What did you watch when you was a nipper?
 

The Wooden Tops was probably one of the 1st things I remember watching on our huge black and white TV. 2 channels and only every now and again!! One of the 1st puppet programs I remember was 4 Feather falls, anyone remember that? :confused::confused::confused:

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I remember 4 feather falls, i used to enjoy Muffin the Mule. I remember when tele only used to come on for 1-2 hours on a Sunday, and only for a few hours in the evening during the week

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I presume you mean on TV - I didn't - that mind controlling goggle box which dumbs the brain was not in widespread use in my childhood.

Instead I read books and listened to the radio

PS more book reading improves your english grammar skill
eg - when you were, not when you was:rolleyes:

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Thanks for the granma lesson Madge. It was ment to be written like that, bit of humour I thought???? Humour, not for everyone is it??

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We didn't get a TV set until 1952. My father wanted us to be able to watch the Coronation.
I remember it was a 9inch Bush. You had to switch it on a few minutes before you wanted to watch anything because it needed time to 'warm up'.
Our family all crowded into the living room ......a couple of neighbours were invited too, you had to draw the curtains to be able to see the picture properly.
My father kept trying to impress on us that we were seeing an historic event.
Of course, everyone stood up when the national anthem was played.

To be honest, in the early days there wasn't much childrens TV, not that we wanted to watch anyway.....yes there was a Children's Hour.......five until six, but other than that, childrens programs were very sparse.......we preferred to play out or read anyway.

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Jamie and the magic torch

YouTube - Jamie And The Magic Torch



button moon



Cockleshell bay

YouTube - Cockleshell Bay

Fraggle rock

YouTube - Fraggle Rock - opening theme

Pigeon street

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Little House on the prairie for me.. Always rushed home on a thursdays so not to miss an episode.:)

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I'm just having a day when little things irritate.
Normally I don't post like that - sorry:o

but I still don't see the humour

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the first television i ever saw was at my Nan's friends house, to watch the Coronation, as there was so many of us in the room watching a small screen, a large magnifying glass was put in front of the screen so we could all see it. It was still a few years later before my Grandparents got one.

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The Pogels ? of Pogels Wood or was that "the Wooden tops" ? I also remember "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", "Joe 90" "Captain Scarlet" "Thunderbirds" the proper Gerry Anderson ones mind ! & "Bleep & Booster", now theres dragging back the years ! :)

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Didn't most of these puppet programs had a weird creature or animal as a pet for the star, without using Google, can anyone remember them??? That's without Marina in Stingray, what a Babe!!!

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saturday morning swapshop which also featured battle of the planets with jason,princess ,tiny , mark and kiop

not forgetting 7zark7 :D

YouTube - Battle of the Planets (G-force)

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Was only thinking about some of those programmes the other day!

I remember Four Feather Falls with 2 Gun Tex!!...wasn't the theme tune sung by Michael Halliday? I was a Wooden Tops kid too! Also Supercar and the other Gerry Anderson progs mentioned. Was there a monkey in one called Zooney? and Robert the Robot! Used to like Skippy and Daktari, The Littlest Hobo, Tinga and Tucka or Tucker? Fred the Beak? Pinky and Perky,Crackerjack, Flipper, The Lone Ranger, The Big Valley, Bonanza, The Flaxton Boys, Blue Peter, Captain Pugwash and Noggin the Nog.

What was that programme called where a young Lad used to have a Boomerang and when he threw it in the air, time stood still for a few minutes?...Used to be on either Sat or Sun tea time ish or early evening?

Oh happy days...and no worries...well not many anyway!!


Best Regards - Taggy

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We didn't get a telly until I was about 13 so never really watched kids TV, and was more or less tied up with home work after that

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There was no television signal in the village where I lived for many years after TV started broadcasting so like jaysay I never watched kids TV, when we got a TV I was too old to bother with TV.

One thing I remember watching when I was a child was the fires glowing over Manchester during the blitz. A mile walk up a big hill made it possibe and we were twenty five miles away, thank the Good Lord.

