Ye4s it was Peter Glaze and he partnered Leslie Crowther. I think Michael aspel took over from Eamon Andrews. Great prizes Boxes of cornflakes, bananas and of course the odd cabbage. They knew how to live.
Borehamwood didn't have a swimming Pool, but Borehamwood swimming club used to run a coach to Finchley Pool every monday throughout the year. We would get home about 8.30pm and as a treat in the winter we used to sit in front of the box and have a mug of soup watching Wagon Train. My God remember the winters, only the stove in the kitchen was kept alight all night and when you got up in the morning Ice was on the inside of the windows.
Still like that up here Speaking of winter, there's snow forecast for tonight here and the roads are currently being gritted.
I remember "Jack Frost" on the windows - in the days before central heating. Eamon Andrews - did he do "This is your Life" - and while we are about it there was a TV programme that dealt with "recent" history called All our Yesterdays
All Our Yesterdays was 15 minutes long and was like a news programme but for exactly 25 years before on that date. What they showed was the progress of WWII using, what I now suppose, was Pathe News footage. I watched the programme hoping to catch a glimpse of my dad, as he had "been in the war".
Check this out first, theo - should have guessed it would be on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEKBdp5-2g I certainly don't remember that Aussie accent.
yes! i think he stayed on when Michael Aspel started, but it wasn't the same after Leslie Crowther left lol
2rj - as a teacher I'm quite used to full stops being missed off the end of sentences, but I think this is the first time I've seen the sentence missed off the full stop!
Oh - all is forgiven! If they're anything like our ridiculously expensive and pointless Scottish equivalent then you have my sympathies.
Blimey - All Our Yesterday's, that has brought back some memories of listening to the wonderful voice of Brian Inglis. Sunday lunchtime listening to Two Way Family Favourites, and wondering about all those exotic BFPO places like Hong Kong and Singapore - then afterwards was Round The Horne...
Oh - how I hated Two Way Family Favourites - it represented everything boring about how a Sunday could be - never thought of "exotic places" - it seemd so old fashioned even fifty years ago
Ooh just remembered...just before Watch with Mother, it was time for Listen with Mother, which was just after The Archers. (i know this only because my mum used to listen to the Archers, so i knew the theme tune.)...and my mum used to write the occasional story for Listen with Mother
The "theme tune" for the Archers is actually "Barwick Green" composed by Arthur Wood, available on British Light Music Classics Vol 2 by Ronald Corp & the New London Orchestra.
At 44 years old, Alon Hazan is STILL playing profesional football!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon_Hazan
With the various references to Crackerjack, the host I remember is Stewart Francis who had such horrendous sayings as "I could crush a grape" and "I could rip a tissue". I remember Superstars and Brian Jacks doing all those squat thrusts and We Are the Champions and It's A Knockout. Andy Pandy was still going when I was a littl'un.
