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

Have found this under TV Advertising.

‘The hostess was always Doris Rogers. It was first aired on Sunday, September 16th, 1956, 5.55-6.10pm.

www.78rpm.co.uk

No title, could it have been ‘Shop In The Corner’?

Definitely Doris Rogers, and on a Sunday at tea time?
Surely this must be it?

player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-at-home-with-joy-shelton-an-advertising-feature-1955-online

Rogers
(Autocorrect!)

Could this be it?

At Home with Joy Shelton
With Joy Shelton, Doris Roger's and Wendy Ratcliff

www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b86d9ea0b

Another advertising programme before TV adverts.

Jimmy Hanley's wife in the programme was called Maggie.

His daughter, with Dinah Sheridan, is Jenny Hanley, who is a well-known actress and presented the children's programme Magpie.

‘Doris Rogers’ is still plaguing me though!

Have googled the name, but some actress comes up which isn’t right.

The OP spoke about how she recalled the woman looked, my vision of this person looks a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit plump and matronly.

Am sure we are thinking of the same black and white programme, but the name ‘Molly’ doesn’t sit right with me.

Germanshepherdsmum

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 think the do-it-yourself male presenter was Barry Bucknell. He always made a bookcase or something but all the holes were already made for him and he used a lot of Fomica.
I remember him because he did something called Flushing door and my gran got my father to do all her doors for her hiding all the Victorian mouldings. When he had finished she decided she liked them the other way best. that would have been late 50's.

www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/history-advertising-no-152-jims-inn/1370218

I see aquagran has already suggested Jim's Inn, apologies aquagran.

But it sounds very similar, if not that one.

Was it Jim's Inn with Jimmy Hanley and his wife Maggie? Set in a fictitious pub, a kind of early soap opera, but they introduced products too.

Calendargirl

Maybe not Doris Rogers!

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

I can't imagine Margeurite Patten using * clingfilm*, * Calendargirl*! 😁

I could be wrong of course

Oh my goodness

I wasn't alive till the 70s but I've just read this entire thread to see if you got your answer

I'm now completely invested

Fingers crossed for you, this sort of thing drives me around the bend. Hopefully it will pop into your head when you least expect it

varian

Was Katie Boyle not the original presenter of The Eurovision Song Contest, who impressed us all with her fluency in French so we all learned how to perfectly pronounce "nil points"?

Yes, and she was born Caterina Irene Elena Maria, Imperiali dei Principi di Francavilla and became a Boyle upon marriage, later marrying Sir Peter Saunders and becoming Lady
Saunders.

Douze Points!

Sorry Crosspost

Was it Fanny Craddok.She presented a programme with her husband.but I think it was mainly cooking

I remember Fanny Craddock demonstrating cookery, some of her recipes were horrendous. She was awful to her husband, they may not have even been married 😳He was her assistant.

Just a recap, it was definitely BBC, my mother used to remark that it was strange that products were being advertised. It was definitely Sunday afternoons, this would be the only time I would be watching tv regularly with both parents in the afternoon. My father would be working on weekdays and occupied with sport of some kind on Saturday afternoons. The lady was Molly something, but not Molly Weir. There was a man on the programme but I can’t remember anything about him, but I think it was more product based than DIY or anything like that.

I can see it all so clearly in my mind’s eye, but just cannot remember the name, so frustrating!

Yes Katie Boyle did the camay commercials 1987H200 I remember those well

Witzend, I haven't had milk in my tea for many years now, and if I do try it with milk it tastes greasy to me. So if that's weird at least you're not weird on your own.

I do disagree about leaf tea in a pot though. It's really a matter of knowing how much and for how long. I do pride myself on my precision tea-making! There was a myth once about "one spoon for each person and one for the pot", which makes the tea far to strong for me; two spoons only for my two-mug glass teapot (with strainer in the lid). That's a reminder that you should use the right-sized teapot – don't half-fill a big pot for all sorts of reasons. Also the water shouldn't be boiling but just on the point of boiling. That extra degree or two is critical, actually boiling water brings out the tannins that make the tea bitter. And for a small-leafed black tea three minutes to brew [mash, steep] should be plenty. After that I pour my tea and put the rest into a travel mug so it keeps hot without sitting on the leaves.

For me, loose-leaf tea will always be better than tea bags, which I have long suspected of harbouring the dust, twigs and mouse-droppings swept from the warehouse floor. Never trust what you can't see!

varian

I can't remember who ever promoted tea bags or thought they were a good idea.

I'm with the Granny who cut them open to put the leaves in the pot.

I still make my tea by puting leaves in the pot but I do buy a packet of tea leaves, I don't cut open teabags.

I wonder how much global warming has been caused over the last fifty years by the manufacture and use of totally unnecessary teabags?

Unnecessary to you, maybe! I don’t have milk in my tea (tastes vile to me with milk, which makes me very weird, I know) so a teabag quickly whipped out is essential.

Unless it’s very freshly made, leaf tea in a pot always tastes horribly stewed to me - ILs always had a big pot of ‘stewed’ for breakfast, so I soon learned to take teabags.

No TV them mum didn't have the money.

I remember we got our first tv when I was around 6 in the 1950s. I believed that the people on the tv could see into our lounge so I always behaved myself and did as I was told when the tv was on !

I don't know how far back you are going. Before Barry Bucknell there was a programme which went out on a Saturday afternoon called About the Home host was WPMatthew. It ended when he died in 1956. www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/category/wp-matthew/

I was a child in the 50s but sadly never got to see TV.
DH and I bought a TV when we got married in 1967, in hindsight I wish we hadn't bothered as programmes were rubbish.

I remember my Dad watching Barry Bucknall who had his own DIY show (he had a lot to answer for!) but prior to that he also had a spot on a show called About the Home.