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New TV memories site

I hope its free. I like watching TV Gold on sky but can only watch it at the stepsons. Modern Comedy leaves me cold. Some one wrote in the paper that the likes of Dads Army was not funny. I admit actors were not screaming obscenities at the tops of their voices as is todays comedy. I appreciate comedies that give me a chuckle by a subtle line or action not by the the amount of swear words per minute. I am no prude , I just find profanities tiresome.
 
It's only going to be on Freesat & Sky & apparently mostly music based fronted by Paul Gambaccini. so don't hold your breath for TV Gold type comedy programmes unfortunately.


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Television viewers aged 50 and over - who are fed up with broadcasters' obsession with youth and declining standards - may have an alternative to switching off their sets.
A digital channel is being launched for long-suffering older audiences wistful for the golden age of broadcasting.
Vintage TV will cover music, culture, fashion and trends from the 1940s to the 1980s.
This means classic shows such as the Old Grey Whistle Test, Rock And Roll Years and the South Bank Show could make a return to screens.
The channel will also show classic entertainment shows, iconic concerts, interviews and hit films including My Fair Lady, the Commitments, and Singing In The Rain.
Veteran broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has already been signed as a face for the channel, while journalist Lesley-Ann Jones will host a talk show.
Stars such as Roger Daltrey, Debbie Harry and Rick Wakeman are also set to appear.
Vintage TV is also working with directors to create films for music which graced the charts prior to 1976, when music videos did not exist.


 
How i agree......Give me ..(Shows) Open all Hours...To the Manor Born...One Foot in the Grave.. Steptoe &Son.
(Comedians) ... Ken Dodd..Tommy Cooper...Les Dawson....Any Day.
 
Has anyone watched BBC4 tonight - hop skip and jump. Kids were playing hop scotch, rolling a tyre with a stick, fencing with sticks, boys climbing trees with calls of cowardt cowardy custard if they wouldnt climb. What an unexpected treat.
 
what about Ameon andrews and elisebeth barnet grace kelly ;
whats my line ; sunday evening on bbc as i recall fabion of the yard ; late sunday nights ;
or fanny craddock and johny in the kitchen tea times sunday
or billy bunter of grey friers school every sunday afternoon week in and week out
we would settle down on the floorwith a lot of sweets from wettons sweet shop on lichfield rd
then the penny wink man would walk up the terrace shouting penny winks ;penny a jar
the old lady would give us a pin each to pick out these grubby things and watch billy bunter for an hour
oh what viewing , none of these silly adverts in those days ;; those were the days my friends ; we thought they never end , ---- now did we not ; best wishes Astonian ;;;
 
Another member of the "Whats my Line " panel was Gilbert Harding. A blue plaque on The Hereford Work House, still standing at Hereford Hospital, records his birth there. Just how he went from the workhouse to become a TV celebrity known for his bad tempered, whisky fuelled tantrums on the BBC I have no idea.Like a number of TV celebrities he was generous in his donations to Hereford charities.
 
good morning arkrite
many thanks for your reply i completely forgotten gilbert ;yes i thought always him being soleam face and dry
and thanks for telling me his history and where the plaque is ; i never knew he came up from the work house
before stardom ; but he went on abit further in his carrrer did he not ;
do you remember michael benteen and his bumbles i think they was called
also doyou remembe lockeard and i think it was johnny briggs from corrie played oppersite him if i am correct ;
have a nice day arkrite always look for you threads great ; best wishes Astonian ;;;
 
The first soap on ITV I can remember was Compact which was about a magazine and starred Ronald Allen who went on to star as David Hunter in Crossroads.
 
Try again ,I am having finger trouble today which wipes out my posts.
Emergency Ward 10 was my first soap. It appeared to be full of Australians who played doctors and blondes who played nurses. You also had Dr Kildare. Being in Back and White you had to use your imagination if you wanted added gore. Many USA based series were popular then just as they are now. Highway Patrol, Dragnet, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip ( with its own finger clicking theme tune ) the list goes on. If it were not for these shows the TV schedules would have been a bit thin.
Many actors moved from film to TV in the 50s and as a result made a good living, long careers and found fame which they probably would have missed if they had stuck with film parts. Johnny Briggs can be seen as a child actor, Teenage hoodlum before becoming Lockarts assistant. The recipe of a ranking Police Officer investigating with a regular assistant was a new twist then but it has been repeated with great success since . Softly Softly,The Sweeney, Morse, Lewis and finally Midsommer Murders all use the same set up. Apologies to the others I have not named.
I can remember watching the first Coronation Street. It was so much more Gritty back then shown before colour TVs. Looking back and comparing drama on TV it is not so different now as it was then. It is still of high quality. What has changed is the mind numbing Reality TV shows, Comedy shows , rejection game shows and talk shows in which somebody bares their soul fore half an hour and holds it up for ridicule. Even documentaries are dumbed down and the contents Hyped up. Much of the content already known but anything to make a film.
 
