British T.V. from 1950s/60s

[@johnlavery6116]

Brings back memories of my school days, happy care free times ...gone. forever !

[@Robertonnz]

different planet now

[@marta70423]

​@@RobertonnzТа же планета - люди другие, совсем другие...😮

[@annettefowler4704]

we did have beautiful times, and we had a lot of respect for each other,

[@marta70423]

​@@annettefowler4704Да, у меня тоже...но люди, они т а к изменились - и это уже совсем другие люди : в своем большинстве р а в н о д у ш н ы е - отсюда все беды...

[@Top2tow]

Life was so much simpler then. I hade a blessed childhood.

[@michellefalleur960]

Lucky you , eh.

[@Top2tow]

Yes lucky me!! It is so sad how this country has changed in the past 72 years of my life.

[@michellefalleur960]

@@Top2tow yes, I know, I'm 58 and it's changed drastically

[@Paul-010]

Yes, us “Boomers” were so fortunate. Happy days!

[@rongendron8705]

Reminds me of the British entertainment, that you see, on English, WWII movies! I wonder what those older, 1950's Brits. would think of the U.K. today? I don't think that they would recognize it, anymore!

[@IanSizer-co7vb]

A safe warm family night together No phones no brain washing a happy home Sadly days that will not return 😢

[@cherylschantz9893]

They can, if we work for it.

[@lindatambini2760]

So true so true happy days they were

[@patkennedy2620]

@@IanSizer-co7vb Yes, those family nights felt so safe & close; listening to classical music on the radio, father with his beloved cats on his knees, mother knitting. I can still feel that room & warmth 60 years on

[@Paul-py4ij]

@@cherylschantz9893 Too many today that don't want it, they want total control of our lives sadly.

[@Caskchap]

No brain washing is the big one, I don’t watch television nowadays can’t stand the constant drip of psycho babble.

[@gsxrinfrance5827]

Born in '48....a child in the 50s, a teenager in the 60s, what a time, to have experienced it was a privilege.l look at my grandchildren and weep for their future..

[@anthonyclent6240]

We had the best decades!

[@kenstevens5065]

I weep for My Grandkids and it doesn't have to be. Back then we had more common sense and less greed throughout society. Most people back then, even non Church goers had faith in some form and Christian values.

[@Landfill-703]

Born in '47, I cry at the loss of the innocence of what had to be the best time ever to have been a child. This poor sad generation of brainwashed zombies will never feel the kind of freedom and genuine happiness that having so little compared to today, gave us.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@anthonyclent6240 IN EVERY WAY.

[@leonfairhurst7597]

I pray every night to wake up and be back then, life was hard but wonderful, but sadly I find myself still here.

[@KeithOwen]

if you find that time machine, ley me know.

[@mesparky9]

Not as hard as me.

[@helencheadle5709]

I think as we get older and many things don’t improve as we had hoped, many of us wish we had a Time Machine to go back to those days we most enjoyed.we were very lucky by many comparisons, but I’d still like the old Tardis or similar if it’s going! Keep your chin up and keep smiling…things could always be a lot worse! Best wishes and good health wished for you all! 👩‍🦳💕🥰🌹😁🫶

[@victordevonshire807]

Better than the alternative. I miss the old lead Christmas baubles, so fragile but such beautiful colours and the old Japanese tin toys. Health and safety 😅. I'm still here. 🙏

[@karentaylor1729]

If only,I,d be the first in line.

[@mariannelaba]

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end

[@mariannelaba]

Is this precious or what?

[@bofor3948]

Ah Mary Hopkins. Very apt song title.

[@taniagoldman]

We'd sing and dance for ever and a day

[@gerrydepp8164]

Now I remember why I havent watched "TV" for 25 years; I was born in 1957 and grew up with the real thing...back when Britain was Great.

[@stephenphillip5656]

Oh memories of an innocent 1950s & 1960s childhood. My parents didn't have a lot of money but probably went without to make sure that the children had not what we *wanted* but what we *needed.* So much is taken for granted nowadays.

[@michaeltreadwell777]

Well said !

