Early tv memories

Didn’t have a TV until I was 11, but remember younger siblings watching e.g. the Woodentops and Andy Pandy.

One of my very favourites at 11 or 12 was Rawhide, and ClinT Eastwood as Rowdy Yates!
Went off him drastically in later years, though, when he was too chicken to get on a plane and come to a premiere in London shortly after 9/11.

Should add that at the same time dh and I got on a plane to the US, to visit my newly widowed sister.

We didn’t have a TV, but I remember watching at my grandparent’s house. I loved the Wooden Tops, Prudence and Puffer and later with my own children, all the Camberwick Green group.
I liked Tales of the Riverbank too, and was reminded if that when I was learning Andante in C by Mauro Giuliani. Thé theme tune for Tales was by him.

I remember there was a program called The Appleyards ,but I can't remember what it was about, was it the Woodentops who had ,(The very bigest spotty dog you ever did see). Lost in space was another one, The Grove Family, The Beverly Hillbillies

I remember nearly all the children’s programmes already mentioned. A children’s serial I remember was The Silver Sword. More adult ones I remember seem to be all cowboy ones, Wagon Train, Bonanza and Rawhide.
My uncle and aunt had a tv screen that was so small they had a magnifying stand thing in front of it.
Does any one remember the Trolenberg Terror? After watching it I was very scared and screamed when my dog surprised me upstairs.
Also Quatermass was scary.

My favourites were Wursel Gummage and Humphrey LeToque on Whirligig

Another horse made childhood here, does anyone else remember Fury?

This thread has reminded me of the public information films of out youth - which were obviously designed to put the fear of god into us! I particularly remember the 'Lonely Water' one, which if I remember rightly was voiced by Donald Pleasence. There was also one with a boy climbing an electricity pylon to retrieve a kite and a fairly gruesome one in which a boy lost his legs after being hit by a train. Oh, and one with a child running on a beach which stopped just as they were about to run onto a broken bottle. Trying to think of some of the other ones...

I think we got our 1st tv late 50s, I'm remembering Watch With Mother so maybe pre school. My first viewing were Bill and Ben, The Wooden Tops, Andy Pandy, Mr Pastry, Billy Bunter and Circus Boy starring child star Micky Dolenz who later became a Monkee. I also remember Waggon Train with Clint Eastwood.

I remember watching Bonanza dubbed in German while we were stationed in Germany in the mid '60s - it was a bit bizarre as we all knew exactly what was happening despite not understanding more than four or five words.

I always thought the little man reading the news could see me as well as I could see him - I always smiled for him and said hello and waved goodbye. My younger brother was as confused as me as he once poured a glass of milk down the aerial of my transistor radio to give the man a drink😁

Pathfinders in Space, Pathfinders to Mars and Venus. Was so relieved to find that, unlike the BBC the tapes weren’t reused and I can still watch them. Unfortunately Hereward the Wake (BBC) no longer exists. Strange that the former never led to me having an interest in space travel but the latter gave me an interest in history.

I didn't have a gentle introduction to TV. No cuddly animals for me.

Does anyone remember Quatermass and the Pit in the late fifties? It was a terrifying science fiction series with evil insect-like aliens emerging from a buried spacecraft unearthed in London. The electronic sound effects were very creepy.

I was only 10 when I watched it at a friend's house. I was so terrified her Mum had to walk with me as I made my way home in the dark without street lights. Still, it was very compelling so I kept going back for more!

Apparently I watched the Coronation at my grandparent’s. I was two months old and was tucked up in a drawer which was doubling up as a cot.

Later on I watched Andy Pandy, Tales of the River Bank, the Woodentops … but nothing on ITV. My father would not allow ITV as it was ‘common’. All my friends had it so I felt left out

Witzend

Didn’t have a TV until I was 11, but remember younger siblings watching e.g. the Woodentops and Andy Pandy.

One of my very favourites at 11 or 12 was Rawhide, and ClinT Eastwood as Rowdy Yates!
Went off him drastically in later years, though, when he was too chicken to get on a plane and come to a premiere in London shortly after 9/11.

