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What is your earliest memories of having Television in the house ?
I remember watching Bill & Ben etc in B&W also how quiet we had to be for the News and Panorama My Dad watching the Boxing with Harry Carpentar could not leave out Dickson of Dock Green
Then came Colour I think it was 73 we got ours because I remember seeing Princess Annes wedding in Nov 73 in colour
My greatest pleasure was Wimbeldon etc
skinnydog
20-May-08, 16:50
The Clangers. I loved them. Lived in the moon, ate Blue String Pudding and they just did nothing. They were perfect! They are still on sometimes on one of the kids channels on Sky.
I remember when ITV and adverts first arrived. The first advert was for SR toothpaste, and I remember saying to my mother that the people must be very big headed to boast about themselves like that.
The Clangers. I loved them. Lived in the moon, ate Blue String Pudding and they just did nothing. They were perfect! They are still on sometimes on one of the kids channels on Sky.
I loved the Clangers too-remember the Soup Dragon's singing.
My earliest memory of TV is my Dad getting me,(aged 4), out of bed to watch the moon landings in 1969. I don't remember see-ing TV much after that until we got the first colour telly in our street, probably about 1971. We were very popular because of it, all the kids came to our house on Saturday mornings to watch childrens programmes. I was a fan of Joe 90, Captain Scarlett and Thunderbirds.
Does anyone remember Mary,Mungo and Midge?
Anne, you've got me tripping down Memory Lane again lol...:lol:
We first got a TV in the early 60s. It was black & white on spindly legs and rented from the Co-op!
I would rush home to watch kids' TV, but I remember some adults' programmes too - Z Cars, Doctor Findlay's Casebook, The Rag Trade, a tear jerking American hospital drama series with Richard Chamberlain (the name escapes me though I can still hear the theme tune in my head :roll:, Peyton Place.....and more...
....and of course I remember quite clearly the shock of The Kennedy assassination.
Yes Joxville,I remember them and all the other watch with mother programmes. Then came all the 5 minute programmes on BBC 1 before the 6 o clock news. We were the first people on our estate to get a colour remote control TV,from D E R,all the kids thought it was so cool.
brokencross
20-May-08, 17:48
The TV was a Ferranti, it used to take a while to warm up, the knobs were the diameter of small beer mats. Programmes were not on for very long during the day.
I remember seeing the first ever "The Lone Ranger" before he wore the mask. Also used to watch a programme called "Victory At Sea" which was an American documentary show. Also remember "Watch With Mother" - Woodentops, Andy Pandy, Flowerpot Men etc
Anne, you've got me tripping down Memory Lane again lol...:lol:
We first got a TV in the early 60s. It was black & white on spindly legs and rented from the Co-op!
I would rush home to watch kids' TV, but I remember some adults' programmes too - Z Cars, Doctor Findlay's Casebook, The Rag Trade, a tear jerking American hospital drama series with Richard Chamberlain (the name escapes me though I can still hear the theme tune in my head :roll:, Peyton Place.....and more...
....and of course I remember quite clearly the shock of The Kennedy assassination.
LOL Dr Kildare
brokencross
20-May-08, 17:54
Angela...Richard Chamberlain was in Doctor Kildare
Not having a good day...Anne X beat me to it.
a tear jerking American hospital drama series with Richard Chamberlain (the name escapes me though I can still hear the theme tune in my head :roll:,
Was it called General Hospital-I recall my mother talking about it. She was a fan of R.C. until he came out of the closet!
sorry Joxville....it wasn't General Hospital.
A wee bit of googling and I came up with 'Dr Kildare,' felt quite pleased I'd solved that but....lo and behold! Anne x and Brokencross had already come up with the answer.......:roll:
I've just remembered a soap called something like 'Compact'...maybe :confused..possibly about a women's magazine..is that ringing any bells at all?
Btw, is it me or is the forum on a go slow?
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This is what I remember most about TV. Sitting watching it waiting for the programmes to start.
sorry Joxville....it wasn't General Hospital.
