On 7/10/2015 2:00 PM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:21:59 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/10/2015 6:18 AM, Whirled Peas wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2015 08:15 AM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 07:05:25 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 12:48:14 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Scheduling "The Flintstones" during the evening was a milestone in
>>>>>> television history!
>>>>>
>>>>> It was "The Honeymooners" in animated form. How much of a milestone
>>>>> could that really be?
>>>>>
>>>> What other cartoon was shown in the evening and appealed to adult
>>>> humor as well as children's? Sure, it's common now but it wasn't back
>>>> then.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Kukla, Fran and Ollie were hilarious for both adults and children. Soupy
>>> Sales, too. I don't recall if they were evening shows or not.
>>
>> I never saw any of those shows. My guess is that the signals were too
>> weak to travel across the Pacific to this rock. :-)
>
> I know how you feel. I didn't see Hopalong Cassidy as a kid either
> and I wasn't interested in watching it by the time I moved to a market
> where it could be seen on rare occasions as a rerun.
>

Back in the early days we saw all the shows one week behind the
mainland. We was so far in the middle of nowhere, it took that long for
the shows to get here!