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Post by Del Boy on May 28, 2021 17:06:45 GMT
BBC Four are showing some classic kids tv shows from the 70s on Sunday 30th May.
BBC Four Sunday 30th May 2021 7:00pm Blue Peter from 04/11/1974 7:25pm Bagpuss 7:40pm The Clangers 7:50pm Ivor the Engine 8:00pm Timeshift Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films 9:00pm-10.00pm From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television
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Post by Sparky on May 28, 2021 18:11:06 GMT
BBC Four are showing some classic kids tv shows from the 70s on Sunday 30th May. BBC Four Sunday 30th May 2021 7:00pm Blue Peter from 04/11/1974 7:25pm Bagpuss 7:40pm The Clangers 7:50pm Ivor the Engine 8:00pm Timeshift Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films 9:00pm-10.00pm From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television Thanks for the heads up on that Del - might tune in and reminisce. Looking forward to the Oliver Postgate documentary.
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Post by Nightfly on May 28, 2021 20:19:55 GMT
BBC Four are showing some classic kids tv shows from the 70s on Sunday 30th May. Thanks for this, Del. I'll be setting the DVR timer later for this one . No doubt the Blue Peter episode will mention bonfire safety a couple of weeks before they reveal their ceiling mounted coat hanger advent calendar with real candles. I wonder if kids were ever tempted to make their own? Then again back in 1974, you could buy Reader's Digest Home DIY books showing you how to repair your gas fire (I'm sure I still have a copy of that somewhere in the house).
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Post by Sparky on May 29, 2021 6:27:54 GMT
BBC Four are showing some classic kids tv shows from the 70s on Sunday 30th May. Thanks for this, Del. I'll be setting the DVR timer later for this one . No doubt the Blue Peter episode will mention bonfire safety a couple of weeks before they reveal their ceiling mounted coat hanger advent calendar with real candles. I wonder if kids were ever tempted to make their own? Then again back in 1974, you could buy Reader's Digest Home DIY books showing you how to repair your gas fire (I'm sure I still have a copy of that somewhere in the house). Grief, my Dad had one of those DIY books, it had a step by step "how to" service your Combi Boiler. No mention of CORGI, Gas Safe or the real dangers if you ballsed it up.
Readers Digest also did one on "Law" and "Knowing Your Rights".
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Post by Three Litre on May 29, 2021 8:02:54 GMT
BBC Four are showing some classic kids tv shows from the 70s on Sunday 30th May. Thanks for this, Del. I'll be setting the DVR timer later for this one . No doubt the Blue Peter episode will mention bonfire safety a couple of weeks before they reveal their ceiling mounted coat hanger advent calendar with real candles. I wonder if kids were ever tempted to make their own? Then again back in 1974, you could buy Reader's Digest Home DIY books showing you how to repair your gas fire (I'm sure I still have a copy of that somewhere in the house). Blimey, I'm glad they never did one on the beginners guide to flying a BAC1-11. Would have been carnage! No way they'd show anything with candles these days. House fires were a lot more common then. Mind you, there have been a few house gas explosions recently, mostly people trying to bypass the meter methinks. Blue Peter was a good show in the 60's and 70's.
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Post by Nightfly on May 29, 2021 11:20:42 GMT
Grief, my Dad had one of those DIY books, it had a step by step "how to" service your Combi Boiler. No mention of CORGI, Gas Safe or the real dangers if you ballsed it up. I have a feeling it showed you how to cap off a gas pipe and warned you not to be tempted to use a champagne cork which some people apparently used back then !
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Post by Nightfly on May 29, 2021 11:25:16 GMT
Blue Peter was a good show in the 60's and 70's. The risky stuff they had John Noakes doing always impressed me. I can barely watch the clip of him climbing Nelson's column with the cleaning team although, like the Fred Dibnah programmes, the camera and sound guys deserve a lot of respect. They had the same climb with all their gear.
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Post by Three Litre on May 29, 2021 12:19:07 GMT
Blue Peter was a good show in the 60's and 70's. The risky stuff they had John Noakes doing always impressed me. I can barely watch the clip of him climbing Nelson's column with the cleaning team although, like the Fred Dibnah programmes, the camera and sound guys deserve a lot of respect. They had the same climb with all their gear. "Nelson's column? PAH! It is Nelson's WILLY!"
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Post by Nightfly on May 29, 2021 13:35:49 GMT
"Nelson's column? PAH! It is Nelson's WILLY!" Ah - a Rowan Atkinson/NTNOCN fan !
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Post by Sparky on May 29, 2021 16:52:36 GMT
Thanks for this, Del. I'll be setting the DVR timer later for this one . No doubt the Blue Peter episode will mention bonfire safety a couple of weeks before they reveal their ceiling mounted coat hanger advent calendar with real candles. I wonder if kids were ever tempted to make their own? Then again back in 1974, you could buy Reader's Digest Home DIY books showing you how to repair your gas fire (I'm sure I still have a copy of that somewhere in the house). No way they'd show anything with candles these days. House fires were a lot more common then. Mind you, there have been a few house gas explosions recently, mostly people trying to bypass the meter methinks. Yeah very likely.
Can't say who/exactly where - but back in 2012 I worked on a film shot in Leeds / York. On a night shoot, we used an alley way between two shops, and and interior of a clothes shop (independent).
As only a couple of very low wattage lights were used, we decided to use "local power" - instead of go to the hassle of a generator truck etc. (That way, the next part could be set up elsewhere). I had to "tail in" to the shop distribution board - and fit our own circuit breaker.
Upon on investigating the distro board, the meter had been bypassed using links of 4mm (30A) wire bent and shoved in across the meter - hidden behind the power tails.
However - whoever had done this hadn't realised that with the meter still in circuit (though bypassed) they had effectively "shunted" the connection - so it still registered the meter was operational, but not register the units used.
How this had gone unmissed beats me.
I chose not to bother with it in the end - leave it alone and use next doors distro board...
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