{"id":304,"date":"2006-09-21T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=375"},"modified":"2006-09-21T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:17:37","slug":"blast-from-my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Blast from my past."},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, my friend Ben and\u00a0I came across a website that listed a bunch of old TVO shows from the late 1970’s – early 1980’s (or at least shows that aired on TVO).\u00a0 For all you Westerners or those who spent their childhood outside of Ontario, TVO\u00a0stood for\u00a0‘TV Ontario’ and was mostly lame, but had at least a few gems in the line-up that I remember fondly.<\/p>\n

Last night I showed the site\u00a0to Dan and proceeded to dance a little to\u00a0the theme songs, only to have Dan look at me quizzically.\u00a0 He had only heard of one or two (and they obviously didn’t bring back the same happy memories for him).\u00a0 I was shocked and saddened that he hadn’t shared in the joy that these shows once brought me and my brothers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until later that I figured out that it wasn’t that western Canada wasn’t lucky enough to have access to these shows, it was that the Fullerton’s didn’t have cable until\u00a0Dan was around 8 years old.\u00a0 His loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Click on the pics to bring back some memories of some of my old faves…oh, and you’ll need speakers.\u00a0 I had to limit myself to 8…It was hard.<\/p>\n

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And I didn’t do much digging otherwise, but would have liked to have added The Littlest Hobo (probably my favourite – I loved that pooch), Just Like Mom (the bake-off rocked…I still think my mom and I would have won) and Jackpot! (a game show no one seems to remember but me).\u00a0 Hopefully I’ll be able to hunt them down in the near future.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Old shows are fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, my friend Ben and\u00a0I came across a website that listed a bunch of old TVO shows from the late 1970’s – early 1980’s (or at least shows that aired on TVO).\u00a0 For all you Westerners or those who spent their childhood outside of Ontario, TVO\u00a0stood for\u00a0‘TV Ontario’ and was mostly lame, but had at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}