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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 12:20:05 GMT
My father was one of those people for whom ITV was -- at least in public -- an anathema, he had grown up during World War II, at a time when the BBC was very important, not just at home, but also in Europe, and tended to see that independent broadcasting was somehow vulgar, not to be watched. But, that did not stop it from being watched in our house as, oddly, and completely against type, he started watching -- of all things -- Coronation Street. It was really odd, and after that, we began to watch more and more things like The Saint, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Mystery and Imagination, and we were allowed to watch everything in the Gerry Anderson stable, along with Robin Hood, Wiliam Tell, etc. But curiously, if you asked him, he would still tell you that ITV was rubbish.
Later (by the late 1960s) we were watching Man in a Suitcase, Randal and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Prisoner, and so on. But, it was only with Callan, and Private Eye, that he could begin to admit, not that he had been wrong, but that ITV was 'getting better'. Of course, in the mean time, we had actually liked these programmes.
We used to be in the Grampian (Channel 3 on our television) region of ITV and this was one of our first logos:
How do others remember ITV?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 12:52:04 GMT
And now, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week!
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Post by marion on Jun 28, 2016 12:57:50 GMT
Until you said you were in Grampian region, I was beginning to wonder if you were living in our house LW!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 13:16:23 GMT
And now, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week! Sale of the Century. I loved watching that with Nicholas Parsons.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 13:36:49 GMT
Just look up Grampian Television on Wikipedia. I did not realise how many programs it has made over the years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grampian_Television
My favourite had to be June Imray (the Torry quine)
Looked forward to seeing her on a Friday evening when I was a girl.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 13:46:57 GMT
The one whose name really worried my youngest sister when she was small was Jimmy Spankie There was something about his name that sounded ominous to a small child. He was actually a nice person to meet; the studios were just up the road a bit from us. June Imray
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 14:03:56 GMT
Jimmy Spankie a blast from the past. Watching that clip of June seeing the faces of some of the people that was on my TV as I was growing up that I have forgotten about.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 18:19:40 GMT
And now, from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week! Sale of the Century. I loved watching that with Nicholas Parsons. Its hard to believe that Simon Cowell was on as a contestant trying to win a Skoda.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 19:08:52 GMT
Our local station was Southern. It produced programmes like Houseparty, Out of Town, Runaround and Freewheelers. Fred Dineage was one of its first reporters and he's still presenting the local news (now for Meridian)
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Post by Miranda on Jun 28, 2016 19:48:27 GMT
My local was ATV. Which then became Central. Spent loads of time waiting outside there for pop stars and what not that had been on Tiswas. Met Ian Drury who was a lovely charming man. As was Roy Wood.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 19:49:51 GMT
I loved Houseparty, don't know why, as I was a teenager.
Yes, good old Fred Dineage, still going strong.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 11:01:43 GMT
ok its not about ITV but looking back, who remembers the end of the night's transmission and the screen suddenly plunged into black, except for that white spot that gradually got smaller and dimmer till it was gone........ and you'd still sit there for another second or two, staring at that totally black screen realising that that is it. Time to go to bed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 11:04:51 GMT
Yes, and the National Anthem first.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 11:11:50 GMT
oops.. forgot that !
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 17:21:28 GMT
We didn't get it, (YTV) for quite a while, my mother, (who was always right), deemed it "common".
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