Television

Some programs that I remember watching on TV when I was growing up.

"The Howdy Doody Show" remains fixed in the mind today for Buffalo Bob's greeting - "Say, kids. What time is it?" - and the answer: "It's Howdy Doody Time" that sprang forth from the 40 or so kids squeezed in the studio's "peanut gallery."
http://www.tvparty.com/50howdy.html

"A high-powered, fast-moving half-hour, Razzle Dazzle is still fondly remembered as required after school viewing for children of the baby boom. Its title sequence was a rapid montage of images cut to a raucous version of "Tiger Rag," and the action took place in Razzle Dazzle Alley, which was populated each day by a gallery of children bussed in daily from Toronto area elementary schools."
http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/R.html

"The Friendly Giant was a popular Canadian children's television program on the CBC from September 1958 through to March 1985. It featured three main characters: a giant named Friendly who lived in a huge castle (played by Bob Homme), along with his puppet animal friends Rusty (a rooster who played a harp and lived in a sack hung by the castle window) and Jerome (a giraffe)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friendly_Giant

"Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female rough collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. One of the longest running dramatic series on television, Lassie was first broadcast from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_(1954_TV_series)

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What TV did my mom and dad watch in those days? It was probably not much before the days of cable. We would have had an antenna and not the rabbit ears because we were some distance outside of Montreal. I remember the TV being a big box and living down in the basement.