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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Many of the cartoons in the 50s and 60s were based on popular TV shows. Top Cat, for example, was based on the Phil Silvers Show and Top Cat's voice was an impression of Phil Silvers.
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Cool, that makes sense. Unfortunately I never saw the Phil Silvers show until probably the 1980s or 1990s when it was featured on TV Land or some other classic TV channel. That was when I first saw Sgt. Bilko too. Both were great shows. But we only had one commercial TV station in the mid-1960s in Austin, so there were a lot of good shows we never saw until years later. By 1970 we had three commercial TV stations in Austin covering ABC, NBC, and CBS. We had a shared PBS station with San Antonio, but unfortunately it was located about 60 miles south of our home, so it didn't always come in very well. We are talking antenna TV in those days as we lived in a small rural town of 2800 people about 20 miles north of Austin with no cable company. I had never even heard of cable TV until I went off to Texas A&M University in the 1976. My roommate and I managed to get cable TV with HBO for less than $15/mo. We thought that was so cool as we had always been limited to antenna reception and only about 5 local stations.