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      What was on TV when you were born?

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      What was on TV when you were born?
      Oct 16, 2014 03:37:21 pm
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      Re: What was on TV when you were born?
      Reply #1: Oct 16, 2014 03:48:05 pm
      I think it was probably "Song of Summer", a Ken Russell film on BBC1. It's strange to remember that in my childhood TV was not the 24hr multi channel beast it is now, basically after midnight there was bugger all apart from some extremely tedious Open University lectures!!
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      Reply #2: Oct 16, 2014 10:34:29 pm
      Jim'll Fix It.....

      F**k sake.
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      Reply #3: Oct 16, 2014 10:40:39 pm
      Nothing on my birthdate/time.  TV didn't exist before lunchtime and I was an early morning baby.
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      Reply #4: Oct 17, 2014 07:26:35 am
      I am afraid it was radio only in my early years, I was about 13 or 14 when we got our first television in the early 1950s.
      It was a Pye and it had a 12inch tube and was in a fancy wooden cabinet, a few years later they started making 14 and then 16  inch televisions.
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      Reply #5: Oct 17, 2014 07:47:37 am
      Nothing on my birthdate/time.  TV didn't exist before lunchtime and I was an early morning baby.

      Same here Debs
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      Reply #6: Oct 17, 2014 09:07:24 am
      TV didn't exist before lunchtime and I was an early morning baby.
      Ha ha me neither but apparently I was born "around tea time" which is somewhere between half five to half six where I'm from so, best guess -

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      Reply #7: Oct 17, 2014 09:33:10 am
      the world was in black and white. Coronation st just started. Watch with Mother was the CBBC of its day Stingray,Thunderbirds and Bill and Ben. All good stuff.Opportunity knocks Sunday night at the London Palladium.Not much choice back then but I think quality was better we even had Morcambe and Wise. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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      Reply #8: Oct 18, 2014 11:37:36 am
      Finger bobs, something disturbing about that program when you watch it back.
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      Reply #9: Oct 27, 2014 08:27:57 pm
      You don't want to know ... unless youre into Muffin The Mule jokes.

       ;D

       
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      Reply #10: Oct 28, 2014 07:33:39 pm
      the world was in black and white. Coronation st just started. Watch with Mother was the CBBC of its day Stingray,Thunderbirds and Bill and Ben. All good stuff.Opportunity knocks Sunday night at the London Palladium.Not much choice back then but I think quality was better we even had Morcambe and Wise. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

      The same mate also Fireball XL5, Nogin The Nog and Pippins Wood.
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      Reply #11: Oct 28, 2014 11:02:36 pm
      Noggin The Nog  god that takes me back , Bilko,Combat,Tales By The Riverbank ,Skippy , Heres Lucy ?
      Flipper,Blue Peter ,Ironside ,The Monkees,The Forsyth Saga,Daktari, Petra was the dug on Blue Peter ,The Avengers
      Bonanza, The Prisoner , The Man From Uncle ,Lost In Space ,Robinson Crusoe,The Singing Ringing Tree that went on for months ???
      I remember a quiz route 1 ,2,3,or 4 to score a goal god knows what it was called and Crackerjack
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      Reply #12: Oct 30, 2014 07:33:32 pm
      The Singing Ringing Tree, that dwarf was scary. You can still get it on DVD.
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      Reply #13: Oct 31, 2014 07:21:05 pm
      According to the site http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ it was:-

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      12.05 : Space Kidettes


      First recollection of a tv program was Teliffant.
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      Reply #14: Oct 31, 2014 09:52:44 pm
      Nothing on my birthdate/time.  TV didn't exist before lunchtime and I was an early morning baby.

      Ah now there was 'nothing on' when I was born.  I meant the first thing on TV after you were born! ;)
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      Reply #15: Nov 01, 2014 07:32:03 am
      Ah now there was 'nothing on' when I was born.  I meant the first thing on TV after you were born! ;)

      Just remembered the variety show on a Saturday night was Jimmy Jewel and Ben  Warris, it was like an earlier version of Morcambe  and Wise.
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      Re: What was on TV when you were born?
      Reply #16: Nov 01, 2014 10:02:07 am
      Was born in the early hours of a sunday morning in the days when TV went off air.
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      Reply #17: Nov 01, 2014 06:09:26 pm
      Ah now there was 'nothing on' when I was born.  I meant the first thing on TV after you were born! ;)

      In that case then probably "Watch with Mother" which, for those of you too young to remember, was a lunchtime programme you were supposed to have your afternoon nap after.  It was usually a different programme each day and included "Bill and Ben", Andy Pandy, "The Woodentops" and "Rag, Tag and Bobtail". 
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      Reply #18: Nov 03, 2014 11:29:43 am
      In that case then probably "Watch with Mother" which, for those of you too young to remember, was a lunchtime programme you were supposed to have your afternoon nap after.  It was usually a different programme each day and included "Bill and Ben", Andy Pandy, "The Woodentops" and "Rag, Tag and Bobtail". 

      Bill and Ben was good Debs with Little Weed, although the vocabulary was limited subtitles would have been a complete waste of time of course seeing as the alphabet had yet to be overcome.
      Did know a Bill and a Ben much later in life who also flirted with a little weed.
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      Reply #19: Nov 03, 2014 11:42:04 am
      Bill and Ben was good Debs with Little Weed, although the vocabulary was limited subtitles would have been a complete waste of time of course seeing as the alphabet had yet to be overcome.
      Did know a Bill and a Ben much later in life who also flirted with a little weed.

      Bet there was plenty of "flobberdobs" around them too mate  :D
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      Reply #20: Nov 03, 2014 11:49:52 am
      Bet there was plenty of "flobberdobs" around them too mate  :D


      When they were affected by the little weed they flobberdobbed profusely Debs.
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      Reply #21: Nov 03, 2014 12:32:59 pm
      When they were affected by the little weed they flobberdobbed profusely Debs.

      Many of us have been there mate.  The conversation's usually gripping even though you're having it with yourself as everybody's flobberdobbing at the same time  ;)

      Although from a flobberdob pov, Bill, Ben and Little Weed had nothing on the Magic Roundabout  :D
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      Reply #22: Nov 03, 2014 05:16:53 pm
      Many of us have been there mate.  The conversation's usually gripping even though you're having it with yourself as everybody's flobberdobbing at the same time  ;)

      Although from a flobberdob pov, Bill, Ben and Little Weed had nothing on the Magic Roundabout  :D

      The kiddies prog you could watch all day on LSD, definitely a progression from Bill & Ben with a little weed.

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