A Conversation for The 1960s - an Introduction
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Started conversation Apr 7, 2004
The 1960s was a smashing time for TV - Doctor Who, the Avengers, Z Cars, The Prisoner - it really marked the turning point from the 'Ally Pally' broadcasts of the 1950s into regioanl accents, kitchen sink dramas and a better representation of the world we live in.
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Natalie Posted Apr 7, 2004
I love the comedy of the sixties. Though the main product of the Peter Cook-led satire boom was the now faintly embarrassing That Was the Week that Was we did have the gorgeous Not Only But Also (if only more of it was left!) and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Which I do believe we have an Entry or two about...
And then there was the music television... [goes into rant about how the Dave Clark Five WEREN'T actually the biggest band of the '60s despite the impression given by the released Ready Steady Go footage owned by...Dave Clark]
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Danny B Posted Apr 7, 2004
Gah - you beat me to it, Jimster 
Also, Python started in the 60s (admittedly by only 87 days...).
TW3 was 1960s as well.
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Danny B Posted Apr 7, 2004
Ah well, at least I kept up my reputation with a particularly geeky comment about Python 
Natalie, my neighbours hate you!
Pit Hinder card carrying brain donor Posted Apr 7, 2004
Your posting made me raid the vinyl shelf, put on "Red Balloon" and *really* turn the wick up. 
Pit
Natalie, my neighbours hate you!
Natalie Posted Apr 7, 2004
Your posting (with its airborne sort of theme) makes me want go home and put Simon Dupree's 'Kites' on at full volume.
So my neighbours will hate you! 
However, one of them shouts 'Go girl' at 'Trisha' every morning so I think it's fair.
Let´s get airborne!
Natalie Posted Apr 7, 2004
LOL that was my second choice after 'Kites'! 
Bah bah bah bah bah bah baaahhhh.
Aw there's no highly-orchestrated Easy Listening in this office. 
Now, what kind of office is that?
Pit Hinder card carrying brain donor Posted Apr 7, 2004
BBC has quite a reputation for loudspeaker research! If all things fail, find someone who can glue some plywood together - an excellent pair of speakers will drain some 70 quid out of the tea kitty.
Now focus your timescope on the 1967 Continent...Michel Polnareff "La Poupée Qui Fait Non"
Now, what kind of office is that?
McKay The Disorganised Posted Apr 11, 2004
Strangely my first memory of '60's televion was the quiz shows.
Michael Miles and Open The Box - (Remember the Yes/No Interlude ? No ? BONG!)
Hughie Green's Double Your Money
Bob Monkhouse - not on a quiz show, but on Candid Camera.
Billy Cotton's Band Box ? Wakey Wakey.
And a cartooon favourite - The Wacky Races. Muttley's Shee Shee Shee laugh still escapes my lips today as I indulge in a spot of shadenfreud.
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hypomax Posted Apr 11, 2004
One I have never seen repeated since then was the Telly Goons a puppet animation of the radio shows. That used to be on Saturday just before Doctor Who when it first started. Why is it not on Cable now??
Do Not Adjust Your Set and At Last the 1948 Show were also required watching of the day.
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Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Apr 11, 2004
......and I'm the Lovely Ami MacDonald.....
What ever happened to her?
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AliciaDavison Posted Apr 14, 2004
Doctor Who-yay! Just been reading an interesting article about Doctor Who's ratings in teh 60s,
Alicia
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Apr 14, 2004
Would that be Andrew Pixley's article in Doctor Who magazine, Alicia? I've been reading that too - fascinating to see how the fragmented network of ITV stopped them from getting a better foothold on the rations, yet as soon as they all agreed to show the same programme at the same time, they wiped the floor with the Beeb.
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- 14: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Apr 11, 2004)
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