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| On the 1st September
1939, during a Mickey Mouse cartoon, television was switched off.
There was no warning or announcement, just a blank screen. On the
7th June 1946 the service was reopened with the same cartoon that
was interrupted seven years earlier. Jasmine Bligh opened with, "Hello.....
do you remember me", and Leslie Mitchell added, "As I was
saying before I was so rudely interrupted...". By 1950 there
were 343,882 television sets in Britain. Many parts of the country
could not receive the signal, it was not until 1952 that the west
country was switched on. |
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Sylvia Peters
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Mary Malcolm
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| In the early days of the television we had
announcers to tell us what we were going to watch. Sylvia Peters,
Mary Malcolm and McDonald Hobely would introduce such delights as
'Cafe Continental', 'Roof Top Rendezvous' with Jack Jackson, 'Wit
and Wisdom', with Norman Wisdom, 'How Do You View', with Terry Thomas
and for the ladies 'For The Housewife", an afternoon show that
gave the housewife such useful information as how to renovate a chest
of drawers or how to cook whale meat. |
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