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  • George 1978
    started a topic Steps - Stepping Out once more

    Steps - Stepping Out once more

    Here is something to write about during my "extra hour" of overnight time as a result of the clocks going back: boy-and-girl groups are always popular and exciting to listen to and look at - a mixture of fine talent and sound. In the 1970s there was the Brotherhood of Man; in the 1980s there...
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  • George 1978
    replied to CBBC before CBBC
    Marmalade Atkins did CITV in around 1984, around the earlier part of doing the continuty - I vaugely remember her doing it at the time, but I bet that it was a treat for viewers when she did. She was the only person to do continuuty who probably resembled an average CITV viewer! Danielle Nicholls was...
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  • And here we go again putting them back again once more - I did mine just after midnight (or 11.00 pm as I actually adjusted the clocks to). There is an art to adjusting time on clocks, don't you know? Six clocks and watches in my abode, and until 2.00 am BST (sorry, 1.00 am GMT), I have NOW 70s on the...
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  • Chris Kelly used to be everywhere on ITV in the 1980s, and of course he did Food and Drink on BBC 2. Since the end of the 1990s I believe that he has been a writer, mostly working behind the scenes on TV programmes....
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  • Capes always had that "bearded caveman" look to him wherever he was seen, and I suppose he was seen as a superhero as well, especially to youngsters at a time when movies and comics depicted them so much. In the 1980s he was always seen as the "strongest man in residance" when he...
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  • I wouldn't like eating Dove in the UK as it would taste rather horrible - it is a bit soapy - and not as in soap in the Family Fortunes sense either! Les Dennis asked a contestant to name a soap (opera) and came up with Dove! At least Coronation Street was sponsored by Cadbury's for a few years....
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  • George 1978
    replied to School Punishment
    Either you were well-behaved at school, or (and I am assuming that it was this option) you didn't bother turning up to them....
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  • Up until 1982, Thursday afternoons were made up of regional choices - Little House on the Prairie; Jason of Star Command; Sierra; etc. It wasn't until 1983 when Children's ITV came along that Thursdays was networked as well....
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  • It was always one of those foreign imports which were shown on school holiday mornings - stripped at the same time each weekday morning; rubbing shoulders with repeats of Why Don't You? and Jackanory; Cheggers Goes Pop and something with horses or gymnastics in it.

    Some ITV regions had...
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  • George 1978
    replied to School Bags
    He did indeed - and it reminded me of that book by Gene Kemp that we read in English lessons - Gowie Corby Plays Chicken; the indirect sequel to The Turblent Term of Tyke Tiler. The name "Cricklepit Combined School" comes to mind here - a school which is based on where Kemp worked as a teacher...
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  • It was a common thing in the early 1980s I believe to wallpaper one's exercise books in order to keep them clean, although that phase had gone by the time I started Comprehensive School at the end of the 1980s - my oldest sister used to cover some of her's with knobbly "hallway" wallpaper...
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  • George 1978
    replied to Community Teachers
    It is probably something to do with the fact that European languages such as German are on a Latin scirpt and Indian languages such as Punjabi are obviously not.
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  • George 1978
    replied to Community Teachers
    At my Junior School there was a room called ESL or "English as a Second Language" which was there to support mostly Asian pupils whose first language was not English (and probably did not speak it very much at home) rather than those who were "slow learners" - it must have taken...
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  • George 1978
    replied to Amanda Holden
    Great comedy drama was The Grimleys - Brian Conley was great as PE teacher Doug Digby. Quite ironic that Michael Cronin made a cameo as Geoff "Bullet" Baxter because Conley reminded me so much of him!...
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  • The tired old "the dog ate it" excuse was obviously no good as we didn't own a dog.
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  • I did a scan on my DAB radio and it came up, although I am certain that the station was already on there from a previous year. Usually it starts up in mid-November, and even then, it is just after the newsreaders on the TV stop wearing poppies and fireworks can no longer be heard outside.
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  • George 1978
    replied to Toni Basil
    I was racking my brains as to whether I actually started a thread about Toni Basil on here in the past myself, but now I have found this one, I don't need to... Watching her perform Mickey, I used to think that she was around 16-18 when she performed it in 1982, but as she was born in around 1943, I...
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  • George 1978
    replied to Community Teachers
    That sounds similar to a member of teaching staff who ran a "Special Unit" at my compreensive school - I am certain that both jobs are slightly linkied to each other....
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  • I didn't know that he was married to Rita Coolidge - I found that out when I heard Johnnie Walker's Radio 2 show on Sunday. Amazing how different acts the two were.

    By the way, going slightly off topic: speaking of Johnnie Walker, I was so sorry to hear about his terminal illness and that...
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  • George 1978
    started a topic Community Teachers

    Community Teachers

    Does anyone actually remember what the actual role a "community teacher" was in an Infant, Junior or Primary School? Even now, I am intrigued by the nature of the wording of the job - do they teach the whole community as well as the school which they are based at? Were they like an in-house...
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    Last edited by George 1978; 3 weeks ago.
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