The Avengers Re-Runs

[andy-hughes]

I have been recording the re-runs of The Avengers on one of the minor TV channels, but I had to delete one to allow the present Mrs Hughes to watch Eastenders, and it has taken all the scheduled recordings off.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find them, and get set up again?

Mrs Peel - you're needed!!!

[bunkmoreland]

When i was 7,I watched The Avengers for the first time at my grandfather's house. It wasn't allowed in ours,and I was all pleased;-). Unfortunately for me,it was the one with the scary robot thing and that night I had a nightmare about it and woke all up screaming! I was banned from watching the Avenger s at Grandpa's! I made an excuse to go to his house at the right time the next week,but even at 7 my lifelong conscience got the better of me,and I went back home! To this day though,I am happiest with control of the remote;-)

[Buenchico]

>>>my lifelong conscience

I've got that problem whenever I listen to Brian Matthew on Radio 2 on Saturday mornings. His 'Saturday Club' used to follow the children's music programme on the Light Programme. I was only allowed to listen to the kids' stuff on the strict understanding that I turned the radio off immediately after it ended. If my mother heard BM's voice she'd run into the room shouting "We don't have THAT sort of so-called music in THIS house!" and I'd be in trouble for the whole of the next week.

So even now I STILL feel guilty every time I listen to BM!

[Jackdaw33]

When I was in the RAF in the late 60s we all used to listen to Ed Stewart and Junior Choice on a Saturday morning.

[bunkmoreland]

lol bueno exactly! It never leaves you;-)But you do enjoy going against it sometimes:-)

[Mamyalynne]

Two-Way Family Favourites on Sundays.


Much later listening to Radio Luxembourg and feeling dangerous.

[bunkmoreland]

oh yes jackdaw,junior choice was a big thing then! Stewpot ruled!

[Buenchico]

>>>we all used to listen to Ed Stewart and Junior Choice on a Saturday morning

Regrettably, Jackdaw33, it was around that time that children seemed to lose some of their childhood. Up until then the children's Saturday morning programme had been filled with songs such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "You're a Pink Toothbrush", "Nelly the Elephant" and "Sparky's Magic Piano". During the 60s the requests were gradually taken over by songs from the Beatles, Herman's Hermits, etc, meaning that the programme lost its identity as a specific children's programme.

[Jackdaw33]

...and after that 'Round the Horne'. Ooh, Mister 'Orne, bona to vader yer dolly old eke.'

[Buenchico]

It was actually illegal to do so, Mamyalynne, because the 1949 Broadcasting Act said that you could (upon purchasing a radio licence) only listen to authorised broadcasting stations and radio amateurs. Radio Luxembourg operated on frequencies which weren't 'authorised' under international broadcasting agreements, so listening to it (and, later, to the pop pirates) was technically breaking the law!

[Buenchico]

Jackdaw33:
You might be interested in my favourite online station, ROK Radio's British Comedy Channel.

Schedule here:
http://rokradio.com/british-comedy-channel-program-guide/

Link to listen to it here:
http://rokradio.com/

[Jackdaw33]

I remember the old wireless set my parents had (valve job, before transistors). On the tuning dial there was a station clearly marked Radio Luxembourg.

[Buenchico]

^^^Correction for pedants:
For '1949 Broadcasting Act' read 'Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949'

[Buenchico]

I'm the proud owner of one of these, Jordyboy ;-)
http://www.g0mqi.co.uk/caroli10.jpg
(Alas though, not obtained through snogging a girl in my car on the top of the cliffs at Walton-on-the-Naze, while flashing our headlights at Radio Caroline's ship - I was too young. I bought mine on board a fully-legal Radio London, having climbed a rope ladder up the side of the ship, when it was broadcasting off Clacton in the 1990s).