Cadbury's Appletree dessert

[George 1978]

True, but considering the fact that Channel 4 are showing a tribute to ONJ, I find it ironic that something that Raymond Briggs has been associated with has been shown on the same channel almost every year since it started in 1982. Also ironic is someone connected with a Snowman happening during a heatwave...

[George 1978]

Funnily enough, earlier on in the week after ONJ's death was announced, I was deliberately looking at the Sky EPG, typing in the word "Grease", expecting one of the channels to show the film as a result, and all I saw was the scheduled showing of the second Grease film from 1982 which was...

[George 1978]

Quite fittingly, I just noticed after posting that it was exactly 50 years this week since that advert appeared in the Daily Mirror. - a great time to have this thread

[George 1978]

I saw an old newspaper advertisement from August 1972 on one of the online archives while I was researching old newspaper advertisements - it was for a non-chocolate product made by Cadbury's called Appletree (one word). It was dried apple dessert mix and was available in apple, raspberry...

[George 1978]

I assumed that the local dairies used to produce small glass milk bottles specially for schools, such as the Coop? Caretaker used to leave milk crate near entrance of the classroom and used to collect it at the end.

[George 1978]

Was this European Folk Tales? Sounds a bit like it.

[George 1978]

It was the first year I have actual memories of - birthdays, Christmas etc. I started Infant School in September 1983 after being in the nursery department the previous year.

It was also the same year that my old constituency got a Conservative MP (and kept him until 1992).

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[George 1978]

Dame Olivia Newton-John, the Cambridge, England-born Australian singer and actress has died from cancer at the age of 73 - a career lasting half a century, and as an actress and a singer, she was perfect to star in musical films. Yes, she was English by birth, and yes, my avatar features her on it in...

[George 1978]

Jackanory seemed to be an obvious guess, but apart from that, the bearded narrator could be Postman Pat author John Cunliffe when he presented Rosie and Jim?...

[George 1978]

Central (and also Yorkshire with a correctly positioned portable aerial and signal booster).

Atmospheric conditions on a couple of occasions sometimes got us Anglia, London and the Meridian/TVS region....

[George 1978]

It's such a sad ending to who was the last surviving OTB cast member - amazing how Doris Hare had outlived Michael Robbins when she was 25 years older than him....

[George 1978]

To Sir With Love was ahead of its time thanks to Poitier - I mentioned it in the thread I made about the film a couple of years ago....

[George 1978]

I don't remember this American sitcom myself, but I am certain that those from the United States would obviously have a better memory of it being on their TV screens - I believe that it ran over there in around 1975-1979-ish and lasted for over 90 episodes - one of the British tabloids mentioned it...