With me it was in the summer of 1997. There is a discount VHS outlet near me and they had an 8 ep set for $10 - which seemed like a bargain to me. So I figured - what the hey - let me take a look. And I discovered, that I rather enjoyed the show & thought why didn't I discover it yrs earlier (when Rick was big I was a toddler). And then, at the same place, abt a week later I found a 4 ep VHS set by Madacy. And the eps on it JUST MADE ME FLIP ("The Motorcycles", "Ozzie's Night Out", "Fraternity Pin" and "Wally's Traffic Ticket"). It was as though they reached into all 435 & picked the best ones. (I've watched each of these at least a dozen times - esp. the last 2: "Fraternity Pin" (which is my all time favorite ep) & "Wally's Traffic Ticket" - easily the funniest ep imho .) And the set had all the commercials. AFTER THAT, I was in love w the show & was determined to collect it. Although I'll glady watch any ep, its really Season 4 & on that rock my boat.

Actually, what prompted me to get my DVD player was when I found my first DVD set of the show (it had 5 eps I didn't have). That was in 2003.

I only have abt 180 eps now, but I know more will come out - and they're a nice cross section of all 14 yrs but sort of skewed towards the last 3 Seasons .

And you??????

I remember watching the show some when it first aired and also in the 80's when it was on Disney. I really gotinto collecting and watching about 6 years ago. We were living in a rental house waiting for our house to be built and didn't have cable.I was close to Walmart so one day I checked out the DVD bin of old shows and got a few episodes.tv with 2 channels is all we had to watch for four months. When we finally did get cable back, i was flipping throught the channels one morning and happened to catch ION, not what it was called back then, but there was an old episode of O & H and I continued to watch every day and was hooked. Then I began collecting all I could find. Still short over 200 epiosodes though.

My local Fox station went on the air in 1980 (and there was no Fox then, it was an independent) and it was on their schedule from the get go at 5:30pm weekdays--heck, it was that or watching the national evening news (BAH!). So I enjoyed the show from then, but like everyone else really grew to LOVE the show once episodes were made available via DVD.

I was also a Rick Nelson fan and took his death to heart.

My Mother loved Ricky, and I'm sure we must have watched O&H in the 50's, but I don't remember it. My earliest memories of becoming hooked on the show was probably 1961 or '62. My Mother and I would really enjoy seeing Rick sing at the end of the episodes. I think the last 3 or 4 years of the series, we tried to watch it every week. I saw some reruns in the 80's sometime, and didn't watch it again until a couple years ago, when I picked up some at the store. Then I got the 206 ep. set from sell.com. I probably have 210-215 ep.all together.
My wife at the time, and I were at a New Years party at the Sheraton Inn, when I heard the news. I was devastated, and couldn't figure out why everyone else wasn't also. It put a real damper on the New Year's celebration for me.
I wish Dave would understand that we fans of the series don't care if some episodes are "sub-standard". We want to see each and every one of the 435.
I know I do.

I first started watching the show in the early 1970s, when one of the Los Angeles area stations -- KTLA Channel 5, I think -- added it to their afternoon programming. During the 1980s I caught a few episodes on the Disney Channel, and currently I watch O&H on a local PBS station, which airs one or two episodes on Sunday nights.

I actually was familiar with the Nelson family even before I watched my very first episode, because my parents and my older siblings all had watched the show during the 50s and early 60s and often talked about it.

When I was a kid in the '80s, every year The Disney Channel would have a free preview weekend. And every year I would "campaign" for my parents to add The Disney Channel to our cable service.

My parents never caved in, but I would watch Ozzie and Harriet during the preview and I just loved it - especially the introductions by Harriet. I was already watching classic shows on Nick at Nite so it wasn't unusual for me to watch another classic show. I liked watching Ozzie and Harriet on The Disney Channel because it seemed really grown up. Disney after dark. :lol:

After the preview ended, the cable company would scramble the channel again. You couldn't see it, but sometimes you could hear the voices. I listened to Ozzie and Harriet once or twice, but I lost interest without the show to watch.

Fast forward to the 2000s, I found a Ozzie and Harriet 20 episode DVD set in Walmart's bargin bin and became a fan of the show again. Then I started posted here.

When I was a kid WTBS used to show this show, and even then I was curious about TV shows that were made before my lifetime I got into this. About a couple of years later right after Rick Nelson passed the Disney Channel started showing this program so I got to see it again. After that whenever it was on television I always tried to catch it.

I honestly have to say I had never, ever seen a single episode until last year. Of course, I knew about it. I had heard about it my whole life from my parents, and I certainly knew who Rick Nelson was from his country/rock career in the 70's but never had seen the show.

I can say that once I watched it, I knew what all the fuss was about. Just fell in love with it. :)

My first actual memories of the show are Ricky singing at the end, so probably very late 50's. Might be early 60's, though, because I always picture him on stage with the crowd watching him. I remember being intrigued by how he closed his eyes when he sang . . . sigh :heart:

And then, more vivid memories of when Kris came on the show and her playfulness with Rick. No one episode stands out.

I must have had the layout of the house committed to memory, though, because when I began collecting, I knew every nook & cranny.

Never had Disney in the 80's, so never saw another episode after it left the air in 1966 until I began collecting 4 years ago.

My first set was 200+ episodes that I traded for. Then, I met up with a few private collectors online who I traded with for more. Many of them were film transfers. Along the way some episodes started showing up in the $1 stores, so I would buy any that I saw. I bought a set on Ebay one time which added 5 or so to my collection. Then, of course the Mill Creek set and the 2 Shout sets. And, that wonderful Wal-Mart 20 episode set :lol: I believe at last count I still needed 67 episodes of the 435 to complete my set. It has been a long time since I have found any ''new'' episodes. I know of 2 of collectors who have been collecting for close to 30 years and we all are missing the same episodes.

My first actual memories of the show are Ricky singing at the end, so probably very late 50's. Might be early 60's, though, because I always picture him on stage with the crowd watching him. I remember being intrigued by how he closed his eyes when he sang . . . sigh :heart:

And then, more vivid memories of when Kris came on the show and her playfulness with Rick. No one episode stands out.

I must have had the layout of the house committed to memory, though, because when I began collecting, I knew every nook & cranny.

Never had Disney in the 80's, so never saw another episode after it left the air in 1966 until I began collecting 4 years ago.

My first set was 200+ episodes that I traded for. Then, I met up with a few private collectors online who I traded with for more. Many of them were film transfers. Along the way some episodes started showing up in the $1 stores, so I would buy any that I saw. I bought a set on Ebay one time which added 5 or so to my collection. Then, of course the Mill Creek set and the 2 Shout sets. And, that wonderful Wal-Mart 20 episode set :lol: I believe at last count I still needed 67 episodes of the 435 to complete my set. It has been a long time since I have found any ''new'' episodes. I know of 2 of collectors who have been collecting for close to 30 years and we all are missing the same episodes.

I really have to get into this & am kind of embarrassed that I haven't. If I don't its going to be a long time till I get to the 1/2 way pt - 218 eps. Bravo on your awesome collection - that you have over 80% is really quite amazing

CJ, that's a great collection even if you don't have them all. I keep trying to get more, but I can't seem to find any I don't have. Hopefully there will be some more released that I don't have. Sometimes I order a set and get only one "new" episode, but it's worth it to me.