Uber it's still one of the best things on telly saturday night....says alot about the rest of the programmes...100's of channels of rubbish.....so much easier when there were only 3 or 4 to choose from....
Not sure if fancying a puppet is something I'd confess too, but fair play.... Good evening - stumped my consultant when the kidney stone he thought I still had had magically disappeared on my check up x-ray (I'm pretty sure he took it out with the other one last year, but we agreed to credit it to Pope Francis I), boys parents evening remarkably positive given his disastrous results in AS levels after Christmas, they all think its a blip and he has retakes (but when has a teacher ever said - 'sorry I cocked up, didn't prepare them properly"?), and this wonderful thread. The proper, old fashioned, sarcastic Magic Roundabout by Eric Thompson Nationwide Rutland Weekend Television New Year's Eve meals at Bertorelli's in Charlotte Street followed by the Old Grey Whistle Test at parent's friends' house, with their cool older teenage kids The match programmes with the stick men on the front and interesting stuf inside cotton football shirts
I find it sad that some shows are no longer shown because of changing standards. Love Thy Neighbour, for example. Do the censors realise that prejudiced white fella always had his comeuppance each week and was shown to be the idiot? If anything it was ahead of its time. Not so long ago a book was published containing a selection of letters written by Mary Whitehouse. Interestingly, although she complained about almost everything shown on the box, the two shows she thought marvellous were the Black & White Minstrel Show and Jim'll Fix It. Who'd have thought?
What are the chances of this thread running & running & running.....this could be Cerny's lasting masterpiece to rival Northys's word thingy.....
Can you imagine kids today being faced with the Swap Shop, when things are more disposable and there's eBay and the like? You don't even see many jumble sales and bric-a-brac these days, as people are more likely to either chuck stuff away, thrust it into a charity bag that gets collected off your doorstep, or take it too a car booty. Forget Saturday Superstore and Live & Kicking, Swap Shop was the best. Tiswas was OK, but I was a bit 'brand loyal' to Auntie Beeb on Saturday mornings. I liked the grown-up version of Tiswas, though... OTT. What was the name of the bird with the massive knockers on that show?
Couldn't help myself mate. I WAS only young!! Saint & Greavsie Alias Smith and Jones Dallas Different Strokes Fantasy Island Fawlty Towers Happy Days Kung Fu Last of the Mohicans (TV series) Little House On The Prairie The Professionals Quincy Six Million Dollar Man Starsky and Hutch Wonder Woman (fancied her too!) Cola cubes.
McMillan & Wife (Rock, before we knew he was a chutney ferret) McCloud Cannon The Streets of San Francisco Police Woman (I fancied her too) Hill Street Blues (has there ever been a better police series?) The Good Life (God bless you, Mr Briers) The Two Ronnies (the Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town) Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Tomorrow's World with Raymond Baxter The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin (not that abomination with Clunes) Butterflies The Liver Birds On The Buses The Carry On Movies Python, of course
Sally James ??? Many a midnight fumble had her in my imagination Tiswas was far superior. 'Spit the dog', 'The bucket of water song', Trevor McDonut' !!! Pure comedy gold
Yeah, I know I was in the minority, but I couldn't persist with Tiswas. Dunno why. No, not Sally James... There was another one, a black girl that used to start stripping at the end of the show... Or was I just dreaming it?
yeah Col, I lost the original post, pretending to listen to the wife, forgot whether I hit submit, and when I returned did not realise the thread had moved on to a new page and couldn't see the original, so re wrote the thing. These senior moments are becoming more frequent.....
