What was on TV the day you were born?

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Spleen
Spleen
Oct 2014
4:46pm, 16 Oct 2014
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Spleen
Newsround Extra - Interview with Karen Barber and Nicky Slater on their hopes in the World Ice Skating Championships
The Secret Garden
Starsky & Hutch

The highlight if I'd been lucid enough to be aware of it would have been Monkey, a translation of the Japanese series Saiyuki. As a long-standing Japanophile it tickles me that the BBC were showing a Journey to the West serial on the day I was born. That must surely have been one of the earliest Japanese TV imports to the West, long before the days of Pokémon, Dragonball Z et al?

Finally, at 9 o' clock there was a ground-breaking documentary on... a driving school. "Somewhere out there are actress Carolyn Allen , screaming whenever things go wrong; Vietnamese boat person Dip Nguyen who, fortunately, has now been persuaded to stop at pedestrian crossings, and instructor Diana Redmond , who smacks pupils when they make mistakes." Oh those crazy Vietnamese boat people, what won't they do?
2 Flat Feet
2 Flat Feet
Oct 2014
5:19pm, 16 Oct 2014
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2 Flat Feet
Grandstand - the Golf :-)
BrianJ
BrianJ
Oct 2014
5:31pm, 16 Oct 2014
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BrianJ
Despite being born in the fifties, mine is familiar - test cricket and Wimbledon
swittle
swittle
Oct 2014
5:41pm, 16 Oct 2014
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swittle
A pot plant.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Oct 2014
5:47pm, 16 Oct 2014
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Derby Tup
A thin layer of black dust (my dad was a coal merchant)
HowFar?
HowFar?
Oct 2014
5:47pm, 16 Oct 2014
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HowFar?
The Black and White Minstrel Show and Call My Bluff
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Oct 2014
5:54pm, 16 Oct 2014
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Derby Tup
Sounds familiar HF? Panorama, Survival, Blue Peter and Magpie might have been on too ;-)
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Oct 2014
5:56pm, 16 Oct 2014
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Velociraptor
Nothing. My mum and dad didn't have a telly until I was nearly two.
oi you
oi you
Oct 2014
5:58pm, 16 Oct 2014
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oi you
Looks like a penguin.
Southcoastpete
Southcoastpete
Oct 2014
6:05pm, 16 Oct 2014
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Southcoastpete
Born on Saturday so -

1120 Weatherman
1125 England v New Zealand 3rd Test from The Oval. And just look at the commentators Richie Benaud

Brian Johnston , Denis Compton Ted Dexter , Colin Milburn

Then onto Grandstand

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Maintained by GordonG
the bbc have published a website where you can see what was on TV the day you were born.

genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

"highlights" for me include:
Blue Peter
Tintin
Steptoe & Son
Co...

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