Remember Monday in 1985?

[George 1978]

ITN didn't make any schools programmes either. The closest that LWT did anything relevant to schools and education were the sitcoms Please Sir! and Mind Your Language, as well as a fly-on-the-wall school series called School Days from the late 1990s.

As I said in the other thread, Survival...

[George 1978]

I always think of Emu's World as being on a Friday - apart from EMU-TV in 1989 which I believe was on a Tuesday or a Wednesday....

[George 1978]

Animals in Action, I believe, was made by the same department as where Survival was administrated at Anglia TV. Looking back, John Shackleton's drawings of animals and birds onto a canvas board in the studio does remind me a bit too much of that Australian fellow who died a couple of years ago - TV...

[George 1978]

Just a National Express coach away - I travel around the country at least once a year and so I wouldn't mind travelling there if they still sold them....

[George 1978]

I thought it was either: A) Roland Rat with Errol the Hamster; or: B) The Channel 4 Take Five repeats of Tales of the Riverbank with Hammy Hamster.

They are the two Hamster themed TV programmes that I can think of.

[George 1978]

Matthew Kelly did the continuity for January 1983 - someone I still associated with mainstream TV and not children's TV.

Apart from Friday, the 4.00 pm repeat was the same as midday. Interesting that Madabout which Matthew Kelly presented, was on Thursdays. Was this the first instance...

[George 1978]

No, I am certainly not referring to the UK's Eurovision Song Contest heroes for 2025, but I am referring to remembering a Monday or multiple Mondays in 1985, a few years before the girl group was born; and no doubt that it is sobering to think that 1985 is as distant as the present day now as that year...

[George 1978]

I have a feeling that it was made by one of the smaller ITV companies for Channel 4 such as Grampian or Ulster - something like Make it Pay or Hammer it Home? I know that BBC 2 had a similar programme on at the same time which I believe was on Sunday evenings.

[George 1978]

They probably had dirt and germs on them which could be seen more on a white surface - probably the same reason why doctors wear white coats and not black ones.

Even the toilet at home had a black seat on until it was changed in the early 1990s....

[George 1978]

One assumes that you had no recollection when you were actually on school premises?...

[George 1978]

Thursday 3rd July 2025 would have marked 50 years since Radio Trent first went on the air in Nottingham, and sadly, the death has been announced of John Peters who was not only the first voice to be heard on Radio Trent at 6.00 am on Thursday 3rd July 1975, but he was the first person to be heard on...

[George 1978]

I was thinking about this thread when I saw this news article today:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kv8vxzn99o

I think I knew what Holly had to put up with back then.

[George 1978]

All I can say is that I am glad that Crystal Palace won the FA Cup - Manchester City being punished for defeating Nottingham Forest!...

[George 1978]

Watched the whole lot - all 250 minutes of it! I was glad that Luxembourg made it to the final and was in second position in the show which meant not long to wait. I believe that we could have got over 100 points on jury points alone. No televotes? Come on! We did have a reasonable amount of points...