hehe :) missieri jiehu pjacir li jiftakruh jghallem fuq it Tv. Naqra memorji :)

DFC ratings – I remember those! Looking back, I wonder who viewed the films to rate them? Maybe that was one outlet for them …

no – it’s a simple misprint – it’s the fashion nowadays :)

Yes I remember the cable radio jingle!! And I also remember getting ready for school every morning to the sound of another jingle of a Vincent Scerri radio programme which went “Il-ferrovija muzikali ma’ Vincent Scerri – TOOT TOOOOOOOT!!!”
:-)

Do you also remember how we all used to practically wear the same clothes? Boys and girls alike? At school for PE we all wore those white Chinese gym shoes with green soles, not because they were part of the uniform but because they were practically the only thing around I guess… To go out we’d wear Sanga or Soldini shoes, Spider jeans, identical sweat shirts or T-shirts, and those puffy Red Devil jackets in winter.. and if you were lucky enough to have been able to afford a Benetton/012/Jeans West article you were considered to be the cat’s whiskers!

[Daphne – In 1978/79 ‘cat’s whiskers’ jeans came from Jean Machine in Oxford Street, and were FU’s – the most sought-after being in blue-and-white mattress-ticking, white or pale pink. There was one girl who had a pair of pale pink ones which she wore every weekend, summer and winter, with pride. Thirty years later, I still can’t think of her as anything other than XXXia Pink Jeans.]

[Daphne – Satyrday? Is that a Freudian slip or something?]

Haha – that made me remember that the DFC ratings were the sole criterion by which we chose films – for the diametrical opposite reasons the ratings intended! (Jekk hu ‘H’ tlaqna narawh!) lol!

PO Box Għaxra was the daily request program, where the same songs used to be played day in, day out. Cliff Richard’s “Congratulations” was the most popular 45 incher of the decade!

Daphne: thanks for the link to Pagine 70 … brought back loads of memories. However I would tread carefully when writing about the advent in Malta of colour television. In Italy, the official birthday of tv in glorious colour was Tuesday, 1 February, 1977, a mere four years before it was introduced here. Ok, time is relative (agħmilhom imdendel mis-suf ta’ saqajk erba’ snin!) but we weren’t light years behind our 60-mile-away neighbours neither, as some of us would like to impress upon the younger generations of today!