Tuesday January 16, 2007 Random ramblings
Tuesday January 16, 2007 Quite strange how watching old Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes can take one back. The fashions, interior decoration1, electrical goods, etc. all brought me back to when we would visit my maternal grandmother in Ireland, where I would often watch BBC and ITV, which was so completely different to what I was used to. Strange how TV can evoke memories. E.g., do you remember:
- When Moira Stuart became a newscaster on the BBC News?
- When BBC introduced that sliced-circle logo for the BBC News? (I can't remember when, but I'm pretty sure it was before the Falklands war. I wish I could remember what BBC News looked like before then, I do remember thinking the new sliced-circle theme wasn't as good in comparison.).
- The rotoscoped BBC globe logo?
- The Morecambe and Wise Show? (My granny loved it)
- The clock that would count-down the time between children's educational programming on BBC in the mornings (oh that wait used to annoy me!)
- The Falklands war? (I had a fascination with war and military as a little boy, and it annoyed me greatly I wasn't allowed to stay up to watch the coverage on the 9 O'Clock BBC News, being past my bedtime. I used to watch through the keyhole of the living room door anyway).
- What WDYJSOYTSAGADSLBI means, near immediately?
- Figuring out, between MCMLXXXI, MCMLXXXIV and British television how Roman numerals worked? ('s how I learned, visiting Ireland couple of times per year)
- When television sets used to take a a minute or two to warm-up, and it was normal?
- When it was normal practice to call TVs "television sets"?
- Blake's 7? (hated it, it used to be on in some slot that usually had a programme I liked better when was on holidays at other times of the year)
- Sapphire and Steel (great, loved it!)
- Tony Hart / "Take Hart"
- Juliet Bravo (though, I only remember the second actress)
If your TV age is roughly the same as mine: congratulations, you're now starting to get old! What do you remember?
1. Remember padded vinyl wallpaper? Not quite sure when my grandparents had last redecorated, but the interior deco featured in Monty Python, which was filmed from '69 to '74, made theirs look quite modern in comparison. Hence why Monty Python seems so modern to me 
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