[@maryburley9862]

Very well said. Life was alot simpler. We got what we needed as there wasn't money for what the kids of today want 'designer gear' but I think family life as a whole was happier than it is today, there was communication at meal times instead of everyone tapping away on their mobile, if at all eating together. Meals were home cooked by mother not the pricey take away meals.

[@batman51]

A few memories there. What was most noticable was that I could understand every word, unlike the endless mumbling that goes on on TV today.

[@Julia-fo4tk]

I listen to Radio 3 as the presenters are well spoken.

[@CrankCase08]

@@Julia-fo4tk Albeit with plums in their mouths.

[@Julia-fo4tk]

@@CrankCase08 Better usage of grammar and annunciation. People who can't write correctly, can't speak correctly either. I don't mind accents.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

People had to speak correctly back then. Diction was a pleasure to listen to.

[@rosiheyer5501]

Terrible grammar. Don't actors nowadays learn their job properly.? I often switch the TV off, because I can hardly understand the so-called actors.

[@juliehubbard9752]

Sunday teatimes…. my dad always listened to Sing Something Simple on the radio. Mum never missed Z Cars, the Black & White Minstrel Show and Sunday Night at The London Palladium….watching the Tiller Girls go round at the end was the height of glamour for me! We listened as The Beatles hit the charts and changed the face of music forever. Mum always preferred Val Doonican though. Life was simpler, values both morally and family-wise were just part of everyday normal life. We didn’t have much money, not by a long chalk, so in many ways we didn’t have much, but in some ways we had everything.

[@MrDaiseymay]

ESPECIALLY WHEN WE LOOK BACK AND COMPARE.

[@livvymunro1929]

The Black and White Minstrels! Lordy, can you imagine that nowadays?

[@clivebaxter6354]

@@livvymunro1929 The black and black show today

[@BlankJohnA]

I listened to Sing Something Simple too. It always made me feel depressed......

[@SusanReeves-ft1sg]

These times were the best. People enjoyed themselves with very little.

[@tedthesailor172]

Just as well - in the 50's all they had a lot of was rubble...

[@SanCristobal63]

@Dollie-f2c A darn sight happier. Constant nuclear threat. Bent coppers fitting innocent people us. Wrongly convicted Welshmen being hung. Chilblains, TB, lead paint. Coal fires, pea soapers, crap food and even worse telly. Sadistic teachers, sadistic fathers. MPs, parish priests and Jimmy Saville passing kids in care homes round like sweets. Nylon Trousers. Restaurant starters involving tinned grapefruit. Oh, weren't we spoilt.

[@johnbatch9276]

74 and i don't like the direction our once great nation is heading Susan 😢

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@johnbatch9276 Not to worry, Labour will put things right. IS THAT YOU NURSE, COME IN .

[@Valerie-u1t]

Sunday lunch to the sound of Billy Cotton , happy Days !

[@ajarnwordsmith628]

Snap

[@mechanoid5739]

Don't forget 'Round the Horn' and 'The Clitheroe Kid' Sunday lunchtime on the radio. Happy Days!

[@pennystapley50]

Sundays were church, ice cream, Sunday papers and Billy Cotton.

[@CrankCase08]

Wasn't that Three-Way, Four Way, Five Way Family Favourites?

[@johnbatch9276]

Wakey Wakey 😊

[@rosemaryjessop4045]

What a wonderful collection, I loved the Wooden Tops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, Mr Pastry, Lenny the Lion and of course I was madly in love Cliff Richard and Richard Greene oh happy days! Where are the now?

[@OonaghKolek]

In our happy memories.

[@Tranmere59]

I'm told (by big sis) that I once had a screaming fit because Lenny the Lion came on after my bedtime. Cruel parents!!

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

I remember them 😊 And Andy Pandy and Bill & Ben, the original version of the Magic Roundabout

[@gdok6088]

I remember Mr Pastry. I thought no-one else did! And the Wooden Tops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, Tales of the Riverbank. My goodness!

[@katewebber1131]

Born 1950, this brought back so many memories. Thank you. ❤

[@paularowe7651]

My birthyear also!

[@JJONNYREPP]

British T.V. from 1950s/60s 0228am 9.9.24 arthur askey, what was his catchphrase?

[@richardjardine5864]

Oi thank yow something like that😅

[@monteceitomoocher]

72 here absolutely golden times, I'm privileged to have been there.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@monteceitomoocher ????

