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I grew up with a bedtime I hated. I always thought it was so unfair. 8pm was so early! When you don’t get home from school until close to 4:30, due to riding a bus, and then spend the next hour or so doing homework. 8pm comes very quickly.
I was fortunate to grow up in the Central time zone. Prime time TV started at 7pm, so I got to watch the ‘family oriented’ television programs. The more harder TV shows didn’t run until 9pm, during the last hour of prime time.
This meant watching fluff like “BJ and the Bear”, “Dukes of Hazard”, or any of those fluffy variety shows that made the 7pm time slot.
The extent of my TV watching came from afternoon reruns or PBS. I LOVED!!! Electric Company! “Sha”… “ooo”.. “shoe!”
The cast was so hip!
Morgan Freeman was “Easy Reader”
Irene Cara (I was so in love with her during the early 80s) was one of my favorite members of the “Short Circus”
Bill Cosby in all his roles
Rita Moreno, Mr. Letterman (Gene Wilder), Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers
When Electric Company wasn’t on, I watch all the old black and white reruns you don’t usually see on TV Land any more.
Dragnet, Leave It to Beaver, Bewitched, Adams Family, Monsters, Perry Mason, Dr. Kildar, Superman, Three Stooges, and Gilligan’s Island.
And who can forget The Partridge Family? The Sid and Marty Krofft shows? Sigmund and the Sea Monster? The Bugaloos? H.R. Puffinstuf? Land of the Lost? The Far-out Space Nuts? Or The Brady Bunch?
When I got into the 5th grade, my parents let me stay up to 9pm! Now I got to watch better shows. At least I thought. I had to watch what my parents were watching. Shows like Fish? Who would think a show named Fish would be successful?
Then there was McCloud. Some cowboy fighting crime Texas style in a big city. And they watch Beretta. I hated that show, although I loved the bird. I was more a Starsky and Hutch person, than Beretta. And don’t ask me about Kojak. The bald head was just too weird. I kept expecting him to break into a Rodgers and Hammerstein song.
Even though I hated the TV shows, I loved being up an extra hour. On Saturdays, I hated the fact I couldn’t be up before 7am. If it was before 7am, my parents expected us to remain in bed. No getting up making noise waking them up.
This wasn’t much of a problem during school week. It was very difficult to get us all up in the morning to catch the bus. But the weekend, we wanted to savor all the time we could. So we tried to get up very early and go to bed very late.
Normally, I didn’t get up until 7am on Saturday. The good cartoons didn’t start until 8am. Every season, I’d grab the TV guide and make a schedule of what shows I would watch. What time they came on, and what channel I had to turn it to. I was very structured.
When I was checking out the TV guide I found a show that came on at 6am that seemed very exciting. It was some spacey show called Ultraman. Isn’t that the coolest name?
So I started setting my alarm clock to wake me up at 5:55am on Saturday. My mom didn’t care for that one bit, but I made a bargain. I would go to bed one hour earlier if she let me get up at 6am. So I went to be at 8pm Friday in order to watch Ultraman at 6am Saturday!
I missed so many episodes I really didn’t pick up the story line. I just remember this Japanese man turning into a giant robot and shooting laser beams when he crossed his arms. It was the best!
I miss Ultraman and all those Saturday morning cartoons. Now all you see are Save By The Bell clones and other live action shows. Where are the Justice Leagues or the Thundarr the Barbarians or the Captain Cavemen or Grape Apes? What will our children remember when they grow old? Reruns of “That’s So Raven” and “This Old House”?
Mizike
p.s.
Challenge time! Where did I get my title from?
I was fortunate to grow up in the Central time zone. Prime time TV started at 7pm, so I got to watch the ‘family oriented’ television programs. The more harder TV shows didn’t run until 9pm, during the last hour of prime time.
This meant watching fluff like “BJ and the Bear”, “Dukes of Hazard”, or any of those fluffy variety shows that made the 7pm time slot.
The extent of my TV watching came from afternoon reruns or PBS. I LOVED!!! Electric Company! “Sha”… “ooo”.. “shoe!”
The cast was so hip!
Morgan Freeman was “Easy Reader”
Irene Cara (I was so in love with her during the early 80s) was one of my favorite members of the “Short Circus”
Bill Cosby in all his roles
Rita Moreno, Mr. Letterman (Gene Wilder), Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers
When Electric Company wasn’t on, I watch all the old black and white reruns you don’t usually see on TV Land any more.
Dragnet, Leave It to Beaver, Bewitched, Adams Family, Monsters, Perry Mason, Dr. Kildar, Superman, Three Stooges, and Gilligan’s Island.
And who can forget The Partridge Family? The Sid and Marty Krofft shows? Sigmund and the Sea Monster? The Bugaloos? H.R. Puffinstuf? Land of the Lost? The Far-out Space Nuts? Or The Brady Bunch?
When I got into the 5th grade, my parents let me stay up to 9pm! Now I got to watch better shows. At least I thought. I had to watch what my parents were watching. Shows like Fish? Who would think a show named Fish would be successful?
Then there was McCloud. Some cowboy fighting crime Texas style in a big city. And they watch Beretta. I hated that show, although I loved the bird. I was more a Starsky and Hutch person, than Beretta. And don’t ask me about Kojak. The bald head was just too weird. I kept expecting him to break into a Rodgers and Hammerstein song.
Even though I hated the TV shows, I loved being up an extra hour. On Saturdays, I hated the fact I couldn’t be up before 7am. If it was before 7am, my parents expected us to remain in bed. No getting up making noise waking them up.
This wasn’t much of a problem during school week. It was very difficult to get us all up in the morning to catch the bus. But the weekend, we wanted to savor all the time we could. So we tried to get up very early and go to bed very late.
Normally, I didn’t get up until 7am on Saturday. The good cartoons didn’t start until 8am. Every season, I’d grab the TV guide and make a schedule of what shows I would watch. What time they came on, and what channel I had to turn it to. I was very structured.
When I was checking out the TV guide I found a show that came on at 6am that seemed very exciting. It was some spacey show called Ultraman. Isn’t that the coolest name?
So I started setting my alarm clock to wake me up at 5:55am on Saturday. My mom didn’t care for that one bit, but I made a bargain. I would go to bed one hour earlier if she let me get up at 6am. So I went to be at 8pm Friday in order to watch Ultraman at 6am Saturday!
I missed so many episodes I really didn’t pick up the story line. I just remember this Japanese man turning into a giant robot and shooting laser beams when he crossed his arms. It was the best!
I miss Ultraman and all those Saturday morning cartoons. Now all you see are Save By The Bell clones and other live action shows. Where are the Justice Leagues or the Thundarr the Barbarians or the Captain Cavemen or Grape Apes? What will our children remember when they grow old? Reruns of “That’s So Raven” and “This Old House”?
Mizike
p.s.
Challenge time! Where did I get my title from?
posted by Mizike at 2:34 PM
1 Comments:
Ohh, Ohh, me, me....it's from "The Bugaloos"
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