These are the shows whose catchphrases we would repeat in the schoolyard each morning: Kid Dy\u002Dno\u002Dmite!\u003B up your nose with a rubber hose\u003B Edith, you dingbat
Brief indeed: It ran for 65 syndicated episodes in the summer and early autumn of 1977 and then for another 65 episodes as America 2-Night in early 1978 before disappearing.
People say we are in a golden age of television, but were the ’70s of Fernwood 2Night a golden age as well, or were they just a lowest-common-denominator wasteland, with limited choice and such dreck as Charlie’s Angels? Those were the shows whose catchphrases we repeated in the schoolyard each morning: Kid Dy-no-mite!; up your nose with a rubber hose; Edith, you dingbat!;I had a small black-and-white TV in my bedroom that I could afford after selling the guitar my mom had bought so I could explore my musical side. I’m tone-deaf. The guitar was an investment in sound, yet not a sound investment.The most popular 1970s shows had huge ratings by today’s standards, as there were so few channels.
I remember once seeing the CKY sports anchor, Peter Young, at a squash club in suburban River Heights circa 1978. It was the middle of winter. He was wearing the biggest fur coat I’d ever seen and swanning around like he owned the place. He knew he was a huge deal in town. But only in our town. In Vancouver or Toronto, he would just be a guy who paid too much for his winter jacket.
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