What's the earliest TV show you remember watching as a kid?

I remember: My Mother The Car 77 Sunset Strip The Green Hornet The Soupy Sales Show Bozo The Clown RomperRoom Ed Sillivan with the little Italian mouse Topojijo Wow, your post really brought me back many years ago, thanks for that!

I remember this one particulat tv show called indradhanush (it means rainbow in english). It was a serial about time travel where this kid can go in the past as well as the future. It was very entertainigng for us kids and all of us girls had a huge crush on the kid who played the lead:)

I remember the Lawerence Welk show. If I remember right, itcame on just before HeeHaw and after that was Emergency, which by the way was my favorite show. I still watch the reruns. I have them on DVD.I remember American Bandstand too. The other two you mentioned, I have seen but don't know too mcuh about them. Ok, how about these...Mr Ed, Bevery Hillbillies, Hogans Hereos and Petticoat Junction. Do you remember them?

PMSL yup the first time I ever saw television it was on a huge box like object with a tiny little fuzzy black and white screen and the programme was a puppet show called "Muffin the Mule". My Mum used to take me for a long walk over to my Gran's house so I could watch it, as it was something of a novelty back then.

I remembered fighting over the remote control for the shows to watch with my two older brothers. Of course, they always won. I ended up watching Voltes V for many years. We were allowed to watch after doing our homework. Its a Japanese show that's full of actions and dramas.

I watched "loony toones" a lot as a kid. My favorite character was bugs, and I was obsessed with it. I also watched "I Love Lucy" with my mom, and I was obsessed with Sailor Moon. I remember saving all of my allowance money to go and buy a Sailor Moon trading card. Seasame Street was another one that I watched.

That would have to be the Ed Sullivan show I watched as a child. I also watched What's My Line, and Queen For A Day. Back in the 50's tv was so innocent compared to today lol. I remember the Ed Sullivan show was the one we couldn't wait for it to be on again, he had so many unusual guests along the way.

I can go back farther than you! Roy Rogers Sky King My Friend Flicka Zorro *I need help on the next one It was on Saturday morning and was all about animals, sort of a pre-Animal Planet program in 30 minute format. My best friend's brother and the "man of my dreams" danced on Bandstand once. It was my biggest fear that being an adult meant that I would A. no longer like pizza, hamburgers, or hot dogs and B. wake up one morning WANTING to listen to Lawrence Welk Music Thank the Great Goddess, I am still waiting for Mick Jagger to call me (but now I also am secretly hoping someone will give Johnny Depp my phone number)~Donna

Well we didn't have colour TV when I was growing up either! To be honest I didn't watch much TV at all as a child - my parents wouldn't allow it, and I guess that's why I'm still not a TV fan even today, and can go days without watching it. However, I was allowed some "educational" TV childrens' shows, which I guess won't mean anything much to you as they were obviously British TV - stuff like "Tales from the Riverbank" which was about the small animals living by the River, and "Playschool". As I got a little older I loved the British cult sci-fi show "the prisoner" which still gets repeated today, and the BBC serial of the book "The Forsyte Saga".

I know this is one of your older discussions Pye, but its a good question to ask. The earliest show I can think of is actually a movie. The reason I remember it is because right before it came on my oldest Sis gave me a bath and put me in pajamas. I remember sitting on the couch and waiting for the show to begin.. When all of the sudden my two sisters were fighting like cats and dogs. Now when I say fight. I mean these two fought to draw blood. I ran into the kitchen and hid under the table. Thankfully that was a short lived knock down drag out it was over and I was watching the Wizard of OZ :)))

Jackie Gleason show and Red Skelton

Lets see, I remember the mickey mouse club, My mom used to watch Jack Lalaine, Dragnet, Leave it to beaver and a few others that escape me at the moment. I can remember being at the baby sitters watching The Smothers Brothers but I think that was a bit later. I remember our first tv was a black and white also with the rounded picture and when it didnt work right Dad would take all the tubes out and take them to the nearest stores test machine to see which one is burned out. Ahhh the good old days. Take care, Terry.

I didn't watch Lawrence Welk - I'd go do something else. Did watch Ed Sullivan, we didn't get Mickey Mouse Club here in the back waters. I remember watching Red Skelton, American Playhouse, but mostly I remember Fury, Sky King, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Mighty Mouse, Uncle Jay (a local kids program that had birthday kids on it & showed cartoons.)

I think I may have already responded to this, but what the heck. I watched all those shows, too. I loved Mickey Mouse and Bandstand. But I go back even further. I watched Jackie Gleason and Ecward R. Murrow.

TV came to Sri Lanka in 1978. It came to us in living colour. But we could not afford a colour TV and we watched TV in black and white. I was about 20 and not much of a kid. I loved Bionic Woman. My other favorites were "The Invisible Man", "Six Million Dollar Man", "Big Valley", "The Little House on the Prairie", etc. (Top Secret: I sometimes enjoyed "Sesame Street" too)

American bandstand was on every afternoon after school. I recall watching Kaptain Kangaroo and Johnny Jinger in the mornings. And Bozo the Clown and loads of cartoons on Saturday mornings. I liked Leave It To Beaver and still do. The Twilight Zone was good. Sea Hunt was also. Sky King and My Friend Flicka...they don't make them that good any more...lol. Now that I am thinking about it, they are popping into my head. The Mickey Mouse club was good. I had a crush on Annette..lol.

I remember watching Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company, Happy Days. Those were some of my favorites. Wow, I just noticed this discussion was started 9 months ago and people are still responding. LOL Have a great day!

Funny, I didn't think anyone else could remember when there was no color television or when there wasn't cable tv and there were only three or four television stations to choose from. I loved Saturday morning cartoons with Farmer Brown and Captain Kangeroo too. I also loved Romper Room.

I remember "leave it to beaver", "brady bunch", "gilligans Island", etc. I love those old shows. Geez this topic shows peoples ages. LOL

the earliest tv show i remember watch would have to be Mickey Mouse Club. i remember my mother wakin me and my sister up like 6 in the morning or whatever time it came on to watch it lol M-I-C see u real soo K-E-Y why because we like u M-O-U-S-E lmao yes i still remember the song