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TV memories of the over 40s adding (but no ageism here
Claires_dad
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This is a continuation of the thread "Are there any DS forum members who are over 40?"
This is part two so that us oldies don't have to read through 18 pages, it confuses us!
This is part two so that us oldies don't have to read through 18 pages, it confuses us!
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(notices didn't removing "adding" from title thread oops!)
I like that idea.
I lived in Rochester when I was a kid, but we got our pictures from Crystal Palace so our ITV was ATV London, then Thames & London Weekend Television.
I now receive ITV Meridian from Bluebell Hill (of course that transmitter didn't exist in the 60's!)
From ATV, I remember especially Mike Prince and (Uncle) Pat Astley who was also with (Auntie) Jean Morton on Tingha and Tucker.
On Harlech, I remember Liz Carse and Arfon Haynes-Davies. Liz married ITN reporter (later newsreader Martyn Lewis) and when Martin became ITN's northern reporter, they lived in my home town and were customers in my parents' shop (very nice, ordinary people). Liz has a debilitating disease now, which is very sad.
Granada never had announcers when I was young, so when other regions started using them off-screen, Granada started putting them on-screen (from time to time during the day, but especially late at night). That was typical of Granada - they alway liked to do the opposite of what the others were doing.
On ABC Manchester, there was the uber-celeb "Diddy" David Hamilton (from when he appeared with Ken Dodd and became an honorary member of the Diddymen....); plus John Benson and occasionally Philip Elsmore who came up from ABC Birmingham.
Yes, I was fortunate to pick up these three ITV regions from where I lived and this led to my interest in TV because at that time, as I said before, ITV was regional and, apart from a few prime time programmes, the other programmes were shuffled around the schedule usually depending on the audience profile. Enough ranting, over to you....
What's really worrying is I remember most of the words & the tune to both
Paulus, had forgotten that completely. Definitely 1960s. Tyne Tees Television on Channel 8 "The Viewer" (local TV mag).
Was it only on Tyne Tees, doesn't ring a bell at all with me, down here in the South East!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295806/ (1960s TV prog).
Not the kind of programme shown on Rediffusion/Thames or Southern ITV - they did their own programmes. The regions that took Tingha and Tucker had to find fill-ins when the "Club" disappeared at the end of the 60s.
Please note the VERY precise times!! and how about this for a write-up of Pinky and Perky for that week!!!PINKY AND PERKY 4.17
Another episode from the lovable squeaking twosome, Pinky and Perky. Always in and out of scrapes, this time one of their greatest friends, toothy Horace Hare, takes the spotlight. But as always, Crazybird is there to tease and unsettle him. .This week, Horace attempts to read the weather forecast, despite interruptions from Grazybird, who really throws the anti-cyclones among the isobars. One prediction which will be correct, however, is that the barometer of humour and fun will definitely rise during the next 15 minutes.
PRESENTERS JAN AND VLASTA DALIBOR : SCRIPT DON NICHOUL: DESIGNER BILL PALMER : DIRECTOR DIANA POTTER
Thames Television Production
from IMDB TV
I take a while to catch on (just posted a message to Pia about Sylvia Peters on the old thread), but when I get going I'm OK.
Very nice in here Claires_dad.
That's actually understandable. Early BBC newsreaders were specifically NOT reporters but actors and presenters who could deliver the news clearly without any reporter bias. Richard Baker and Michael Aspel, who were both newsreaders of fond memory, were both radio announcers and trained actors. Also, some ITV regions would get their continuity announcers to give a summary of the regional headlines on closedown, so I suppose it's forgiveable if people are confusing newsreaders and announcers.
Mike Prince, he was a legend who kept going almost as long as Midland regional continuity announcing it seems!
Whilst talking multi-tasking newsreader announcers, who remembers BBC Midlands' David Stevens, the short bloke in thick glasses who used to read the news headlines on Midlands Today, any opt out announcements, and probably popped down to the canteen to keep Uncle Tom Coyne in ciggies? I wonder where he is now? Or for that matter Tom Coyne?
Oh yes!
It was when the penny dropped that we had American programmes.
Also liked '77 Sunset Strip'
Can remember the theme music and Cookie (?) combing his hair but little else.
The first time it rang we sat there with bated breath!
or more precisely cncerning the Midlands:http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/midlandstoday/features/pre_2004/history_theearlydays.shtml
Do you remember ATV Today with the "Zorba the Greek" style intro music, or Midlands Parade, the "shopping slides"?
Ed Byrnes (Cookie) - sundays 7.25pm ITV
Sadly, Yvonne de Carlo passed away today aged 84.
Who remembers Hawaiian Eye? - it alternated with Sunset Strip in the early 60s
I loved Twizzle. Also Torchy the battery boy.