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Snoopymom
09-30-2008, 02:13 PM
I've been getting the DVD's from Netflix. Amazon has them too. Ds is 8 yrs old and loves them, laughs at the quirky funny stuff, sings and reads along without getting frustrated because it's slow paced and repetitive. Plus I love Morgan Freeman and Bill Cosby. :thumbsup2

It's amazing how tv has changed, so fast paced and slick now. It also really shows you how learning to read with site words, spelling words in Kindergarten, etc. is forced and rushed compared to.... :scared: 30 some years ago. I'd probably have an IEP if I was in school today.

Just thought I'd share. :goodvibes
MomOf2DisneyKids
09-30-2008, 06:50 PM
I do, I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PrincessToozie
09-30-2008, 07:06 PM
I remember that show! :yay:
PrincessKsMom
09-30-2008, 07:40 PM
Ah, those were the days. Only 7 channels to choose from (at least where I am) and UHF. Anyone remember UHF!? :lmao: :lmao:
KirstenB
09-30-2008, 08:50 PM
Oh yeah, remember the schoolhouse rocks commercials that came on too? "Conjunction, junction, what's your function...hooking up words, phrases and clauses"
Vijoge
09-30-2008, 09:01 PM
Old enough? I remember Howdy Doody, Ding Dong School, and Mr. Wizzard (the real one!).

My favorite thing on Schoolhouse Rock was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ
daisyduck123
09-30-2008, 11:48 PM
Oh yeah!! I also watched The New Zoo Review!! Loved them both!!
Piper
10-01-2008, 06:37 AM
Ah, those were the days. Only 7 channels to choose from (at least where I am) and UHF. Anyone remember UHF!? :lmao: :lmao:

Youngster! When we got our first TV, there was only 1 channel in Houston. I remember the excitement when a second one and then a third was added.

My youngest memories are not of TV, but listening to Big John and Sparky, The Lone Ranger, Amos and Andy, and Fibber McGee and Molly on RADIO!

My kids were the Electric Company and Sesame Street generation!
carrie6466
10-01-2008, 09:01 AM
I have to say I do remember the Electric Co and New Zoo Review was one of my favorites. I'm thinking this just makes me old LOL
BeckyScott
10-01-2008, 09:02 AM
I do remember Electric Company. And I used to have the complete Schoolhouse Rock on VCR tapes. My favorite show was Big Blue Marble.

This is jumping forward several years, but yesterday in the car for some reason we got started talking about animals driving. When I got home I went to youtube and found some videos of Toonces from Saturday Night Live. And along with that some videos of Mr. Bill. The kids were hysterical!
mechurchlady
10-01-2008, 09:10 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo&feature=related

Coonjunction Junction still sticks in my mind and I learned a lot from kids programming than I did in school.
Earstou
10-01-2008, 10:04 AM
I remember the kids I babysat watching the Electric company! Now I feel old!

Talking about TV changing and being so fast paced, one of ds' favorite shows was Mr Roger's Neighborhood! He's ADHD, and the newer shows would just get him hyped up, while Mr Rogers was so calming to him!!!
PrincessKsMom
10-01-2008, 10:08 AM
Okay Piper you win! I give up. :)

Please add to the list of older TV shows my favorites: HR Puffinstuff, The Banana Splits and the Magic Garden. Jez, I loved those hippy ladies! :lmao:
BeckyScott
10-01-2008, 01:09 PM
And how many of us only know the Preamble when we sing it? :rolleyes1

Wasn't Electric Company the one with the two people that would say the beginning and end of a word? Uh, Like "Dis" "Ney" "Disney".

And the kids will sometimes watch Scooby Doo re-runs, they show them all the time on tv, and DH and I look at them now and say "wow, Shaggy is a total stoner". Never thought twice about it when we were kids.
pilgrimr
10-01-2008, 01:39 PM
I also remember watching Electric Company as a kid and School House Rock. I remember Morgan Freeman from the Electric Company as a kid and was shocked when I first saw him in a movie because I had associated him with the children's show. But speaking of School House Rock, they came out with a dvd with the songs about America and the government this week. We already had the dvd with them all and my kids watch them all the time.
PrincessSuzanne
10-01-2008, 06:12 PM
Boy, do I remember that show and the New Zoo Review, but my favorite was Captain Kangaroo, I think cause he reminded me of my grandfather. I sure do miss the shows like this.

