Pretty sure Battle of the Planets somehow acquainted me with nostalgia in the early '80s (even though its original US run had not yet finished.) Either that, or summers spent watching fifty year old and/or B movies all night with my dad after I had read long enough for my mom to fall asleep. One of the nice things about living in a city as big as Houston was that there were multiple independent stations even in the early '80s and they did not just turn to snow at 2AM (most stations STILL do in Ausin.) White Heat and Invasion of the Bee Girls (usually) beat Charlie Rose on Nightwatch, and DEFINITELY beat Ag Day.
There was admittedly pretty limited selection back then, in terms of shows and movies, as you say, you got to pick between 4 channels, though we also got a canadian one in, up along the lakes you usually had decent reception of one or two TV and Radio channels from Hockey-land, Channel 10 IIRC. So the big three, PBS, and that, an absolute Smörgåsbord of options but we had cable, adding a whopping seven or eight more and Nick at Nite, which my older sister and I used to sneak down to watch at 2 AM after Johnny Carson was over. I can't remember the saturday morning cartoon line up as well as the Saturday/Sunday afternoon 'awful movie showing' which IIRC was hosted by Big Chuck and Lil' John, local Cleveland celebs. I'm sure everybody had the equivalent, 'now burn away your afternoon with this matinée showing of crappy colorized 50's and 60's movies with alien robots composed of cardboard boxes spray painted silver' - the alternative usually being Dr. Who reruns on PBS. And the endless, endless reruns of old Looney Tunes, I think I've seen very single episode a hundred times... the bad ones too, Speedy Gonzalez still flew back then.
I remember invasion of the bee girls, but the memory seems more of a recent flavor so I probably watched it some time mid-90's or later, sort of thing they'd have had on USA up-all-night, though the plot of those are always pretty generic, be the chicks aliens, vamps, or zombies so its pretty easy to fill in the mental blanks. I'm like 3rd generation geek so I got raised on a lot TV weekend afternoon matinée crap
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Test Your Geekdom, Vol IV: Name That Toon
13/03/2012 08:15:13 PM
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13/03/2012 08:18:27 PM
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These seem to be getting increasingly obscure... I suppose that makes sense in a way.
13/03/2012 08:49:04 PM
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Mostly a byproduct of why this quiz appears so soon after the last
13/03/2012 08:58:43 PM
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On this one more than all the rest, nationality will tell, I guess.
13/03/2012 09:03:12 PM
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That's probably a bit unavoidable
13/03/2012 09:24:39 PM
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Really not as unavoidable as you'd think, I would be inclined to say after that reply.
13/03/2012 10:26:42 PM
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Re: Really not as unavoidable as you'd think, I would be inclined to say after that reply.
13/03/2012 10:40:01 PM
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Re: Really not as unavoidable as you'd think, I would be inclined to say after that reply.
13/03/2012 11:02:18 PM
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I think you're being a trifle unfair
14/03/2012 12:19:41 AM
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From where I'm standing, you're the one who started taking things too seriously.
14/03/2012 07:26:53 PM
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16; not bad for a non-comic geek, IMHO.
13/03/2012 10:58:48 PM
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A lot are eponymous
14/03/2012 12:31:17 AM
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Do be a Do-Bee (DO, DO, DO!)
14/03/2012 01:08:49 AM
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Re: Do be a Do-Bee (DO, DO, DO!)
14/03/2012 01:14:50 AM
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Nostalgic parody, perhaps?
14/03/2012 10:51:14 AM
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That's probably as good as any other
14/03/2012 12:32:16 PM
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We never had cable; it was a matter of principle my family refused to pay to use our own airwaves.
14/03/2012 03:56:48 PM
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