I was a Puffin Club member… and while I wasn’t banned from watching ITV, I do very much remember that the view in our house was definitely that all the good stuff to be watched was on BBC! ITV was not really “our thing”… and I can recall going to my aunt & uncle’s house in Clapham where, every Sunday, the Golden Shot would be on, followed by On The Buses, which contrasted to Sunday viewing in our house of The Forsyte Saga! I know which I would have preferred at the time…
Thanks for the relevant memories! Why were Kaye Webb and Biddy Baxter never in the House of Lords? OK, that was a rhetorical question, but still... As for the TV comedy shift, the old stuff wasn't all Jim Davidson, and some of the "alternative" stuff is a bit cringe-making now (I give you Ben Elton's homilies! Actually, they were a bit cringe-making then) .Eric Morecambe was my comedy god, and I loved the Carry Ons, which count as TV because that's how we saw them. I am unrepentant. 😀
I was a Puffin Club member… and while I wasn’t banned from watching ITV, I do very much remember that the view in our house was definitely that all the good stuff to be watched was on BBC! ITV was not really “our thing”… and I can recall going to my aunt & uncle’s house in Clapham where, every Sunday, the Golden Shot would be on, followed by On The Buses, which contrasted to Sunday viewing in our house of The Forsyte Saga! I know which I would have preferred at the time…
Thanks for the relevant memories! Why were Kaye Webb and Biddy Baxter never in the House of Lords? OK, that was a rhetorical question, but still... As for the TV comedy shift, the old stuff wasn't all Jim Davidson, and some of the "alternative" stuff is a bit cringe-making now (I give you Ben Elton's homilies! Actually, they were a bit cringe-making then) .Eric Morecambe was my comedy god, and I loved the Carry Ons, which count as TV because that's how we saw them. I am unrepentant. 😀