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Remember Childrens' Favourites, BBC radio. (Was it called the Light programme then?) Saturday mornings? Who was the guy who used to host it back in the fifties?

Sing Something Simple on Sunday nights after tea. Is it still going?

I remember seeing the Daleks for the first time (1963?)
Scared me to death!
Well - we'd never really seen anything like that before, and I was only 10! ;D

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Ready Steady Go,
and first ever Top of the Pops

Watch with Mother in the afternoons before I started school
I think it was:
Picture Book - Monday
Andy Pandy - Tuesday
Bill & Ben - Wednesday
Rag Tag & Bobtail - Thursday
Woodentops - Friday

Am I right? :)

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There was Four Feather Falls
Fireball XL5 ,Can anyone name the charicters ???
the tufty club
and Pinky and Purky

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ho and the Magic Roundabout
used to love watching Z cars :D

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Yes, Cazzer, you've got the Watch With Mother line-up spot on. Remember Johnny Morris as the Hot Chestnut Man and Eamonn Andrews presenting Crackerjack?

How about the Odeon Club at the pictures .."We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile..." etc etc

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We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile
We come along on Saturday morning
Knowing it's well worth while
Because we're members of the Odeon Club
And we all intend to be, good citizens when we grow up
And champions of the free
We come along on saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a Smile, Smile, SMILE!
Greeting everybody with a Smile!


"I thought champions of the free meant the guy who used to pay to get in and then let all his mates in through the exit at the side of the toilets!"

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[quote author=ASFC1951 link=board=nostalgia;num=1060004529;start=0#4 date=08/05/03 at 08:19:30]Yes, Cazzer, you've got the Watch With Mother line-up spot on. Remember Johnny Morris as the Hot Chestnut Man and Eamonn Andrews presenting Crackerjack?

How about the Odeon Club at the pictures .."We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile..." etc etc[/quote]

remember the Saturday morning pictures well. Flash Gordon.

Crackerjack also had Peter Glaze and was it Pip Hinton?

Don't remember the Chestnut Man, but remember Animal Magic.
Also Zoo Time.

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Right try this there was on a saterday night No hiding Place
and a Drama called MOONSTRIKE im the only one that can remember this but as i was about 6 at the time dont know who was in it or what it was about.
everyone i have asked cant remember it can you or am i going gaga ???

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Here's my TV history:
Playschool
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
The Wombles
Heidi
Fraggle Rock
Famous Five
Grange hill
..then I grew up!

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I think the Hot Chestnut Man finished in about 1958, so probably before your time, Cazzer.

Ernie, you remembered the Odeon Club song word perfect. Only thing is we used to sing "good teddyboys" instead of "good citizens" (it was the 1950's after all). Then afterwards, to prove what tough nuts we were, we used to run across the road and walk along, balancing on top of that circular brick tunnel that covers the River Stink, before the recently-demolished market was built over it.

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used to hang about the river stink area a lot, ASFC1951, used to go that way home from the flicks, lived on Bradshaw St, near where Sacred Heart school used to be.

Maybe we met!!

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Maybe, Cazzer, I lived over the other side of Blackburn Road; Claret Street, just off Willows Lane. Not too far away really. Remember the underground? What a creepy, smelly place. No wonder they've bricked it up.

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Vaguely, didn't used to hang round there though.

Used to live up Richmond Rd at one stage. Didn't go to Hannah St did you?

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Circa 1936 -- Great excitement when our first "Wireless" was delivered from Willmans on Blackburn Rd -- somewhere near Bill Snape`s Motor Bike Shop, -- wow !!! Henry Hall playing " Rusty & Dusty Brown".

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Nope, Cazzer, went to St Peter's (now demolished), 1956-62 and Accy Grammar (also now demolished!), 1962-69.

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[quote author=Owd_Bert link=board=nostalgia;num=1060004529;start=0#13 date=08/06/03 at 06:49:51]Circa 1936 -- Great excitement when our first "Wireless" was delivered from Willmans on Blackburn Rd -- somewhere near Bill Snape`s Motor Bike Shop, -- wow !!! Henry Hall playing " Rusty & Dusty Brown".
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didn't realise willman's had been going that long Owd_Bert! Ican remember going there in the sixties, and paying so much a week for a transistor radio!

