Well, back then I’d have to Standard 8 & Reel-to-Reel it.
New Zoo Revue.
And then game shows like High Rollers and Blockbusters.
Afternoons were awful.
Well you know my name is Simon,
and the things I draw come true.
And the pictures take me, take me over,
over the garden wall with you.
With Freddy! Charlie! Henrieeeeeeeetta!
They have fun learning what they don’t know.
Doug used to creep me out a little.
Same here. One of the ONLY good things about being sick, when I was a kid, was that I got to watch so many great daytime game shows. I’m 50, so I remember the old days with Art Fleming… but there seemed to be classic game shows on some station or other all day long.
Today, when I’m sick, there’s never anything on TV that I want to watch.
The Match Game and Concentration. I seem to remember that Concentration came on pretty early in the day. Also occasionally Hollywood Squares and Let’s Make a Deal. I really didn’t care for The Price is Right because that seemed to be more about humiliation.
I used to like To Tell The Truth, but I can’t remember if that was a daytime or evening show.
Late 1970s game shows:
$20,000 (?) Pyramid ($25,000? $100,000? - Something like that)
The Price Is Right (didn’t really get into that as a kid though)
Card Sharks (“Higher! Lower!!! … STOP!!!”)
The Joker’s Wild (“Joker… Joker… AND A JOKER!!”)
Reruns on afternoon TV:
I Love Lucy
Gilligan’s Island
F Troop
Addams Family
Partridge Family
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Often after school, so not necessarily only when I stayed at home sick or over the summer:
Brady Bunch
Batman (“nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!”)
Woody Woodpecker
Spider-Man (“does whatever a spider can…”)
Donahue
Who’s the Boss?
the entire Nickelodeon line up; Donna Reed, My Three Sons, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Gilligan’s Island etc.
“The Match Game” was incredibly easy, even for a little kid, once you figured out that the answer was ALWAYS either “boobs” or “bra.”
“Raquel Welch forgot to bring a canteen on her camping trip, so she just put water in her blank.”
“The carnival barker shouted ‘Hurry hurry hurry, see the woman with the world’s biggest blank.’”
My memory goes all the way back to the original Match Game on NBC, which ran from 1962 to 1969 and was (somewhat) less predictable.
Heh. All of the celebrity panel game shows from the 70s were full of that wink-wink naughty-naughty stuff. Looking back on it, you almost feel bad for them, just because they were so earnest in the attempt to “liven it up”.
Bewitched
Gilligan’s Island
Brady Bunch
Good Times
25,000 Pyramid
Jeopardy
Joker’s Wild
Match Game
When I got older (not a kid anymore…home from college), Saved by the Bell.
Late 70s would have been $20,000 Pyramid, which ran on daytime TV from 1976-1980.
Back when I was younger and when GSN and TV Land were starting, id watch reruns of “St. Elsewhere” and “The Joker’s Wild” and also “Tic Tac Dough”. “American Gladiators” was also on in reruns at that time too.
I used to watch “St. Elsewhere” reruns when the networks went to soap operas(yuck!)
Steve Allen’s syndicated daytime show in the late '60s–early '70s.
Jeopardy! with Art Fleming.
The Galloping Gourmet.
The soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.
I watched a lot of other game shows when I was home sick (Eye Guess, Split Second, You Don’t Say, To Tell the Truth, I’ve Got a Secret, and the original Match Game), plus reruns of Dick van Dyke, The Lucy Show, Andy Griffith, Gomer Pyle, and That Girl!, along with Art Linkletter’s show. But the first four listed above were must-see for me!
***The Beverly Hillbillies *** were also in daytime reruns by the late '60s.
Wok with Yan.
For me, it’s Harry Caray and Steve Stone calling Cubs games on WGN. Recall that home games were all during the day at Wrigley Field until (checks) 1988.
As pointed out (five years ago), it was Picture Pages. I can still remember some of the jingle. I wanted that pen so badly but there’s no way it would sound as cool as it did on the show…if it made noise at all.
I was about 12 when the first episodes of Voltron appeared in America. It was my first exposure to Japanimation and it was smarter and better-written than anything I’d seen before.
I must be ancient, because I actually remember the Arthur Godfrey Show (or, as I called him, ‘Offy Goffy’, Pete and Gladys (with Henry Morgan and Spring Byington), and I Married Joan (with Jim Backus). And The Life of Riley. And the 4 o’clock movie with the Syncopated Clock Song, (and dialing for dollars! Ed Murphy, call me!) . I was a sickly child, home from school a lot. So I associate those old shows with pain! but I’d love to see them again.