TV last night was crap so many channel so many repeats I ended up listening to the radio until I spied a film that looked interesting. That was until the opening scene and I realised I had seen it before not the start anyway I caught the ending a while back.
I miss the days of three channels being a viewer was much easier and it was a family night. I decided I check out the TV schedule for a Saturday night in September 1972. We tended to be a BBC family more than ITV and when I looked at the 1972 schedule, a big whiff of nostalgia hit me.
It felt like comfort food and I could see myself sitting in the living room, coal fire and our recently acquired Colour TV. With no heating upstairs, the living room and the TV were a magnate until bedtime.
This is a schedule for a typical Saturday night in September 1972 after Grandstand, in bold was the offering on the BBC last night.
- 5:15pm – News/Wales News
5:15pm – The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- 5:30pm– Toy Story 3 film
5:40pm – News
5:55pm – Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
6:45pm – Dixon of Dock Green
- 7:10pm - Pointless Celebrities
7:35pm – The Two Ronnies
- 8pm – The National Lottery: Five Star Family Reunion
8:20pm – Saturday Night Film Blindfold
- 8:50pm – Casualty
- 9:40pm Mrs Brown’s Boys
10:00pm – News
- 10:10 News
10:10pm – Match of the Day
- 10:30pm – Match of the Day
11-10pm - Parkinson
Looking at the two, I think I still prefer the 1972 schedule the earlier shows are defiantly more family orientated with a show like the Generation Game, which is selling fun. On the Saturday comedy front if you put the Two Ronnies up against Mrs Brown’s Boys there is only one winner, the Two Ronnies.
You never see cartoons on BBC1, no Tom and Jerry, nor Captain Pugwash I do rather miss them they were part of our daily TV intake.
Everything is on specialised channels in this multimedia world now. I love the Mary Tyler Moore Show an American import and so American but surprisingly very popular with the British viewer but truth be told I had a massive crush on her.
Dixon of Dock Green you would have to explain to your kids today. Policeman were cuddly and were walking the street and probably knew your mum and dad and there wasn’t a murder every show it was calmer TV. Match of the Day is still here and the big difference being more football back in the 1970s and less analysing and less cameras.
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