What about relayvision radio?

Can't really remember much about it, but didn't you pay so much a week to get it?
Info please Bert!! ;D

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Talking of shops, anyone remember all the old record shops in town? There was Bandbox, opposite the market hall, Tony's, on Blackburn Road opposite the station, Mary's, which started on Blackburn Road near the railway arch then moved to Whalley Road, Marshall's, also on Whalley Road and Wiseman's on Broadway, opposite Woolies. I also vaguely remember a record department in the old Co-op on Abbey Street, opposite the top of Little Blackburn Road. Anyone recall any others?

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[quote author=mick link=board=nostalgia;num=1060004529;start=0#2 date=08/04/03 at 21:29:43]There was Four Feather Falls
Fireball XL5 ,Can anyone name the charicters ???
the tufty club
and Pinky and Purky[/quote]

Fireball XL5:

Col Steve Zodiac
Prof Matt Mattic
Venus
Zoonie, the strange creature,
Robert the Robot
Commander Zero
Lt Ninety

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What about:
Five "0" Clock Club, with Jimmy Hanley & Muriel Young (and Ollie Beak)

Stingray - Troy Tempest & Phones

Emergency Ward 10, which starred Richard Thorp (Turner in Emmerdale) as Dr Rennie.

The original Invisible Man in the late fifties.

The Wednesday play, Cathy Come Home, in the sixties, which showed just how powerful TV could be.

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Zoony was a Lazzoon :)

Hopalong Cassidy
Supercar
Stingray :) :)

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Used to love supercar ;D

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TISWAS .. Nuff said :)


Oh OK I can go back furthur... Flowerpot men staring weeeeeeed, spot the dog or summat, andy pandy,


Monty pythons flying circus
Top of the pops PAMS PEOPLE :)

enldess list..

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Yes Harry i can remember all those he he
do you remember the old bandstand on miller park

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Sure do.. Aint it still there?

I remember standing on the old bus station on fox street as well :)

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yes there was an alley way onto lancaster road it had a chewing gum m/c there
every 4th 1d you got a free packet :D
the bandstand was burnt down i think they built a new one

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It seems that most people on this forum watched a diverse range of television during their years, with several Gerry Anderson shows from the sixties mentioned does anybody remember the TerrorHawks from the early eighties? Windsor Davies provided the voice over for one of the characters, a talking ball non the less ;D
I also used to watch Fraggle Rock when it first started and I know a rather rude song about it (the less said the better) ;D

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Cathy come home. Made me cry. Loved H.R Puff & Stuff with jack wild. On banana splits ( I think )

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[quote author=Chris7464 link=board=nostalgia;num=1060004529;start=0#25 date=08/17/03 at 02:23:30]It seems that most people on this forum watched a diverse range of television during their years, with several Gerry Anderson shows from the sixties mentioned does anybody remember the TerrorHawks from the early eighties? Windsor Davies provided the voice over for one of the characters, a talking ball non the less ;D
I also used to watch Fraggle Rock when it first started and I know a rather rude song about it (the less said the better) ;D[/quote]

Terrorhawks and Evil Zelda! Have kids aged from 31 - 13 so I've caught quite a few childrens programmes over the years!

Can remember Button Moon, Jamie and his Magic Torch, and my favourite Chorlton & the Wheelies! (Hello Little old Lady (catchphrase for those who don't know!))

And what was the programme that Humphrey Cushion was on?

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Humphrey cushion was on hickory house, with dusty mop.

Nuff said!!!! :o

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I can remember rushing home from school to watch Payton Place.

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Can anybody remember a programme with Jimmy Hanley where he was the owner of a pub and the whole script was used to sell stuff, ie he would offer someone a ciggy, and then tell how much he paid for them and how blooming marvelous they were for your health because of the filter tip.
I think it was called Jim`s Inn an advertizing magazine :-/

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Found this link alfee!

Jim's Inn

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i used to love double deckers starring peter firth who now is in spooks cant remember if it was in the 60, or 70,  

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Go on sing us the theme tune Janet!...

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Thank`s Cazzer now we have to track down the singalong LP [smiley=yelrotflmao.gif]

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just for you BB ,  come on board, come on board, come on board the double deckers.  cant remember any more BB, age is catching up with me. ???

