How - Fred Dinenage's 3ft long egg

[@rickparker1582]

Proper children's television. Fred Dinenage & Jack Hargreaves; absolute legends.

[@movesky6696]

how

[@natureclips5849]

The greatest countdown presenter they never had

[@chinnyvision]

Rumour has it they spoke to him but he turned it down.

[@andreaslarsen1046]

How, Blue Peter, Magpie, Vision On, Animal Magic, tons of cartoons and the odd Open University programme taught me everything I needed to know. And that one day I would grow up to be a highly successful..... big kid

[@genwoolfe]

....and Crackerjack :)

[@keithf_]

Brilliant ! LOL

[@GarethColquhoun]

​@@genwoolfeCRACKERJACK!!!

[@gingerindian1141]

@@genwoolfe ooooh I could crush a grape...

[@plasticpenguin1]

Wonderful programme. Loved Jack Hargreaves (and his 'Out Of Town' programme) Fred, Jon Miller and Bunty James. Fabulously educational and fun.

[@kjamison5951]

Thank you for this. This was one of my favourite ITV programs growing up!

[@maxflight777]

Utterly lovely! Fabulous TV. Playful and informative. What a pity 50 years later, everything is “dumbed down “ to suit the lowest common denominator.

[@glynnjones007]

How very true.

[@daveroche6522]

PLUS the ever-present risk of offending someone! Somewhere! Over something! Which doesn't exist! Progress, eh?

[@gingerindian1141]

how interestomg.

[@NeilVanceNeilVance]

Super upload ... I loved this show when I was a kid .. Fred is still god! .. TY!

[@richardsharpe2966]

There is only one word for Fred Legend

[@danwoodhouse9290]

wow - the legend Fred Dinenage now age 77 and still hosting ITV Meridean News

[@rob16248]

ikr. But I only watch it for weathergirl, Holly Green. She sends my heart into the flutter, every time.

[@sgtjenko]

@@rob16248 - She's a dog!

[@jakethemuss5678]

@@rob16248 holly is very attractive, unfortunately she is on maternity at the moment 👶

[@rob16248]

@@jakethemuss5678 ...Again (sigh)😒

[@patrickstocks3576]

Happy 80th birthday 🎂🎉🍾🥳 Fred Dineage

[@AllenJeremy]

Also at that time Fred hosted the pontoon based quiz Gambit.

[@copee2960]

Did Jimmy Tarbuck host that show after...Jesus I'm getting old..stop I don't like it.

[@AllenJeremy]

@@copee2960 No the late Tom O Connor replaced Fred as the host of Gambit.

[@RicTic66]

This was not always the case. We use to buy veal ham and egg pie (Gala Pie) from a butcher who made his own. You'd sometimes get a slice with the rounded smaller ends of the egg sometimes with no yolk at all 😔. I guess this process was for larger commercial outlets and super market provision counters.

[@keithf_]

I think what you're describing here is technological advancement. At one time we were NOT able to land a man on the moon. And perhaps more importantly, there was a time when gala pies did NOT have a continuous egg running through them.

[@marcse7en]

No yolk? 😭

[@jasonwhitehurst4508]

I do wish their put these shows on dvd.

[@rerenaissance7487]

The true glory of How, we now realise, was Jack smoking his pipe all the way through it.

[@guydavies7558]

this is my first ever memory

[@daveroche6522]

Fred bore a passing resemblance to my (crazy, fun) uncle - for years I thought they were both the coolest dudes on the Planet. AND I WAS RIGHT!

[@damiusw4951]

That's cool

[@mattcoxonline]

This is the best clip I've seen all week.

[@PSUK]

Jack lived in our village. Often seen in the pub.

[@marcse7en]

HOW ... many times was Jack Hargreaves seen in the pub? 🤣

[@alzeNL]

the days of "Magpie", "How" and intellligent broadcasting aimed at younger people are long behind us. Thats why we have "love island" today.

[@maxflight777]

Well said ! 🔝

[@chloejones1548]

Don't recall seeing Love Island on CITV but there we are

[@CrankCase08]

@@chloejones1548 Give it time, and it will be 'Trans Love Island' on CITV.

[@LionheartNh]

Damn it Fred I've missed you.

[@Mozza107]

She did look quite excited about the 32".

[@gingerindian1141]

I think she fancied him.

[@davidford2169]

Wonderful,I should know as I'm 62.......

[@danwoodhouse9290]

I heard some chef talking about this a couple of years ago he said casing is I fact sausage skins - a cylinder shaped one for the yolk and a ring shape for the white

[@danielishere734]

Partridge

[@gingerindian1141]

hahah so it is....alan partrige got alan partridge from fred dineage. amazing.

[@craigdavidson2278]

Smoking on a kids TV show....Happy days

[@marcse7en]

Not for my grandfather, who died a slow painful death from lung cancer in 1981! ... Maybe you have a different definition of "happy?" ... The smoking ban was the best law ever!

[@craigdavidson2278]

@@marcse7en if he died in 81, that was the period when the dangers of cigarettes were just coming to the for front. I started smoking in 79...... stopped 7 years ago. I think you miss the point. We (as kids) were exposed to many things.....now kids (and society on a whole) are "protected" to much.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Just seen Fred on Meridian News dressed as a homeless guy.

[@cameronrdonaldson]

the egg thing was from April Fools day😋

[@mendozamargarita8728]

What a pleasant lady that Marian

[@maxflight777]

I thought the same ! Great comment

[@cbak12sg]

Who is the lady that isn't Bunty James?

[@martinkelly6709]

cbak12sg It's Marian Davies, a former singer with The Ladybirds vocal group (as seen and heard on Top of the Pops, Benny Hill Show). She took over from Bunty James sometime around 1976.

[@martinc4123]

She looks fascinated by that egg bit phallic.

[@janetburland6096]

What was the theme tune

[@johnc5160]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aImuYYV_ormpnpI HOW!

[@afitzsimons]

How many times can a sheet of paper be folded in half?

[@marcse7en]

Eight!

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Loved this series as a kid. Actually taught kids stuff rather than what followed which was an era of gunge and more gunge and nothing intelligent.