My neighborhood and especially my house was late to TV, but I do remember Kitirik on TV, and chasing the DDT fogging trucks while running full speed, lungs gasping for air.
The DDT fogging trucks looked like they were laying down military level smoke fields over our streets and homes, we loved them as kids, both for the “smoke”, and the fact that they were killing the hated masses of mosquitoes.
Most of tv was a screen with those odd marks due to no one having anything on them. When they got better my great grandmother loved wrestling even if it was fake. My great uncle ran the Robinson Auditorium in Little Rock for years. He told us they were fake.
We were not allowed outside when the fog trucks came in.