When I was reading a.'s comment on my post about The Thunderbolt Kid, I was taken back in time to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Now this is not going to be a political blog, but the late President Kennedy and former Prime Minister Tony Blair have something in common.
Both were good looking men while in office. Both were much admired for their political savvy, but turned out to be more style than substance.
It is tragic that boyish good looks can so influence the country's choice of premier.
Anyway, back to what I was going to say which was that that was the era in the early years of my marriage, when we had our first television - which we rented as we couldn't afford to buy one. Also, as the town we lived in at that time was in quite a deep valley, we got our TV signal via a receiver on the summit of a hill which was then sent to us by cable. The cable was the only source of a signal for the whole town. This was long before the days of Cable companies.
It served to bring us the news from the BBC (no other news stations available), and the early days of Dr Who. I do remember my eldest son hiding behind the sofa when that was on!
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I remember hiding behind the sofa on a saturday afternoon watching Dr Who.. boy was I scared of those daleks back then, absolutely convinced that they could see me through the sofa lol.
not only eldest!, i remember dad giving me a clout whe a particularly exciting episode with dalecs and i exhorted the Dr to get a D**n move on. ahh happy days lol
Yes, Dr Who was a favourite. Hard to understand how those plastic monsters were so scary - I think it was the camera angles leaving the monsters unseen most of the time that was the most effective bit.
I remember our TV being black and white, and being excited to watch Grandad's TV in the big city, even if it was only boring horse-racing on a Saturday afternoon, because it was COLOUR!
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Elder Son
Ah, the advent of colour.
Even in the newsreels; it is always hard to realise that both the First World War and the Second one actually happened in colour as we saw them only in black and white.
Kennedy, Blair, now watch for Milliband! May the Good Lord help us!
Boring horse racing every Saturday afternoon. I remember; I was there! He never placed a bet you know, but his knowledge of the runners was impressive. The TV was originally bought for the 1960 Olympics. I loved watching the Westerns in those days- Rawhide, Wagon Train, The Man from Laramie, Ponderosa.....etc.
And colour TVs, weren't they a revelation! All sorts of things had colour, and I'd never known :)
Before he was unable to do so our father used to take me to the cinema to see Westerns.
I think I was his excuse - a bit like using the excuse of having a child with you to go on the swings in the park.
I promise not to sing "She wore a yellow ribbon..."
Cool memoirs - thanks for sharing!
- M
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