Ancient telly programmes

Tonight with Cliff Michelmore, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and calypsos sung by Cy Grant. My parents had it on every evening, my sister and I were so.......oo bored by it!

Dragnet, an American show, was it the one where they said “the names have been changed to protect the innocent”?

Our Man at St. Marks, with Donald Sinden and Kathleen Harrison I think..

So many old shows. Probably wouldn’t seem so good nowadays.

I have the complete series of Family at War on DVD and never tire of watching it.

Warship was another one I used to enjoy, Gunsmoke, Skippy...

What happened to all the cartoons they used to show...Tom and Jerry, The Roadrunner...

These have all brought back happy memories of our first television being delivered when I was five.

I also thought that if I switched it off half way through Blue Peter and went back 10 minutes later the programme carried on where it left off! Took my mother ages to get through to me it wasn’t like a book that I could stop reading at page 10 then carry on later!

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Yes, I certainly remember The Grove Family. I can even remember the theme tune.
Quatermass and the Pit had me hiding behind dad's chair and I too remember The Appleyards and many others which are mentioned here.

I remember The Sandbaggers in the 70's it was a great spy series .A Saturday afternoon when I was wee would have been the Lone Ranger ,we were the only family in the street who had TV so all the kids piled in to sit on the floor ,drink Kia Ora orange and watch .

'Quatermass and the Pit' had a huge impact on me. I was about 11 and truly believed that aliens had an impact on our human life. Then in my thirties I saw another Quatermass programme that also massively affected me. It fitted in with the hippy generation and how they were influenced and 'harvested' by the aliens somehow, from Wembley Stadium.

The haunting 'Hulffity Puffity Ringstone Round' refrain still stays with me though I don't really know what it meant, in spite of drawing all the youngsters to their death.

It still feels relevant today IMO regarding mobile phones, social media, u-tube or other internet influences on young people. Did these writers know something we didn't or am I just being paranoid?

Rowan and Martin's Laugh in. (Lily Tomlin
The Forsyte Saga
Star Trek
Department S
Likely Lads
Monty Python's Flying circus
Ready Steady Go
The Rag Trade

So many. I did get out!

I remember a great series called Inheritance set in a Lancashire mill. John Thaw was in it. I’ve looked on line at his past tv appearances but it isn’t listed. Am I imagining this ?

I remember The Grove Family. And I’m sure there was another family programme called The Appleyards.

Ada and Walter----Irene Handel and Wilfred Pickles.

Yes I remember The Grove Family.
Family at War, which I saw the whole series this year on channel 81.

The Huggets

A for Andromeda - scary stuff

Adam Adamant.

Take your Pick

I don't remember The Grove Family annodomini but I do remember Compact and David Hunter.
Doomwatch an early science fiction series was also a favourite.

Does anyone remember the Grove Family? A prototype, pre-Corrie soap long forgotten. I can remember the old granny's complaint in every episode: 'I'm faint from lack of nourishment', in some kind of northern accent.
The there was another early soap - Compact, set in a women's magazine office, and much loved by my housemate, an aspiring journalist, cutting her teeth on a girls' magazine, and later to become a very distinguished editor.

I loved "Family at War" - I was pregnant with my first baby and my husband used to be out on the night it was on. So I used to put the electric blanket on, watch the latest episode and then pop into my lovely warm bed. All these years later I still remember what a treat this was..........it didn't continue when the baby arrived though!!

Dragonella - WOW ! How wonderful is that !
Yes we loved Bootsie and Snudge too. Alfred Marks was a wonderful actor, I remember seeing him in ‘An Inspector Calls’ many years ago at the theatre. He was great.
Other old telly programmes we loved included Crane starring Patrick Allen ( the voice of doom in the old Protect and Survive government nuclear survival video ) and Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan. No Hiding Place was another great favourite. I can still remember the outside shots of posh flats that used to have the caption St John’s Wood underneath them !
Growing up in a two up two down in a rough part of Liverpool it represented something far removed from our home environment ! We thought it was amazing and the idea of someone owning A TABLE LAMP was the sign of real success in life. How that makes me laugh now !

Remember it? My DH's father was IN it!

Loved Bootsy and Snudge and Corporal Hoskins lol.