For we of advancing/advanced years: 1. First memory. 2. First TV show you can recall. 3. First fillum you saw at the cinema/Kino.
Not sure I could answer those honestly except 3. Sleeping Beauty at the now demolished Art Deco Kelburne in Paisley. I was born the year of the mental summer - I was baptised at two weeks old in St Mirin's Cathedral and on that very evening on the telly, Johnny Rotten said "****" to Bill Grundy.
1. Liverpool 3-0 Newcastle 1974 Cup Final - I was 5 at the time and this is the first really clear memory I have of a sporting event. 2. Kids TV - Mr. Benn, Bagpuss, The Clangers, Captain Pugwash 3. Jaws as a 6 year old - absolutely shat my pants
Ooooopsie daisy: 1. Either being dragged about on a sledge in the snow with my first toothache when we stayed at Gracemount or more likely being left in 'my' pram by my Grandad when he popped into the boozer at the foot of Bath Street in Portobello. 2.Torchy, The Battery Boy or Twizzle. 3. Tom Thumb (Russ Tamblyn as T.T. and the great Terry Thomas).
1. I remember when I was (probably 3) being tucked into bed at a nursery and kicking my way free because they tucked me in too tightly. When I was 4 (worked that out) my bigger neighbours took a ride on my little 3 wheeler, and broke it. Don't remember much else from before the age of 5. 2. Can't remember but likely to be a western (Gunsmoke or Wyatt Earp maybe) or Sunday night at the London Palladium 3. Can't remember, again probably a western (Cochise) or may have even been a Mario Lanza film my sister took me too (Edit The Great Caruso)
1. Cutting myself with dad's razor when I was 4 (mum wasn't impressed) 2. Watch with mother - woodentops and andy pandy 3. Went with a few mates for my 7th birthday to watch the original dad's Army film
Unfortunately, earliest memory probably was being carried in the arms of an ambulance man and being carted-off with scarlet fever, and spending 6-weeks in Islington Isolation Hospital. Not so good.
First memory: Well before I went to primary school, so maybe 3-4. Sitting on the polished wooden floor watching silky terrier loosing it's footing at speed while trying to straighten up for the sprint down the hall. It crashed into the wall. First tv show: Can't be sure, but remember seeing shows like Gunsmoke, Candid Camera and The Untouchables. First Movie: It was a Sinbad the Sailor movie, and I fairly **** myself. I think it must have been the 58 version called The Seventh voyage of Sinbad. We saw it at the Redcliffe drivein. I spent half the movie ducking down behind the front seat of our old Ford Prefect .... it was terrifying stuff.
Ok ... at the risk of killing the thread ....... What I'm assuming is an early memory (by the nature of it) is of sitting on an enamel, newspaper lined potty in the middle of the sitting room floor, playing with dinky cars! The lady from next door popped her head in and saw me sitting there and laughed, asking "where's your mum". I didn't know then, and still don't. You'd get locked up these days for that (leaving a kid - not sitting on a potty with newsprint stamped on your arse!) TV wasn't invented when I was born - well not in industrial Bolton anyway, however our next door neighbours got one in the early 50's and a great treat was being able to go watch it with their kids (I was an only child - they had six!) Billy Bunter I loved, and a craft type programme called Bits and Pieces on that one channel, tiny screened, black and white telly Again, along with the kids next door, I used to go to Saturday morning cinema where there was always a western! When I was allowed to go on my own - surprisingly young in those safer days, under 7 at least, I remember seeing "The Corsican Brothers" with both Douglas Fairbanks's
Oh these old westerns. Black Bart, Jesse James, Roy Rogers, Gene Audrey, Hopalong Cassidy. Let's be 'aving them
Tom Mix, and Tony, "The Wonder Horse": and.... Buck Jones: please log in to view this image Note: Little old Fakenham's never had it so good!
Not my earliest TV memory however can anyone remember a TV series/serial where the first episode was replayed one week later immediately before the second episode - Dr Who!
