Oh, what is wrong with the world??

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    1953 Pye TV.....you little beauty! :smile:
     
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      Did you buy it to watch The Quatermass Experiment? :yikes: Very scary in those days. :heehee:
       
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        No, never all that interested in sci fi. Did listen to Dick Barton on the radio and later The Archers though....in fact, I have listened to The Archers ever since day one.
         
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        Dick Barton was killed off by The Archers in 1951 :sad:

        Journey Into Space started in 1953 and ran for five years.

        They made a stage musical of Dick Barton which has been running, in different episodes, from 2001. I saw one a couple of years ago. Hilarious. :blue thumb:
         
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        I know....we must have been half brain dead in those days, to get hooked on this stuff. :whistle:

        Btw, I was at Grace's barbecue. :snorky:
         
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          Nowt wrong with the Archers :blue thumb:
           
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            All three series still get the occasional re-run on radio 4 extra.
             
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              We, as kids, used to go next door to watch Ouatermass, I used to watch it from behind the settee. We got our first tv in`55 the year commercial telly started. Still listened to The Goons, Round the Horn and The Archers on the wireless though.
               
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                Our old wireless looked something like this.
                 
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                  @David K As you can see, we tend to go off topic quite a lot. :heehee:
                   
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                    I remember making a 'crystal set' with a Cat's Whisker. My first radio :dbgrtmb:
                     
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                    Ah, back in the days when everyone thought that Muffin The Mule was a sexual offence! :biggrin:
                     
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                      Still is - isn't it? :whistle: :heehee:
                       
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                        ....and oral sex was talking about it! :whistle:
                         
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