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Obscure forgotten moments from telly history that maybe only you remember

Shardovan

One of these just popped into my head randomly after many years. 

It was a Saturday night, in 198[?] - early 1980s I think. possibly around 1983/4 as I think we hadn't moved house.  

Paul Daniels Magic Show.

Paul (for it was he) says something like  'OK, this next trick requires putting a thought into the mind of all the kids at home. But I need you to come closer to the screen.' I go a bit closer. My sister does too. 'No, closer than that.' We go closer. 'No, I mean - right up to to the screen, close as you can' 

We go right up to it, almost touching. So close you can see the pixels/lines. 

He goes 'Right, that's better. Now, listen quietly, look right at me, and really concentrate'

About two seconds later... massive loud blast of pure static. Result: we ran like hell from the screen. Some other kids must have wet themselves I'm sure. Maybe others had nightmares.

Must have got special permission to do that as it was effectively a simultaneous deliberate cut in transmission with a massive boost in volume.

He did come back on a few seconds later at normal volume to undercut the scare with some bants. Anyway, I have a feeling I might be one of a very few people who remembers that. 

Anyone got something similar? 

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  • As a child approaching adolescence I used to get up early on Saturday from time to time to watch the open university. I remember coming down and turning on the tv in the wee hours of the morning to find some sort of wacky adult gameshow on tv. It had the feel of an outdoors radio show. There were 3 girls wearing bikinis made of semi clear frosted plastic lying on a platforms suspended over 3 tanks full of water filed with creepy crawlies, tadpoles, frogs etc. And their boyfriends were on the top of this lorry with a presenter asking them questions. For each question they got wrong the girl would be lowered closer to the water till she was in it. After that for each question he got wrong she'd have to grab one of the creepy crawlies and stuff it into her bikini. The girls could tap out at any time and the winner was the last couple still in the game.

    I have searched the internet back and forth to find this game or what the show was called. No one seems to remember it or acknowledge it existed.

  • in reply to Peter

    Sounds Japanese - or inspired by their unique brand of telly madness. 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    There was all sorts of madness in the early days of filling the wee small hours. A wild frontier. There was this one where the guy that played Mr Bennett from Tony Hart’s programmes used to wander into takeaways at 1am trying to get some sense out of drunk clubbers on their way home. It was just fever dream levels of weirdness

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  • in reply to Shardovan

    There was all sorts of madness in the early days of filling the wee small hours. A wild frontier. There was this one where the guy that played Mr Bennett from Tony Hart’s programmes used to wander into takeaways at 1am trying to get some sense out of drunk clubbers on their way home. It was just fever dream levels of weirdness

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