A wee bit of googling and I came up with 'Dr Kildare,' felt quite pleased I'd solved that but....lo and behold! Anne x and Brokencross had already come up with the answer.......:roll:
I've just remembered a soap called something like 'Compact'...maybe :confused..possibly about a women's magazine..is that ringing any bells at all?
Btw, is it me or is the forum on a go slow?
Angela, I got this from Wikipedia.
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Compact was a British (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) television (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television) soap opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera) shown by the BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) between 1962 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962) and 1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965). The series was created by Hazel Adair (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hazel_Adair&action=edit&redlink=1) and Peter Ling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ling) who later went on to devise Crossroads (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_%28TV_series%29).
In comparison to the kitchen sink realism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism) of Coronation Street (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street), Compact was a distinctly more middle-class serial, set in the more "sophisticated" arena of magazine publishing. In fact, one could argue that given its workplace setting, Compact was the first "avarice" soap, taking the viewer into the business world, and aligning the professional lives of the characters with more personal storylines.
The show was scheduled for broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thus avoiding a clash with ITV's Coronation Street on Mondays and Wednesdays.
When Compact began, the editor was a woman, yet it wasn't long before she was replaced by Ian Harmon (Ronald Allen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Allen)) the son of the magazine's editor.
Morris Barry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Barry), a some-time actor and BBC director - he directed several Doctor Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who) stories in the 1960s - took over as producer and was given a brief to spice the series up in view of the criticisms it had received from the national press. Although there were token protestations about a suicide using a gas fire, and scenes of children smoking drugs, both critics and the public remained indifferent to the show[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)], and the BBC, never comfortable with the concept of soap opera (at the time they considered it to be the realm of independent television), quietly dropped the series.
Ronald Allen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Allen) would go on to star in ATV soap opera Crossroads from 1969 to 1985. Marcia Ashton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Ashton) who played Lily went on to appear in Brookside (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookside) many years later. The director David Giles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Giles) went on to have a highly distinguished television career.
Much of the series no longer exists in the BBC archive due to the corporation's wiping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiping_%28magnetic_tape%29) policy of the era.
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This is what I remember most about TV. Sitting watching it waiting for the programmes to start.
My siblings used to call me Test Card to wind me up. When I was young they said I looked like the girl. I'm MALE! Kids can be so cruel.
Unfortunately they were right.:(
My siblings used to call me Test Card to wind me up. When I was young they said I looked like the girl. I'm MALE! Kids can be so cruel.
Unfortunately they were right.:(
At least they didn't say you looked like the clown. :lol:
General Hospital, Emergency Ward 10......the actor who plays Alan Turner in Emmerdale was a very young doctor in that.
Wooden tops, andy pandy, muffin the mule, sooty and sweep, captain pugwash.
Compact, The brothers (about a haulage firm I think)
Coronation Street with Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples, Mrs Walker etc
Jumper's for goalpost's!:D
bobandag16
20-May-08, 18:41
What is your earliest memories of having Television in the house ?
I remember watching Bill & Ben etc in B&W also how quiet we had to be for the News and Panorama My Dad watching the Boxing with Harry Carpentar could not leave out Dickson of Dock Green
Then came Colour I think it was 73 we got ours because I remember seeing Princess Annes wedding in Nov 73 in colour
My greatest pleasure was Wimbeldon etc
saturday night in town tonight. and cowboy films
The first thing I remember was the Coronation - I was not a bit impressed and thought telly would never catch on !
Angela I too remember Compact, the first Soap ! I loved it. Was it set in a Newspaper Office ?
Dr Kildare was good.
Dr Findlay's Casebook was wonderful. Is that not the case Janet ?
Fanny Craddock's Cooking was interesting !
We had only BBC1 for a couple of years.
It was all black and white in the early days and I remember one friend had a blue see-through 'screen cover' you could put over the screen if you wanted to see something in colour ! That certainly never caught on !
Folk were still a bit embarrassed about having a telly in the front room, and would cover it with a lace cloth when not watching .
There was always a discussion about having a light nearby to help the vision, and children were never allowed to lie on the floor and look up at the screen.
