Eric and Ernie

"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

The programme was a delight. Victoria Wood was brilliant. But how come
this newsgroup isn't jam-packed with complaints about the technological
anachronisms?

No-one except you likes Morecambe and Wise.

Hope this helps,
-- Richard

I was brought up on Morecambe & Wise and they are good clean or should I say
were, commedians.
Lets see more on TV
Jim

"Bill Wright" wrote in message ...
Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

The programme was a delight. Victoria Wood was brilliant. But how come this newsgroup isn't jam-packed with complaints about the
technological anachronisms?

No-one except you likes Morecambe and Wise.

Hope this helps,
-- Richard
I hate Morecambe and Wise, but the programme was very good. You don't have to like Hitler to enjoy a programme about him.

Bill

Ha. I was going to post something like that using the same analogy, I didn't
in case I upset Mr Godwin :-)

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Graham.

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"David" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Someone needs to look at one of those sites with old tellys on them.

I had several pre-ITV tellys that needed convertors for ITV and they were
14" I think.


These are the sort I recall and referred to ones are on here.

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/r...on+Sets,+1950s

Regards
David

Looking at the link above, the TV that Mum & Dad had when I was a nipper
waas similar to Picture Reference: 10252900 but was badged Decca

I know that the TV engineer had to call and take the set away to put some
tuning coils in the tuner. We were considered posh because we had only 1 of
the 2 TV's in the street.

I also remember that when the picture went off Mum always used to give the
side of the cabinet a good old wallop to get it going again.

Jim

"Mark Carver" wrote in message ...
Bill Wright wrote:

I bet there are lots of people in this group who can say what was wrong with the TV studio scenes.

I recorded the programme, not seen it yet.

However, I did watch the Coronation Street drama-doc on BBC 4. The studio gallery had far too modern looking equipment for 1960,
including ISTR some 00s 1U router control panels in the desk upstand.



Some of that clearly was recorded on the original locations at Quay St.
The walk through the props area looked genuine, and the cast meeting in
Committee Room "A" more so.


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Graham.

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These are the sort I recall and referred to ones are on here.

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/r...on+Sets,+1950s

Regards
David

Looking at the link above, the TV that Mum & Dad had when I was a nipper
waas similar to Picture Reference: 10252900 but was badged Decca

I know that the TV engineer had to call and take the set away to put some
tuning coils in the tuner. We were considered posh because we had only 1 of the 2 TV's in the street.

I also remember that when the picture went off Mum always used to give the
side of the cabinet a good old wallop to get it going again.

Jim

Our first TV was one of these, an HMV, model 1803 I think
http://rabstaff.99k.org/hmv.jpg

Then when ITV came along we stayed loyal to HMV with this 1871
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hismasters_hmv_1871.html

This was probably the first set I ever did any work on. I certainly remember
replacing the "Fireball" tuner.

The set also had a "Metrosil" EHT regulator, but it seemed to work well without it
connected.

When I disposed of it in the mid 80s after 405 switch off it's original CRT had almost as
much emission as it had when new.

--
Graham.

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"David" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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The television set bought new by Eric's parents in 1954 was a late 1940s
model, I think. I remember relatives' tellys that were bought before ITV
started and none of them were less that 12".

Well I think you might have meant to have said "none were greater than 12
inch"
I recall Holme Moss commencing and prior to that used to stand in front of
the local electrical shop window at night looking at a small screen with
very snowy pictures from Sutton Coldfield BBC TV.
When Holme Moss started my uncle was the first to get a TV and that was
for the first Christmas it would have been 10" (or maybe 12")
Grandma was the next with a very small screen less than uncles probably 9
inch. Prior to the Queens coronation she changed to a a 10 or 12 inch.
This was the first time TV sets were run all day, up to this only used 2
hours in an evening.
My parents then got a 12 inch Murphy and this was floor standing all the
others were table models.
No one used inside aerials, all outside of H shape, ours was a later
design of X shape, I recall not all were the now standard coax plug into
the TV set.


We had a Pye V4 for many years. It took 3 Mins 35 seconds to warm up. I
think other models had a similar delay rather than the 20 seconds or so in
the program...

I plan to watch the program on the iplayer.
Regards
David

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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The programme was a delight. Victoria Wood was brilliant. But how come
this newsgroup isn't jam-packed with complaints about the technological
anachronisms? To name but a few:


What surprised me is how long it is since the shows were originally
broadcast.


--
Michael Chare

We had a Pye V4 for many years. It took 3 Mins 35 seconds to warm up. I
think other models had a similar delay rather than the 20 seconds or so in the program...

I'm prepared to concede dramatic licence on that :-)


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Graham.

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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:14:19 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

The programme was a delight. Victoria Wood was brilliant. But how come
this newsgroup isn't jam-packed with complaints about the technological
anachronisms?

No-one except you likes Morecambe and Wise.


I hate Morecambe and Wise, but the programme was very good. You don't
have to like Hitler to enjoy a programme about him.

Just as well as otherwise they could turn off Discovery, Nat Geographic
and
History channel most of the time.

And Yesterday.

--
Max Demian

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:29:52 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

The car that Vic Reeves picked Victoria Wood up in right at the end had
a wrong-looking tax disk. Could it have been a 'vintage vehicle 'disk?

Speaking of Vic Reeves, any idea why he was credited as Jim Moir? I know
it's his real name but does he use that when he's an ac-tor rather than a
comedy performer?
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."