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Seeing as I have blown my meagre bankroll on poker, my chess site is down and I have trawled the net .... I'm now resorting to posting on blonde (arrgghhhhhhhh just JOKING mods).

For some reason, i woke up this morning thinking about Tales of the Unexpected ... does anyone remember that????    Something about that siloutte lady and catchy theme tune that made it a 'must watch' in our house.

Hammer House of Horror was another one that I remember always feeling excited to watch - the House that Bleed to Death :-)

Any old TV progs that you think could do with a repeat on one of the numerous channels we have aviable these days??

oh no!!! Tales of the Unexpected, I won't be able to sleep tonight now remembering the dancing girl.

Tales of the Unexpected? You are older than you look, young lady.....

Sunday Nights, ITV. After Sunday Night at the London Palladium, if I recall correctly.

To go with your dancing spiderman and Kin's spinning Lady   ;D

Sapphire and Steel........................Joanna Lumley!!!

The Avengers, lots of leather clad girls.

Tales of the unexpected is always a favourite of mine when playing drunken charades.  

No need to mess about with how many words, syllables etc..........just straight into "whole thing" mode and my version of the dancing lady is always guessed within five seconds flat!!  ;D

Sundays we always visited Grandma Angell because she had a telly, & ITV used to show this.....

Church Service

Popeye the Sailor Man

Lord Boothby

Tugboat Annie

Bonanza

Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

If we watched the end of the Palladium show, we'd miss the last bus, & have to walk from Shepherds Bush to West Acton, about 5 miles. If not, we'd catch the 88 to Gypsy Corner, & walk from there, or the 606 or 666 TrolleyBus to Acton High Street, or if we were lucky, the 667 Trolleybus to Acton Main Line.

Later, Dad got a "combination", which is a motorbike & sidecar, & we (my Sister, Half-Brother & I) all piled into that & froze to death in the unheated "Watkinson" Sidecar. The boke was a BSA 500cc long-stroke single-cylinder ex AA jobbie. £35 the lot.

hold on, I remember now - I'm sure it was on video   ;whistle;

Would love to see some repeats of the Tomorrow People although it was probably not as good a programme as I remember it as a nine year old!   ;marks;

Anyone else make a huge Tomorrow Person belt so they could make their own imaginary "jaunts"? 

Just me then..... ;whistle;

Video had not been heard of in those days Mich......

And the Telly was from either Radio Rentals, or Rediffusion, at 10 bob a week.

Blakes Seven

Was the complete dog's wotsits for a 10 year old!

Ah  yes, Sapphire and Steel and the Original Avengers - that was another stay in your head theme tune lol

Tikay, wasn't Upstairs Downstairs slotted in there on Sunday evenings - or was that BBC1??

i have the first 3 series of Tale of the unexpected on dvd

Correct, it was on ITV, quite late.

I soooo knew you was going to reply with that - couldn't let me pretend could you  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D   

The test card at the end of the night where it looked like there was something attached to the girls arm, that picture wasn't the best was it lol.   And, finally, standing transfixed waiting for the little white circle to get smaller and smaller before you finally turned away and went to bed (which granted was about 10pm back then  rotflmfao)

You're getting me back for the Texan Bar and Merlins Brew - grrrrrrrrrrrr

Blake's Seven, was a fave with my brother - they had this elongated starship carrier thing which was made into metal toys for the kids.  I'm sure he still has it boxed up in our parent's attic.  I can see it in my head now, the sides opened up. I'm sure that was Blake Seven, but doubting myself now so going to google that before bed - what an exciting life I lead lol

Night all/x

she never was a looker,..,.,.

I know you know I'd have picked that if I didn't already have the dvd's!   rotflmfao

I rescued one from the scrap and got it going, it used to fire once every lamp post.

I've  just been seaching for a copy of the Quatermass tv series, the one with the plant people.

I also love Tales of the Unexpected and the HAmmer House of Horror programmes. Other classics were One Summer, Day of the Triffids and Sapphire and Steel and Charlie Chan films. I also have strong memories of BBC's sunday night programming, probably as it was the quiet night in before School watching things like That's Life and the Dick Emery show.

Hmmm....I reckon that might have been a Space 1999 eagle rather then the Blake's 7 Liberator!   ;tk;

"sides opening up" just doesn't sound like the mighty battlecruiser flagship that was the Liberator!  :P

At the very maximum. Long-stroke, 3 gears, 55mph downwind if you were lucky.

To start it (via kick-start) there was a decompression lever on the handlebars, & you pulled that in, & "eased" the cylinder to the top of the stoke via the kickstart. Then you stood on the kickstart & heaved down with all your weight, & if you were lucky, she fired up. If you were not so lucky, she backfired, & that could often end in a broken ankle. My mate Bert Foreman started his up in his garage, it backfired, & shot him up onto the garage roof (ceiling), & he had 11 stitches & got concussion.

When we passed an AA Patrolman going the other way, they'd always salute you! And we'd salute back. Different days, different people. Oh to turn the clock back now & then.

I use to love Jack Hargreaves and his "Out of Town" series, even as a child I thought his way of life was so idyllic.

