I write and talk a lot a television, and with my new project ‘My week watching TV’ launching next week I thought I would share what made me a TV addict from my past and today.
Saturday night remembered ….
It was a family night. Our living room was small and a intermit space. Dad would make is way out for a drink or two and unlike today with the many distractions we only had the TV and NO remote control. We also only had three TV channels; just the three and we would mainly watch BBC1.
On a winter’s night in 1972, the family would sit down for a night of entertainment. After Final Score still a religion in my house after over 40 years it would be Doctor Who or The Mary Tyler Moore Show who I didn’t half fancy back then. Next it would be an entertainment show like the Harry Secombe or It’s Cliff Richards show the main stay of Saturday night TV, song and dance with special guests.
The appearance of Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game was a Saturday night game changer with four teams of two people from the same family, but different generations, competing to win prizes and giving a bellyful of laughs.
The winning family could then load up with prizes off the conveyor belt after watching them pass by and then recalling them in a set time to win. A trademark of the show was that a cuddly toy was always among the prizes. After some light-hearted fun, it was usually the turn of drama of the police kind with either Z Cars or Dixon of Dock Green then a film before Match of the Day.
A TV show I would like to be cast in ….
At the moment, I am fascinated by shows about living off grid in Alaska like Alaska - The Last Frontier and shows on gold prospecting like ‘Gold Rush’. It would be difficult to be cast in a show like that but if there was a show were a Brit spends a year off grid looking for gold it could be my kind of heaven.
TV Wars ….
Not everything is rosy on the marriage front with the dividing line has cold as the old Berlin Wall. The battle is over soaps! However, thanks to the internet we have come to an uneasy peace based on the fact I can lose myself somewhere else while the wife gets her fix. Once many years ago I banned the soap Brookside off our screen after some really stupid story line and the poor wife never saw it again. That was before the internet I couldn’t get away with something like that again.
To be honest with me in control of the remote the wars are easily won thanks in the main to all the access via the internet and devices we have today.
TV View ….
It would be impossible to nail myself to any one type of programming as I devourer TV shows across the spectrum for BBC to digital channels like the History channel.
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