HERE COME THE DOUBLE DECKERS INTRO 

Same. X

Wouldn't it just

Groundhog Day....but relive 1962 to 1979 for me...happy childhood in Cyprus, great music....the greatest show not on earth.....Apollo.....Sinclair pocket calculator.....tizer........wonderful shows like these......yep the best times......

Couldn’t agree more.

Yes, same here, what I wouldn't do to be sat on the sofa again as a child with my lovely mam and dad watching this again. Lovely memories, happy days, wish so much they were still here.

58 yr old Lancashire lad here...played outside from early morning until the street lights came on in the evening. We did not need parents calling us home at night because we knew when those street lights spluttered into an orange glow it was time to head home for some toast and maybe a chocolate biscuit or two before watching an episode of "Are you being served" and then collapsing into bed utterly exhausted. Happy days sadly long gone.

@@rickogden204 59 year old Londoner here. Yeah we played outside all the time too. Fun memories of applying to and going to Frank's Park Play Scheme every summer holiday with movie shows, pretend Olympic games and inflatables that were so big I couldn't climb on top of them as a nine year old. Mum was working hard and so was Dad but he would do the cooking and would cook me tea, preferably beans and savoury rissoles. As a gay lad I hated "Are You Being Served?" I was more into Survivors or Blake's Seven. I miss those savoury rissoles sooo much. Birds Eye? Findus? Lost in time 😉

Londoner - Croydon to be exact, although literally on the border with Kent (Bromley) so there was a lot of green everywhere. Even though I seem to have an allergic reaction to designs of the 70s, I share the warm childhood memories. Like everyone else here, played outside A LOT. Also played inside with Lego and random "Children discover science" kits. Even when I got the ZX81, I still played outside, riding bikes or rollerskating with friends. Didn't have to worry about weird men doing weird things. Or getting stabbed or mugged. My class at school was populated by children of all races and colors and everyone got on fine (as far as I know). Not saying everyone's experience was like this, but that's how it was for me. Faves of the time were Monkey, Blake's Seven, Sapphire and Steel, Trumpton, Bagpuss, Clangers, Ivor the Engine. Christmas was a magical time. That really sticks out. Not because of the gifts, but because of the atmosphere around that time. Dark cold nights, special things on TV, food in abundance and some which we only had at that time. I miss those Christmases - I think the last special one I had would have been 93 or 94 and only because I was working Panto at the Churchill!!

@@misteral1083 Christmas was a special time for me too. My nan and grandad were piss poor and lived in a tiny terraced house in Plumstead, SE London. My mum's younger brother Peter went on to become a bit of a high flyer in the business world and so when his family moved back to the UK when I was about 7 or 8 the whole closer members of the family used to go to his massive house in Guildford for four days over the Christmas period. There'd be about twenty of us. It was just so much fun. For some reason my fave memory of those years is my Uncle Peter's mother-in-law Vera sitting in a stiff backed chair swigging sherry, smoking like a trooper and laughing with a very distinct honking noise! 😀

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Remember that character in Arabian Knights " size of a ......" Fantastic. Wonderful

Don't forget Rhubarb and Noggin the Nog

If everything is swept under the carpet domestic .....child ..... abuse E T C ye simpler times...... today it is being delt with realistic times

I feel the same way! The best days.

@@PJDJ88 The Double Deckers was one of my fave progs when I was 10 and at school. Smiles all round. But I'm having just as much fun in the here and now. I have great memories from back in the day but would I like to go back there? No, not particularly. I love a bit of nostalgia but I'm happy in 2024. I wish you all best PJD.

@woody Vallallellalunga happy times. When you could be a child and not have to grow up too fast

Times of innocence which I doubt will ever return 🙄

Happy days

As we lived in Scotland the English tv programmes used to start 2 or 3 weeks after we were on holiday but my brother sister and I loved watching this and this brought back memories of long Summer days where holidays lasted forever. Much more innocent and better times back then.

Amen brother

Same!! I had all the episodes on tapes

Generally speaking none of us were spoilt wee bastards back then n probably happier for it.

Perfectly summed up 👍

We didn't have a pot to piss in but those days were magical as a kid

Let's face it, it was the best time to be a kid.

Absolutely, also very poor but very happy times!

My mate at school was nick nsmed dough nut acter dough nut because of similarity , If ever i call him doughnut in front of his employees , he staples ny head to the nearest flip chart so i remember it very well

Yep your old buddy!

Five alive! And it’s cracker kick? I came from school, and the first thing I would look at was crossrroas!

Yes I agree Alan I was born in 1962 and they were happy carefree days.

@@paulreynolds9003 I was 62' too.....

I'm the same age and found it to be the best of times, worst of times. Bad pop music, great weird music. Politically awful. Wonder if the 60s would have been better to grow up in--always feel we just missed a classic era for the little brother era of post-60s. If one could have avoided the draft and enjoyed the drugs and music of the 60s first hand, probably have some wild memories.

