What is the first television show you remember watching?

What is the first television show you remember watching when you were a child?

The first one I remember watching was 'Lassie'

the first program I remember , and I'm not sure how well it's know outside of the UK , was Rainbow. I remember the old black and white version, which was first broadcast in 1972 , so I would only have been 2 years old.
So at the time rainbow looked like this



a bit before the time of the faces that became best known for the show



At around the same time, I also remember seeing this a lot on my tv screen


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this was back in the days when you didn't get 24 hour TV , so you would quite often have to entertain yourself by staring at the test card! Happy days !

Emergency. About Station 51. Mostly followed two paramedics from Rescue 51, but at least once every episode the entire station got called out for an emergency. I loved that show. hehe

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was actually the first show I remember watching. I was like three or four.

mine was "andy pandy". a tear comes to my eye when i think about it!
(a happy tear)




oni x x

Originally posted by pantha

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this was back in the days when you didn't get 24 hour TV , so you would quite often have to entertain yourself by staring at the test card! Happy days !

lol, that used to annoy me.

Couldn't be exact but one of the first shows i remember watching was Star Trek the next generation or (TNG for short). Probabley why im such a trekkie now .

Vorta

SMURFS!!!

They are the first thing I remember watching

Fury... The story of a horse... and the boy who loved him.

ohh a few of mine,

he-man and Shera

Danger mouse

willow and the wisp

Emu

Sesame Street, of course...

"Can you tell me how to get....how to get to Sesame Street...."

followed of course by the Electric Company...

Whinnie the Poo, then Sesame Street.

It would have to be.....

.....which lead to my first toys that I actually remember playing with.....

The Steve Austin/Bionic Man doll had a bionic eye you could look through and the Oscar Goldman doll had a briefcase that did something but I can't remember exactly what. Man that show is second only to Miami Vice on my all-time favs list.

Peace

Originally posted by eeper69
What is the first television show you remember watching when you were a child?

The first one I remember watching was sesame street..

As for movies the first one I remember seeing is bambi... if not that then benji.

Probably Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Jamie and his magic torch or that program with Big Ted, Little Ted, Humpty and Hamble and the shaped windows eh Playschool thats the name. Also in Scotland we had Glen Michaels Cartoon Cavalcade.
Ahh brings back memories

PS I also hated that testcard.



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I've noticed a lot of kids shows in this thread. The only kids shows that I can remember watching are:

Davey and Goliath

and

Gumby (I'm Gumby damnit!!!!)

Peace

Any one remember Super Ted
He used to be my favourite

I grew up in the bush in Queensland, Australia. We only had one channel, but for some reason we got all these cool Japanese cartoons. So the earliest shows I remember seeing were things like Kimba the White Lion:



G Force: Battle of the Planets:



and Star Blazers:



Then I have memories of obscure shows like The Sooty Show which I had begun to suspect existed only in my head until I found them on the Net.

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Any one remember Super Ted

Oh man, I'd forgotten Super Ted!!!

Just what was his secret magic word anyway? What about Inspector Gadget? Was Dr Claw his brother or what?!?

[edit on 6/10/05 by Jeremiah25]

oooooooooops double post.
Sorry. Don't know how that happened.

[edit on 10/6/2005 by FlyersFan]

Captain Kangaroo. That's the first.

I remember in 2nd and 3rd grade racing home to see
Dark Shadows. I loved that show.

BTW - what parent in their right mind would allow a
6 year old to come home from school and watch Dark
Shadows?? That wasn't too smart of my parents.

When I was 12 or so there was a British show that I
loved to watch - 'My Partner the Ghost'. It was about
a ghost named Marty who helped his partner who was
a private detective or something. The partner was the
only one who could see Marty.

[edit on 10/6/2005 by FlyersFan]

Yep, seen a lot of the shows posted here. My first was probably Winnie the Pooh, but I also remember Zorro and Sky King pretty well.

My first mainstay though was the Buckshot Show.