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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

Evening all!!

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

Flo

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

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

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 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.

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

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)

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?

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

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

I used to hide behind the curtains for Dr Who. The Cybermen scared the proverbial out of me. My favourite episodes had the Yeti in them. I think they were located in the Underground but I could be wrong; it was underground tunnels anyway. Sadly those episodes seem to have been lost. My absolute fav Dr Who was Jon Pertwee. I think that all the actors who have played the part since it was brought back have been brilliant.

What about New Faces? Panel included Mickey Most? and Tony Hatch. Def the Simon Cowells of their day but, I suspect not quite so rich. There was a lady impressionist on there and I forget her name but I can see her face very clearly. I think she died quite a few years ago. I remember she began singing sort of Shirley Bassey-ish up some steps and then fell down them. Everyone thought it was a dreadful thing to happen until it became obvious it was part of the act. And Lenny Henry's first show was Wow. Some guy standing with his back to the camera, bending over a pram doing his Michael Crawford talking to baby Jessica impression. Then he turned around and you could hear the shock because obviously he wasn't white. That was brilliant. He was a fav of mine on TISWAS too. His Algernon, Winston, Spencer, Gladstone, Disrali,..... Razamataz,...... OKAAAAY. If anyone I know ever goes on Millionaire, chooses phone a friend and Chris rings me, I will have to shout Compost Corner at him. Bob Carolgees and his dog Spit. The Dying Fly. Maybe watching TISWAS is the reason I sat with my kids when they watched Dick and Dom In The Bungalow. Fav sayings in our house 'Neybody move' and 'Bogies'.

Marti Caine

memory unblocked lol

I remember being allowed to watch "The London Paladium" on Sunday evenings. My brother and used to wait (seemed like months!) for Pinky & Perky to appear (I loved the Frog with the saxaphone (Tequila!).

Thank you Sharron. I felt quite awful for forgetting her name. She seemed really nice.

The Muppets on a Sunday evening. Manamana. Do dooo doo do do.

There was always a Kelloggs cornflake advert and a Keep Going Well,Keep Going Shell one during the Palladium.

Tinga and Tucker with aunty Jean and Willie Wombat.

Ivor the Engine, Sarah and Hoppity, and I remember a short lived one about Fergus Fish whose mother would tell him not to put his tail in his mouth.

Sunday night at the London palladium, yes watched that, and in no particular order as they say:

Crown Court, Perry Mason, Dixon of Dock Green, Lone Ranger and any other Western that was on because Dad loved those. Z cars, Softly, softly, 77 Sunset Strip, No Hiding Place, I love Lucy :-D

I never had TV until I went to work ! my mother said we children would have to Pay old 50p each towards the rental from reddifusion.

But there was a very well off family up the road that did have TV and I made sure I made friends with a daughter of theirs ......as I so wanted to watch The Railway.Children....and wanted to look like them as they were pretty and had nice smock dresses LOL

I had a railway at the bottom of my garden ......but it was not the same ...hmmm wonder why ?

OMG TeresaW

I remember Romper Room with Miss Rosalyn, she never ever said me or my Sisters name at the end of the show, we waited and waited and it never happened :-(

I was more of a playschool fan myself :-)

Ah Tizwas Michelle, we watched that on a Saturday morning. If you were posh it was swap shop :-D :-D :-D

Teresa

The Clangers

H R Puffnstuff

Round The Horn (on the radio)