AKICOLJ (well sort of)

[wellinghall]

Was there ever any merit whatsoever in On the Buses?

Does our car have a notice on it inviting overtaking drivers to cut in dangerously close, preferably without indicating?

Was there ever a book more riddled with inconsistencies than The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?

Why, when there are tens of thousands of waxwings in the country, have I still not seen one?

Are there any more questions I should be asking?

Comments

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

You are the severalth person to say just the same thing about BBC v ITV in my presence in the last month (including me myself to someone else). It's a persons-of-a-certain-vintage (and type of parents) thing isn't it?

I still slightly resent not always being allowed Dangermouse as an exception :(

And while I'm at it, Blue Peter isn't what it used to be. Hmph.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Lol, you're quite right! I seem to remember Brideshead Revisited was a sort of watershed. After that it was OK to watch ITV. My mum was very proud of the fact that we had never seen Coronation Street. She's since made up for it by watching every single episode of Eastenders, but that of course is BBC so quite permissible!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Ah. My Mum was consistent in not watching Corrie OR Eastenders (just a bit of Neighbours and Home & Away out of the corner of her eye while I had it on (noting that by the time H&A started the ITV rule wasn't as stringent)).

Someone I talked to last month did think there was a grain of reasonableness to it in that ITV's children's offering at one time was not to the standard of the BBC's overall (e.g. more noisy cartoons & other fayre of often dubious overall quality, and of course adverts for toys, junk food and so on) so I see the parents' original point somewhat - I didn't like my lot watching children's TV with adverts in it either, nor too many versions of pow this and screech that without much plot, however obtained. There are several channels now available for that but also several with halfway decent children's offerings (I think, we're almost grown out of children's telly now. Again. Til I get the flu and watch some!) Now we hardly watch any ads anyway due to the wonder that is the PVR.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember which channels some of my earliest viewing was on. I have a feeling Thunderbirds, Lost in Space and Torchy were all ITV in which case we weren't quite as tuned into BBC as I thought although I'm sure you're right about both the quality and the quantity on the Beeb. Jackanory was followed by two 25 minute programmes before the Magic Roundabout or something similar rounded things off! It all makes for a very interesting trip down memory lane. Oh and the adverts did used to be very irritating!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett were on BBC2 (but that Marina was on ITV). I could be wrong. But I don't remember ads in the middle of Thunderbirds & CS, for example, and they were quite long episodes.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Well, that confirms it then, I didn't start watching ITV until 1981!