As a kid in the 60's we would get home from school and on tv there were childrens programs that were pretty much always local. It was very much a "Krusty the Clown" sort of thing.
I actually tap danced on live TV in Spokane, Wa. in 1961.
TV was still pretty experimental. There was Ted Mac and the Original Amateur Hour, Mitch Miller, stuff like that.
And a LOT of TV shows were making the switch to color but most people still had B&W until the late 60's. My grandparents bought a round tube color tv in the early 60's for $899. Do you have any idea how much that is in 2007 dollars. To give you an idea, my parents paid $60 a month rent for a four bedroom rambler in a Fort Worth suburb.
I remember rushing home from school to watch Dark Shadows.
I was on Romper Room in probably 1963.