While doing a bit of thrifting last weekend I ran across this entire bookrack filled with old issues of TV Guide.
I had a hard time explaining to my son that when I was a kid we didn’t have a channel or a magic button that told us what time programs were going to air on television. He had all sorts of questions about what would happen if a football game ran long or a news program ran short, and if that would throw off the program times for the entire time.
When I told him that wouldn’t happen because channels went off the air around midnight, he just stared at me blankly …
To tie this into Christmas I remember when I was a kid making a TV Guide Christmas tree. you pretty much cut the tv guide to look like have a christmas tree and then glued cover to cover and painted it green.
Did you get any? I love the old Fall Preview guides.
Yes, did you buy any? I would have!
What were the prices of them?
I did not buy anything. I think they were just a couple of bucks each.
Did you happen to spot any Six Million Dollar Man or Bionic Woman TV Guide covers?
I can not tell you how much I miss the old format TV Guide. Yes my satellite has a great built in guide and I have 2 different Ipad apps to find out what is on, but I still would love that small book size TV Guide with 24 hour listings for every channel. I even subscribe to the current TV Guide with it’s glossy magazine format but it’s just not the same.