Back when I’d have cereal and watch Barbara Walters interview Arafat.

The Today Show has became a QVC cookware sales show now. Last I watched it.

After school was watching The Three Stooges before Mom got home. She forbid it. And then Gilligan or Brady Bunch if we went already outside playing.

how I see the Today show in the last half hour of the two hour show and same goes for GMA. They sell that stuff because they get a portion of sales or at least that’s what they say sometimes.

We had The Three Stooges in the morning sometimes and sometimes it was The Little Rascals. In the afternoons after school we had Tom and Jerry and Bewitched and The Brady Bunch. When I got older, I used to watch Phil Donahue. Donahue usually had a good show, and I learned a lot from him. I think he was the best of the talk show genre.

When I was really little (in Ohio) there was a local morning show just after Today them Donohue. He filmed every morning at 11:00 I think just down the road in Cincy.

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along with various & sundry Warner Bros, Harveytoons, Disney, others in black & white, all long since dished-up as syndicated offerings. After school, I eschewed cartoons in favor of the afternoon movie, which started right after school. In retrospect, whoever was in charge of programming at channel 14 was demented in a way that suited my ‘horrific’ tastes, but surprising that it continued without parental outrage. The only thing that saved my preteen mind while watching Horror of Dracula was that we didn’t yet have a color TV. After awhile, I’d seen all the old 50s horror flicks, and color TV diverted my attention to, of all things, a frickin’ soap opera! Dark Shadows wasn’t like the others, however.

Too much romance - even with supernatural themes - wasn’t in my realm of interest. Come to think of it, not much has changed.

could watch Dark Shadows and Days of Our Lives every day and keep each other caught up .

We had Popeye Theater, Woody Woodpecker, Huckleberry Hound, and very old Warner Brothers.

followed by The Fllintstones at 7:30, both on ABC.

i used to tell other first-graders that my folks drove me up to the KNTV studios (Bay Area ABC affiliate) every Sunday evening to play the piano on The Jetsons theme song.

Then there was Beany and Cecil on Saturday (?) evenings, and another whose title escapes me, but it was based on "The Wizard of Oz."

After school it was whatever soap opera my mother had on while she was ironing, Later it was time for Walter Cronkite.

The punishment would no doubt be incredibly severe. After school you could find Spiderman and/or Speed Racer. By evening my father was home, and no one touched the television when he was watching it unless you were changing the channel at his instruction.

QuickDraw McGraw come to mind. A few years later, I recall my younger sister watching George of the Jungle, Clutch Cargo and Top Cat.