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Off on a tangent here, but I recall watching television on a small black and white TV with rabbit ears when I was a wee little lad. One of my favourite shows was the Bugs Bunny Show - Merrie Melodies. It came on during the hockey games and I remember having to argue with my dad to let me watch cartoons. I hated hockey when I was six years old, because of that. I later started to watch hockey more and more because, well, my dad usually won the arguments. I'm not sure if it was called HNIC back then, but the theme song was still the traditional one. We cheered for the Toronto Maple Leafs, because Montreal was the evil team. Dave Keon was my favourite player. My sister cheered for the Boston Bruins. She had some thing for Phil Esposito (ewww......). Anyway, we watched a lot of local tv shows. One I remember well was a show that starred Peter Rolston - Pete's Place. He became quite popular with the kids and adults. I never knew why, because as a ventriloquist, he sucked. I mean his lips moved so much it didn't make sense to do that act. His puppet was named George, IIRC. George was better than his master, LOL. Aside from his not that great, ventriloquist act, the rest of his act was very entertaining and I looked forward to seeing him on TV and in live appearances at places like Woodwards downtown. Then there was wrestling. It was local and hosted by an old dude named Ron Morrier <sp?>. I still hear that opening tune in my head. More catchy than the HNIC theme song. The wrestlers at that time were, Hawaiian Dean Higuchi (my favourite), Gene Kiniski, Eric Frolic, Bulldog Brown, Dutch Savage, and Kenji Shibuya....... oh and The Iron Shiek, LOL. Those were the good old days. All the good American tv shows were on KVOS channel 12. We got that station when the weather conditions were right. I also remember the French channel. I would sneak out and watch it late at night to try and see some nudie flicks that my friends told me about. The first nude woman I ever saw on the tube was Bridgette Bardot. The movie was in French, but it didn't matter. I totally blame my horn dog ways on TV. It corrupted me. LOL.