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As a kid i can remember wrestling on saturday afternoon has used to like watching i think his name was less kelly has he was funny to watch. i also use to rush home from school to watch lost in space and i can remember the midnight movie on bbc2 on a saturday night has was only 3 chanals then
Midnight movie. You should have been in bed by then and fast asleep music
Not sure if these were on Saturdays but
Lesley Crowther ....... Crackerjack
Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee .......Dr Who
Dallas .........
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
I think they were ripley, oh those old programmes!
It wasn't on a Saturday, but I loved the Magic Roundabout.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Are you still going around on it?CarrieMe
Multi Coloured Swap Shop with my kids on Saturday morning, and Sesame St when they were very young
All Creatures Great and Small
Generation Game
Dallas
(didn't go out much on Saturday night as you can see!)
When we've got kids knitter they programme us
I remembered when I was a teenager and did actually go out on a Saturday, coming back and watching That Was the Week that Was...very subversive at the time.
You naughty little stop out! Hee HEE knitter
oh yes, thanks for the reminder. Such a great, funny programme 
One of the all time greats for evening entertainment peeg
Uncle Mac on the radio on a Saturday morning when I was diddy (I belong to the Saturday Club ) and the London Palladium on a Sunday evening when I was a bit older - remember Tommy Trinder
Tommy Trinder ,a true comedian, what was his catchphrase?
you lucky people
And yes we are!jandan
And, "Just like that!" 
Alison
Tommy Cooper Eh?
What was that talent show with Hughie Green? Saturday evenings was always reserved for shows like the Generation Game and The Golden Shot.
Does anyone remember Quatermass and the Pit ? It used to scare the life out of me.
Gail
Opportunity knocks !! I remember Quatermass there was another weird one later I think it was the Survivors or something like that
What was the girl called that was with Hughie Green?jandan
was it Isla St Clair? I dont know why I remember that ............ I do recall Hughie Green had a secret child..........
My kids liked Jim'll Fix It 
... myself, we had radio & our 1st TV in the 60's (but weren't allowed to watch it). On radio I can remember Beyond Our Ken & kenneth Williams saying "you are awful" . As a teenager it was Radio Caroline in secret
Hughie Greens secret child was Paula Yates
Go to top of the class jandan
Radio Caroline, superb music peeg
Monica Rose
who on earth is Isla st Clair then (am I going bonkers)?
Larry Grayson's side kick on the generation game she was/is a Scottish folk singer
Isla St Claire was an excellent hostess/sharp witted. She has a beautiful voice which I had the pleasure of hearing live at the Princess Theatre in Torquay
I remember her as smiley and with dark shiney hair (like mine use to be)!
How do you store all this knowledge from such a long time ago jandan?
I am an avid reader of .....................................Google 
somethings I do remember but I also go on you tube a lot and put up things e.g. music from 1958 or female singers pre 1960 it is incredible what you can find with just a slight memory and using a buzz word
So I need a little bit of memory jandan
Did you know that Come Dancing started in 1949 on BBC Television?
We didn't have a TV in those far off days
my mum and dad got their first tele in 1953 for the Coronation but my Grandma had one before that and we used to go to her house on a Friday and we watched The Groves
My mum and dad had their TV for the same reason. Couldn't let the neighbours have one up on them could they jandan
I remember Grandma Grove, but my father wouldn't let me watch it very often..said the tv would "overheat" if on too long!
My mum used to say 'Switch it off. I can't see to do my knitting with that TV flashing'!!!
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Do you remember Victor Sylvester jandan? "Slow, slow, quick- quick, slow!
jandan in reply to
Yes, there used to be a Victor Sylvester Dance School above the Gaumont Cinema in Coventry
Gaumont Cinema, Saturday morning flics
Flash Gordon serial
Wouldn't miss it jandan
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Oh dear. It is now slow, slow, slow, slow, slow.mapal
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Just keep go, go, go, go, going King - doesn't matter how slowly. This has been a brilliant Post King. Don't know how you keep coming up with them but keep doing it!
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
I am always open to suggestions mapal
Q&P OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Dive under the sheets at bedtime.Gail
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I remember Quatermass watched from underneath a cushion! Anyone else remember 'Little Red Monkey' ? That used to really scare me.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Not the Little Red Monkey, how did I miss seeing that one mapal?
I wasn't supposed to watch quatermass and the pit but I hid behind the sofa. There were 8 of us so this was possible! I was terrified! Alison
I don't remember what days they were on but did enjoy watching The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Michael Parkinson.
Ironside was one of my favourites Toci
Along with the original Robin Hood, there was Ivanhoe, the Lone Ranger and all the old westerns in black & white. I remember sitting on the arm of my gran's settee riding my horse along with the posse or chasing indians.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
What a long memory you have.Good ones Eh? CarrieMe
Don't forget my good friend Kendo Nagasaki and another of my pals who sadly is no longer with us the great movie and wrestling star Pat roach. I could list lots more and then get onto music of the 50s/60s. And tv programmes, fireball XL5, Sunday night at the London Paladium Perhaps it is not good to go back.
Larry
Mick MacManus, Six Five Special, Oh Boy, com'on don't start me off Larry
If you want to get into music of the era I have 5000 records. Before my health finally stopped me, my wife and I had a stretch limousine hire company. We used to import and restore all sorts of cars. When I finally stopped the business and sold the cars we had a pink 1959 Cadillac. A pink 1965 Cadillac convertible, a 1910 EMF amongst many others. Great cars from a great age.
