Programmes you watched when off sick from school
Vite.dfeemtoon
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Remember those days when you weren't well enough to go to school, but by the afternoon you were downstairs watching what counted for daytime telly then?
I remember watching:
House Party (who was the really posh one?)
Early Delia Smith shows
Crown Court
But there is a grey area of what was on before the kids' programmes started around four. I wish I could lay my hands on an old Radio Times from the mid-'70s. Why did we never keep that stuff?
I remember watching:
House Party (who was the really posh one?)
Early Delia Smith shows
Crown Court
But there is a grey area of what was on before the kids' programmes started around four. I wish I could lay my hands on an old Radio Times from the mid-'70s. Why did we never keep that stuff?
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Some quiz show with Andrew O'Connor involving solving crosswords.
Oh, and remember Pebble Mill with some really scary redhead woman who had too much make-up.
Don't remember the original Crown Court, but watched the re-runs on Granada Plus ten years ago, great stuff.
Just seen loads on Ebay for about £9 each. 70s, 80s, any year you like.
Here's my favourite.
And Rod Stewart once looked cool! :eek:
http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/on_this_day/1978/11/13
http://www.schoolstv.com/audio/itvschools/itvon4_audio_just_a_minute.rm?1
SWEET VALLEY HIGH
Wonder what happened to them
But Lisa was hilarious.
AND GOO HOME ROGER!!!!
:cool:
I wonder what she is up to now?
Weird. Looked at the line-up for Royal Variety.
CONTRIBUTORS: The Krankies, Andy STEWART, Gracie FIELDS
CONTRIBUTORS: Arthur ASKEY, David JACOBS, Rolf HARRIS, The Nolan Sisters, June WHITFIELD, Marti CAINE, Lionel BLAIR, Paul Daniels, Harry SECOMBE, The King's Singers sing 'The English are best', Mary O'Hara plays the harp, Showaddywaddy, Danny LA RUE, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Acker BILK, Kenny BALL, Frankie HOWERD, Wayne SLEEP, Max BYGRAVES, The Kaye Sisters, Ann SHELTON, Max BOYCE, Moira ANDERSON, Barry EVANS, Charlie DRAKE, Judith CHALMERS, The Beverley Sisters, Bernard BRESSLAW, Cyril FLETCHER, Bobby CRUSH, Diane Langton, David NIXON, Pepe & His Friends (Puppet Theatre) Esther RANTZEN, The Band, Pipes & Drums of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
All presented by Terry Wogan. I was one when this was broadcast, names in bold are people I've heard of. Try putting a show together like that now, how many performers would be heard of in 30 years time by people who are one now?!
But what the hell was this?!
The King's Singers sing 'The English are best'
Were The King's Singers fascists or something? :eek:
I must be very old as I've heard of everyone on there apart from Pepe and His Friends.
Have you really never heard of Arthur Askey, Marti Caine or Charlie Drake?
Then as I grew up my taste shifted and my sick-day TV highlight was Neighbours.
Now I'm at work and nothing much has changed really...
Sorry, all of the above must've passed me by. Googled them all, saw the pic of Arthur Askey and thought it was the weedy guy from the Carry On films but that's Charles Hawtrey. :rolleyes:
But he seems to have done most of his stuff in the 30s and 40s. Apart from The Bee Gees and Paul McCartney, there won't be many people from forty years ago who could probably get on a Royal Variety in 2007, so fair play to him for being still around in 1978.
That makes me feel better, a song called 'The English Are Best' must have been a joke then!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sullivans
Pebble Mill at one.
Also IBA engineering Announcements at around 9.15am, live from Crawley Court.
Also, does anyone remember 'Paint along with nancy'
http://www.thechestnut.com/finger.htm
http://www.thechestnut.com/finger/fingerbobs.mp3
(Then I would take the gold foil top and try to flatten it into a circle without breaking it)
Let's see what magic pencil is writing today!
Top, to bottom and all the way around! Now, if you can follow those instructions without knowing you're supposed to be drawing a b then you're doing better than me (I used to take things literally, more fun).
THANK YOU ! I've been trying to think about this show (what it was called etc) for AGES !! I remember it was on about 3pm on BBC1 - I thought it was great too.
There was also another US show about a family in a large detached house, their grandad lived with them and had a large bushy moustache. It was from around the same time, but I can't remember what it was called or even if it was a comedy, I think it was more drama - but with some laughs.
Slightly off on a tangent whenever I was off sick I always looked for the kids TV programme that was shown on Brookside. It was some puppet rabbits with looping music - I remember Thomas Farnham was always left in front of the TV with it on.
Of course I had no idea they'd made it up to save the cost of using anyone elses copyright material - I thought it was a channel 4 kids show for years. :rolleyes: