The 70s public service broadcasts were terrifying and hikarious in equal measures.

Probably why they stuck in their mind so did their job re stranger danger, water, ice, fire hazards etc.

Re the timeslot,on bank holidays it is less to do with the watershed as bedtimes are assumed to be different with no work, school and more to do with scheduling for ratings.

They couldn't put Sherlock.on in the earlier slot easily. And EE still finished at 8pm which is the same as every Tues and Thurs.

Yes. We weren't protected (or cosseyted) at all were we. And I don't think it hurt us psychologically. Whilst the watershed did exist in principle, they really didn't warry too much. The attitude was that it was the parents responsibility and if they didn't want their kids seeing it, they didn't have it on. As that meant the parents wouldn't see it ever as no recorders were around, most parents did watch and just dealt with kids questions or upset about what they'd seen. Or sent them to bed early with a book! And of course, no tv's in kids rooms then.

Times were different. We were protected in some ways with films being banned and then bombarded with kids dying horrible deaths in information films meant to scare us silly. I was always glad to go to bed with a book so I don't remember complaining. I do remember my neighbours renting a colour telly for the evening when Jaws was first on TV and being allowed to watch it. We had a wooden colour telly from my grandparents so I go to see it in all its glory. Parents chose what their children saw in those days - some of my friends watched all sorts of scary stuff and one had a copy of the banned Texas Chainsaw which scared me half to death. Then later (late 80s/early 90s) my parents would unplug the phone and make sure we'd all had a wee and they had a cup of tea ready in time for programmes like Spender or Taggart. No pausing for toilet trips in those days. Anyway it was the parents choice which irritated me as I wasn't allowed to do Media at school because they showed Nightmare on Elm Street and my mother wouldn't have The Young Ones on in the house and all my friends watched it. Having the strict parent was horrible.

I remember seeing this as a kid in the 70s. I remember the one with the kids with a Frisbee and it gets stuck on the electric substation and when the little boy tries to get it he's electrocuted and the little girl screams and it's quite haunting.

Also Robbie the lad who loses his feet saving a friend after they cross the railway lines.