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Wasn't that "The Magic Boomerang" Also around that time there was an Australian kids program about these kids that created a fort/town/thing made out of packing cases and things???? Anyone!

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Aye Taggy I'm sure Zooney & Robbie the Robot were in Fireball XL5 & I remember Marina from Stingray, as to the others I can't remember what creature was their mascot. Also on Saturday Mornings when we didn't have a Footy Match on, we'd watch "Zorro", "Champion the Wonder Horse" " The Lone Ranger" there was also "Belle & Sebastion" & we had to let my Sister watch "Heide".

I remember the last two as imports in Black & White which were dubbed over but the Dubbing was atrocious really, the mouth would be going then the words would come & carry on even when they weren't talking.

Aye Happy Days. :)

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Just remembered "Torchy Torchy the Battery Boy" and yes it was sponsored by Ever Ready! :theband:

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Aussie TV show, was it The Teriffic Adventures Of The Terrible Ten.

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Think every Accy web user of a certain age has the theme music for Robin Hood (Richard Greene series ) burned into his/her brain

YouTube - Robin Hood Theme Song

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i bet many accywebbers learned a lot from this guy growing up lol

YouTube - Charley Says Never Play Near Teapots

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There are some great clips of Watch With Mother on here...

Watch with Mother

My favourite programme was Camberwick Green, which I loved as a two year old in 1967. I had a model of the street, complete with figures...which I recently saw in an antique book!

YouTube - Camberwick Green

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Later I was an avid Blue Peter fan.

It was at it's peak with John, Peter, and Val, and was never the same when Val was replaced by former dancer and hippy chick, Lesley Judd.

Anyone else remember Bleep and Booster from Blue Peter, the illustrated serial about a boy in space?

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Anyone brought up in the sixties will remember all the badly dubbed foreign children's programmes that we had.

Belle and Sebastian, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses, and the freakiest one, with the evil dwarf, The Singing, Ringing Tree.

Not great programmes but some great theme tunes.

YouTube - Belle et Sebastien

YouTube - Flashing Blade titles

YouTube - The Robinson Crusoe Suite

YouTube - The White Horses TV Series "start sequence"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-mqUXchVE

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Did you never go to the cinema on Saturday mornings, with all the other kids, and stamp your feet and clap your hands, whilst being mind controlled by those evil Jews in Hollywood?


:rolleyes::D

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They were practicing subliminal messaging on us in the 40s - now it is perfected.
Walt Disney was a pioneer in the field.

I searched youtube for 'subliminal message tv' and found some wonderful examples, but the sexual content was too explicit to put the link here.

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And I bet you have a Blue Peter Badge, if so let PB have it, don't think blue is really your colour:D

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Well the Bullshine brigade certainly did a good job on you, you've been left wide open to believe anything other than what goes on in the 'real' world.

By the way because your in the mood for correcting other peoples mistakes, (fun isn't it?), practicing is spelt practising.

Reap as ye shall sow, comes to mind.:D

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Over 18s maybe:rolleyes:

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I knew some people would take notice of that:D
so browse some the one and a half million references
subliminal message tv - Google Search

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So you did go to the pictures on Saturday mornings?

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I wonder if conspiracy theorists have ever wondered if the plethora of theories that are circulated, have been deliberately fed to them, in order to control their thoughts?

:rolleyes:

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Subliminal messaging is not a theory, it is fact.
The theory bit comes in when the reasons for doing it are questioned.

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Thank You:D

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As I pointed out on here, just the other week, when Dr. Who tried to destroy the Evil One.


Doctor Who in war with Planet Maggie - Times Online

:D

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Can I ask, why if you don't enjoy a bit of T.V. nostalgia do you have to come on to a thread about all our favourites and smear it with more of your keyboard diarrhoea?

I have fond memories of all the prog's mentioned so far, be it that they are from my own childhood or even if they are from when I used to force my children to watch the 'haunted fish-tank', they weren't messages, subliminal or otherwise they were exactly what they are today a little bit of time-wasting fun.

