Nostalgia

"Quatermass"???

Are you saying you don't remember Quatermass Ariadne ? Perhaps you are too young. It was first aired in the early 50s. http://www.birth-of-tv.org/birth/assetView.do?lang=en&asset=123173128_1117538575

'All Your Own' - looks rather patronising now but great fun at the time
The Woodentops and Spotty Dog
Dr Kildare and 'Adam' from Bonanza in my early teens made my knees go wobbly
Emergency Ward 10 was another favourite
Criss Cross Quiz
Take your pick [is that the one with everyone calling out 'open the box!'?]

The more I think about TV the more nostalgic I become. They don't make them like that any more.........

Sorry, forgot to 'blue' it. www.birth-of-tv.org/birth/assetView.do?lang=en&asset=123173128_1117538575

Perry Mason
The Golden Shot- Bernie, the bolt!
Criss Cross Quiz
Val Doonican show
Armchair Theatre
Comedy Playhouse
Bewitched
How
Magpie
Sale of the Century

Our TV was always rented- don't think anyone does that these days.

We used to rent our television from Redifusion. They sent the signal through cables so we didn't have to have an aerial. We got our radio from them to. It was a big wooden box rather than the small transistor type.

We didn't have a TV for quite sometime but we used to settle every afternoon for Listen with Mother.

We used to rent our tv from Radio Rentals and I seem to recall that we had cable tv also. For some reason one Saturday night we could not recieve a signal and dad knew that if he stuck a hanger in the back of the tv ( no health and safety then !!) we would get a signal and my sister and I would be able to watch the Monkees that was on that night

We rented from Radio Rentals as they had colour TV's first in our area. I loved: Forsyte Saga, The Pallisers, The 6 Wives of Henry V111, Elizabeth[with Glenda Jackson], I Claudius, Juke Box Jury, Ready Steady Go, Rhoda and the Mary Tyler Moore Show - Emergency Ward 10 [as students nurses we loved the so called doctors - [the actor of one is now and has been forever in Emmerdale], Likely Lads, The Good Life to name a few

Shysal no, I do remember it but must have been quite young to be watching it. But you couldn't go off up to your bedroom and watch something else then, could you?

Listen with Mother - yes!

Ever now and then one of the songs comes into my head:

I love little pussy, her coat is so warm
and if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.

It still irritates me that 'warm' and 'harm' don't rhyme!

The theme tune from Listen with Mother was called "The Dolly Song" I think. Occasionally it is played on Classic F.M and I am immediately transported to my childhood home sitting on the floor with my Mother in her arm chair. Not many children get the chance to listen with mother these days more likely listen with the child minder!

For Listen with Mother memories, including two of the tunes:
www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/radio/lwm.htm

I went out - but mostly stayed in - with the brother of someone who was in Emergency Ward Ten. I suddenly feel v. old.

Rag-Tag-and Bobtail. My very favourite until I was seven.

and I never went out with the brother of any of those.

The Listen with Mother memories certainly fill me with happy memories of my childhood. Didn't they speak 'properly' - not 'common' at all

I also used to enjoy Children's Favourites on a Saturday morning. Uncle someone or other who was superseded by Ed 'Stewpot'.

nuttynorah I just found your reply to my post thanks for that we all had our thinking caps on yesterday trying to remember who was down the garden.

Listen with Mother - that was when MY mother used to have her '5 minutes'! She would curl up on the armchair for her afternoon nap, as I sat and listened to the programme. The fire (with the guard up, of course!) would be crackling away, and the old pendulum clock tick-tocking on the wall. I still have that clock - still tick-tocks away, but no longer tells the right time!!

goldengirl It was Uncle Mac on Children's Favourites. That could be a whole new topic. remembering the records he played like "The Runaway Train" & " Sparky & the Magic Piano"

And puff the magic dragon...have only recently been told the title is not all it seems.does anyone remember Archie Andrews am sure he had one of those awful ventriloquy dolls ...creepy.
Bengo the boxer dog and yes Green the fire crackling and the peace listening to the radio especially after the morning there was Housewives choice cant remember who hosted it...it may have been Alan Freeman ,but there was a Jim something as well and what about workers playtime .and womans hour...and did anyone wait until mum and dad had gone out of the room and lift up their frock and 'roast their chestnuts'' making your bum and backs of the legs all red.

Life with the Lyons ("I'll die; I'll just die!")
Life of Bliss
Journey into Space
Animal, Vegetable and Mineral
Friday night is Music Night
the Man in Black
(I know, these are radio programmes)

The Groves
The Appleyards
Stranger than Fiction
Just William
Torchy the Battery Boy
I love Lucy
What's my Line
Bilko
Rin Tin Tin

OH, and Adrian Hill's art programmes and Tony Hart! How could I have forgotten Tony Hart!

Thanks Nuttynorah Uncle Mac it was. Isn't it funny that we used to call our parents' friends 'uncle' or 'auntie'. At least I did. Nowadays it's either first names or 'Grandma GG' as my GC's friends call me. I don't like my first name used by little people.

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
The Magic Boomerang
Circus Boy- think that was Mickey Dolenz long before he was in the Monkees
3-2-1 with Dusty Bin

I loved Andy Pandy and Listen with Mother at lunch times. Bonanza - the one where Hoss tries to find a leprachaun had me in stitches as a kid! My mum watched the Black and White minstrel show so I watched with her and I loved the one with the deep voice becasue he sang like my Uncle Ron did and Uncle Ron had a lovely deep nutty voice!

Dixon of Dock green was a regular Saturday night fave. Oh how we were pleased at very simple things. Not like nowadays where it's all got to be zippy and zappy and in yer face..

Mind you when I'm trying to get some peace and babysitting my gorgeous grandson The Midnight Garden does seem to do the trick. Night night higgle piggle or whtever your name is...