My 70's TV Childhood

Welcome back to the second season of the podcast which celebrates growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the central part TV played in our lives. In this episode, we ask why so many 1970's programme makers and broadcasters seemed to have got the skill of inspiring terror in a generation of children down to a fine art. As well as revisiting the Public Information Films Dark Water and...

After a short break for Christmas and the New Year we're ready for a new season of My 70's TV Childhood , the podcast which celebrates growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the central part that television played in family life during that decade. There'll be lots of reminiscences, interviews, features and a few surprises in the new season but most of all there will be mo...

In this Christmas edition of the podcast celebrating growing up in 1970's Britain and the part that TV played in our lives, Oliver looks back at his childhood Christmas memories of family get togethers, presents received and Christmas television. From the excitement of the double issues of the Radio and TV Times and Grandmothers sipping Babycham to the Love thy Neighbour Christmas Special via...

Welcome back to the podcast which celebrates growing up in Britain in the 1970's and the central part TV played in our lives. This week, Oliver has been looking back over the last few months and has put together some of his personal highlights. We go back to George from Wimbledon speculating on the domestic arrangements of Hector's House , Gillian in Cambridge whistling to the Clangers a...

Welcome back to the podcast where it's OK to have worn orange and beige as a child and where the 1970's is celebrated rather than derided. We celebrate growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the central part TV played in our lives. In this episode, we start to look ahead to Christmas and wonder how we ever got away with hanging highly flammable paper Christmas decorations from...

In this episode of the podcast celebrating growing up as a child in 1970's Britain and the central part TV played in our lives then, we hark back to what it was like to go shopping in the 1970's. Shops only open during the day, half day closing and no online options. Our host remembers the difficult choice of what sweets to buy with his threepenny bit and asks whether the milkmen of the...

In this episode of the podcast celebrating growing up in the UK in the 1970's and the part television played in our childhood, we look at the power of music and how classic theme tunes can bring back great memories. One of our listeners, Mark from Wiltshire, who is a big noise in the music business, takes over the show and shares his personal 70's TV Childhood and the music that accompan...

Welcome back to the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the part that television played in our childhoods. This episode deals with horses, which seemed to feature a great deal in 1970's TV schedules. From Champion the Wonder Horse and White Horses through to Follyfoot and Black Beauty are fondly remembered by our contributors. It seems that the one thing they...

In this episode of the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the part TV played in our lives looks at what made Thursday nights special for UK viewers - Top of the Pops . Our host Oliver takes you back to his childhood musical journey starting with nursery rhymes, taking in The Chipmunks , Junior Choice and the jingle for Enkalon 6 Star Nylon and ending up with Top o...

This episode of the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the part television played in our lives looks at Public Information Films . These government sponsored short films were effective, sometimes horrific and always effective. Our host Oliver counts down his Top 10 which includes warnings of danger in the most unexpected places, Rolf Harris telling us to learn to...

Welcome back to the podcast celebrating growing up in the 1970's and the TV we enjoyed in our childhoods. Today I'm joined by our listener Ross from Kingston to talk about sport on TV in the 1970's. Ross is a Sports Media Executive, so ideally placed to compare our sporting memories of the 1970's to the immersive and comprehensive coverage we enjoy today. Spoiler alert : it was...

Welcome back to the podcast which celebrates growing up during the 1970's in Britain and the part that TV played in our lives. This episode looks at Saturday night television and how I and my family watched it together. We share happy memories of The Pink Panther Show, Basil Brush and Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game and less happy memories of the variety shows that formed part of Saturd...

This episode of the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain in the 1970's deals with memories of having a weekly comic delivered by the newsagent and ITV's sometimes underrated lunchtime programming for the under fives. We discuss A Handful of Songs , Rainbow and Pipkins . Our listener Stuart has particular memories of the death of Mr Pipkin and how that was explained to the young audi...

Welcome back to My 70's TV Childhood where we celebrate growing up in the UK during the 1970's and the huge part TV played in our lives. This episode considers the lasting legacy of The Banana Splits and why the programme is so fondly remembered by my generation. Other important issues explored include the BBC's Saturday morning kid's TV strategy of buying a foreign programme a...

Welcome back to our celebration of growing up in Britain in the 1970's and the TV we watched. This episode brings listeners' memories of "Watch with Mother" the BBC's programmes for the under 5's. We revisit Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley and discuss the linguistic legacy of Bill and Ben and the Clangers. We also consider whether Bill and Ben were the original...

Welcome back to the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the part TV played in our lives. This week I'm joined by one of our listeners, George from Wimbledon, to explore our first memories of childhood and television. Join us to take a trip back to childhood, memories of classic shows like "The Herbs" and to hear us speculate on what the sleeping arra...

Welcome to the first episode of the podcast celebrating what it was like to grow up as a child in Britain in the 1970's and the part that television played in our childhood. Our host, Oliver Colling , is your guide for a trip back in time to the 1970's, a much maligned decade, but the one in which many of us grew up and have mostly happy memories. Britain as a country was not in great sh...