I loved Kenny Everett. As a kid that DIY man he did that always used to injure himself had me in stitches. There was one where he did cooking and when using a hand held whisk on a circular table, ended up flying round and round the table and then out of the window. I was unable to find that on on YouTube.
I liked the singing vicar that had huge hands, he was so funny. I also liked the punk guy he played, Sid something i think?
He also did a funny impression of DLT but it's not on YouTube.
The punk guy was Gizzard Puke. Sid Snot was like an old rock and roll fan. I think Gizzard Puke came after and replaced him?
Reg Prescott (the DIY guy) was great :)
The gospel evangelist character was Brother Lee Love.
I used to love The Kenny Everett Show. It had a lot of that anarchic humour that made The Young Ones brilliant and it just seemed really naughty at the time.
All i remember about that was the naked lady dancing!
I was never allowed to watch it as it 'for grown ups only' :D
I saw her interviewed recently. I seem to remember she was related to the producer or something. She wore a bodysuit and was covered head-to-toe in paint so that she'd show up in higher contrast on the film. She didn't have the music to dance to either, so it's a clever bit of editing, particularly the multiple-overlay effect - but basically a rip-off of a James Bond opening done on a bargain-basement TV budget.
Not only did we have a wooden telly, the one we had was full of valves until we replaced it in about 1990 or thereabouts. When you turned it off the glowing red, green, blue dots in the screen would persist and spread for a good 5 minutes. When you turned it on, the sound would ramp up first (I guess the valves in the audio part were smaller and heated up quicker), and then the picture would start growing on the screen as the rest of the valves got up to temperature.
The picture was always dreadful, at most we could get three of four channels at any one time, we lived in a valley and the signal was weak and beset by reflections off the surrounding hills. The TV wasn't very sensitive, in particular it'd lose vertical sync quite often, and the picture would start rolling.
I don't remember our main TV being wooden, i remember it being made of plastic but my mum and dad had a big wooden TV in the bedroom, it had valves inside it. You had to move the aerial to get a decent picture, especially if it was bad weather outside, i think they sold it around 1995ish.
But seriously I didn't always have it, but I got an old Baird brand TV that weighed about as much as a small car with a huge screen on it, I think it died in about 2003, but it was in my ma's bedroom by then. I think I'd bought myself a new one?
We did however have a black and white TV up until about 1987, and then our colour was a portable, and I didn't get a colour TV til' about 1991.
I literally don't think we got a big TV in the living room til' about 1997?
We literally did have a black and white TV from the late 60's that was my granddads, had slider switches for the brightness, contrast and volume, and a dial for tuning in the channels, the aerial was attached to it as well, eventually it snapped off :))
Fortunately it had a socket in the back that could have something plugged into it.
If I'd have had any means of bringing that old TV back to the US with me I'd have done it, that thing was practically a family heirloom :))
I had a small black & white TV in my bedroom that i got for xmas 1984, think it was a Sanyo. There was a dial on it to change the channels (like the ones on old radios). A few years later i used it for my speccy, i didn't see colour games until 1992 when i got a colour portable :D
I had a small black & white TV in my bedroom that i got for xmas 1984, think it was a Sanyo. There was a dial on it to change the channels (like the ones on old radios). A few years later i used it for my speccy, i didn't see colour games until 1992 when i got a colour portable :D
Me and my sister shared one of those black and white ones with dials which we used with the speccy for years. Later on we were sometimes allowed to use the 'big' colour telly in the living room. The joy of being able to select the colour option on Computer Scrabble. It made you feel like a king :)
If I'd have had any means of bringing that old TV back to the US with me I'd have done it, that thing was practically a family heirloom :))
It probably would not have worked. Old CRT's relied on there being 50Hz AC, which helped it achieve 25 frames per second.
The US has their electric a 60hz AC which is why all NTSC televisions of the USA have 30 frames per second.
In the late 80s early 90's I had a little Black and White thing called a Vega with a 7" Screen. I remember although we lived in the Central Region I was able to pick up TVS on it and found that their Saturday and Friday nights were better then ours.
In the late 80s early 90's I had a little Black and White thing called a Vega with a 7" Screen. I remember although we lived in the Central Region I was able to pick up TVS on it and found that their Saturday and Friday nights were better then ours.
Living in a high point of Lincolnshire, our region is coverd by Carlton, the former Central east midlands. In the old analogue days we could also recieve stations from the Yorkshire/BBC look north region, and a slightly fuzzy reception from the Anglia region. Signal strengh here is mad though. Once I tryed to tune a shadowy picture on my Pye tv with a set-top aerial I brought for it. No matter how much moving the aerial around it made no difference to the picture at all. I then noticed the aerial wasn't plug into my betamax vcr, and the tv was using just the rf lead from the tv to vcr as an aerial, and was getting near excellent reception from it too.
Something i remembered about the black and white TV portable was that i could still pick up TV channels when the Spectrum was plugged in (although the picture was a bit fuzzy) so i could watch tv shows while waiting for a game to load :D
B&W tellies could "decode" the picture at lower signal levels as they did not need, nor care about the colour information.
In addition, they often had more sensitive tuners, because they were likely to be used with crap aerials. Normal indoor sets were expected to be used with a good quality roof mounted aerial.
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Re the test card....It always gave me the willies....WHY you ask...
Well I never saw the clown doll as a doll....I always saw it as two heads (one on top of the other)
the first head is the clowns (shudder)
and the second head below the first is a green skull looking at the girl (the clowns body)
Honestly that's what I saw as a child......I.m glad I never took that Rorschach test. I would of got the Electric Chair.
