When thinking of those sunday morning pieces, I started ruminating about the sunday evenings at home, in Cedar Lake. <\/p>\n
We had channel 2, 5, 7, and 9. Channel 32 came in, but the signal was weak. So we relied on the networks to provide us with entertainment- and did they ever. Sunday, if we went to eight o’clock mass, started with Tiny Tov.<\/a> yeah, I watched a jewish kids’ program, and knew some of the hebrew alphabet before I was ten. I didn’t know what the fuck a hebrew WAS, but I knew some of their alphabet. I figured they were immigrants from hebrewland. We had polacks in the neighborhood, it was only natural. Anyway, after mass, if I didn’t have homework, I would watch the Cisco Kid<\/a> or the Lone Ranger<\/a>. I had a preference for the Ranger, as Clayton More had such a great voice and Pancho was a dumbass. Still, I watched whichever was on. Sometimes I’d read if Cisco was on, looking up from my book to see the good parts. then it was Charlie Chan<\/a> or Sherlock Holmes<\/a>. Charflie was good, though confusing, I hadn’t made the connection yet that they had variously used Sydney Toler or Roland Winters, two eminently non chinese men, to play the part. Sherlock was better, because it was England, (which fascinated me, another country where they spoke the same language! How cool! I wonder why they chose to speak english?) and because it was always Basil and Nigel. you could count on Basil to be smoking, annoyed, and condescending. I wanted to be one of the Baker Street Irregulars. Still do, as a matter of fact. <\/p>\n From there, it was a locally produced show called “Passage to Adventure”. I can’t find any reference, but it was a couple of guys who showed off their 8mm travel footage, and voiced ovber the footage. Some of the stuff was cool, exotic destinations, exotic people. Pyramids. Aztec ruins. Some of it was lame. Tulips in Holland. Lame-o. It wasn’t always good, but it was a good bridge to the meat of Sunday: The WGN lineup. <\/p>\n The lineup consisted of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. The Wonderful World of Disney (you know, the show where they pushed the lemmings off the cliff) and Family Classics with Frasier Thomas. This was- and, for me, is- comfort television. Family Classics especially- they were replete with Jules Verne stories (Journey to the center of the earth, 20000 leagues under the sea, Mysterious island) Ray Harryhausen films(Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad, etc) classic movies (treasure Island, Little Women, Tom Sawyer) as well as classic SF like Tobor the Great and seasonal classics like “Boys town”. <\/p>\n Later in life, I would stay up late to watch WTTW, because they always had interesting stuff, but it was on a sunday evening in the early 70’s when I sat in my PJ’s in front of the TV, and watched Eric Idle Confusing a cat, that I knew my televising would never be the same again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When thinking of those sunday morning pieces, I started ruminating about the sunday evenings at home, in Cedar Lake. We had channel 2, 5, 7, and 9. Channel 32 came in, but the signal was weak. So we relied on the networks to provide us with entertainment- and did they ever. Sunday, if we went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}