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- Thread starter The Duck
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Same here, on the MeTV channel. Now that I'm retired I get to catch it again occasionally. It's amazing what L.A. used to look like.
I was vaguely aware of the show, but I didn't watch much TV during its time on the air. My rich uncle, Sam, was sending me on all-expense-paid camping trips to various exotic locations around the world, and I also got married. I don't really remember any network TV shows from the '70s, and I've never spent a lot of time watching TV. Growing up, we didn't even have a TV until the '60s, when I was in high school. We lived so far out in the country we had to pipe in daylight, and TV required a 100' high tower with an antenna on top about 10' long, just to watch snow.
I figure I'm about 10 years behind you, based on your camping experiences. I also grew up out in the sticks. We had a huge outdoor antenna on a pipe mast strapped to the side of the chimney. We could get NBC and CBS with the antenna pointed east. To get PBS, you had to use a large pipe wrench to rotate the entire mast & antenna to point north. This wasn't a problem until I discovered Monty Python on PBS around age 12, which is also about the same time I became big enough to turn the antenna by myself. It was like leaving the toilet seat up for the entire family.
PBS didn't exist when I was young. That came along much later, I don't recall when. One of our problems was that we were about halfway between two larger cities with TV stations, each about 100 miles away. Some of their channels were the same, but different networks. The one hitting the back of the antenna could sometimes over-ride the other one, resulting in just snow. Just after I went to college the county Farm Bureau installed a big tower to receive and retransmit TV stations on UHF frequencies. There were no actual UHF stations back then, but you could buy a converter box and get watchable TV using it.
