Childhood TV memories

[kags]

Following on from the question about WWE in Sport, gazzawazza mentioned Rediffusion in his answer and sent us all down memory lane. What fond memories do other people have of tv, particularly in the 60s and 70s.

[Dave Potts]

The Golden Shot, with Bernie the Bolt and the mad mysoginist Hughie Green. Up a bit! Down a bit!

[kags]

Come home from school, watch Play School, then Jackanory, then John Craven's Newsround and if it was Monday or Thursday, Blue Peter. Just before the news it was Hector's House or The Herbs. And that was it for kids tv, apart from Watch With Mother for pre-school children at lunch-time. When Multicoloured Swap Shop started on Saturday mornings, it was amazing, I couldn't believe there was a children's programme on for 3 whole hours!!! I remember being off school ill and watching the tv, the only programmes on during the day were schools programmes, Look and Learn or How We Used to Live. If we were really lucky there might be a Tom and Jerry cartoon on Saturday evenings after Final Score, and before The Generation Game. Oh for those simple days..........

[smorodina]

Hughie didn't host Golden Shot (if that's what you were suggesting), the best remembered host being (probably) Bob Monkhouse.

[smorodina]

Dr. Who, in the days when it was good, and the wonderful version of 'Robinson Crusoe' (terrific music), and the great adult shows, Prisoner, Avengers etc. and probably loads of others I can't remember right now. All gone...

[FTVS]

Deputy Dog, live from Norwich... the quiz ifthe week! TISWAS before it went national and the Tomorrow People

[Dave Potts]

Of course that was Opportunity Knocks - memory not what it was. I was only wee!

[scubadiver]

Mary, Mungo & Midge. Crystaltips & Alastair.

[Gef]

1960s Magic Roundabout narrated by Emma Thompson's dad - can't beleive I've forgotten his first name. Eric?

[bluedolphin]

HR Puffinstuff, Lidsville, The Aeronauts (french prog dubbed), Robinson Crusoe (summer holidays mornings lying on the linoleum floor blinds pulled coz bw tv difficult to see in bright ), TinTin (followed RobinsonCrusoe) Combat, Stingray,hairbaear bunch, josey and the pussycats, Captain Scarlett, Watching the test card on Saturday mornings waiting for the programmin to begin at 10am.!!!!! Used to read Marvel Comics then and really wanted to live in the states cos they had all my favorites on all morning!!! and I also evening programes...Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Tammy, Get Smart, the adventures of huckleberry finn,.....

[gazzawazza]

Hey kags, I too remember that feeling about Multi-Coloured Swap Shop... Three whole hours!!! Me and my sister used to be up early every Saturday morning already washed and fed waiting for it to start! Although it then became the norm to have other kids shows lasting all Saturday morning I think the others were just pale imitations of the mighty MCSW. Noel Edmonds, Cheggers and Maggie Philbin were stars of the highest order back then.

Remember how they never used to announce where they were going to be for the outside broadcast bit? Well when my sister started work in the council offices (we both left school in the same year, '78) I can remember her swearing me to absolute secrecy a year or so later coz she knew that they were going to be in Middlesbrough on such-and-such a date and it had to be kept top secret hush-hush for your eyes only type of thing...

[gazzawazza]

'Course I didn't tell a soul...!

[kags]

oh how I wished Swap Shop would bring their Swaperama to Plymouth - nothing ever came to the South West, even the Bay City Rollers only came down as far as Bristol - then one Saturday morning I has to go out somewhere, just got back in time for the end of Swap Shop and they were saying goodbye from Plymouth - I missed it, I was gutted, it has left a deep psycholoigal impact on me......

[kags]

so much so that I can't spell!

[gazzawazza]

Yeah, kags, and I bet you didn't remember to set the video coz you didn't have one back then...

[gazzawazza]

How about Roobarb and custard (Daddla-daa, daddla-daa, daddla-da-da-daaaaah), Captain Pugwash (Daddla-da, daddla-da, di-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...), I'll think of some more...

[kags]

now i'm mad because I can't remember the Captain Pugwash music, even with gazzawazza's daddla da's (gazzawazza - remember you found The Anvil Chorus for me!)

[gazzawazza]

Hey kags, I may have misled you a bit, Captain Pugwash should read, Daddla-da, daddla-da, di-da-da-da-da-di-da-da and not Daddla-da,daddla-da, di-da-da-da-da-da-da-da... hope this helps!

[gazzawazza]

What about rushing home from school to catch the Fonz in Happy Days, Richie C, Potsie and Ralph Malph, and Jonie as an (almost) tiny tot. Rent-a-Ghost (I hated that!), the quintessential Blue Peter line up of John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purves, Vision On, Screen Test, Double Deckers and Banana Splits (hated both those shows but used to watch them) The Flowerpot Men and Pinkie and Perkie. I also recall Why don't you? which was a programme presented by kids for kids and was supposed to be really radical when in fact it was incredibly boring!!!

[kags]

hey gazzawazza - I remembered Captain pugwash music!!! - I reckon it's more like diddle-de-dup, diddle-de-dup. dup-de-dup-de-da-de-da-da..........