Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

bnt · 05-05-2014 08:19AM

No idea how old I was - maybe 2-ish - but Balok from an early Star Trek episode gave me nightmares. I clearly remember it from the last shot in the closing credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPW5QV4Ymw

Teyla Emmagan · 05-05-2014 08:33AM

We didn't watch TV much when I was small (2 channels, one of which only started in the evening!) but I do remember going swimming on Wednesdays. We'd come home and watch that 'greatest American hero' thing in front of the fire followed by 'the green fields of Wyoming' while my mother dried our hair. Utter bliss!

Graces7 · 05-05-2014 09:00AM

andy pandy, muffin the mule, kit carson,and a few years later, the coronation

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-05-2014 09:31AM

We were all taken to a house somewhere upon north in Sept 1949 to see Come Dancing on the BBC, because an old neighbour of my mother's was in a dance team. I can remember the amazement of seeing pictures on a TV but couldn't tell you who won!

Corvo · 05-05-2014 09:37AM

Transformers cartoons. God they were brilliant. Even now watching the Michael Bay movies, my heart breaks at how much better these cartoons were. The trilogy of movies are crap in comparison.

My mother said (and I do remember) that I would get up every Saturday at around 6 o clock, have the living room to myself, make toast and grab a Capri Sun and watch Arnie's classic - Commando around 4 times back to front in the morning to afternoon, I just loved it that much. Still love that movie.

_Brian · 05-05-2014 09:47AM

Wanderly wagon, playschool, Mr Ben, Bagpuss, Wonderwoman, the bionic man, the oddies, were staples on my TV in the early 70's.
We got British stations as we lived along the border.

First cinema visit would have been 78/79 to a wee private local cinema to see the Muppets, same wee cinema I brought herself to on a first date, double seats in the back row and all that.

razorblunt · 05-05-2014 09:49AM

Thomas the Tank, the theme song is a beaut, not to mention the remix with 50 cent being perfectly apt.

andy1249 · 05-05-2014 09:56AM

Children of the stones....very scary for kids tv!

wispa9 · 05-05-2014 10:11AM

Kipper chasing a butterfly!
Special mention: Dante's Peak traumatised my 5 year old self. The scene where the dog is running to jump into the jeep sent me into hysterics. Kill all the loving grandmas you want, but for god's sake, don't hurt the dog!

beauf · 05-05-2014 10:20AM

Jungle book in the cinema.

TV was match of the day or at least the music. Also the World at war series the closing credits where it turns to newspaper photo and burns.

Didn't watch that much tv though. So don't have strong memories till older.

Coopaloop · 05-05-2014 10:30AM

The first thing I remember watching on TV as a child was the TV movie IT, I was 5 and my two older brothers were babysitting me and didn't see a problem with me watching it.

Needless to say I was scared sh*tless and to this day still have a fear of clowns and spiders........

wendell borton · 05-05-2014 11:46AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpRD_il9s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqxZo_myyA

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 05-05-2014 11:54AM

First Movie memory: Superman.
The helicopter scene is all I can recall though.

First TV memory: Pope's visit.
People actually were taking photos of the TV*.

*Mean the television. Not calling the pope a TV for wearing a dress.

LETHAL LADY · 05-05-2014 11:54AM

Getting up at the crack of dawn for Anything Goes and watching Aonghus McAnally with his odd socks. Never warmed to that Mary wan, she came across as an auld bossy biddy.

Ilyana 2.0 · 05-05-2014 11:58AM

Sesame Street, Scooby Doo and Paddington Bear are the first tv programmes I remember watching. Oh and this, which completely mesmerised me:

I was about 2.5 when I learned how to work the VCR, so I'd watch Disney classics on repeat. The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow White...if it was Disney, I'd watch it.

CarrickMcJoe · 05-05-2014 12:23PM

First movie was The Ten Commandments

TV was The Banana Splits
Arabian Nights
Champion the wonder horse,
Andy Pandy.
Michael Bentine's potty time

bodhi085 · 05-05-2014 12:40PM

Superman the movie in 1978.. I was 4 and it was in a two tier cinema in my hometown of birmingham. Half way through there was an intermission and a lady stood at the front centre of the screen sellng popcorn and ice cream. The ice cream was the really yellow Cornish type and the cone was square at the top. The film was long back then but every film I went to after that in the same cinema had an intermission..flash Gordon,clash of the titans and superman 2. Those 3 films absolutely stand out as my first movies. As for tv.. Chips and 240 Robert

First_October · 05-05-2014 12:46PM

My very first memory is of being freaked out by the stampede scene in the Lion King. I must have been only two years old when I saw it!

I suspect I am of the same vintage as the OP as I was also obsessed by the Fievel movies. Another set of movies I had forgotten about until recently is the Land Before Time series; many a wet afternoon was spent engrossed by the tribulations of Littlefoot et al. !

The Diabolical Monocle · 05-05-2014 12:46PM

Being dragged away just as I sat in total awe at the rocket pods firing.

At that time the greatest thing that existed. Still pretty cool to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFLFH8GW4gs

Pherekydes · 05-05-2014 12:46PM

The first TV show I remember watching was the Quiz show Quicksilver. My father was a contestant on it and he won our first TV, which we then used to watch him win our first TV.

It was c.1963.

eviltimeban · 05-05-2014 12:47PM

I remember my dad and my brother going to see Empire Strikes Back but I was too young. But I do remember seeing Return of The Jedi in the cinema.

beano345 · 05-05-2014 12:50PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGKSjiw0HQ

The littlest hobo and the TV series of huckleberry finn

Heckler · 05-05-2014 12:57PM

Chips, mcgyver, scarecrow and mrs king, A-team, Automan (anyone ? people think i made this up) the hulk, bring em back alive. Beachcombers !!

Heckler · 05-05-2014 01:18PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lloeUkQ1m8

so bad.......

Diane Selwyn · 05-05-2014 01:27PM

all the earliest kids shows I remember were clearly made by people on acid: The Magic Roundabout, Bill and Ben, HR Puff and Stuff and so on - I often have to remind myself that we only had a very small black and white telly at the time.

Heckler · 05-05-2014 01:35PM

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

Highwayman. This is gold.

his mother was an ice cold wind. His paw a fiery rock.

Diane Selwyn · 05-05-2014 01:51PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Some Australian thing, a bit like a cross between Skippy and A Country Practice, on in the evening. There was this footbridge, well more of a plank, across a marshy type pond and a young lad was walking across. All of a sudden this monster thing, a bit like Animal from the Muppets,bursts up from the muddy water and strikes up a conversation with the kid. About being lonely I think. Scared the crap out of me.

I've been trying for the last twenty years to find out what that show was, starting to think I dreamt it.

If it wasn't the Alexander Bunyip Show it might have been The Nargun and the Stars?

Heckler · 05-05-2014 02:11PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLiZZ9nRvA&list=RD4DLiZZ9nRvA

Dick Turpin.

Shakespeare's Sister · 05-05-2014 02:19PM

Early 80s: Little House On The Prairie, The Incredible Hulk (used to run out of the room when he got angry

), The Fall Guy, those awful cheap cartoons RTE used as filler - not the Worker & Parasite one, but the Autobahn one (with the alien guy flying through psychedelic tunnels), a Beatlesy kinda thing with insects and butterflies, and a bunch of other ones, mostly from Halas & Batchelor animation (grim).

kfallon · 05-05-2014 02:24PM

I was scared shítless of Jaws when I was younger, when the music started before one of his 'attacks' I was up them stairs like a rat up a drainpipe

Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

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