Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[Drago]

Diana Dors.

 

[petek]

Having been a kid in the 1950s and accepting that nostalgia isn't what it once was. I respectfully submit that -compared to kids today - kids back then, boys especially; were nigh on feral.

 

[swee'pea99]

I suspect that by the time today's munchkins reach my age they'll remember cash. Like I remember pre-decimal money.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Spangles. Apologies if already on the list.

 

[Threevok]

Rediffusion and Granada TV Shops

 

[Markymark]

Spirograph

Just bought one of those for my youngest at the weekend as she kept using my eldest's.

Very much alive and kicking.

 

[Nigel182]

Carry On Films

On the Buses

Bless This House

Love thy Neighbour

Crackerjack

Till Death us do Part......

all quality TV

 

[Gary E]

Having to wait for a program to start so that you could watch it live as Video Recorders hadn't been invented!

 

[petek]

This.
Gods but telly was sh*te back in the day.

 

[petek]

Telly was black and white and BBC only - that went off mid afternoon. They put a potter's wheel clip on a loop.
Every afternoon.
Muffin the Mule was a lad though.
Oh how we laughed at Muffin's japes and capers.
All he could do was 'bow' ( chap let his strings go slack) and 'dance' ( chap jiggled his strings up and down a bit).
Fellini it wasn't!

 

[Drago]

Space Dust. So what if a few kids choked to death? It was great!

 

[jefmcg]

James is a 22 year old lad who works with me. I was explaining the televisual delight of the black and white minstrels to him the other day.
He couldn't get his head around it, and neither can I !

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This.
Gods but telly was sh*te back in the day.

This horrified me at the time. A lot of British content appeared on Australian TV and I'd often sit and watch with my parents. I wouldn't stay in the room when this was on.

Was it really acceptable, even in the 70s?

(I'm not saying Australian TV is perfect. )

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 5019688, member: 259"]TV[/QUOTE]

 

[petek]

"Ten Town" we got on BBC kids TV from Australia.That was brilliant. Bunch of Aussie Kids who owned and ran their own town and solved crimes. I was watching the Black n White Minstrels on Saturday tea time on telly in the late 50s. Must have been after 1958 as that was the year that we got the electricity in our village.

 

[Drago]

Trips to A and E after mimicking the Man From Atlantis/Evel Knievel/The New Avengers (delete as applicable).