Neighbours
Sons and Daughters
The Young Doctors
The Flying Doctors (it moved to a Friday daytime slot after about series 4)
Liked watching:
The Sullivans
Crown Court
A Country Practice
Take The High Road
Gems
Give Us A Clue
The Time The Place
Open Air
Dallas (repeats shown on BBC1 daytime in the late 80's)
Chain Letters
Blockbusters
The Love Boat
Santa Barbara
Valerie
TV Weekly
Win, Lose, or Draw
Tell The Truth
Going for Gold
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
Runaway
Laverne and Shirley
Talkabout
Richmond Hill
plus various schools programmes such as Scene, Stop Look Listen, Picture Box, How We Used To Live, etc.
How daytime TV changed from those days. Nowadays it's utter crap with wall to wall antiques shows, cookery shows, property shows, and shows very much aimed at women!
Remembers the days of 3 channels and nothing on after about 1am?? And if you dropped off, you wake suddenly to that awful noise of the testcard and that scary looking girl!!
This made me think of 1980 or thereabouts, when my dad used to have 'Pages from Ceefax' on first thing every morning because there was nothing else on. I found it faintly fascinating for a bit because we didn't actually have Teletext on our telly and so it was the only time we saw it, but even watching paint dry has the edge over the monotony of watching the screen repeatedly cyle through the same sequence of Teletext pages over and over again
Round about the same time, I'd left home and was living in a bedsit in a shared house that was such a dump the landlord hadn't even bothered to replace the front door when it fell off, so whenever any of us went out we'd try to deter break-ins by leaving the telly on to give the impression that the room was occupied. The couple downstairs did this one day and decided while they were out not to come home until the following morning. I can honestly say that few things in life make you feel more murderous than having to listen to 'that awful noise of the testcard' all night and not being able to turn it off. I was a lot more scary than the test card girl the next day
I don't think my kids actually believed me when I told them that there only used to be three channels and no transmission during the night (who else remembers the ITV strike that went on all summer one year so that we were down to two channels? Oh, the deprivation ). I think the bit that had them convinced I was away with the fairies was when I said that most people actually rented their tellys in those days (gasp!) and it was unusual for a house to have more than one (which would typically break down on Christmas day. Sigh...).
I must have sounded just like my mum used to sound to me. Maybe I should have told them that we had to trek five miles to Rediffusion or Visionhire with no shoes on to pay the rental every week, when there was snow on the ground and it was forty degrees below zero
I used to be absolutely hypnotized by the BBC test card, and the sort of soft jazz/xylophone music they often played over it, while normal programmes were off the air, during the afternoon, in the 1970s, and would spend ages sitting transfixed by it, staring at that girl, toy clown, blackboard, and chalked noughts-and-crosses grid.
Here's a bit of nostalgia for you, me, and and all those who recall that, although its off-topic, and hardly what you would have watched if off school sick.. There's no test card, though, just black screen at the end-with the 'oooo' noise starting at the four-mine mark, exactly.
Bagpuss
Mr Benn
Stop, Look And Listen (weird to think there used to be educational tv programmes, with the voice of Chris Tarrent instead of Jeremy Kyle with stuff I really would want my young children to watch.)
Mary, Mungo And Midge
Its funny reading people's lists, I can straight away see different times of my life, 70's when home from school, late 80's a job where I had a Wednesdays off, 90's home during the day with little ones, brings back fond memories
My nan lived with us so I had to watch her daily shows when home sick, Farmhouse Kitchen, Crown Court and Crossroards are the ones I can remember. Was Mary, Mungo and Midge on BBC2 lunch times too?
Pages from Ceefax until about midday!!
This Morning (Richard and Judy era, of course)
Keynotes
Crosswits with Tom O’Connor
Chain Letters
Going for Gold
A Country Practice
They still play come outside on cbeebies now. Despite it being really old my three year old boy loves aunt Mabel and pippin the dog !
Ah do they? Might check it out
I remember because back then my Mum worked day shifts while I was at school, so If I was ill, I was sent to my Nans, and she always put it on for me.
I used to love:
You and Me
Through the Dragon's Eye
Stop, Look, Listen
Geordie Racer
How We Used to Live
Story World
Blood and Honey
Stay Tooned
Going for Gold
Blockbusters
Give us a Clue
Crosswits
Keynotes
I'm sure there were other shows but I cant recall the names - one was about Viking legends (it had subtitles for deaf/hard of hearing) and another was presented by Paul Coia (of the quiz Catchword) and featured a guy going on a treasure hunt or something, following clues
I remember the lovely crackle of the amber-coloured cellophane when mum opened the bottle of Lucozade, in the days when their advertising slogan was "Lucozade aids recovery"! They had to drop this when HIV reared it's ugly head in case anyone actually thought it was a cure!
I loved The Flumps ( my hubby & I still break into " nobody's remembered my birthday" occasionally, yes the nights really fly by in our house lol! Bring back Perkin,Posie & Pootle!
Hated Fingerbobs still remember, "I am a mouse called Fingermouse, a mouse with guts & verve, I get past cats so easily with my famous body swerve!"
Also loved Mr Benn & Crystal Tips & Alistair! Happy times
I must have sounded just like my mum used to sound to me. Maybe I should have told them that we had to trek five miles to Rediffusion or Visionhire with no shoes on to pay the rental every week, when there was snow on the ground and it was forty degrees below zero
Aaah Rediffusion.
