Blast from the past
Sep. 9th, 2015 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953I see from the BBC that Judy Carne has died:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34184529
That takes me back. Sometime in early 1969 my parents started telling me about this new comedy show on BBC-2. But as it went out late on a Sunday night I wasn't allowed to stay up to see it. This was, of course, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
Finally, during the May half-term holiday they let me stay up to see an episode. (That was the same week that Apollo 10 returned to Earth and I saw 2001, A Space Odyssey for the first time.)
And then the BBC started showing it at an earlier time - Wednesday nights just after nine according to the Radio Times archive. It was required viewing in our household, and when we went on holiday to stay with my grandparents in London at the end of July, we insisted on visiting my aunt and uncle on Wednesday evening, as they could get BBC-2 an my grandparents couldn't.
It was one of those shows that everyone was talking about. Well, there were only three channels then. I used to memorise the jokes for school the next day and bought the joke book that came out. Couldn't buy the video of the show back then, of course.
But after a couple of seasons it got very stale and I stopped watching - I was at university by then. And sometime in the eighties as part of a nostalgia binge, the BBC repeated some episodes and I didn't find it funny at all. Conversely, this was also the time the Monty Python started, and I still find a lot of that funny.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34184529
That takes me back. Sometime in early 1969 my parents started telling me about this new comedy show on BBC-2. But as it went out late on a Sunday night I wasn't allowed to stay up to see it. This was, of course, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
Finally, during the May half-term holiday they let me stay up to see an episode. (That was the same week that Apollo 10 returned to Earth and I saw 2001, A Space Odyssey for the first time.)
And then the BBC started showing it at an earlier time - Wednesday nights just after nine according to the Radio Times archive. It was required viewing in our household, and when we went on holiday to stay with my grandparents in London at the end of July, we insisted on visiting my aunt and uncle on Wednesday evening, as they could get BBC-2 an my grandparents couldn't.
It was one of those shows that everyone was talking about. Well, there were only three channels then. I used to memorise the jokes for school the next day and bought the joke book that came out. Couldn't buy the video of the show back then, of course.
But after a couple of seasons it got very stale and I stopped watching - I was at university by then. And sometime in the eighties as part of a nostalgia binge, the BBC repeated some episodes and I didn't find it funny at all. Conversely, this was also the time the Monty Python started, and I still find a lot of that funny.
