Do you remember Dole TV in the seventies it was dead boring. I am thinking of 1977 jobless, most of your friends at work while at the youth job centre the job board was empty. All you had to look forward to was laying on the settee watching TV because back then no one had a tele in their bedroom.
No matter how many job applications you sent off no job offer came back through the letterbox. So all you had was TV where even school programming started to look interesting.
Compared with today Dole TV back then was completely crap when the highlight of the day was Pebble Mill . Remember that live from Birmingham’s Pebble Mill studios a television magazine programme with Bob Langley the afternoon candy for the ladies and Peter Seabrook in the garden. It was a blend of blandness in a magazine/chat show/cabaret mish mash where crooners and comedians lived. They would get schoolchildren in regular doing some dance routine or something.
Turn over to ITV you got House Party, presented by women for women who were all so middle class. A wide range of topics was discussed and various housekeeping items were demonstrated but unlike todays, offering Loose Woman sex was not on the menu.
The mornings were dyer and a reason to stay in bed but if you had to get up and you switched on the TV, you were confronted with – Children School TV, educational programmes. One I particular remember on the BBC was ‘Going to Work’ which that the time I found rather funny. There was also a German news programme god knows why that was on. Although there was the odd gem in among the tat like ‘How We Used to Live’ on ITV.
But for Pebble Mill the BBC lost Dole TV easily with their morning and afternoon diet of school programming and for some reason Pobol y Cwn. While ITV had Paint along with Nancy, bloody Crown Court and I remember the miniseries ‘Sam’. You also got afternoon films and Emmerdale Farm when it was about farming.
There was only two channels to view back then, as I am not counting BBC2, which was really dread viewing. Today Dole TV as a new name Jobseeker's Allowance TV and it so easier with lots of channels, 50” TV screen, interactive with the internet, remote controls, and Jeremy Kyle. The only common thing about now and then is the settee unless there is a TV in the bedroom.
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