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The back in the day thread

Discussion in 'Watford' started by Leo, Apr 25, 2012.

  1. NZHorn

    NZHorn Well-Known Member

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    I agree with you w_y. I never felt particularly comfortable with Andy Pandy. The Flowerpot Men was my type of programme.
     
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  2. tworossjenkins

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    Fireball XL5, Stingray with Marina the mermaid, Joe 90???
     
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  3. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Never had a tv back then, but my grandparents did - and I can categorically state that Wednesday, every second one at least, was Tales of the Riverbank starring Hammy Hamster. ;)
     
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  4. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Newcomer! Child of the sixties! <laugh>
     
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  5. Leo

    Leo Well-Known Member

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    Yeah 2RJ - did you not read the title - this is "back in the day" not "what happened yesterday" :)
     
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  6. Leo

    Leo Well-Known Member

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    Andy Pandy WAS creepy - the way he and Looby Loo got into that box - almost as bad as Morecambe and Wise sharing a bed
     
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    vic-rijrode Well-Known Member

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    Monday was Picture Book with Patricia Driscoll (pretty tasty) then Vera McKechnie (not so tasty!)
     
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  8. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode Well-Known Member

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    Looby Loo was sacked from Andy Pandy after she became pregnant. There was never any proof but we all know who did it, don't we children?
     
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  9. oldfrenchhorn

    oldfrenchhorn Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Andy Pandy didn't start until 1950 I think and we didn't have TV then. My memories go back to Children's Hour on steam radio and the one thing that sticks in my mind is Toytown with Larry the Lamb, Ernest the policeman, Mr. Growser the shopkeeper and Mr. Mayor. I still remember sitting by the fire on a cold winters evening listening to the radio and toasting crumpets in front of the embers. Also around Christmas time we would have some chestnuts that were sat along the fender and eaten hot, so hot that you would burn your hands.

    Happy days, but the smog was dreadful.
     
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  10. tworossjenkins

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    Thanks Leo - and Bolton. I bow to your senility - sorry seniority..!!!!!!
     
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  11. Leo

    Leo Well-Known Member

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    You were right first time :)
     
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  12. wear_yellow

    wear_yellow Well-Known Member

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    Spot on BB - I loved Tales of the Riverbank with Hammy & pals..

    I also remember a programme called Space Patrol with a creature called a Gabblerdictum - and the Capt. always seemed to be saying "boost the messan power Slim"...I remember being able to see the wires and even then thinking the "effects" were ****e.
     
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  13. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Ahhhh...steam radio....Sunday evening I think...Journey into Space....absolutely terrifying, more so because you could hear weird noises etc but couldn't see what was making them.
     
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  14. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    I seem to remember it being on midweek - I had to go straight to bed after it finished at 7:00pm & usually spent the next half hour wide awake, reliving the episode, sometimes too scared to peek out from under the blanket.

    Captain Jet Morgan, Doc, Lemmy and Mitch if my memory serves me well - the crew of Discovery who saved humankind. ;)

    The show drew larger audiences than TV - not hard in those days though. <laugh>
     
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  15. oldfrenchhorn

    oldfrenchhorn Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Reading some of the posts about radio reminded me of my friend Ivor who lived across the road from me in Bushey. I think it was in the 1930s that people in our road were given the chance to have electricity installed in the houses for about £35. My father did subscribe to it but not everyone did. In our house the gas lighting was never taken out and when there was a cut in the electricity supply we could still see if we could find a mantle.

    Anyway Ivor did not have electricity in his house and one of his jobs was to go to the shop in the High Street and exchange their accumulator for one that had been charged up. He would be missing the outcome of adventures that appealed to boys because the accumulator had run out at the crucial moment.
     
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    Hornette_TID Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Andy Pandy was weird! Tales from the Riverbank was boring, it was way too real lol..i know, talking animals isn't real, but they were real animals, i hated it! lol Loved the Woodentops, and the Flowerpot men...and trumpton and camberwick green. Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub!

    My next door neighbour was one of the first people we knew with a colour telly! On a Monday and a thursday she'd let me and my brother go next door to watch Blue Peter in colour, and she'd get yummy chocolates to put out while we were there...i loved my next door neighbour!
     
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    I never could and still cannot watch Andy Pandy, I used to love watching fireman sam and postman pat. I also watched old copies of trumpton and camberwick green with mum. I also remember reading the Redwall books and watching the tv series. They were all about talking animals and there were good animals; mice, rabbits, otters and bad ones; foxes, rats. They usually ended up in a massive battle for control of either Redwall Abbey or one of the other good guys homes.
     
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  18. NZHorn

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    Coal fires for heating! I remember playing a board game with a friend when all the soot from our chimney suddenly descended into the living room.
    Everything was covered in soot, but we carried on playing our game.

    Which reminds me. Andy Rankin got injured carrying in the coal, from his coal bunker in the garden, to the fire place.
     
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  19. Leo

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    Tales from the Riverbank is an interloper here - it was not part of the "Watch with Mother" round - that was Rag Tag and Bobtail who were much better - mischievous little things they were too :)

    Still if we are moving into the 60s I used to love Lost in Space - it was about a family who were - lost in space (space family Robinson I think - but what made the show was the evil creepy Zach Smith
     
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  20. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Someone on TV just mentioned Victory Vs...looked like bits of dried clay but very very hot and with a quite indescribable flavour...
     
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