First TV programme memory

Listen with Mother, Dixon of Dock Green and I remember a programme called the Bumblies, think that’s what it was called, with Michael Bentine.

Greyduster, I do remember the Groves (I believe it was one of Christopher Beeny's first parts, he was a young boy in it),also the Appleyards. We're enjoying some of the 70s programmes on Drama, ie The Duchess of Duke Street and The Onedin Line. Although dated they're still quite enjoyable and we don't remember any of the story lines although we watched them originally.

Does anyone remember Old Mother Riley I think her daughter was called Kitty and in actual fact they were husband and wife. I only have a vague recollection but what I do remember I remember with great affection.

I remember all the Watch with Mother programmes, and I think I know which day of the week they were on. I liked Bill & Ben (Wed) the best and Picture Book(Mon) the least.
My little sister was frightened of Torchy the Battery Boy.
I don't really remember Muffin the Mule or Prudence Kitten, but I still have a stuffed toy kitten called Prudence, so I expect that's where the name came from. Funny how some things stick in the memory and others don't

I remember watching the coronation on my uncles television I think it was a 9 inch screen, and my sister and I had to sit quietly through the whole thing. No offence intended but we were bored rigid.

I remember we had to sit in the dark, or draw the curtains if it wasn’t dark

Some time after I saw the Coronation I was fascinated by a performance of Swan Lake on a relative's small set. My parents didn't get a tv until 1960. By then I was teaching and living in a flat in London.
A kind older teacher invited two of us to her home each week to watch Z Cars! She also fed us well and her Polish husband provided vodka and drove us home in their sports car. They had no children but adored Sammy, a lovely Afghan hound whose exploits she often related to our pupils in assemblies.
This was in SE London and the children enthusiastically told us about a new programme which seemed to be called Carnation Street and someone named Ena!

We never had a TV until after I was married and by the time I got in from work I was usually too tired to watch it.

Muffin!

Muffing the mule and Andy Pandy also the Woodentops. No idea how old I was.

My first memory is watching Prudence Kitten on my grandparents' television. It must have been in the very early 50s certainly before the coronation.

Shortly after GeorgeVI's funeral, TV came to Scotland with the opening if the Kirk o' Shotts transmitter. The first evening there was a programme of Scottish culture - singing and dancing. I remember the Coronation the following year when we had a lot of friends and relatives to watch it in our house- on a screen smaller than my laptop!

The very first thing I watched was a Cup Final in the 1950s. My parents had friends who owned an electrical shop and they were the first people we knew to have a set. It was black and white with a nine-inch screen. They had their sitting room arranged like a cinema and there must have been about thirty or forty people crammed in. Being little I was allowed to sit at the front. I don't think I was very interested in the match, but I remember the whole experience being incredibly exciting! (Oh we knew how to enjoy ourselves in those days! )
The next programme I watched was the Coronation. My father was a teacher and I went to his school and watched it there with the other children. My mum had made me a lovely red and white gingham dress with royal blue hand-smocking specially for the occasion.
Soon after this my father won a TV and a reporter/photographer came to the house to write an article for the Competitors' Journal, the newspaper which ran the competition. I still have a copy of this, with a picture of me holding a knob pretending to turn it on! We seemed to spend ages fiddling with it to get a good picture... Anybody remember 'horizontal hold' and 'vertical hold' controls which had to be very carefully adjusted? By the time you'd sorted out the picture you'd missed half of the programme!

Like others, I loved the radio before we ever had a tv; but Andy Pandy, Muffin the Mule and Bill and Ben were the first things I remember watching. Broadcasting, in the fifities, started at four o’clock and then there was a period of shut down between six and seven in the evening if I remember in the early days. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. Later, I liked programmes like Stranger than Fiction, Adrian Hill’s art programmes, Hans and Lotte Hass ‘Dive to Adventure’, and Armand and Michaela Dennis in Africa. And does anyone remember The Groves, and The
Appleyards?

goldengirl yes, I'm another one who really loved the Woodentops. I was actually a bit old for the programme but my little brother watched it so that was my excuse to see it in the school holidays!
Bella Loved the Grove Family with the very grumpy granny... Hope I'm not turning into her!

Torchy the battery boy and watch with mother.

I watched Muffin the Mule and had one. I got into trouble when I took it to school on play afternoon because it jangled too much and annoyed the teacher!
Anyone remember The Grove Family, probably the first ever soap?

I remember Prudence (and Primrose) Kitten eazybee
And

Picture Book
The Wooden Tops
Andy Pandy
Bill and Ben
Rag Tag and Bobtail
Muffin the Mule
Sooty and Sweep
Mr Pastry

When I was a little older I enjoyed (but was a bit scared by)

The Cabin in the Clearing
The Silver Sword (first time I ever cried at a tv programme!)

I also loved

What's my Line
This is Your Life
Michael Bentine's Potty Time
I dream of Jeannie
I love Lucy

Sorry, not all first tv memories, got a bit carried away with nostalgia there

The Coronation and Watch with Mother. I absolutely loved The Woodentops and yearned for a twin sister so we could speak in unison!
Other early TV memories are Sooty and Sweep, Lenny the Lion, Billy Bunter, Mr Pastry. And, for some reason, professional swimming coverage - I would be totally transfixed by this

The Coronation. My father took photographs of the screen and of us, looking bored to tears.

I’ve just remembered watching Old Mother Riley at my grandma’s house while waiting for my Sunday dinner. I’d no idea s/he was a man. I was a Twizzle fan too, ninathenana.

I got home from school and watched Bill and Ben Flowerpot Men on our new tv.

The Coronation. My auntie had a tiny 10" screen TV, the only one for miles around, her little prefab was packed!

I used to like Busy Lizzy. She had a flower on her dress which was magic. I always loved magic.

Yes, I remember Compact, too. Also The Grove Family, with a granny who was always “faint from lack of nourishment”.