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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I'll be turning 50 in Spring and i don't give a pig's fart. I'm determined to grow old disgracefully.

So here's an opportunity to reminisce over your childhood. What is the earliest childrens television you remember enjoying? For me it was Bagpuss and The Clangers.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Godzilla, with his awesome boy Godzuki

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By *cd and scruffCouple
over a year ago

Rochester

Watch with mother.

Andy pandy

Muffin the mul......oops.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watch with mother here too..

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By *allisto2000Woman
over a year ago

Stafford ish

Andy Pandy, Black Beauty &

Magic Roundabout..... "Time for bed", said Zebedee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

The earliest I remember are Rainbow, Button Moon and Let's Pretend (a show that nobody ever remembers but for some reason I can still recall the theme song after all these years

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

Up above the trees and houses, Rainbows flying high... paint the whole world with a Rainbow.... Oh, Geoffrey!!

A house with a door, windows.. 1, 2, 3, 4..What's the day? Ready to play? What's the day....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pogles wood and Ivor the engine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bagpuss

Clangers

Magic Roundabout

Fingerbobs

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By *notherGirlTV/TS
over a year ago

Somewhere

Marine Boy is my earliest TV memory.

And Captain Scarlet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seasme Street.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Up above the trees and houses, Rainbows flying high... paint the whole world with a Rainbow.... Oh, Geoffrey!!

A house with a door, windows.. 1, 2, 3, 4..What's the day? Ready to play? What's the day....

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my mum used to fancy Brian cant

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

"Up above the trees and houses, Rainbows flying high... paint the whole world with a Rainbow.... Oh, Geoffrey!!

A house with a door, windows.. 1, 2, 3, 4..What's the day? Ready to play? What's the day....

my mum used to fancy Brian cant"

I could never pronounce his name properly haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Secret squirrel lol x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Marine Boy is my earliest TV memory. "
first thing I ever watched on a colour tv

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

Andy Pandy (who I hated and wanted to smack), the Woodentops and Bill and Ben.

All in black and white of course, that's how old I am

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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog."

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

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By *xycpl699Couple
over a year ago

kilmarnock

watch with mother and the magic roundabout. hollie

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Pogles Wood, Tales From The Riverbank, The Woodentops, Andy Pandy are probably the earliest that I can remember watching - all in black and white

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

Radio 4...Listen With Mother..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When BBC 2 first started broadcasting in colour, the used to run a load of short programs through the day, always remember on about buying and Bola showing life in south East aisa

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Radio 4...Listen With Mother.."

Yep that and Family Favourites with Ed Stewpot Stewart on Radio 2 (I think) was the other children's radio show I remember (or perhaps given the thread it should be wireless show!!

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

"Radio 4...Listen With Mother..

Yep that and Family Favourites with Ed Stewpot Stewart on Radio 2 (I think) was the other children's radio show I remember (or perhaps given the thread it should be wireless show!!

We used to rent our television

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Andy Pandy (who I hated and wanted to smack), the Woodentops and Bill and Ben.

All in black and white of course, that's how old I am

Wow, you certainly don't look it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Andy Pandy and The Woodentops, in black and white.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Radio 4...Listen With Mother..

Yep that and Family Favourites with Ed Stewpot Stewart on Radio 2 (I think) was the other children's radio show I remember (or perhaps given the thread it should be wireless show!!

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We used to rent our television

Radio Rentals, Granada or Rediffusion?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pogles Wood, Tales From The Riverbank, The Woodentops, Andy Pandy are probably the earliest that I can remember watching - all in black and white"

I don't remember Tales from Pogle Wood being in black and white, but I do remember watching it though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

They were narrated by a lovely posh man.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

They were narrated by a lovely posh man."

I'm going to look on YouTube tonight. I fancy a dose of nostalgia

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

They were narrated by a lovely posh man."

