ANDREW: Don’t think I ever watched one episode of Top of the Pops.
CAROLYNE: Oh! Blue Peter! I got a Blue Peter badge. For complaining.
ANDREW: Did you?
CAROLYNE: They gave it to me as a consolation prize because I came down to Brighton to see Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and John Noakes. I was a massive fan of Blue Peter. Every week, when they used to get the Fairy Liquid bottles out, I used to make everything. I was there with all my cereal boxes and polystyrene and that sticky back plastic.
Well, I came down to see them on the London to Brighton – I must have been about nine or ten – and I was so excited to meet them, to go and say hello and get their autographs. And I went up to the car where they were and I think they had minders or something. And they just pushed me away and said, ‘Oh no, no, go away, you can’t meet the presenters,’ and I was so, so upset. I wrote a letter to the BBC and so, as a consolation prize, I got a letter signed by all the Blue Peter cast, and a Blue Peter badge. I really liked Peter Purves, I have to say. John Noakes I wasn’t so keen on, perhaps because he wasn’t so good-looking.
LOUIS: I remember a time when we were watching a film and there was a sex scene or something like that. And I was nine or ten, quite young, and Mum was trying to put her hands over my eyes. And I was thinking, get back, woman. I have to grow up some time.
ANDREW: When’s that time going to come?
CAROLYNE: Yeah. We’re still waiting.
LOUIS: I sometimes put my hands over my own eyes. Still can’t deal with it.
SANDY & SANDRA, BRIXTON
SANDY:Joe 90. Magic Roundabout. Button Moon.
SANDRA:The Osmonds. Hawaii Five-0. Kojak.
SANDY:CHiPs. Stingray!
SANDRA: ‘Mariiiii-naaaa … Aquamariiiii-naaaaa …’
SANDY:Bionic Woman.
SANDRA: All them hardcore things made us as we are today. We didn’t do Bill and Ben and Humpty Dumpty.
THE MOFFATTS, COUNTY DURHAM
MARK: My favourite cartoon when I was a kid was Marine Boy.
BETTY: I used to like things like The Famous Five, and Worzel Gummidge and Doctor Who, even though I was scared of it then.
SCARLETT:Noddy. Johnny Bravo. CatDog. Goosebumps. Robot Wars.
MARK: We used to love Robot Wars.
SCARLETT: Oh, me and my dad were seriously going to do it, weren’t we? We were going to get stuff from work so that we could make one. But we ended up just buying the crappy ones that you made.
BETTY: They used to love Robot Wars.
MARK: With Craig Charles off Red Dwarf. Used to love Red Dwarf.
SCARLETT: Ah, Red Dwarf. Well, actually, as a kid, I am a bit weird, like, I really liked The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Bottom, The Thin Blue Line, stuff like that. Stuff that my friends didn’t really get, and were, like, ‘What is this?’ Because, when I was little, I used to go to my nan’s and I used to watch things like Norman Wisdom and stuff. So I’m a bit weird like that.
