What is the first thing you remember seeing on a TV?

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I remember Sophie and Mel's death on Hollyoaks in 2006 the earliest.

Button moon, Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chorlton and the Wheelies, The Flumps, and weirdly Sons and Daughters!

Late 70s stuff. I know I was 4 because I moved house and I distinctly remember the new house and not the old one.

We rented a tv from Radio Rentals? I remember them delivering it to our house.

Sesame Street and the moon landing.

Separately. I don’t think Sesame Street had a moon landing !

The Woodentops and Andy Pandy, watched at my Grandparents on an old cabinet style television. This must have been before I'd started school, as we used to go for lunch, so about 1960.
This is also tied in to one of my earliest memories which was trying to clamber up onto the platform at the back of a double decker bus on the way to my Grandparents.

The fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 2 days away from my 6th birthday.

That memory is vivid to the point where I remember exactly what pyjamas I was wearing at the time 😅

Neil Armstrong's giant step.

My dad woke me up in the middle of the night and we watched it together. I sat on his lap and I can remember his pyjamas and slippers.

Andy Pandy
Pinky and Perky

Andy Pandy in black and white

I can't remember what the very first programme was but the earliest memory I have of something on TV that gripped my attention is the extended news coverage of the Aberfan disaster.

I was the same age as many of the children who died (8 years old) and I recall watching the poor parents frantically digging in the dark with their bare hands, desperately trying to reach their children who were buried beneath.

It's an image that has never left me in all these years and I have often thought about those children, who would now be in their 60s, and all that they lost - their childhood, their youth, their first kiss, love, relationships, children, careers, adventures, hobbies, happy times, sad times, grandchildren and all the other myriad experiences of life.

TV is a powerful medium: it brings the world into our sitting-rooms.

Probably Watch with Mother - black and white! It was the 60's.