Back when Channel 38 was good
By adamg - Wed, 10/17/2007 - 6:09pm.
Just check out the lineup on this 1985 Channel 38 promo, posted by Tallboyyyy:
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UHF...sob....
...it doesn't seem so very long ago that my sister and I would have to use a pair of pliers to go from 38 to 56, because the knob had snapped off from turning it too fast.
56 in the late 70's had the best afternoon lineup: The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Tom & Jerry, and The Brady Bunch.
And if you stayed up really late, there was Love, American Style followed by the National Anthem, and then static until Bozo's Big Top at 6 AM.
Channel 56 Creature Double Feature
A confession...
...I actually bought Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" just so I could hear that snippet that was used as the C2F theme.
pliers!
Ha ha ha ha.
me too.
I had a pair of pliers to change channels too because i changed them so much from my tv watching position on the carpet 12" in front of the TV
Major Mudd, Ask the Manager... Ahhh... memories...
Pliers and ...
That circular UHF antenna (but you know you're getting old when you remember TVs that had UHF channels up to 83).
Then there were the UHF-hating TVs
We had one that we got in about 1982, I think the first color one we had, that hated UHF channels. The console had a row of PUSHBUTTONS: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 * *
The asterisk buttons were so you could tune in two UHF channels of your choice. You had to pull open the front of the thing, then there were tiny dials under each pushbutton for tuning in your preferred channel. The pushbuttons actually all went into UHF range, so we tuned 3 and 6 and 8 into UHF channels too, because there wasn't anything at those actual numbers. Then we taped little numbers over the original numbers so we had this messed-up TV that said
2 22 4 5 31 7 27 9 10 11 12 13 54 29 or something.
How was making a TV with these freakin pushbuttons some sort of high-tech advancement, now?
My parent's still only watch
My parent's still only watch 2, 4, 5, and 7 because they think everything else is flash-in-the-pan UHF. As for that line-up, what they didn't put up was that MASH or Cheers reruns were usually right after. Whenever I heard those theme songs, it brought a tear to my eye because it ment no more cartoons. To this day, even though I know it was a ground breaking and awesome show, I still can't watch MASH because of the painful memories. I'm just starting to appreciate Cheers.
Dana Hersey on Cheers
Well, outside Cheers, actually:
And here's Hersey interviewing Cliff Clavin (go figure: He lived in the Combat Zone for several months; although he never learned how to pronounce "Woburn"):
I miss Dana Hersey and the
I miss Dana Hersey and the Movie Loft.
"With limited commercial interruptions."
And occassionally (*gasp*)
And occassionally (*gasp*) unedited for television.
Channel 38
The evil Comcast is moving C-Span 2 from basic cable to its digital tier, leaving C-Span 1 intact. Why oh why couldn't they move channel 38 instead?