Larry
I don't have thousands, but hundreds from 1958 1962 including every single top ten record. I can imagine your love for cars like you mention, for me it is an 'if only'Larry
Sunday lunch time we used to listen to the Navy Lark, John Pertwee and Leslie Phillips, you can still pick it up and DAB radio and radio 4 Xtra
Educating Archie, Life with the Lyons, Take it from Here - the Glums Ron and Eth (my husbands name and my middle name)
The Huggits, Round the Horne -Kenneth Horne, Hancocks half hour, The Goons, Dick Barton Special Agent.
just to mention a few.
polly xx
Sch.be quiet, I am trying to listen polly
He don't forget two way family favorites. Sunday lunchtime on the light program.
Larry.
Not a favourite of mine, but had no choice but to listen to it.Larry
Sorry the above not strictly on a Saturday, hope it does not matter.
polly xx
WILL YOU BE QUIET POLLY!
Anyone remember Jimmy Clitheroe on the radio? I used to like listening to that.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Do you remember Avril Angers his mother on the radio. A friend of mine. sadly no longer with us.
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I don't remember her in that role, but was Jimmy Edwards not part of it too? I've just Googled Avril and I wouldn't know her name but certainly remember her face on the TV.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Avril was a great stage artist and show person. I think Jimmy Edwards was the teacher.CarrieMe
Ooh you are all bringing back,long ago memories!
I first remember the radio 'Listen with Mother'(Are you sitting comfortably?')lol!
Then there was the ovaltineys( probably spelt wrong)
The next memory is 'The Archers' which all the family listened to,as well as The Glums,The Goons, & educating Archie.
I better stop there,if I get to the tv,I will never finish! xxx
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I used to 'Watch with Mother'. Andy Pandy, The Woodentops, Bill and Ben. Aahh, (big sigh) innocent days.
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The great thing is you can still watch them again via the internet...oops! now you all know what I with my spare time
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Still a kid at heart lovelight!
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Have those innocent days changed then? CarrieMe
laig in reply to
You missed Rag Tag and Bobtail
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
I was an Ovaltiney, I struck up a great friendship with Gwen Berryman(Doris Archer) in her latter years. She used to visit me in my bar for company, she did not drink, just wanted company
Kids programmes ...White Horses, Blue Peter, Robinson Crusoe, Swallows and Amazons, Crackerjack and Mr Piper (who no-one else seems to remember??
'Grown-ups' ... Dr Kildare, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, Top of the Pops and Juke Box Jury, and Stranger on the Shore (1961 ish) with it's lovely theme tune from Acker Bilk. Yeah, lol, all the old westerns, esp Rawhide, mighty fine looking cowboy was Clint
Radio...Pick of the Pops with Alan Freeman and Sing Something Simple on a Sunday evening...wanna go back ! xxx
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Peyton Place, Emergency Ward 10.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Keep them coming CarrieMe
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Off you go then lovelight, enjoy your time back there!
I used to be in charge of a lovely restaurant(now closed)on the outskirts of Torquay. we used to do Christmas Dinner every Sunday night, and were always full up with 80 covers that was until Poldark started. Within three weeks we closed on a Sunday night
Bonanza (Little Joe - sigh!), William Tell, Tales of the Unexpected, Radio Luxembourg on a crackly little 'wireless'.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Have you turned that radio off yet, Go to sleep.I remember mapal
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No, still jiving as we speak - well in my mind anyway - haha.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Hand Jive nowadays Eh?
Michael Bentine and the Bumblies
Billy Bunter at Greyfriars
The Army Game
Two Way Family Favourites
Z Cars
Ten- four
"Evening all" - Dixon of Dock Green. That reminds me I should go to bed. Night night all - sweet dreams and memories. X
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Morning all. I'm out of bed now had my sweet dreams(Not for sharing!)
Wow, so many memories. I am amazed how many I remember fro TV and radio. Did anyone else have to watch cars going up a muddy hill with a passenger jumping up and down on the back seat to aid traction? Hill climbs, I think. Could never see the point. The world stopped for my grandmother for Mrs Dale's diary. And there was silence for the football results. Ugh! Alison
Just read all your replies King & am smiling as I go to brd, thank you, I remember most of those, bless you for the memories
The Witch
xxxx
Lovely to wake up to your comments sillywitch, you have made me smile for the dayxxx
How about:- 'Dick Barton (Special Agent), Paul Temple and 'Journey Into Space, on the radio when you got home from school ?
Home work first,after paper round dukes
My paper round was early in the morning, King, and the homework usually got done by a group of us getting in to school a bit early the next day and making a joint effort !
Who's a naughty boy then ?
Morning and evening rounds for me, homework ,well that's another story dukes
That's probably why you got to become a 'King' and me a mere 'duke' !
This is annoying. I posted yesterday but must have forgotten to submit it. However I was recalling programmes that possibly didn't happen on a Sat. night. Dance bands such as Geraldo, Henry Hall, Uncle Mac. Think there was a programme - Music from the Movies. Charlie Drake (didn't like), Crossroads, Emergency Ward 10.
KingoftheCocktails in reply to
Charlie Drake my favourite song of his'There was a guy Sweet Freddy Green'
I am now thinking about Arthur Askey and George Formby - again didn't appreciate their talents, what I can remember. Would be some time before Frank Sinatra turns up!!! I dont think I looked at any TV before the early 60s. Remember ITMA and much Binding in the Marsh. Pretty sure most of these programmes were NOT on a Saturday night.
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