The only one that stands out in my memory is The Price is Right.
Definitely The Price is Right also I think of the video for Thriller. I remember seeing it during the day one day when I was home sick and it had either was premiering or had premiered recently. MTV made a big deal about it, with a warning before hand and everything.
The Price is Right.
The Price is Right, Andy Griffith Show, Beverly Hillbillies if my dad was home. If not, it was The Joy of Painting or The Bozo Show.
Yeah, and soap operas in general. Good thing I like reading.
Leave it to Beaver. On at 2:30 every afternoon on channel 20.
I didn’t get sick as a kid, so the only times I would watch daytime TV during the schoolyear were during holidays or teacher’s planning days. I was all about PBS during the summer (3-2-1 Contact, Read All About It, and even Lamb Chop’s Play-Along–which I watched in high school, yes). Also, I’d watch reruns of In the Heat of the Night, Fame, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to Heaven. Cartoons like C.O.P.S and Thundercats were also on the agenda. But those really don’t remind me of being at home during school hours. Just being bored in the summertime.
However, any time I hear a laugh track during the day, I think “ooh, I’m supposed to be in school but I’m not!”
Dark Shadows. God I’m old, but at least StGermain is too.
I’m looking forward to the upcoming movie!
Yep, this is it exactly.
Price is Right was on the list you quoted.
The Mike Douglas Show
Donahue
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
The Price Is Right
…and then that lost wasteland for a couple of hours when soaps were on, until Tennessee Tuxedo and Go Go Gophers showed up to save the day.
Oh, Good Lord, people. Think radio.
The Arthur Godfrey Show
Stella Dallas
One Man’s Family
Helen Trent
They all went with dry toast, lemonade and those awful yellow throat lozenges and a little red Crosley radio.
Price is Right, and the Bold and the Beautiful.
Also Sally Jesse Raphael, and Maury. Maury Povich was friggin’ hilarious before Price is Right came on.
TPIR was so important I felt the need to especially emphasize it.
(Actually, I didn’t even realize it was on the list. I’ve been on a lot of allergy meds the last few days…) :smack:
Also, that guy who would read children’s books while using pastels (?) to make an illustration of them.
It should go without saying that this was on PBS.
What was the one where Bill Cosby would draw pictures with his special marker pen (that had a name that I can’t remember?) I used to beg my mother to buy me one of those pens. They had a “shameless plug” segment where they’d tell you how much money to send in to get your own pen.
Was it Picture People? At any rate, I remember watching this one in first grade when I was home sick with the chicken pox. Good times. 
Mom would make me a grilled cheese and some tomato soup, and maybe, if I were lucky, a glass of Sprite or other soda. Even today, that’s my favorite comfort food.
Man, I loved being sick.
I’m old. The Price Is Right, Father Knows Best, Art Linkletter, Truth or Consequences, Queen for a Day, I love Lucy, As the World Turns (the only soap my mother watched, and when it came on it was time to be quiet). I can’t remember if Truth or Consequences was the one that would reunite people or not. It always thrilled me when they would have someone on who would talk about the sister or father they hadn’t seen in years, and poof! She or he would come out from behind the curtain or in the audience or whatever. Once Garfield Goose came on I would get depressed because I knew school was out and I would have been home anyway, so my sick day was over.
Bad News Baboon, C’mon down! You’re the next contestant!!!
Wooooooo!!!
This show, more than any.
I used to love the yoddeler guy and always knew that the second showcase showdown was the better one.
Please spay or neuter your pets!
Ah, who didn’t love Queen for a Day? I almost wished for some contagion to infect me as a young lad, so that I could stay home from school and watch this show; it taught me a great deal about the psychology of man. In fact, Queen for a Day was the birth-mother of all high brow, yet sensitive explorations into the human condition, via game-show format, like The Jerry Springer Show.
The premise was simple: three hapless female contestants would spill their guts, describing the regrettable circumstances of their tortured lives to host, Jack Bailey, and an attentive studio audience. Bailey was always reassuring and sensitive to the plights of his contestants:
When the contestants finished their tales of woe, it was time for the studio audience to comfort and lift gently the spirit of the one in most distress. They did this by applauding each woman’s plight and the applause meter, gauging the intensity, would determine who would be, Queen for a Day!
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[/FONT]To this day, thinking of this show still gets me a bit verklempt. It’s just so rare to find venues where down-in-their-luck people are treated with heartfelt empathy and respect. Bless you Queen for a Day for not treating fellow human beings the main attraction in a three-ring circus.
Yep, that was T or C. I remember it being on in the evening, though; 7:00-ish 'round these parts.
Why didn’t you just DVR it? 
mmm
Picture Pages, which around here anyway was a segment of later-season Captain Kangaroo. I hated it, I think because it took the place of Simon, which I loved.