i used to believe that if i was watching a cartoon on telly and went off for my dinner that when i came back and turned the telly back on the cartoon would carry on from where i had left it. the same applied for anything on telly.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- i used to think that if you opened up the back of the telly you`d go into a whole new world Anon
- I used to think people on the telly could see me. I hated getting my pyjamas on in front of Gordon Honeycomb.— Michelle James
- i used to believe that the telly tubbies were real because the rabbits are real!!— hotty
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso