re: #201 b_sharp

We had 2 stations available, both in a city some 50 miles away so the antenna didn’t need to be adjusted. Grandpa just aligned it so the picture quality kind of evened out.

My creationist grandparents didn’t allow us to watch many shows.

For three years in the 50s, I didn’t watch anything on TV but Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford. This was because we lived in Japan and there was no English language programming available except NHK’s broadcast of Highway Patrol in English. They did this twice a week, just after the Japanese dubbed version. I was just 4 when we got there, right after the Korean War, and we had come almost straight from the UK. I had never been in the States except for brief visits to my grandparents in Texas. I deduced that my nominal homeland was primarily a place inhabited by brassy blondes and gravelly voiced tough guys who spent an inordinate amount of time running up and down godforsaken desert roads, fighting, and shooting at each other.