[tizaala]

What are your earliest memories?.... I was born in the January of 1946 but have vivid recollctions of being in my pram and the wicked winter of 1947 , I can remember being taken through the snow to the isolation hospital in an old cream coloured Daimler ambulance when I caught scarlet fever in the big epidemic of 47, it must have been very traumatic to have etched itself in my memory.
Lets see now, on the radio wireless we had :
Forces favourites,
workers play time
listen with mother
Elsie &Dorris Waters
Wilfred Pickles ( give e'm the money Mable )
journey into space
Dick Barton,
Victor Sylvester
Palm Court Hotel
the goon show
Hancocks Half hour
Rays a laugh
Archie Andrews
Max Bygraves
Jimmy Edwards
The Archers
Mrs Dales Diary ( I'm still worried about Jim)
The navy lark
PC49
meet the Huggetts
OK lets see what some of you can come up with...

[Sylvia]

Quatermass and the Pit.?

[tizaala]

Yes Sylvia I think that was about 1953/4 on tv , did you watch ' In Town Tonight' then we had watch with mother  with Muffin the mule & andy pandy ,bill and ben ,

[suziequeue]

In my day it was the clangers, magic roundabout, the herb garden, Hector's house, wacky races, catch the pigeon, marine boy, crystal tips and Alastair, interminable black and white minstrel show, Peyton Place ( the au pairs used to be glued to that)

[Bangbang]

Didn,t have tv till  was 9 

Magpie
space 1999
Captain Scarlett

[Mammyshaz]

The magic roundabout  loved it.

Don't remember living in a caravan on a dairy farm in Anglesey for the first couple of years of life but it must be imprinted on me somewhere as I'm itching to live somewhere like that now  the sheepdog lay under my pram in the field apparently to keep the cows at bay  . Must be where my love of dogs comes from 
Do remember the move into our first house( aged 2)  And the sound of bare floorboards and strange noises of urban life.

First tv was exciting even in b&w.
The sixpence and shilling days 
1 car between full extended family. Grandad as chauffeur

Sorry tizaala and silvia but cannot remember much of you list . Too young 

[Beewyched]

The Wooden Tops & Camberwick Green 

[suziequeue]

TVs going from B&W to colour. I used to sit for ages in front of our TV set waiting for it to change into colour. It never happened!!!.

Waiting outside the sweet shop after school on decimalisation day to receive a new penny.

[Sylvia]

Yes Sylvia I think that was about 1953/4 on tv , did you watch ' In Town Tonight' then we had watch with mother  with Muffin the mule & andy pandy ,bill and ben ,

We didn't have TV, it was on the radio (wireless) on a Sunday evening, I think. Also Journey into Space. Listen with Mother weekday afternoons. I loved Forces Favourites on Sunday mornings

[tizaala]

And childrens favourites with Uncle Mac , the runaway train,  teddybears picnic , Christopher Robin went down on Alice....

[Pedwardine]

Tizaala you're BAD!
I remember being fascinated by the 'dot' on the TV screen and being scared of the girl that used to come up with the blackboard and the clown(?) when there were no programmes on.
I loved Mary, Mungo and Midge, and , what was the programme called with Hartley Hare, had a fluttery eyed ostrich too and lots of clocks' alarms going off all at the same time? Didn't like Doctor Who-always seemed very much a boys' show (Love it now-but then there are yummy doctors in it nowadays  ) I remember hiding behind the sofa when allowed to watch Hammer Horror films. Ragtime I liked, specially the jazzy tiger. Michael Bentine's Potty Time was fab with all the invisible people and explosions. Oooh, The Goodies, bizarre but I liked it-goodie goodie yum yum. Banana Splits - one banana two banana three banana four five bananas make a bunch and so do many more  . Later on does anyone remember Ludwig, a violin playing egg or were my parents slipping me mind altering drugs?
I remember going shopping in Bulwell with my Mum and getting a sugar mouse from the post office, which I found a treasure trove and a sausage  from the butchers.
Eating a whole tin of sweetened condensed milk (bleurgh nowadays), loving pilchards in tomato sauce on toast. Going on trips to the seaside on Bulwell buses with my dad and his friends who worked at the depot and the smell of the depot, very blokey and fuelly.
Shall I stop now! Could go on and on....

[dixie]

Pedwardine, that was Pipkins! Octavia was the ostrich!   Ha ha I remember Ludwig, was he the one who spied on people with binoculars?  I liked bag puss and trumpton too ooh and Mr Ben!  I am the youngest of three so always had hand me downs, I remember my mum taking me to the market and buying me a real afghan coat . I loved it, it was new and all mine!  Happy days

[Pedwardine]

Ah Pipkins, thanks Dixie. That's stopped my brain from being hurty thinking about it.

[suziequeue]

I remember being fascinated by the 'dot' on the TV screen and being scared of the girl that used to come up with the blackboard and the clown(?) when there were no programmes on.

Other space fillers I remember were the one with the spanish peasant asleep on his donkey cart gonig along the road and the garage attendant running along oiling the squeaky wheel as the cart was going past his forecourt.

Also - lots of ones of factory processes - particularly bottles being filled and biscuits being made.

[NormandyMary]

Andy Pandy, The Flowerpot Men, The Wooden Tops (I even had a set of them at home!) Listen with Mother, Womans hour (Mums favourite) Music while you work.
Anybody else remember a programme called Sarah and Hoppity, about a girl with a friend who had a gammy leg. It was lovely and I think it was in ITV in the afternoons.
Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Softly Softly and Emergency Ward 10. Wrestling on a Satruday afternoon with Kent Walton!!