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Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    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:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭Corvo


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,070 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭andy1249


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭wispa9


    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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Coopaloop


    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........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    First movie was The Ten Commandments

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭bodhi085


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭First_October


    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. !


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    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.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    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. :D It was c.1963.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,194 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345





    The littlest hobo and the TV series of huckleberry finn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Heckler


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Heckler




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭Diane Selwyn


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Heckler


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

    Highwayman. This is gold.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭Diane Selwyn


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Heckler




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    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 :o


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