when you where young?

Question

what did you watch on t.v and what was there for you to do after school ?

Answer 1

I watched cartoons and, later, teenage programs...after my homework of course!

Answer 2

I can't remember what I had for dinner last night. I do remember when I was younger, back in the dark ages, that the TV stations did not start broadcasting until 4:00 PM. The first thing on was "Adventure Time". It was a program that showed the old serials from the '30s and '40s like "Flash Gorden". Then there were the cartoons, "Crusader Rabbit" and the old ones from the '30s. There was also "Hopalong Cassidy", "The Lone Ranger" and "Red Ryder". At night my parents dictated what we watched, "Milton Berle" and such. Late night the only thing on was roller derby or wrestling.
After school we would play football, baseball or hop on our bikes and ride to the bay and play with the crabs or dig up clams. At night, on weekends, we would get together a game of "Kick the Can". It was a safer back then and there was no problem with kids running around town.

Answer 3

After school....we were given one hour to watch TV prior to homework. We got to see the Mickey Mouse Club (the original.) Then it was off to do homework. After home work came dinner. After dinner and clean up we were permitted another hour of TV but the parents made the selection. It was typically GunSmoke or something horrible like the Lawrence Welk show (ask your parents or grandparents.)

Since I am talking about when I was a child (50s) there wasn't much set aside for kids. You played school sports, and there was a recreation hall where you could play basketball and such...but overall... you stayed with your friends and told tall tales of what you planned to do when you grew up.

It seems quite a bit different than now...lol...we didn't even have Malls and there was only one phone line per household typically so you couldn't live on the phone.

Later,
Z

Answer 4

Well, after school we rarely watched TV, usually only when it was raining. Most of the time we'd be outside playing with friends. As for what was on when we came home, usually there were cartoons on (Popeye, Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Magilla Gorilla, etc...), Match Game was an afternoon game show and there was also the 4:30 movie every weekday.

Answer 5

We had a small parkway in front of our house with streets on both sides. We used that parkway to play hide and go seek, kick the can, redlight greenlight, carnivals, olympics, chasing fireflies, mumblypeg, and acorn fights. We also had an alley behind the house...Alley picking was a favorite-we would seach for pop bottles to return for the 2 cent deposit, and anything else we could find that was a "treasure". Once we found a whole stack of Playboy magazines...My arm is still sore from that summmer!!. There was a train tracks near our house. We would call for CHALK to the men on the caboose and they would throw us huge pieces of white and yellow chalk which we would play with for hours. The railroad gates were manually pumped up and down. The man in the gate shack used to pay us nickles and dimes to go to the store for him because he could not leave the shack. Well, I could go on for hours. As far as what we watched: Howdy Doody, Have Gun will Travel, Bonanza, Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith come to mind.

Answer 6

The 80's ruled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




There was this new thing I used to watch They called it Music television....or MTV. It really opened up a whole new world for me I just hope I can watch and be entertained by it for many many years......But what could happen it's just music videos and the occasional original show or comedy.

Not like they are going to get rid of the videos and put a lot of stupid reality TV shows on all day and only show an hour of videos a day.


OH snap!!!! now MTV does suck.

Answer 7

I'm dating myself, but here's what I watched on TV:

Captain Kangaroo, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligan's Island, Batman, Lost in Space, The Twilight Zone, Ed Sullivan, Wild Wild West.

After school we played sports; baseball, football, basketball.

Answer 8

i grew up watching stuff like my little pony, care bears, sailor moon, um the gummi bears, teenage mutant ninja turtules, the power rangers, duck tales, various micky mouse shows, and all that great stuff!!!!!....oh how i miss those days


thanks to bommerange(the channel) the kid i babysit watched all the old cartoons at my house like the smurfs and the snorks and magilla gorilla....but his fave was definatly the snorks!!! lol

i don't understand cartoons nowadays they all focus on teaching the kids which isn't bad but they just don't let the kids have fun watching the programs!!

Answer 9

well when i was young i had no cable so the coolest thing tho watch was TGIF on abc every Friday night i looked forward to it all week. I was lucky enough to have a neighbor about my age to play with so that took up most of my free time.

Answer 10

well for a time we didn't have a tv but i remember programs like hectors house, magpie ,mr ben, dickson of dock green the black & white mintsrials ( whoops Spelling) the two ronnies, dick emery. it took me at least 30 mins to walk home from school , used to play with my mates in the street as it was safer then

Answer 11

We didn't have daytime television then. Only on sunday afternoons we had star trek and the program with the mouse (a German program). That was in the 70's in Holland.