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Watch this postWondered if anyone had any chat about 70s TV?
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From what I remember, Marine Boy was on first but I have vague memories of Zokko! a pinball type machine. Very little survives of this and not much on You tube.
Then there was the legendary Banana splits. This was a must on Saturday with the cartoons and other manic stuff with the cuckoo and the sour grape bunch. I wonder what happened to the little girl in the opening sequence? She would be in her 60s now. I always wanted one of those buggies too!
There would be Tarzan and then a film. World of Sport or grandstand would be on.
Another favourite was Here come the double deckers, where I found my first tv crush! I was only young but Gillian Bailey was lovely!
Saturday evenings were a treat back then for us young ones. Basil Brush with Derek Faulds and later Roy North. Metal Mickey, and then of course the infamous Jimmy Savile. Dr Who had us hiding behind the sofa, then the Generation game.
The Rockford files, then Saturday night at the movies would show films like The lost world and Valley of Gwangi.
There was a series on Sunday lunchtime which we really liked, and that was Model World with Bob Symes.
This gave a real insight into modelling. Does anyone else remember this?
We loved Black beauty too along with The Muppet show.
Sorry, I know you put up this post years ago, but I've only just found this website. I very much remember 70s tv. My family moved house in 1967, so for the first 10 years of my life we had only one channel (bbc) and, of course, black and white. So to suddenly have the option of two channels was incredibly exciting.
We found the adverts as interesting as the programmes. What were your top three favourites, and were you a Magpie person or Blue Peter.
I was recently saying to my brother how I miss the order of life from the 70s. Getting home from school - firstly Playschool, then Jackanory (although I was a bit old for both) then whatever was scheduled concluding with The Magic Roundabout, or Willow the wisp, Roobarb and Custard etc before the early evening news. I can't even get cbbs now, so am stuck with endless quiz programmes during what used to feel like the golden hour !!!
Don't know if you feel the same?
Happy memories though, he?
Jacqui.
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Thanks for replying. Absolutely spit on about Magpie being the poor relation to Blue Peter. I haven't seen Blue Peter for years now, but remember how engaging it was - sending in tin foil for the Tractor for Africa appeal (or was it guide dogs?) . I think I had a bit of a crush on John Noakes and Peter Purves.
What makes me feel old now is seeing Sophie Ellis Bextor on television and remembering when her mother Janet Ellis was laid up with measles while expecting aforesaid daughter. I was too young to see the very early Coronation Streets, but remember seeing Crossroads at a friends house when invited for tea. We had to sit in silence until it was finished.
Did you succeed in changing careers and becoming a farmer?
Jacqui.
I was very interested to hear about your farming career. Although I'm a city dweller now I was brought up in the west country so surrounded by farms both land and livestock. I even toyed with the thought of taking up veterinary medicine while in my teens, then realised it would also involve mercy Killing of animals and didn't think I had the right constitution for that. The smell of hay and cow poo takes me back to my childhood though.
I realised after I replied before that I hadn't responded on your view of graphic violence being the new entertainment, and 95 per cent agree with you. I'm holding back the 5 per cent because I adore the series Killing Eve on BBC 1. It is graphic, but tempered by the comic noir factor. I love the fact it can have me covering my eyes one moment and laughing the next. In general though we have moved on from the days of The Sweeney into a darker place where violence is seen as common place. Also fuelled with disturbing psychological games on the internet. I did catch a glimpse of a scene from Dixon of Dock Green on a nostalgic tv programme last week, with George Dixon cuffing a child round the ear - so maybe this was the start of the downward spiral !!
Jacqui.