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Post by Miranda on Mar 15, 2017 17:19:49 GMT
We lost a few ornaments in our house the same way. And a few dinners.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 11:16:28 GMT
Just the "wireless" for me too but interestingly enough on that day according to The Radio Times archive, after the broadcast ended they transmitted experimental Still Pictures. This was in 1929 so television was already being thought about.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 7, 2017 19:04:24 GMT
If anyone saw the nonsense just posted, I do apologise. I thought I had blocked guests from posting on this board. No idea who that was or what he was talking about.
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 7, 2017 20:41:43 GMT
Oh, I'm intrigued now, what old tv was he on about!😃
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Post by Miranda on Jun 8, 2017 8:00:33 GMT
He wasn't. He was having a strop about something or other totally unrelated. Probably one too many G+Ts!  |
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Post by yellowcat on Jun 10, 2017 21:42:37 GMT
He wasn't. He was having a strop about something or other totally unrelated. Probably one too many G+Ts! An Archers proboard was shut down by the owner/main moderator this week, she apparently found it too stressful to cope with. Maybe the random poster was a refugee from that board. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 20:34:57 GMT
I was born on Christmas Eve,1957. I have a book which details Christmas programmes since the 1930s. The first televised Queens Speech took place on Christmas Day that year.
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Post by pearl06 on Jun 29, 2017 14:38:30 GMT
As I was born in 1936, the year TV was invented, I doubt much was on the box, apart from some testing!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2017 15:18:52 GMT
My older sister told me that the day I was born they cancelled normal broadcasts on television and radio, and played funeral music, and church bells tolled throughout the country for three days. I didn't believe her, but I did think that it would have been cool if they had. Apart from that, it was the normal stuff, for the mid 1950s, rather boring really.
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Post by yankee on Sept 24, 2019 20:14:15 GMT
On the day I was born most of the country was probably watching the Ed Sullivan Show.
I just checked IMDB and the guests that evening were:
Buster Keaton (legend)
Paul Dooley (comedian)
Richard Libertini (comedian)
Topo Gigio (a mouse puppet)
John Huston (actor, director)
George Kirby (impressionist)
Rene Lavand (magician)
Tessie O'Shea (singer)
The Burke Family (choral group)
Hugh Forgie (figure skater)
Gloria Bleezarde (singer)
And one of my dad's favorite singers Teresa Brewer
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Post by marion on Sept 25, 2019 10:28:44 GMT
Well I've only just seen this link and I'm very bored my my TV listing, not even the beloved Muffin The Mule . (I had a plastic toy with a magnetic carrot. I adored it, my Dad dropped it near the fire, I was hysterical.)
The lucky viewers got
Demonstration Film for two hours in the morning,
Designed for Women,
For Children, Ballet for beginners.
Holiday in Paris, Pigalle (racy!!!)
Xmas Lecture.
Restrospect.
News.
Pity the poor viewer!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 10:39:18 GMT
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Post by pandaeyes on Nov 7, 2019 11:45:08 GMT
We didn't have a television set until 1958, and I was four then. Apart from Watch With Mother, the only thing I recall seeing was The Lone Ranger. (Cue Rossini's overture).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2019 11:48:04 GMT
holdover should of course be hoodylover. |
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Post by hoodylover on Nov 7, 2019 19:16:37 GMT
If ever I decide to change my name, I might go for holdover!  |
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Anymore to come?
