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Old 04-08-2003, 13:49   #1
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Remember Childrens' Favourites, BBC radio. (Was it called the Light programme then?) Saturday mornings? Who was the guy who used to host it back in the fifties?

Sing Something Simple on Sunday nights after tea. Is it still going?

I remember seeing the Daleks for the first time (1963?)
Scared me to death!
Well - we'd never really seen anything like that before, and I was only 10! ;D
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Old 04-08-2003, 13:58   #2
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Ready Steady Go,
and first ever Top of the Pops

Watch with Mother in the afternoons before I started school
I think it was:
Picture Book - Monday
Andy Pandy - Tuesday
Bill & Ben - Wednesday
Rag Tag & Bobtail - Thursday
Woodentops - Friday

Am I right?
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Old 04-08-2003, 20:29   #3
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There was Four Feather Falls
Fireball XL5 ,Can anyone name the charicters ???
the tufty club
and Pinky and Purky
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Old 04-08-2003, 20:34   #4
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ho and the Magic Roundabout
used to love watching Z cars
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Old 05-08-2003, 07:19   #5
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Yes, Cazzer, you've got the Watch With Mother line-up spot on. Remember Johnny Morris as the Hot Chestnut Man and Eamonn Andrews presenting Crackerjack?

How about the Odeon Club at the pictures .."We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile..." etc etc
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Old 05-08-2003, 09:12   #6
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We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile
We come along on Saturday morning
Knowing it's well worth while
Because we're members of the Odeon Club
And we all intend to be, good citizens when we grow up
And champions of the free
We come along on saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a Smile, Smile, SMILE!
Greeting everybody with a Smile!


"I thought champions of the free meant the guy who used to pay to get in and then let all his mates in through the exit at the side of the toilets!"
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Old 05-08-2003, 09:41   #7
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[quote author=ASFC1951 link=board=nostalgia;num=1060004529;start=0#4 date=08/05/03 at 08:19:30]Yes, Cazzer, you've got the Watch With Mother line-up spot on. Remember Johnny Morris as the Hot Chestnut Man and Eamonn Andrews presenting Crackerjack?

How about the Odeon Club at the pictures .."We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile..." etc etc[/quote]

remember the Saturday morning pictures well. Flash Gordon.

Crackerjack also had Peter Glaze and was it Pip Hinton?

Don't remember the Chestnut Man, but remember Animal Magic.
Also Zoo Time.
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Old 05-08-2003, 11:47   #8
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Right try this there was on a saterday night No hiding Place
and a Drama called MOONSTRIKE im the only one that can remember this but as i was about 6 at the time dont know who was in it or what it was about.
everyone i have asked cant remember it can you or am i going gaga ???
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Old 05-08-2003, 11:52   #9
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Here's my TV history:
Playschool
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
The Wombles
Heidi
Fraggle Rock
Famous Five
Grange hill
..then I grew up!
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Old 05-08-2003, 12:39   #10
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I think the Hot Chestnut Man finished in about 1958, so probably before your time, Cazzer.

Ernie, you remembered the Odeon Club song word perfect. Only thing is we used to sing "good teddyboys" instead of "good citizens" (it was the 1950's after all). Then afterwards, to prove what tough nuts we were, we used to run across the road and walk along, balancing on top of that circular brick tunnel that covers the River Stink, before the recently-demolished market was built over it.
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Old 05-08-2003, 12:44   #11
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used to hang about the river stink area a lot, ASFC1951, used to go that way home from the flicks, lived on Bradshaw St, near where Sacred Heart school used to be.

Maybe we met!!
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Old 05-08-2003, 13:02   #12
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Maybe, Cazzer, I lived over the other side of Blackburn Road; Claret Street, just off Willows Lane. Not too far away really. Remember the underground? What a creepy, smelly place. No wonder they've bricked it up.










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Old 05-08-2003, 22:41   #13
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Vaguely, didn't used to hang round there though.

Used to live up Richmond Rd at one stage. Didn't go to Hannah St did you?
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Old 06-08-2003, 05:49   #14
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Circa 1936 -- Great excitement when our first "Wireless" was delivered from Willmans on Blackburn Rd -- somewhere near Bill Snape`s Motor Bike Shop, -- wow !!! Henry Hall playing " Rusty & Dusty Brown".
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Old 06-08-2003, 07:25   #15
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Nope, Cazzer, went to St Peter's (now demolished), 1956-62 and Accy Grammar (also now demolished!), 1962-69.
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