Community Teachers

[George 1978]

The tired old "the dog ate it" excuse was obviously no good as we didn't own a dog.

[George 1978]

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]

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...

[George 1978]

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....

[George 1978]

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...

[George 1978]

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...

[George 1978]

More Pinocchio jokes that I can think of:

Did you hear about Pinocchio trying to put a condom on?

He nearly suffocated as a result.


Did you hear about Pinocchio being accused of robbing a bank while wearing a balaclava?

He lied during the...

[George 1978]

I know that some episodes were shown (and repeated) in 1990 - in the Central region they were shown after Children's ITV at 5.10 pm on Fridays, later moving to Mondays. I know that on Good Friday that year (Friday the 13th!) it was on after a showing of the Disney's Dumbo film. Around the time when...

[George 1978]

I thought it was a regular news programme for Northern Ireland back then - probably only used due to The Troubles then?...

[George 1978]

Such a great "mid-1980s - 5.15 pm after Children's ITV and before the News at 5.45" programme to see while having one's tea. Pity that so many of the cast are no longer with us. I would like to see other stuff with the late Conrad Bain in - he was great as main character Philip Drummond in...

[George 1978]

Richard Scarry's name popped into my head just now and thus, I used the search engine to see how many times he has been mentioned on here (one more time as a result of this post). I know that I had his ABC book when I was younger....

[George 1978]

TV Cream was a great website - not long after I first went online in 1999 I spent the early hours of one morning reading the great TV programme entries on their "yellow writing on a black background" pages - I had my favoutite pages. I was even on their forum for a short while.

[George 1978]

At least Walkers Crisps have never been known as "Lays" in the UK.

Funnily enough, the difference between the words marathon and snickers made me think of this: when I watched the London Marathon earlier on this year, they make referece to the "Women's Marathon" - if...

[George 1978]

He also did Pick of the Week for BBC Radio 4 as well - an obituary mentioned that he did it in the 1980s but I am also certain that he was still doing it some weeks in the mid to late 1990s.

[George 1978]

Yes, it was something like this:

5.35 Inside Ulster
6.00 Six O'Clock News
6.35 Neighbours.

One assues that as the regional news was a prominent piece of the TV schedules that Northern Ireland had to do that. I am not too certain why they had an earlier news programme...

[George 1978]

They always shared the same 15 minute slot because Rollo was five minutes long and Bric-a-Brac (first time I had ever heard that word when I watched it back in the day) was ten minutes long. Brian Cant was the presenter of the latter....

[George 1978]

Yes, I did notice that Children's BBC did that on Friday afternoons in the late 1980s, and the TV listings proved that. Great British nostalgia as well.

Sammy's Super T-Shirt was shown in June 1988 according to old TV listings....

[George 1978]

I have always assumed whether that was the first time that both president and Prime Minister had more or less the same first name?

[George 1978]

And he made it to his 100th birthday today! Happy 100th birthday, Mr Former President!

[George 1978]

I just happened to look in the newspaper archive which happened to be one a month before Christmas in 1988 - funnily enough, I saw Snow White with school that year, but it was in October. I looked at the regional listings and it was so fascinating to see familiar names listed back then - some still...