I remember being petrified of the opening titles, it didn't set me up for the rest of the programme very well. Good memories? "Aaaaah would that it were, would that it were" 😅
Rather baffled that Mr. Robinson thought Green Onions sounded as though it had been composed and played on a computer! He had NO idea what was to come...
@@PastPresented ok here goes. In 1978 only primitive vcrS were available. We had a Phillips n1700 and we made a terrible recording off the tv. Those went obsolete very fast so we assumed we’d never get a recording. But then some time in the 80s/90s I wrote to the bbc to ask if they had a copy. They replied snootily that they didn’t and that only items of merit were preserved in the archive. A few years passed. Then I came to work one Monday and a colleague said ‘I saw you on tv on Saturday night’. Bbc2 had done a programme called tv hell, which was a full evening of clips from terrible old shows. The clip in which my sister and I featured (with a separate clip of parents who were not ours) was preceded by a screen banner saying ‘warning. Ugly middle class family approaching.’ We were especially amused by being chosen as the best example of kids to go with the chosen parents. Tv hell, incidentally, followed a c4 Saturday night special called tv heaven which was about good old shows rather than terrible ones. Anyway, I wrote to the BBC again and they admitted having one show in the archives and sold us a VHS copy for, I think, £170. This was the first round. I’ve never found the other three episodes in which we appeared. The video, and the story of getting it, has given us all enormous pleasure as well as helping us to realise how ugly and middle class we are.
@@danielpollick339 That sounds extremely cheeky of the BBC. Apart from anything else they should probably have paid you residuals for the _TV Hell_ clip; when we were on ATF we got extra payments for the weekly repeats.
I was a neighbour of the Buswell’s for many years. Mr Buswell was a great advocate of the moleskin trouser, and l, having been convinced by him, have been wearing them ever since. I don’t mind if people laugh and besides, I’m pretty sure they shielded me from Covid!
Robert Robinson now seems quite abrupt as a question master! A favourite show at ours. Comparing then with now, the introductions of the contestants are brief and the ending is wrapped up very quickly. These were days when it was really all about the quiz questions, and what good ones they were. Would that they were the same standard now! :-)
Just like your working class ignorance of Mozart? I was brought up in Glasgow, 100% lower class types, slums, alcoholism, but guess what? my middle class friends were always kind and friendly, AND they liked rock n roll as well as classical, I was the ignorant uneducated, then I got educated, and stopped me being a dick on youtube with my dicky comments on class systemn.
And very nice start music too with it. It seems they altered it later on until the series ended in 1984 at the time. I preferred this music to that one of later on though too! Thank you anyway too.
My god I used to love this program as a lad.... compare the standard and range of questions here to the likes of current "Richard Osman's House of Games". And they say that we're not being "dumbed down"?
When they played “ Green Onions” I bet they didn’t know what the hell it was as in the answers they gave , can’t imagine them grooving to that, more like listening to Beethoven “😂😂😂
Wow, it was that spooky intro I remembered most of all from childhood, those Victorian faces turning around with their toothy grins fascinated and disturbed me in equal measures!
The credit sequence was always striking with the combination of tabla and groovy "Sergeant Pepper" style Edwardiana. Like a lot of 1970s things it seems to walk a narrow line somewhere between cool and a bit creepy.
Ooh yes - definitely a spooky, gothic/horror feel to the opening theme tune. Could also be a John Le Carre type spy thriller theme. Must have been some weird stuff they were smoking that day!!!
Robert Robinson! "Ahh, would that it were, would that it were! Your answer is so close but sadly wrong! I must hand it over to the Twee family from Twickenham!
What a load of middle-class bollocks, thank fuck this is no more. The quiz master reminds me of a sarcastic school teacher who loves the sound of his own voice.
You are therefore the same age as my brother Anthony. I would have been not yet eight, as my birthday is in the summer. Takes me back to junior school!
