There were no coloured squares. Colour TV was verboten.

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/

The government was QAMEL.
The jobs were QAMEL.
The schools were QAMEL.
The whole of life was QAMEL.

Albert, I am not saying that Lou has lost his punch. But I do think that his new programme format puts him less in command. I preferred it when he was standing and kept a physical distance from his guests. I actually think his position in the studio was part of it.

You people are so literal. Now I’ll have to deconstruct and explain the picture that I just painted in prose, and I won’t do it, but I’ll say this: Montesin’s programme was the very embodiment of QAMEL.

Everything around us was QAMEL.

The testcard was QAMEL.

The Xandir Malta logo was QAMEL.

The Maltese national coat of arms was QAMEL.

AST Do not forget that there was a very efficient black market , with some well-known characters raking in nice bundles of money by selling chocolates, pasta and colour televisions, Animal Farm in its purest sense.

I can still remember the agonising wait for Garrisons Guerillas as T.V.M. in those days had a very loose understanding of on time and schedule .

The thing is pat, there was nothing innocent in any programme of the period. Everything was tinged with oppression.

We never saw the test cards in colour.

…agreed. In fact it seems that Lou has lost his punch. His questions are not well prepared, guests ignore his invitations (something which would not happen in shows which have weight), and he looks uneasy all the time. Very true what you say, ciccio.

[Daphne – You astonish me, Albert. One minute Lou Bondi is the greatest threat to democracy since Adolf Hitler and Must Be Removed. The next, he’s lost his punch.]