The good old days....
bobandag16
20-May-08, 18:45
General Hospital, Emergency Ward 10......the actor who plays Alan Turner in Emmerdale was a very young doctor in that.
Wooden tops, andy pandy, muffin the mule, sooty and sweep, captain pugwash.
Compact, The brothers (about a haulage firm I think)
Coronation Street with Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples, Mrs Walker etc
what about cookie
That would be "77 Sunset Strip" with Cookie Byrne? Bobandag16
helenwyler
20-May-08, 19:23
Dr Finley and Janet exchange frank words + theme tune here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/decades/clip_display.shtml?decade=60s&clip_name=dr_finlays_casebook&size=v&media_type=video
Dr Kildare theme tune: He was too suave for me, but Mum was a secret admirer ;).
http://www.offshoreechos.com/offshorethemes/shows%20O-Z.htm
6.5 Special. You could tell if it was snowing outside because the screen became a snowstorm. Oh the memories
Tighsonas4
20-May-08, 20:14
remember when we had none and a neighbour had. i had two young boys at that time and they used to scale up a downpipeand watch theirs [lol]tony
"The Lone Ranger" "Ivanhoe" "Robin Hood" "Laramie" "The Buccaneers" "William Tell" "Whirlybirds" "Rawhide" All in glorious black and white. I remember "Ben Casey" being a special favourite along with Dr Kildare. This thread is a real blast from the past!
The TV was a Ferranti, it used to take a while to warm up, the knobs were the diameter of small beer mats. Programmes were not on for very long during the day.
I remember seeing the first ever "The Lone Ranger" before he wore the mask. Also used to watch a programme called "Victory At Sea" which was an American documentary show. Also remember "Watch With Mother" - Woodentops, Andy Pandy, Flowerpot Men etcFerranti, there's a blast from the past. Livingston FC used to be called Ferranti thistle.
I always remember the first advert I saw on TV it was for Zip firelighters of all things. Loved watching Juke Box Jury, Ready, Steady Go and Top of the Pops with Jimmy Savile. I really feel ancient now.[lol]
Aaldtimer
20-May-08, 23:59
Not forgetting... http://www.vinceedwards.tv/ Ben Casey!:)
Mrs Sweetie
21-May-08, 00:31
I really feel ancient now.[lol]
Not as ancient as I feel. :~( The first thing I remember watching was Princess Margaret's wedding. I remember the Esso Blue advert and Omo washing powder and how the Oxo Family grew up!
Kevin Milkins
21-May-08, 00:45
My early days was radio and remember we had to be quiet for the news. Always remember dad warming the baterys up to get that last bit out of them. Our first TV rented from Redefusion came about the same time as Coronation Street.
I remember also a favorite programme that went on for ever was Richard Kimble the one armed man in the fugitive.
Kevin Milkins
21-May-08, 00:51
I always remember the first advert I saw on TV it was for Zip firelighters of all things. Loved watching Juke Box Jury, Ready, Steady Go and Top of the Pops with Jimmy Savile. I really feel ancient now.[lol]
I like I'll buy it and give 10.
Great stuff
Kevin Milkins.... I too remember the radio - called wireless in our house. It was so good and much better than telly! I remember running home from choir practice on Thursday to listen to Donald Pearce, ( By a Babbling Brook )
Later Radio Luxemburg. Was the chap called Harold Batchelor from K E Y N S H A M.... what a laugh !
We also had Redifusion - dont think they had that in Caithness. The control panel was on the wall in one room and the telly in another. The bairns would sneak through and change the channel while we were watching a " more serious " programme !
Was it the MacFlannels on the wireless on Saturday night ?
As you say, no one was allowed to speak and we all sat around and listened to every word. ..... Especially the Queen's Speech on Christmas Day !
Thank you for reminding me !
Trinkie
My earliest TV memories are Andy Pandy, and Parsley the lion, in black and white.
Kevin Milkins.... I too remember the radio - called wireless in our house. It was so good and much better than telly! I remember running home from choir practice on Thursday to listen to Donald Pearce, ( By a Babbling Brook )
Later Radio Luxemburg. Was the chap called Harold Batchelor from K E Y N S H A M.... what a laugh !
