Day #20 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #20 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge.

The prompt is A show from your childhood that you enjoyed or remember vividly

I'm going to pick one that I haven't picked in a previous meme.

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After school, my best friend and I would race home and watch "Batman" on her big color television set. And in her family room, where she'd get snacks. Her parents worked, so we often had the house to ourselves or if her mom was home - she'd leave us alone to watch.

This was in the 1970s, it was re-runned at 3pm. I didn't tend to see much in evening television series because I was...well in bed by 8:30, and television shows started at 8 on the east coast.

I'm picking this one - because we went all the way up to a gas station to see Batman and Robin in person, and were horribly disappointed, because Robin had an afro, and clearly wasn't Robin.

Comments

[atpo_onm]

Since I already picked Captain Kangaroo for an earlier prompt, I had to think about this for quite a bit, but then finally remembered that there was this popular style in kids shows back thar in the 60's, that involved marionettes. Thunderbirds may have been the best known, according to the search I just did for the genre, but the one I recall watching regularly was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8m9Z010pM4

Mike Mercury looks a mite creepy to me now, re-watching the show's intro, but marionettes in general are a mite creepy to me sometimes. T'wern't back in the day, obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar_(TV_series)

The "Supermarionation" concept itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarionation

[shadowkat]

I think I've seen bits and pieces of Thunderbirds. Didn't know Supercar existed.

Honestly, I think I may be the only person under the age of 60 doing this meme. LOL!

[atpo_onm]

That's okay, give it some time... you'll catch up!

;-)