General Chat

I remember the Billy Cotton Band Show on a Sunday and what a boring load of twaddle it seemed to me as a child....but Round the Horn I thought brilliant. For anyone still interested in old programs don't forget Radio 4 extra on digital radio where you can still listen to these old programs, Paul Temple, Take it from here, Journey into Space,...now theres a program which had me scared stiff, years before Dr Who.-jl

The names of Soap and Taxi ring a bell but I can't recall watching them...if they were on late I was very likely in bed...I do remember though staying up late with my sister to watch prisoner cell block H with my sister as there was no school the next day :-D

By any chance do you remember a radio show on about 10pm Sundays - The Show With Ten Legs? It had Alison Steadman in it. And also on the radion Friday evenings Weekending. I remember about 10.30 or so on television a wonderful prog called Soap. I can hear the music now. And Taxi with Judd Hersch?

Even though the kids today have all this technology, game consoles, tablets, smartphones etc I still say we had way more fun when we were their age (feel old now haha)

Isn't it fascinating how other peoples memories can revive your own, I always listened to the Billy Cotton Band show and Round the Horn I played my parents 78s, Put your shoes on Lucy, Mule train and Ghost riders in the sky. Strange how the summers where always warm and very very little bad happened

I remember Crown Court too. It started about the time I was in the first year at secondary and I watched it during the school holidays. I fancied one of the actors who played a barrister like crazy. There was also Marked Personal with Stephanie Beecham I think. It was also the first summer of Emerdale Farm as it was known then. Something else I have a vague memory of Seaway? with Stephen Young? And the Freewheelers. Timeslip about a family going backwards and forwards in time. And the Tomorrow People? Golly what I'm remembering now.

I was a TISWAS person as opposed to Swapshop. I do remember coming home from secondary school on a Thursday to watch either Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea or Land Of The Giants. I waswhat was called (in those days) 'A Latch-Key Kid' in that the parents worked and I had to let myself in. Most other days I did other stuff after school but Thursdays were mine. I think that the programmes finished just before the parents got home so I got to see them all the way through.

Probably the reason why television doesn't do it for me much is that the male parent was a nasty piece of work who would turn off or turn over from whatever I was watching just because he could, not because he had any interest in the other side. Usually he would watch whatever he had turned to until the programme I had been watching was due to finish. Then he would turn off having 'seen enough'. Sometimes he would say that I 'could not possibly be watching that'. I was really fascinated by a film one day but ten minutes or so before the end he came into the room, told me exactly that and changed channels. To protest or show any emotion about losing what I was watching at all would have had serious consequences. I never saw that film again and still don't know how it finished. Hubby and kids are always amazed that even now I can watch a film or programme and walk away from it near the end.

I think my favourite tv show as a child would have to be Tizwas which actually made Lenny Henry (who came from the same area as me) famous. :-)

I remember Crown Court, though that was when MY kids were little LOL.

I used to watch all the kids programmes, Romper Room (for those in East Anglia), Jackanory, Blue Peter, Andy Pandy, Magpie, Junior Showtime, loads.....all good memories. :-D

Just remembered the name of the programme I mentioned...it was called Crown Court if anyone used to watch it

Evening all!!

I think i was married by then Dixon of dock green! and z cars two of my husbands fav programes.

Flo

we had a small black and white one, i loved andy pandy the best, and if i was norty, when adi amin came on the news afterwoods id hide behind the settee, as mum told me he would have my head if i didnt behave :-0

My mom used to watch dixon of dock green....am trying to remember the name of a courtroom drama my mom always watched that was on BBC I think during the 70's

Compact - a soap
The Appleyards
Dixon of Dock Green and then Z Cars

and Paul Temple on the radio

We had TV for the coronation - our house was full that day - we were the nly one within miles who had one - my mother made sandwiches all day to feed the ever growing crowd

No programmes in the day time - started around 6:pm - What's my line with Gilbert Harding, Eammon Andrews, Ghislaine Alexander, Barbara Kelly and Lady Barnett who sadly committed suicide later

Always a sunday play which we watched - in the dark - interval long enough to make tea and sandwiches - interval usually a cat playing with a ball of wool, a potter's wheel or some swans floating on some water

there was a programme called Quite Contrary and then came the non PC Black and White Minstrel show!!!

Andy Pandy puppet show with Annette Mills - sister of John Mills

fireball xl5
torchie the battery boy
and twizzel

AnninGlos,
i remember listening to Dick Barton on our Redifusin wireless.

All ears right up to it incase you missed a bit. so thrilling !!!
heaven help you if you made the least noise shhhhhh.!!

Flo

I must have been 12 before we had a TV but I do remember rushing in to listen to children's hour on the radio. Loved Ballet shoes and Just William. Then when a bit older, Dick Barton.

i always remeber getting in from school to the sound of sons and daughters

the the kids shows, button moon was one of my favourite shows we went to see it live, it was magical, and the doobie duck show,

Ouch!! this is going to show my age, no telly until i think i was about 9/10
we had a redifusion wireless and we had our first telly through Redifusion.

I do not recall much only as already said Interlude during the dayAndy pandy came on certain times and Magic roundabout.
i was always outside playing .

when older i recall watching the varierty shows on sunday ,
saturday was pop show called OH, BOY. thats when i realised i was a girl ha, ha, ha.
Flo ;-)

I was about 9 when we first got a TV and early days it was on for things like What's My Line and The Groves Family in the evenings.

I don't remember watching it on weekdays after school, but Sunday teatime ish we used to wait for the next part of a serial such as David Copperfield or my favourite one, -The Silver Sword. I remember worrying whether the children would ever be reunited with their parents.

Gwyn