Suzanne
brenalexacamp
10-01-2008, 08:07 PM
3 channels
rabbit ears
hr pufnstuff-
banana splits
captain kangaroo
rex trailer!!!
Vijoge
10-01-2008, 08:52 PM
And for all you Chicago DISsers. . .Ray Rayner and Garfield Goose!!!!
mechurchlady
10-02-2008, 09:20 AM
Reading Rainbow
Captain Kangaroo
Paul Winchell's show
Billy Barty's circus show
Romper Room
Sheriff John
Beanie and Cecil
Micky Mouse Club
THE MONKEES:happytv:
Land of the Lost
Speed Racer
Gilligan's Island
Hobo Kelley

oh no wonder I am fat and lazy lol.:confused3
PrincessKsMom
10-02-2008, 09:28 AM
Wonderama with Bob McAllister!
mgilmer
10-02-2008, 09:36 AM
Ok, time to date myself. I remember fondly Howdy Doody, the original Mickey Mouse Club, Sheri Lewis (I had a serious crush on her) and Captain Kangaroo (in black and white, of course.)
Piper
10-02-2008, 06:50 PM
How about Kukla, Fran and Ollie?

Also, both my children were on Romper Room (at different times) and each got a certificate stating they were "Good Do Bees!"
SueM in MN
10-02-2008, 09:11 PM
And how many of us only know the Preamble when we sing it? :rolleyes1

Wasn't Electric Company the one with the two people that would say the beginning and end of a word? Uh, Like "Dis" "Ney" "Disney".

And the kids will sometimes watch Scooby Doo re-runs, they show them all the time on tv, and DH and I look at them now and say "wow, Shaggy is a total stoner". Never thought twice about it when we were kids.
::yes::
Electric Company Theme Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16rOXiXu_w) (yes, I remember it. I watched it with my younger sister)
Monkees Theme Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxPppXaPonY&feature=related) (I loved Davy Jones :lovestruc )
Shari Lewis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEZePOZ41hQ)(in her pony tail days, not the curly short hair days)
Mr. Rogers (another one I watched with my little sister, in the black and white days).
The Flintstones! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFJQsORrPk)
The Jetsons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbuulDiM_U&feature=related) (I wanted one of those rocket ship cars)
Land of the Lost (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MRU1f2SJ0)

Anyone remember the Bugaloos? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWu13GyNSbg) I loved the haircut on the girl (and I would have liked her wings for myself too).
PrincessSuzanne
10-02-2008, 09:16 PM
How about Kukla, Fran and Ollie?

Also, both my children were on Romper Room (at different times) and each got a certificate stating they were "Good Do Bees!"


I almost forgot about Romper Room :yay:


Suzanne
AnnaS
10-12-2008, 11:02 AM
I also remember Morgan Freeman on the Electric company. I used to watch it all the time. The New Zoo Review was great too.
AnnaS
10-12-2008, 11:02 AM
I also remember Morgan Freeman on the Electric company. I used to watch it all the time. The New Zoo Review was great too.
Shenandoah Minnie
10-12-2008, 12:42 PM
Does anyone remember the Bugaloo's...there here and there and everywhere??

They are on youtube too!!:hippie:
mechurchlady
10-13-2008, 06:21 AM
Scooby Doo where are you.
Lassie
Jonny Quest
Speed Racer
The local Bill Hatten show
Star Trek
Lidsville, yes I watched that as a teen. Dont ask.
Batman
The Virginian
Bonanza
Gunsmoke, yep I was a baby watching that one back about 1958.
Ralph Story's show (adult show but grandma always watched it before going home)


Soup Sales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs&feature=related

Billy Barty's Big Show
1963-1967
started as 30 minutes and expanded to an hour.
He was a champion of disabled rights and the rights of little people. He was my hero and as a kid that was one of my favourites but I cannot find anything on it. Even records say he was born in 1924 or 1910. I think the first number was probably right. I loved that show.
SueM in MN
10-13-2008, 08:02 AM
Does anyone remember the Bugaloo's...there here and there and everywhere??

They are on youtube too!!:hippie:
::yes::
I posted a link to their theme song in an earlier post.
I really liked them.
PrincessKsMom
10-13-2008, 01:46 PM
How about all the ABC after school specials?
Shenandoah Minnie
10-13-2008, 09:07 PM
::yes::
I posted a link to their theme song in an earlier post.
I really liked them.


I clicked the link and now I see it is "We're in the air and everywhere...."
too funny...I love when I find out the lyrics to songs I knew as a child were different than I thought....LOL

Thanks for the link....:thumbsup2