I always saw it as that actually.. I only saw different when you mentioned it ! :-0
We had an old wooden portable TV with a dial - I think it was a Sony - it was our living room TV for a good while from the late 70s into the early 80s, when we replaced it with a plastic ITT Nokia portable with push buttons and it became my Speccy TV.
We got a full size Fidelity (wooden effect) TV in about '85 (from Rumbelows!), and the ITT went into my parents' room.
Got a good run out of that little wooden one with the dial, though. It broke at some point, but my Dad managed to fix it and it went on working fine for many years after that. I think it finally broke again around 2000, and we figured it had done its duty and took it to the dump.
Do or did the European or other international TV broacasters have the same levels of affection for their test cards, or is this just a British Anorack sensibility.
oooh that's a point, remember Parker Jackets and how just for fun we would wear them inside out exposing the orange lining.
I know I've discussed this classic on the forum before, but seems like a good time to mention it again!
And is there going to be any radio stations left after a nuclear bomb has been dropped? Or any people for that matter?
That advert was dumb beyond words and insults most people's intelligence. :))
I know I've discussed this classic on the forum before, but seems like a good time to mention it again!
And is there going to be any radio stations left after a nuclear bomb has been dropped? Or any people for that matter?
That advert was dumb beyond words and insults most people's intelligence. :))
No not really, there are/were a lot of Bunkers around the UK that had broadcast facilities. They could broadcast in Medium Wave. 5 to 10kw would have reached the whole country. Instead, they used these broadcast towers as part of the Jamming effort against Pirate Radio Stations.
What always seemed weird to me was the idea they were pushing that most two-story houses have a room without windows in the centre of the ground floor.. I don't think I've ever seen that.
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I liked the singing vicar that had huge hands, he was so funny. I also liked the punk guy he played, Sid something i think?
He also did a funny impression of DLT but it's not on YouTube.
Reg Prescott (the DIY guy) was great :)
The gospel evangelist character was Brother Lee Love.
I used to love The Kenny Everett Show. It had a lot of that anarchic humour that made The Young Ones brilliant and it just seemed really naughty at the time.
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The picture was always dreadful, at most we could get three of four channels at any one time, we lived in a valley and the signal was weak and beset by reflections off the surrounding hills. The TV wasn't very sensitive, in particular it'd lose vertical sync quite often, and the picture would start rolling.
Worked fine with a Speccy though.
But seriously I didn't always have it, but I got an old Baird brand TV that weighed about as much as a small car with a huge screen on it, I think it died in about 2003, but it was in my ma's bedroom by then. I think I'd bought myself a new one?
We did however have a black and white TV up until about 1987, and then our colour was a portable, and I didn't get a colour TV til' about 1991.
I literally don't think we got a big TV in the living room til' about 1997?
We literally did have a black and white TV from the late 60's that was my granddads, had slider switches for the brightness, contrast and volume, and a dial for tuning in the channels, the aerial was attached to it as well, eventually it snapped off :))
Fortunately it had a socket in the back that could have something plugged into it.
If I'd have had any means of bringing that old TV back to the US with me I'd have done it, that thing was practically a family heirloom :))
The Changes. It thrilled me and freaked me out all at the same time. Brilliant stuff.
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It probably would not have worked. Old CRT's relied on there being 50Hz AC, which helped it achieve 25 frames per second.
The US has their electric a 60hz AC which is why all NTSC televisions of the USA have 30 frames per second.
In the late 80s early 90's I had a little Black and White thing called a Vega with a 7" Screen. I remember although we lived in the Central Region I was able to pick up TVS on it and found that their Saturday and Friday nights were better then ours.
Living in a high point of Lincolnshire, our region is coverd by Carlton, the former Central east midlands. In the old analogue days we could also recieve stations from the Yorkshire/BBC look north region, and a slightly fuzzy reception from the Anglia region. Signal strengh here is mad though. Once I tryed to tune a shadowy picture on my Pye tv with a set-top aerial I brought for it. No matter how much moving the aerial around it made no difference to the picture at all. I then noticed the aerial wasn't plug into my betamax vcr, and the tv was using just the rf lead from the tv to vcr as an aerial, and was getting near excellent reception from it too.
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In addition, they often had more sensitive tuners, because they were likely to be used with crap aerials. Normal indoor sets were expected to be used with a good quality roof mounted aerial.
Mark
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
nah it was just yours, you must have lived near the transmitter, or in very good sight of it.
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I always saw it as that actually.. I only saw different when you mentioned it ! :-0
We had an old wooden portable TV with a dial - I think it was a Sony - it was our living room TV for a good while from the late 70s into the early 80s, when we replaced it with a plastic ITT Nokia portable with push buttons and it became my Speccy TV.
We got a full size Fidelity (wooden effect) TV in about '85 (from Rumbelows!), and the ITT went into my parents' room.
Got a good run out of that little wooden one with the dial, though. It broke at some point, but my Dad managed to fix it and it went on working fine for many years after that. I think it finally broke again around 2000, and we figured it had done its duty and took it to the dump.
and was it any good?
I knew somebody who did.
...and no, it wasn't really.
oooh that's a point, remember Parker Jackets and how just for fun we would wear them inside out exposing the orange lining.
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And is there going to be any radio stations left after a nuclear bomb has been dropped? Or any people for that matter?
That advert was dumb beyond words and insults most people's intelligence. :))
No not really, there are/were a lot of Bunkers around the UK that had broadcast facilities. They could broadcast in Medium Wave. 5 to 10kw would have reached the whole country. Instead, they used these broadcast towers as part of the Jamming effort against Pirate Radio Stations.