Paladin, the Rifleman, Kit Carson, Roy Rogers....
I remember almost all cowboy shows because I hated them. As a child, I couldn't understand why there was such a big glut of cowboy shows. It seemed as though there was a conspiracy to shove them up my butt. Now that I am older, I analyse it as a sign of mass insanity. Here are some more that I hated:
Hopalong Cassidy
Cisco Kid
Lone Ranger
Gene Autry
Raw Hide
Maverick
Sugar Foot
Wagon Train
Davy Crockett
Bonanza
Annie Oakley
Sky King
I only liked Wild Wild West and some spaghetti westerns.
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My favorite western on Friday night after the Monkeeys were the Wild Wild West, starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. And on Sunday evening my favorite Syfy were Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison.
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Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges as ex Navy Captain Mile Nelson. I remember this show well. It played on Channel 2 CBS in Los Angeles in the late 1950's to about 1964. Lloyd Bridges lived in my neighborhood on the northeast corner of Kingsland Avenue and Butler Avenue in the late 1950's. I remember he lived a rather quiet and unassuming life and the time when his Cadillac sedan was stolen in 1960. Shortly thereafter he moved to Pacific Palisades.
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