And yes, it's highly likely that we watched the same '80s cartoon television! :-D
My family reluctantly pulled up stakes at the end of the '80s. I don't know if you were positioned to observe or remember, but there was a terrible recession in our boom/bust state economy at that time. In my Anchorage suburban neighborhood, it seemed like half of all the houses stood empty, and I remember the grown-ups saying that folks had defaulted on their mortgages and fled to the Lower 48 because there were no jobs and no money. In our case, in addition, the city wanted to Eminent Domain our house to widen a road, and after fighting for a few years, my dad sold our house to the city (I understand that they never widened the road per the original plan, and that our house stands To This Day).
As I remember it, while Harlock came into my life with that UHF channel, Robotech actually preceded it on local TV by a couple of years. I discovered Robotech in an unstable Saturday-afternoon timeslot on one of the regular VHF channels and fell utterly in love with its continuity (not yet knowing the term "continuity") and had to chase it around timeslots as they showed movies and other things (thus learning how to read the weekly TV schedule booklet from the Sunday newspaper). Then they moved it to Sunday mornings at, as I recall, 5am! I got permission to get up that early and watch it if I kept the TV volume So Very Low that no one else in the house would hear. I had a precious, precious notebook where I recorded the title and number of each episode for references, and I had some audio cassettes on which I recorded full episodes (and also individual Minmei and Lancer songs, of course).
Then the UHF channel came along with things like the Robotech: The Sentinels movie. And Harlock.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to chatter about this, and thank you very much for sharing that we have this in common! That's delightful!
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And yes, it's highly likely that we watched the same '80s cartoon television! :-D
My family reluctantly pulled up stakes at the end of the '80s. I don't know if you were positioned to observe or remember, but there was a terrible recession in our boom/bust state economy at that time. In my Anchorage suburban neighborhood, it seemed like half of all the houses stood empty, and I remember the grown-ups saying that folks had defaulted on their mortgages and fled to the Lower 48 because there were no jobs and no money. In our case, in addition, the city wanted to Eminent Domain our house to widen a road, and after fighting for a few years, my dad sold our house to the city (I understand that they never widened the road per the original plan, and that our house stands To This Day).
As I remember it, while Harlock came into my life with that UHF channel, Robotech actually preceded it on local TV by a couple of years. I discovered Robotech in an unstable Saturday-afternoon timeslot on one of the regular VHF channels and fell utterly in love with its continuity (not yet knowing the term "continuity") and had to chase it around timeslots as they showed movies and other things (thus learning how to read the weekly TV schedule booklet from the Sunday newspaper). Then they moved it to Sunday mornings at, as I recall, 5am! I got permission to get up that early and watch it if I kept the TV volume So Very Low that no one else in the house would hear. I had a precious, precious notebook where I recorded the title and number of each episode for references, and I had some audio cassettes on which I recorded full episodes (and also individual Minmei and Lancer songs, of course).
Then the UHF channel came along with things like the Robotech: The Sentinels movie. And Harlock.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to chatter about this, and thank you very much for sharing that we have this in common! That's delightful!