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Truddles
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What TV programmes evoke fond memories of your childhood?

Do you remember programmes such as
Twizzle
Torchie
Blue Peter
Crackerjack?

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:05:01 #
blueboy
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THE SINGING RINGING TREE, BLUE PETER, NOGIN THE NOG,
IVOR THE ENGINE, MAGIC ROUNDABOUT
FLASHING BLADE, BANANA SPLITS
WOODENTOPS, CHILDREN OF GREEN KNOWE,
JACKANORY,GRANGE HILL,CORRIE, THE KIDS FROM 47 A.... TO NAME A FEW.

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:10:51 #
blueboy
Member

PROGRAMMES LIKE THE SINGING RINGING... PROB SET OFF MY MAGICAL THINKING.

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:12:36 #
blueboy
Member

sorry for caps, i didnt realise

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:19:21 #
blueboy
Member

the flaxton boys

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:22:36 #
Truddles
Member

Tales from Europe (though I hated the dubbing)
The Flowerpot Men
Andy Pandy
The Flintstones
Tales from the Riverbank
Captain Pugwash
Anne of Green Gables
Muffin the Mule
Wacky Races
Tuesday Rendezvous (with Pussy Cat Willum)
Pinky and Perky

Gosh this is showing my age isn't it?

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:23:21 #
Ratwomble
Member

Pogles wood
How
Mary mungo and midge
Double deckers
The clangers
Bagpuss
Magpie (susan stranks. Mmmmmmm)

BTW you can get the complete Noggin the Nog from the guardian shop. With enough beer it is possibly the most profound piece of television ever.

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:30:59 #
blueboy
Member

me and brother swore we met the woman from double deckers down a country road near us.... my mum said her name was martha rae.... i am still no wiser.

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:55:30 #
blueboy
Member

belle and sebastian,
skippy, daktari,catweezale,

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:57:54 #
blueboy
Member

my mum wasnt there btw... she was going by the likeness... so i never knew if i met that woman

Mon Apr 11 2011 21:59:18 #
Truddles
Member

Does anyone remember the sequence of images that most companies used to show prior to TV restarting in the afternoon?
Yes, horror of horrors when some of us were youngsters TV wasn't on twentyfour hours a day like it is now. It started when we got in from school and ended just before midnight the rest of the time the only thing on the box was the testcard

Yogi Bear,
Top Cat (Boss Cat to our younger viewers )
Deputy Dawg
Quick Draw McGraw
Tom and Jerry
Flipper

Perhaps I'm trying to prove that I'm young enough to have had a TV as a kid

Mon Apr 11 2011 22:16:58 #
Tess
Member

I never had a TV until after I got married, my grandad refused to allow a TV in the house. So my childhood memories are of doing my homework in the one room which had heating trying to ignore Wilfred Pickles and Sing Something Simple blaring out on the radio.

Tue Apr 12 2011 8:47:48 #
Jerama
Member

Does anyone remember the interlude? This was in the days when there was only one channel and it was around tea/dinner time for one hour so that all respectable families could have their meal without the distraction of the "goggle box".

During the interlude there was a nice country riverside scene on the screen and in the background there was a swan and if you watched about ten minutes before the programmes started the swan would slowly swim to the front of the scene.

The other "highlight" was the Epilouge at the end of programmes for the evening where a clergyman would give us the benefit of his wisdom. This finished at about 11.00 pm to ensure that there were no dirty "stop up lates" sitting in front of the telly when at decent people should be tucked up in bed.

They were the days - or am I just getting old?

Tue Apr 12 2011 9:21:59 #
brennie
Member

Jerema, we are both getting old then because i remember the epilouge also
love brennie x

Tue Apr 12 2011 12:11:25 #
Truddles
Member

I too remember the epilogue and after that was finished didn't the picture shrink to a white dot and then there was just a blank screen?
I mostly remember the potters wheel interlude. If you go to http://www.bbctv-ap.co.uk/interlud.htm you can see a list of some of the interludes that were used back when there was only one channel
Does anyone remember the London to Brighton in four minutes film they sometimes used to show if there was an unscheduled gap between programmes? (and in those days there were plenty of unscheduled gaps )

Tue Apr 12 2011 12:29:28 #
Tess
Member

I well remember the London - Brighton in four minutes, it was quite exciting, a bit like a ride on a tame rollercoaster.

Tue Apr 12 2011 17:38:08 #
aishah
Member

I remember enjoying Crossroads and have also watched Coronation Street since childhood.

Tue Apr 12 2011 17:41:09 #
Truddles
Member

Does anyone remember White Horses? I think that that was another programme that was dubbed.

I also remember being allowed to watch Dad's Army (it followed Out of Town on a Friday evening) and then being packed off to bed immediately it finished.

Does anyone remember Z cars, Softly Softly and No Hiding Place, And Mother makes three?

Sat Jun 11 2011 13:03:28 #
Nimrod
Key Master

White Horses: That was OK, it was about a girl who liked horses and set in the Camargue region of the Rhone delta in the South East of France. Most of the area now is a nature reserve and they still have a few white horses there but sadly more as a tourist attraction a bit like the new forest ponies. Nice title tune to the TV programme but it was the BBC boring Sunday tea time serial - better than Dickens than all of the so called classics, but not as good as Stranger on the Shore.

Dad's Army: (Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler. . .) the cast have all passed on now and so has Jack Hargreaves who presented Out of Town.

Z Cars in their Ford Zephyrs belting down the East Lancs road (near Liverpool). Good on the inspector in Softly Softly and in No Hiding Place (both on a Friday evening. NHP was the foreruner of SS).

And Mother makes three - this was after my time but I think it starred Wendy Craig who I thought was better in Peter Pan at the London Palladium.

Must go now as this is making me feel old. Terrible as I am only 25.

Nimrod

PS: I lied about my age

Sat Jun 11 2011 20:26:29 #
Truddles
Member

I'm 25 too - well I would be if I came from Mars

Sat Jun 11 2011 20:37:27 #
Nimrod
Key Master

After watching Mick and Montmerancy I feel like I came from Mars. Does anyone remember Mick's New Years "resomolution"?

N

Sat Jun 11 2011 21:41:17 #
Truddles
Member

Dad's Army: (Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler. . .) the cast have all passed on now

I wonder if amongst others Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn and Bill Pertwee are aware of that?

Sat Jun 11 2011 22:58:06 #
Nimrod
Key Master

"I wonder if amongst others Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn and Bill Pertwee are aware of that?"

Oops goofed again! Ian Lavender will be aware of it, assuming that you can be aware of anything after this life, Clive Dunn is probably still not panicking and Bill Pertwee is looking for a second hand tardis.

Goofing like that I hope that those I got it wrong for have got a similar resolution for me to the one Mick had in Mick and Montmerancy - "Mick not to touch Mont".

Back on topic: Anyone remember Captain Fantastic?

Sun Jun 12 2011 8:54:45 #