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    #11
    Originally posted by RSoles View Post
    The woodentops (I've worked with some)
    Mr. Pastry.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hearne

    There was a recent programme revealing that those early Attenborough programmes, although transmitted in black and white, were actually recorded as 16mm colour.
    Recently read his Autobiography - very interesting!

    Certainly a better name than "Boaty McBoatyFace"!

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      #12
      Originally posted by Churchill View Post

      Certainly a better name than "Boaty McBoatyFace"!
      The lesson learned is never to give the British public a referendum on something important. ... Oh , wait....

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        #13
        I used to like, er, er, um. Nah, forgotten, too senile.

        Ah yes, hang on, Muriel Young and Ollie Beak. The Goon Show. Ray's a Laugh (Ted Ray). Dick Emery. The Billy Cotton Band Show.
        Last edited by xoggoth; 11 July 2016, 19:24.
        bloggoth

        If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
        John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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          #14
          Zcars
          Nationwide
          The Original Blue Peter - before sticky back plastic was invented
          Dixon of Dock Green
          Pottery Interludes
          Closedown
          When 3 Channels were luxury!
          White Horses, or rather the theme tune
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCNbERKvMs
          So now I am worried, am I being deceived, just how much sugar is really in a spoon full!

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            #15
            Jimmy, er the chap with a huge moustache. Wacko.

            Jimmy Edwards. Had to Google it. Darn.
            bloggoth

            If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
            John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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              #16
              That Robinson Crusoe thing was always on at about half nine in the morning during school holidays - well, once they took the daring step of showing TV in the mornings during school holidays, and not just the testcard. I think that started circa 1973 or 1974, around the same time that ITV started showing programmes in the afternoon.

              That was when Crown Court started. I know because the other month I was reading a scan of some articles from the TV Times of that week which explained how the unprecedented novelty of afternoon television was going to work, and Crown Court seemed to be pretty much the jewel in their crown from the way they went on about it

              As I recall, the BBC stuck determinedly to closing down after Pebble Mill at One until the start of children's programmes (around ten past four) for another year or three

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