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Post by Cartman on Jul 1, 2019 12:56:07 GMT
Can anyone remember being at junior school, or even earlier and watching stuff on TV then that was aimed at adults, at either your house, or at somewhere like your grans?
In my case, it involves going back to the 60s and a few I recollect being allowed to watch, or were on in the background when I was up were
Not only but also with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Up Pompeii Z Cars Dixon of Dock Green Softly Softly Something about the oil industry, I think it was called The Power Game, Dad liked it, think it was late 60s Monty Pythons Flying Circus Peyton Place Till Death do us Part
At my gran and grandads I remember some documentary programme about the First World War (Grandad had fought in it) called All our Yesterdays and The Black and White Minstrel show, incidentally I thought that was a bit crap even when I was a kid. Another one was Opportunity Knocks, with Hughie Green, I also thought he was an annoying idiot even at an early age!
Sunday night was always a bit depressing as it meant the end of the weekend and back to school and I remember Mum liked The Forsythe Saga which was on then.
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Post by Sparky on Jul 1, 2019 14:18:38 GMT
Mum used to put myself and my brother to bed. My brother would normally be fast asleep - while I would pretend to be asleep.
Mum would then go for a bath - and I would sneak downstairs, switch on ITV and watch the Sweeney....
Other stuff would be:
Minder Tales of the Unexpected (it was one episode of this that gave me a fear of snakes) Auf Pet Boys from the Blackstuff Play for Today Professionals Special Branch Juliet Bravo (week after week I would sit and wait for a Car chase or punch up... it never happened) Monty Python Out (The Euston films series) Thriller Whodunnit (in the Pertwee years) News at 10 (watching this was a novelty - as I had been allowed to stop up until 10pm!)
For some reason, I used to watch "World in Action" - never understood it as a child, but it had a great theme tune!
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 1, 2019 14:21:31 GMT
Sundays were indeed depressing. I was a nipper in the 70's and Sunday nights for me meant "All Creatures Great & Small" or "Last Of The Summer Wine" followed by That's Life. I think there was a holiday programme on with Judith Chalmers & Cliff Mitchelmore? I remember the theme tune being "Here Comes The Sun" or "Heartsong" by Gordon Giltrap.
I remember watching "Crown Court" at lunchtimes after Rainbow had finished, I think "Emmerdale Farm" was on during the early afternoon, maybe "General Hospital" too.
Evenings I remember "Shelley", "Rising Damp" being on and weekends I'd sometimes see snippets of "Starsky & Hutch". Earlier in the evening I'd watch "The Six Million Dollar Man" (what else) and "The Two Ronnies".
Nor sure if you;d call any of those adult or telly for grown ups but I was 10 in April 1979 just to give some context. My mum was not a huge telly fan but when she did watch something it was pretty lame like "The Waltons" or "Little House On The Prairie" which was not something I appreciated. By the same token, she did not appreciate "The Young Ones" which we watched when it was on, I was a little older by then.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 1, 2019 14:47:03 GMT
Yes, The Walton’s, my wife liked that and watched reruns of it in recent years. I thought it was deadly dull, nothing used to happen much, they would go to Ike Godseys shop and settle their bill for the previous month or whatever, and that was usually it. I remember thinking “you own a mountain, why do you have to buy grocery shop crap on tick?”
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jul 1, 2019 16:20:17 GMT
I remember a few of those mentioned, some of the programmes on in the background or would just start on TV after the kids programmes finished included:
Nationwide with Frank Bough
"Don't ask me" a science-based British TV show of the 1970s that made household names of Dr. Magnus Pyke and Professor David Bellamy which for its theme tune had "House of The King" which was by 70's Dutch group "Focus".
Crown Court - was on after the lunchtime kids programmes in the school holidays
The Cedar Tree - which my mum watched.
The Crypton Factor - used to quite like seeing all the challenges all the contestants did.
General Hospital
Crossroads
Juliet Bravo - Saw this nearly every week actually
The Comedians - Stand up comics taking turns - some made it big, others may be not quite so
Whodunnit
Auf Pet
A family at war - WW2 drama
The Sullivans - Aussie period drama - long running
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Post by Villain on Jul 1, 2019 18:53:07 GMT
Magic Roundabout. I had a strange childhood... Villain
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Post by Sparky on Jul 1, 2019 19:08:15 GMT
I forgot to include:
Crown Court Country Matters (Mum used to have it on in the afternoon) Gardening Today (I used to find the two bumbling old guys pottering about in Kings Heath Park in Birmingham with Daffodils amusing....) Nationwide (just for the opening titles) ATV-Today (Local "news" programme - that was purely 30minutes of Grandads on Skateboards, Dogs that could sing etc...) Bergerac (as My Nan insisted on watching it) Crossroads (as above!) Pebble Mill at One
Do game shows count too? I'd think they were "family viewing"; if not -
Sale of the Century (only in the UK can you get a show boasting about coming from Norwich) Winner Takes All (only because they gave you a choice of answers, so I had some chance of getting one right)
University Challenge (to sneers at the pompousness of it) Price is Right (Leslie Crowther version)
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Post by Vienna on Jul 1, 2019 19:44:24 GMT
For some reason, I used to watch "World in Action" - never understood it as a child, but it had a great theme tune!
Yes, great theme tune! I often used to watch this, although the subjects they investigated were sometimes quite scary for a kid! I remember watching one about the Ku Klux Klan and racism in America around 1980.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 1, 2019 20:59:56 GMT
This Is Your Right, early evening citizens advice show ( I think this was shown only on Granada )
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That's Life!
Remember watching a few mini series & tv movies with adult content like The Thorn Birds, Return To Eden, The Scarlet And The Black & of course 'Salems Lot.
Horror films aplenty. Even got my poor mum to take me to see the ultra violent & expletive ridden Day Of The Dead at the cinema aged 14!
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Post by Three Litre on Jul 1, 2019 21:29:14 GMT
I remember watching an episode of Batman in the 60s at a friends house and being scared rigid for some reason and then getting told off for being scared! God knows why as when I watched a TV movie of the series years later it was all comedic and camp!
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