thefridayfive | The Friday Five for 14 January 2022

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archersangel.

1. What is the first TV show you remember watching?

2. What is the first “grown up” TV show you watched?

3. What is the first TV show you watched from the start to finish when it aired live (i.e., not via reruns)?

4. What is the oldest TV show you’ve watched?

5. What is one TV show you will stop and watch if you come across it on TV, even though you've seen every episode at least 20 times?

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intothisshadow

Nostalgic! Here's mine: https://intothisshadow.dreamwidth.org/526255.html

mesotablar

I did my thing!

sulien

My answers are here.

archersangel

https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/328459.html

waitingman

No repeats here... https://waitingman.dreamwidth.org/651439.html

severina

My answers are here: https://severina.dreamwidth.org/3975.html

weedpizza

My answers: https://weedpizza.dreamwidth.org/84742.html

sallymn

1. What is the first TV show you remember watching? That's hard... but I think it was (and I blush to admit it, small as I was) either a cartoon series called King Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table, Space Patrol, an SF with puppets and the weirdest soundtrack ever, or ummm, H R Pufnstuf (and no, I am not quite as old as the dates of the first two indicate - they took some years to get over here!). All of which shows I was into mental junk food from a young age, and my interests have never really changed...

2. What is the first 'grown up' TV show you watched? Probably something long forgotten, but Dr Who (at least going back to Troughton and maybe Hartnell) is the one I actually remember. And there was one where there was a yacht, but don't ask me for more details than... there was a yacht.

3. What is the first TV show you watched from the start to finish when it aired live (i.e., not via reruns)? The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Only beats out Catweazle (which started in the same year) because it only had the six episodes, and Catweazle had two series.

4. What is the oldest TV show you’ve watched? A few of the episodes of the original Twilight Zone, though I saw them much later and online :) And I have found Groucho Marx's even earlier You Bet Your Life on youtube, but haven't gotten round to it... yet.

5. What is one TV show you will stop and watch if you come across it on TV, even though you've seen every episode at least 20 times? Well, given that my major fandoms I have on video (and most I don't expect to see pop up on TV), I'm not sure there are any that I would watch that often… but the comedy panel shows Would I Lie To You, QI and Mock The Week I have and will rewatch a lowering number of times.

smallhobbit

I went for Doctor Who and Six Wives as well - clearly they made an impression!

Both wonderful shows in theiw way :) I bought both of them on DVD too, and have them on my hard drive (this is my only Catweazle icon, I think I need more...)