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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2021 13:29:21 GMT
You know, that slight sinking feeling when you realise that the weekend is done and it's back to school in the morning. What Sunday night programmes made you think of it?
Here's a few of mine
The Forsythe Saga The Onedin Line The Brothers Last of the Summer Wine (might have moved to Sundays later, after I'd left school) All Creatures great and small - only just counts, it started shortly before I left in 78 Sunday night at the London Palladium, some heavyweights of entertainment there! Tarby, Kenny Lynch, Pinky and Perky That's life with Esther Rantzen, moans about the GPO putting a telegraph pole in the wrong place, a song from Doc Cox, a poem from Cyril Fletcher and a dog that could say sausages.
Any more?
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 7, 2021 15:19:31 GMT
You knew it was Sunday as the TV was terrible all day. Sportscene or The Big Match, Farmers Weekly during the day followed by Songs Of Praise, Antiques Roadshow, Bullseye. Not sure if The Gentle Touch was on Sunday's but I think Bergerac was and then Spitting Image at 10pm.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2021 15:34:36 GMT
Yes Bergerac was on Sunday night, as was Shoestring, but these were both after I had left school
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Post by Sparky on Sept 7, 2021 15:45:44 GMT
Great thread Cartman!
For me -
Endless Snooker on all afternoon.
Bullseye
Highway (though never used to watch it)
Hart to Hart
If the TV was switched to BBC...
Antiques Roadshow Songs of Praise That's Life
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 7, 2021 16:45:37 GMT
'That's Life!' definitely, that was the last programme I'd see before school on Monday.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2021 17:19:06 GMT
I actually didn't dislike secondary school, probably because I just arsed about and did pretty much did sod all, mostly getting away with it.
Wouldn't like to be in school now, judging by what my lad tells me, it seems much more regimented and generally pc.
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Post by Sparky on Sept 7, 2021 18:18:45 GMT
I actually didn't dislike secondary school, probably because I just arsed about and did pretty much did sod all, mostly getting away with it. Wouldn't like to be in school now, judging by what my lad tells me, it seems much more regimented and generally pc. Likewise. I loved my Secondary School - hardly any real bother and everyone seemed really laid back. OK there were some toerags, but nothing on a par to today.
Taken our youngest out of Secondary School - and notified the local authority that we will be responsible for his education and homeschooling as he can't cope with the demands and the constant changing. Plus the additional 200 students taken on this term has made the place cramped.
So, Had 2 days of total hell at home and the contents of the bedroom flying down the stairs.
Local Authority tried to fob us off with the old "prosecution" threat - so we informed them that the Education Act states EDUCATION is compulsory, and school isn't. The Oik from the council didn't have a clue about anything and just seemed to quote small print. They didn't realize that we had done our legal homework (excuse the pun) beforehand. He then seemed to go very quiet.
The threat of sending Gene round to stamp on his toys might have had something to do with it too!
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 7, 2021 19:09:52 GMT
Good thread Carty!
For me it was some depressing Charles Dickens serial.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2021 19:15:26 GMT
Just remembered another one, Upstairs Downstairs. Lesley Anne Down was in it though
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 7, 2021 19:24:01 GMT
Just remembered another one, Upstairs Downstairs. Lesley Anne Down was in it though All Creatures Great And Small was another one. Watched this and others shown at 9pm as I knew I'd have to go to bed after but they were all much of a muchness these Sunday night dramas. Later on in my school life, as I got older, you'd get some gems such as Clive James On TV.
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