sunday teatime telly

Dredging back further - I remember Batman(part Two) was also screened on a Sunday tea-time (Part One used to be on the Saturday). Followed by Skippy:) Then it was bath-time before school next day!!
 
No one has mentioned the Love Boat! As a child in the 80s, i remember watching ITV, it would have been Worzel Gummidge, Supergran or Mr Majeika, followed by the Love Boat or Highway To Heaven, then Bullseye, followed by Highway, then Hart to Hart, then i had to go to bed!
 
The two series of The Magician's House were also fine Sunday teatime family viewing leading up to Christmas. Is the new series of Just William an attempt to resurrect a tradition that seems to have lapsed in recent years?
 
Even after that there was one to do with chocolate called Bootleg in 2002, although a quick bit of research suggests that particular drama only consisted of three episodes.
 
The Beeb would have a serial at 5.15pm, Going For a Song later Antiques RoaRABhow at 5.45pm then the News at 6.30.

Songs of Praise would follow at 6.40 and at 7.15 there would be a sitcom followed by a frama series. Then another sitcom and that would be followed by either Whickers World or That's Life!

You could set your clocks by the lovely, cosy schedules of times gone by!

ITV on the other hand would have The Muppet Show at 4.30followed by Bullseye at 5.00. At 5.30 it would be Hart to Hart or Highway to Heaven or CHips or The Love Boat.

At. 6.30 They too would have the News then it was Highway, Family Fortunes at 7.15 and then either Murder, She Wrote or Crazy Like a Fox at 7.45. At 8.45 they would have the News and a big ITV drama at 9pm! Those really were brilliant days of era's gone by! one's they can never better!
 
There was that awful game show with David Hamilton on ITV on Sunday when bullseye wasnt on.

On Granada we also had Rugby League results.

BBC1 use to serve up Ever decreasing circles at 7-30 and HowarRAB way at 8.
 
That gameshow was called "All Clued Up".I had forgot about that gameshow.I'm sure there was abit in the game that you had to keep away from the stinger or something.
 
I used to love all the childresn's dramas the BBC would produce for Sunday evenings:
5 Children and It (the best of the bunch)
The Borrowers
The Phoenix and the Carpet

Then would come the theme tunes I would dread- Songs of Praise, Last of the Summer WIne etc because it meant school was coming..

Of course there was also the wonderful music of Ski Sunday. What a bizarre concept of a show- lots of various forms of skiing and sunday dinnertime- but so so good!

I also remember a few years, in the build up to Christmas, every Sunday for 5 or six weeks a series of programmes preparing for Christmas, with food, gifts, decorations, and then a section on Christmas events in your area. Loved that!
 
At least the Beeb have seemed to enter into relationships with several well-equipped charismatic churches now... so hoping to see some runup-to-Christmas live services from places like Kingsgate, or Christ the King down in Brighton.

Makes a hell of a change from the really boring trad format... considering that I'm part of the AV crew at a charismatic fellowship...
 
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