One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for November 12, 2022

I thought The Virginian was an excellent show, especially the first few years.

Ah the good old days hen you had to walk across the room to change the channel.

Reminds me of the song “I remember it well”

They allowed a lot more off-color content then. Literally! The early color TVs had to be adjusted for each show. Even then, the color would be off for the commercials.

Who else remembers vertical & horizontal hold, red and green hue adjustments, and watching the screen shrink to a white dot when you turned it off?

Sounds like some of my husbands memories.

First color TV I ever saw was in 1958 at a Russian exposition in NYC! My uncle had a screen cover that had blue on top and green on the bottom for viewing which was rather stupid.

Back in the early 50’s when my sister and I were4 and 5, we would sometimes turn the tv on really early around 6 am and wait for the broadcast day to begin. This included a a long test tone during which my sister and I would sit there with our German Shepherd and we would howl until the dog joined in. Boy, our folks sure enjoyed getting woke that way.

That dates me, I was a kid when The Virginian was on.