TV listings from the olden days 📺

[Smithy1412]

In some ways it was, in some ways it was not. This proves that...

[Rogg]

Wednesday 28th April 1999.

It's very likely that I watched this Demon Headmaster. After school if it was a school week. 4:35pm on BBC1.
Tomorrow's World has a special epsode about the internet.

[Rogg]

Tomorrow's World has a special epsode about the internet.

The whole ep is here.

[Smithy1412]

Tomorrow's World has a special epsode about the internet.

The whole ep is here.

Fascinating. We all thought at the time that the world was becoming too complex with the internet and new technology, but look at what it's like now! In 30 years I dread to think what it'll all be like

[Rogg]

Fascinating. We all thought at the time that the world was becoming too complex with the internet and new technology, but look at what it's like now! In 30 years I dread to think what it'll all be like

the internet will have been integrated into the human body by then.

There's a Tomorrow's World clip here from 5 years earlier which is also fun. A look at 2023 from 1994.

[Rogg]

Saturday 28th April 1979.

1979 election special of the TV Times, gross. 13p.

Thatcher, Harold Wilson and somebody I think.

[Randall]

David Steel presumably

[Rogg]

Thursday 29th April 1982.

The Littlest Hobo and The Great Egg Race.

A tidy sitcom hour there 8-9pm on BBC1.

[Randall]

Every stop I make
I make a new friend
Can't stay for long
Turn around
I'm gone again

[Rogg]

Every stop I make
I make a new friend
Can't stay for long
Turn around
I'm gone again

Is this The Littlest Hobo? What's it about?

[Smithy1412]

Every stop I make
I make a new friend
Can't stay for long
Turn around
I'm gone again

Is this The Littlest Hobo? What's it about?

The Littlest Hobo was about a German Shepherd with no owner who went all over the place helping people. Strange eh?

[Rogg]

Every stop I make
I make a new friend
Can't stay for long
Turn around
I'm gone again

Is this The Littlest Hobo? What's it about?

The Littlest Hobo was about a German Shepherd with no owner who went all over the place helping people. Strange eh?

Oh no. Sounds heartbreaking.

[Randall]

Every stop I make
I make a new friend
Can't stay for long
Turn around
I'm gone again

Is this The Littlest Hobo? What's it about?

The adventures of a travelling dog

Maybe tomorrow I'll wannt settle down
Until tomorrow
I'll just keep moving on

Derek Griffiths sang it

[Rogg]

The melancholy sounds absolutely ruinous.

[Randall]

Remarkable performance from my memory

[Captain Hobo]

The melancholy sounds absolutely ruinous.

Or in Darts walk on form.

[Rogg]

The melancholy sounds absolutely ruinous.

Or in Darts walk on form.

I'm having difficulty accepting that this exists. Surreal. Do you know of the show itself?

[Captain Hobo]

The melancholy sounds absolutely ruinous.

Or in Darts walk on form.

I'm having difficulty accepting that this exists. Surreal. Do you know of the show itself?

No, was before my time.

I'm pretty sure that's the only time the Hobo appeared on the Euro Tour

[Rogg]

Glad he enjoyed his one adventure. I don't think I've ever seen his face before now and probably never will again.

[Rogg]

Saturday 29th April 1978 on ITV.

The News of the World Championship is back.

Bobby "Bo-Bo" George.