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 and showing it again, and again and again, whether drugs played a part in the original vision for The Banana Splits and whether anyone actually ever saw "Herge's Adventures of Tinitin: Red Rackham's Treasure?"

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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 role models for the TV show Shameless and was Oliver Postgate really Emma Thompson’s father?

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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 arrangements were inside Hector's House.

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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 shape, but as our parents suffered the problems of power cuts in the Three Day Week, the decline of the UK's manufacturing economy and the indignity of a bankrupt country going cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout, we were busy playing and enjoying being children and watching the television.

We remember the days of only having three TV channels to choose from, many of us watching on black and white TV sets rented from Radio Rentals. Despite the limited programming, the doubtful sitcoms and the ubiquity of orange and brown in all of our wardrobes, many of us have fond memories of watching television at that time and this series will try and rekindle those through shared memories, interviews and features.

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