Geeek, you and I are probably pretty close in age. We got our first TV in 1954 and it seemed that most other people where I lived were buying them as well. I was so young that everything was fascinating from that box.   My grandfather loved the fights sponsored by Gilette (if you look around we had a thread about TV theme songs somewhere) and my old man loved Sid Caesar.

Shows for me included Roy and Gene and Hoppy and the Lone Ranger and any old cowboy movies that be on. We had a cable set up out of Cleveland which meant we got better reception but also because of where we lived we could get antenna shows from Wheeling and Pittsburgh.   Come to think of it, we had more channels available in east Ohio than we did when we moved to Columbus.

I was a huge fan of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Tom Terrific was big for awhile and so was a show which may have been the first interactive TV game. It was called "Winky Dink and You." You bought this plastic overlay for your screen and used markers to write and draw on the screen as you played.

I think my sense of humor came from an early addiction to "You Bet Your Life" which starred Groucho Marx. All good memories.....


Spaw