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Post by Jungle Rat » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:13 pm

Your 55 right?

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Post by sardis » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:16 pm

I wished I was Dan Tanna with Phyllis Davis and the hot Landers sister as my secretaries. And I could park my car in my damn living room.

I still love watching Match Game and Hollywood Square reruns on TV Land.

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Post by Jungle Rat » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:19 pm

60?

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Post by DooKSucks » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:11 am

Saint wrote:Hee Haw? That was every fucking Saturday at 7 p.m. It was about the only thing my Granddaddy watched besides the news and a ballgame (which he didn't really watch as much as have on and listened while he dozed off).

Shit, we hardly ever missed Hee Haw.
It came on WRAL, iirc. I remember we would have to watch that and Lawrence Welk on PBS if I was at Granny's house. I was a happy kid when I learned they canceled Hee Haw.
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Post by Saint » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:11 am

you've got a 10-year gap in that timeline. hogan's heroes and the Hillbillies aired in the '60s while Knight and Bird were in the '70s

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Post by DooKSucks » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:15 am

Grandmother's brother, Uncle Joe, was a pow in a Germany during a war. They said the entire family would do everything they could to avoid any promo commercial or showing of Hogan's Heroes because it made him livid.
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Post by DooKSucks » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:20 am

Stu, did your family always watch Channel 5 news??

If Charlie Gaddy said it, it was damn near gospel amongst folks when I was a kid....

Hell, my dad was bitching the other day about mom watching the news on Channel 11. He was bitching about it on a phone conversation with me.
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Post by Saint » Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:21 am

good god, no. we watched Slim Short on WITN, too. I think it was mostly Charlie Gaddy and the lovely Adele Arakawa, who succeeded the buxom, cross-eyed midget Bobbie Battista.

I had to watch Dick Jones do sports on WITN and of course the eastern NC weather legend Jim Woods. I tried to watch WTVD with Larry Stogner, Don Shea and Skip Carpenter.

Bob DeBardelaben was the first weather guru and Greg Fischel was just his protege

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Post by hedge » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:24 pm

"Depression era people that never catch a break - what a great show. I was living that shit, I didn't want to watch it on TV"

At least with the Waltons there was love and kindness. Of course, that could've made it even worse for you...

A couple of obscure shows from childhood were the Peggy Mann show and Gospel Jubilee. Peggy Mann was some older southern matron with helmet hair who showed you how to make shit like Waldorf salad and such, and I think some gardening tips. Kind of a precursor to Martha Stewart. I'm pretty sure that was local only, not sure about Gospel Jubilee...
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Post by hedge » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:25 pm

I still remember the opening song...

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Post by hedge » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:32 pm

Full opening theme song at the 1:05 mark. This is worth a look just for the hair-do's...

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Post by eCat » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:39 pm

I think I would have opted to live in the woods had my parents made me watch Gospel Jubilee.

Although its probably just as bad now when I visit and mom either watches the weather channel non stop or Fox News.

How can you watch weather all fucking day long? I guess that was pre-smartphone
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Post by hedge » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:48 pm

I didn't watch Gospel Jubilee, but the theme song is burned into my memory. There's actually some pretty good guitar picking in there....
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Post by Saint » Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:55 pm

did your Granny make you watch Gospel Singing Jubilee?

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Post by crashcourse » Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:26 pm

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startrek--I think I was 8 or 9----favorite show--still watch it even if it is hokie--hogans heroes for some reason was next

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Post by aTm » Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:36 pm

You bastards are old.
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Post by DooKSucks » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:00 pm

WITN? We never watched that garbage unless we were at our place on the Pamlico/Chocowinity Bay. Even then, we usually watched Channel 9 news.

You lived in Wilson and didn't watch WRAL? That's damn near communism.
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Post by DooKSucks » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:21 pm

WRAL was the best thing going on a winter Saturday. You had afternoon ACC basketball and a night time ACC game usually. Then, you had another game on Sunday afternoon.
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Post by Saint » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:29 pm

I told you I watched WRAL the most but I watched them all. The best Saturdays were the 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. games and then one at night. Sometimes you just got one and it was Wake-Clemson, which meant your day sucked or that State-Carolina was coming on Sunday. Nobody cared about Duke back then.

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Post by Saint » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:31 pm

I just looked at some YouTube clips of WRAL newscasts from the '70s. The one from '77 just had Nick Pond reading NAIA, Sun Belt (UNCC-Tulane) and NIT scores while a graphic behind him had exactly what he was reading. He even admitted to not having one score. There was no footage at all. God, even Goldie could have done that.

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