I think everything and anything on BBC in the 60s was narrated in 'posh' received pronunciation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

They were narrated by a lovely posh man.

I think everything and anything on BBC in the 60s was narrated in 'posh' received pronunciation. "

We should all have grown up with plummy accents.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

They were narrated by a lovely posh man.

I'm going to look on YouTube tonight. I fancy a dose of nostalgia"

I'm looking for Pogle Wood now.

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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago

A box at end of your bed

Omg I must be old I remember everything listed in all the post in thread. All good memories

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Is it true that The Magic Roundabout was originally French and that the English narrator didn't bother with translation and made up the stories based solely on the pictures?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Pogles Wood, Tales From The Riverbank, The Woodentops, Andy Pandy are probably the earliest that I can remember watching - all in black and white"

Those were the days!

Used to love a bit of Casey Jones as well

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

My fav though had to be the Flowerpot Men...flobalop

Libob weeeed. Its a miracle we grew up able to speak. Andy Pandy didn't talk at all Bill and Ben spoke nonsense and I don't recall the woodentops talking.

They were narrated by a lovely posh man.

I think everything and anything on BBC in the 60s was narrated in 'posh' received pronunciation.

We should all have grown up with plummy accents."

We didn't

but even now I'm amazed how often London /home counties accents are still described as 'posh' by some Northerners!

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By *pider-WomanWoman
over a year ago

Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth, Truro

Magic roundabout

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worked out the other day that when the Simpsons started I was 2 years younger than Bart.

Now I'm 2 years younger than Homer. That hurt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hector from Hector's House used to scare me.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Watch With Mother. The Woodentops were a favourite of mine with Spotty dog.

I loved spotty dog. All the kids in the street would try to imitate his walk.

Ma cousin was brilliant at that

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

"Is it true that The Magic Roundabout was originally French and that the English narrator didn't bother with translation and made up the stories based solely on the pictures? "

Don't know about that but it was Emma Thompson's dad wasn't it?

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

"Radio 4...Listen With Mother..

Yep that and Family Favourites with Ed Stewpot Stewart on Radio 2 (I think) was the other children's radio show I remember (or perhaps given the thread it should be wireless show!!

)

We used to rent our television

Radio Rentals, Granada or Rediffusion?

Think it was Rediffusion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The earliest I remember are Rainbow, Button Moon and Let's Pretend (a show that nobody ever remembers but for some reason I can still recall the theme song after all these years

)."

I can recall the theme to let's pretend.

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By *otSoNewWalesCoupleCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I'll be turning 50 in Spring and i don't give a pig's fart. I'm determined to grow old disgracefully.

So here's an opportunity to reminisce over your childhood. What is the earliest childrens television you remember enjoying? For me it was Bagpuss and The Clangers.

Andy Pandy

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By *arnayguyMan
over a year ago

Durham Tees

Pestilence, rickets and laying siege to the next door village.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

Mary, Mungo and Midge

Trumpton. I recently found the episode on utube called Windy Miller gets d*unk. Its really funny but would not be allowed these days for kids to see

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hector from Hector's House used to scare me."

I’m just a silly old Hector

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cloppa castle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Captain Pugwash was all kinds of wrong

Fingerbobs puppeteer was creepy looking

Zippy .... ahhh zippy ... moody little bleeder

Surprised we didn’t all grow up warped ... oh though ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

has to be Andy Pandy and the clangers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is it true that The Magic Roundabout was originally French and that the English narrator didn't bother with translation and made up the stories based solely on the pictures?

Don't know about that but it was Emma Thompson's dad wasn't it? "

It was her dad, Eric.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Think the Woodentops was on on Friday?

We never had colour tv til 1976 so they were all in black and white.

Blue Peter and Chritopher Trace too.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

"The earliest I remember are Rainbow, Button Moon and Let's Pretend (a show that nobody ever remembers but for some reason I can still recall the theme song after all these years

I can recall the theme to let's pretend."

