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It was announced recently that Newsround was being cut back on the BBC.  What you may not know is that in line with Blue Peter, both programmes have been transferred to the CBBC channel.  In the old days, we only had 2 channels BBC and STV and as a child were you a Blue Peter

Another week, another fantastic, challenging Quiz for you to tackle and get the grey matter ‘exercising’. Yesterday we heard that Newsround was being cut back on the BBC.  What you may not know is that in line with Blue Peter, both programmes have been transferred to the CBBC channel.  In the old days, we only

Hello Quizzers and here we go for another week of brain teasers. In the current lockdown with Covid restrictions, not too many new Tv shows and plenty of repeats (more of this in future preambles.  However this week was thinking about some TV imports from the USA in the 1950’s and 1960’s.  The earliest show

Hello Quizzers, changing tact this week in my ‘opening’ and taking you back to children’s TV in the 1960’s.  We only had 2 channels growing up and if my memory serves me correctly, STV was number 10 on the dial.  I would suspect that most of our parents rented their machines from DER or Radio

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Answers below Hello Quizzers , preparing for this weeks ‘challenge’, delved in to the old grey matter and remembered another classic from yesteryear……Top of the Form which ran from 1962 until 1975.  The programme had contestants from Grammar schools throughout the UK and our own Paisley Grammar, got through to the finals in 1976.  The