When I heard someone anounce their telephone number on a TV show, (say Dragnet, or Perry Mason, etc.) I thought that you could call that number and converse with that character while he's on that program.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- Tyler Perry and Katy Perry were both siblingsAnon
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew