Early tv memories

We didn't have a tv until I was about 14, but when, in the early 1950s, my father was stationed on an army base in the wilds of Yorkshire, as a very special treat and as it was a small base with only a few children living there, all the children were allowed into the Officers Mess, which had a tv, a small black and white one, on Sunday afternoons to watch Muffin the Mule and another children's programme and then we were ushered out again.

Greyduster a solemn but proud occasion for you.

Watch With Mother at home, and I remember my mother hating Bill and Ben because she thought I’d end up talking like them. I loved Torchy the Battery Boy. I’ve a memory of watching Old Mother Riley while my grandmother made Sunday dinner. And all the Westerns. They seemed to be always on at the Saturday morning matinee at the local pictures too, which all the village children walked to in a big gang. I thought they were great.

I remember Christopher Trace from Blue Peter.

Having a nervous breakdown and sobbing for weeks when Heidi finished.

Cossy

Oooh and Black Beauty, Champion the Wonder Horse and White Horses. (Bit of a theme here, but I loved all three)

As a horse-mad child, those were mine too - the first single I ever bought was the theme to White Horses.

Grandmabatty I was on route lining duty with my platoon the day of Winston Churchill’s funeral. Our day had started at five o’clock and then hours of standing still in the bitter cold - I would much sooner have been watching it on tv but was proud to have been there.

Prudence Kitten is my first TV memory. I think she had a seafaring uncle who wore big boots.
Watch with Mother. Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy and Looby Lou, Rag. Tag and Bobtail, The Woodentops, Johnny Morris with his many voices and Crackerjack. This was a big favourite of mine and my friend Sue who lived across the road. They didn't have a TV in their house, so once a week she would come to tea, boiled egg and soldiers and a slice of my Mum's home-made cake and we would giggle away at Leslie Crowther and Peter Glaze. They used to say 'Don't get your knickers in a knot' which we thought was very funny and very rude.

We had television when I was born in 1949. My earliest memories are:
The Groves and The Appleyards.
For small children: Picture Book. Andy Pandy, The Flower Pot Men, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, The Woodentops defined the week from Monday to Friday.
Interludes!

I remember The Appleyards, and the Groves too. We didn’t have a tv but I used to watch at my next door neighbour’s. Muffin the Mule was a great favourite; Animal Magic and Zoo Quest. When my grandson was young, they re-ran Noggin the Nog on BBC and he was besotted with it. Me too, I have to say, having watched it with his mum when she was young, though her favourite was The Moomins!

Mr Turnip and HL from Whirligigs

Rag, Tag and Bobtail; The Woodentops; Bill and Ben; Andy Pandy and Picture Book with Patricia Driscoll who also played Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

The Grove Family
Watch with Mother
Muffin the Mule....

....Emergency Ward 10
Billy Cotton Bandshow
Pinky & Perky
Torchy

Our first tv was rented from DER, I think. I recall watching the funeral of Winston Churchill. I loved The Wooden Tops but wasn't keen on Tales of the River Bank. I remember watching Noggin the Nog and of course, The Magic Roundabout.

Oooh and Black Beauty, Champion the Wonder Horse and White Horses. (Bit of a theme here, but I loved all three)

Andy Pandy, Watch with Mother, The Wooden Tops, Tales of the Riverbank (one of my favourites), Animal Magic (another favourite, Blue Peter.

A Western on every evening around teatime.

Champion The Wonder Horse, The Lone Ranger, The Range Rider, Roy Rogers, Rin Tin Tin,….

Watch With Mother, Sooty And Sweep, Torchy The Battery Boy…

To name just a few.

Black and white by the way

We didn’t have a tv till after I left home but my Nan and Grandad had one when I was about 16, so what I remember, was watching wrestling, and the various cowboy series on Saturday afternoons, with my granddad, and Sunday evenings watching What’s my Line and Sunday night at the Palladium