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[Saitch]

Blue Hills.

Gawd……………………………...'By Gwen Meredith. Episode 956,43,124,578,946,461,342,465,444.'

[Bigbjorn]

My grandmother without fail listened to When a Girl Marries, Courtship and Marriage, and Martin's Corner. We kids learned that when at grandma's we did not dare make a sound when grandma was listening to her radio serials.

My favourites were The Sea Rover, Ovaltinees, Greenbottle, Search for the Golden Boomerang, Biggles, Larry Kent, Private Eye, Randy Stone covers the nightbeat. The whole household listened to Dad and Dave.

[DiscoMick]

My father always came in from the farm in time for The Country Hour.
My primary school still had a horse paddock, although I rode a bicycle. Barefoot most of the day at school.
At Coffs High the surfies all did Art because the art room was on the third floor with a nice beach view, so the surfies would disappear when the swell was up.
Kids from Sawtell caught the train from Sydney the 10ks to Coffs in the morning and went home to Sawtell on the train from Brisbane.

[4bee]

My grandmother without fail listened to When a Girl Marries, Courtship and Marriage, and Martin's Corner. We kids learned that when at grandma's we did not dare make a sound when grandma was listening to her radio serials.

My favourites were The Sea Rover, Ovaltinees, Greenbottle, Search for the Golden Boomerang, Biggles, Larry Kent, Private Eye, Randy Stone covers the nightbeat. The whole household listened to Dad and Dave.

Ain't it funny how the kids picked up on that?

Just the other day my eldest & only Grandson sent me, quite out of the blue ( if you can get that colour while working in the Depths of a Copper Mine here) a list of TV Themes that he remembered as a kid when he visited, starting with the ORIGINAL theme from Doctor Who. Brought back some memories as well.


He did say he didn't know why he was thinking about those but thought I'd like a list.

[ChookD2]

Clearly I'm not as .... ummmm.... advanced in years as you lot. Always remember having a telly, you know the one that you had to get up and bang on the top in a particular spot to stop the horizontal lines. The one where every other week someone would be on the roof turning the antenna while some yelled from inside "A BIT MORE....A BIT MORE....STOP!!!....TOO FAR!"

My first recollection of any radio series is this one on our local station in Wollongong. Chickenman. Late 60's early 70's I think.

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[scarry]

We had a little black and White TV with rabbit ear antennas when we were kids.

And we were only allowed to watch the nature shows.My father always used to say i think you kids seem more interested in the advertisements than the show.
He was correct

When Armstrong landed on the moon,our school only had one TV,so we were all crammed in this one area trying to watch it.It was a huge Black and White thing.

[4bee]

Clearly I'm not as .... ummmm.... advanced in years as you lot. Always remember having a telly, you know the one that you had to get up and bang on the top in a particular spot to stop the horizontal lines. The one where every other week someone would be on the roof turning the antenna while some yelled from inside "A BIT MORE....A BIT MORE....STOP!!!....TOO FAR You flamin' idiot Bruce!!"

My first recollection of any radio series is this one on our local station in Wollongong. Chickenman. Late 60's early 70's I think.

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Chickenman was a pre school slot here as I recall. Dunno why, it must have made most kids late.
" Ah Ha I see it all now."

[DiscoMick]

I remember Chickenman. Very funny.

[JDNSW]

Not having grown up with TV - I was in High school when it became available in Australia - and working mostly in places with no TV, I was in my forties before I lived in a house with TV.

[V8Ian]

I remember listening to a crystal radio in bed, with the wire going out the window to make connection with the garden tap.
There wasn't much of interest receivable, to a primary school kid, but I recall spending more than a few nights hearing the background drone of a multi-prop plane, waiting for the pilots to speak. They never did, I eventually found out I was listening to static.