Family shows

Well I’m old ?

Forsythe Saga, Magic Roundabout, Tomorrow’s World, Horizon....my parents were strict teachers and believed in only putting the TV on to watch the News at 5.45 then it went off until I’d done my homework. The theme for Z Cars was my cue for bedtime. As a teenager I remember my father watching MASH. Family time was spent doing rather than watching. We hardly ever watched ITV. They were bemused when I was recruited by the BBC and never really saw it as a real career. So for me TV was part of my family in a different way.

Apologies Jalima it would seem that on more the one occasion my pad has decided to ignore me and alter your name!

Talking of incorrect spelling
Does anyone remember the dippy Ann(e)Aston?
I can't remember what she was in, only that at the end of the show she had to spell or add up and always got it wrong!

The Singing Ringing Tree was one of the Tales from Europe. It really scared me . It recently appeared in a list of the top 100 scary moments on TV so I was not the only one who was affected ! My dad controlled what we watched so only saw Top of The Pop at friends' houses. We watched Ask the Family, Top of the Form, Bonanza, Big Valley and Dixon of Dock Green. We had to endure Grandstand. When Dad went to football mum and I would watch a film. I remember Mrs Miniver and The Inn of Seventh Happiness.

Thank you Greyduster The Groves it was. I do remember all, or most of all that have been listed.
Wagon Train was quite a favourite. (Mr Dillon)!
Bringing back lots of memories.

Cherrytree59 The prison series with Googie Withers was called Within these Walls.
Loving this thread as it is like a trip through my memories.

I never saw TV because we did not have a television set in the house. When DH and I married we bought a TV within three months because he missed watching it, his parents bought one for the coronation.

I remember a lot of those mentioned. We used to love Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, that one with Ty Hardin in it, I can't remember the name. When we first got a TV, my mum used to love Lunchbox with Noelle Gordon and Gerry Allen and his TV Trio. Also remember Watch with Mother - The Woodentops were a particular favourite. Happy days.

Our tv had a box on the side that you put sixpence in. (I think)
It would run out just at a good bit of a programme.

When I was very little we didn't have a television. My mother used to take me to my grandparents ' house to watch Andy Pandy. We didn't get a tv until I was 7. Dad wouldn't let us watch anything he thought of as unsuitable.
We did watch Zoo Time, all the wildlife programmes. I remember Armand and Michaela Dennis fondly. All in black and white too! The quiz shows were okay, Ask the Family was a favourite as was Too of the Form.
Ah, happy days.

Top of the Form!

Oh, 'the ghost and Mrs Muir' was a favourite.

"I love Lucy"----"I married Joan". Lucille Ball was really funny. I must have been 12 or 13 at the time.

" Ada and Water " with the loveable Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles.

Radio---" The Goon Show " " Family Favourites " ( on a Sunday ) " Dick Barton ". " Twenty Questions ". Many more

We did not have a TV when I was young so we used to go to a local hall to watch Quatermass which frightened me.

I was around 12 when we first owned a TV my dad and I loved watching Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki.

Saturday Night at the London Palladium was a firm favourite as was every cowboy film made. Dixon of Dock Green was also well watched. Happy memories.

We used to always watch 'Lassie' films.
We would cry our eyes out!

Peyton Place in the 70's

Sons and daughters---when I was staying in Oz.

I used to like 'crown court'.

I used to love Nearest and Dearest - Nellie Pledge.

Me too. Hilda Baker was great!

I agree. Eli used to call her 'a knock kneed, knackered old nosebag' and she used to say to new men she was introduced to 'you haven't had the pleasure of me yet'. Hilarious.

I remember her meeting a man called Vernon Smallpiece, I think.
The names she called him instead!

I can imagine!

I was a radio child who never saw TV (at home anyway) until I was 15. I was allowed to go next door to watch Popeye.
I remember the same family hosting the Coronation with about 50 people crammed into a small terraced house living room watching a screen the size of a paperback book. But somehow we were all aware of watching history being made.

So radio programmes were :

The Billy Cotton Band Show
Jimmy Clitheroe
Worker's Playtime
Have a Go! with good old Wilfred Pickled, 'Give 'em the money, Barney'
Two-Way Family Favourites
In Town Tonight
Uncle Mac
Children's Favourites
Listen With Mother
Woman's Hour
Afternoon Theatre
Desert Island Discs
Housewives Choice
Beyond our Ken and Round the Horne
Navy Lark

Oooo, what lovely memories.....thanks for asking MissAdventure

Our big "family watching" time was on Friday nights. CBC, the Canadian equivalent of the BBC, had a Friday night comedy hour. At 8 p.m. it started with the Royal Canadian Air Farce. This was a sketch show that poked fun at celebrities, politics, the royals, current events, people in the news, etc. Then at 8:30 there was The Red Green Show. This centered on a man named Red Green who ran a men's club called the Possum Lodge, and his geeky nephew Harold. Red was kind of a redneck handyman/country bumpkin.