Things you never see anymore

[Free Falling Foxes]

Anyone remember when the Open University was on TV early mornings?

No brain dead drivel they have for day time TV now but intellectual, high brow and thoroughly fascinating programmes.

One of my favourites was module M101. Fundermental Theorem of Calculus.

Or even, Non-Euclidean Geometry, what a cracking course that was.

 

And this....

 

Edited 13 September by Free Falling Foxes

[Trav Le Bleu]

18 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Anyone remember when the Open University was on TV early mornings?

No brain dead drivel they have for day time TV now but intellectual, high brow and thoroughly fascinating programmes.

One of my favourites was module M101. Fundermental Theorem of Calculus.

Or even, Non-Euclidean Geometry, what a cracking course that was.

 

And this....

 

Daytime TV was very much programmes for schools and lessons would scheduled around them.

 

How We Used To Live was a favourite, though it scared me of ever getting Tetanus.

[Chiltern Fox]

24 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Daytime TV was very much programmes for schools and lessons would scheduled around them.

 

How We Used To Live was a favourite, though it scared me of ever getting Tetanus.

Also program called zigzag

[SouthStandUpperTier]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Anyone remember when the Open University was on TV early mornings?

No brain dead drivel they have for day time TV now but intellectual, high brow and thoroughly fascinating programmes.

One of my favourites was module M101. Fundermental Theorem of Calculus.

Or even, Non-Euclidean Geometry, what a cracking course that was.

 

And this....

 

There was also a brilliant spoof comedy show of those OU programmes called Look Around You...

 

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

University rag mags.

 

Used to get loads of new jokes from them.

[Bellend Sebastian]

2 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

University rag mags.

 

Used to get loads of new jokes from them.

I remember that some of them were really, really good - sort of in the spirit of Viz.

 

I bought a 'comic' from a homeless guy selling them in Manchester not long ago that looked like it might be a similar sort of thing but the 'jokes' were just really racist and barely jokes so that was disappointing

[David Guiza II]

I watched an episode of Mastermind from the mid-70s on BBC4 the other day because I'm a right laugh, and I did not realise how subjective the questions were back then. Nowadays there is very much a definitive answer, but there were various questions along the lines of 'what is meant by the term 'offside' in football?'. Very odd!

 

Bamber Gascogine also dropped the N-bomb followed by 'blacks' in a question about boxing - it was quite a ride. 

[davieG]

Born in the 40s, grew up in the 50s, started a family in the 60s ·

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In the 1950s, a school medical involved routine physical inspections by visiting school doctors and nurses to check children for hygiene, vision, hearing, and infectious diseases.

Doctors checked posture, heart sounds, throats, and general growth. The "nit nurse" regularly inspected children's hair for head lice. Basic vision eye charts and rudimentary hearing audiometer tests were standard. Nurses looked for smallpox vaccination scars.

I'm convinced I never had a school medical, for not long after commencing senior school a teacher discovered I needed glasses. All I recall from my junior school days was the travelling dentist and nit nurse.

 

 

I remember these at junior school. I also went to the Dentist at Jonathan North Girls School on Knighton Lane East after having one of my front teeth half knocked out. Had to have gas when they took the remains out.

[Trav Le Bleu]

7 hours ago, davieG said:

Born in the 40s, grew up in the 50s, started a family in the 60s ·

Follow

 

In the 1950s, a school medical involved routine physical inspections by visiting school doctors and nurses to check children for hygiene, vision, hearing, and infectious diseases.

Doctors checked posture, heart sounds, throats, and general growth. The "nit nurse" regularly inspected children's hair for head lice. Basic vision eye charts and rudimentary hearing audiometer tests were standard. Nurses looked for smallpox vaccination scars.

I'm convinced I never had a school medical, for not long after commencing senior school a teacher discovered I needed glasses. All I recall from my junior school days was the travelling dentist and nit nurse.

 

 

I remember these at junior school. I also went to the Dentist at Jonathan North Girls School on Knighton Lane East after having one of my front teeth half knocked out. Had to have gas when they took the remains out.

They still did the "cough and drop" when I was at school in the late 70s to early 80s.

[Free Falling Foxes]

21 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

They still did the "cough and drop" when I was at school in the late 70s to early 80s.

I remember a mate at school (early 1970s) insisting his sister had had a 'cough & drop' examination.

We were in hysterics.

That said, these days, who knows?

Edited 25 September by Free Falling Foxes

[Doozer]

On 24/09/2026 at 21:27, Trav Le Bleu said:

They still did the "cough and drop" when I was at school in the late 70s to early 80s.

I remember queuing for the cough and drop, as I recall it was both exciting and scary in equal measure!

[Parafox]

On 24/09/2026 at 21:27, Trav Le Bleu said:

They still did the "cough and drop" when I was at school in the late 70s to early 80s.

They were purely for the satisfaction of the weird doctor/nurse.

 

I wonder what has replaced it,

Edited 26 September by Parafox