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Your first memory of TV?

135 replies

SteveAs · 05/03/2018 19:23

Mine was watching England vs Germany in 2001 with my dad and uncle while my mum and aunt went to the pub

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gingergenius · 05/03/2018 20:24

OOOOOOHHHHHH THE CLANGERS.

SingingGoldfinch · 05/03/2018 20:30

Larry Grayson on the Generation Game!

halfwitpicker · 05/03/2018 20:32

Coronation Street, Terry Duckworth. Major crush. I was 3 🙄

ScreamingValenta · 05/03/2018 20:32

'Barnaby the bear's my name/Never call me Jack or Jane/I will sing my way to fame/Barnaby the bear's my name'.

TheOriginalChatelaine · 05/03/2018 20:40

Andy Pandy. Trumpton. The Magic Roundabout. All in black and white. The test card. As soon as the BBC 6 O'clock news started it was time for bed. Children knew their place! Oh, & when the television was turned off it would cool down to a white spot that I had to put my finger on! When I was a bit older I remember literally hiding behind the sofa during an episode of Dr.Who (The Cybermen). There was no daytime TV. For anyone.

PetronellaOsgood · 05/03/2018 20:45

Watching The Sullivan’s, and Take the High Road at my grandparents house during the school holidays.

missyB1 · 05/03/2018 20:48

Hectors house
Play school
Fingerbob
Bagpuss
Mary mungo and midge

LonginesPrime · 05/03/2018 21:15

Button Moon and Pigeon Street, I reckon.

BevBrook · 05/03/2018 21:20

The bit at the beginning of Bagpuss when it goes from sepia to colour
Vague memories also of The Incredible Hulk

Anasnake · 05/03/2018 21:25

It's a knockout - late 70's, and Bagpuss, Monkey Magic and Playschool.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 05/03/2018 21:42

A very clear memory of watching Cheggars Plays Pop, when we lived in a house that we left when I was three. Obviously I didn’t know what it was at the time but I do remember the logo.

BishopBrennansArse · 05/03/2018 21:43

First episode of Eastenders

PissedOffNeighbour · 05/03/2018 21:46

Play School and Play away

storynanny · 05/03/2018 21:46

We got our first tv in 1966 ready for my dad to watch the world cup. I was 10. I can remember him falling off the chair with excitement when England won and that my mum had gone out to the library in a sulk because she didnt want the football on.

Mybabystolemysanity · 05/03/2018 21:49

Sitting on my Dad's knee aged 4 watching Holiday'88 in what's now the downstairs bedroom at my parents house. We'd just moved in and it was a complete wreck. I miss him a lot.

LaceandChintz · 05/03/2018 21:57

Handful of Songs in the early 1970s.
Loved that programme

theliverpoolone · 05/03/2018 22:26

The Flowerpot Men. Then Hickory House, Hectors House, Playschool. And White Horses, and Belle and Sebastian (both dubbed and in b&w).

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 05/03/2018 22:29

I don't remember the first programme but I do remember thinking that the people were actually inside the television.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 05/03/2018 22:31

Pigeon Street and the Narnia series they made in the late 80s.

mineofuselessinformation · 05/03/2018 22:32

Mary, Mungo and Midge.
(Outs self as to age.... 😮)

GnotherGnu · 07/03/2018 20:31

Popeye, Pussy Cat Willum, Ollie the Owl and Fred Barker. I thought Ollie was the epitome of wit.

Curlyshabtree · 07/03/2018 20:35

The Sunday serials mid 70s

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 07/03/2018 20:46

Another one for Andy Pandy and Flowerpot Men. (I apparently cried when Andy waved goodbye) a Disney programme introduced by the magic mirror (which put the shits up me) Kennedy's assassination.

CoolCarrie · 07/03/2018 21:12

Armstrong on the moon, got to stay up late for that.

CoolCarrie · 07/03/2018 21:17

In fact my grand father insisted that I get up for the landing, as he was very excited, he was born in the Victorian era, and now could see people on the moon.