Gen X where are you ????

[JRHartleysmum]

What are you ‘I’m old’ references that younger folk might not understand ?
I’ll start: ‘too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog’

Ooh , I have just remembered I used to love watching Paperplay with Susan Shranks and the 2 puppet spiders.
The weather this week has also reminded me of the 1976 drought. We had to share the once a week bathwater, then it was poured into the paddling pool and finally used to water the plants.
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Weren't they called Incy and Wincy?

I watched Paper play with itsy & bitsy ! I can remember being quite captured by it . There is bits of it on youtube . Also @Eomt you may remember "A handful of songs" ( on you tube ) . 🎵 We've got a handful of songs to sing you 🎵 .
I stumbled on it quite by accident and fell down an anti-ageing hole , I was five again

Yup. 0-1 8 double one 8-0-5-5.

Swap shop.

Like you always know the postcode for BBC TV - Broadcasting House, London W1 1AA

I seem to remember w1a 8qt

Dial-a-tune. Think it was 116? Used to dial it and get some tinny pop song down the phone.

I think that was for the programmes that had a PO Box?

Swap shop and bbc in white Cory was postcode W12 8QT

😀😀 bloody hell still remember that!!!

Anyone remember Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop from the 70s?

Also that quiz show called Ask the Family where parents and their two terribly precocious offspring answered general knowledge questions - proof that there were pushy parents in the 70s .

And Screen Test with Michael Rodd - it was about the only opportunity you ever got to see a 'short excerpt' of film without going to the cinema! Other than those 'Wonderful World of Disney' things they used to air at about 5pm on a bank holiday Monday - only time you ever saw a clip of Disney film without going to the cinema.

Gosh I remember that ! Where do I remember that from ?

Thinking back to that time (70's) we as kids never really got to see Disney cartoons like Snow White and the rest (pre video) . We were lucky if we got to see clips on TV programmes .
The other thread about TV theme tunes , I nominated Looney Tunes music as the best theme tune , 'cos basically we were lucky to catch a cartoon , and lets be honest it is a great tune . Go and have a listen on Youtube .

Yes, that was it, w12 8qt!

I lived 2 streets away that's how I remember it 🤣 we were W12 too

Can't even temper my own postcode but I remember that

Good bye thread it was fun 😭.

Green stamps

The green shield stamp shop becoming Argos and creating The Book.

John Craven
Keith Chegwin
Maggie Philbin
Noel Edmunds

Harold Lloyd, dah dah dah dah dah da da da, Harold Lloyd.....
Saturday morning BBC2 b&w films.

@Brokendaughter "a pair of glasses and a smile!" 😂

Kiss my grits!!!! - the feisty waitress in 'Alice' - I think it was on tv after school, possibly before Grange Hill or Neighbours

I have loved this thread. Has anyone mentioned Wacaday?? Completely bizarre program looking back.

Yes I remember us all being given one at school in year 7

wack-a-wave 🫶

wack- a- plaster

@JRHartleysmum start a continuation thread op we are up to page 40!!