tv shows

At my grandmas house many years ago, when the orginal Twilight Zone was new, there used to be a panic before the show started to change the channel. If they missed it and the show actually started with "Do not adjust the vertical, do not adjust the horizontal..." no one was allowed near the TV until the show had finished.

Blackie

I used to believe that Tiff Needell was called Tiffany Dell. I could never figure out why a bloke, espeically a racing driver, had a girls name.

Steve Sutton

There was a persistent rumour at our school (that I believed) that Happy Days had been filmed in the 1950's and The Fonz had died in a motercycle accident shortly after it had finished.

Darren

When I used to watch "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids," I believed that Russell was a girl. Must've been the hat and the funny voice. Being a girl myself, I wanted someone to identify with, I guess.

When I got the Fat Albert board game one Christmas, I wanted to play Russell. My mom said to my dad "Is that his brother." "SISTER!" I said, adamantly. My parents gave up trying to explain.

Sometime later, Russell used the phrase "Yuck, a girl!" on the show, and I think that convinced me. Rocked my world, though.

Bill Cosby had an album, which I didn't hear until years later (although my parents had heard it long before I got the Fat Albert game) called "To My Brother Russell, Whom I Slept With."

--Beth

When I was really little I used to believe if you broke the screen of the TV the characters would come out and you could talk to them and hang around them so every time Barney(which was my favorite tv show) came on i would ask my mom for the hammer and she asked why and i said i want to break the tv to play with barney

KeLly

I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.

Anon

I used to believe that it took exactly one week to produce one episode of my favorite TV show, because a new episode would come out every Saturday.
Because of this, I also believed that reruns happened because one of the actors got sick or something and they weren't able to finish the episode in time for that week.

Chris M

I used to wonder how it would be snowing in summer and light when it was dark, and warm in the winter on tv shows. Finally I learned it was pretaped.

Anon

I used to think that Mr Snuffalupagus really was invisible, and that like Big Bird, I was special and that we were the only ones who could see Snuffy. Of course, now EVERYONE on Sesame Street can see him. I was disappointed when my daughters started watching & I saw that Big Bird's secret was out. It just seemed so much a part of the show AND Big Bird & Snuffy that it sort of spoiled it for me.

Jessica

i used to believe that the telly tubbies were real because the rabbits are real!!

hotty

I was 6 or 7 when "Roots" came on. Everybody who was ever on TV was in it, and everybody in the country watched it. I guess it didn't occur to my parents that a mini-series about slavery might include some pretty uncomfortable stuff. At any rate, the scene where the slave drivers whip Kunta in order to get him to accept his new name? Well, after it was all over one of the actors said, "We sold off what was left of him." I thought they had whipped him so hard that he came apart, and they sold his body for meat! I was absolutely horrified that my parents weren't nearly as outraged as I was.

helen

I used to think that the begining theme song on shows was done live every time. And I always thought that the people probubly got really sick of doing the same thing EVERY day.

Ashley

Way back in the 1950's there was a crime drama called "The Naked City". When my mother was a child, she heard about it when she was young and she thought it was about a city FULL of naked people. She got a big suprise when she first saw it.

Mike

I used to believe that when the hosts of Sale of the Century waved at the cameras when the show was ending, that they were actually waving goodbye to me. I used to wave back at them.

Claire

I used to believe that if you turned off the television the show would pause. i ran up the electric bill leaving the tv on all the time.

Britney

that Worzel Gummidge was the scariest thing on television... and the daleks of course.

tracy g

Because of the hit Brit sit-com Dad's Army I used to believe my dad would go off every Thursday and fight in a war. Because every Thursday was dad's army...

simon

I believed that on Romper's Room at the end of the show when the lady used to look through the magic hand held mirror and call names of the children she saw watching the program, that she could actually see the children. She called my sister's name but never called mine. That's because my sister's name is Denise which is a common name but my name is Jeneil. What was the likelihood of her calling my name. Now I know the truth!

Jeneil

people on soaps didn't know they were being filmed

katherine

After watching the episode of Barney the dinosaur about the four seasons i got it stuck in my head that ech season occured once a day. I wanted to plant something and it said on the packet to plant it in spring, so every few minutes i would ask my mother if it was spring yet.. This just goes to show that Barney is a lying sneak.

sabrina