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I could be wrong but I don't think you and Margaret are best buddies Less;)

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Ready to play?

What's the day?

It's Monday!

YouTube - playschool from 1973

:D

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YouTube - Pinky And Perky - Let's Twist Again

:D

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May I take this moment to declare that despite some of the rumours spread during an early accyweb meet I have never had anything against Maggie, nor have we conspired in any way, shape or form.

I do find it wonderful that to converse with her I have to rely on someone quoting anything I might say to her.

If you wish to join me on her ignore list, please feel free to put all I've said on this thread into one large post then stand well back, I'm sure she would love to put us both in our places.

:cool:

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Which was which:rolleyes:

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Whenever I take a few days off he finds someone else to aim at.
So I stay ......doing a civic duty.:rolleyes::)
I like being useful, but please avoid quoting him whenever you can.
It just causes a ripple in an otherwise pleasant day.

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We didn't get a telly until I was 13 years old .. know that Mum and Dad paid £72 for it (a Pye) after an Insurance Policy paid out. Remember coming over Queens Road bridge knowing it would be sat proud on the varnished little table in the niche at the side of the fireplace.

Just watched everything I could ... yes, even Muffin the Mule and Andy Pandy, though too old for them. Was just the wonder of this new technology.

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Muffin the Mule kate:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::D

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Not really nipper stuff but I was just into my teens, can anyone remember a duo who always seemed to be on Granada evening news in the 60's doing a number. They sounded abit like Simon and Garfunkle. Almost sure they never made it big outside the region. Been drivin me nuts for years trying to remember. :theband:

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I'm probably barking up the wrong tree here, but you dont mean "Peter and Gordon" do you? They had a hit with "World Without Love"...Peter was Pete Asher...Jane Asher's brother!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Richard and Judy?

She's in her 60's, and they were always on Granada in the old days.

:D

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Thomas the Tank Engine, Knight Rider, Doctor Who.....where do I start? TV was much more entertaining across the board in those days.

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There's got to be a subliminal message in here somewhere. Little Weed, herbal cigarettes?? Enlighten us Maggie.

YouTube - ATV - "Bill & Ben The Flower Pot Men"

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Maybe - robotic androids are friendly :)

Now they are 'humanising' dinosaurs
.....maybe David Icke has got the right ideas :D

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Watch with mother, pippy longstocking, tomorrow people, sapphire and steal,does anyone remember Busy Lizzy.

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Your right Taggy, wrong tree. I remember Peter and Gordon very well, one of my Favorite songs of all time with World Without Love!

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I was eight when we got our first TV, I remember watching Mule Train and Bonanza, Bill & Ben and Sooty Sweep!

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I used to love Wurzel Gummidge,aunt sally was a reyt cow

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At the moment, one of my mates has been debating whether a girl is a bit too young for him or not. The solution to this has been devised in the form of a simple question:

'Who was your favourite Thundercat?'

If she doesn't know what you're on about, she's too young.

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on that basis i'm too young, don't know what thundercat even is ken.:D

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Perhaps in your case I should have used your favourite Peter Brough and Archie Andrews quote?

Mick and Montmorency escapade?

Dick Barton episode?

:confused:

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I remember the Grove family, granny Grove in the armchair with hotwater bottle on her knee, kept asking for her elevenses.Muffin the mule I loved and just realised it was John Mills sister who played the piano for Muffin. Crackerjack was one of my favourites, yes its Friday , its 5o clock its CRACKERJACK, every time the namecarckerjack was mentioned the entire audiance had to shout it out loud.At tea time I remember a series Top of the Form . Also Pencil and Paper this was a quiz but the questions were for the viewers,when all questions asked, the answers were then given and explained.Family viewing,brilliant.

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Just remembered Mr Pastry , doing the Lancers ( dance) on his own, was so, so funny.Lets not forget Billy Bunter at Greyfriars school, always eating .

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blue peter was good at the time.

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Yea Crackerjack. Get a question right and you got a pressy, get it wrong and you got a cabbage!!! Fantastic!

