Good film, although being a child of the 70's most of my favourite films are from the 30's, 40's and 50's. The fact that in reality we only had 2 TV channels then (BBC 2 was all open university programs until 7pm, unless they were showing cricket in the afternoon), so on those occasions during the school holidays when not outside getting up to mischief with mates you watched whatever BBC 1 or ITV put on. Given that it could be anywhere from 5 to 10 years after cinema release, before a film was shown on TV, those channels relied upon b/w films. Thus in the morning you would get something like a couple of cartoons, followed by Why Don't You..., Then either something like Flash Gordon serial with Buster Crabbe, or if we were lucky something more modern like Champion the Wonder Horse followed by something like a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie. You'd then get for the younger kids the Watch With Mother series, so Andy Pandy, Tales by the Riverbank etc and then in the afternoon something like an Ealing comedy, a Norman Wisdom film, then a return to normal kids TV viewing around 4pm with things like Playschool, Jackanory, a Hanna Barberra cartoon, and then something like the Wombles or Magic Roundabout just before the 6pm news.
