I never had a telly in my bedroom. None of my friends did in the late Sixties/ Seventies.
Up till 1970 our family TV was black and white.
All the great kids TV like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet was black and white too!
It only went colour at our house for the Mexico 1970 World Cup!
What are your telly memories readers?
I did, a b&w portable, from sometime in the 70's. I asked for one for Christmas, aiming higher than I actually thought possible and got it! It was great. I had a VCR by 1981.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand did not get television until 1960, the year before I was born. Colour TV arrived in late 1973, just in time for the Christchurch Commonwealth Games in 1974. But we had black and white television until at least the late 1970s or early 1980s. Colour TVs were much more expensive than black and white sets, and so was the TV license.
ReplyDeleteNo TV in my room until the early 1990s. First VCR was in 1991.
I didnt have a tv in my room, and my parents didn't have a colour TV 'til I left home to go to polytechnic in1980.
ReplyDeleteI used to go to other kids homes sometimes to watch programmes like Dr Who or UFO in colour.
I eventually got my own colour TV and VCR in 1988.
When Father got our first color TV in 1966, I inherited our old black and white set, which went in my bedroom, and I would stay up late at night with the sound very low so as to not wake the parents, and watch amazing films at 1 am like Attack of the Mushroom People, The Giant Behemoth and The Atomic Submarine! SFZ
ReplyDeleteAfter a couple of tiffs as to who was going to watch what, my dad broke down and bought me a B&W TV for my room (the main TV was a color console type - a behemoth with record player, record storage, and a huge cabinet). After that - no more tiff's! haha
ReplyDeleteMy family had only one TV, a B&W, until the 1970s. We got a big color console in the early 1970s, and by 1975 my parents had another one in their bedroom. I've never had a TV in my own bedroom, to this day.
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