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I got this idea from a comment posted by Ric (thanks, man!).

So detail your earliest TV or movie memory. What was the first TV show or movie you remember watching? How old were you? What are the circumstances surrounding that event?

Mine...

The earliest TV show I remember watching was Sanford & Son. It was 1980, I was five years old, and I had just moved to Kentucky from New York. I was looking around our basement TV room for my stuff which was still in boxes. I found a box marked Kevin's toys and tore it open and found my Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider toys from Battlestar Galactica. Then I turned on the TV. Sanford & Son was on. I had no idea what it was but I left it on while I played with my ships.

My earliest movie memory is of my parents taking me out in the family car. I had no idea where they were taking me and they wouldn't tell me. Then I looked up and saw a theater marquee with Star Wars on it. I'm assuming it was the '78 re-release. Dunno how I knew what it said considering I didn't learn to read until about '79, but I knew. Logo recognition? That is my earliest movie memory although I have no memory of being in the theater and actually watching it. Just of the process of pulling up to the theater in my parents' car.

Anybody else?
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my first moviegoing memory is Return of the Jedi, memorial day weekend, 1983. we waited in line forever to get in, and the theater was PACKED.

anyway, when R2 gets zapped on Endor, i remember the entire audience gasping. like they were terrified. i'll never forget that moment--it taught me instantly about the power of film, and more importantly, the power of STAR WARS.
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My earliest TV memory is of David the Gnome, I remember Tom Bosley's voicework vividly in my mind.

Man, I remember loving that show.

That was probably around 1990-1991 when I was two or three.
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Batman - the 60's tv series.

when i was 3 watching tv before i started school i had to go to my cousin's house cos my parents were workin and my sisters and brother were away at school.

I can remember watching Return of the Jedi VHS at his house a few images like the sarlaac scene i can remember. The one i really remember is that the Monkees the tv series used to be on and i'd watch it too.
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
My earliest TV memory is of David the Gnome, I remember Tom Bosley's voicework vividly in my mind.

That was probably around 1990-1991 when I was two or three.




ha that explains a lot...now i know how old you are.

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I've told you I was seventeen before.
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I don't have any really vivid memories of first movies or TV.

I do remember going to see Superman...4 in the theater (Nuclear Man).
I remember watching Star Wars on TV at home when I was little. I'd line up my action figures so they could watch with me.
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I have vague memories of seeing Empire and Raiders in the theater. I know I went, but I can't really remember anything about them. I remember seeing Raiders a second time very clearly though.

I also remember seeing Black Hole in the theater cuz we sat pretty close to the screen and my parents took me to see Jedi twice.

My memories didn't seem to fully kick in untill I saw Star Trek 2. I remember that VERY clearly!!! Those eel things freaked me out!!!
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E.T.

Saw it in a one screen theater in our town that's been gone for about 25 years. I remember CRYING my eyes out when it all came crashing down, and even worse when he went home.

Then I'd have to say Raiders with my dad. Saw it 9 times on screen. He still talks about how excited I was. It's one of his favorite memories. Then it was my brother getting me out of school early with some kind of bogus excuse to go see the latest Trek movie. I remember getting called out of class and being told I had a dentist appointment, and I was like "huh?", then when I got out my brother took me to see The Search for Spock.

OK...I'm officially quite sad and nostalgic now...thx Bossk. :-)
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For TV I remember watching Pinwheel on Nick. That was way back in the day.

As for movie I'm not really sure they all run togther. I do remember going to see Jedi with my Dad though. That was cool. But that wasn't my first movie.

Damn drugs have fucked me up. I can't remember shit.

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I was 4 or 5 when i first saw series like Lost in Space,Land of the Giants,Hawai 50 and that was on French-Canadian tv.....during the late 60s early 70s
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Glad to be an inspiration for a new thread I don't have a good memory, I forgot about things from 2 or 3 years ago... And I don't have many childhood memories, I forgot most things...

I was born in july, 1982... My earliest memory of them all is a vague image I remember when I was about 2 years old.

My earliests TV memory envolves local TV shows from the mid 80s, so you wouldn't know what they are. I do remember watching some old japanese tokusatsu live actions series we had on TV in the mid/late 80s, such as Changeman and Spectreman (unknown to north american and european audiences). I remember watching re-runs from Batman, A squad, Land of the Lost, Dallas... I remember some old japanese cartoons, and some american cartoons we had such as transformers, get along gang (I still know the opening lyrics by heart), and muppet babies... Unfortunally most of my childhood memories envolve local stuff you wouldn't understand.

My earliest movie memories: I remember watching the first muppet movies, my father rented the VHS back in... 1986, 1987... I remember watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" on the movie theater, and it literally blew my mind. I blame my dementia on Cristopher Lloyd's character at the end of that movie, it scared the living heck out of me and amazed me at the same time (I bought the DVD 17 years later). I remember watching "Empire Strikes Back" in tv in 1989 and being disapointed because it had no ending, and at that same week or month I watched BTTF 2 on the theaters and on the way back asking my parents how did they have the preview for BTTF 3 if it hadn't been release yet... I also remember watching Batman in 1989, I remember that clearly... I remember TV ads for "Indiana Jones and the Last Cruzade". I also remember some local made kid movies in the 80s...
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My earlierst memories are all of Batman. I loved the 60s series with all the Bams and Biffs when I was young, but it came on so late my parents would record an episode for me one night and show it to me the next night.

Also, this is intermingled with very young and somewhat disturbing memories of the first two Batrman Movies...

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I remeber seeing TMNT and on Vhs and wondering what the fuck the begining credits and I remeber being afraid of ending credits (think you can top that)
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You were wondering "What the fuck" when you were a wee kid?
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If I did, I wouldn't have asked.
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He was wondering "wtf", but not with those exact words.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Credits were scary back then thinking somebody would pop-up in them.
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OK since this thread has become silly, in a MontyPythonesque way I mean, sean wookie got me a good idea: did anything weird or amusing scare you as a kid?
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The underside of our porch that was about 2 feet off the ground, I was always afraid something would drag me under.
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looking at mirrors in dark places, the silence of the lambs box, looking out of a window when its dark , people chasing me up dark stairs, and things poping up on a tv screen.
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If young Sean thought the old school TMMT theme song was scary, I wonder what he would have thought of the new show's opening theme.

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my first tv memory is seeing rocky 2 at my grandma's house. My first movie memory was ESB when it was re-released during the opening of Return of the Jedi. Right after seeing ESB, I waited a week I think and saw return of the Jedi... twice. I think I may have seen radiers too, but I'm not sure. When I was young, I wasn't real big on film until after Return of the Jedi. It showed me just how strong of a tool film was and is.
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