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Found this Janet!
Opening

Get on board! Get on board!
Come and join the Double Deckers.
Take a ticket for a journey,
On our double decker London bus.
Ring the bell (ding! ding!),
Toot the horn (honk! honk!),
When you ride with the Double Deckers.
Fun and laughter is what we're after,
On our double double double decker bus.

You're aboard! You're aboard!
You're aboard with the Double Deckers.
Fun and laughter is what we're after,
On our double double double decker bus.
La la la! La la la!
La la la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la la,
On our double decker London bus.

Closing

You've been on board.
You've been on board.
You've been on board with The Double Deckers.
Tell your friends,
And you'll be riding,
On our double double double decker bus.
La la la! La la la!
La la la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la la,
On our double decker London bus.
Seeeee Yooooou Neeeeeext Weeeeeeeeek

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That brings back memories.  I always wanted to go aboard that double decker bus, but never did.

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What about The Clangers?

Anyone remember them? :)

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I remember the clangers Dave. Anyone remember Mr Pastrey?
What about Little Jimmy clithero ? And Hilda Baker was so funny.

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anne, used to love mr pastry all that slapstick comedy used to have me in stitches.hilda baker re-runs recently shown on granada plus the little one in the krankies allways reminded me of jimmey clithero and dont forget charlie drake. god i must be showing my age thinking back like this. what about sunday  night at the london pallidium with bruce forsythe.

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Yea, Janet little Jimmy Krankie does put you in mind of Charlie Drake. That guy used to have mi laughing so much my tummy hurt.
Oh, my god dunt it mek ya feel old. Sunday nite at the London pladium was were they had the beat the clock game ( I think )

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A few more:

The Billy Cotton Band Show
The White Heather Club
Lenny the Lion
Wagon Train
Whirly Birds
The Four Just Men
77 Sunset Strip
Torchy (from Topsy Turvy Land!)
Cheyenne

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god cazzer,  your as b****y  old as me. all this reminisceing cant be good for our brains.

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Stop swearing Janet! [smiley=lol.gif]

And the words mature! ;D

Reminiscing 'll keep the brain cells working even if nothing else does!

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sorry if i offended you cazzer  ???

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Only joking!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Here we go then.
Dixon of Dock green.
Little House On The Prarie.
The waltons. (Nite John Boy.)
Bonanza.
What about this one Old Mother Riley.

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[quote author=Dave link=board=nostalgia;num=1060004529;start=0#38 date=08/30/03 at 01:06:03]What about The Clangers?

Anyone remember them? :)[/quote]

Remember them Dave! Bit of a cult at the time. They've been doing reruns somewhere on sky cos the kids  have seen them.

Was the Narrator the same guy that did Bagpuss?

:) :)

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My Favorite Films are Whistle down the wind with Haley Mills.
Mandy-about a deaf girl.
Road House & Ghost - Patrick Swaytze - Sex on legs.
Short Circuit - I cried.
Titanic.
Green Mile.
8 Mile.
Last but not least Lord of the rings

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Remember both "Mandy" & Whistle Down the Wind, which was filmed locally.

As for Patrick Swayze totally agree! :)  Best in Dirty Dancing though.

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What about the quizzies..Take Your Pick, Double your Money Double or drop on Crackerjack.
How`s about The Forest Rangers,The Buccaneers, Robin Hood(Riding through the glen),Sir Francis Drake,William Tell.
Emergency Ward Ten and American Comedy shows like I Love Lucy,Danny Kaye and Andy Williams. :D

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It's Friday, it's 5 to 5 and it's crackerjack. Loads a cabbages and a crackerjack pencil among the prizes.
Multi coloured swap shop and Magpie. My favorites.
Forgotton criss cross quizz and the golden shot. Alfie.
Charlie Williams was a hoot.  :D :D :D

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MAGPIE!!!......Susan Stranks...She stole my Heart [smiley=love.gif]

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Ah, aint that sweet alfee. It was Jack wild that stole mine in oliver and H.R Puff and Stuff.

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Some people might think this strange, but always had a thing about Eric Morecambe when I was a kid!

Really admired him. Can still watch his shows over & over.

