Television viewing has sure come a long way through the years. I remember as a child we had one TV in the living room and we could get 4 channels. Two, four, five and twelve. My dad was lucky though as he did have a remote, well actually 4 of them. My mother, my sister, my brother and I. I remember it all so well as he would lay on the couch with the TV Guide in hand and holler for whoever happened to be the closest at the time to change the channel.
With only 4 channels there wasn't near the variety as there is today, but we didn't know any different. With only one TV in the house it was a pretty simple formula deciding what we watched. It was whatever my dad wanted to watch. If he was at work or gone somewhere then we got to watch what we wanted, if it wasn't on at the same time as The Young and The Restless. Mom can't miss her soaps. Of course us kids got addicted to the soap operas too because if we wanted to watch TV, that's what we watched. When I had the TV to myself I liked to watch The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island and The Facts Of Life.
Watching evening TV with my dad was to suffer through To Tell The Truth which for a kid was the most boring game show on the planet. No spinning wheels, flashing lights or pretty assistants. You had 3 panelists asking questions to try and figure out which one of the 3 contestants was telling the truth and which 2 weren't. Boring! Other shows I can remember watching were Gunsmoke, Hee-Haw, Laugh-In, Sonny & Cher, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Baretta, Columbo and football.
It was a good TV night if they happened to have an Elvis special on or a beauty pageant. I dreaded the nights that the President was speaking because he was on every channel we had!
Today my mom and dad have satellite TV, a remote (lucky for him as us kids eventually all moved out) and more channels than than they could ever want. My dad still lays on the couch and watches TV, my mom still watches her soaps (luckily for her my dad got addicted to them too) and everything worked out just fine. Technology is a good thing.
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Liz Morgan is an experienced channel changer and has nightmares about To Tell The Truth TV marathons.
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