[@adriansmith6530]

When I was a child in the 1950s I longed to be grown up. I naively assumed that I would be an adult in the world I knew as a child but by the time I got there that world had gone.

[@SuperLoyalist]

So true, sadly, so true.

[@SuperLoyalist]

So true, so very true.

[@lynnedavies5884]

The days when we had Mum and dad.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

That is a luxury denied to so many children these days.

[@alfching2499]

Not two people with a phone in there hands.

[@stewartwebb5699]

I was born in 1955. But still remember much of these shows, Realised my dad must have been earning good money to be able to afford a TV back than. Thanks for the memories

[@davidharwood9552]

Yes I was born 1954. Now classed as a boomer. We had a different lifestyle. It’s only when you look back you appreciate how lucky we were. Times were hard but we communicated and made our own amusement Maybe our generation ruined it by so called computers

[@peterjones6640]

Back then most people rented a TV ( Radio Rentals or Granada etc), I remember our first Tv the screen was small but the cabinet was about 4 times the size of the screen.

[@CrankCase08]

@@peterjones6640 The screens were a mere 12 inches to 14 inches diagonal.

[@ScotchMist-lx1gk]

Same here. We didn’t have a telly , but my grandparents did. Such a novelty in those days , only for the wealthy ! My grandpa puffing away on his pipe… 😊

[@PeterFairhurst-v3e]

@@davidharwood9552 Snap David. Born May 1954. We played in the street for goodness sake...with all the other children. You cannot put a price on that.

[@funkyalfonso]

The best thing about Pussycat Willem and Aunty Mu was seeing Bert Weedon playing guitar. Just turned 70....OMG.

[@DAVID-ks9vp]

"We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon"

[@funkyalfonso]

@@DAVID-ks9vp Perfect reply considering he's got a head on him like a rabbit. I just heard it again and the intro is very trippy.

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Did you have the records (LPs) too? I did.

[@CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake]

Absolutely brilliant ... thank you very much indeed.

[@KeithOwen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@robertp.wainman4094]

When TV provided 'entertainment' - and not supposed 'reality'!

[@elainehumphrey2307]

Sunday lunch time we listened to….Two way family favourites. Makes me so sad that times have changed so much.😢

[@MrDaiseymay]

Then BILLY COTTON, ''WAKEY WAKEY !, CLITHEROE KID, EDUCATING ARCHIE, AL READ, TAKE IT FROM HERE, RAY'S A LAUGH, AND '''DOWN YOUR WAY'' WITH RICHARD DIMBLEBY. ( NOT ALL TOGETHER THOUGH )

[@davidlee6720]

knew everyone on my old street then and can still name them to this day - bless em - all gone now alas.

[@mesparky9]

Same here my Friend, and I miss every one of them.

[@glenc3249]

I live in a little Close of nearly 60 flats blocks of 4 & 6's. I've been here since 2011 and I know only 6 to talk to!! When I was a kid in the 70's, where I lived, I knew just about every single neighbour on both sides of a long Close and other families in the nearby Closes.

[@weaton25]

This takes me back I was borne in 1945 and recognized almost all of the people more than I can say about today's TV

[@michaelyates5976]

I'm a 45 er as well.

[@peacockpaula4723]

Although I am young I love the diction, beautiful, loving real English, a pleasure to listen to🙂👏❤. Thank you for sharing such precious treasure, bless you.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

My 42 year old son says the same.

[@garyfrancis6193]

How do you know ?

[@peacockpaula4723]

@@garyfrancis6193 Because is so nice, clear, melodious, wow, a delight🙂🙏!

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@peacockpaula4723 Whilst I really enjoy regional accents, I do dislike the sloppy speech we hear today, especially from actors, presenters etc..

[@peacockpaula4723]

@@Lily_The_Pink972 I don't blame you, is a shame that elocution is not taught in schools any longer. I think the youngsters will enjoy it as I did when I did it privately. Mrs Foster my elocution teacher was very good🙂.

[@suzannebraham5138]

Those were the days when I was a child I remember all those lovely programs & shows & adverts I loved Billy Bunter alot of these TV acters have now passed on.