Been sad when other stars have died, but when he went, I really cried.  :'( :'(

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what about juke box jury with david jacobs top of the pops with jimmey savile bring back the good old days.

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I will second that Janet. How time as flown were did it go?

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you know what they say anne, what goes around comes around so with a bit of luck it will catch us up again. [smiley=lol.gif]

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Only the good bits, this time round eh Janet.

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Now......

Does anyone remember one called...

I Married Jane?  

(back in the nineteen hundred & frozen to death) :-/

Or have I just dreamt it!! ???

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Please someone say yes....... :)

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YES! YES!

(no not really)  ;D

Who was in it?

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Hi Dave Try this ;D
http://www.geocities.com/tellytyme/imarriedjoan.html

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Hey, Uncha bet your fave programme on the box is Monkey Magic..................

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no anne ,i bet it was jungle book.

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned "Journey Into Space". Used to come on the radio on Monday evenings at 7:30 right after "Top of the Form" I think. I'm guessing that it would be '57? '58?

You can hear Journey Into Space, with Jet, Doc, Lemmy and Mitch every Sunday night at 6:0 clock on BBC 7.

Next wek is (I think) part 5 of "Earth in Peril". "Mars" finished early in January.

Just like it was in the 50's, even got the wife listening to it :coffeecup

Hi Darby:

Thanks for the info but since I'm an Ex Pat I don't listen to the Beeb anymore. There is a website where you can listen to the first series of JIY episodes though at:

http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/journeyintospace.htm

I guessed at 1957 or 1958 in my first post; now I find they ran in Sept 1953! I can't believe I'm that old.

Cheers

No telly in my childhood but at 6.45pm on weekdays on the Light Programme and an omnibus edition on Saturday mornings we did have Dick Barton Special Agent with Jock and Snowy as his two side kicks. The signature tune of The Devil’s Gallop played by the Charles Williams Concert Orchestra had us breathless in anticipation.

I were in the navy when Journey Into Space was on but we still managed to listen to it and woe betide anyone who made a noise whilst it was on.

What was that song Lemmy kept on hearing?
When its night time in Italy
Its Wednesday over here

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when i was a kid (not long ago really!) I used to watch

Raggie Dolls
Fun House
Care Bears
Turtles
Sesamy Street
Button Moon
Rainbow
Rose and Jim
Wizadora
Them ducks where they used to jump in money- can't remeber the programme
The two orange things that lived in a well in a garden!

and loads more. They just don't make childrens programmes like they did. Now you can't tell what they are saying!

ab:)

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hi,pleace tell me more about the underground mal

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someone mentioned wagon train....FLINT MC CULLOUGH,he was was my first pinup,,,i thought he was georgous,robert horton was in his 30.s then and i was 15....,he had auburn hair and freckles,,and i hung on his every word,,,he was the scout to ward bond's wagon train and was always the hero...now that was one series i wish they would resarect

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Ah Granny, on Saturdays here in Florida one of our channels is dedicated to showing old cowboy films and TV series. You'd love it. Wagon Train, The Viriginian, Rifleman, Gunsmoke,
Bonanza, High Chaperral, Little House on the Prairie, all good stuff.:cool:

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Someone way back in this thread mentioned Relayvision Radio.......I remember that. My Auntie lived in Walsden and she had NO ELECTRIC in her house but she had Relayvision Radio.....four Channels......I think it was 9d per week. I used to call it GAS radio.
I used to listen to 'Friday Night is Music Night' and Dick Barton.....we used to listen to lots of radio plays too.....and we would sit there in the firelight.....Auntie used to say there wasn't enough gas to run the light AND the radio.

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In 1953 I used to work for UniRelays on Abbey Street and in all weathers we used to go around installing a third radio channel to customers district by district. Rishton, Huncoat, Clayton, Haslingden, Church, Oswaldtwistle and of course Accrington. It was Radio Luxembourg to complement the Home Service and Light Programme. With the advent of TV becoming available I was switched to installing TV aerials.

Apart from Dick Barton Special Agent my other favourite radio - sorry I mean wireless programme was Valetine Dyall’s Man In Black I think it was called.

I have recently bought 23 volumes (4 shows per volume) of the famous Goon Show and haven’t stopped laughing since.

