Can you Rember when?

[Nathan Brazil]

Most of my early memories are of televison
I remember watching
Dark Shadows
Neil Armstrong landing on the moon
Wacky Races
The Brady Bunch

I also remember listening to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater and my mom letting me get this game called Traveller...

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by Marquis Deadlock:

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You must have meant Sadat/Rabin assassinations - Menachem Begin wasn't assassinated, he died from old age in the early 1990's (1993 IIRC). Rabin was shot in November 1995.

 

[Pickles]

Earliest TV memories are 1974, of Captain Kirk getting stabbed by that rock-like alien with claws in the episode which feature Abraham Lincoln and Ghengis Khan. Boy, those German voice-over guys had to talk fast ...

 

[deadlock]

Greetings and salutations,

Couple of big ones you missed, Marquis Deadlock:

[*]American Embassy in Iran taken over by Islamist revolutionaries
[*]"Last flight out" images from Saigon in 1975

Yeah, I remembered them when I got to work this morn and was going to add them to the list.

Very good list, though.

Thank you, sir!

 

[deadlock]

More found memories:

[*]Kirk getting the Orion woman. Who cared if she was green. I sure as hell would have had her!
[*]Watching westerns and baseball with my grandfather
[*]watching my first Godzilla movie!
[*]Speed Racer. Now, if Spridal and Chim-Chim are in the trunk every time you get into your car, wouldn't you check the trunk first. I know I would after a while.
[*]Planet of the Apes when it was shown on tv first the first time. The movies after it, the tv series, and the cartoon.

Yep, those were the days.

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Howdy Ya'll!!!

I only had one vote so I decided to use it then post a list of what TV shows I remembered from when I was growing up. This will most likely only be remembered by Americans unless some of the shows went international.

1) All in the Family (Archie Bunker)
2) Maude
3) That Girl
4) The Rifle Man (Chuck Conners)
5) Palladin
6) Combat
7) Hogans Heros
8) Branded
9) Wanted Dead or Alive (Steve McQueen)
10) Wild, Wild West
11) Batman
12) The Movie "MR. Blandings builds his dream house" 1948 Cary Grant
13) The Movie "Son of Paleface" Bob Hope
14) Happy Days
15) The Mod Squad
16) Shaft
17) Laugh-In (Goldy Hawn)
18) The Flying Nun
19) Black Sheep Squadron (Korean war Pilots)

 

[parmasson]

Dr. Who and Blake’s 7 on WTTW Ch 11 here in Chicago.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Originally posted by Aramis:
I remember looking out the window on a dark winter's night /everything else/

Amen, Wil.

 

[vegascat]

I remember my father, a WWII Marine, explaining to me what the man on the news meant by "the body count in Vietnam". He had a hard time.

I remember my parents getting our first color television so we could watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon "In Color!"


Adult memories that I will never forget.

Being told that the Challenger blew up while I was sweeping out a bomb igloo.

The sound in the Berlin Wall as thousands of hammers and picks set up a deep reverberation in the wall when EAst Germany opened it's borders.

The tide on Gold beach going out over a mile during the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landings. The water went out much farther than the remains of the Mulberry harbor casements.

The pink sand and missing horizon in Saudi Arabia, with sandstorms so sudden and thick to be hard to believe.

Watching CNN in a motel as one of the World Trade Center towers burned, then seeing in disbelief a second plane hit the other tower, knowing in that instant that a new world war had just begun that was going to last for decades.


It seems to be the unexpected details that stick with the memories.

 

[hydrozoa]

I remember the Carter/Ford election, but the first event of great impact on my life was the violent eruption of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980 (at 08:32 Pacific).

[a historical note: the VC shot in the head on tv was executed by South Vietnamese officer Nguyen Ngoc Loan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Loan ]

 

[Plankowner]

I remember watching Neil Armstrong land on the moon and then a few days later watching the capsule land in the ocean during recess. I remember all the teachers gathered around the TV. I was the only student in the room. We all clapped when the door opened and the astronauts waved.

I have VERY personal memories of a couple of the other major events discussed:

I was aboard a submarine off the coast of florida when Challenger blew up. We had to leave the area at Flank Speed because there were pieces of spacecraft landing all around us. The sonar techs could hear the hot metal hit the ocean all around us. It felt like being hit in the gut, several times.

I was working for one of the airlines that had planes hijacked on 9/11 (AA). That is a day I will never forget. We all gathered in the Maintenance Operations Center and just couldn't leave. They moved a TV in there and we were watching CNN when the second plane hit. Before that, most of the news reports thought it had been a small plane that hit the tower. I recognized the 767 that hit the second one. That is when we REALLY got busy. Finding places to land every single airplane immediately was bad. I went outside to the ramp and helped flag in planes from everywhere when they were diverted to Kansas City. We had thousands of passengers coming off these planes at our maintance base with no idea what to do or where to do. It was a very long day.

