What was on TV the day you were born?

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hoopdriver

Guru
Location
East Sussex
I Love Lucy
The Walter Winchell File
Tombstone Territory
Disneyland
Leave it to Beaver
Wagon Train
Father Knows Best
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Huntley-Brinkley Report (news)
 

Brandane

The Costa Clyde rain magnet.
I decided to make an appearance at 2.40 pm on a Wednesday in 1962. Maybe I should have been called Bill or Ben, and smoked a little weed (but I never have done, Officer)!

14.30 : WATCH WITH MOTHER
For the very young
The Flowerpot Men
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Peter Hawkins speaks the voices MARIA BIRD writes the songs and music BBC film
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Monday March 10th 1958.

14.05:FOR THE SCHOOLS
Animals with Backbones
3-Reptiles by WILLIAM BULLOUGH
Professor of Zoology
In the University of London
Produced by F. R. ELWELL
Contributors
Unknown: William Bullough
Produced By: F. R. Elwell

14.30:WATCH WITH MOTHER
For the Very Young
Picture Book
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll ,
Edited by Maria Bird
Contributors
Turned By: Patricia Driscoll
Edited By: Maria Bird


15.10:MAINLY FOR WOMEN
Holidays Ahead
6-Looking at London
Franklin Engelmann tells you how to choose a holiday -to suit both your stamina and your pocket-among the sights, the amusements, the beauty spots. and the historic monuments of London
Film cameraman, Ken Higglni Film editor, Sheila Tomlinson Arranged by Brenda Horsfleld
Directed by Monica Sims
3.40 app. Collectors' Club
Peter Philp with more advice on collecting antiques-what to collect, how to collect It, and how to take care of it
Produced by NAN DAVIES from the BBC's Welsh television studio
Contributors

17.00:CHILDREN'S TELEVISION
Elizabeth Lanchbury Introduces
STUDIO ' E '
Dogs in the Show-Ring
The work of a judge explained by the Earl of Northesk
Bernard Braden tells a Canadian story
Pop of the Week
Ted Taylor with a record hit
Print Your Own Photographs Neville Maude shows you how
Stanley Unwin
In Uncle Stan's Workshop
Raw materials by P. R. Lawson
Drawings by Roy Lawton
Dancing Round the World
Boats that Blow Up
Arthur Garratt shows rescue craft that fit into a suitcase
Kim the Keeshond
Edited by Ursula Eason
Presented by Leonard Chase

Contributors
Introduces: Elizabeth Lanchbury
Unknown: Bernard Braden
Unknown: Ted Taylor
Unknown: Neville Maude
Unknown: Stanley Unwin
Unknown: Roy Lawton
Unknown: Arthur Garratt
Edited By: Ursula Eason
Presented By: Leonard Chase



Plus The Phil Silvers show-
This is your life with Eamon Andrews

Ps, my mum and dad didn't have a telly until 1964 so until then we listened to the wireless
 
Hancock followed by the Sunday film - Quality Street starring Katharine Hepburn. After that was the Singing Years the News and Living Cinema with a closedown at 23:00.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
There's a chance the same programme was playing 5 months later when I was born!
It makes me feel very old! :laugh:

We were the first family in our road to have a TV and the neighbours used to come round to our house in 1960 to watch Coronation Street.

Equally amazing - most families did not have phones so we used to go to call boxes to phone relatives, and we'd get a telegram when somebody died. (My mum would usually start crying before the telegram man even got to the door ...) I've seen photos taken 10 years later and there was still only about 1 car per 10 houses!
 

Saluki

World class procrastinator
Just after I was born Engineering Science started.
Followed by:
  • Pure Mathematics
  • Watch With Mother (The Flowerpot Men)
  • Looking at the United States
  • Discovering Science
  • Pure Mathematics
  • The News
  • Watch With Mother (Picture Book)
  • Science and Life
  • The Boss Cat
  • Two in the Bush
  • The News
  • Top of The Pops (Alan Freeman)
  • Tonight
  • The Third Man
  • Z Cars
  • Sports View
  • The News
  • Festival
  • News
  • Late Night Final
White dot on middle of screen.

There was shed loads on, especially if you like science and maths. Better Wednesday line up than they have nowadays. Flowepot men and everything ^_^
 
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