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I believed Noel Edmonds real name was 'Mole' Edmonds

abi

In the U.S., televion programs are frequently aired an hour early in the Central time zone, presumably so that they may be simulcast to the east coast and the midwest. I assumed that this practice extended: when a commercial announced a show airing at "8, 7 Central", I assumed that we on the west coast would get it at 5 o'clock.

Joshua McGee

I use to believe (about 30 years ago) that when you turned the television off, the actors would all go and sit down somewhere inside the TV, until you turned it back on. Partly because it seemed like the Brady Bunch or cartoons were always on. Or maybe that's all my parents would allow me to watch.

Samm

when I was a kid, I had seen Morgan Freeman on the American television
show for kids, the Electric Company. He was dressed up as Dracula, which
scared me a lot. I used to think that when the lights were out upstairs, he
was up there waiting for me at the top of the steps. So, basically, as a kid,
nothing scared me worse than Morgan Freeman. I think that's funny.

Tara

I believed that it was a very bad thing to leave the TV on at night after they played the national anthem and the screen became snow. (Yes, this was the days before 24-hour programming). I thought it would break the TV or cause a house fire. I still can't stand it when a TV is playing snow!

Anon

As A Child: I thought watching the live moon landing when I was almost 3 on the TV set was pre-recorded and happened in the 1940s cause it was in black and white like the old TV sitcoms

Kira Pangburn

When I was about 2 my dad appeared in a live TV show. My mum and I watched it together, and I distinctly remember it. When I saw my dad I shouted "Come out of the telly daddy" and ran to look behind the TV to see how he had got in.

Myfanwy

I used to believe that if you were watching a program, and you broke the TV picture tube, that the actors and actresses would come right into your living room, thus you could actually have a nice visit with your favorite actor/actress. Good job I never actually tried this... I had too many "favorite" programs, I couldn't decide which ones should come into my living room!

Cin

i found out that the people on tv were alive when i was eight.

mursem

I used to believe that the play school people inside my TV would get tired if I pressed the fast foreward button too much.

Anon

When I was a child, I use to believe when watching a food commerical I could reach into the t.v. and grab the food-especially the ducan hines chocolate cake. I quess I was hungry.

shelley

I was absolutely convinced that anything I saw on the television was all live and happening at that second and were all performing for me at that moment. Repeats didn't come into the equation...

Scattycatty

When I was young, I believed that everything you saw on TV happened live. I thought that whenever you watched a re-run of a TV show, it meant that the actors actually had to get back together on the same set and act out the show all over again. I asked my mother about this, but she wasn't paying attention and mumbled "Uh-huh." So I continued believing it for years, until I understood the concept of "taping". Funny, I never stopped to wonder how people who had been dead for years could be on live TV...

Maeghan Jade

Ya know how there used to be little chocolate men in the advert for cadbury.Well it used to be on before coronation street and when i was little my mum sent me upstairs when coronation street was on so she could get peace.I never saw this rpogram till i was 7 so i thought all the characters were made of chocolate and my mum didn't want me to see them melt

Gringo

I used to believe that we couldn't watch television after 9 pm because all of the actors and actresses were naked, it was only when I saw channel 4 that I found out that this was the case.

Anon

When I was five years old and younger, I thought that the people on TV were related to me. I had a difficult time at that age telling dreams and TV from reality. I thought Ricky Ricardo, Danny Thomas, Andy Griffith, and Tennesee Ernie Ford were my uncles. I still have clear memories of them visiting at my house, although that never happened. I wondered why Fred Flintstone never came around. I wondered why Jack Parr always made me sleepy. I thought he was magic or something, but now I realize he was on late at night when I was sleepy.

F Panucci

Back when I was two years old, I was afraid of my paternal grandfather when I was young because he was tall and intimidating. He also worked for his local PBS station. As a result, I used to think the PBS logo (the thing that looks like a dead-eyed bald head?) was a psycho killer hired by my grandpa because it looked exactly like him. It would stab me with that second head thing (?) to the right of it and finish the job with its sharp pointy nose, but if I looked at it in the mirror it wouldn't come out of the TV and hurt me. I also thought that if I didn't look at the right side of it, it wouldn't slice through the TV to destroy me. And when the announcer guy said "This is PBS," I thought it was the head thing's name, and the voiceover was introducing it. This fear persisted until I accidentally looked at it and didn't get stabbed.

I'm normal now

My parents did a very good job of teaching my baby sister that the things you see on television aren't real. When she was 2 and I was 12, I went on the program "AM Chicago" to talk about a child safety program I was a counselor in. When my mother and sister turned on the TV at home to watch, my sister freaked out -- she thought that because she saw her brother on TV, it meant that he wasn't real anymore.

K.A.

There used to be what was called "MIllion Dollar Movie" - it would feature a different movie every week, but the movie would be repeated at various intervals during the day - say 9:30 am, 12:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm every single day for a whole week.
I would watch my favorite movies every single time I could, thinking that the NEXT time I watched, the commercial breaks would maybe come at a different point in the film, so I could see what happened next.

*jeanne*

When I was a young teen in the late 40's, tv was a new thing to most households. While watching an old Western shoot-em-up, I asked my mom how they got someone to take the pictures when electricity hadn't been invented yet. I didn't realize they were actors on a set in more modern times.

Emily