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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 6, 2022 17:37:20 GMT
Another interesting Line up and thanks again Art! I note in Upstairs Downstairs, Keith Barron gets a role; he would later guest star in the same production with Gordon Jackson once again; That was the first Professionals episode transmitted - Private Madness Public Danger, which made its debut on December 30th 1977, 45 years ago, last week.
I remember my dad talking about the Candid Camera episode with the car with no engine - didn't know it had been done twice but I've seen the original 60's sketch on Youtube sometime, black and white with a Ford Anglia 100E. The idea was taken from the same prank pulled on the origina American Candid Camera with a woman with an American convertible car. Which I also found on Youtube!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 7, 2022 18:29:22 GMT
7 January 1975
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 7, 2022 19:12:49 GMT
Famous guests on Rainbow and The Sooty Show , Mollie Sugden and Gerry Marsden.
£1900 sovs a year as a copper in 1975 equates to £16,299.41 in 2020. The inflation over those years averaged 4.9% a year.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 8, 2022 8:36:57 GMT
So, in 1975 - ITV childrens programmes didn't really start until after 4pm?
And then it was restricted to a couple of programmes.
By 1979/80 they had introduced the "Watch It!" brand, with the cunningly bouncy exclamation mark, so it would read "Watch it!" or "Watch ITV"... see what they did there?!! Of course Childrens ITV didn't come along until around 1983.
I vaguely remember seeing Looks Familiar, catching full episodes when I pulled a sickie from school, or catching the end as I had got home.
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Post by Nightfly on Jan 8, 2022 13:36:11 GMT
Famous guests on Rainbow and The Sooty Show , Mollie Sugden and Gerry Marsden. If I remember correctly, Gerry Marsden was a regular co-presenter of The Sooty Show back then. There was another early 60s pop star who moved into children's TV in the 70s too - Freddie Garrity of Freddie and The Dreamers, who had a show called Little Big Time. Being a bit too young at the time, I hadn't a clue they had come from the pop world and just thought of them as presenters. Back then there weren't as many retro shows looking back at hits from the past I suppose. Interesting to see a repeat of Hadleigh in the afternoon, an episode written by the Leeds actor with the refined deep resonate voice, Leslie Sands. Despite Hadleigh running for 7 years or so, I can't remember what it was about apart from Gerald Harper playing a kind of well-healed Squire who drove the odd flash car around his estate.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 8, 2022 17:13:41 GMT
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Post by Cartman on Jan 8, 2022 18:09:20 GMT
Thanks for this Arthur, January 77 was a great month, some good memories of it👍
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 9, 2022 17:19:55 GMT
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Post by Nightfly on Jan 9, 2022 17:46:30 GMT
The Indoor League at lunchtime - have to admit I'm a fan and this is probably the first series I caught. Sid Waddell was the original producer and wrote lines for Fred Truman's first appearance, including all the broad Yorkshire "Nah then!" and "Ah'll sithee'" expressions. Apparently Fred protested, "Sid..I don't talk like that", to which Sid answered, "You do now, Fred."
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Post by Cartman on Jan 9, 2022 18:36:48 GMT
Yes I remember bits of the Indoor League, must have been half term in February 78. The Flockton Flyer was filmed on The West Somerset Railway, the two locos in the picture behind Patrick Mower and Peter Duncan are a GWR pannier tank and one of two Bagnall shunters the railway had, Victor and Vulcan, both of them came from British Leyland at Longbridge.
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