I was around when tele first came out

[Bobbisox]

Hard to believe I know..PMSL
but there was some great stuff on then and even into the 80/90s
I can remember our house being full to bursting as we had a tele, people came to watch the Coronation
good programmes like Little House on the Prairie for a weekly cry
and Wagon Train, Circus Boy, and good game shows
none of this BB cr@p, this was when the Beeb cared about it's customers

Bobbi ♥

[tankardking]

I was a TV engineer in those days. The technology has improved beyond belief but the programme content and entertainment factor has gone down the plug hole. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing.

[twizzle2]

i wasnt born.i`ve no idea what wagon train or clown boy are..

[boxtops]

Champion the Wonder Horse - I used to have to go next door to watch that one, we didn't get a telly until 1963.

[jno]

British TV began in 1932, so you must be older than you look! I'm told they interrupted a Mickey Mouse cartoon to announce that war had been declared, then went off the air; they started again after the war in the middle of the same cartoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Television

[craft1948]

We couldn't afford a television until I was about 8 and even then it was one with a slot on the side where you put in half-crowns (early pay to view).So if my dad had no spare money there was no tele.
We listened mostly to the radio via Radio Relay which was cabled to a box just inside the window, and for which I think we paid a weekly rental.
Sunday was Family Favourites, the Goon Show and Educating Archie, the latter being hilarious 'cos it was a ventriloquist on the radio!!

[dothawkes31]

we got a tele in 1958, when we moved from Mytholmroyd to Ormskirk cos for the first time my parents lived somnewhere where people copuld deliver to! We had lived on a farm on the top of Cragg Vale before that. There were only 2 channels then and tv went off about 11.30! Well i remeber them playing the national anthem at the end of the day, oh and we used to use the phrase 'til the white dot disapears' cos the screen shut down, not like now where it is always showing something.

[bibblebub]

"...good programmes like Little House on the Prairie..."

this must be a wind up

[dothawkes31]

lol. is this a case for the defence or the prosecution???? It's anyone's guess, lol , are you stuck in a time warp or something?

[Bobbisox]

hell no jno the coronation was 1953..lol

[jno]

you're right about Educating Archie, craft... do you remember the excitement when Felicity Kendall did a nude scene in a Tom Stoppard play? That was on radio too.

[Everhelpful]

Best show on then was Mark Saber.

[Bobbisox]

Just to inform pondlife...oops parklife
I have reported them !

[craft1948]

no I must have missed that jno.......I didn't know about Archie being a dummy for years and felt a bloody dummy for listening to it.......

[Bobbisox]

maybe I do know you I don't know, if I do please refrain from calling dot and craft and all will be well..ok

[dothawkes31]

My mum used to tell us about archie andrews on the radio and how everyone was fascinated by it and even though they knew it was a dummy, they never thought anything odd about it lol

[Bobbisox]

I use to love Sunday afternoon radio
Rays a Laugh
The goon show
yes I suppose nostalgia is a good thing...sometimes..lol
Billy Cotton Band Show

[craft1948]

The scariest things ever were The Day of The Triffids serialised on the radio and Quatermass and The Pit on tele............my sister and I used to go to bed petrified.