Soap Operas Archives - My 70's TV Childhood

A 70’s View of Australia: Skippy, Rolf and The Young Doctors

Post author:Oliver
Post published:May 9, 2022
Post category:1970's Podcast Public Information Films School Soap Operas Social History Television
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Welcome back to the podcast which celebrates growing up as a child in Britain during the 1970's and the central role that TV played in our lives back then. In this episode we remember how we viewed Australia before Crocodile Dundee, Neighbours and Home and Away made it so glamorous and desirable and before it became the place to go on your gap year. In the 1970's it seemed like a far away place which was a bit like the UK but not quite the same. We remember Aussies on TV like Rolf Harris and Dame Edna Everage, share happy memories…

Soap Suds: Coronation Street and Crossroads

Post author:Oliver Colling
Post published:April 8, 2022
Post category:1970's Podcast Soap Operas Social History Television
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In this episode we remember soaps in the 70's and in particular Coronation Street and Crossroads. How true to life were Ena Sharples and Hilda Ogden and why has Gail not had much luck with men? We look back at Scouse binman Eddie Yates and marvel at how Rita ran a newsagents by day and was a nightclub singer by night. We're also going back to the flimsy walls and fluffed lines of Crossroads. Meg Richardson was really quite scary and did Paul Henry ever find much work after spending years playing Benny Hawkins?

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