I believed Noel Edmonds real name was 'Mole' Edmonds

abi

I used to believe that if you stood under a satellite TV dish while someone changed the channel, you would die.

Anon

I used to believe that all tv shows were live and that repeats were the actors/actresses doing a very good job.

Claire

My father told me that the people on TV actually worked at the top of the TV towers. I used to worry about them when it was a windy day, thinking they are all going to fall off of the tower.

Diane

My dad purchased our first t.v. in 1948 and he was watching Peggy Lee I stood in front of the set and he yelled for me to get out of the way. Little did he know that i thought i could look down the front of her lowcut dress and get a free peek.

Young & Dumb

when I was a kid, I had seen Morgan Freeman on the American television
show for kids, the Electric Company. He was dressed up as Dracula, which
scared me a lot. I used to think that when the lights were out upstairs, he
was up there waiting for me at the top of the steps. So, basically, as a kid,
nothing scared me worse than Morgan Freeman. I think that's funny.

Tara

When my dad and me drove past the Crystal Palace tv transmitter tower. He told me 'thats where you get your telly from' and for years after I believed getting a telly involved climbing up the tower and asking a nice man at the top for a TV who would provide you with one. Risking you life for the luxury of owning a TV.

Marky D

I believed that it was a very bad thing to leave the TV on at night after they played the national anthem and the screen became snow. (Yes, this was the days before 24-hour programming). I thought it would break the TV or cause a house fire. I still can't stand it when a TV is playing snow!

Anon

I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there

Tom

I used to believe that you could talk to the people on tv and that they would talk back. I am a basketball fan so when I was younger I would always yell at the players thinking that they could hear me and learn from their mistakes.

Underrated

i thought there was a door in the back of the tv and if you wanted to be on tv you just walk in

fred

When I was young, I believed that everything you saw on TV happened live. I thought that whenever you watched a re-run of a TV show, it meant that the actors actually had to get back together on the same set and act out the show all over again. I asked my mother about this, but she wasn't paying attention and mumbled "Uh-huh." So I continued believing it for years, until I understood the concept of "taping". Funny, I never stopped to wonder how people who had been dead for years could be on live TV...

Maeghan Jade

I used to believe that we couldn't watch television after 9 pm because all of the actors and actresses were naked, it was only when I saw channel 4 that I found out that this was the case.

Anon

I used to believe that when people kissed on tv they actually had a little peice of glass between eachothers' lips because it would just be crazy to actually kiss someone just for a tv show. And no one could tell because glass is clear.

Anon

My parents did a very good job of teaching my baby sister that the things you see on television aren't real. When she was 2 and I was 12, I went on the program "AM Chicago" to talk about a child safety program I was a counselor in. When my mother and sister turned on the TV at home to watch, my sister freaked out -- she thought that because she saw her brother on TV, it meant that he wasn't real anymore.

K.A.

I used to believe that when a t.v show stopped, and the credits were rolling with the last shot as a backgroud, the people in it had to freeze until the credits finished and i used to feel sorry for those people becuase they couldn't move or breath for such a long time!

Star

I used to believe that people on TV shows, actually WERE in the TV. Particularly Scooby Doo, for some reason. And I had this 'lifelong dream' of finding a secret way into the TV and solving mysteries with the gang, and to be Daphne's best friend.

beth

my mom brought a vcr home for the first time. i had never seen one before. she told me that it would let us watch movies on our television. she set it down on the floor in front of the tv. i ran over and looked at the back of it to see where the movie would be projected out of the vcr and onto the tv.

jb workman

I used to believe that when you watched tv whenever the shot was changed to a different camera that the operator would quickly pull out the tape and throw it to the next person who had the next shot.

megan

if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.

claire