This one is for older grans…..not ageist honestly!

We didn’t have a TV until I was 11 - very early 60s. However I do remember a similar ad - not an actual programme - when cling film was quite a new thing.

I don't remember the programme but I wonder if the presenter was the Scottish actress Molly Weir who was popular at that time?

Could the presenter have been Molly Weir, a Scottish actress who later appeared in tv adverts for Flash?

I definitely remember Katie Boyle doing the cling film demonstration though. When I tried it, my bowl of peas spilled all over the place!

DH never fails to remind me of it on the rare occasions I use cling film.

We lived in our grans back parlour no tv but I vaguely remember our gran getting one but we were not allowed in her sitting room.

We got a tv for the coronation and I vaguely remember the programme. It was only BBC then so no adverts.

I’m not an older gran (in fact not a gran at all!) but I think I might know what you mean.
Was it set in a house with a different thing happening in each room? Cooking or sewing or whatever.
Was it called Farmhouse Kitchen or something similar?
Or perhaps I’m thinking of a TV show from later on

Farmhouse Kitchen started in 1971, so it clearly wasn’t that. Sorry!

I was around at that time but we didn't get a TV till I was seven. I don't think at that age I would have watched that programme but my mum would have.

I remember the programme but have no idea what it was called. Wasn’t there also a male presenter? We didn’t have a television until 1958 so it would have been late 50s.

I’ve just googled Molly Weir.
She was born in 1910 so it could have been her; but she seems to have been doing quite big comedy TV roles and film work in the 50s

I have cook books from the series Farm house kitchen I used to love that programme.

We didn’t have tv then but might the lady be Molly Weir?

Note to myself , Read the b….y thread first

My curiosity has been piqued so I've done a very quick online search. Would the programme be called 'For The Housewife'? This was an afternoon show- still looking for presenters!

I remember Molly Weir very well. I don’t connect her with this programme though. Katie Boyle? Someone quite glamorous.

No it wasn’t Molly Weir I remember her. This lady was ( and here I am trying to choose my words carefully) of comfortable proportions, grey haired, probably about late fifties, though I find it difficult to put an age on anyone back then. There was a gentleman with her, but I can’t remember anything about him. She sticks in my mind because of my father’s aversion to tea bags, and the subsequent uncomplimentary comments when she appeared waving her box enthusiastically. They didn’t technically try to sell anything, more that they were displaying these wonderful new inventions, albeit mentioning their trade names.

I just read Katie Boyle's article on Wikipedia and noticed this

In Queen Elizabeth II: A Woman Who Is Not Amused by Nicholas Davies it is alleged that Boyle had a long-standing relationship with Prince Philip in the 1950s. Boyle told Gyles Brandreth: "It's ludicrous, pure fabrication. When it appears in print, people believe it. You can't take legal action because it fans the flames, so you just have to accept people telling complete lies about you."

Katek That could have been the title, but I seem to remember it was called a ‘Magazine’ programme, and I’m not sure that my father would have been watching a programme for housewives. I’ve been trying to pin down the approximate year, I think it was on for quite a while so I would probably say 1954-58. I’m basing this on the age I would be watching tv with my parents on Sunday afternoons! Thanks to you all for your interest.

Lexisgranny

No it wasn’t Molly Weir I remember her. This lady was ( and here I am trying to choose my words carefully) of comfortable proportions, grey haired, probably about late fifties, though I find it difficult to put an age on anyone back then. There was a gentleman with her, but I can’t remember anything about him. She sticks in my mind because of my father’s aversion to tea bags, and the subsequent uncomplimentary comments when she appeared waving her box enthusiastically. They didn’t technically try to sell anything, more that they were displaying these wonderful new inventions, albeit mentioning their trade names.

Was it ‘Doris Rogers’?

The name has just come to me, and didn’t Philip Harben, a chef with a beard, do some cooking on the programme?

(Am now going to look up DR)!

Maybe not Doris Rogers!

Philip Harben did a show with Marguerite Patten, could it have been her?

Not the programme you're asking about Lexisgranny but I can remember watching an afternoon ladies-only chat show called "House Party" on Southern television, I think in the 70s.

Guests rang a doorbell and were invited in, there were ladies demonstrating domestic skills or just chatting in the different rooms of the "house" and drinking coffee.
All very well groomed.

I used to watch it avidly and think how grown up it all seemed 🤣

We got our TV for the coronation and I can recall Philip Harben. He was a well built guy with a beard. But I dont recall the show with the clingfilm or teabags.

The name Katy Boyle reminds me of a Camay soap advert .Is this correct?

Unless it was BBC, it’s likely that your own TV region would put its own, local programmes out. So we might have had different programmes to you?
We didn't get a television until 1957.
But I remember Katie Boyle doing the advert later for cling film, my mother said it was ridiculous and would never work!