| Watching the test pattern waiting for “Winky-Dink and You” |
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
11 comments:
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Esteve said...
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I know you don't believe me, but that thing was warm last night and there were big juicy bugs all over the place.
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6/9/11, 9:22 AM
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Amigo said...
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Thanks for getting my memory to replay the Winky-Dink theme song. I wish I could get rid of that memory.
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6/9/11, 10:21 AM
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Third Coast said...
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Wow, Winky Dink. Seems like as a kid I had some Winky Dink paraphernalia that included a piece of "saran wrap" that was placed over the TV screen and some sort of marking implement. I can't remember what it was for. Damn memory.
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6/9/11, 10:27 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Damn raccons ate all of my gold fish. Twice. The hav a heart trap is on the porch as we speak. They are going away!
Tim -
6/9/11, 10:38 AM
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BobG said...
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Third Coast: the plastic was put on the screen so the kids could draw stuff on to help Winky Dink out of predicaments.
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6/9/11, 11:30 AM
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JMcD said...
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Their names are, left to right...
Stan and Eric,Kyle & Kenny. -
6/9/11, 1:21 PM
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DougM said...
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BobG,
Yeah, usually it was a rope or a bridge or something really simple.
Saran Wrap worked marginally. My rich pal sent in the 50¢ (or so) for the official thicker plastic sheet and marker. It worked wayyy better.
I remember the National Anthem (with fly-over), the sermon/prayer on sign-off, and the chief's-head test pattern ... in B&W ... and the snow ... and three channels VHF plus one on UHF ... and going to the drug store to test tubes on the cool machine.
Heck, when I was stationed in the UK ('81-'84), they were still arguing about the need for a fourth network. -
6/9/11, 2:33 PM
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Jim - PRS said...
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Hosted by Jack Barry, who later went on to host the quiz show "Twenty-One," which was tied up in a cheating scandal.
I don't know how all this stuff fits into my cruller. -
6/9/11, 2:48 PM
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drew458 said...
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"having so much fun together!"
Yup, the words are stuck in my head now too. Thanks ever so much.
I remember begging and pleading for the official kit you had to send off for to help Winky solve his problems. No way my mother was going to waste money on that. So I drew on the TV screen with magic markers. Permanent ones. Oops.
I don't think I was able to sit down for about a week once Dad got home.
And I think that's why the show got taken off the air. Bet there were millions of kids just like me. -
6/9/11, 3:31 PM
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rwnutjob said...
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Winky-Dink & me
Winky-Dink & you
We can have a lot of fun together.
Prolly why my whole generation is FUBAR. Had our noses pressed up against that radiation tube for hours. -
6/9/11, 5:22 PM
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Skoonj said...
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I liked the Saran Wrap cover for the TV that you could use the markers on, and draw along with Winky Dink. I never got the Saran Wrap cover or the markers, so I used crayons to draw on the TV screen. That was a mistake. My parents wouldn't let me see the show anymore. Actually went on the Howdy Doody Show, and met Buffalo Bob, Mr. Cobb, and the rest. Same era.
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6/10/11, 4:20 PM
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