Southern Television ''Houseparty'' Monday 21 12 1981

[@ginger1973wine]

This is how I remember the grown up ladies when I was about 10...they all looked so much older than they were too..real comfort blanket tv xx and I remember ladies wearing long dresses...xx

[@mistiemist]

I remember this programme if I was off school. My mum would have it on

[@karenbrown4294]

I absolutely loved this programme. I watched it, if I was off from school! I wish I could go back in time, I don't like this time in history, life was so much simpler and less PC. ☹🌹♥️

[@citizen1163]

Karen, I agree!

[@tinahardman9805]

I wish I had appreciated how good life was then.

[@earth-warrior]

I did too, and I used to watch CROWN COURT😊 I was only 9, and I LOVED this programme!! Life was easy, life was simple, and life was innocent….I used to want to be a grown up….. I look back and I think U FOOL!!🤣

[@TheStevenWhiting]

"Life was much easier and we could be racist".

[@kevinbeck6785]

Great to see ITV credits for Christmas so many brilliant shows what a pity Christmas on ITV these days are so poor 😡😡

[@chopchung]

Houseparty, like "Out Of Town" was one of those Southern oddities where the logo appeared without the blue background and ident jingle. Dangerous information was also a variant as it had the blue background but omitted the jingle in favour of going straight in to the theme tune. To add a cliché....."not a lot of people know that!".

[@carolineg1872]

2:42 .."ever since Adam and the Ants"...on houseparty....surreal.

[@malanierussell3444]

Loved watching with my mum wen I was off school mum loved it

[@ropa2142]

I remember as a kid I use to think that this was a real housewives coffee morning!

[@andymerrett]

I love how they unpacked the crate of food they were supposed to be gifting to someone else :)

[@cryingonion2]

do you have the rest of this? I'm thirsting for more!

[@gripplehound]

The Loose Women need to watch this and learn a thing of two about manners

[@citizen1163]

Charming & still relevant

[@Random-y5b]

Recommended to me on Christmas Day, pretty cool

[@tinamiles9328]

i used to skip school ,to watch ROOMS, AND CROWN COURT wasn't that keen on house party though

[@cryingonion2]

classic, love it

[@Rassilon72]

How very civilised....changing into a long dress for Christmas evening! I wonder who bothers to do that now.

[@brucedanton3669]

When Southern ended in 1981; TVS did not take this on-I guess because they wanted to try something different. But when Meridian replaced them in 1993, they did revive the series for a while, although not for long. I am not sure whether it was networked, or shown in their own region only though.

[@TheGodsrighthandman]

Just watching the Xmas Adverts makes one realise just how much they wouldn't be allowed to get away with in current year . . . No wonder modern TV is shite.

[@PhilofBristol]

Where today we have Loose Women, in the seventies and early eighties we had relatively prim and proper women!!

[@annother3350]

🎶 "gonna be a house party" 🎶

[@unigateman]

How did I get here WTF......;

[@annother3350]

Welcome home!

[@christopherhulse8385]

Nobody could ever hear that doorbell!

[@hunkhk]

brain numbing ..... those were the days! Ding dong!

[@Michael43713]

You should have seen the VictoriaLucas take on this. Sadly it's been taken down.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks. That was fascinating to watch. I'm surprised there were never more shows like this. Was it a daily show?

[@babaza1972]

Think so. This would have been one of the last editions before Southern lost its franchise :(

[@gentsw13]

I believe it was a weekdays only programme - part Networked to other contractors - including Anglia Television. I remember it very well !

[@annother3350]

I had the wooden acrobat

[@rebeccaryan3621]

does anyone remember on one episode of Houseparty there was an argument between 2 or 3 of the ladies it was going out live and the cameras just kept rolling

[@carolineg1872]

I'd love to see more HP.

[@richardhughes1011]

This programme appeared to have no discernable beginning or end. Was it always like that?

[@58southwinds]

Yes....it was if you were eves dropping on them

[@stephenreeds3632]

Yes. TV purgatory. All so nice with everyone trying to out do everyone else. Imagine having to talk to them.

[@paulleonard1862]

@@stephenreeds3632 It wasn't aimed at you.

[@hugoboss5895]

While Jeans demolishing that garage extension Gloria will be preforming open heart surgery with a lovely lady from the re cross. 😂

[@anngulliver5964]

I liked that bullying blue bin at the beginning

[@zetametallic]

That bin is the best thing😈. I've never seen or heard of 'Houseparty' before (I lived in the Granada region as a child) and I couldn't imagine my mum watching it even if we did get it. Looks like a load of women from a neighbourhood watch group on their day off getting together to discuss and make crap. That blue bin needs to be let loose in the studio and shake things up a bit😈😈😈😈😈. That I'd happily watch.

[@michaelburling]

Only Mary Morris could pronounce "hamper" as "hemper!"

[@mjstefansson7466]

I love the episode where she questions another woman as to whether she has a quince tree in her garden and then the surprise that she hadn't.

[@stephenholmes1036]

I say amper

[@billyshearer1]

Did it always start with them ignoring the viewers? 😂😂😂

[@ghall7894]

No wonder we came so close to Nuclear War. Pretty terrifying :)

[@phillipdarlington]

There is nothing health and wholesome about Danish food - just ask my waistline!

[@elisa7881]

the UK pre-EU; very provincial.

[@lansleyONE]

Wow, would you believe the racism and sexism in some of the promos for other ITV shows before Housparty starts! Jim Davidson speaking of his pretend character Chalky White, a stereotype of West Indian race: "Chalky loves Christmas, well he feels safe in all that snow, people can see him of a night-time!" and Bruce Forsyth "This is where you two, (stares at chest) not you two, YOU two!" 🙄

[@londonlady227]

Those were the times and no-one cared. It was fun. Try it sometime.

[@andymerrett]

@@londonlady227 To a point sure but Jim Davidson is pretty rank.

[@stephenholmes1036]

​@@andymerrettlike the dreadful Lenny Henry who was racist then and still is now.

[@NOTODIVERSITY]

Today's liberal women and liberal beta males are an embarrassment. We normal people do not claim you as the right side of history.....

[@NOTODIVERSITY]

Weak liberal women and beta males .....how embarrassing you lot are......

[@intricatecinnamonhat9150]

Lots of women talking blabbering crap

[@andymerrett]

no-one made you watch.

[@intricatecinnamonhat9150]

@andymerrett how do you know, I was forced to watch many things including lots of women talking blabbering crap.