Television

Nowadays it is difficult to find any decent family without a television set. Big screen plasma and LCD TVs are the rage in recent years but I grew up starting with a small screen black and-white TVs that took time to warm up after you switched it on. Those were the days....

Of course, I eventually moved on to color TVs (CRT of course) because my dad likes to waste money....

Anyway, I can remember a few of the more popular programmers during the 70s' . Like Combat (starring Vic Morrow!), Little House on the Praire, Hawaii Five-O etc. They were quite enjoyable back then even though I couldn't understand a word since it was before I learned English....

As for the Chinese shows, I remember “声宝之夜”,“家在大巴窑”as the earliest shows that I can recall. Those were locally produced shows that had bare minimum sets that would look very artificial by today's standards. For example, they would probably paste a picture of the city/ Toa Payoh as backdrop rather than an actual locale shot. However the stories were very heart-warming as far as I can recall.

Then there were re-runs of the old back-and-white Hong Kong movies that starred people like ”谢贤”,“陈宝珠”,“ 箫芳芳”,“李香琴”,“肥肥”etc. Nowadays many of those stars are either senior citizens or deceased. Sigh, it means that I'm not too young myself.