Pennywise - Grampian TV - 1985 - Retro Microwave Ovens
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
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Grampian TV's Pennywise and the wonders of cooking with early microwave technology - with Appliance Historian Jenny Webb in 1985.
This series set out to beat budgets and look for bargains. Taped in Aberdeen with hosts Muriel Clark and Anne Brand.
No Twitter or websites back then, as viewers had to send in a self addressed envelope and stamp for the Pennywise fact sheets. This clip is from the last programme in the series.
Often associated with BBC TV.s Victoria Wood's spoof McConomy.
Twitter @retrocookery
Facebook: Jenny Webb's COOK ELECTRIC Showroom
"One viewer has suggested the television company could economize by not making this programme, which is a lovely thought and well worth bearing in mind." (-Victoria Wood. _Mconomy._ )
It's a canny notion indeed!
mwah! ❤
How utterly bizarre... I've just bought & was unwrapping my first ever microwave & this came up in my YT suggestions, so I watched & unwrapped at the same time 😁. Love these old gals, all very sensible, btw my microwave is a 1000w inverter combination and cost £130, so pretty amazing in comparison. Many thanks for this, brilliant Maxx
That's great to hear. Many thanks x
Love the hi-viz dresses
Ha! All the Grampian TV camera team had to wear dark glasses during the recording!!
If you have Full copies of the series I suggest you contact STV at Glasgow, as there might put up the FULL series on STV UA-cam player. Some of the tapes may have gone walkies
Interesting
Don’t both sending us your questions. We can’t be arsed to answer them.
The music had to have been from a music library (except for the little coin cha-ching sound effect) because I heard the exact piece on an American program, a one-off on Nick at Nite called the "Do-It-Yourself Sitcom Search Special," where viewers wrote in to have their lives made into mini-sitcoms. "Two Too Much" featured an older couple where the man's father and the woman's mother also had to move in with them -- and everyone had to make the best of it. Lyrics were added to the library piece, including: "They drive us nuts - It's TWO TOO MUCH!"
You are correct its from Bruton library,
623058top It's from BRG 22 - "Happy Days", released in 1982. The track itself is called "Get Out of Bed!" and was composed by Brian Bennett and Cliff Hall.
The money sound effect was indeed added later and is not part of the track itself.
This makes me a little sad that microwaves are invisible.
It sounds like the food cooking would look like a plasma ball being electrocuted.
Muriel Clark is da boss . . . . . .
Suppose you dont like carrots lol
Wow! :D
lol to save fuel costs....get real its because we are lazy and dont want to spend all that time making dinner when can throw a full microwavable meal into the microwave and be done under 5 mins! lol Yes people want to save money but honestly the core reason for new inventions is to make life easier. just saying! lol :D
Shut up. Just saying.
Yeah, you were not living in Britain during the 1970s when the OPEC oil crisis, coal miner strikes, and cold weather caused the UK to experience massive power shortages which forced the government to shut down businesses ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week ). Learn some history before making dumb comments. Just saying! lol.