When I read a lot of Reds stories I am reminded instantly of this "great man".

I also rescued a Lamberetta. It had no clutch or gear cables. I used to push-start it, and by removing the fairing from the offside, I found I could kick the gears in with my foot.

It burst into flames one day and set fire to Ernie, my pillion. I had no Idea it had happened because we had no exhaust and I couldn't hear him scream above the noise.

Oh yes, recorded in his Garden Shed, surrounded by the most medieval of gardening instruments, & talking oh-so-softly. I think he died recently.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         When we passed an AA Patrolman going the other way, they'd always salute you! And we'd salute back. Different days, different people. Oh to turn the clock back now & then.
 only coz he thought you was mr jones out of DADS ARMY ya silly sod.,.,.,

Lambretta & Vespa's were the thing in the Mod Days. I was a "rocker" so I had a motorbike, a BSA Bantam, 125cc, ex Telegram Boy bike. My luckier mates had the bigger 150cc Triumph Tiger Cub, but sadly, three or 4 of them died in crashes - this was pre-crash helmet days.

My Bantam caught fire, too. I was testing for a spark from the sparking plug, which I'd laid on the gearbox housing, so I could see the spark, but it was underneath the leaking carburettor. Still, at least I knew there was a spark. It set light to the washing on the line, too.

The lesson, I was told by a mischievous elder, was to hold the HT Lead (with plug attached but not in the cylinder) while turning over the engine gently with the kickstart pedal. Wow, that stung......

Damn////,,,,,...Welsh Cypriots....///////.....

3.30 am here.,,,.,
gotta stop the vodka redbulls...im wide awake.,.,.

Aha, yes it was - I wished I had seen this before I googled blake 7 and not finding what I was thinking off, 30 mins wasted lol

But, on the plus side, have just had a chuckle because I found The Tripods. 

Jack Hargreaves OBE (born 31 December 1911, died 15 March 1994)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves

I loved these old tv programmes and we even got to stay up later for some of them:)

Soap - confused? You will be!
mash
hill street blues
starsky and hutch
kojac - who loves ya baby? 
Dallas

My favourite characters from them all were Mick from HSB's and Starsky:) They don't make them like that anymore.......

I've just found out that a new series of Gladiators starts on Sky One soon - yipee!!

oooooooo when when - will have to look out for that.   They repeated some of the earlier episodes last year on Challenge TV (or some such channel) and my little 'un loved it.  Will have to get him one of those big pointy Hand/Finger things the crowd had  ;D


Having read Mad's list, it reminded me of CHIPS - that always seemed to be on just after our Saturday evening meal, it was another one of those terrible shows that just had to be watched he he

Not sure when it starts but apparently Ian Wright will be presenting it.  Looks like a while off as they still have to find suitable "Gladiators" but it's definitely a goer...  I was obsessed with it when it was on before - compulsary Saturday night viewing - wouldn't go out until it was finished!  God,that sounds soooooooooo sad!

The beer at Home means Davenports advert before Star Soccer..it's a midlands thing
Bouquet of barbed wire.......Not to be watched with parents
The Banana Splits show
The Double Deckers
Crossroads
Not the nine o'clock news.........though they are being rerun
Howards Way..........I build wooden boats

What was the American kids program that was on before Star Soccer (I think)? - the name 'Mr Piper' uttered by a parrot are about all I can remember of it.

Mr. Piper

Pied Piper Films of Toronto produced this series of thirty-nine half-hour programs, which they sold to the CBC and ATV in the U.K. Opera singer Alan Crofoot was the show's host, and he introduced four segments each program. For Teletune he narrated a fantasy story, illustrated with graphics; Port of Call presented films about children and events in other lands; Bag of Tricks featured magic, performed by Crofoot; and Animal Farm told stories with a cast of characters that included Rupert the cat, Bessie the bunny, Kookie the kitten, Harriet Hen, Freddie Frog, Calvin (Rac)Coon, Charlotte Cow, and a rat, name unknown, in miniature barnyard sets. The series was created by Allan Wargon and Martin Andrews, and produced by Allan Wargon.

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A different class of knowledge

So tempted to take credit for that but it's good old google yet again....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7218153.stm

Steptoe and Son ( what was the horse called?)

Absolute classic from 1979 !!  I managed to get a copy of the whole series on DVD a couple of years ago.  The "Lay, Lay, Lay,.." chant of the Planet people was featured the The Fall's "Lay of The Land" off the "The Wonderfull and Frightening World of The Fall" album.  Toyah also makes an apperance in it along with a host of other actors who became better known in later years (Brenda Fricker amongst many others).  It was a big budget production for ITV at the time.

The same time I got this I also managed to get a copy of 1977's "Children of The Stones" featuring Blake's 7's Gareth Thomas.  When I saw it first it scared the crap out of me with the creepy music but it hasn't aged well and the acting is pretty ropey.  It is still a good piece of seventies Sci-Fi though.

Hercules.

cheers for some reason thought it was samson

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jcQyPzOvs

The best show from the 80s! Sledge Hammer...shown late nights here.

The Clangers   ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle;