Do you remember black and white TV?

@ArtieKat Well you know what they say if you remember the 60's you where not really there ,,,lol

@ArtieKat I remember black and white TV. lol

@oldercanuck1 LOL. I remember the 60s very well but I was only 16 in 1969. I didn't smoke my first joint until the following year

@ArtieKat I only had a joint on Sundays, with gravy

@RuthW69 i never had the pleasure of those pleasures i was in the Canadian military at the time and they did not stand for those activities ,,,, lol ,,,
never heard of a joint and gravy ,,, why gravy ,,,

@RuthW69 I glanced at a profile of somebody earlier in the 18-21 bracket who's a member of the "I remember life before the internet". I wasn't a trailblazer by any stretch of the imagination but I've been online for over 20 years now lol. Was it "Watch With Mother" you remember? 🤣

@ArtieKat i to have been using these tools for a long time ,,, as far back as the late 90's ,,, but never heard of Watch with Mother ,,,

@oldercanuck1 Lots of clips on YouTube of the programmes which were part of that strand. See if I can still remember still. Monday was "Picture Book", Tuesday was "Andy Pandy". Wednesday was"Bill & Ben (the flowerpot men)". Thursday was "Tales Of The Riverbank" and Friday was "The Woodentops (and the biggest spotty dog you ever did see)"

@ArtieKat oh are these shows you watch on the tv when you where young ,,
i was in Canada we did not get many English programing back then ,,, mostly American and few Canadian shows ,, and alone had maybe two stations till we got a antenna on the roof ,,,

@oldercanuck1 [quote]had maybe two stations till we got a antenna on the roof[/quote] Until 1964 in the UK we only had 2 TV stations regardless of what aerial we had on the roof!🤣

@ArtieKat oh ok so you where no better than us ,,,lol ,,, mind when we moved close to the US border then we got lots ,,, lol

@oldercanuck1 But what was the [b][i]quality[/i][/b] of the programmes like?

@ArtieKat So you got Canadian programing as well ,,,lol

@oldercanuck1 Even now we get very few Canadian programmes in the UK - rather surprisingly.

@ArtieKat some is good yes i agree ,, but mostly crape that is only on because it has to have so much Cdn content ,,,,

@ArtieKat I remember when the BBC2 aerials appeared. Up until then they had been a 'X' or 'H' pattern; then these fine-toothed things started to appear. We had a 'dual-standard' set at home; you could compare the difference between 625-line (BBC2) and 405-line (the others). 405-line was only finally discontinued in 1985 - which meant that if you'd bounght a set in 1936 you could have been using it up until then! Well, in theory, anyway...

@oldercanuck1 We used to be able to tell if was Canadian in the first few seconds. We would say 'aww this looks Canadian" lol

@JimboSaturn Yes i remember ,,, lol ,, we do the same now with commercials ,, you can really tell them apart ,,, lol

@oldercanuck1
i remember when TV was just a rumor; and my fiancée's parent's first set, (7 inch!) purchased for the queen's coronation. My kids were born in the 60s so yes, I was there. Good times but I think maybe the 70's were even better - very open & tolerant and the future was looking hopeful. Changed days!

@Really LOL you got me ,, our set was not much bigger i was three ,,, yes things have changer some for the good some for well lets wait and see ,,, but does not look good ,,,