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Crackerjack. What was the name of the 2 guys ( don't google!) who presented it back in the 70's? They always sang the latest chart hits but dressed as idiots?? :D

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Are you thinking of Peter Glaze and Leslie Crowther , they took over from Eamon Andrews I think, gosh I am showing my age!

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Got it now thanks, Peter Glaze yes and Bernie Clifton. Didn't Lesley Crowther do it on his own????

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Andy pansy; Thunderbirds; Stingray; Batman & Robin; Puff & Stuff; Cracker Jack? (I'm ****ed) Voyage to the Bottom of the sea: Roy Rodgers; some poof with an Indian and Larry the Lamb…..P.S. not in that order.

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is this the one YouTube - MR PASTRY ; Richard Hearne ''The Original''

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I'm sure folks of a certain age will remember this from 50 yrs ago.......whats amazing is that the jury features NCIS 'star' "Duckie" , David McCallum

YouTube - Juke Box Jury 1960 (part 1 of 3)

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Was this the Pink & fluffy alternate version Dougie ?? :)

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He lives on the Fylde coast.

It's all sequins and glitz there.

:D

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Liked one of the first Sci Fi series they put on, was even before colour Quatermass

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I remember when I was doing my apprenticeship for Pilkington Bros. back in the 60's I would get home for lunch and the Sullivan's were always on. Years later my dear old Mum found a channel on Sky that showed all the same old series of that time, The Sullivan's, Skippy, Little house on the Prairie, Flipper! I think it was called "Mum your doin my head in" channel!! :eek::eek::eek:
Did I miss any?

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In the 50s we didn't have a telly but we used to watch it when we went to friends' birthday parties. In the mid-50s there was "Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men", "Larry the Lamb in Toy Town", "Rag, Tag and Bobtail", "Andy Pandy", "Muffin the Mule".... In the late 50s I remember watching "Mr. Ed", who was a talking horse. "Coronation Street" arrived about 1959, in black and white of course, with Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, etc.

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was Mr Ed not early 60s Judith? i remember Sgt Bilko n I Love Lucy way back.:)

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Highlight of the week had to be Sunday Night At the London Palladium. Everyone kept happy watching this, jugglers to the Beatles and then the revolving stage! Fantastic!! :theband:

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my contribution :
flash gordon - listened to on radio before we had a telly -
torchy, torchy, the battery boy!
and Wind in The Willows - Hayley Mills
AAAh

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There were some brilliant horse opera's (Western Series) on TV in the 1960's 70's and 80's. Cheyenne, Hondo, The Virginian, and High Chaparal, to name but a few. Call me old fashioned if you will, but they will no doubt be looked as corny and contrived when compared with the violent, sexually explicit, foul-mouthed rubbish that is lauded as entertainment today!

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Remember 'Journey into Space', 'Riders of The Range' and 'The Death of Superman' as broadcast on Sunday nights way back in the 1950's, before many families had TV. Brilliant, boy's own adventures that developed the imagination and which we listened to as awestruck kids in front of a blazing coal fire.

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There was also a similar Programme to Juke Box Jury, called Thank Your Lucky Stars...which made quite a name for "Janice" from Birmingham, based purely around her accent when saying " I'll give it Foive"

YouTube - THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS #1 (1963) - [3of4]


Best Regards - Taggy

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Which reminded me "Tales from the Riverbank" went & had a quick look on youtube also "Noggin the Nog" & "The Herb garden". Deary me I've become all misty eyed :)

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And 6-5 Special (Recorded by Don Lang), the program that helped launch Cliff Richard's career.

