andy pandy and friends just before the tv went off for the afternoon. I doubt lizzie can go back quite that far, around 1960 I believe !
Twizzle I watched in the late 1950's along with the Wooden Tops, Andy Pandy, and Bill & Ben, and they were the staple diet during Watch with Mother, on at 2pm if I remember correctly every week day.
Oh, and I must not forget The Secret Garden and Billy Bunter!! around 1960.
I remember well Workers Playtime, The Navy Lark and big bands, such as my favourite, Billy Cotton's Band Show played on the radio for the adults at that time c.1958 
Ah! Billy Bunter, spiffing and brilliantly non PC
Now Lizzie, what was the names of the headmaster who was in a spin off show? Big Royal Air force style moustache, gown, mortar board and a cane, bombastic character 
Yes, he was ex-RAF flying Dakota's. He starred in Whacko..........I just cannot at the moment recall his name, although he was always on telly during 1960s&70s.
It will come to me.......I thought he was very funny.......big booming military type voice, but not like Brain Blessed!
It has just come to me; Jimmy Edwards! 
WELL DONE YOU.
Isn't it funny how the youngsters on here only remember things in colour.
Yes indeed Cleggy, and I remember the 1950's and early 1960's in black & white, because everything was! That is how people saw life in black and white, right and wrong, correct or incorrect, and the radio and television was in black and white with not only the picture in the case of the TV, but with the productions on the radio. The cars were mainly black or white, with other colours starting to make their way in due to the American influence, and that applied to the music. Big bands were still in demand, and who remembers them in colour? Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Matt Monroe, Frankie Vaughan, etc, etc, in the pre-Beatles era, were all black and white to us. Only at the cinema did we see wonderful colour, but still there were news reels in black & white along with many Dean & Pearl advertisement "presentations", as the American influence was still coming through! Even my mothers fashions, and my aweful school uniform, was maybe not strictly black & white, but a very drab grey; our shoes were certainly ALWAYS black!!
The first Beatles film,
Hard Day's Night(1964) was in black and white, then BANG from 1965 there WAS colour everywhere! Psychedelic, Technicolor, all one colour (such as in the film
I'm Curious; Yellow c.1969), and every shade of colour from Kings Road, Carnaby Street, all the way out to little villages across the country. Us teenagers suddenly could revel in colour big time, with our clothes, the music, films, the posters on the bedroom walls, and the whole house we lived in, with the family car outside a red, orange, yellow, blue, and maybe all the colours of the rainbow such as on John Lennon's Rolls Royce!
How times have changed, and thank God they did!
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