We also had Redifusion - dont think they had that in Caithness. The control panel was on the wall in one room and the telly in another. The bairns would sneak through and change the channel while we were watching a " more serious " programme !
Was it the MacFlannels on the wireless on Saturday night ?
As you say, no one was allowed to speak and we all sat around and listened to every word. ..... Especially the Queen's Speech on Christmas Day !
Thank you for reminding me !
Trinkie
Trinkie did you listen to Wifred Pickles with Mabel at the piano ?
was chatting last night to one of my siblings we were fair going way back and brought up that programme from the radio also
Sunday Night at the London Palladium on T V with Beat the Clock and our Dad saying the audience "got paid to scream like that " at the Beatles or Cliff Richard my how times have changed
Ahhhhh, the radio! Ours was called 'The Wireless', was framed in a walnut surround and had a prominent position on the sideboard, sitting on a lacy cloth. We treated it with great respect!
I remember how it used to hiss loudly -in protest I used to think -when you changed channels and you could just very dimly hear foreign stations from as far away as.....my goodness, France! :lol:
We listened to Mrs Dale's Diary, Music While You Work, Scottish Country Dance music on a Saturday night...
Later I got a tranny as a Christmas present and from then on it was Luxembourg -it seemed so exotic somehow! ;)-then Caroline and the other pirates...and the birth of Radio 1....
Kevin Milkins
21-May-08, 12:22
I can smell my late mothers cooking Sunday dinner while we listened to Jimmy Clithiroe /the Clithiroe kid tormenting his sister ,skagy neck.lol:lol:
Anne x Yes I listed to Have a Go Jo !! What a great programme. he he he
Angela, our wireless sat on a corner shelf half way up the wall. At Grannie's it sat on a little table. But Oh the noise and crackling as you switched from one station to another? The Light Prog was a great favourite. On Thursday at lunch time at grannie's ( Lentil soup and egg custard I can still smell it today ) we listened to ?? cant recall the name, the folk were Kenneth Williams, Frank Muir, Dennis Norton and others - it was a hoot !
If Grannie was not getting good reception in Kinnaird Street, we used to stick a steel knitting needle in a hole at the back !! IMAGINE !
Later doon sooth, I noticed Down Your Way was coming from Wick, so I invited a few friends from work over to listen . We sat around eating strawberries and cream and then - the programme began ------It opened with the Salvation Army Band followed by the Pigeon Fanciers....!!
The day Mrs Dale's Diary stopped I sat down and cried.....
" I'm awfully worried about Jim today......"
Womans' Hour became a great favourite eventually.
Years before we had Childrens Hour with Aunt Catherine - some children from Wick once sang on that programme.
must dash
Trinkie
Green_not_greed
21-May-08, 13:08
Really going down memory lane here....
I remember Dr Who scaring the life out of me when I was a wee boy - William Hartnell as Dr Who and the scary monsters weren't daleks but looked like giant weevils.
Bill and Ben, Andy Pandy, etc for me, but I also remember some more adult progs like Doomwatch which was on about 1969/70.
Everything was black and white until 1969. My dad - a canny scot at the best of times - hired a colour TV for the moon landings - then put it back after the weeks trial saying it wasn't as good as he'd hoped. Back to B&W for a few more years!
The daily routine was come home from school, finish homework, play for a bit, then rush in to catch the Magic Roundabout, Hectors House or Roobarb (loved it!) for 5 minutes before the news about 20 to 6 and then dinner. Or tea as we called it then!
Getting our first colour TV is the earliest memory I have. The set was orderd from a stand at the county show and then some time later we had to pick it up from a shop in Castletown, it was a G E C with soft touch channel buttons on the TV. Summer 1974..:cool:.I can't remember what we watched on first,but when I was in the primary school during the summer holidays liked to watch the flashing blade.
B.J. and the Bear came to mind today, about an american trucker.
Bobandag16`s wireless can be seen on display with record player at the Wick Heritage Museum..............and they still work!!
