What was on the BBC when you were born?

[Eric Mc]

Which tournaments?

[0a]

21.00: Cagney and Lacey

starring
Bounty Hunter
When a notorious bounty hunter turns up on the trail of a criminal who has jumped bail, Cagney and Lacey have to move fast to get to the wanted man first. With Mary Beth 's mind distracted by problems at home, keeping ahead of the wily vigilante proves no easy task.
Written by STEVE BROWN Directed by BILL DUKE

[m444ttb]

Looks like I was just in time for Swap Shop.

[FlossyThePig]

Apparently on the TV was a children's variety show called "Whirligig" but I don't know how many people had TVs then.

However John Arlott was commentating on "Hampshire v. The Australians" throughout the day on the Light Programme

[Eric Mc]

What was the year?

Most households had TVs by the beginning of the 60s.

[GetCarter]

Eric Mc said:

What was the year?

Most households had TVs by the beginning of the 60s.

Not round our parts. We didn't have one until 1966.

[Eric Mc]

GetCarter said:

Not round our parts. We didn't have one until 1966.

Are you "most people"?

We had one in Dublin in 1958 - and Irish TV hadn't even started back then

[Eric Mc]

Interesting stats on TV ownership -

http://www.barb.co.uk/resources/tv-facts/tv-owners...

By 1960 TV ownership was just under 75% of UK households.

By 1966 it was 87%.

[Bebee]

it's more interesting trying to remember your first memory of TV, so look at what was on when you were, say two or three.

I remember Elvis live from hawaii via satellite Jan 1973

Edited by Bebee on Sunday 19th October 18:45

[GetCarter]

Eric Mc said:

GetCarter said:

Not round our parts. We didn't have one until 1966.

Are you "most people"?

We had one in Dublin in 1958 - and Irish TV hadn't even started back then

I am not 'most people', just me. I was bought up on a North London council estate. We got a second hand set in time for the world cup, (which is why I remember the year), and most of our neighbours came to our house to see the final, as they didn't have sets themselves.

[FlossyThePig]

Bebee said:

it's more interesting trying to remember your first memory of TV, so look at what was on when you were, say two or three.

I remember Elvis live from hawaii via satellite Jan 1973

Edited by Bebee on Sunday 19th October 18:45

If a previous post was about me I was born in 1953, missed the Coronation by 4 days so didn't get the silver spoon.

Earliest TV memory was going for Sunday tea at my paternal grandparents and watching "Torchy the Battery Boy". When I was three months old we moved to Lagos so there was even less opportunity to watch TV. The tea time visits coincided between time in Nigeria and Burma, a sort of colonial upbringing. I do remember going to see "North West Frontier" in Rangoon and demanding a topee to wear afterwards..

[Morningside]

GetCarter said:

Eric Mc said:

GetCarter said:

Not round our parts. We didn't have one until 1966.

Are you "most people"?

We had one in Dublin in 1958 - and Irish TV hadn't even started back then

I am not 'most people', just me. I was bought up on a North London council estate. We got a second hand set in time for the world cup, (which is why I remember the year), and most of our neighbours came to our house to see the final, as they didn't have sets themselves.

Dad worked for PYE in research and built his own using an old CRT from a radar. Everything was green. We were the first to get TV in the whole town.

Edited by Morningside on Sunday 19th October 22:34

[Halmyre]

Bebee said:

it's more interesting trying to remember your first memory of TV, so look at what was on when you were, say two or three.

I remember Elvis live from hawaii via satellite Jan 1973

Edited by Bebee on Sunday 19th October 18:45

I can't really remember when I became TV aware. The mater and pater didn't approve of sitting watching telly when we could be playing outside and facing death by various natural and man-made causes. Probably children's telly - Vision On, Blue Peter, all that sort of thing.

I do remember the first colour telly I ever saw - visiting friends of my parents, we watched the pilot episode of 'The Champions'.

[lbc]

I can remember watching Z-Cars on BBC as a child.

[Morningside]

For the first colour TV I remember coming home from school and seeing this amazing picture. To be honest I think the installers used to turn up the colour to make it more vivid that what it would normally be. I even remember the set, it was a Toshiba!

I also remember being blown away when I first saw teletext. It was a school outing to a local trade show. I wondered for ages how on earth it knew what page I had selected.

Managed to get Sky in about 1991. Remember I had to get a SCART cable for the seperate decoder and back then it cost me £25!

[Noesph]

Pages from Ceefax, BBC 1 and 2

Top gear was on later that night though, with the Honda Civic and 'Car of the Decade', the Alfasud. Alas Smith and Jones was on.

So with a bit of youtubing.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4FGsJAJ-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susHTPHNqFE

Fecking hell, how long has Tiff Needell been round!

Oddly enough some of my first TV memories were top gear, Dad watched every episode. I sort of remember an episode about a Skyline. I remember Clarkson, Tiff Needell, Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson. Plus that bloke who was alway on about motorbikes.


He thinks new top gear is just about 3 blokes just making an arse of themselves, can't argue with that.

Edited by Noesph on Monday 20th October 01:19

[dudleybloke]

kojak.

[Bebee]

Noesph said:

Pages from Ceefax, BBC 1 and 2

Top gear was on later that night though, with the Honda Civic and 'Car of the Decade', the Alfasud. Alas Smith and Jones was on.

So with a bit of youtubing.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4FGsJAJ-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susHTPHNqFE

Fecking hell, how long has Tiff Needell been round!

Oddly enough some of my first TV memories were top gear, Dad watched every episode. I sort of remember an episode about a Skyline. I remember Clarkson, Tiff Needell, Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson. Plus that bloke who was alway on about motorbikes.


He thinks new top gear is just about 3 blokes just making an arse of themselves, can't argue with that.

Edited by Noesph on Monday 20th October 01:19

Steve Berry was that bloke who was always on about motorbikes.


I like the format of TG now, watching those youtube TG vids is like watching paint dry.

[Eric Mc]

Different generations. I liked the old TG because it actually informed me about useful attributes of cars and driving.

But "old style" telly does not suit a generation that loses interest in something that doesn't blow up after 30 seconds.

[HenryJM]

TG used to be about informing, now it's about entertaining.