Showing my age.....

[Itsallaguess]

Probably showing my age a bit here, but just how great was this show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928

Happy Days...

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[Itsallaguess]

'Rockford Files'

<snigger>

Well of course, now you've gone and spoilt it forever. One of my favourite childhood memories.

I hope you're happy.

Itsallaguess

[mike]

Just to rub it in a bit further

The real James Garner ?

hehehe

[PinkDalek]

Don’t know about your age but I enjoyed watching James Scott Bumgarner in Maverick some years before the Rockford Files. The latter was also entertaining and I’m obviously too thick to understand the snigger from trigger.

[maximan]

Your not alone Itsallaguess I loved the programme.
Even watched the re runs.

[tjh290633]

I used to enjoy watching "Animal, vegetables or mineral" with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his phrase "There seems to be an inscription". Still trying to remember the other names, but I fancy that Gilbert Harding was in the chair.

Usually viewed in a pub back room while we enjoyed a pint of cider at 7d a pint, much to the landlord's disgust.

TJH

[scotia]

How about Dick Barton - Special Agent, and Journey Into Space - both on the radio. TV only arrived in Scotland around 1952, and we didn't have a TV until several years after that.
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[PinkDalek]

How about Dick Barton - Special Agent, and Journey Into Space - both on the radio. ...

Isn't this where someone usually mentions the wireless, their old crystal set, the BBC Light Programme and Listen With Mother followed by Mrs Dale's Diary?

[scotia]

How about Dick Barton - Special Agent, and Journey Into Space - both on the radio. ...

Isn't this where someone usually mentions the wireless, their old crystal set, the BBC Light Programme and Listen With Mother followed by Mrs Dale's Diary?

Glad you reminded me! Tickling the crystal with a cats whisker - that should strain the credulity of some of you youngsters. Then I advanced to a single valve, leaky grid detector with reaction.

[Rhyd6]

Oi PD I used to love Mrs. Dales Diary - she was always so worried about Jim. Loved Maverick and The Rockford Files. I don'e understand the "snigger" either.

R6

[PinkDalek]

Oi PD I used to love Mrs. Dales Diary - she was always so worried about Jim. ...

Why the oi, I see no criticism in my reply and was merely being nostalgic?

Noting it was Mrs. Dale and another Jim Dale being a lyricist and actor. Apparently Kenneth Williams wasn’t so keen. Naming it Mrs Dire’s Dreary.

[marronier]

I used to enjoy watching "Animal, vegetables or mineral" with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his phrase "There seems to be an inscription". Still trying to remember the other names, but I fancy that Gilbert Harding was in the chair.

Usually viewed in a pub back room while we enjoyed a pint of cider at 7d a pint, much to the landlord's disgust.

TJH

It was archaeologist Glyn Daniel in the chair.

[stewamax]

When I was a little bit younger, my mother use to sit me and my sister on our potties in front of the wireless (a wooden-veneered pre-war monstrosity) at 1.45 pm to hear “Listen with Mother” on the Light Programme: “dim de dum, dim de dum, dim de dum, dim de dum, dim, dim” followed by “Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…” from Daphne Oxenford.
And the names of the other stations on the yellowing dial: Home Service, Hilversum, Droitwich,…

I remember Mrs Dale’s Diary and the voice of Mrs Dale whose voice sounded exactly like the sharp RP of an elderly memsahib neighbour. But was the programme before or after or part of Women’s Hour?

On the box there was ‘I Love Lucy’ and ‘Muffin the Mule’ in the late afternoon.
But several years later there was Maverick, and I remember my disappointment when it was the turn of Bart (Jack Kelly) and not Brett (James Garner) who played the role with a dry humour and ironic facial expressions – like Roger Moore as Beau (although I don’t remember him at the time).

Happy days.

[melonfool]

Why is 'Rockford Files' funny?

I used to watch it.

Mel

[AleisterCrowley]

I loved it - very memorable theme tune as well- just hearing it takes me back years (and years..)
There was a different answerphone message each week IIRC

[melonfool]

Oh, it's Duke of Argyle's where I come from - ooh, me Dukes are playing up....

Mel

[AleisterCrowley]

Always the Chalfonts around here (not personally)

[madhatter]

Rockford Files = Piles. As in Haemorrhoids.

Thank you. Most illuminating.

Always the Chalfonts around here (not personally)

Posher area, probably.

[Rhyd6]

Farmer's in this neck of the woods.

R6

[tjh290633]

Anybody here who took School Certificate? As I recall, a minimum of five subjects plus English Language were required to get a Certificate initially, but you could add to them later, and eight was the maximum at the first time of asking. Pass, Credit and Distinction were the three grades.

TJH