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You really got me thinking now. Johnny Morris the hot chestnut man . the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Skippy the Bush Kangeroo.And a more serious programme was Hugh Weldons Well and Truely All Your Own, i think this is were the younger generation shown thing they had made themselves, not sure if they were "originals "

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Hello there 'stumped'
You have a couple of years on me so some of those radio 'shows' I missed out on -
my dad got our first telly in the early 50s (a 9 inch screen which he later improved to 12 inch by fitting a custom made magnifying glass over the screen!) but your right about the power of imagination - not just the radio but books (my first 'read' was White Fang by Jack London when I was about 7 years old and of all the books that I have read there is not a single movie that comes anywhere near the reality that my mind created - Lord of the Rings??? - for me; miles off the mark!! --- and of course the weekly comics -
mine was the Eagle, my brother the Dandy and my younger sister - Bunty.
Do I 'smell' another thread on its way??
nice to 'chat' with you
Martin

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Thanks Martin. Radio was always a part of my growing up and to this day I still prefer listening to the radio over the trivial junk that is mostly shown on TV as a means to satisfy the empty heads. Incidentally, 'The Death of Superman' and 'Riders of The Range' were recently repeated on BBC Radio 7. The Eagle, The Lion and The Hotspur were my chosen comics

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yes

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The World seemed such a different place when we had Tingha and Tucker, Willie Wombat and Auntie Jean!
YouTube - Tingha & Tucker Club


...and the escapism of Fireball XL5...i still find the intro exciting to this day, big kid that i am!
YouTube - Fireball XL5 - Intro & Credits

Best Regards - Taggy

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I recall Zoo Quest, a popular program screened over several series in the 1960/70's, presented by a Belgian couple, Armand and Michaela Dennis, before Johny Morris David Attenborough took up the mantle.

Anyone remember The Trollenberg Terror?

And what about Paul Temple, an early detective series that would appear tame by today's standards?

Also The Plane Makers. Another successful series that ran for a few seasons.

Jesus, am I showing my age.

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Yeah i remember Paul Temple...think he was played by Francis Matthews! Who also used to do various Puppet voiceovers!


Best Regards - Taggy

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Radio Luxembourg and Radio Caroline were always on the wireless, and don't forget Dan Dare Pilot of the Future:D

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We always listened to the radio on Sunday lunchtime where service men and families got in touch over the radio. Always remember that they would say things like " see you in 3 years" can't remember what the program was called mind. :confused::confused:

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Family Favourites.

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They have something similar now it's called "Access all areas" & its broadcast by BFBS Radio, Sunday afternoons 12 while 2. You can pick it up over the net,Digital radio & Satellite.

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My Grandad always wanted to listen to a prog on the radio when he came over on Sundays, i think it was called "Sing Something Simple" and featured The Mike Sams Singers ?

Best Regards - Taggy

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Just got it I think, does "2 way family favorites" ring a bell????

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Paul Temple was given a run on TV in the 1980's, but it never had the same impact as when aired on the radio.

Bet you remember PC49 and Dick Barton -Special Agent !

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Yes I believe so, I can't say I listened to it that I'm aware of but in Liverpool the title itself lent much to the ribald hilarity in Dock side Boozers & Working mens clubs !! :D seen as a bit of a double "Intender" !!

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Broadcast in the 1950's and 60's on on the BBC Light Program, and always began:
'The time in Britain is twelve noon, in Germany it's one o'clock, but home and away its time for "Two-way Family Favourites", presented by Jean Metcalfe and Cliff Michelmore' It was an absolute must for Sunday lunchtime listening when Britain still had national servicemen serving both at home and abroad.

Google it if you require more info.

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Yep, required listening in lots of homes,to hear if a lad from the next street/area was mentioned, also think at one time the program was divided up with 20 minute sctions to incluce Malaya and Kenya where a lot of National servicemen were sent on 'active' duty to protect the Empire .

Saturday morning radio was for the kids with 'uncle Mac' and childrens requests, favourite from that show was the song ..."she wears red feathers and a hula hula skirt " :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqzvc7iyDg

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Gone off the track abit but what was that lunchtime radio program called during the week that always had Kiki Dee singing something before she became big (ish)

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In that case who hosted 'workers playtime' was it Arthur Askey??
The mention of family favourites brings up memories - the opening started with - something like - Overseas British Broadcasting (something or other) - and then into the music - ??? long time ago!

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I cant recall PC49 but certainly remember Dick Barton....the music is running round my head as i type this!!:)



Best Regards - Taggy