This week for Thursday throwback, Lauren asks us about our TV memories

The first time I watched a TV was when my grandparents got one. My mom had recently passed away and my father had gone to America for a Masters’s degree in public administration. He reluctantly left us with our grandparents, his parents, because this was a US government sponsored scholarship and he had to go.
My grandparents thought that we needed to be amused and entertained so they got a black and white TV. We were quite young at the time. Ages 9-5 years. So we didn’t know much English. My grandfather would sit with us and translate the English dialogue into Urdu for us and my grandmother who didn’t know English either. Thinking back, I feel it was very kind of them.
There were Urdu tv programs in those days but not many. Television industry was just starting in Pakistan. Most of the programs we watched were English, mostly American.
I remember;
The fugitive
Man from U.N.C.L.E
Bewitched
Avengers
Perhaps there were more but it was a long time ago. There was one cartoon program of five minutes duration which we waited for every day. I think the cartoons were loony tunes or some earlier version of them.
As we grew up, so did the television in our country. Now we have exclusively Urdu programs. I still think fondly of the time we were first introduced to tv.
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Those are lovely memories Sadje.
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Thanks a lot Jim.
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Thanks for joining in my friend. That was very sweet of your grandparents. It must have been a very difficult time for everyone.
I watched the shows you mentioned too. The Man From UNCLE was a favorite of mine.
My spouse spoke very little English when his family immigrated from Sweden to North America. He swears he learned more English from the TV show Sesame Street than anywhere else.
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I’d a pleasure Lauren. My aunt went to Germany when she was newly married and learned to speak German from tv, along with some undesirable words too! 😎
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Thanks for reminding us our old memories..
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Thanks! My pleasure
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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what great memories, sadje!
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Thanks a lot Beth. They are good memories. 😍
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“Bewitched” happens to one of my favourite television shows, Sadje.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
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Thanks a lot Renard. I loved watching it then. Now, I don’t know how I’ll feel about it. 👍🏼🙏🏼
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Bewitched was a favorite for me too. I agree, great memories of those times.
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Thanks Suzette.
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I remember those programmes. Those were the days
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Yes, simpler times. But interesting, original stories.
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Not like today, it’s all recycled, including the actors!
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Yes, nothing original in a long time.
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What lovely memories from what must have been somewhat trying times. When we traveled to Switzerland, everyone told us they learned English from watching American television. Thanks for participating again this week, Sadje.
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Thanks a lot Maggie. They were difficult times but kids have a different way of looking at life. Thanks for these trips down the memory lane
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Always my pleasure to read your posts, Sadje.
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Thanks again
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Thank you for sharing, Sadje. Bewitched was one of my favs when I was little. I loved when the lead would twinkle her nose and then, magic!
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Yes, that was a favorite scene for us too. And when Tabitha started doing magic, she’d move her nose tip by her hands. It was adorable.
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Yep, that’s exactly right. So much fun.
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😍🥰
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I remember when we didn’t have a TV…we would sit by the big radio/record player and listen to programs. When we got a TV I was so disappointed in the programs. Imagining the action was so much better! Now I just have Netflix…no cable or satellite.
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Sometimes the reality falls short of expectations.
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Some of my earliest memories of TV were of cartoons and kids shows, like Captain Kangaroo and Sesame Street. Probably one of the first actual shows I remember was Gomer Pyle. That was great that your grandparents let you watch and learn by translating the shows.
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Yes, it was wonderful that they arranged for us not to be bored and of course we learned as well. Thanks! I don’t remember much about the cartoons we watched in those early days. Woody the woodpecker was one and bugs bunny was another.
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I loved Woody Woodpecker… it was often on at the drive-in theater before movies started we would go to as a family.
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Me too. Thanks
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It sounds like you had very loving grandparents
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They were very strict but fair. My grandmother specially. But my grandfather was wonderful.
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🙂
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😎
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I remember my parents getting our first telly in 1953 so we could watch the coronation of our Queen. I hasten to add I was VERY tiny at the time!
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I’m sure you were just a baby! I want born then! 😎😅😂
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