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The early ones with valves probably were the worst! I heard about someone's family getting one as a hand me down from a richer relative, but their Dad didn't like the smell of dust burning on the valves so as soon as they could afford to buy a newer set it was disposed of!

I collected 2-3 of these a few years ago when I was getting interested in old technology. I still have them but most are in storage at the moment.

Until the mid 1980s my family rented a set from Granada, which was replaced by a Philips set my Dad bought on credit.

I remember in one episode at the coffee morning the women discuss the contents of their husband's pockets. Nora mentions Wally used to usually have treats for his pigeons & Ivy reckoned Sid's pockets always seemed to contain two toffees covered in tobacco & fluff!

Luckily the BBC had a gap in their schedule & asked Sullivan if he could dig out a previously rejected idea about a market trader & his younger brother...

Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst.

Smiler.

When breakdancing became popular in the 1980s, many lino shops made a trade of selling offcuts to dancers.

Nora Batty

Dried Date

Zero, Captain.

I remember Highway, Three up Two Down, Kojak & Treasure Hunt. I've heard French Fields in passing, but can't remember watching it.

Triumph Herald

Supposedly the BBC kept at least one set of Foggy's clothes in case Brian Wilde ever wanted to made a return.

I remember there was a drama documentary about Live Aid a few years ago which showed how Bob Geldof ran himself ragged.

I remember they raced 850 estates in the mid 1990s!

My Great Uncle had them in the 1980s & had to give up driving because of them, I think his doctor restricted him to daylight driving but he decided to hand his licence in because he thought his eyesight would keep getting worse.

She was the original Christine Cagney in the telemovie of Cagney & Lacey, but couldn't appear in the TV series because her commitments to MASH.

I liked it when Eli went walking his dog in the countryside & ended up bringing back a sheep!

I remember 2 episode with him playing darts, the first where he threw them into a seat next to the trio & another like the one mentioned above, I think in both cases the background music was like the Bullseye theme!