Childhood memories...

[442w30]

One of the funniest things I saw as a kid on the weekends before cable. After the cartoons was Wrestling, B movies, and karate flicks. Does anyone else remember that this was all that was on TV?

Anyway, this music video impressed me more than just about anything on TV back then.

When I found this one, it reminded me of our own RSmacker. Put this with a night of Benny Hill, and I think we have him pegged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhLK6XPKCs

BTW, Adrian Street is still kicking around!

[atomic charvel guy]

I don't know, wrestling wasn't my bag. i subsisted on a steady overdose of bugs bunny, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, and various other looney shows like below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPg_h_NmZ5I&feature=related

[RacerX]

I used to sit on the floor, grab a box of brown sugar and a spoon, and watch Kimba the White Lion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p2VXN0xDTY

followed by the awesome Speed Racer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o

I think these were on channel 56 here in Southern California.

[StukaJU87]

I used to sit on the floor, grab a box of brown sugar and a spoon, and watch Kimba the White Lion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p2VXN0xDTY

followed by the awesome Speed Racer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o

I think these were on channel 56 here in Southern California.

Ron, I thought I was the only one who remembered Kimba, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, and Doctari.

[atdguitars]

Looney toons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dick Dastardly and the wacky racers. Scooby doo. For newer stuff.. Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain.

[Robert Hendrix]

followed by the awesome Speed Racer

Oh yeah! Spped Racer was the stuff. Also Pink Panter, Wacky Racers, HR Puffn' Stuff, Land of the Lost and more than I can remember right now.

Anybody remember The Hudson Brothers? They had a Saturday morning show for awhile that was funny as hell IIRC.

[SEEGERMANY]

There's a great thread about childhood memories somewhere in this section. Should be good for a chuckle or two.

[SEEGERMANY]

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88042

[Jason1212]

Things are defintely different now. When I was a kid you had to get up early on Saturday to watch cartoons. If you turned on the TV and the wide world of sports was coming on you missed it. Forget cartoons on Sundays. The only thing happening then was Davey and Goliath. No kids have cartoons 24-7 and on multiple channels.

[442w30]

Yeah, my thought process was a little out of whack on this in especially in making the title.

I really meant to spawn a thread about the great wrestler "Adrian Street" - his music video I recently rediscovered, and how he formed my mental image of the English - he was an effeminate bad guy that oddly liked women and insulted American rednecks with his over the top flamboyance. He was tough, polished, crass and fruity all at the same time.

Benny Hill seemed like a pervish grandpa in the same way....

And then comes Rsmacker

Nothing like reinforcing a stereotype :P

[Jason1212]

I remember staying up late on Sunday nights to watch Benny Hill on PBS. When you are 8 or 9 that is pretty racey stuff. I never watched the wrestling on Saturday mornings. Here it was Saturday night wrestling from the Sprortatorium and The Von Erichs RULED!

[atdguitars]

Wresting here was sunday morning i think. Wrestling at the Chase. The Chase was an upscale hotel in STL that used one of the convention rooms. Andre the Giant was a big draw as was the Von Eric brothers. I remember when Ric Flair came to town and there was a huge ordeal about the Nature boy coming to wrestling here. He was just a kid then and still taking a weekly ass beating by the local favorites.

[Robert Hendrix]

I remember staying up late on Sunday nights to watch Benny Hill on PBS. When you are 8 or 9 that is pretty racey stuff. I never watched the wrestling on Saturday mornings. Here it was Saturday night wrestling from the Sprortatorium and The Von Erichs RULED!

Yep. Between the Von Erichs, The Funk Brothers and the Kozacks they pretty much had us Texans wrapped up as far as wrestling. Not to mention Dick Murdock.

Wrestling was on Saturday afternoon in Amarillo. Right after Wide World of Sports and the pro bowlers tour. Live from one of the event centers at the fair grounds. I even knew it was fake back then, but I still enjoyed watching it.

[DonP]

I used to sit on the floor, grab a box of brown sugar and a spoon, and watch Kimba the White Lion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p2VXN0xDTY

followed by the awesome Speed Racer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o

I think these were on channel 56 here in Southern California.

Or was it channel 52? UHF for sure.

I was 5 years old, so we are talking 1971? My dad would come home and turn off Speed Racer because he said it gave me the idea to crash my toys.

How about Thunderbirds?

[Carbuff]

I remember staying up late on Sunday nights to watch Benny Hill on PBS. When you are 8 or 9 that is pretty racey stuff. I never watched the wrestling on Saturday mornings. Here it was Saturday night wrestling from the Sprortatorium and The Von Erichs RULED!

Ha, I remember the first time I put 2 and 2 together and realized that the toymaker in chitty chitty bang bang was Benny Hill. It blew my mind.