[@johnjephcote7636]

Billy Bunter (Gerald Campion) was great and father who drew his pictures from The Magnet during the First War (I still have them) loved it too. I remember the theme song 'Portsmouth'.

[@Jacqueline-ts1wd]

Best times ever ,sad our children will never have that privilege. peace, freedom, true friendships , helping one and other, and manners.

[@colinpumpernickel2605]

It's easy to get depressed watching what the British people have lost but I take some comfort in knowing that the TV we now suffer is on its last legs

[@jayturner3397]

You lucky people..if only we had known what was to come 😢

[@trevordance5181]

"You Lucky People"... That was the catchphrase of comedian, Tommy Trinder, who was the first compare of Sunday Night At The London Palladium.

[@SteveWeaverIvyfield]

All those great memories. I’m the youngest of a family of 9 (5 older sisters and 1 brother) plus Mom & Dad who raised me ‘proper’. For that, I will be forever grateful. ❤

[@johnlavery6116]

Wish I could go back!

[@Toozelwoozle70]

Oh me too !!

[@spellbound111]

So you'd rather be living back then in a draughty house with no insulation or central heating, single glazed windows, boiling water in pans on the gas stove to get hot water for your tin bath and with an outdoor toilet at the end of the back yard where you wiped your backside on pieces of old newspaper.

[@CrankCase08]

@@spellbound111 Not everyone lived like that.

[@spellbound111]

@@CrankCase08 Lots of people lived in those conditions and most couldn't afford a TV. I guess you didn't grow up in one of the many rows of terraced back to back houses, two up two down that got demolished in the early to mid 60's for slum clearance and redevelopment.

[@David-uf8ex]

@@spellbound111yes it’s so perfect today isn’t it ? Mass immigration mass overpopulation stabbings and crime through the roof graffiti everywhere. Thousands will freeze this winter thanks to labour . Research some facts before you slag others off

[@4KVideoPlaces]

Almost forgotten, wonderful childhood memories brought back to life, enjoyable back then without the fowl language of today's entertainers! "THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES"

[@peterg.crosby6320]

Yes I remember a lot of these thanks for sharing

[@KeithOwen]

No problem 😊

[@ContentJapaneseMaples-gk8ji]

I went with my daughter and granddaughter to watch Sooty live a couple of years ago. Richard Cadell who works for Sooty, pointed out that most parents were really there for themselves. We all agreed. Including my daughter and myself 😄 He still says " bye bye everybody, bye bye " This brought a tear to this granddad's eye😊

[@bobrichards7487]

I could never hear what Sooty said.

[@merlin5476]

The days when 90% of tv was light hearted humour 👍. Today its 90% of gloom unfortunately.

[@John-c1n9t]

+ 10% misery!

[@spellbound111]

Especially the gloom and misery of Eastenders. What a bad reflection on our nation that TV soap is. It's a wonder the people who live in the East End of London don't sue the programme makers for false representation.

[@CrankCase08]

'Dark' days is most certainly not an understatement.

[@spellbound111]

@@Mario-k6t9o I just found out that Winston Churchill is dead.

[@robertguildford]

1954 when my family got our first TV. I remember many of these programmes and performers. It's like meeting old friends you have not seen for decades.

[@tungstenkid2271]

I liked the westerns like Cheyenne, Bronco, Sugarfoot, Wagon Train, Rawhide etc they provided great escapism from the mind-numbing boredom of school..:)

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

As an 'OAP' I remember so many of these programmes ! They brought back so many pleasant memories...!

[@oconnorkieran5837]

Cadbury Flake is half the size these days as is everything else.. 60s 70s best times . safe to walk streets at night

[@CrankCase08]

As are Wagon Wheels.

[@jonhumble7199]

I remember everyone loved watching the yes/no interlude on Take Your Pick... and it is still highly entertaining to watch. Micheal Miles was a pro at breaking the contestant's concentration. The Gong man had lightning reflexes.

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Yes that WAS good! Made us laugh a lot. Did you like it?

