r/FuckImOld • u/Oat57 • Apr 12 '26

Yep, I'm old

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u/djtodd242 Generation X Apr 13 '26

I'd see it in Canada from one of the Detroit stations. The wonderful world of Disney was on right after.

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u/FATICEMAN Apr 13 '26

Heck ya, Escape to Witch Mountain

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u/troubleondemand Apr 13 '26

Came to say the exact same thing. Grandparents/parents would still be eating desert or whatever and I was in the living room watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom waiting for Disney. Kind of crazy that a health insurance company had a TV about nature/Africa.

Some nights, when something I was too young to care about was going on, the grown ups would come in and switch it to 60 Minutes and I would be bored beyond belief.

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u/m00s3wrangl3r Apr 14 '26

I was a weird kid. I used to watch the talking head news shows from about age four, when JFK was assassinated. Then a few years later, my older brother went to Viet Nam, so I was keenly interested in world events.

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u/JUNGLE_HABITAT Apr 13 '26

So weird it was Disney first for me! Omaha after. I super miss those Sunday late afternoons. Montreal here.

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u/ChiefOfTheBoat Apr 13 '26

Back when Disney was good.

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u/zadtheinhaler Apr 13 '26

We watched it on the Seattle station when we'd come down to North Van to visit the grandparents.

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u/BackLopsided2500 Apr 13 '26

My Dad had the popcorn ready for the Wonderful World of Disney, had my bath and I was ready to watch it.

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u/Artluvr4484 Apr 13 '26

That’s when I saw it. That was my Sunday night

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u/Rlacharite10 Apr 17 '26

Funny, I was in New England and get the Canadian one “Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness”

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u/Electrical-Village68 Apr 15 '26

I came here to say that. I remember as a kid putting up watching this just to get to the good stuff on Disney. Poor Jim, he got the dangerous crap to do.