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30th Nov 2011, 9:10 pm | #1 |
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Vintage Radios on TV
We were watching May the Best House Win yesterday on ITV and one of the homes featured was that of Peter(Kinnaird?), a Radio Collector, in Worcestershire. He had a very nice collection of Roberts and Hacker valve and transistor sets and it showed him restoring one in his workshops.
He also won the competition for the "Best House". If you can tolerate the adverts, you can see it again here.
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30th Nov 2011, 10:10 pm | #3 |
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Re: Vintage Radios on TV
I thought he might have been.
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30th Nov 2011, 10:18 pm | #4 |
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Thanks for that Avro, don't normally watch telly, but that was the best laugh I have had for ages,a pitty Peter didn't have a trap door on the bridge.
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30th Nov 2011, 10:19 pm | #5 |
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Re: Vintage Radios on TV
...and you can count on me to invest the prize money on some more radios...although my wife does seem to feel I have enough...as she does shoes!
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30th Nov 2011, 10:40 pm | #6 |
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What an unremittingly awful program. Tasteless, pretentious and completely devoid of merit. The only faintly redeeming feature was Peter's collection of radios. Where do they find such a disparate collection of disfunctional, socially inadequate yet pompous misfits to populate these fatuous pieces of televisual detritus?
Reminds me of why I don't watch television. TimR
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30th Nov 2011, 10:47 pm | #7 |
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Yes, some of it can be pretty ropey, but while doing up our house it gave us some good ideas of what to do, but mostly what not to do.
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Steptoe & Son
Hi just been watching Steptoe & Son on the yesterday channel & there is a lot of nice old radios in the back round regards Bob
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25th Dec 2016, 1:17 am | #9 |
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They were plentiful and not much regarded or valued then, I seem to think there was a round one in one of the shows, till death do us part maybe.
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25th Dec 2016, 12:05 pm | #10 |
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They obtain these sets from places like reclamation centres and most likely borrow them from museums around the country. There is one on a sideboard in coronation street.
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And Now Radio 4 will Explode.
Monty Python Series 2 Episode 9 An extreme case of a faulty coupling cap? Cheers Mike T
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Re: Steptoe & Son
The one I remember in the background of steptoe and son was an old bakelite philco. It had to be bakelite because the compound curved top would have cost a fortune in wood. I'm afraid I didn't like the programme and it rubbed off on that set.
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Hi, did anyone notice the record player in the christmas Steptoe and son lastnight. It was two tone grey in colour but I couldn't make out the name.
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25th Dec 2016, 7:21 pm | #14 |
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No, probably a Rifa mains filter cap!
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A few times my radios have been use, which is rather nice when seen on TV. You'll see my little Bakelite set at the start of this clip- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03c45n1
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Re: Steptoe & Son
The other day I watched the Steptoe episode 'Diploma' in which Harold decides to become a TV engineer. He spends a lot of the episode working on a valve TV chassis. Does anyone know if it was a genuine TV or just something put together for the show? The CRT looked a bit precariously balanced to me...
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13th May 2017, 10:39 am | #17 |
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Re: Vintage Radios on TV
A plethora of old sets just popped up on a re-run of 'Secret Army' on the Yesterday channel.
Low on budget, but quite High on acting. Too accurate and earthy to be very popular at the time I imagine, but I hope it's going to get a full re-run. Brilliant. |
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It's ironic that it's less well known than "Allo Allo" which was derived from it.
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24th Jul 2017, 12:45 pm | #19 |
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Re: Vintage Radios on TV
Nice Murphy B71/72? set in a BBC News item about female presenters' pay last night. Featured in a vintage section of film about Woman's Hour.
No points scored for a snippet of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' I caught a few weeks back. Gary the time traveller sits down for a WWII Christmas Dinner with an Ekco A147 'Festival' set in the background. Maybe an expensive Christmas gift from the future? SR |