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From your youth? Don’t have to be iconic as such just things that stuck in your mind. In no particular order:
The Crossroads motel burning down Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin throwing hands over Deirdre. The firemen’s strike of the mid to late 70s and the “green goddess” engines being used The news reports of the two British soldiers who mistakenly drove into the IRA funeral parade.
Zammo licking his smack off the floor after he spilt it on the toilet floor. Simon Groom saying "what a lovely pair of knockers" on Blue Peter. The cubs on the roller.coaster. Seeing jam smeared on a shiny new music disc thing on Tomorrow's World. (Spoiler alert) Everyone dying at the end of Blake's 7. Somebody catching and eating a ghost on tales of the unexpected.
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
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Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 19:38 - Sep 10 with 1681 views
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 16:00 - Sep 10 by ITFC_Forever
Ron Pickering at the end of We Are The Champions .... "Away you go", as all the kids would dive into the swimming pool to play on the inflatables and other swimming pool equipment.
Ron Pickering was my mum's athletics coach way back when . . .
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Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 19:46 - Sep 10 with 1658 views
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 19:37 - Sep 10 by Whos_blue
Zammo licking his smack off the floor after he spilt it on the toilet floor. Simon Groom saying "what a lovely pair of knockers" on Blue Peter. The cubs on the roller.coaster. Seeing jam smeared on a shiny new music disc thing on Tomorrow's World. (Spoiler alert) Everyone dying at the end of Blake's 7. Somebody catching and eating a ghost on tales of the unexpected.
Yes to Tomorrow's World spreading jam on a CD.
Also Brian Jacks doing squat thrusts in Superstars.
John Noakes crying when Shep died.
Mario Kempes 1978 World Cup.
Brian Hanrahan counting them all out and I counting them all back.
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 17:49 - Sep 10 by gainsboroughblue
The coffee ads were like a soap opera in their own right. I do recall this p1sstakeof it.
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Can't find the pishtake version, but there was a coffee advert with Gareth Hunt, in which he shakes his hand with coffee beans in it. The pushes me referred to the wrist action as having a Gareth Hunt
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 20:41 - Sep 10 by Pendejo
Can't find the pishtake version, but there was a coffee advert with Gareth Hunt, in which he shakes his hand with coffee beans in it. The pushes me referred to the wrist action as having a Gareth Hunt
Would it have been on Jasper Carrot's show? He parodied a lot of ads.
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 15:46 - Sep 10 by GlasgowBlue
Sparks performing "This Town Ain't Big Enough For the Both of Us" on Top of the Pops. Everyone at school the next day was asking "Fcuking hell!!! Did you see the bloke who looked like Hitler on TOTP last night"?
Ernest Bishop getting shot on Corrie. We all gathered around the TV at our local youth club to watch it, which was quite surreal.
News report of Ross McWhirter from 'Record Breakers' getting shot by the provos.
Roots.
I'm sure I'll think of more.
The Damned performing ‘Love Song’ on TOTP was jaw dropping for me as a 12 year old.
The Young Ones was unmissable TV in the pre-video era.
The news during the Miners strike shaped my politics for life.
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Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 22:31 - Sep 10 with 1453 views
I happened to be on twitter about 2 minutes after it happened and someone tweeted something along the lines of ‘anyone hear that noise in #Manchester’. I then clicked the hashtag and for the next half an hour there was people tweeting more and more stuff. Anyway one of the tweets was a car dashcam footage of the explosion. It ended up going viral but because I was refreshing twitter, I saw the guy tweet it in live time so to speak and that was the moment it was obvious that it was a bomb. It wasn’t a crash, it wasn’t a speaker falling over as others on twitter thought. Horrific. I turned the news on knowing it was going to break soon and then sat for the next three days obsessed by it. In a really bad way knowing it was kids who would be the victims.
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 19:30 - Sep 10 by Churchman
It was ‘ it’s Friday, it’s five to five’ wasn’t it?
Other iconic tv: The Banana Splits Top Cat Hawaii Five-0 - ‘Book em Danno’
Crackerjack was on around 5pm. From my memory, it was traditionally at 4.55pm (so, 5 to 5), buy it later moved to 5.05pm (5 past 5). I think it may also have been on at 5pm at one point...
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David Hemery winning gold at Mexico 1968. Elephant poo in the Blue Peter studio. 'Evening, all' intro to Dixon of Dock Green. The Goodies' politically sharp sketch about jockeys being second class citizens because of a system known as 'Apart-height'...
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Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 23:59 - Sep 10 with 1371 views
I saw the Bradford fire and Hillsborough disasters unfold on Grandstand when I was early to mid teens. Also remember seeing the Newsround coverage of the Challenger shuttle blow up.
Less doom laden events include: - Michael Thomas’ last minute winner for Arsenal against Liverpool - The aftermath of Ben Johnson’s 100m ‘win’ at the Seoul Olympics - Wimbledon beating Liverpool in the FA Cup final - Dennis Taylor’s win against Steve Davis on the re-spotted black - England losing on penalties to Germany in Italia 90 - Pat Cash climbing into the stands after winning Wimbledon
I really didn’t watch much other than sport as a kid and teenager
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Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 07:27 - Sep 11 with 1308 views
Artists' impressions of the futuristic cars we'd be driving in the year 2000. They were nothing like.
Early Dr Who storylines with William Hartnell as The Doctor, set in medieval Britain.
Watching the 1966 World Cup Q-F England v Argentina and the score-flashes coming in of North Korea taking the lead against Portugal; then 2-0; then 3-0. Then Portugal scored 5. In the England match Rattin being sent off and, afterwards, Alf Ramsey calling the Argentines 'animals' and not letting the England players swap shirts.
Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 08:35 - Sep 11 by Tangledupin_Blue
From the 1960s...
Artists' impressions of the futuristic cars we'd be driving in the year 2000. They were nothing like.
Early Dr Who storylines with William Hartnell as The Doctor, set in medieval Britain.
Watching the 1966 World Cup Q-F England v Argentina and the score-flashes coming in of North Korea taking the lead against Portugal; then 2-0; then 3-0. Then Portugal scored 5. In the England match Rattin being sent off and, afterwards, Alf Ramsey calling the Argentines 'animals' and not letting the England players swap shirts.
Was there much in papers about Nobby Stiles shouldnt play after his booking in one of the matches?
I read somewhere that FA wanted Sir Alf to drop him and Sir Alf threatened to resign
Just wondered how much of a 'thing' that actually was
Daley Thompson winning decathlon at the 1980 Olympics, swearing on live TV when he won Sports Personality of the Year in 1982 and winning gold again in 1984.
Plus Alan Wells winning the 100 metres at the Moscow Olympics, Coe and Ovett in the 800 and 1500 at the same games.
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Inspired by Lucan’s tv thread, what iconic TV moments do you recall on 08:55 - Sep 11 by soupytwist
Daley Thompson winning decathlon at the 1980 Olympics, swearing on live TV when he won Sports Personality of the Year in 1982 and winning gold again in 1984.
Plus Alan Wells winning the 100 metres at the Moscow Olympics, Coe and Ovett in the 800 and 1500 at the same games.
That Moscow Olympic summer was a great coming of age summer for me.
Brilliant stuff.
Were you a Coe or Ovett fan, you had to be one or the other, not both.
Ovett for me.
“Hello, I'm your MP. Actually I'm not. I'm your candidate. Gosh.”
Boris Johnson canvassing in Henley, 2005.
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