When was your most special time during the week as a kid?
Saturday morning? Saturday night? Sundays? When your comic dropped through the letter box? Tea time? Playing out? Or dare I say, being at school during the day? Being ill? A mixture of many different times?
C'mon readers, let us know.
For little William here in South Wales it would have generally been Friday and Saturday, with Sunday coming in third! Probably Friday night, as that was the beginning of the weekend and NO SCHOOL!
ReplyDeleteIn later 1966, Thunderbirds was on a Sunday afternoon on TWW at 5PM, so the whole weekend was a glorious time. Many of my childhood memories are centered around the weekend, and even to this day the weekend starting on Friday afternoon is the best.
Very poignant Bill. Weekend was THE time for me as well. Weekday evening will have been great but tinged with school looming in the morning. Weekends were sweet liberation and yes, Friday night was the start. Saturday was Pop and crisps night as my Parents called it, although their own pop was considerably stronger than mine! Like you, for me Friday nights are the best of all even now and I often want to celebrate!
DeleteThursday afternoon when school let out. That was when the shop had that week's new comics out on the racks, so rather than head straight home I'd go there instead with no clue about what issues might be arriving that day. If I was especially lucky it might be a new issue of the Avengers (the one with Hawkeye and the Vision, not the one with Emma Peel) or Justice League of America.
ReplyDelete(In later years, when I knew in advance what comics were being released on a given day, I discovered it had been the element of surprise that made finding new comics so much fun. Knowing what to expect before I got to the store may have reduced the number of disappointments, but it was also a lot less enjoyable.)
So did you get Friday's off School Richard?
DeleteNo, we had classes on Friday. Hmm, I should have written a strongly worded letter to the school board complaining about that! ;-) I just mean that at the end of the school day on Thursday I would head for the shop first to see the new comics instead of going straight home as I would any other day.
DeleteSounds cool that Richard, going to the comic shop on the way home. I did the same with a sweet shop where we'd ask for a penny mix! I remember checking out comics on holiday in the newsagents' revolving stands. I'd by Sad Sack, Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Ka Zar, Thor and my favourites, House of Secrets [or was it Mystery?], Where Monsters Dwell and Creatures on the Loose! Happy Days!
DeleteAny evening of the week when one of my favourite tv series (the likes of Space: 1999, Star Trek, Columbo, McCloud, Mary Hartman, Soap, Sapphire & Steel, Hammer House of Horror) was on. Usually my parents had gone to bed as these shows were quite late night, providing a cushion against the school day awaiting next morning. All those scary scenarios when rest of the house was fast asleep! The fondest memories!
ReplyDeleteI have to ask Arto, when did you go to bed then and when did you have to get up for School?
DeleteThose tv shows started usually at 10 p.m. so bedtime was around elevenish. My family was all early birds due to my father's job so I usually got up at 5.30 a.m. (still do). Which gave enough time to do my homework in the mornings before the school strted at 8 a.m.
DeleteYou had very understanding parents Arto! I reckon I only got to stay up that late during the School week when I turned 13 maybe. How did you manage at School on so little sleep? You must have been superhuman!
DeleteDefinietly the weekend. Saturday morning cartoons, Westerns (Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickock, The Cisco Kid, Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, old Roy Rogers and Gene Autry films from the '30s. And then came the old B&W movies; the monster flicks, Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, The Bowery Boys. Okay, gotta go now and have a cry - nuthin' but crap on TV nowadays! :-)
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about TV Ed. We have countless channels on offer and most of them are utter tripe. Is that what viewers really want? We see more and more of US newcomers like Netflix and Amazon making their own series and programmes. You have to pay for these to see them. And occasionally we hear about HBO programmes. What is HBO?
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DeleteHBO (Home Box Office) started as a premium cable movie channel which then started producing it's own content (The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, etc)
Cheers Ed. I've heard good things about HBO and all of those series but not seen any of them. HBO even got a mention in a Joe Jackson song I used to like but can't think what. It was the 1980's after all!
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