I can remember everything my (then future) wife was wearing the first time I met her. Now if I could only remember our anniversary.

I was deployed when my first son was born, but I still have the 2-line message I got 2 days after he was born telling me about it. The Captain called me to the bridge and I remember asking if it was a boy or girl before he even told me what had happened. I was there for the birth of my second son and I will never forget that either.

I remember this British TV show I used to watch when I lived overseas as a kid. It was about alien saucers invading earth. There was a Moon Base with scantily clad women with weird colored hair and the main guy's car had doors that opened up, not out. The alien ships looked just like flying saucers and the Earth (British) ships had one big missile mounted to the front. For the life of me I cannot remember the name of it, but remember that I LOVED IT. Maybe one of our British friends can help me out here?

Dr. Who (several incarnations). When I would come back to the states, no one would know what I was talking about. GREAT SHOW and I am glad to see it on SciFi Channel now. My wife and both of my kids are

I had to explain to a teacher one time that "Not all Quasars are television sets".

 

[deadlock]

I'm surprised we Americans did not list the Oklahoma City Bombing and the 1993 bombinf of the World Trade Center.

By Colonel Johnnie Reb:
1) All in the Family (Archie Bunker)
2) Maude
3) That Girl
4) The Rifle Man (Chuck Conners)
5) Palladin
6) Combat
7) Hogans Heros
8) Branded
9) Wanted Dead or Alive (Steve McQueen)
10) Wild, Wild West
11) Batman
12) The Movie "MR. Blandings builds his dream house" 1948 Cary Grant
13) The Movie "Son of Paleface" Bob Hope
14) Happy Days
15) The Mod Squad
16) Shaft
17) Laugh-In (Goldy Hawn)
18) The Flying Nun
19) Black Sheep Squadron (Korean war Pilots)

Add to the list The Waltons, Emergency 51, and Adam-12, The Twilight Zone (the original series), and the Outer Limits (the original series). Some of the actors and actresses that have got their start because of the last two shows.

 

[Pickles]

I remember coming home from school one day in '77. The house was unusually quiet, and no-one was cooking dinner. On the table was a newspaper, a picture of Elvis on the front page. I distinctly remember thinking, "Why is there a picture of Elvis sleeping?"

He wasn't, of course.

 

[BillDowns]

Originally posted by Plankowner:
I can remember everything my (then future) wife was wearing the first time I met her. Now if I could only remember our anniversary.

I wish I could remember my wife's brithday

I remember this British TV show I used to watch when I lived overseas as a kid. It was about alien saucers invading earth. There was a Moon Base with scantily clad women with weird colored hair and the main guy's car had doors that opened up, not out. The alien ships looked just like flying saucers and the Earth (British) ships had one big missile mounted to the front. For the life of me I cannot remember the name of it, but remember that I LOVED IT.

That was UFO (pronounced you-fo on the show) and the topp-secret organization was SHADO - don't remember what that stood for.

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Originally posted by Marquis Deadlock:
Add to the list The Waltons, Emergency 51, and Adam-12, The Twilight Zone (the original series), and the Outer Limits (the original series). Some of the actors and actresses that have got their start because of the last two shows.

OhYeah!
Lets also add:
Dark Shadows (soap oprah)
The Jack Benny Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Milton Burle Show
Johnathan Winters Show
The Munsters
Car 54 where are you?
The Honeymooners
The Andy Griffith Show
Get Smart

 

[Plankowner]

Originally posted by BillDowns:

That was UFO (pronounced you-fo on the show) and the topp-secret organization was SHADO - don't remember what that stood for.

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YES!!!!!!!

Thanks Bill. I wonder if I can find that on DVD somewhere? (Leaves to check out Ebay...)

 

[vegascat]

UFO, S.H.A.D.O. Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization.
The show was produced by Gerry Anderson. I managed to aquire the full DVD set of 8 disks of 26 episodes last year on E-Bay. Had to try a few time to get a reasonable price.

 

[JAFARR]

My earliest memories of anything significant beyond my own family was about hurricane Gracie(1956 IIRC)

Add to TV list:Bonanza
Mavrick
My Mother The Car
Mr. Ed (The talking Horse)
Ed Sullivan (Realy Great Shew)
Add to movie list: No time For Sargents

Yep The memories keep coming back when prodded by other memories

 

[BillDowns]

There are several websites devoted to that show and Space 1999 - all Gerry's works. Easy to find.

BTW, I really liked those fishnet tops the chicks wore on either the Moonbase or was it in the submarine?

 

[vegascat]

The moonbase chicks wore the metalic silver miniskirts and the purple antistatic wigs.
The sub crews wore the fishnet uniform tops.