Back when there was good TV.

jeffcat · Jun 26, 2017

Just fun watching this crazyness.
You was gone.

2x4 · Jun 27, 2017

brings tears to your eyes!

DPittman · Jun 27, 2017

I got every episode that comes on RFD channel going to dvr. Love me some Hee Haw. DP

Ultradog MN · Jun 27, 2017

Good TV?
That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one...

Charlie M · Jun 27, 2017

You've got to be pretty old to remember back when TV was good. LOL

Texasmark1 · Jun 27, 2017

I remember when programs were half an hour with ONE sponsor. Then on to the Texaco hour (again with ONE sponsor) with this ventriloquist, young guy with this dog Farful on his lap with huge eyes and all.

Groucho Marx with his big mustache, long cigar he liked to wiggle, big glasses and all. Dick Van Dyke, Tarzan (I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe. This is my dog Tide. He lives there too.)The Donna Reed show.....the"Drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America is the greatest land of all.........." that one was in 1955 when the GM small block V8 came to life in the Chevy. Then all the cigarette sponsored shows, Dragnet, with Joe Friday and sidekick who is still making movies.....their sponsor was Fatima Cigarettes. On and on.

Remember viewing on the little round tube 15" black and white. Then the early days of color TV and the convergence problems, solid colors always had a smudge of another color needing degaussing, White collars always had a red, green, or blue edge that you just couldn't get out evenly across the screen.....and today, 55" high definition digital TV that guys like me can see from across the room. Immaculate rasters, pristeen focus, brilliant colors.......and cheaper than I could buy a TV back when color came out. Mine was on sale at WM for $349 a couple of weeks ago. "You've come a long way baby"......yeah 15 or so sponsors per show.

john in la · Jun 27, 2017

Watching that brought back the memory of Stringbean and his wife killed in their home for a few items by burglars.
The burglars never did find his money he had stashed in the house although I think it was found years later by the new owners.

buickanddeere · Jun 27, 2017

Recording everything on the PVR while getting something done and then never getting around to watching 9/10 of the recording is the best part. The other 1/10 that is watched requires only 45 minutes after fast forwarding through the comercials.

4520BW · Jun 27, 2017

A fellow I worked with grandpa was stringbeans brother. He and his wife were shot by burglars thinking he had a lot of cash on him. The money was later found by the new owners but was deteriorated so bad it was not useable.

Craig2 · Jun 27, 2017

CBS in our area puts on a lot of the older shows that they used to run back in the day. My kids love to watch the Andy Griffith show. Wife has DVD's of Little House on the Prairie. The kids will watch those for hours on a rainy day.

Paul Shuler · Jun 27, 2017

My wife got me the first 11 seasons of Gunsmoke for fathers day. So you know what I've been doing every evening. Love the old westerns

ericlb · Jun 27, 2017

im old enough to remember good tv, lol everything was in black and white , i record what i want to see, but man its getting hard to find stuff i want to see, some on rfd, most on grit or the western channel, once in awhile the Smithsonian channel has good stuff, air aces ect, had to drop steve mc queen in wanted dead or alive, i think they only got 10 episodes and the show ran what, 3 years?

Billy Shafer · Jun 27, 2017

I haven't watched the big three in over thirty years. Watch mostly sat tv. Old western channel and all the good old programs.

D beatty · Jun 27, 2017

We have several cable stations that carry the old TV programs and movies.

37chief · Jun 27, 2017

Dad got our black and white back in the 50's. I watched the Mickey Mouse Club show just to see Annette Funiceilo, along with about every boy in the US. About all I watch anymore is the news, and the history channel sometimes. Not interested in the new silly shows. I find old movies on the internet, and watch them on my computer. The wife watches her shows on the TV. Stan

Bob Harvey · Jun 27, 2017

I just got a TV Box. It is an internet streaming device. Wow ! is has just about everything you can watch. I have to figure out how to get to all the stuff - will work on it when it gets too hot. Movies (that you can pause/rewind etc.). Sports from around the world. All episodes of old TV shows, and on and on. So far I am boggled. Content is free, including Netflix. Will report back.

55 50 Ron · Jun 27, 2017

Makes the thought come to my mind as to why isn't there any GOOD TV these days? Do the nets feed it out regardless? Can't imagine they are pushing the crap unless they're making money. That seems to indicate that there are LOTS of watchers. If there are LOTS of watchers, how did THEY come to like the current junk? Did an "older" generation fail to point out to their offspring that the junk TV is bad for them and society in general?

oldtanker · Jun 27, 2017

I'm old enough to remember what you call good TV. Gotta go with UD on this, never was good TV.

Rick

Wheres Waldo · Jun 27, 2017

Hi. That ventriloquist was Paul Winchell. Did you know he (Winchell) invented the first artificial Heart? Neat bit of trivia.

Old Scovy · Jun 27, 2017

. We only have TV so we can watch MASH and Andy Griffith. I hate to pay the cable bill just to watch advertisements. Seams like you get 5 minuets of program and 25 minuets of ad's. We have the three bundles. The TV the Computer and the Phone. We really like the phone and internet but if we turn off the cable for TV we only can get 10 dollars off so we leave it on.

kcm.MN · Jun 27, 2017

I bought the DVD set of MASH ($66), as well as several other good movies and series. We have collected quite the collection of pre-recorded programs, as well as things that we recorded over the years when we had Dish Network. Got to where we were paying over $100/month for just a handful of shows/channels. Just wasn't worth it.

Tom OConnor · Jun 27, 2017

I know today that it would not be politically correct to laugh but I loved "Amos and Andy." I can still remember some of the episodes. We didn't have a T V till 1954, we could only get three channels and they all came with their own snowstorm. So different today, the kids tell the parents what " we " are going to watch. One program that we watched faithfully was "Bishop Fulton Sheen." His sermons are as important today as they were sixty years ago.

Billy Shafer · Jun 27, 2017

I watch Andy,gun smoke,rifleman,Mash and anything old. Nothing on the big three but trash

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