ROY HUDD was your ringleader for this half-remembered Sunday matins showcase for old folk, featuring tea-dances and darning.
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Blue Peter
Thursday, 17.30, CBBCNews this week that Blue Peter are launching a new badge to encourage participation in sport was accompanied in the press release by the more interesting news to us that this programme’s now got a new editor, one Ewan Vinnicombe. We’ll put aside our disappointment at not being headhunted to take the job ourselves and wish him all the best, although research suggests he doesn’t appear to be on Twitter, thus seemingly preventing us from being able to bend his ear and directly influence Blue Peter policy. Meanwhile, last week’s episode came in its entirety from the garden, showing off that it’s quite a versatile space and, despite the fact there’s a tram stop right next to it and a tram appeared to arrive during the programme, is actually quite quiet. The tranquillity of Salford, there.
After the Asian magazine show on a Sunday morning, there were a whole bunch of programmes over the years. I used to get up ridiculously early, watch the end of the testcard, then the selection of Ceefax pages and then suffer the adult niche dross until Playboard Puppet Theatre or Mr Men came on.
On reflection I realise this show was for people in their 60s 70s and 80s … but they actually called it the 6 O 7 O 8 O show. Not sixty seventy eighty show. Was that even worth contributing? Roy Hudd seemed old even back then.
Wow.. for some unknown reason, this show was in my dream last night! Woke up with the whole “6-O,7-O, 8-O show” phrase going through my head. Had to check on here to see if it was imaginary or not!!