Totally agree days of innocence no trouble kids out playing great

@@zaarmczaary8669 How can you say bad pop music.....The 70's.... Motown, Stones and Bowie at their best, the golden age of Heavy Metal, Hotel California, ABBA, and then the Pistols and things were never the same again.....how can you say ...bad....

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Mr and Mrs Anderson were visionaries. Not only with the sci fi stories, but the tech they invented to show them on screen. My childhood was fabtastic! ;-)

It was on on a Friday evening at 4.55pm

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Dear drooper...!! Lol...

"Hey Drooper. Why are you pulling that chain?" "Hyuk. Have you ever tried to push one?"

Ha the Banana splits, had the punk version of the theme tune by 'The Dickies' on Yellow vinyl. 😁

@@augustuscaesar5997 Tar Ra Ra Bum Dee A ?!! and THE SOUR GRAPES.... but my favourite memory is of the four tails hanging out of the back of their Buggies..... and every time Snorky lost his temper!!!!

🎶one banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.🎵

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If I laid in front of the tv I’d probably rock myself to sleep !

I'm glad you said tea up north, I'm a Londoner, tea has always been tea not dinner, and always will be!!!

@@suztunes612 I've lived in both so figured I'd better explain 😂

@@suztunes612 I’m with you I’m down south, we have dinner at lunch time and tea at dinner time and if you have a late breakfast ie between breakfast and dinner then that’s brunch right ? Just thought I’d clear this up.

You must have had your tea early because it was aired on Saturday mornings.

😂😂 same here Robin. And I thought it was just me!

Everyone who is reading these replies...you can hear the theme tune EVERY SUNDAY on BBC RADIO LONDON (94.9 FM) on Gabi Roslyn's show on Sunday afternoon. She uses it as her opening theme!

Me too!

Best days of our lifes......xx

Worm that turned Your right. They were called Alsatians back then. Don't know if they have changed the the name of them now, but they were like the Pit Bulls' of the 70's.

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...or Rumbelows

Ha ha 🤣

Not Fooled The old slot meter tv's lol. Only two channels (BBC1 and ITV) unless you was lucky to have one of the new ones with BBC2 also.

Hah! Radio Rentals, first time we ever got a colour TV and I was the remote control.

Radio Rental HQ was in the next street to were I live next to our working men's club. Worked there for a while until it closed (they were a very good employer). When I tell the youngster in the place I work now, that most people used to rent their telly they look at me in disbelief and when I say may Nan only ever had a black & white TV. Thanks for jogging my memory of some good times.

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He's a very nice fella. I sat next to him and another Aswad member on a flight once.

@@thelastmotel proper gent and still an awesome performer! It was when I heard the band go into a second perfectly executed Aswad tune I thought "wait up" and got myself round to the front of the stage in double quick time! As it was a smaller festival stage it was a perfect opportunity to get round the back and shake him by the hand and thank him for helping me get through the '80s

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Thank you for the comment more saturday morning memories on the way

I used to watch it in Chatham :-)

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We had a colour TV so we were MUCH richer than you.

Same here. B&W telly only so I've never seen this in colour! Nice memories of childhood though.

Pot Black "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"

Where I lived in the countryside we had to wait until 1980 before we had a local transmitter to receive colour tv.

Yeah we only had B&W until 78, watching football was crap ☹️

Happy Birthday Ali🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

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Great comment David, the match would last about 4 hours, scores at least 22-27

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Consider it done...👍

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Very cool!

Same here Jayne it’s really made me smile seeing this for the first time in , don’t like to say it 48 years. Fantastic

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I know the name of Belle and Sebastian but cannot remember what it was about! But that name has brought back memories of another kids show about white horses with the title song going something like “On white horses, snowy white horses, let me ride away’ ? Does anyone remember what that was called?

@@rivermoon6190 think it was what you say it was called. “White horses”, I also remember that and the Flashing blade on a Saturday morning in black and white.

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"Steven Gibson'" I always noticed that a majority( if not all) TV shows , especially kid's programming back then, were somehow a rehash of each other. "The Blue Aardvark" was a rehash of The Pink Panther (cartoon show). There was a show which featured a group of kids called "The Red Hand Gang" which seemed to me to copy from The Double Deckers, even though The Red Hand Gang was not as comical as the Double Deckers. In "The Banana Splits" there was a segment called "Danger Island" which was about a group of boaters (mostly young people) who get lost and have to survive on an island. A few years later there was a kid's TV show with something of the same premise, called " Land of The Lost." Then there was ""Ärc 2" and "Space Academy" which were very much like each other.

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Lol banana splits is my alarm, drives my wife crazy lol.

What's the time cuckoo? how should I know I'm just a cuckoo!!

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In France as well😉

It's kind of funny. I watched this as a kid in UK and you just take it for what it is. But in retrospect it was 100% American made. British shows just weren't like that.

ABC-TV Saturday mornings

Remember this in Ireland, late 60's?

No one else ever remembered this when I would mention it as a show I loved as a kid . So glad to see I wasn’t just imagining it