I am a big footie fan, where would I be now without Sky Sports? :eek:
I remember on a Saturday, being glued to Teletext all Saturday afternoon waiting for the results to change.
Gloria
I remember when Rediffusion went off, it was all the houses on the estate and even when an announcement came on not to panic and they were doing everything they could to get it back on there was a queue a mile long at the phone box outside our house with people waiting to complain..... I don't think anybody owned their TV's then, it wasn't the done thing was it?
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That many!!! When we first got a TV there was only one. ITV came along quite a bit later, and BBC2 was many years after that.in our region.
Neighbours
Sons and Daughters
The Young Doctors
The Flying Doctors (it moved to a Friday daytime slot after about series 4)
Liked watching:
The Sullivans
Crown Court
A Country Practice
Take The High Road
Gems
Give Us A Clue
The Time The Place
Open Air
Dallas (repeats shown on BBC1 daytime in the late 80's)
Chain Letters
Blockbusters
The Love Boat
Santa Barbara
Valerie
TV Weekly
Win, Lose, or Draw
Tell The Truth
Going for Gold
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
Runaway
Laverne and Shirley
Talkabout
Richmond Hill
plus various schools programmes such as Scene, Stop Look Listen, Picture Box, How We Used To Live, etc.
How daytime TV changed from those days. Nowadays it's utter crap with wall to wall antiques shows, cookery shows, property shows, and shows very much aimed at women!
This made me think of 1980 or thereabouts, when my dad used to have 'Pages from Ceefax' on first thing every morning because there was nothing else on. I found it faintly fascinating for a bit because we didn't actually have Teletext on our telly and so it was the only time we saw it, but even watching paint dry has the edge over the monotony of watching the screen repeatedly cyle through the same sequence of Teletext pages over and over again
Round about the same time, I'd left home and was living in a bedsit in a shared house that was such a dump the landlord hadn't even bothered to replace the front door when it fell off, so whenever any of us went out we'd try to deter break-ins by leaving the telly on to give the impression that the room was occupied. The couple downstairs did this one day and decided while they were out not to come home until the following morning. I can honestly say that few things in life make you feel more murderous than having to listen to 'that awful noise of the testcard' all night and not being able to turn it off. I was a lot more scary than the test card girl the next day
I don't think my kids actually believed me when I told them that there only used to be three channels and no transmission during the night (who else remembers the ITV strike that went on all summer one year so that we were down to two channels? Oh, the deprivation
I must have sounded just like my mum used to sound to me. Maybe I should have told them that we had to trek five miles to Rediffusion or Visionhire with no shoes on to pay the rental every week, when there was snow on the ground and it was forty degrees below zero
That 'oooo' started on 4 mins..- I waited...:D.....last programme of the night on Saturday night started at 11.25pm!
This was from 2009 :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4214042/Test-card-girl-bemused-by-her-return-to-British-television.html
Mr Benn
Stop, Look And Listen (weird to think there used to be educational tv programmes, with the voice of Chris Tarrent instead of Jeremy Kyle with stuff I really would want my young children to watch.)
Mary, Mungo And Midge
Thanks. She was paid £100 for that.
There seemed to be loads of shows I saw then but now daytime tv is rubbish, I wouldn't watch any of it.
What was Gems?
Even further back it was Crown Court.
Telletubies and especially, Come Outside. (watched the last series as it happened, and all of it, during repeats on BBC around 1998 I think it was)
My nan lived with us so I had to watch her daily shows when home sick, Farmhouse Kitchen, Crown Court and Crossroards are the ones I can remember. Was Mary, Mungo and Midge on BBC2 lunch times too?
They still play come outside on cbeebies now. Despite it being really old my three year old boy loves aunt Mabel and pippin the dog !
This Morning (Richard and Judy era, of course)
Keynotes
Crosswits with Tom O’Connor
Chain Letters
Going for Gold
A Country Practice
Ah do they? Might check it out
I remember because back then my Mum worked day shifts while I was at school, so If I was ill, I was sent to my Nans, and she always put it on for me.
You and Me
Through the Dragon's Eye
Stop, Look, Listen
Geordie Racer
How We Used to Live
Story World
Blood and Honey
Stay Tooned
Going for Gold
Blockbusters
Give us a Clue
Crosswits
Keynotes
I'm sure there were other shows but I cant recall the names - one was about Viking legends (it had subtitles for deaf/hard of hearing) and another was presented by Paul Coia (of the quiz Catchword) and featured a guy going on a treasure hunt or something, following clues
I loved The Flumps ( my hubby & I still break into " nobody's remembered my birthday" occasionally, yes the nights really fly by in our house lol! Bring back Perkin,Posie & Pootle!
Hated Fingerbobs still remember, "I am a mouse called Fingermouse, a mouse with guts & verve, I get past cats so easily with my famous body swerve!"
Also loved Mr Benn & Crystal Tips & Alistair! Happy times
Aaah Rediffusion.
I am a big footie fan, where would I be now without Sky Sports? :eek:
I remember on a Saturday, being glued to Teletext all Saturday afternoon waiting for the results to change.
I remember when Rediffusion went off, it was all the houses on the estate and even when an announcement came on not to panic and they were doing everything they could to get it back on there was a queue a mile long at the phone box outside our house with people waiting to complain..... I don't think anybody owned their TV's then, it wasn't the done thing was it?