My 70's TV Childhood

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All Creatures Great and Small🐾

2026-11-1024:01

This week, I'm exploring one of the 1970s most beloved television programmes - "All Creatures Great and Small." Inspired by my recent experience with expensive veterinary bills for one of our cats, this episode reflects on how dramatically our attitudes towards pets and animal care have changed since the 1970s. I begin with my childhood memories of pets at our Victorian vicarage in Padgate, from Flopsy the escape-artist rabbit who repeatedly ran off to join wild rabbits on the old RAF base, t...

Quiz #81: Remember, Remember the 5th of November

2026-11-0316:51

Hello, you lovely lot, and welcome to the My 70s TV Childhood Quiz, the trivia quiz from the classic British TV podcast that looks back at growing up in 1970s Britain. With Bonfire Night just around the corner, this time we open with fireworks: the adverts, the Firework Code and the public information films that put the fear of God into us every November. So grab a pen, some paper and a brew, and let's see how you get on. What to Expect Round 1: Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Bonf...

It's A Knockout? Giant Penguins, Soggy Costumes and the Fil Rouge

2026-10-2728:45

Slippery ramps, giant foam costumes, pools of water and a man from Halifax with a whistle. In this episode of My 70s TV Childhood, the classic British TV podcast about growing up in 1970s Britain, I'm looking back at It's A Knockout and its glamorous European big brother, Jeux Sans Frontières. Ordinary people represented their towns while dressed as penguins, teapots and garden sheds, and the rest of us watched from the comfort of a dry sofa. It was one of the shows that shaped a generation, ...

Quiz #80: Animal Magic, the Creatures That Shared Our 70s Childhood

2026-10-2017:20

Hello, you lovely lot, and welcome to the My 70s TV Childhood Quiz, the trivia quiz from the classic British TV podcast that looks back at growing up in 1970s Britain. This time we open with the animals of our childhood telly: cartoon heroes, farmyard favourites and studio pets we all felt were partly ours. Grab a pen, some paper and a brew, and let's see how you get on. What to Expect Round 1: Animal Magic The animals, real and animated, that shared our screens as children.Round 2: Maratho...

Beasts: Nigel Kneale's 1976 Nightmares

2026-10-1325:41

Welcome back to My 70s TV Childhood, the classic British TV podcast about growing up in 1970s Britain and the part television played in our lives. This week we're looking back at Beasts, Nigel Kneale's six-part ITV anthology from 1976. There were no castles or alien planets, just a supermarket, a suburban home, an empty dolphinarium, a country cottage, a pet shop and a film studio. It was scratching behind a wall, rather than anything you actually saw, that followed us up the stairs to ...

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