Remeber when life revolved around the TV?

[Omaha Steve]

I can remember how upset my family was that we would miss an episode of "Make Room For Daddy" to have family photos shot one night in the early 60's. We were all so happy when we arrived to find a TV in the waiting room tuned to one of our favorite shows.

The times they are a changing.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. We have shows we can't miss...

...but that's what TiVo is for.

[libinnyandia]

2. I was almost 10 when we got our first tv, so I remember life without tv. When we did get a tv we

only had 2 channels but there was plenty of good tv to watch. Now with cable sometimes I have trouble finding something to watch so i turn to Fox News. (just kidding!)

[WCGreen]

5. You mean the hand fishing pawn stars building duck blinds with fifth rate celebrities

isn't must see TV...

[zbdent]

18. you're fired ...

[kiva]

3. Yup, the TV-centric days.

My brother's wedding shower was on the night the last episode of The Fugitive played, so never got to see it, though I suppose I could look it up and see it now. Considering that the marriage lasted less than a year, I should have just stayed home and watched TV

[libinnyandia]

6. Thank God for video recorders! I watch very little tv live nowadays. It's nice to fast forward

through the commercials.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

11. Or delayed watching.

Pausing shows then fast forwarding through commercials is also fun.

[Omaha Steve]

8. The Fugitive

Nan Martin: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552832/

Marta and I had the joy of meeting Nan in 2002. Wonderful lady with a place in The Fugitive history. So sorry we lost her in 2010.

http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm

I had a shot of Nan Martin from her New Twilight Zone appearance on "If She Dies," that I'd wanted to get signed but she wasn't there on Saturday. I was disappointed; it was the only NTZ shot I'd taken, though Warren Stevens and William Schallert had also been in an episode of the NTZ. She is one of the main reasons we went back on Sunday, because I wanted her autograph. She was there, and I had the most miraculous talk with her. We didn't get there till about 1:30pm, so it was getting close to the end of the con. I showed her the shot, and she almost started crying, and showed the shot to her husband. She said that all day long she'd been trying to tell people that she'd also been in an NTZ episode but no one remembered the series. She flicked contemptuously at her stack of photos from "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" and said, all they remember is this. She thanked me for bringing the shot and showing up, because she remembered her stint on the episode very well. She praised the producer and the writers on the NTZ, because they were on the set every day, and made sure everything went well for the actors and the crew, and she never had a better time. She said she was so disappointed when it was canceled, because it had been a quality show. We talked for 15 minutes about network TV and how they are canceling good shows before they can find an audience. She shook my hand and sincerely thanked me for showing up with the photo and talking with her, and for being an intelligent viewer who knows the difference between trash and quality. I said I didn't know about that, and she said yes you are, that I wouldn't believe the people she'd talked to that didn't know the difference.



Obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/arts/television/09martin.html

[PatSeg]

17. And the mini series

like Roots. Everyone rushed home to watch each episode. If you missed one, you were out of luck, as it would be years before the network would replay it and there were no VCRS.

There were nights when there was little traffic on the streets and the restaurants and bars were empty, because people couldn't miss an episode of a particular show or mini series.

[mike_c]

4. threw mine away and unplugged the cable twenty years ago....

Even then, I hardly ever watched it. Found myself up one night at 3 AM flipping between infomercials-- you know, thirty minute commercials!-- sitcoms from the seventies, old movies, religious programming, and the Psychic Friends Network. That would have been in the early 90s. Called the cable company and cancelled the next day. Utter waste of good electrons.

[Johonny]

7. I just gave up cable again

Been off and on with cable for years. I liked to watch sports but in general I go out to watch them these days. Just isn't enough there to keep paying the cable bill.

[Louisiana1976]

9. I don't have cable either.

Because I couldn't afford both, I had to choose between cable and the Internet and the Internet won.

[madrchsod]

10. yup..tv generation

my parents bought one of the first color tv`s in our town. i think they bought their first in 51-52.

[bluerum]

12. Internet and dvd only here. No broadcast or cable for years.

[slackmaster]

13. Now people are so thoroughly brainwashed by video media in general that they don't realize...

...their lives revolve around that kind of "infotainment."

I know people who are literally addicted to particular TV shows.

[marybourg]

14. No.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. I watched a lot TV in the '60s

It started tapering off in the '70s, so that by 1977 or so there wasn't anything on TV that I watched on a regular basis.

[deaniac21]

16. I have

never seen a tv program.

[Fumesucker]

19. Neither have I come to think of it..

Not even in BASIC or LOGO.

[cliffordu]

23. :Snort:

[deaniac21]

25. I may have seen one

in autocoder but I can't remember for sure..

[Initech]

20. Thanks to DVR and DVD TV shows I haven't watched regularly scheduled programming since 2004.

[Skip Intro]

21. We're still mesmerized by some screen, be it computer monitor, cell phone,

or tv.

Gotta say, having sold cell phones for the last ten years, I'm pretty nostalgic for the time when there was only tv, and only during certain hours.

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. American life still revolves around TV, that's our problem. n/t

K&R

[Luminous Animal]

24. Not me. We were too poor to have TV often and the times that my

dad would scrape another $5 for a junker, each kid (there was 3) was limited to one half hour a day. The only show I remember being dedicated to was The Twilight Zone.

[madinmaryland]

26. There is much see TV on right fucking now...