What was on TV when you were born?

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Mine was...

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!!

Jim'll Fix It.....

F**k sake.

Nothing on my birthdate/time.  TV didn't exist before lunchtime and I was an early morning baby.

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.

Nothing on my birthdate/time.  TV didn't exist before lunchtime and I was an early morning baby.

Same here Debs

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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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.

Finger bobs, something disturbing about that program when you watch it back.

You don't want to know ... unless youre into Muffin The Mule jokes.

 

 

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.

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

The Singing Ringing Tree, that dwarf was scary. You can still get it on DVD.

According to the site http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ it was:-

BBC1
12.05 : Space Kidettes


First recollection of a tv program was Teliffant.

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!

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.

Was born in the early hours of a sunday morning in the days when TV went off air.

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". 

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.

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 

Bet there was plenty of "flobberdobs" around them too mate 

When they were affected by the little weed they flobberdobbed profusely Debs.

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 

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 

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

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

Absolutely mate.

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 

Ah yes, the Magic Roundabout

Dougal - Hippyish long hair, has "dreams" after eating sugar cubes. (LSD)

Brian - Red nose, flighty attention span, aggressive personality, delusions of grandeur. Snails leave white lines behind them. (Cocaine or Amphetamines)

Ermintrude - Finds everything funny, constantly hungry - and cows eat grass. (Cannabis)

Zebedee - Flushed red, constantly twitching, hyperactive, looks like a pill. (Uppers, Poppers or Amylnitrite)

Dylan - Dopey, unfocused; in Dougal and the Blue Cat he utters the line "Hey man, I'm just watching these crazy mushrooms grow". (Magic Mushrooms)

Tiswas was another program that could be viewed 'high'. They were even smoking weed during live broadcasts!

I've asked me mam and she said "a box for putting 50p's in".

I've asked me mam and she said "a box for putting 50p's in".

Class mate 

On a serious note, Dr Who began the year I was born and according to my Dad "there was loads on telly about JFK getting shot!" So err an entertaining year then?

 

Ah yes, the Magic Roundabout

Dougal - Hippyish long hair, has "dreams" after eating sugar cubes. (LSD)

Brian - Red nose, flighty attention span, aggressive personality, delusions of grandeur. Snails leave white lines behind them. (Cocaine or Amphetamines)

Ermintrude - Finds everything funny, constantly hungry - and cows eat grass. (Cannabis)

Zebedee - Flushed red, constantly twitching, hyperactive, looks like a pill. (Uppers, Poppers or Amylnitrite)

Dylan - Dopey, unfocused; in Dougal and the Blue Cat he utters the line "Hey man, I'm just watching these crazy mushrooms grow". (Magic Mushrooms)

Tiswas was another program that could be viewed 'high'. They were even smoking weed during live broadcasts!

  Perfectly summed up.

I was too old for watching tiswas, I was all growed up with a house 'n everythin' 

  Perfectly summed up.

I was too old for watching tiswas, I was all growed up with a house 'n everythin' 

Did you not watch the adult version Debs? I was just about right for watching both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.T.T.

Having said that, I've just watched a bit on youtube and my sense of humour has definitely moved on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteBNgVNYBI

2 minutes in is one of the many reasons for lenny henrys present mid life crisis.

Did you not watch the adult version Debs? I was just about right for watching both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.T.T.

Having said that, I've just watched a bit on youtube and my sense of humour has definitely moved on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteBNgVNYBI

2 minutes in is one of the many reasons for lenny henrys present mid life crisis.

No never watched it mate.  Monty Python, then later Not the 9 o'clock News were my comedy tastes round that time 

Having said that, I've just watched a bit on youtube and my sense of humour has definitely moved on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteBNgVNYBI

2 minutes in is one of the many reasons for lenny henrys present mid life crisis.

Used to see Bob Carolgees off OTT and Tiswas in Hunts Cross all the time, minus his dog. He lived there not far from us. Would have asked for his autograph if Spit the gollying dog had been with him.

Being born in Uganda I ain't got a clue what was on the box when I was born, probably the BBC World Service

Did you not watch the adult version Debs? I was just about right for watching both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.T.T.

Having said that, I've just watched a bit on youtube and my sense of humour has definitely moved on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteBNgVNYBI

2 minutes in is one of the many reasons for lenny henrys present mid life crisis.

What utter sh*te.
Monthy Python on another level.

Did you not watch the adult version Debs? I was just about right for watching both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.T.T.

Having said that, I've just watched a bit on youtube and my sense of humour has definitely moved on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteBNgVNYBI

2 minutes in is one of the many reasons for lenny henrys present mid life crisis.

You mean there was a difference? It wasn't just us kids that watched Tiswas. And I suspect that the reason why Tiswas always smashed the Multi Coloured Swap-shop in ratings was mainly down to dads and blokes in general having a penchant for Sally James.

Bernard Manning on a kids program I'll never forget the scene of when there was one of those Britain's self-confessed 'Strongest Man' characters trying to lift Manning and Big Daddy together at the same time in some type of yoke device with seats on either end - damaging and nearly breaking his back in doing so.

And the infectious Frank Carson, a regular from another retro tea time favourite - The Comedians.

Used to see Bob Carolgees off OTT and Tiswas in Hunts Cross all the time, minus his dog. He lived there not far from us. Would have asked for his autograph if Spit the gollying dog had been with him.

Random factotum for today, He owns a candle shop in Frodsham now.