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Pretty good, Carmine...had me going for a second there!

At the beginning of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom there was a thing that came up that stated that the show was approved by some agency or something, for being eductational or whatever. Since I couldn't read it that well I mistook it to mean that the program was somehow inappropriate for children & felt funny about watching it! Kids come up with weird stuff like that. Like how, at the beginning of Sesame Street (and other Children's Television Workshop shows) they would flash a number, I think it was the show number, it might be like 1243. I thought that was the year the show was taped, and that somehow I did not understand the whole time/space continum or something and that this was really possible!

I also have a stash of TV Guides, got to dig them out someday. When I was a kid the first place I would turn was to the page where they listed the tv stations, to make sure there were no changes, no new stations I might miss! It was always a matter of pride to see the display ads for the 2 local stations, they usually would not shell out for more than maybe one ad a piece each week. Another great feature was Television Q&A with David Lauchenbrach (sp?). Someone wrote in once (mid-80s) to ask if their Predicta was worth fooling with, he told them it was. I also recall him saying somewhere that "new tv sets cannot be damaged by vacuum cleaners like early sets" and I wrote to see how early he meant, to make sure my '54 RCA bw set would be okay! (still awaiting that reply!) Looking back I'm sure he was talking about early color sets.