Show Notes
Welcome back to My 70s TV Childhood! This week, I'm looking back at what many people reckon is one of the greatest British sitcoms ever made. A sitcom that lasted just 12 episodes, and yet more than 50 years later remains part of the British cultural furniture. We're going to Fawlty Towers. What to Expect: The Real Basil Fawlty: I trace the origins of the show back to 1970, when the Monty Python team stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and John Cleese encountered one of the rudest men h...
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Hello, you lovely lot, and welcome to the My 70s TV Childhood Quiz, the trivia quiz from the classic British TV podcast that looks back at growing up in 1970s Britain. This time we open with the animals of our childhood telly: cartoon heroes, farmyard favourites and studio pets we all felt were partly ours. Grab a pen, some paper and a brew, and let's see how you get on. What to Expect Round 1: Animal Magic The animals, real and animated, that shared our screens as children.Round 2: Maratho...
Welcome back to My 70s TV Childhood, the classic British TV podcast about growing up in 1970s Britain and the part television played in our lives. This week we're looking back at Beasts, Nigel Kneale's six-part ITV anthology from 1976. There were no castles or alien planets, just a supermarket, a suburban home, an empty dolphinarium, a country cottage, a pet shop and a film studio. It was scratching behind a wall, rather than anything you actually saw, that followed us up the stairs to ...
Hello, you lovely lot, and welcome to the My 70s TV Childhood Quiz, the fun trivia quiz from the classic British TV podcast that looks back at growing up in 1970s Britain. This time we start with the scarier side of the schedules. Looking back, I'm surprised we all turned out so normal, or relatively so, given some of the things we were shown at teatime. Grab a pen and paper and your favourite brew (I'm back on tea today) and let's see how you get on. What to Expect Round 1: Suitable for Chil...
Welcome back to My 70s TV Childhood, the classic British TV podcast about growing up in 1970s Britain and the part television played in our lives. So many of you asked about it after our Wonder Woman episode that this week we're looking back at The Incredible Hulk, the programme that gave British children in the late 1970s a rather alarming lesson in anger management. From Bill Bixby's gentle, haunted David Banner to Lou Ferrigno's unforgettable Hulk, it's a show that shaped a generation, one...
Welcome back to the My 70s TV Childhood Quiz. This week Round One takes us into the world of the one-hit wonders of television: shows that had everything going for them, except a second series. Some were cancelled. Some ran out of road. One was pulled after just three episodes. We will give you a description of the show and you have to tell us the name. After that, we have our regular Marathon/Fil Rouge round, the Wheel of Fate landing on 1978 for Name That Tune, and the TV Times general triv...