Should add that at the same time dh and I got on a plane to the US, to visit my newly widowed sister.

9/11 had nothing to do with Clint Eastwards fear of flying.
It was because a terrible plane crash where he endured 3 days in the Pacific Ocean.

We didn't have a tv nor did many of our neighbours but I remember crowding into our neighbours grandma's sitting room and seeing Grace Kelly getting married. I wasn't very old but I can still remember thinking she looked absolutely beautiful but sad.
Our next door neighbour had TV long before us but as we were all friends together my brother and I used to go in and watch Children's television. They were happy days.

The Woodentops, Bill & Ben, Casey Jones, Pinky & Perky, Trumpton, Camberwick Green

I was 3 sitting on a little pouffe in my Great-Aunt’s front room watching the coronation of the late Queen. All the grown-ups sat behind me as I was so small. After that I don’t think I saw TV till I was 6 and my friend’s grandparents had one. Lots of us filled the room to watch it.
Who was the person who said it would never catch on!

Champion the Wonder Horse, Fury, Rin Tin Tin and Lassie were my favourites- all watched during the school holidays at my grandparents’ as we didn’t have a TV until I was 14.
My grandmother would let me stay up late to watch the classics like David Copperfield and Vanity Fair. Most of it went over my head but I knew better than to ask questions or I’d have been sent to bed.
I could only guess at why Gran would shout, ‘Oooh the swine!’ at regular intervals. 😂

My father used to build tvs and radios as a hobby.
My mother would be infuriated as rooms were full of disassembled sets,instruction manuals and tools .

I know that Picture Book with Patricia Driscoll was on Mondays ,but I can't remember the programme content .
She looked like my horrid Auntie Doreen..

Andy Pandy was on Tuesdays . There was Teddy and a girlfriend,Loobylou.

The Flowerpot Men was on Wednesdays and I used to scream with laughter when they said Little Weed !

Rag Tag and Bobtail was on Thursdays and it was my least favourite .

The Woodtops was on Fridays . I think that it's the origin of Spotty Dog .

Apart from the regularity of these programmes was the regularity of our suppers .

Eventually the programmes changed ,but the meals didn't.
I thought that everyone ate leftovers on Mondays and fish on Fridays .

Watch with Mother. Woodentops were my favourite.
Tingha and Tucker with Auntie Jean
Twizzle
Torchy
Pinky and Perky
5 O'clock club with Ollie Beak although I think that was a bit later.
I loved Bonanza, Wagon Train, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco.

What lovely memories from you all. I used to love Tinga & Tucker, could only watch it at my grandparents house in Derbyshire as it wasn't on in our region

Growing up, we never had a TV. Our entertainment was a Radiogramme.

All the cowboys and horsey programmes on around about tea time, but my earlier memories were of The Grove Family and Prudence Kitten (a puppet that I think Annette Mills, along with Muffin the Mule appeared with) also very vague ghostly memories of a children's programme called The Pinwins (or something like that) featuring penguins, that's a very hazy memory, I must have been very young.

Cossy

Andy Pandy, Watch with Mother, The Wooden Tops, Tales of the Riverbank (one of my favourites), Animal Magic (another favourite, Blue Peter.

Those are the earliest TV programmes I can remember, too.
Oh, and Doctor Who - it was on for my big brother, and terrified me.

After school I'd go with my best friend Tony's house and watch Robin Hood, The Lone Ranger and Davy Crockett - then we'd re enact what we'd just seen.

Other favourites were Popeye and the Tom and Jerry cartoons. I liked Billy Bunter as I'd read all the books. Crackerjack was watched often.

After going to Brownies on a Friday night I had special permission to go to another friends house on the way home to watch Tony Hancock [8.30-9pm].

No TV at home until I was 11 [1960].

Ivanhoe. Robin Hood. Fireball XL5, Supercsr, Stingray and Twizzle.
Had older brothers!