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What about black & white TV and the only phone you needed to worry about was your house phone

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Hopalong Cassidy was among the first programmes that I watched on our newly acquired tiny black and white tv set

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eyes, Our phone was two cocoa tins connected to each other with a very long piece of string!!

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Browb, the very first programme I ever saw on our newly acquired tiny black and white TV set was Quatermass and the Pit. We were scared out of our wits and hid behind a chair!!

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I don't remember that Art. I was more interested in the cowboys.
Lone Ranger and Tonto, Davy Crockett and the last of the Mohicans, Wyatt Earp etc

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Brow, Yes, I remember all those cowboys but I think I saw them first on the Saturday morning pictures and then later on TV.

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I remember my Grandad getting a little 'box' thingy to get BBC 2 (I think it was). He was proud as punch of it.

I also remember staying at my Nan & Grandad's weekends and Nan turning the gas lamps down to just a glow when I went to bed, because I didn't like the dark. I suppose it was a much the same as the present day 'dimmer switches.'

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The Three Stooges at the pictures Art.
I still find them hilarious.

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Ooh yes, and that lovely Cheyenne Bodie, (Clint Walker). 6'6" and 17 stone.
Still remember him. What was that programme called?

Then there was Rowdy Yates in Rawhide.

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Mups, Do you mean the gas mantles that had the delicate white lantern that disintegrated if you touched them?!