Very useful URL djd – thanks! Although Journey Into Space is no longer listed.

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every sunday we would listen to family favourites and the billy cotton band show.while we made and then ate our dinner,,,,ah memouries

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Then the navey Lark and then at night Sing something Simple, before turning TV on for Sunday night at the London Palladium.

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oh now i cant get the sing something simple signiture tune off my mind:p

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you got me at it now granny-was me mams favorite.lol:)

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Can anyone remember 'itma' on radio' which included a cleaning woman whose intro was' can I do you now sir' ( Tommy Hanlon? no that can't be right) Could anyone remember The name of the radio show with Jimmy Edwards and his trombone, it's on the tip of my tongue and driving me crazy. It was a very funny show and came onto tele later. And then there was silly Roy Castle with his drum playing and his damn trumpet. also I remember Charlie Drake.

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Now I remember it was 'Take it from here. I think? Does anyone remember Shirley Abacair and her zither . Arthur Askey. Rolf Harris with his hand puppet dog. Who can't forget the Dagenham girl pipers who used to feature on tv occasionally. Z-cars mentioned a while back with Jeremy Kemp and Brian Blessed. I can still whistle the sig tune.

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Sunday's after family favourites, Billy Cotton's band show, his theme tune, somebody stoll my girl. Spot the tune, with Marion Ryan. Take your pick, with Michael Miles, Bob Danvers Walker. Scene at six thirty, with Brian Truman, Mike Parkinson. from the north this is Granada. Thats all for now folks.

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i do...she sang little boy fishing off a wooden pier....:)

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she had twin boys paul and barry ryan,,, they were singers for a while,,,then vanished into thin air..

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I remember "take your pick" and also "opportunity knocks" with Hughie Green.
I went to Malta with the Airforce in the early seventies and they had just got a program from the BBC that was being advertised all over the Island as a new religious program for Sunday nights, Malta was a very Catholic place and the locals were excited about the new TV program and the churches decided that they would have an early service so everyone could be home in time, 7.30, to watch.........Till Death us do Part.:D

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I still love Round the Horne and Beyond our Ken, with Kenneth Horne, Kenny Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. Anyone else remember Chou En Ginsberg, the communist spy? or Jules and Sandy? and Rambling Sid Rumpo, the folk singer? I have quite a few of them on tape, and they still make me laugh.

Hancock's Half Hour was another classic, later transferred to television.

Sunday afternoons - Family Favourites with lunch, Billy Cotton Band Show, The Navy Lark, Beyond our Ken, and at 3 o'clock Carousel, rounding off with Fluff and "Hello Pop-pickers" on Pick of the Pops. Sing Something Simple came later, always referred to in my family as "Sing Something Sinful". They never did, though.

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Charlie Drake was so funny. I could only watch it when I was stopping at my Nanna's.
Loved take your pick.
I remember listening to Paul n Barry Rhyan. I used to think they were dead good.
Pinky & Perky.
Ready Steady Go & Oh Boy. Were another two favorites of mine.
Another Brilliant programme was Dixon Of Dock Green with Jack Warner.
" Evening All "

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Tommy Handley's ITMA ("It's That Man Again") was by far the most popular variety Wireless radio program during and immediately after WW2. We followed the humorous antics of Mrs Mop ("can I do you now sir?" and TTFN "Ta Ta For Now") , the inept German spy "Funf" and Colonel Chinstrap ("I don't mind if I do") with rapt attention -- it was a great show and a fine tonic relief. An online resource not to be missed (includes excerpts from actual programs) can be found at: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/itma.htm

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jamesicus have you caught the program on PBS about the war I think its called 1940's house, in fact just googled and found this http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index...entPage=search

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Anyone remember "The Grove Family" and Life with the Lyons

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god i must be ancient ...i remember both them shows..i loved old granny grove...and life with the lyons was always a laugh... ..the one that sticks in my mind was when beb'e.....wanted some venision blinds ,they were just about in fashion then....:rolleyes:

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that reminds me of the clampets...what a gullable family... but compulsive viewing at the time....

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I'm glad someone else remembers The grove family when I ask members of the family (some older than I am)they look at me as though I had just invented the entire thing.

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i know THAT feeling,when i put some old songs on the link the song game:D