TV: Your Mind. Controlled.
“Our society is rapidly coming apart at the seams and people are seriously starting to lose it… Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what is right and what is wrong. Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what it means to treat others with dignity and respect… It is almost as if some sort of mental illness is spreading throughout our society that is expressing itself in thousands of different ways. We are seeing anger, rage, malice and brutality rise to very dangerous levels. Our population has become way too greedy, proud, selfish and hateful. America is on a very dangerous road and we need to wake up.”
*A general sense of apathy is spreading through the populace like a cancer and it begs the question: even if we wanted to “wake up,” could we?
According to last year’s Nielsen report, the average American over the age of two years old watches more than 34 hours of television per week, plus at least three more hours of taped programming. The report also noted that the amount of time we spend watching television increases as we get older.
Back in 1969, a man named Herbert Krugman conducted a series of experiments regarding the effect of television on a person’s brainwaves. What he found was pretty startling:
“Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person’s brainwaves switched from Beta waves — brainwaves associated with active, logical thought — to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.”
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"It looks like Jim could be in real trouble wrestling that..." (insert animal here, the giant python being the one that came immediately to my mind). 
Loved that show and watched it every week back in the 60's.
"What kind of varmint is Jim gonna wrestle this week?"
Every Sunday, iirc (they had the color tv)...
We were also regular watchers of Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller (the old Sing Along With Mitch show) and the Ed Sullivan show.
I'll admit that I was a captive audience for Lawrence Welk and Mitch Miller...
That sounds exactly like our Sundays back then! At the grandparents' house on Sundays, watching Lawrence Welk (captive audience), Mitch Miller ("Let's all sing like the birdies sing"
, even the part about the grandparents having the color TV 
"Just follow the bouncing ball..."
are bringing back so many memories from my own childhood!
Mitch Miller...Lawrence Welk...
I watched Highway Patrol and Sky King and The Life of Reilly
Our Miss Brooks and Topper
One of my favorite game shows was Video Village
And Saturday afternoons there was Tarzan and Jungle Jim (with the requisite person-accidentally-falling-into-the-quicksand scene) and cheesy dinosaur movies.
And when we went to my grandparents' house my grandfather would retire to The Parlor to watch Perry Mason.
So many happy hours with the TV, yet we still found time to get out and play till the street lights came on.
SKY KING!" (Cue to plane zooming overhead)
And I definitely remember the cheesy dinosaur movies.
And Johnny Quest!
always freaked me out with the moving lips thing 
so I never watched it that much.
I liked Mighty Mouse, Pepe le Pew, Betty Boop...
Beany and Cecil, Rocky and Bullwinkle...
was when they dropped the paint bombs on the electric monster, and he looked like this:
The walking mummy also freaked me out
That was Clutch Cargo and Space An-gel (I separated "angel" because that's how they pronounced it!)
Clutch Cargo with Spinner and Paddlefoot!
Yes, I remember those shows, too
How about The Mighty Hercules?
I'd always start my show with the Johnny Quest theme music. Amd if I had a show today, I'd start it with the theme music to The Venture Brothers!
at the grandparents' house. I think it was sponsored by Geritol and Sominex. It was definitely geared towards an older audience
BBCA (BBC America) for another.
Also Independent Lens and the Documentary Channel, which we get on dish.
Never really watched much on the BBCA (I listen to the BBC on NPR) but my kids aredefinitely Whovians.
and I haven't seen any more documentary movies listed, unless they are airing at times other than latenight.
Here's the wikipedia description of the channel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_(TV_channel)
Programming that is seen on Pivot includes original programs such as the late night talk show TakePart Live, the variety show HitRECord on TV (hosted by series co-creator Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the reality-based talk show Raising McCain (hosted by blogger Meghan McCain)[2] and the scripted series Will, a period drama about a young William Shakespeare (which will debut in early 2014). Pivot is also the U.S. television home of the Australian comedy drama series Please Like Me, a show created and written by Josh Thomas which will be co-produced by Pivot and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from the second season onward. The show is positioned to be the face of the network. Another show called Jersey Strong, a docusoap that chronicles the lives of two families from parallel universes.[7]
Other programs seen on the channel include acquired shows such as Friday Night Lights, Little Mosque on the Prairie and Farscape, and live programs and documentaries produced in partnership with Rolling Stone and Noticias Univision.[8]
The network also airs documentaries like its predecessor the Documentary Channel.
As far as programming on BBCA, I watch Dr Who as well as Top Gear, Copper, and Ripper Street. I will have to netflix Luther and Broadchurch as both look like amazing series!
Shows how much tv I don't watch, even of the stuff I do.
