40 years ago..........

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........today, a young Hilldodger made his acting debut playing the knave in his junior school's adaptation of the Queen of Hearts story.

The bloody media aren't getting all excited about that though, are they?;)
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
40 years ago a young Brains was woken up in the early hours to watch the moon landing on TV. I've never forgotten it.

Then went out into the garden, it was a full moon and a clear sky and was then most disapointed when looking through my grandfathers nautical telescope I was unable to see the Lunar Lander

I spend days that summer listening to every word Michael Burke said, he more of less had the BBC to himself running a one man program for 12-15 hours at a time
 
Brains said:
Then went out into the garden, it was a full moon and a clear sky and was then most disapointed when looking through my grandfathers nautical telescope I was unable to see the Lunar Lander

Cos it woz in a film studio in Hollywood!
 

ChrisKH

Guru
Location
Essex
I literally cringe when I think of my adaptation of the Dark Wizard when I was 8. I forgot my lines, knocked over the Star and everything. I wasn't made for the stage that's for certain. ;):blush::ohmy:

How can you be embarrassed about something you did nearly forty years ago?
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Well now, this reminds me of primary school play, prob also about 40yrs ago, but at Christmas... I'd been due to be a prince in sleeping beauty, but due to larking about in rehearsals, I was demoted to a tree, and had to wear girls brown tights... :biggrin:
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Forty years ago, a young Arch was taken downstairs to our landlord's flat, in the drawer that served as a cot for her first few weeks, to watch the whole thing on one of the two TV's in the house (a big place, converted to flats).

After the landing, but before the exit and moonwalk, (There was some considerable wait), one of the landlord's daughters asked if it was on the other channel too. They turned over, and it wasn't. They tried to turn back (probably tuning via a dial), and couldn't get the moon back. Cue the whole party, landlord, landlady, aged aunts, children, Mum and Dad and me in my drawer, racing up to the only other flat with a TV, and crowding in there for the Giant Leap.

Afterwards, it was noticed that the landlord was missing. He'd slipped out of the crowded flat, back downstairs, and found the Moon landing again, and watched it all in perfect peace and glorious isolation, champagne in hand.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Oh, and about 7 years later, I was to have been the Angel Gabriel in the nativity, I had my halo and everything, and then the damn girl due to play Mary got mumps, and I was promoted, and I'd much rather have played the angel, it was a better costume, and I wouldn't have had to sing...
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Well two years before, I was a Chinese man at the nativity... what the hell he was doing there, I have no idea! By the time I got to last yr at primary though, i was one of the three kings, so my career had moved on a bit :biggrin:
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Fnaar said:
Well two years before, I was a Chinese man at the nativity... what the hell he was doing there, I have no idea! By the time I got to last yr at primary though, i was one of the three kings, so my career had moved on a bit :biggrin:


Delivering dinner?
 

swee'pea99

Squire
I wasn't allowed to stay up because it was way past my bedtime. Even at the time I was mightily indignant and thought it betrayed a massive lack of historical perspective on my parents' part. I still do.
 
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