Do you remember when the television had to be left to warm up for ten minutes when it was first switched on? Do you remember when programmes didn't start until 9 or 10 in the morning? Remember when it was News at 10, a film and then the national anthem. Remember just four channels? Remember five or ten buttons on the front of the TV, a volume and contrast/brightness/colour knobs and no remote? Remember getting in from school and watching kids TV whilst mum made dinner and you waited for dad to come home? How 2, Grange Hill, Count Duckula, Thundercats, Bagpuss, Byker Grove, Knightmare. Do you remember when childrens TV presenters had to press the buttons to start the next cartoon and fade it out at the end?
All gone. None of this any more. I saw a show on BBC 4 last night about the history of childrens TV. The BBC asked Oliver Postgate how he mananged to get the sound of Ivan the Engine being emptied of coal. His answer; I just got some coal in a bucket and poured it into another bucket. Do you remember when TV was made on a smaller scale without focus groups and PC?
1 comment:
Will you two stop saying "remember" so much?
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