Pauline's Quirkes - 1976 Thames

Aimed at a teenage audience; this programme was often criticised for it's content which frequently included sexual innuendo (seemingly some itv regions didn't take it). This clip features a pop group called Flintlock (can anyone recall them?) not to mention more EMI2001 cameras than you can shake a stick at.

[@michaelleacy]

When I was 6 I learned what "present"(as in present series) meant through watching an episode of a TV show. Today I came across this and now I know what show it was. How weird that a fragment of memory from 35 years ago comes back by chance!

[@dogfriendly1623]

I remember the Bay City Rollers. I was eleven in 1976. Much simpler world but tougher in some ways. No where to get help when bullied. People were content with much less than we have today

[@BritishComedyUK69]

Love this

[@RebelVoDKa]

Pauline's Quirkes was brilliant. Cheers for posting this. Have you got any more?

[@Damoskinos]

I remember this. the band were called Flintlock

[@truro007]

Nice to see a band that could play their instruments. Mike Holloway was a really good drummer and the singer was a looker!

[@Ampex196]

@Feisty1967 Thanks for yout input: 'Lame' sums it up very nicely. Come to think of it, the same description would fit much of ITVs childrens TV output at the time.

[@unclemort1960]

They had Led Zeppelin quaking in their boots.

[@kamandi1362]

Yeah, but they were all about 14. Apparently they made a lot of money too. Mike Holoway bought a huge country house in Essex on the proceeds.

[@RobRobintv2]

Like the drum Kit.....

[@robster773]

I don't recall this as Anglia one of the some regions didn't take it because of the sexual innuendo

[@itsbanffdavehere]

I can't remember anything about the show except Flintlock, though I can't for the life of me remember any of their songs.

[@malpreece5008]

Well, that was awful! Can’t believe such things were commissioned for broadcast.

[@juliaprestbury]

Brilliant!

[@spacial2]

Flintlock even have a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintlock_(musical_group)

[@WilliamjameswestWEST]

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[@angelacooper2661]

Aged 6, I was just six and halfway through infant school at the time. Don't think I saw or heard of this programme. Sharon and Tracey in their adolescence, before domestic disarray struck (a thin Sharon in those days!) This sort of thing isn't my kind of viewing.

[@Ampex196]

@flicker66 Many thanks. It does seem that Flintlock were an even smaller 'flash in the pan' than the Bay City Rollers.

[@ajpdaniels]

120 million World wide sales for BCR - some flash in the pan!

[@truro007]

I meant the sax player and singer!!

[@CraigG1960]

She used to spend the whole programme trying to get them to take their trousers off from what I remember.

[@benjaminclasper9355]

And this was a programme supposedly for children It’s like they couldn’t get the definition correct of a children’s programme back then.

[@FaerieCrone]

@kieran196 lol yeah Mary Whitehouse had a fit!

[@AdaMarioFilms-jb1fy]

eating the logo!?

[@danw1374]

In competition with tiswas?

[@johno4521]

Did this come before or after 'You Must Be Joking'?I used to watch that but I can't remember this, it look nowhere near as funny....

[@sonofnewton]

after :)

[@jaapseiye2246]

swat the flies Derek........

[@robertcomer2767]

They'll put Take That to shame when they announce they're reforming. They'll be no stadium in the UK big enough to take the capacity that'll want to listen to this crap. Were the girls in the audience ordered to act like this like they are in North Korea.

[@sonofnewton]

ha ha so funny when are you next at the Apollo i must get tickets !!!!!

[@kieran196]

@CraigG1960 One time they did strip down to their underwear & all hell broke lose!

[@waynemarshall8836]

3:35 Linda Robson

[@paulhunter123]

fit

[@deanstanley5799]

Jesus that band sounds so dated even for then !

[@ShanaiCollins]

Weren't born

[@Trev359]

What's your point

[@ShanaiCollins]

there's no point just saying

[@TheKingOfPoop100]

aw their voices are so different.