I knew there had to be someone else on the planet who remembered that show. Ok, all together now, "Let's Pretend is at an end, can you play at Let's Pretend..."

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

"Think the Woodentops was on on Friday?

We never had colour tv til 1976 so they were all in black and white.

Blue Peter and Chritopher Trace too. "

Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves were 'my' Blue Peter team. Plus Petra the dog and Jason the cat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Think the Woodentops was on on Friday?

We never had colour tv til 1976 so they were all in black and white.

Blue Peter and Chritopher Trace too.

Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves were 'my' Blue Peter team. Plus Petra the dog and Jason the cat

Down Shep.

Robin Hood was on Thursdays at the same time as Blue Peter, and my older brother had that on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mary Mungo and Midge

Captain Pugwash

Ivor the engine

Noggin the Viking

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By *ensualgent38Man
over a year ago

London & Edinburgh

Sleeping outside in the summer of 76 ??

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Chorlton and the wheelies

Let's pretend

Rentaghost

Pigeon street

The flumps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chorlton and the wheelies

Let's pretend

Rentaghost

Pigeon street

The flumps "

Awww yesssss rentaghost

Pipkin ... that rabbit was brilliant!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Champion the wonder Horse.

Chuk and PT ?

Why dont you.

Pipkins

Charlie says meow meow meow.

Public information films the one about jumping out of the boat. Eh up Petunia.........

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can remember Andy Pandy, but also Follyfoot Farm, Sky, Catweazle.Star Trek is pretty early in my memory too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Play school!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jackanory

Play School

And a bit later on Tiswas

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By *ensualgent38Man
over a year ago

London & Edinburgh

Anyone remember ‘listen with mother’?

Used to have juice and biscuit to that ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He-man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dont you open that trap door.........coz theres something down there.

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By *imandHerNottsCouple
over a year ago

North Notts

Jamie and his magic torch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The earliest I remember are Rainbow, Button Moon and Let's Pretend (a show that nobody ever remembers but for some reason I can still recall the theme song after all these years

I can recall the theme to let's pretend.

I knew there had to be someone else on the planet who remembered that show. Ok, all together now, "Let's Pretend is at an end, can you play at Let's Pretend..."

Yup I remember it too, thanks for the ear worm!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sport billy

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

Pipkins

Chiffon and the Wheelies

Wurzel Gummage

Multicolour Swap Shop

Grange hill With Tucker Jenkins and Benny Green through to Zammo

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By *i1971Man
over a year ago

Cornwall

Pipkins

Clangers

Fingermouse

Bagpuss

Ivor the engine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Terrorhawks, been with a few zeldas.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Take Hart with Tony Hart and Morph. I still regret never sending anything off for the Gallery.

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By *hoenixAdAstraWoman
over a year ago

Hiding in the shadows

John Cravens Newsround

I've always liked factual programmes

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Black Beaury

Magpie

Follyfoot Farm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Take Hart with Tony Hart and Morph. I still regret never sending anything off for the Gallery.

I used to regret not writing to Jim’ll fix it ... but then not obviously

ughhhh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll be 4O soonish, and I do give a swines pump.

I can remember watching The Dukes of Hazzard. I knew if I got to watch it from the very start, I'd be guaranteed to see the opening credits. And see Catherine Bach in her red bikini.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Take Hart with Tony Hart and Morph. I still regret never sending anything off for the Gallery.

I used to regret not writing to Jim’ll fix it ... but then not obviously

ughhhh "

A narrow escape.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember sitting watching the test card on bbc2 waiting for the children’s programmes to come on. It would be Andy pandy, bill and Ben, playschool. All in black and white x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rainbow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm fifty and I think my fab age will show it tomorrow . My birthday was a few months back and celebrated in the forums

I loved Tizwas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watch with mother def and in b&w very little options in 1960 and rented from rediffusion. Ahh get my zimmer frame out

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