[@kevinburrows735]

Every single clip every single person in them clips, I remember blimey I’m with my mum and dad again

[@PaulineMitchell-b8i]

Those were the days,easy watching with all the family, sheer bliss❤

[@fays-7055]

These are the days we grew up in - a much friend lier, caring world. Life was simple but without all the modern devices we made our own entertainment. Marvellous. The programmes shown brought back a lot of memories. Thank you.

[@scottyjoe21]

And great home cooked fresh food.

[@1tonyboat]

And the shop`s NEVER opened on a Sunday ....

[@Margaret-p4r]

I was born in 1946 thank you for some lovely memories ❤️

[@mid-walesrover681]

Some things are better today but we have lost so much from that era. I would happily go back.

[@DavidLiggins-c9d]

1950 Child..Remember It All...Thanks For The Memory...74 Years UK 👍

[@stevebuckley2429]

Fond memories.I was there.

[@KeithOwen]

We did not have a T.V in house, until 1959, when I started work and shared the cost of renting one with my sister.

[@lorrainedrake6462]

Oh what lovely memories ,iwould rather be back there great entertainment (better than today) a great selection of childrens shows and fab adult entertainment 👍🏻

[@den264]

I was hoping they had the flower pot men in watch with Mother. I was born in 1952 and these clips sent me rushing back in time.

[@johncraske]

It's a pity about the Flower Pot Men. They caused a scandal after they began to make obscene gestures to the camera and even sexually assaulted Little Weed. Had to be taken off the air as a consequence.

[@bigmeltie1]

Slobalob.

[@jenteale]

@@bigmeltie1 😊

[@SuperKanonier]

"Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin ""

[@doeharris5363]

Me too l just loved Bill and Ben makes me a bit sad knowing those days will never return. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤❤

[@bethel1019]

I noticed that the sign on the wall in the Tony Hancock clip says "Drinka Pinta Milka Day". I remember that from my childhood in the 60s.

[@bofor3948]

And "Go to work on an Egg"

[@spellbound111]

@@bofor3948 And 'I like my eggs in threes'.

[@MrDaiseymay]

WE , BACKING THE 40'S / 50'S, HAD FREE MLK IN EARLY SCHOOL, LITTLE BOTTLES, ABOUT A THIRD OF A PINT.

[@bethel1019]

@MrDaiseymay I had it in the 60s too.

[@spellbound111]

@@MrDaiseymay Me and my best mates would hide a small bottle of milk for four days then challenge one of the other kids to have a milk drinking contest on who could drink the milk the quickest. The four day old bottle of milk was handed to the target and it was fun to see the quafting down of the sour milk, the expression on the target's face was hilarious. The targets were always good sports about it :)

[@richardhumphreys8662]

That was the Duke of Bedford advertising Flash. He and the Duchess did quite a few adverts.

[@livvymunro1929]

To me the Flash adverts are synonymous with Molly Weir.

[@richardfroud8970]

Wonderful years of TV. I do miss the posh talking on TV. We seem to have lost the dignity.

[@CrankCase08]

Not to mention presenters in between the programmes - before it all went facelessly corporate, thanks to the horror that was Carlton TV.

[@jenniferarcher1593]

I was born in 1951 and I remember everything you showed on this video. I was about 9 years old when we got our first television and was hooked! It sure has gone down hill since then.

[@ednammansfield8553]

I was born in 1948 but I remember a lot of these programmes from the 1950's. Happy times then even though things were difficult sometimes for my parents..

[@NiallHogan-r5k]

Life was much better , people talked to each other and had an inner sense of decency . Miss it

[@spellbound111]

Stop picking your nose when you're talking to people.

[@livvymunro1929]

Thanks for the memories. I was surprised that William Russell (Sir Lancelot) only died a few months ago at the age of 99. I loved him and Richard Greene. I'm currently enjoying reruns of "Robin Hood" on Talking Pictures TV. It was interesting to see Anne Reid appearing on the series recently in one of her earliest roles. She must be about the only cast member still alive.

[@MrDaiseymay]

i AND MY SISTER FIRST SAW WILLIAM RUSSELL , AS NICHOLAS NICKELBY, IN 1957. BBC TV. SHE HAD A CRUSH ON HIM. I LIKED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS LIKE MY FAVOURITE TEACHER, IN SEVERAL WAYS. PATIENT AND KIND.

