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Telly addicts

How many tvs did your childhood home have?

157 replies

OneUmberJoker · 18/12/2025 18:50

3

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MrsSkylerWhite · 18/12/2025 23:22

One. It was rented.

RescueMeFromThisSilliness · 18/12/2025 23:32

One. Black & white, then my parents invested in a colour tv in the late 60's.

KnickerlessParsons · 18/12/2025 23:35

One. And we only have one now too.

RosesAndHellebores · 18/12/2025 23:37

One in the 60s and 70s. Mother and MIL still have 1.

We got a 2nd, in 2023! If DH would agree, I'd have one in our bedroom - I'd just have to switch it on for sleep to descend. Works downstairs!

MidnightColours · 18/12/2025 23:39

One in each of the flats and houses we lived in over the years. Now: none (phones and tablets)

FancyCatSlave · 18/12/2025 23:42

4 in the end but fewer at the beginning.

2 in kids bedrooms (mine and DB)
Living Room
Dining Room

Fifthtimelucky · 18/12/2025 23:42

One black and white (1960s/70s childhood) and one throughout most of my adult life, including when my children were young in the early 2000. We now have two, both downstairs. One of them is very small.

We have never had televisions in bedrooms or in the kitchen.

Mathsbabe · 18/12/2025 23:53

One, same as we’ve always had.

OhSoSalty · 19/12/2025 00:02

90s kid.
We had a small black and white TV in the living till I was about 7. I remember wondering how my parents could watch snooker and understand it with no colour. Got a colour TV just before Diana died because I remember seeing the news on the TV. Around the same time I got a tiny colour TV for Christmas with a video player. I remember watching the first ever episode of the teletubbies on it with my younger siblings and being terribly excited that now I could buy videotapes and start begging for a playstation 🤣🤣🤣

toddlertoenail · 19/12/2025 00:02

2 (1980’s born) one in living room and a b&w one in my bedroom upgraded to tv / video combi in 1997.

same set up in my own home of 2 TVs - living room and bedroom. DD will probably get her own one when she’s older!

FestiveFruitloop · 19/12/2025 00:11

1 until I was 14, when my parents got a TV in their bedroom. I got one too eventually, but it was quite a few years later. Late 70s/early 80s.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 19/12/2025 00:23

1 and I think I only had 1 until very recently ... still dont have any tvs upstairs

FindingMeno · 19/12/2025 00:26

One.
Grandad had a portable black and white with an indoor aerial and a dial to tune it.
My first tv was a radio rentals one.

Milliemoons · 19/12/2025 00:35

Upthenorth · 18/12/2025 18:55

One

We have zero now but do have a projector for films and the odd series.

Exactly the same.

ElizaMulvil · 19/12/2025 00:47

0 till I was 14

caringcarer · 19/12/2025 02:45

1 and when I was really little it was a black and white one we rented.

Friendlygingercat · 19/12/2025 03:01

When I was a kid (1950s) we had one small black and white one. By the mid 60s we had a coloured one. I had moved into the front sitting room when my sister had a baby. I hired one for myself and took it when I left home, Ive never had more than one TV at a time even now - although i can obviously stream on several devices.

RaraRachael · 19/12/2025 04:26

One. It was in the living room and had 2 channels- BBC1 and ITV.

Strictlycomeparent · 19/12/2025 05:02

One

ronconcoke · 19/12/2025 05:58

One, in the living room, but as a teenager I had a small black and white set in my bedroom which I only ever used when I was ill to watch This Morning on! (1990s)

MamaBobo · 19/12/2025 06:16

1 when I was small, during the 80s DB and I got B&W portables in our rooms and finally my parents got a colour portable for their bedroom in the early 90s.

We just have 1 in our house now though.

EleanorReally · 19/12/2025 06:46

one colour

i think there might have been a black and white set which was very occasionally plugged in

Darklane · 22/12/2025 21:15

None till my grandmother, who I lived with, rented one especially to watch the Queen’s coronation.

Moonstone20 · 23/12/2025 07:13

1970s, one. If we turned it off we weren’t allowed to turn it on again for 20 minutes as it had to ‘rest’ for a while. No idea where my dad got that bonkers rule from.

KimberleyClark · 23/12/2025 07:14

KnickerlessParsons · 18/12/2025 23:35

One. And we only have one now too.

Same.

ETA no I tell a lie, we did have another one in a different room that was connected to a different aerial so we could get BbC West as opposed to Wales on it. Many happy evenings spent watching Star Trek on that and having no clue what colour the uniforms were.

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