My cage "Classic" 03/14/2010
Added 2023-09-10 15:29:34 +0000 UTC
What were your favorite toy, book, movie, and tv show as a child?
-Ed
Originally run Mar 14 2010
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Comments
Toy would have been a Mike Hazard action figure. First toy I ever bought with my own money. Lost all the accessories, but still have the action figure, minus the left hand, which my dog chewed off (and looked at me like "What? He was taunting me.) Books. I was/am a science fiction person. I don't remember all the titles I may have read, (I count comic books in this class), but one that stands out is Heinlein's, Have Spacesuit, Wll Travel. (I can't believe this has yet to be made into a movie.) Movie, Forbidden Planet. It has been the yardstick by which I've measured every sci-fi movie/tv show since I saw it. TV in the sixties was kind of a gold mine for kids. The Japanese shows, Astroboy, Eighth Man, Speed Racer etc were just coming on the US scene, live action superheroes, from Superman, Space Patrol etc reruns, to the newer Batman, Green Hornet, and dramas, like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants etc. There was just so much to choose from. And that's not even including the Gerry Anderson Super-Marionation stuff, (my personal favorite was Captain Scarlet), and the later live action stuff, UFO and Space:1999. One thing that still amuses me today, is the dates they chose for their sci-fi timelines. Space 1999, is obvious, but Voyage I believe was set in the 1970's, Astroboy was set in the year 2000, probably 8th Man too, and Speed Racer was in the near future. Even UFO was set in the 70's. Oddly, Space Patrol, which was made in the 50's was set in the 2300's or something like that (so they should have been contemporaries of Kirk and Company. Wish somebody would do a show like that) Also, Lyn Osborn, who played "Cadet Happy" (yeah, I know. Gotta love 50's sci-fi) had that perfect science fiction face, Several people have already mentioned the Avengers TV show. I have to say that the two Cybernaut episodes were the scariest for me as a child. In retrospect, The Avengers anticipates Scooby-Doo in the sense of how they go in looking for what first appears to be supernatural or alien, but turns out to be human trickery or inventions. I liked the movie, but it didn't do the show justice.
Jon Benson
2023-09-11 20:47:36 +0000 UTCI was 13 when Star Trek came out. Maybe not a child but boy, that was a TV show I had to watch! When I go my first Stingray bicycle that was something special. Still ride bikes to this day but there was nothing like riding my Ray around Ventura with my pals, eating tacos, trading Ratfink trading cards and reading Cartoons magazine!
Steven Sutton
2023-09-11 12:17:13 +0000 UTCToy, probably my electric train. It's over 70 years old, and sits on a shelf in my bedroom. Stopped running long ago. Book, probably the Dr. Doolittle series. Movie, the one that I still like to watch, King Solomon's Mines (1950 version). TV -ha! No electricity in rural Mariposa County till 1946 (no TV to speak of anywhere at that time.) No TV at my house till after I left for college. First show I watched regularly as a married adult and still love, Dick Van Dyke.
Richard Estel
2023-09-10 21:00:26 +0000 UTC
