TV from when I was 2 months old!

[Gina Marie]

I was looking for something on YouTube, and I came across this tube! Recorded Dec 31st 1978/Jan 1st 1979... so cool and different from today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSeJfTZBMlU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VgDXFNgoO0

[TinyDancer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4k-ruiRPkuI

[Janus]

[Janus]

I had no idea that McDonald's First national ad was the year I was born. So weird to look at these ads now at 45yrs old.

[MissBarbara]

Apologies for the minor hijack, but here are the Top 25 TV shows from the year I was born:

1.    Dallas    
2.    The Dukes of Hazzard
3.    60 Minutes
4.    M*A*S*H
5.    The Love Boat
6.   The Jeffersons
7.   Alice
8.   House Calls
9.   Three's Company
10.   Little House on the Prairie
11.   One Day at a Time
12.   Real People
13.    Archie Bunker's Place
14.    Magnum, P.I.
15.    Happy Days
16.    Too Close for Comfort
17.    Fantasy Island
18.    Trapper John, M.D.
19.    Diff'rent Strokes
20.    Monday Night Football
21.   Laverne & Shirley
22.   That's Incredible
23.   Hart to Hart
24.   ABC Sunday Night Movie
25.   CHiPS


What's interesting about this list is that many of these shows are mentioned in my favorite Henry Rollins song:

 

[Janus]

1967: The inaugural Super Bowl is telecast on both CBS and NBC. The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.



RANK   PROGRAM   NETWORK        HH rating   HH SHARE
1   Bonanza   NBC       29.1   45
2   The Red Skelton Hour   CBS       28.2   43
3   The Andy Griffith Show   CBS       27.4   42
4   The Lucy Show   CBS       26.2   40
5   The Jackie Gleason Show   CBS       25.3   43
6   Green Acres   CBS       24.6   38
7   Daktari   CBS       23.4   38
8   Bewitched   ABC       23.4   37
9   The Beverly Hillbillies   CBS       23.4   36
10   Gomer Pyle USMC   CBS       22.8   37
11   The Virginian   NBC       22.8   36
12   The Lawrence Welk Show   ABC       22.8   36
13   The Ed Sullivan Show   CBS       22.8   35
14   The Dean Martin Show   CBS       22.6   41
15   Family Affair   CBS       22.6   36
16   Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour   CBS       22.2   33
17   Friday Night Movies   CBS       21.8   40
18   Hogan's Heroes   CBS       21.8   37
19   Walt Disney's World of Color   NBC       21.5   35
20   Saturday Night At The Movies   NBC       21.4   37


CBS ruled the top 20 list with 14 shows, NBC had 4, and ABC just 2.

[MissBarbara]

Top 20 Prime Time Broadcast Programs, October 1961-April 1962:

I always wondered how old you are. And now I know.

Or do I?

[Gina Marie]

It's all pretty neet, huh? I love the posts guys!

[coacheric]

you can go with Janus post for my info about TV.

Top single from May 1967

May 13 "The Happening" The Supremes

About as close as I can get to the 16th

[MissBarbara]

you can go with Janus post for my info about TV.

Top single from May 1967

May 13 "The Happening" The Supremes

About as close as I can get to the 16th

And here's something interesting (well, to me at least...):

There are six shows from the year I was born that I've never heard of.

But there are only two shows from the Janus/Coach list that I've never heard of, and that was 13 years before I was born.

And there are only two shows from the Toe list that I've never heard of, and that was almost 20 years before I was born.

[TinyDancer]

I used to love these commercials when I was a kid, just posting the one as there are several.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM2OK_JaJ9I

*Edit by Gia for code link change.