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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:14:16 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> 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!


Is it still that way? It was that way every time I've been to Hawaii,
but it's nothing that would matter if I hadn't seen it before.

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sf