What was the first figure skating program you watched ever?

[Mishaminion]

Torvill and Dean's Bolero from the 84 Olympics was the very first. I saw it as a young kid in 1990. It's sort of a rite of passage for us Brits lol
But what really got me 100% into figure skating was watching Midori Ito's SP and LP at the 1990 Worlds.

 

[sk8kirsty]

British: programme

American: program

Ah okay thanks

 

[Tonichelle]

I honestly cannot tell you what the first one I watched on TV was... I've been a fan of the sport since age 3 almost 4. I went to see Mickey Mouse and Friends on Ice in 1988 and saw Scott Hamilton skate to Georgia on my Mind and that was it. Fan for life.

 

[LisaS]

Dorothy Hamill 1976. I was 7 wanted her hair cut. She was on commercials for short and sassy shampoo.

 

[Pululafan]

Yuna Kim at the 2010 Olympics.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

The first one I remember is Viktor Petrenko at the Winter Olympics (not saying which year...), although someone from an earlier group might have been the first one I actually saw. Not only was his program my first memory of figure skating, it's my earliest memory of anything. I was much, much younger than most people would even believe possible to remember.

So `88 then?

 

[Mathman]

I've been a fan of the sport since age 3 almost 4. I went to see Mickey Mouse and Friends on Ice in 1988 and saw Scott Hamilton skate to Georgia on my Mind and that was it. Fan for life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzHeC-FIqKg&t=1m14s

The first skating show I ever saw was the Ice Capades somewhere around 1950. The featured star was so-o-o pretty.

It didn't know who she was, but in retrospect it must have been Barabara Ann Scott.

 

[BravesSkateFan]

I can't say for sure what the 1st program I watched was but the first I remember was a Paul Wylie program in the early 90's. I don't know what program or competition it was, but my sister and I called him Wylie Smiley because of his large smile after his skate

 

[Ziotic]

I watched a lot live at the rink. But on TV it was either Winter by Yagudin or Love Story by Sale/Pelltier- whichever was first in Salt Lake

 

[hanyuufan5]

So `88 then?

You got me. It was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKj0E4U4zrY

I still can't watch it without getting the chills. Those tassels flying around on the sit-spins... I don't care if every neuroscientist in the world says I'm full of it, I remember those tassels!

 

[Tonichelle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzHeC-FIqKg&t=1m14s

That's the program. I remember being very bored with the show until he started talking to a radio. It was so funny, and then he did a backflip while he was skating and I was sold. Told everyone for the next year (at least!) that I was going to marry him.

 

[ladyjane]

It was Dianne de Leeuws long programme in 1976.

 

[Mohacz]

Isabelle and Paul Duchesnays, 1990 Worlds FD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coM4d1CQZfs

I saw them and I fell in love with both Isabelle & Paul and figure skating. Ice dance and pairs are my favourite categories and I'm extremely grateful to the Duchesnays for discovering figure skating for me.

 

[Jaana]

I remember having seen something from Carol Heiss 1960 OG freeskate from a newsreel at movie theater. After that I saw some skating from TV at a friend´s home. My parents bought TV late 1963, so I have been watching figure skating regularly since 1964.

 

[Lunalovesskating]

The first program I saw was Katarina Witt's Carmen, because she was a judge on a German Ice show during the early 2000s, which I watched without knowing anything about figure skating . And the next one that made me a figure skating fan was Yuna's short program in Vancouver in 2010.

 

[Ice Dance]

I think it may have been this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7sSuPpmcc by Robin Cousins. Or maybe this one or one like it by Scott Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dNzBDdMYs. My memory is of them competing head-to-head in a competition & I'm sure Cousins had suspenders (this has to be the program he skated to); but I'm not finding any matching youtube videos with the same event & Robin's Satan Takes a Holiday program and Scott so I don't know what pro competition they were competing against each other in or exactly what year it was. I didn't have a concept of what a pro competition was back then. It was years before I realized this memory had to be of a professional event rather than an amateur one.

 

[TheBallerina]

Grishuk/Platov's FD from the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. I remember that her dress really got my attention, and I couldn't ever forget it.

 

[gmyers]

Possibly oskana baiul?!? 94 Olympics

 

[Tonichelle]

I think it may have been this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7sSuPpmcc by Robin Cousins. Or maybe this one or one like it by Scott Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dNzBDdMYs. My memory is of them competing head-to-head in a competition & I'm sure Cousins had suspenders (this has to be the program he skated to); but I'm not finding any matching youtube videos with the same event & Robin's Satan Takes a Holiday program and Scott so I don't know what pro competition they were competing against each other in or exactly what year it was. I didn't have a concept of what a pro competition was back then. It was years before I realized this memory had to be of a professional event rather than an amateur one.

I'm unable to get youtube to work tonight so unsure which program of Scott's you're using, but I do recall Robin competing with Satan Takes A Holiday against Scott several times.

 

[4everchan]

88 olympics i have memories of manley's both brians' and thomas's programmes