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Destiny And Six Bananas

I see what you did there.

The Three Astaires

To answer the original question, no, I don't miss the old TV sets. Now, for a lower price you can buy a set that will do much more.

Inventor of the Forty Foot Ferret

And had several big valves ;)

I always remember we rented a TV from a company called multi broadcast in the 70s and 80s . Big box back. 3 channels and you had to get up to change channels. Imagine doing that now !! .

I remember our first colour TV. I was about 6 or so and it was amazing. That day I and my 3 brothers became remote controls for the TV. I'm exaggerating of course although we were handy when the old man got in from work. He always said...

Remember our first set was Rediffusion with the channel changer hard wired to the set and screwed on to the window sill so you had to get up to switch channels. I remember the sets with the stick out pegs which you could pull out and...

The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to...

There is a photo of Seymour on Barry and Glenda’s mantlepiece from series 19. There was often a photo of Edie on Barry and Glenda’s mantelpiece. After Thora Hird passed away there is a new photo of Edie, taken from the series 24 episode...

After Stephen Lewis left the show, Howard was looking for something at Aunties to make himself 'almost disappear', Tom said, 'We did it for Smiler, and you don’t disappear much further than him'. When Tony Capstick (PC2) had died his...

Sadly there seem to be two main camps: One remembers the show and the part the area played in fond terms, I have met some of those people. The others - who I managed to avoid - consider the existence of the show a inconvenience on a...

Whilst watching Pate and Chips this morning. I thought how Roy missed a chance to bring Chips kids into the show as they got older. A new generation of Simmonites . Just a thought

I have often thought this - Chip and Connie could have visited at anytime. In those days I don't think they surveyed audiences like they do now to gauge reactions and if a character is worth keeping in a show - so there wasn't anything...