Record Breakers Christmas 1972

[@two-moonz2953]

I know it sounds cheezy, but I like these old shows because it seems the world back then was simpler. I'm sure it wasn't but to a 12 year old...yer know.

[@angelacooper2661]

I was just two and a half at the time and so ten years younger than you. Obviously I don't remember this as I would have been too young to watch it - a mere toddler!

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Thanks for this grest show with the late great Roy Castle.

[@MYJETGLO]

Thank you for sharing.. So nice to watch something simple and pleasant without a manic streaming audience every 5 seconds and hosts and guests that are to busy trying to impose their massive egos.

[@angelacooper2661]

I don't remember this, being too young to watch it aged just two and a half. My memories of the Record Breakers start a few years later!

[@vickersable]

that roy castle was always blowing his own trumpet

[@angelacooper2661]

Literally!

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Bring tbis show back BBCand inspire todays younger generation

[@numberstation]

Please don’t. Can you imagine the mess they’d make of it?

[@sarahlowes1501]

This was most likely the second episode ever to be broadcasted since the show was launched as a spin-off from Blue Peter on 15 December 1972. The prices quoted were a year after decimalisation would now be in the hundreds of thousands now. Miss Roy who was a great all-round entertainer. Can't believe it's almost 30 years since his death. I didn't see many episodes of Record Breakers growing but caught a few in late teens with Kris Akabusi and Cheryl Baker afterwards. I still have the album he recorded with his son Ben.

[@j0hnf_uk]

Television programmes for children that focused almost entirely on education. How times have changed.

[@johnmc3862]

This show was interesting and more of a novelty rather than educational.

[@stevenclark7733]

I was 10 when this aired. Lovely nostalgic memories.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

I was just about to turn 11 on Christmas eve. Isn't being in our 60's now a pain in the backside.

[@stevenclark7733]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 it’s a pain everywhere 😁.

[@Luke96-sy9jv]

Thanks for posting this been searching for this episode mainly because Tommy o regan is on it :)

[@damianchallis9214]

Love hearing norris' voice

[@mjclark641]

I would certainly have watched this in 1972, and here I am 51 years later.

[@hopebgood]

What makes me smile is the fact that I'd have been dressed like the kids in the audience when I was 10. Grey shorts and a grey jumper. How I changed! It's just a laugh, isn't it? 😀

[@deanrussell2224]

Ah Norris and Ross back in the day

[@clarea1801]

I've never seen those dart players on bullseye

[@lenafan492]

Great seeing this. Thanks for uploading

[@Cool2BCeltic]

Yes, thanks for uploading.

[@radioandtvmemories6178]

A great role model for the kids: Someone who started hanging around billiard halls at the age of 12

[@bessofhardwick9311]

Thanks for uploading :)

[@DeadlyKiss000]

Anyone notice that Rex Williams looked a bit like Tony Knowles

[@irontown]

Thanks for uploading. Watched this when I was a teen and it seems slower and not as lively as I remember. Great to see it again though

[@russellthompson9271]

I'm that bad at darts, that I can get three treble twenties, and was aiming for me sister...

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

The twin handing up the long hair, beard and nails etc to Roy, was assassinated by the IRA.

[@gary-f2m]

google lists roy castle being 5 foot 8

[@archiejane8522]

maximum break is 155

[@kattihatt]

indestruktible kockpit bubble. thats what she said.

[@radioandtvmemories6178]

A complete mess, particularly the darts record attempt

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

Being the same age as the maths genius kid instead of as the audience kids, hence slightly too young to have seen this, is all it took to miss having anyone take for granted it would be natural right and fair to have bare knees "when the weather's 'cold and damp and miserable like it is today" and December. "Sensory issues", linked to adhd/autism/tourette's, a tactiile sensitivity to fabric textures pressure and heat, would not become known for near 30 years after this, because arrogant psychiatry, confident in its stuck ideas, was ignoring the evidence for those conditions, it continued to until forced otherwise by the abused outcomes of schools pushing kids too hard in greedy search of outcomes like the maths genius kid's. I have my sensory issue for shorts recognised as an adult worker. But in the later 70s, when the culture had swung sharply from hippie soft to punk macho just when that stage of older boyhood when shorts are unfairly socially oppressed lay ahead, I went to a school that forced year-round longs for all boys above the first primary year. I was never a cub because it was thought that disliking football made it unsuitable, and I grew up in a region with a nasally irritating climate caused by a narrow waterway's air effects, South Wales, that prevented being able to know that liking shorts in "cold and damp and miserable" would not harm my health and is a real legit minority identity. It is an atrocity of child abuse by TV, Savile process not completed until it's dealt with, that the generation just behind these kids had punk followed by savage alternative comedy, and only 14 years after this show, morally sick bonechilling hate crime episode 2/6 of Blackadder openly incited, sided with, and gloated over, bullying of shorts.