Which TV or radio programme was your earliest memory.

[?????]

Button moon

[ozleicester]

Radio  - in Australia in the 70s, we would get the English Football reports at about 8am on the ABC, which i think was just the repeat of the BBC version...

 

"England Division 1...

Blackpoool Nil - Arsenal One

West Ham United Two - Huddersfield town Two..."

 

etc... basically still the same way it is done in the UK now, but i remember sitting there all quiet on a Sunday morning, with my Shoot magazine cardboard ladder moving teams around. It was the only way of getting any news of results.

 

The internet has changed the world as i now sit and listen to the game (albeit about 10 seconds behind when it happens) live.

[Strokes]

Dukes of hazzard

[Tielemans63]

Can vaguely remember my folks watching Wogan every week when I was a sprog.

[bovril]

Another vote for Button Moon. It actually used to scare the crap out of me!

[yorkie1999]

Believe it or not, but i can remember watching the moon landings at my uncles house when i was 4. I can even remember the TV which was one of those blue Decca things.  

[Zingari]

Radio , children's favourites with uncle mac

Or more likely, the shipping forecast " north utsera ,south utsera,  cromarty viking forties dogger fisher german bight.................." i've no idea why i used to sit listening to it, i'd no idea what it all meant and living in Leicester it didn't affect me in the slightest , but it was somehow hypnotic " 

 

TV , the earliest thing i can remember watching was Torchy the Battery Boy 

 

edit;

i've just googled pics of Torchy and he looks incredibly gay .

 

[Strokes]

Radio , children's favourites with uncle mac

Or more likely, the shipping forecast " north utsera ,south utsera, cromarty viking forties dogger fisher german bight.................." i've no idea why i used to sit listening to it, i'd no idea what it all meant and living in Leicester it didn't affect me in the slightest , but it was somehow hypnotic "

TV , the earliest thing i can remember watching was Torchy the Battery Boy

edit;

i've just googled pics of Torchy and he looks incredibly gay .

That explains alot

[DennisNedry]

CITV when it was hosted by Stephen Mulhern, Fearne Cotton & Michael Underwood. Probably late 90s, early 2000s.

[Zingari]

That explains alot

cheeky git 

[Bellend Sebastian]

This is lurking at the very periphery of my memory:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK90sLowzGk

 

I can remember hearing crap like Minnie Ripperton's 'Loving You' and 'When will I see you Again' by the Three Degrees on what was probably Radio 2 in the late 70s but I think these weren't current hits at the time because I'm not THAT old.

 

No Sex Pistols in our house

[Simmo86]

TV - Playdays or Captain Planet

Radio - Atlantic 252

[Rincewind]

Woodentops Andy Pandy Lone Ranger Watch With Mother

[MPH]

Oh my gosh.. will have to come and post when I have more time...

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Radio: Dick Barton - Special Agent; Mr Pastry (Richard Hearn); Workers Playtime; Billy Cotton Bandshow;

Radio Luxemburg 208 metres - Horace Batchelor (on my crystal set)

TV: Muffin the Mule (Annette Mills), Hopalong Cassidy; England 3 Hungary 6; The Railway Children;

Leicester City 6 Swansea 1 (First televised broadcast of highlights involving Leicester from Filbert Street on BBC Sportsview 12/11/55, What's My Line; Sunday Night at the London Palladium; TW3 (That was the week thaT was; Watching the white spot gradually disappear from the middle of the screen when BBC closed down

Oh yes. Mr. Pastry (Richard Hearne). He lived in a converted Oast house close to where I lived in Kent. Really nice guy. He used to attend all the local fetes.

[OzFox]

Can't remember which was first, but probably one of these: Magic Roundabout, The Clangers, Tales of the Riverbank, Bill and Ben, Camberwick Green

[Smudge]

I can't remember the first radio program but it was probably Listen with Mother (Are you sitting comfortably?)

Other radio of the day :-

Weekdays; Housewives Choice, Workers Playtime, Mrs Dales Diary, Desert Island Disc, The Archers, Down Your Way.

Sundays; Billy Cotton's Playtime, The Navy Lark, Round the Horn, Hancock's Half Hour, Goon Show, Life With The Lyons (hated that)

 

TV - 1953 The Coronation this was was the first time I had seen television.

What's My Line, Panorama, Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Crackerjack, Dixon Of Dock Green, This Is Your Life, Quatermass, (which I wasn't allowed to watch.)

 

By and large the TV was absolute crap. badly produced and acted out. In it's day radio was absolutely brilliant

[Guest MattP]

DNO show on Panj Pani Radio.

 

Was brilliant, shaped my political views and still going to this day.

[stockyfox]

I remember one 4-30pm news bulletin read by Bruce Wyndham. 'This morning, theives raided a jeweller's shop in Central London, taking many valuable items before making their get-away in a fast car!...........(Well you wouldn't expect it to be a slow one would you?) Finally, the weather etc.etc.'

Might raise a smile today but then!!!! He was instantly dismissed by the BBC - Headline news - Disgraced.

It was about the same time that we heard 'Ladies and Gentlemen, we present 'Hancock's.... twenty-eight minutes! and one of the classic moments from 'The Test Pilot' as I remember it - apologies for not giving the precise script!! 'Hancock to control, Hancock to control,there's a strange knocking coming from outside the aircraft. I'm going to investigate. (Opens top cover) (Kenneth Williams) 'Ello! 'What the?' 'O stop messin' about. Let me in' 'No! there's not room' 'O go on' 'No! What are you doing out there anyway?' 'Well I was just working on the plane when suddenly - whoosh - I was up here. O go on, let me in, it's cold out here. I say...... what's that?' 'Don't touch that! It's the lever for the ejector seat! 'Ello!' Absolutely brilliant!

[Dan]

Fireman Sam.

[Corky]

Rosie and Jim.

[Dan]

^ That too.

 

Tots TV.