Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 I was looking at part of an episode of Dixon of Dock Green on Youtube earlier........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 The Q series "David Attenborough on Expenses" sketch" was brilliance itself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Anybody remember 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' in the late 50's early 60's?. He would come on and introduce the programme. The stories were full of drama and suspense and always had you on the edge of your seat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 I'm surprised the old man would let me watch them at the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Yes, they were a bit scary, Compo but the stories were always great. Just the thing to watch before going to bed...lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,494 Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 I suppose your knowledge of this topic depends on when you first had a television in your house Talking about 50s and 60s TV shows is a bit more difficult for me than other people, because we didn't have a telly until around the mid-60s. My mum and dad always said "it's a load of rubbish, no point in having one, waste of time, nothing worth watching, etc etc" And that was in the days when there were only two channels to chose from. At times I felt like some kind of social freak because I was about the only kid I knew who came from a telly-free house. Try telling friends at school "we haven't got a television" and sometimes they just couldn't grasp the concept. "What do you mean, you haven't got a telly? " So my TV memories from those days are from friends houses, or my grandmas. It wasn't instantly available in our living room; I had to make some kind of special journey to see it, so I was probably a more eager viewer determined to make the most of it. Which is why I can remember almost every detail of every minute of everything I watched at other peoples houses, until we had a telly ourselves. And then I started complaining about it, just like everyone else Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Dint matter how many channels my parents had..they never turned away from ITV......had to go to mates to watch things like Doctor Who and Top of the Pops. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejKxTc3sc4 Here is one for Brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejKxTc3sc4Here is one for Brian First one didnt work now i got it . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Thanks' Derek,I finished telling the story of the two little boys! and the knot holes to Denice. "A pocket full of what". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mango 6 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Re the Appleyards,that was on a couple of years before the Grove family and information is limited as none were recorded.But if my memory serves me right the boy in the series was played by this guy out of Heartbeat (desk sergeant) The young lad in the Grove Family below has also had various parts over the years...In a comedy about a female funeral director (Thora Hird) 'In Loving Memory' I think.He was also in Upstairs Downstairs. I don't have their names offhand but they've certainly been around since the early days. The young lad is Christopher Beeny who starred with Thora Hird "In Loving Memory" and also played Edward in "Upstairs Downstairs" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mango 6 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 My parents didn't get BBC 2 until 1976. Does anyone remember Jimmy Clitheroe in "Just Jimmy" ? Used to love watching that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Thanks Mango. Like the new avatar BTW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 I recall Jimmy Clitheroe having a regular TV slot, Saturday tea-time, 60's. Real cosy it was - loved it, with: Alfie Hall and Mollie Sugden. I recall when Jimmy appeared on the London Palladium (60's) and stopped the show! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Yes, there was also the posh bloke "Theodore Craythorpe" who always addressed Jimmy as "Heow, James..." - or was that in the earlier radio series "The Clitheroe Kid" ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 William Simons was teh Desk Sergeant in Heartbeat but he is not in the credits for the Appleyards: http://www.turnipnet.../appleyards.htm Christopher Beeny was in the Grove Family. See link within above link. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Can you remember this one Evadne Price "think lucky and you'll be lucky" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,183 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 : Bernard 'I only arsked' Bresslaw - he was what was called: 'gormless' (not heard that word for a time, perhaps there's no such thing as 'gormless' people in the world today - due to political correctness!) Mam always called me gormless when I'd done sumat wrong & got found out. "That's right, just stand there & look gormless"....SWMBO says I look gormless when I can't think of an answer.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 ...and what exactly were gorms, and how did we so often come to lose them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,183 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 I suppose if your 'gormless' then someone must have had some 'gorm' for you to have less of it.. Mam also used gormpot, as in "Oh him, he's a right gormpot". Mind you she was from Sheffield so it could have been a Yorkshire saying.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,494 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Mam also used gormpot, as in "Oh him, he's a right gormpot". Mind you she was from Sheffield so it could have been a Yorkshire saying.. Sticking "pot" on the end of words seems to be quite common. I've also come across "barmpot" as a variation of barmy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Crackpot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Sorry to get pedantic. Gorm / Gaum, according to my dictionary has two meanings. Briefly, 1. To handle clumsily ; 2. (More appropriately for us) to heed etc. Hence gormless, or gaumless, means the opposite of 2. Bet you're glad I'm here!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 "Can you remember these?" These are programmes that i used to really look forward to, had a teenage crush on Herbert Lom and David Jansenn, COR. The Human Jungle with Dr Roger Corder......Herbert Lom The Invisible Man with Peter Brady.....Johnny Scripps The Fugative with Dr Richard Kimble.......David Janssen Quatermass and the pit (" I never knew what it was about, scared me though") Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Carni You took me right back Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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