First TV programme memory

From Watch with Mother I liked the Woodentops best but the programme I absolutely loved and lived for was Sara and Hoppity. I still know all the words of the theme tune and I desperately wanted to live in a toy hospital at the time. Last year I found an episode on YouTube and it was unbelievably 'un-pc' - which made it very funny now as well - I still like it.

Pinky and Perky on my grandparents tv. We didn’t have one until a few years later. How we loved to visit our neighbours who did!

Another vote for muffin the mule, I had one and remember being very cross because I couldn't work the strings to get it to do the things it could do on the tv

Watch With Mother

Definitely the Coronation. We didn't have a tv but our neighbours did and they invited all of us to watch it.
It was wonderful, I can remember the excitement of it as we all crowded round the small screen in a big box.

Yes Wagon Train (the lovely Robert Horton), Bonanza, Rawhide, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot. I loved all of them!

Watching The Coronation is my first real memory, as others, with all the neighbours crammed into our front room. Muffin the Mule was always put on, as Mum loved him as much as we did. Oh, Merlot, Quatermass, watched between fingers. I still remember the horror if some sort of plant overtaking him. ? Wagon Train ( Mr Dillon) and Bonanza. Happy days.

My mother used to watch Compact. The. Appleyards rings a bell, but I didn’t watch it.

This might make me sound like Methusalah, but does anyone remember The Appleyards, Compact or The Newcomers?

I used to go to my Gran's on a Saturday, and at precisely ten to five the TV would be turned on to warm up for Wagon Train which started at five.
I hadn't a clue about Cowboys and Indians but the flickering images fascinated me.

I can remember watching the Coronation when I was 3 and all the other childrens mentioned above.
On Saturdays we had to go to nanas but we had to be very quiet whilst she watched the wrestling we weren't allowed to speak one word.

We didn't have a TV until I was 13 but our grandparents had one. You had to ask to be able to watch it and if Nan approved I'd be allowed to watch Muffin the Mule. I was really too old for it so was thrilled to bits when she agreed that Champion the Wonder Horse was more my thing.

It didn't take her long to realise that David Copperfield, Vanity Fair and The Secret Garden were good for my education

Quatermass scared the s**t out of me though.

Oh yes Sunday afternoon films! I can remember all the children in the street going in from play at a certain time as there was going to be a George Formby film on!

I was 5 when we got a TV and I remember watching Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben. I was allowed to stay up late on a Friday to watch Emergency Ward 10. A bit later I watched Dr Kildare which was more glamorous. I still like hospital soaps, despite working in a hospital.

For me too it was when grandma got a tv and I remember Muffin the Mule. Later I remember Sunday afternoon films and the football results, (and trying to guess the score by the tone of voice of the commentator). An uncle brought gran’s tv to our house for the Coronation ( as both sisters and I were in bed with chicken pox) but couldn’t get the aerial fixed up to make it work.

The coronation. Not that we had television at the time. It was a neighbours’ set.

I have no memories of the first programme I saw when we finally got our own set in the later ‘50s. I was in my late teens.

The Coronation at a neighbour’s house, finding it really boring, but being made to be quiet throughout.

Pogles’ wood for me too MissA I used to call my little GS “Pogle” when he wore his little coat with the hood up .

At a friend's house, one of those chatty women afternoon programmes , how to make/ how to bake things. A presenter said - and it only costs ten bob, my friend's mother switched off ,cross because of the use of bob not shillings ?

Mine was watch with Mother. I used to sit on her lap glued to it. My DM napped whilst it was on.

I can remember my mother used to have Lunchbox, hosted by Noel Gordon on. The band was Gerry Allen and his TV Trio . Also all the Watch with Mother stuff. My favourite was The Woodentops. All the Woodentop family, Mrs Scrubit the cleaner, Sam the gardener and the biggest spotty dog you ever did see!

This is pre television but the highlight of our week was listening to radio Luxembourg with Michael Miles and Take your pick. It kept on fading out as the signal became weaker and we had to get closer to the wireless as it was then known.

Rag, Tag and Bobtail was my first TV experience, on teh tiny B&W TV that my father bought the week AFTER the coronation, because he thought it would be cheaper then - oh Dad, how I miss your money-saving schemes!!

It was a very important moment in my life as it was only then (at age about 5) that my parents realised I was blind as a bat. I was sitting with my nose on the screen and it dawned on them that I might be just a bit short-sighted! The specs were a revelation to me - up till then I had assumed that everyone saw the world as a fog!

All of the above except the coronation, I was born '54.
Does anyone remember Twizzle or the broomstick man ? He scared me.

Apart from the Coronation it was The Woodentops which I loved - Rag Tag & Bobtail were OK but The Woodentops family was great.