Mrs Sweetie
21-May-08, 15:59
On Thursday at lunch time at grannie's ( Lentil soup and egg custard I can still smell it today ) we listened to ?? cant recall the name, the folk were Kenneth Williams, Frank Muir, Dennis Norton and others - it was a hoot !
Round the Horn?
I can remember very vaguely my grandparents having a tv where they used to put money in the back of the set, cant remember if it was a shilling or two bob or what.
I can remember our first colour telly from D.E.R. was like that. Very annoying if the money ran out at crucial part of a progr
One ad sticks in the mind goes a bit like this........
"I was taking it easy
Along the Zambesi
When a wild piercing shriek hit my ear......AAAAAWOOOOOOOOAAAGH
Ooh am I too late
No I`ve got a full crate
Of McEwans the best buy in beer
Altogether now................McEwans is the best buy, the best buy the best buy.
My favourite programme i use to watch all the time was "Pipkin"
I use to love that scruffy rabbit [lol]
northener
21-May-08, 23:22
My favourite programme i use to watch all the time was "Pipkin"
I use to love that scruffy rabbit [lol]
Dammit, get your facts right!
The 'scruffy rabbit' was Hartley the Hare. How could you possibly get that wrong! The fact that his teeth were held in with sellotape should not distract you from the fact that Hartley was a thespian genius.
Topoff the monkey was an annoying cockney git. I can't remember what the pig was called but (suprise, suprise) he had a Brummie/Black Country accent.
The shopkeeper was Inigo Pipkin. Obviously some gippo/pikey/tink dodgy geezer who had tortured the aforementioned animals into appearing on the telly.
Aaah, halcyon days.......
N.
Dammit, get your facts right!
The 'scruffy rabbit' was Hartley the Hare. How could you possibly get that wrong! The fact that his teeth were held in with sellotape should not distract you from the fact that Hartley was a thespian genius.
Topoff the monkey was an annoying cockney git. I can't remember what the pig was called but (suprise, suprise) he had a Brummie/Black Country accent.
The shopkeeper was Inigo Pipkin. Obviously some gippo/pikey/tink dodgy geezer who had tortured the aforementioned animals into appearing on the telly.
Aaah, halcyon days.......
N.
I couldn't stand Hartley Hare-he gave me the creeps. I recall tortoise was always counting money, Topov the monkey came on screen then off again always at high speed. I think there was a pig too as well as quite a few other characters but I may be wrong.
Kevin Milkins
21-May-08, 23:36
Dammit, get your facts right!
The 'scruffy rabbit' was Hartley the Hare. How could you possibly get that wrong! The fact that his teeth were held in with sellotape should not distract you from the fact that Hartley was a thespian genius.
Topoff the monkey was an annoying cockney git. I can't remember what the pig was called but (suprise, suprise) he had a Brummie/Black Country accent.
The shopkeeper was Inigo Pipkin. Obviously some gippo/pikey/tink dodgy geezer who had tortured the aforementioned animals into appearing on the telly.
Aaah, halcyon days.......
N.
I think I may have had a deprived childhood.lol:~(
The Magic Roundabout-couldn't stand it, especially that Dougal.
Hector's House-Hector gave me the creep's. He was a nosey neighbour/voyeur, always spying on the lady rabbits next door.
Magpie-ITV'S cheap alternative to Blue Peter. Jenny Hanley wis a guid lookin burd tho'.
Folly Foot
Flaxton Boys
Black Beauty
Sam
When The Boat Comes In
Garnock Way
Rentaghost
Robert's Robot's
H.R. Puffinstuff
The Hair Bear Bunch
The Secret Garden
Lizzie Dripping
All best left in the past.
What is your earliest memories of having Television in the house ?
I remember watching Bill & Ben etc in B&W also how quiet we had to be for the News and Panorama My Dad watching the Boxing with Harry Carpentar could not leave out Dickson of Dock Green.
Anne, you've got me tripping down Memory Lane again lol...:lol:
We first got a TV in the early 60s. It was black & white on spindly legs and rented from the Co-op!
