Nostalgia

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!

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

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!

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!

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

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

Andy Pandy

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

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.

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"

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.

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

Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

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.

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

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

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.

Crossroads?

Yes Galen, Bennys knitted hat and Miss Diane!

Even older Journey into Space.

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.

Daisyanswerdo The Box of Delights - the music was from Victor Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony ^- from memory it began with a harp figure, and then The First Noel, quietly, on the low strings, over it... it ^sounded like a frosty night! I think it was recorded by Dolf van der Linden and the Metropol Orkester ?

I remember How Do You View with Terry-Thomas - he and Arthur Askey were the first to get to grips with the new medium.

US shows included I Married Joan, The Phil Silvers Show and of course Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in I Love Lucy.

One night we watched Wagon Train... they were fighting their way across the US in torrential rain and gales. My mother murmured 'Oh, look at that terrible rain', and my father said 'Yes - and you've got washing out on the line' - she was up and out into the garden in record time... where it was a balmy summer evening! She laughed as much as the rest of us did!

That should have read "Victor Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony - from memory it began with a harp figure, and then The First Noel, quietly, on the low strings, over it... it sounded like..."

Still no edit facility? Tsk...

Oh Feetlebaum, you`ve brought back some memories with your mention of Wagon Train, I used to sit and drool something rotten whenever Robert Horton (Flint McCullough) was in a scene, he was gorgeous!

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