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Countrymouse

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
Can we go back even further?

When I was a little girl, TBN in Atlanta (Ted Turner) made the 'crazy like a fox' move of buying up rights to ALL the older Hollywood classics of the 30's, 40's, and 50's.

And started playing them.

Every Sunday my mom and I would settle down in the den to watch Shirley Temple.

Not politically-correct now--can't see them anywhere (don't know if you can still order them--I have video's of all I could get that I bought a few years back).

Some of the best entertainment ever.

Plus the old "On-The-Road" movies with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.

And of course all the good (and not so good) old Westerns.

Many cable stations noted the wild success of TBN and started "oldies" movie channels--but Ted Turner minted the coin on that.

I was raised more on Depression-era movies in my childhood than anything else--which is maybe why I always felt out-of-sync with the 70's (when I graduated high school and college) and more in-sync with the 40's and 50's...
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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CaryC

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Publius said:
When I was a kid (1960s) I remember adults some of them were seniors talking about how they would listen to the radio and there were broadcast shows like the Lone Ranger and a number of other shows that would air at given time and of day even joked they watched the radio much like many today do watch the TV.
Back around 1967 my mother would listen to a radio show called the chicken-man and I was thinking it was an old radio show as it turned out it was new at the time, I was a kid and had no interest in it so I had no idea what it was about.
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BTDT and watched/listened while sitting on Silver (the back of the couch)
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Three-Time Trump Voter
I have recently discovered that, on Etsy, people are selling collections of television that pretty much can't be found any other way. Stuff that wasn't put on streaming or on DVD because of music clearances or the like can be found there. I spotted Our House, Last of the Summer Wine, Murphy Brown, Benson, and Mad TV, among others. Tempted to buy in, but frankly, I can't conceive of it being legal. But then how does Etsy sell anything criminal?

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Millwright

Millwright

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