[@livvymunro1929]

​That Nicholas Nickleby serial got me into reading Dickens at the age of twelve. We were going to be away from home for the last few episodes with no TV (and no recording or catch-up facilities in those benighted days ) so I remember going to Woolworth's and buying a copy of NN from their Lutterworth Press range to find out what happened. It cost all of 2/6. As I read it, I always pictured William Russell as the hero. @@MrDaiseymay

[@Talboy-p4e]

Gold years back then 1960❤❤ When England was great When tv was great Only 2 channels Great educational programmes Great flims Great Brtish natural actor an actress And beautiful ladies back the ❤ Great childhood happiness Were the days We didn't have anything it was normal Just beautiful People always Thanks Taste of England again back then 1950 /80 My time ❤ To day 2024 Life is Brain dead Robots Not allowed to think Not allowed to speak Don't worry If you had 1960 You can handle life today Such a don't need a mental health card Remember we made England back then And flew our England flag Great life back then ❤❤

[@spellbound111]

So you'd rather be living back then in a draughty house with no insulation or central heating, single glazed windows, boiling water in pans on the gas stove to get hot water for your tin bath and with an outdoor toilet at the end of the back yard where you wiped your backside on pieces of old newspaper.

[@Talboy-p4e]

@@spellbound111 2024 Still the same Nothing working Nothing left No service No police Pot holes every where Not allowed to drive your cars Very expensive transport Very expensive energy bills BBC out of date Council tax out of date Prison full Kids stabbing each other every day in England 14 million on Benifits Millions and millions of migrants coming to uk every year. Free Benifits for life And now you have the zombies government The worst pm in Brtish history I could go on 2024 Yours Brtish citizen 1960 from Portugal my second home Ps I had my golden years back then especially my childhood I didnt noticed being poor It was normal back then So tell. Me 2024 What happened to England?? Where the future Where the investment What have you done to our England 2024 What the plan now........ Please tell me So I can come back to England And let me know when Labour been kicked out Thanks.... Yours Brtish citizen 1960

[@Talboy-p4e]

@@spellbound111 ps We came from the third world country England 1960 was heaven Compared what we had in life Ok poor in England But heaven. Trust me Today paradise in Portugal My second home Should have been England Unfortunately no future Even worse labour in government Good luck.........

[@spellbound111]

@@Talboy-p4e Espero que esteja a aproveitar a vida em Portugal :)

[@lpoollady12]

May have been in black and white and we didn’t have two hundred channels, but the shows entertained and there was something new every day!

[@marta70423]

Когда всего слишком - перестаешь это ценить и теряешь интерес. Хороша золотая середина.😊

[@borusa32]

Good gracious-that brings back memories.It wasn't all rose tinted either,I am afraid.

[@spherevision360]

Thanks so much! Made me so happy to see these people and programmes but sad to see what we’ve come to now.

[@stevebuckley2429]

I am absolutely dripping in nostalgia...and i love!

[@JHurt-yj6ts]

Well done! I really enjoyed watching those clips. The acting was so good back in those days. As a young boy in the 1950's, I certainly remember those shows.

[@ancientmusketeer6564]

My favourite was Robin Hood and all the other ATV adventure series like William Tell and Long John Silver.

[@lilgeorge34]

This video took me straight back to being a kid, I remember them all, thank you for sharing this with us all.

[@haroldpearson6025]

I remember watching Quatermass from behind the sofa🥴

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

I have it on DVD , Quatermass & The Pit - and it's still spooky - 1959 - the last episode was called ' HOBB ' !

[@johnkerr7286]

That was really weird - never quite understood Quatermass.

[@rclrd1]

I saw the original BBC serial "The Quatermass Experiment" (1953) at my friend's house (my parents didn't have a TV till a few years later). That was the beginning of my lifelong love of science-fiction and horror movies. The scariest thing was _cycling home in the dark_ after each episode!

[@british4199]

I remember watching the Trollenberg Terror with a friend at my house - we opened the front door for her to go home and there was a thick fog outside - her face was a picture - anyone who remembers it will know what I am referencing

[@1tonyboat]

Watched some on youtube only last week ....👍👍

[@m33cav]

Unfortunately those days are gone and never to return. Thank God for our memory.

