When I Was Young

[RoJoHen]

TNG went off the air. Sad day.

 

[sbk1234]

^^^It was still just the beginning.

 

[Finn]

When I was nine.... Pulaski *shudder*

 

[Skywalker]

Launches:
The Sci-Fi Channel
Cartoon Network

Premieres:
Dateline NBC
The Real World
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
SNICK (programming block on Nickelodeon)
Batman TAS
Picket Fences
Mad About You
X-Men

Endings:
Growing Pains
Who's the Boss?
The Cosby Show
The Golden Girls
MacGyver
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Night Court

Top 10 shows:
1. 60 Minutes
2. Roseanne
3. Murphy Brown
4. Cheers
5. Home Improvement
6. Designing Women
7. Coach
8. Full House
9. Murder, She Wrote
10. Unsolved Mysteries

Beat me to it. 1992, baby.

 

[Mistral]

Neat, especially SBK's Beatles story....

 

[gh4chiefs]

I turned 9 in 1970
TOP TWENTY
1969-70 TV Shows

1. Laugh-in
2. Gunsmoke
3. Bonanza
4. Mayberry, RFD
5. Family Affair
6. Here's Lucy
7. Red Skelton Hour
8. Marcus Welby
9. Walt Disney
10. Doris Day Show
11. Bill Cosby
12. Jim Nabors Hour
13. Carol Burnett Show
14. Dean Martin Show
15. My Three Sons
16. Ironside
17. Johnny Cash Show
18. Beverly Hillbillies
19. Hawaii Five-0
20. Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

My god there was a lot of crap on even back then.

Same here, we watched them all except Marcus Welby.

And what you call crap, I call fond memories.

 

[Sky]

Major events in 1986:

- The Chernobyl disaster
- The Olof Palme assassination
- The Challenger disaster
- The death of my country's very very long time president

Big films:
- Aliens
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- The Fly
- Platoon
- A Room with a View
- Stand By Me (I loved this film when I was nine)
- Top Gun

Big TV series (shown in my country):
- The Cosby Show
- The Golden Girls
- Kate & Allie
- Matlock
- Dallas
- Moonlighting

 

[zakkrusz]

In a rough span of '91-92....

Movies of note that came out when I was 9:
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Army of Darkness
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Wayne's World
Hook
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze
Under Siege
The Rocketeer
Lethal Weapon 3
Backdraft


In TV:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
X-Men: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series
Married With Children
Saved By The Bell
Home Improvement
MacGyver
Quantum Leap
Highlander
Northern Exposure

 

[MLJames]

The month I turned 9, the biggest thing on tv was Apollo 13. And I don't mean the movie.

 

[ToddPence]

Heisman Trophy Winner:O.J. Simpson,
usc, HB points: 2,853

Would anyone be freaked out if I admitted that I had O.J. Simpson's poster on my wall as a kid?

 

[Greg Cox]

Let's see, we're talking 1968 or so, so that would have been 2001, Planet of the Apes, Barbarella, and Rosemary's Baby. I confess my parents wouldn't let me see the last two, and I didn't actually catch up with the first APES film until a few years later.

I remember I wanted to see Rosemary's Baby, because I gathered that it was about an evil devil baby or something, but, gosh, my parents didn't want to take a nine-year-old to a movie where Mia Farrow gets raped by Satan. Go figure.

I didn't catch up with Barbarella until college, many years later.

 

[Servo]

I was 9 years old in 1988, and after doing a bit of research on Wikipedia, I'm amazed at what a fantastic year it was for my favourite kinds of entertainment...

Television:
Red Dwarf made its debut on BBC2.
Doctor Who celebrated its 25th Anniversary.
ITV premiered an adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 made its debut on KTMA TV23.
Magnum P.I 2-hour series finale airs.
The Wonder Years premiered on ABC.
The Adventures of Superboy premiered on CBS.

Film:
Akira
Alien Nation
Beetlejuice
Big
The Blob
Child's Play
Coming to America
The Dead Pool
Die Hard
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
D.O.A
A Fish Called Wanda
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Fright Night 2
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Hellbound: Hellraier 2
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Mississippi Burning
The Naked Gun
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Phantasm 2
Poltergeist 3
Rain Man
Rambo 3
Red Heat
Scrooged
Tequila Sunrise
They Live!
Twins
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Willow
Young Guns

Music (Metal):
State of Euphoria - Anthrax
Lies - Guns N' Roses
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth
...And Justice For All - Metallica
No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne
Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche
South of Heaven - Slayer

Video Games:
Sega released the Mega Drive.
Altered Beast hit the Arcades.
Konami released Super Contra.
Nintendo released Super Mario Bros 3.
Capcom released Mega Man 2
Nintendo released Zelda II

That was a hell of a fuckin' year.