Memories of Childhood

(01-02-2019 17:53 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Grandstand was for me THE sports show to watch on a Saturday especially the football results service typewriter giving out the scores. I remember watching World of Sport with Dickie Davies and like Grandstand they showed some diverse sport but the most memorable on BOTH channels was when Eric Morecambe came in and just took the places and presenters apart. He had everyone laughing with his antics. Reg used to do boxing and once they showed him women boxing which was nothing to what it is today and he was disgusted and said it would never catch on. I wonder what he would make of it now. Never liked wrestling, and when in 1980 some clever so decided to cover the Olympics from Moscow it was awful, no wonder the BBC are better trusted with the big stuff than ITV.

We would always watch Grandstand until it was time for the ‘Professional Wrestling’, more for the amusement factor of watching Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks etc...with Ken Walton commentating, with his bewildering descriptions of the holds that were being performed by the ‘competitors’ in the ring...stuff like ‘folding cross press’ ‘half nelson’...while the grannies watching on in the audience looked like they were getting more of a thrill from the bout than they’d had at home for the past 30 years...

Two falls or a submission...

well, well well look what i found on Amazion UK : -

https://www.bing.com/aclick?ld=e3AXTWVbb...22dde7500a

Doesn't load the page mate.
I think that's what everyone used to do, probably to avoid the Racing or some other long event but it is interesting to see how many different sports once shown on Grandstand now is shown all over places like SKY(motor-racing, ice skating(unless Winter Olympics), Touring car racing etc)

Who was it who originally did the football results on WOS? I know his name was Bob

(01-02-2019 22:30 )babelover48 Wrote:  Who was it who originally did the football results on WOS? I know his name was Bob

Bob Colston according to a quick search of Google.

When ITV went on strike it was good because they used to show re-runs of SHELLEY with Hywel Bennett which was one of my favourite shows on there. Good whistling theme tune too.

Another kids programme of the past was ASK ASPEL where Michael Aspel would take children's requests to see clips of programmes and read them out. Sometimes he would have special guests-one was Kate Bush. Theme tune was done by Rick Wakeman of YES! He used to get a huge postbag every week and he tells a story that he was out one day and child spotted him in the street, rushed over to him and said "Hello Ask!" You can find the theme and dozens of others here:
https://www.tvcream.co.uk/themes/tv-themes-a-e/

I've love to get hold of the full version of that theme, been searching for years, not sure it ever appeared on any album. I think it was a child's version of Points of View.

I started drawing cartoons at primary school thanks to a friend of mine that one snowy day decided to copy a Shiver and Shake cover. I was an avid viewer of many programmes like Vision On, Take Hart(one of my childhood heroes Tony Hart) and RH's Cartoon Time and later RH's Cartoon Club which I joined.

(02-02-2019 00:44 )GreenMachine Wrote:  I started drawing cartoons at primary school thanks to a friend of mine that one snowy day decided to copy a Shiver and Shake cover. I was an avid viewer of many programmes like Vision On, Take Hart(one of my childhood heroes Tony Hart) and RH's Cartoon Time and later RH's Cartoon Club which I joined.

I couldn’t believe it when I learned that Vision On ended 43 years ago. The last programme televised was on 11th May 1976. We were still in Junior School for goodness sake! I was utterly convinced that it was more recent than that.