[@KeithOwen]

keeping the memories alive

[@malacca1951]

I just realised how blooming old I am! I can remember the day the TV arrived and that my mother would not let it every be switched on until 5 p.m. (Except for Bill and Ben, Andy Pandy and that other one! She liked those ; I hated them!)

[@bofor3948]

What the WoodenTops and Spot the dog. And don't forget Muffin the Mule

[@malacca1951]

@@bofor3948 I'm told that muffin the mule is now illegal in this country!

[@1tonyboat]

@@bofor3948 Sparky , Sparky the battery boy and Ivor the engine ,,, great 👍👍

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@@1tonyboat It was Torchy the battery boy, Tony. Don't remember him (born 1959) but I remember being told about him.

[@rogermoore5761]

At least we could have a laugh in those days without offending someone.

[@1tonyboat]

Imagine what would happen if they did a re run `The black and white minstral show` Real entertainment ...

[@JayneBennett-d8c]

We didn’t have a TV back then but we had a good radio x

[@sarahstrong7174]

It was the first episodes of Dr Who, with the Daleks, sent me behind the sofa, in about 1964.

[@keithevans7996]

Born in 1944 so remember all these tv programmes. Dad bought a tv for the queen's coronation in 1953.

[@mariannewilliams845]

A real gem, thank you 😊

[@Nickmedium]

Those were the days far better entertainment. Thank you ❤

[@robbuxton8438]

I am 70, and I can honestly say that for me, NOW is the best time. Some commentators on here may have genuine reasons to think otherwise, in which case my sympathy, but I think that positive outgoing attitude, and willingness to embrace new learning and change really helps.

[@arickett68]

I remember that pottery video - something they put on to kill the time till the next scheduled programme!

[@rclrd1]

One of the "Interludes". That was hypnotic - never tired of watching it...

[@franceskronenwett3539]

I remember a lot of these programmes. As a very small child I used to watch Watch With Mother. I loved Billy Cotton's Band Show. Times were a lot simpler back then.

[@johnlawrence2757]

At the start of the decade very few people had sets. Wealthier . We didn’t have a TV until I brought one home on starting work in BBC Radio in 1962. Prior to that we used to go to our grocer’s home over the hill and watch things like the Oxford and Cambridge boat race (don’t ask). And the coronation of QE2. Certainly I wasn’t aware of it as a source of entertainment that would put radio virtually out of business. All that changed when I was up at University.

[@tango6nf477]

How innocent we were, only 2 tv channels, black and white, no sex, no nakedness, no serious violence, no bad language allowed. We had a twin tub washer and one of us had to hold it down to stop it waltzing around the kitchen.

[@Ethericrose]

Blimey! I've owned around 2 twin tub washing machines in my 20s and as a child my mother's twin tub was the envy of the street as it had an agitator for washing and a spinner in the same unit. If you owned an electric spinner unit on its own you were well off. Mom used to wash by hand and use the spinner. I recall it took mom all weekend to do the family laundry.

[@Smudgecat1947]

We had a second hand Rolls Rapide Twin Tub washing machine given to us in the 60's. It was the best we've ever had & no automatic can match it for whiteness! :)

[@spellbound111]

Can't beat the old dolly tub for washing clothes in using Dolly Blue and a dolly stick, squeezing out water from washing with the trusty mangle. The old washboard was great for playing sounds on with thimbles on fingers.

[@michaeltreadwell777]

That was BRILLIANT ! I was born in 1955 and had forgotten most of these progs and adverts. Excellent memory joggers - thank you. Great fun 🙂

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

Loved Annette Mills singing I love muffin the mule 🙏😲😊😊😊😊

[@british4199]

coming from the north - I thought for years it was called Maffin 😊

[@Dragonrdh]

I also liked 'Listen with mother' on radio 2 in the afternoons.

[@seangage9088]

Wonderful to see these again......life was so much simpler in those days.........

