In Limbo

One thing I think we may have had then;

A black and white T.V. to pick up the gen.

I still remember the shows on the T.V.,

If I'm honest, most didn't appeal to me.

Now out of school, I'd watch just the same.

Contestants playing a stupid and silly game.

Winners take the money or go for a prize;

Audience do this or that, not very wise.

Wilfred Pickles and Miss Carson on the piano.

What it was all about, I still do not know.

Miss Carson, we were much later to meet;

As Ena Sharples on Coronation Street.

Muffin the mule, one for the younger set;

A puppet show you could never forget.

Dixon of Dock Green, a very old copper,

Jack Warner, he never came a cropper.

We still used to listen to our valve radio's

I.T.M.A. star, Handly, one of my favourite shows.

Paul Temple, the Flying Scotsman theme.

A detective who was never to be seen.

One of the silliest shows I can now recall,

Just didn't seem, to me, quite right at all. 

Archie, now he was the star of the show,

A ventriloquist's dummy, don't you know.

Hughie Green had a talent show spot.

Stars were made out of it quite a lot.

Dick Barton, Jock and sidekick Snowy, too.

These were the shows, to name but a few.