Obscure forgotten moments from telly history that maybe only you remember

I once remember a magic show in which a man crawled I to a box and then disappeared. I wanted to k ow who the man was, and whether he was still.around, but my parents misunderstood me, and thought I was talking about the magician, who by the way was Rolf Harris, and I did get to see more of the so-called magic man, never the one whom the magic man made disappear though. 

Could be a lot of TV memories may be tarnished now, here and there. 

Similarly I remember not quite understanding why the Tardis was bigger on the inside than the outside. My mother used to get excited when Dr Who came on, saying 'Daleks!' and me not knowing what a dalek was - well, I found out.

There is history too - Dad showing us the funeral of Winston Churchill, and why he had been so very important. On the other hand, my parents didn't want us (the kids) to watch local news once, as a Dr King had been invited to come and talk to our school, and it had been televised, they thought that might be upsetting for us. Martin Luther King did look a little like our visitor, and he did attend the uni of the the city we lived in at the time. The headmistress certainly seemed to hold this Dr King in high esteem, anyway.

Later there were the moon landings and that iconic music. 

Crackerjack featured Lesley Crowther and Peter Glaze dancing to 'even the bad times are good' in what looked like black rubber diapers - well, well!  It always sounded like 'bed times' not 'bad times', anyway. 

Good old Crackerjack. I’m old enough to have caught it’s last couple of seasons of the OG run. Stew ‘I could crush a grape’ Francis is the main guy who sticks in the memory from that.

He did this sketch one time where it was his morning routine. I think he woke up I. Bed already in a tracksuit because he was going to work out. Said workout was press-ups. The twist was that these press ups were just him still sat in bed, then pushing his left hand up and down on the bedside cabinet. I legit thought this was comedy genius. I was young to be fair. 

interesting you mentioning the magician. One lost tv moment that still gets quoted occasionally in our family is a Bob Monkhouse off the cuff remark. It was during a thing called ‘opportunity knocks’ around 1987 and he was reminding everyone of the acts and getting a reaction on the clapometer. Anyway, after one of these scores he goes ‘Very good… for a magician’ He’d let slip his opinion that magicians  were the dregs of the entertainment world - even below people impersonating Michael Crawford in a beret or whatever. 

He was a smarmy one, Monkhouse, my mother loathed him. 

Aye he did come over that way a bit. A cousin of mine used to do an impersonation of him that seemed to mainly consist of pretending to hold a question card in an odd undulating way and swallowing hard mid sentence. 

One nice thing about Bob was that after he died his home was found to be a treasure trove of carefully curated film cans and programme recordings going back decades, all meticulously archived and catalogued. His ‘special interest’ as it were. i think some gaps were filled for things thought lost. 

Aye he did come over that way a bit. A cousin of mine used to do an impersonation of him that seemed to mainly consist of pretending to hold a question card in an odd undulating way and swallowing hard mid sentence. 

One nice thing about Bob was that after he died his home was found to be a treasure trove of carefully curated film cans and programme recordings going back decades, all meticulously archived and catalogued. His ‘special interest’ as it were. i think some gaps were filled for things thought lost.