what was on TV on the day you were born?

[R4roger]

or more importantly perhaps, what did you miss when you were giving birth/otherwise engaged ?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/oct/16/what-was-on-tv-the-day-you-were-born-bbc-genome

Laurel and Hardy on the day (and around the time of day) I was born, apparently.

probably somethingin black and white.... :)

Nothing on the TV - as I was born at 7.20am.

Tony Blackburn was on the radio though..

Tommy the Toreador. I see crap Christmas telly was the norm back then too!

Watch with Mother
Pinky and Perky
Play School.

They must have been on for a few years as I remember watching them as a child.

Andy Pandy, The Wooden Tops, Perry Mason and a programme called Monitor presented by Jonathan Miller featuring Philip Larkin talking to John Betjemin. Would have liked to see that one.

This (doesn't it sound marvellous):

Electric Folk with Steeleye Span
from Warwick Castle
Songs of maidens, elves and magic with the backing of 20th-century electronic instruments from the Great Hall of Warwick Castle high above the River Avon. Steeleye Span link the past and the present when they sing where minstrels once played for the pleasure of kings.

At the exact time I was born Come Dancing was on BBC1

John Craven's Newsround

That's weirdly interesting to look at.
TV was pretty dull three decades ago!

On BBC2 the film Brief Encounter, and BBC1 Perry Mason.

Agree with the dullness. the BBC trained us all in punishing boredom in those days. Nationwide, for example [yawn]

On the day I was born there was Tomorrow's World and a Brian Rix farce in the evening. That made me smile. Then I found that Jimmy Savile was saying 'Eyes Down' for a new game show on the same day. So no danger of rose-tinted glasses.

My parents missed a Rex Harrison film and Gene Kelly being interviewed on Parkinson.

Pages from Ceefax.

Probably best that my mum missed that particular gem.

My mum would of missed the first day of the Olympics swimming event was on
Dd1 a woody Allan film
Dd2 going for a song ( daytime quiz) though I missed all the morning as water broke so was in hosptil all the morning I missed kilroy
In reading the link I found out both myself and dh were born on Thursdays

The first ever episode of EastEnders. I recon its probably the only episode she has ever missed.

There was no TV when I was born !

I was born at 11.30pm in 1960 so I just about managed to get the news and weather before closedown .