I would rush home to watch kids' TV, but I remember some adults' programmes too - Z Cars, Doctor Findlay's Casebook, The Rag Trade, a tear jerking American hospital drama series with Richard Chamberlain (the name escapes me though I can still hear the theme tune in my head :roll:, Peyton Place.....and more...
....and of course I remember quite clearly the shock of The Kennedy assassination.
I remember all those programmes too, in black and white. Even though I was a kid at the time, learning the shocking news of President Kennedy's assassination on TV is still indelibly impressed on my mind. I also remember watching Sir Winston Churchill's funeral on TV.
I used to love watching Come Dancing, presented by Peter West, and would try and copy the steps, wearing toy sparkly plastic high heeled shoes, lol! I remember Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra, and the Billy Cotton Band Show. Then of course, there was the Black and White Minstrel Show.
We got quite a few American TV shows back then as well, such as Sergeant Bilko, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy and Bewitched.
I also remember the early days of Dr Who, with William Hartnell playing the original Doctor, and Top of the Pops with DJs Jimmy Savile, Alan Freeman, David Jacobs and Pete Murray. Blue Peter was a favourite children's programme of mine, especially when the presenters were Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and John Noakes. It's amazing the number of things they could show you how to make with an empty Fairy Liquid bottle!
After all these revelations, I'm beginning to feel like an antique, lol! An oldie, but a goodie, though! ;)
Anyone remember Amos N' Andy? Perhaps I qualify as the antique, Sporran! As I recall it came on late Saturday afternoon, after the Lone Ranger. I was occasionally lucky enough to be invited in to watch it at a friend's house. TV hadn't yet come to our house.
Round the Horn !!
That's it - thank you Mrs Sweetie !
What a great programme that was, such clever writing.
Some more broadcasting names from the past -
Freddie Grisewood.
Alvar Liddell - news reader on the wireless.
Navy Lark with Kenneth Williams.
Jimmy Handley.
Forces Favourites - Sunday morning, as I was preparing lunch ! I loved it.
One of the first TV continuity girls was Bronwen Pugh who had been a Model. She then became Lady Astor and was there during the Profumo scandal. Beautiful young woman.
Not that long ago, didn't a Thurso man read the news on Scottish Telly ?
Also a Thurso woman did a House decorating programme ?
Trinkie
Some more broadcasting names from the past -
Freddie Grisewood.
Alvar Liddell - news reader on the wireless.
Navy Lark with Kenneth Williams.
Jimmy Handley.
Forces Favourites - Sunday morning, as I was preparing lunch ! I loved it.
One of the first TV continuity girls was Bronwen Pugh who had been a Model. She then became Lady Astor and was there during the Profumo scandal. Beautiful young woman.
Not that long ago, didn't a Thurso man read the news on Scottish Telly ?
Also a Thurso woman did a House decorating programme ?
Trinkie
Anne Mckevitt was the interior designer trinkie
I used to spend all the summer holidays staying with my aunt and uncle near Wick. My uncle was mad about westerns as was I...I was never a very girlie girl!
So while my poor auntie was exiled to the kitchen :eek: our viewing was 'The Lone Ranger', 'Bonanza', 'Wagonwheel'?? I think?? and others whose names I've forgotten.
'Lassie' was a firm favourite too! :lol:
The first time I watched TV was the coronation of Elizabeth the second,we did n't have our own but went to a neighbours along with about 20 others!
We also were allowed to go and watch on a Saturday night after that. seem to remember a variety programme with Mrs Shufflewick and Jimmy Edwards? "Take your pick." also seems to linger in the memory, did n't get our own TV until I was about 12yrs old.
My first real memories of a scarey programme was "Quatermass and the pit." Seem to mind it was my mother who was hiding behind the sofa!.
YEY "The Navy Lark," would n't miss that programme, every thing stopped on Sunday midday to listen, "Able Seaman Pertwee chatting!" Whilst on the subject of Radio, what abour "The Goon Show," that was also hilarious and for a fright, "Dick Barton, special agent."
Dammit, get your facts right!
The 'scruffy rabbit' was Hartley the Hare. How could you possibly get that wrong! The fact that his teeth were held in with sellotape should not distract you from the fact that Hartley was a thespian genius.