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

Always got caught out on Michael Miles show😲😊🥰

[@johnorchard4]

I much preferred Michael Miles to the smug Hughie Green

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

​@@johnorchard4Wilfred Pickes...Have a go JOE!😂😅

[@davecooper3238]

1953. Our first TV had a nine inch screen.

[@rclrd1]

A big event of 1953: the live broadcast of the Queen's coronation. Along with other families who didn't own a TV till a few years later, we were invited to spend all day in the living room of a friendly neighbour. One of many treasured memories of the 1950's (my "teenage" years - I was born in 1940). Living in the 21st century is like being on a different planet. 😟

[@MrDaiseymay]

WE TOO. WITH A BAKELITE CASE

[@colettefleck9238]

Yes really enjoyed remembered each and everyone. Thank you so much for your hard work,in putting together a wonderful walk ,down memory lane. .

[@marta70423]

"Переулок воспомининий"-здорово !❤❤❤

[@ianturpin9180]

I remember watching the coronation on a tv with a 12in screen in front of which was a large liquid filled magnifier.

[@suehaig2296]

Best days ever happy and care free ❤

[@douglasgosney9172]

Better than the rubbish today 07/09/2024❤

[@amandadavies..]

I hate 95% of TV, but it was way worse back then, and no catch up, so you couldn't watch something after it was shown, if you had to miss it for whatever reason. Dreadful quality too. I'd have gone insane if I'd had to be stuck in front of a TV with all that sort of stuff on.

[@sinopiarossa7851]

1950s TV was awful. I was there.

[@elainehumphrey2307]

@@amandadavies.. Well! Back then we didn’t sit in front of the tv most of the day watching repeat after repeat of tasteless crap. Also, it was all new to us and didn’t know any different.

[@amandadavies..]

@@elainehumphrey2307 I definitely didn't as I said above (still don't), but I might have been more interested if I hadn't been tied to watching stuff as it was shown, had there been catch up options....even recording on video tape (as bad as it seems now) would have been better.

[@helenday5031]

Feels amazing to be reminded in this video of things I reckon I was watching from when I was about 1 or 2 years old and only just aware of the world. Seems almost as good as time travel.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

The Blood Donor sketch starring Tony Hancock was brilliant.

[@lablackzed]

Thanks brings a lot of good memorys of my child hood.

[@alecwilliams249]

Thankyou so much for the wonderful memories of great TV.

[@anndavies6717]

I only wish I had a magic wand and bring my self back in those wonder full happy days

[@lynmatthews8252]

We did enjoy it very much. So different today!

[@ThomasPrior-wv6zn]

WHEN I FIND THE TIME MACHINE GUESS WHERE I WILL BE , IN MY BED ROOM JUST BORN IN 1953 HACKNEY , SO I COULD LIVE ALL THESE OVER AGAIN AND MORE GROWING UP WITH THE GREATEST MUM AND DAD BROTHER AND FAMILLY A MAN COULD WISH FOR LIFT ANY ONE DONT RUSH T Y FOR POSTING THIS MORE PLEASE

[@spellbound111]

So you'd rather be living back then in a draughty house with no insulation or central heating, single glazed windows, boiling water in pans on the gas stove to get hot water for your tin bath and with an outdoor toilet at the end of the back yard where you wiped your backside on pieces of old newspaper.

[@bofor3948]

@@spellbound111 Dont forget the ice pattern on the inside of the windows in winter and Mum saying don't make patterns with your finger, the glass will crack. The freezing lino underfoot. Oh and if you were lucky instead of newspaper you had that medicated IZAL greaseproof crap that slid around polishing your turds.

[@karenlewis6711]

OH MY LIFE.. this full of memories x

[@peternelson4419]

Thank you!

[@alessandromachi1010]

I read that a vast majority of the British TV archives that were mastered on video in the 60's were re-recorded over in the 70's because videotape was expensive.

[@KeithOwen]

Yes a lot of classics were destroyed.

[@stephenguppy7882]

This is quite true. The reason there are so few recordings of Sunday Night at the London Palladium is because a one-hour videotape in the late 50s/early 60s cost £500 even back then.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@KeithOwen THE BBC , LATER APPEALED TO VIEWER'S , WHO HAD THOSE TAPES, TO SEND THEM IN, FOR PRO RE-RECORDING; ESPECIALLY EPISODES OF ''DADS ARMY''. SOME CAME IN, FROM AUSTRALIA.

[@beverlygannon4141]

Michael miles. Loved It ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏👍👍