What did you watch when you was a nipper? - Page 15

martin01 · 19-07-2010, 17:06

oh dear Jaysay - you've got me into trouble again - I never meant to offend you but apparently I did and after your report to the super moderator he has told me to cool it -
so it's a stand off - go well mate

steeljack · 20-07-2010, 07:08

the thing about the 1960s "All our Yesterdays " was it was only showing stuff 25 years old ... (historical stuff to us kids at the time ) if they did a program like that today it would be 1985 ......not really history to me or other "coffin dodgers" , wondered what our parents/grandparents generation thought of the program

martin01 · 20-07-2010, 16:19

well steelie - they projected that 'in the future' we would only have to take a tablet to supplement our diet - so no need for food! - in actual fact it has been the opposite - the Western world face a health crisis for obesity - hence the onslaught of diabetes type 2 -
at the time I thought the programme was quite innovative - time proved otherwise - you can hark back to Nostradamus who (in the same vein) thought he could 'see' into the future - unfortuanetly another charlaton - I say leave it to the scientific pioneers who because of their strict discipline of PROOF will (only slowly) show us the way.

Stumped · 20-07-2010, 18:10

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I remember it Stumped, think it used to be on around 6pm on a Saturday night, always opened with a shot of Alexandra Place with the TV antenna on top with air waves radiating from it, can remember the music though

Just found this on Wiki

In Town Tonight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or maybe this is better

In Town Tonight

You've got me stirring the old grey matter, Jaysay. I too recall a program that started with the pulsing radio mast at Alexandra Palace, but no matter how much I stir, I can't for what's left of the life in me come up with the name of the program. Could it have been ITN news?

jaysay · 20-07-2010, 18:14

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Originally Posted by Stumped

You've got me stirring the old grey matter, Jaysay. I too recall a program that started with the pulsing radio mast at Alexandra Palace, but no matter how much I stir, I can't for what's left of the life in me come up with the name of the program. Could it have been ITN news?

It could just have been the introduction for a show like Whats my Line or This is your life Stumped

cashman · 20-07-2010, 18:28

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Originally Posted by Stumped

You've got me stirring the old grey matter, Jaysay. I too recall a program that started with the pulsing radio mast at Alexandra Palace, but no matter how much I stir, I can't for what's left of the life in me come up with the name of the program. Could it have been ITN news?

just a guess but was it "That Was The Week That Was" the owd Bernard Braden programme?

jaysay · 20-07-2010, 18:54

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Originally Posted by Stumped

You've got me stirring the old grey matter, Jaysay. I too recall a program that started with the pulsing radio mast at Alexandra Palace, but no matter how much I stir, I can't for what's left of the life in me come up with the name of the program. Could it have been ITN news?

This is quite interesting Stumped

BBC TV from AP

cashman · 20-07-2010, 19:08

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Originally Posted by cashman

just a guess but was it "That Was The Week That Was" the owd Bernard Braden programme?

am going senile, twas David Frost not Braden.

kikine · 20-07-2010, 19:23

Cassius Clay in the early hours of the morning, with a blanket over our heads because the reception was so bad, who would he have been fighting? early sixties, a big fight and he won,

cashman · 20-07-2010, 19:26

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Originally Posted by kikine

Cassius Clay in the early hours of the morning, with a blanket over our heads because the reception was so bad, who would he have been fighting? early sixties, a big fight and he won,

Sonny Liston? that was 64, when clay won world title.

Mancie · 20-07-2010, 22:28

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Originally Posted by kikine

Cassius Clay in the early hours of the morning, with a blanket over our heads because the reception was so bad, who would he have been fighting? early sixties, a big fight and he won,

As Cashy says if it was early hours would have been Sonny Liston in '64.. or could have been Henry Cooper in '63 ?

cashman · 20-07-2010, 22:32

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Originally Posted by Mancie

As Cashy says if it was early hours would have been Sonny Liston in '64.. or could have been Henry Cooper in '63 ?

Don't think the cooper fight was early hours mancie as it was in uk, if i remember right.

Mancie · 20-07-2010, 22:43

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Originally Posted by cashman

Don't think the cooper fight was early hours mancie as it was in uk, if i remember right.

That's right..was a bit to young to see any of them..I was more into "Hectors House".. it's only in recent years I discovered that Jaysay played the lead role.. silly old Hector.

davebtelford · 21-07-2010, 06:30

It was BBC TV News & Newsreel that had the Ally Pally transmitter on its intro.

jaysay · 21-07-2010, 08:52

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Originally Posted by cashman

am going senile, twas David Frost not Braden.

What do ya mean going