What Is The Earliest Tv Programme You Can Remember?

[Stargazer]

I can remember watching a family show, Was it "The Grove Family"? Also Muffin the Mule, Sooty and Sweep and an advert "You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent". Whoever thought that was a good slogan? I also remember the soap powder ads every time citing new and improved for even whiter whites. Makes one wonder what colour white the white items used to be.

[sandyRoe]

Your life in their hands. Maybe in the late 50s?
Nationwide with presenters including Fife Robertson and Malcolm Muggeridge.

[dunnitall]

Oh yes Sandy Roe, remember those well.

[DTCwordfan]

Watch with Mother and Bill and Ben.

On a more serious note, my mater was shaken that at age 7 I picked up on JFK's death, running through to the kitchen to tell her.

[vodkancoke]

The Banana Splits, King Rollo, Pigeon Street and Mr Ben

[cupid04]

The Partridge Family.

[maggiebee]

Kids watched Mary, Mungo and Midge, The Banana Splits and the programme with Bagpuss in it.

[maggiebee]

Forgot The Clangers with the Soup Dragon. Later a pop group called The Soup Dragons.

[grasscarp]

Sorry it was you'll wonder where the yellow went when you clean your teeth with Pepsodent. I had nothing else for many years

[sandyRoe]

The adventures of Robin Hood was the first programme on local commercial telly. The streets would clear of kids when it was on and a fad for bows and arrows started. It's a wonder more eyes weren't put out with all the arrows flying about.

[jim360]

Might be Brum.

[Jeza]

Bill and Ben was a story written by their older sister to entertain them when they were twin boys. They both went on to be market stall holders selling fruit and veg. Useless information I know but true. I don't know how the BBC picked up on the story, maybe someone else does.

[EDDIE51]

Muffin the Mule
(apparently it is still legal in some remote areas of Southern Ireland)
By the way on B&W tv the 'white' items were actually yellow which shows up as 'brighter than white' on a B&W screen. Bit stupid when taken into context with the Pepsodent advert !

[sandyRoe]

No. It's an indictable offence the length and breadth of Ireland is Muffin the Mule.

[Cmitchell]

magic roundabout!

[EDDIE51]

baza Adverts?? not on the early TV remember, there was only BBC the commercial channel was years later.

[FredPuli43]

Andy Pandy. That Looby Loo was a goer, climbing into a box with a bear and a bloke in pyjamas, every show. No wonder they didn't show us kids anything that happened after that.

[EDDIE51]

Cmitchell , did you know the Magic Roundabout was actually a French language program? The 'English' version was NOT a translation of the French original. The producers just looked at the pictures and made up their own story line to fit the action. Normally there was no similarity between the two versions apart from the pictures, the English story was totally different from the French original.

[joggerjayne]

Chigley ?

I'd like to say Camberwick Green, or Trumpton, but I think I was too young. I think I probably remember those from later repeats.