I believe there are a certain band of people who had ITV surgically removed from their tv sets 
Loved the ‘wooden tops’ Karen and Andy Pandy, Bill an Ben…
Does anyone else remember when ITV first started, we had to have a little brown converter box on top of the telly so that we could tune in to ITV. We thought we had died and gone to heaven with two channels to choose from!
Aww Pats - if we were male I’d say you were my brother from another mother 
(sister doesn’t rhyme - how sexist is that!)
I loved Spotty Dog the most. I liked Andy Pandy as well and loved Bill and Ben and, not forgetting, Little Weed.
You know when I said earlier in the thread I didn’t watch much telly …
Why ?
Don’t think the Ads were particularly risque in those days 
I liked the Woodentops too and The Flowerpot Men but Andy Pandy irritated me, especially when nobody ever discovered Looby Loo doing stuff on her own
Spare Time
As a family, we mostly watched TV in the evenings after dark. After school, I was allowed to go out and play for an hour or so and then came homework and dinner. If it was still daylight out, I could go back outside and continue playing with my buddies. During summer, I stayed out until my sister or my Mom would find me and get me home. I would go out in the morning and we’d play anything from baseball to basketball, tennis, riding bikes, or just palling around together talking about what we were going to do when we could drive a car or what we were going to be when we grew up. Oh, the dreams! I didn’t quite live up to my own expectations, but I didn’t do too bad either. I only have 2 regrets in my life and that’s pretty good for a guy my age.
I don’t remember the box, our telly just had two buttons to press for the channels. My mum was lazy enough that she wouldn’t get up and press the buttons, she had a big stick that she’d reach forward and press them with the stick
I think many people view ITV as ‘common’ and BBC is for heducated people only
I liked the Woodentops too and The Flowerpot Men but Andy Pandy irritated me, especially when nobody ever discovered Looby Loo doing stuff on her own
I’d forgotten what Looby Loo used to get up to - sneaky little madam
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ooooo the smilies don’t work
Ha-ha…heres one -
Karen - was gonna mention spotty dog :!: Such lovely TV for kids Today - mostly ‘NOISE !’ 
Do you remember getting all excited when the farmer used to leave his garden for the day - and you just knew that Bill and Ben would wake up and then Little Weed, aww so innocent. I agree about today’s programmes for children - to be honest, I don’t think my parents would have let me watch a lot of them; they’d say they were too violent or too sexual (I’m thinking of Hannah Montana and the like) - they wouldn’t have used the word sexual, that would have been sort of muttered …
Ha-ha - yea - I can hear the muttering
Well I really loved them, still watched them as I got older :!:
One American show I did like (much later though) was Lost in Space, did you ever watch that?
Struggling with that one - was it the one with the Robot ! And, Zachery Smith …
Yes, there was a robot (who was always waving his little arms around and shouting ‘warning warning’) and Dr Smith (don’t know his real name) and I thought he was so funny. Didn’t rate the others very much (the stars of the show ), they were a bit boring but I loved the bits with Will (the son), Dr Smith and the robot. Dr Smith used to be rotten to the robot and call him names like ‘you are nothing but a babbling bucket of bolts’
Your description had me laughing and bought back some mems. Good one x
Thank you for the smiley
I’m still waiting for a wren to squeak ‘Jenny’
was it a wren ?
In the late 1950s - there was a very good programme - “all our Yesterdays” - hosted by the late James Cameron - smashing programme!!!
Hi Robert, and welcome to the forum. I’m Canadian, born in '53 and I remember watching Howdy Doody and Captain Kangaroo but we weren’t allowed to watch TV daily. Sunday night was a treat: we got to stay up for Ed Sullivan. There were five of us kids and we had homework every night plus some basic chores. Weekends and summer days were for bike riding, wading in the creek and catching pollywogs, rounding up enough kids for softball in the back yard, building forts in an empty lot. We were pretty fit with biking, climbing trees, playing ball. I’m glad I grew up in that era. Thanks for the reminder. 
Hi rjb a relative newbie here myself a great forum welcome