Also......Monday.....Picturebook
Tuesday.....AndyPandy
Wed. .......Flowerpot Men
Thurs Rag tag &Bobtail
Fri Woodentops.
Loved Mr Pasrty.....Muffin the Mule......The Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid.......
 
HI Izzy
you must have a great memory for remebering the grove family, and yes it was on a sunday night
just before we went to bed as kids and the old man leaving the old dear on her own whilst he went to the golden cross pub on the cross
davpen; you have mentioned a fair few of cow boys but what about hoppy long cassidy ;
or gene audry or champion the wonder horse and jim ;
arkrite my mate ; are you aint scouring old BBC times manuals ;
you have got one hell of a memory to recall all those programes ; i myself do recall them now you have written them down for us al but i could not have done it with out having time to ponder ;
brillient arkrite; we shall have to put you forewared to appear on master mind ; ah ;our kid ;
best wishes Astonian ;;;
 
Astonion . My memory can be very good at times. The further back you go the better it is. My short term memory is terrible. I forget where my glasses are, what I was supposed to be doing, and the correct word to use.
If you think of my memory as an over crowded warehouse, I may not instantly remember but it will come to me eventually if I rumage around. Other times things will pop out of the blue and I will waste hours on the internet chasing the idea. I only wish I could have a memory with better housekeeping then perhaps I could have become a proper scholar, got a degree and made something of myself. I would have now a gold plated pension and money in the bank.

As it is I have a mental junkshop of useless paraphernalia and empty pockets..
 
davpen said:
Also......Monday.....Picturebook
Tuesday.....AndyPandy
Wed. .......Flowerpot Men
Thurs Rag tag &Bobtail
Fri Woodentops.
Loved Mr Pasrty.....Muffin the Mule......The Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid.......
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My goodness I remember all those. When you think what little ones have now CBeebies all day long...
 
On re- reading this thread I have just realised something. Being shown on subscription channels the public will ONCE AGAIN have to pay to watch them. Both my parents and myself have already paid for these programmes by what right does the BBC have to charge for us to see them again. On top of that BBC management was responsible for thousands of taped programs being bulldozed into landfill. Many series are now incomplete or lost for ever. Perhaps if the BBC did not produce so much rubbish today there would be less call for nostalgia.
Whatever happened to " Potter " ( Auther Lowe ) ? I can only remember seeing that series once.
 
I much preferred the original, analogue, Test Card F designed by the eight-year-old girl, Carole Hersee's, father which lasted to 1991. She was always playing noughts and crosses with the scary Bubbles the Clown. First broadcast on 2 July 1967 (the day after the first colour pictures appeared to the public on television) on BBC2. I always thought she was about to make a wrong move...
 
HI GUYS
Come on hands up and show your hands; how many of you remember
BILLY BUNTER ; of grey friars school it was on every sunday aroud 4 oclock on the old BBC TV;
we all used to watch him with a bag of rocks in our hands scoffing and laughing ;
mind you there was not a great lot in those days except for fabian of the yard which was also on the night
hae a great day guys ; best wishes astonon ;;;
 
Anyone out there remember Hank - a glove puppet and Mexican Pete The Bad Bandit ? There was also The Cisco Kid with hs sidekick Pancho. Whilygig with H.L. (Humphrey Lestoq) and Mr.Turnip. The Appleyards, a bit like the Grove Family (where's me elevenses). All this was before ATV started in the mid 50's when the BBC used to close down at 6 'o' clock to put the kids to bed! Remember the occasional 'interlude' with The Potters Wheel ?

When ATV started we had Noele Gordon and Lunch Box with Jerry Allen and his Trio - Allan Graham on vibes, Lionel Hamden(?) on drums and Ken Ingermells (?) on double bass. I think a chap called Roy Edwards was a regular singer on there too.

Blimey I feel old!

Bob
 
Does anyone remember "The Onedin Line" ?.I never saw it first time around,I was to busy trying to earn enough to feed my little breadsnappers.:rolleyes:
However,they are doing a repeat on a sky channel,it's dated,corny and badly acted,but we are enjoying it.:rolleyes:
As for comedy watch out for "Boston Legal" it's hilarious.:D.
 
Well I tried the site today and enjoyed what I saw and there was some good old Rock on there for a start and plenty of 1930 & 40s music:cool:

Yes and they played Dame Vera a few times
 
carolina said:
The first soap on ITV I can remember was Compact which was about a magazine and starred Ronald Allen who went on to star as David Hunter in Crossroads.
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Margot out of "The Good Life" had her first job there and "Johnny remember me" by John Leyton was started as a storyline. The Show was awful...we called it "compost" in our house.
 
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