Nostalgia

This is going back a bit - does anyone else remember The Box of Delights, a serial on Children's Hour? I heard some of the music from it when I was nearly 20, years later, I froze with the powerful nostalgia it evoked and felt the same thrill again.

Even older Journey into Space.

Yes Galen, Bennys knitted hat and Miss Diane!

Crossroads?

Eloethan, that goes back a bit. I was sharing a house with a friend whose ambition was to work on a women's magazine and she insisted on watching Compact. I'm glad to say that she ended up as editor of a highly prestigious magazine - probably not using Compact as an example. Maybe an example of how not to do it.

Nice to see you grew up with some American shows I saw too. wish we could of had your t.v. Shows to watch.

Just waiting for Sunday lunch, smelling the roast beef cooking - listening to The Billy Cotton Bandshow, and also The Clitheroe Kid. Happy times.

Do you remember the soap "Compact" set in the offices of a women's magazine?

Or "The Newcomers" - on a new housing estate?

A for Andromeda - loved it, but it scared the life out of me.

Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Journey Into Space on the radio and 77 Sunset Strip on TV.

1950s/1960s radio. Hearing listen with mother, then womens hour. Journey into space ?1950s radio childrens favourites Two way family favourites on Sunday. The 60s brought the delights of The Navy Lark The Men men from the Ministry. Now available on radio 4 extra.
Having to listen to Any Questions my parents had on every week.
Some of the questions were gems of awfulness. but reflected the times
in my memories were
At what age should boys be allowed to wear long trousers?
What about footballers hugging each other on the field?

Is West Side story a suitable film for Princess Margaret to attend for the Royal Command perfomance? (I think because of the Gang violence.

I still hate that program. I think I was traumatised at an early age!

My parents didn't get a television until BBC 2 came in about 1964 I was 16. I think by then my father had finally accepted that television was not the devils work. It was not easy to grow up without television I vowed never to inflict that on my children.

Radio Luxumberg which used to fade in and out and listening to "Dan Dare -- pilot of the future" that was on at 7.15pm , I used to listen to it in my pyjamas eating supper just before bed. Also "We are the Ovaltinies, litlle boys and girls"

As children my brother and me, sitting around the living room fire in our little terraced house, in the dark and listening with our parents to 'Lost in Space' on the radio.

Ah! nostalgia is just not what it used to be!

Andy Pandy

'Goodnight, children...everywhere.' Very soothing.

He attracted a bit of criticism for being too well-spoken, but I loved his voice.

Greatnan I used to love Uncle Mac and my kids had tapes of all those songs to listen to in bed.
Now my ds has bought the same tape to play for his baby, and he sings along to her!
Long live Uncle Mac!

TV was not available when I was a child - we just had Uncle Mac on the wireless, and Children's Favourites on a Saturday morning. The records chosen were usually Nellie the Elephant or The Runaway Train -in those far off days young children did not listen to teenagers' songs about love, loss and sexual longings!

The presenter of picture book (or was it story book? ) mentioned above was Murial Young

The childrens' programme Rubovia was my favourite. I could never find anyone who remembered it until some one pointed me in the direction of the Rubovia website!

Nellie, Archie Andrews was the dummy - the ventriloquist was Peter Brough and apparently he was not very good at it!
We had no TV until I was 18, in 1958, when my selfish father hired one that had to have 6d (about two and a half pence) in the slot, so he could just watch his own programmes.
We listened to the Radio all the time. Thursday nights were comedy night - Ray's a Laugh (Ted Ray), Take it from Here (Jimmy Edwards) and Life with the Lyons (Bernard Braden and Barbara Lyons). Later, we had 'Ancocks 'alf hour' which transferred to TV.
ITM (It's that man again) was hugely popular and gave rise to many catch phrases - Can I do your now, Sir?
The Navy Lark and Round the Horne introduced Julian and his 'friend' Sandy.
I remember all the theme songs, plus many others, such as 'Rawhide'.

No-one has mentioned Callan. I used to love it. Remember Lonely? Good job we didn't have smellyvision.

My friends used to watch emergency ward 10 and Grove Family, but Mum disapproved of both. (Emergency was 'too daft' and the Groves were too smug if I remember rightly)

I loved the early Star Treks too, and Z cars. And The Sweeny.

I reckon I loved the radio more in the early years - Radio Luxemburg and Radio Caroline, and The Goons on the BBC. We used to re-live he Goon Show on the school bus the next morning. Funny - it was so hard to learn our verb tables and poetry and Shakespeare quotations - but we could reproduce the Goons script dead easily!!!!

I saw all the cowboy programmes so as I could see the horses, I was horse mad. I'd regularly would watch 'Champion the Wonder Horse', 'My Friend Flicka' and 'Fury' (a black horse that seemed to spend all it's life rearing up, shaking its head and neighing - wonderful stuff!!!)

I seem to remember Billie(??) Bean and his funny machine was that Whirligig too Anagram? And the death of Eric Sykes reminds me of his "Sykes" programmes, he was a very funny man.