Topoff the monkey was an annoying cockney git. I can't remember what the pig was called but (suprise, suprise) he had a Brummie/Black Country accent.
The shopkeeper was Inigo Pipkin. Obviously some gippo/pikey/tink dodgy geezer who had tortured the aforementioned animals into appearing on the telly.
Aaah, halcyon days.......
N.
I know that, i was refering to what the programme was called [lol]
All i said was i loved the rabbit, as i couldn't remember his name, i was only 4 :~(
George Brims
22-May-08, 19:16
I've just remembered a soap called something like 'Compact'...maybe :confused..possibly about a women's magazine..is that ringing any bells at all?
I remember that show. My mum used to watch it. The only thing I remember about it was it starred the bloke who later played David Hunter in Crossroads - Ronald Allen. He used to wear those awful shirts that had white collar and cuffs while the rest of it was coloured.
I remember that show. My mum used to watch it. The only thing I remember about it was it starred the bloke who later played David Hunter in Crossroads - Ronald Allen. He used to wear those awful shirts that had white collar and cuffs while the rest of it was coloured.
But he was so smooth !!! and earned a lot of female fans in Compact and Crossroads as did Richard Chamberlain Dr Kildare and who could ever forget " The Thorn Birds " he was a star in that
Any one mind The Perry Como Show and much later Val Doonican and his Rocking chairs and Jumpers right I have gone over so many memories this past few days drained
But he was so smooth !!! and earned a lot of female fans in Compact and Crossroads as did Richard Chamberlain Dr Kildare and who could ever forget " The Thorn Birds " he was a star in that
Any one mind The Perry Como Show and much later Val Doonican and his Rocking chairs and Jumpers right I have gone over so many memories this past few days drained
Yes, I remember The Perry Como Show too, Anne x. :) "Catch A Falling Star" is the first song of his that springs to mind, and I remember the Val Doonican Show as well - complete with his rocking chair and cardigan, lol! And do you remember the Irish band, The Bachelors, and their vocal harmonies?
I always thought Richard Chamberlain was *so* handsome! I enjoyed watching him in Dr Kildare and he was still really dishy in the 1980s, when he starred in the the mini series "Shogun" and "The Thorn Birds". :cool:
Watch With Mother - Muffin the mule, amongst others, comes to mind...
Dr Who and hiding behind the sofa...
1965 - funeral of Winston Churchill and the 'Havengore' going down the Thames...
1969, I remember staying up all night to watch Apollo 11 land on the Moon on our old B&W TV. My dad trying to take a photo of a very grainy image from 250,000 miles away.
Tomorrows World, James Burke, Old Grey Whistle Test, Whispering Bob Harris...
Only had 2 channels but seems these days more is less...
There was something called "Quatermass and the Pit" that scared me so much I hid behind the sofa to watch it.
First programme I ever saw was Princess Margarets wedding on a neighbours set. First I saw on a set of ours was Dixon of Dock Green.
Watch With Mother - Muffin the mule, amongst others, comes to mind...
Dr Who and hiding behind the sofa...
1965 - funeral of Winston Churchill and the 'Havengore' going down the Thames...
1969, I remember staying up all night to watch Apollo 11 land on the Moon on our old B&W TV. My dad trying to take a photo of a very grainy image from 250,000 miles away.
Tomorrows World, James Burke, Old Grey Whistle Test, Whispering Bob Harris...
Only had 2 channels but seems these days more is less...
Watch With Mother is the earliest programme I remember seeing on TV. The Woodentops, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men. Rag, Tag and Bobtail and Andy Pandy.
I used to like the glove puppets Sooty and Sweep.
It's amazing to think how menacing the Daleks in Dr Who seemed back in the early days, lol!
I was allowed to stay up all night to watch the landing on the Moon, as well. We were on holiday at my aunt and uncle's in Lancashire at the time, and they had to keep putting shillings in the meter!
I remember when the only TV channel we had in Caithness was BBC. My relatives in Lancashire had ITV years before we did!
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