I was born in 1952, when the thing called television was often live and always black and white. I hear a lot of people say that TV is bad for children, but I learned more from TV than from most of my formal schooling.
TV is like any other device or medium.
It's what you do with it that counts. One of my favorite actors is Jan-Michael Vincent . I watched his work way back in the days when he went by Michael Vincent, and was in a weekly serial called Danger Island on The Banana Splits. I believe the young actress who was in the serial with him was Ronne Troupe. By the way, if anyone reading this knows of Danger Island having been compiled and sold as a separate commercial video product, please let me know.