How the BBC "helped" to sell half a million CB radios in 1982

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  • @w8lvradio
    @w8lvradio 3 роки тому +1

    I distinctly remember that Mr. Humphries had a CB radio in an episode of Are You Being Served? We saw that here not on BBC of course, but on CBC Television. All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL (W8LV/VE3 pre covid)

  • @G7NDJ
    @G7NDJ 2 роки тому +2

    I was the person that uploaded this video in full , Terry and June CB radio in 3 parts but the BBC blocked it for there copyright claim , yet u can from view from outside UK . I might try again

    • @ThomasViveiros
      @ThomasViveiros 5 місяців тому

      Here stateside we like to say "We're still a free country" but bet your last quid that it's better away from the very nasty big cities LoL. Still get a kick outta working breakers your way via SSB WF1 Portable in the Big American Truck 73 from the lakes of central Rhode Island Stateside cheers

  • @TheSpitfiregoggles
    @TheSpitfiregoggles Рік тому +1

    Thanks for this, great fun although I don't think I saw this episode back then. Does anyone else remember CB featuring in "One Foot In The Grave"? I think Victor Meldrew's handle may have been "Dry Rot".

  • @Mike-H_UK
    @Mike-H_UK 3 роки тому +7

    I'd forgotten this episode of T & J. However, I do remember that Eddie Yeats from Coronation Street met his girlfriend (later wife) on the CB when he was a dustman. I think his handle was 'Slim Jim' and hers was 'Stardust Lil'.

  • @craigl813
    @craigl813 3 роки тому +4

    Excellent vid Knoxie, so true. Back in the days when BBC produced non pc fun content! Keep it up

    • @alangiles2763
      @alangiles2763 2 роки тому +2

      You get the feeling these days that the BBC just make "comedy shows (usually just left wing stand ups spouting bad langauage or playing quizzes that have been scripted to within an inch of their lives) for Keir Starmer (the man who doesn't know the difference between a biological woman and a man in a dress) and his bunch of sensitive pansies. They would sneer at shows like this, but take seriously the vile Eddie "treat me like a laydee") Izzard, and the puerile Paul Merton on Have I Go News For you?

    • @ThomasViveiros
      @ThomasViveiros 5 місяців тому

      How right yah are. Still get a kick outta working breakers your way via SSB WF1 Portable in the Big American Truck 73 from the lakes of central Rhode Island Stateside cheers

  • @ianfenn6035
    @ianfenn6035 3 роки тому +3

    Love cb had a AM set back in 1979 till 1981 so much fun wish we has thos times again

    • @ianharling9569
      @ianharling9569 3 роки тому +3

      Ian they still exist today but as you say they were great days.I went onto get my Ham licence in 1990 but still venture onto the CB channels from time to time.73 G7HFS/PA3IKH

    • @ThomasViveiros
      @ThomasViveiros 5 місяців тому

      @@ianharling9569 Still get a kick outta working breakers your way via SSB WF1 Portable in the Big American Truck 73 from the lakes of central Rhode Island Stateside cheers.

  • @robertodwyer2979
    @robertodwyer2979 2 роки тому +1

    In a sitcom Good times there is an episode called breaker breaker then we had shows like the dukes of hazzards they use CB radios in that show all the time moving on BJ and the Bear and in Hollywood the big screen everyone knows convoy and smoking in the bandit

  • @freedomvigilant1234
    @freedomvigilant1234 3 роки тому +4

    Very interesting... Richard from the UKCB Radio Repair channel mentioned this episode very recently.

    • @knoxieman
      @knoxieman  3 роки тому +2

      Yes he jogged my memory 😎👍

  • @timothyjones4950
    @timothyjones4950 3 роки тому +2

    Great sitcom that. June Whitfield not been gone all that long. I got my first CB radio in 1991, planet 2000. Never been without CB ever since. It's a great tool and also a good hobby. Unfortunately I probably have too many now...... However, we all need a spare, right😁? Good video.

  • @killerbites3963
    @killerbites3963 3 роки тому +3

    Took my handheld maycom CB up the hills tonight, was surprised the amount on 19

  • @Brookspirit
    @Brookspirit 3 роки тому +4

    CB radio was also in an episode of 'Are you being served? Series 9 Episode 4 "Calling all Customers'.

    • @48pluto
      @48pluto 3 роки тому +2

      I just watched the episode :p Thanks for the tip.

    • @knoxieman
      @knoxieman  3 роки тому +3

      Thanks for the heads up

    • @darrelltregear756
      @darrelltregear756 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@knoxieman My late brother had a CB in the early 80s his handle was pirate he had a multimode CB they used to transmitted on AM frequency but had FM and could use side band I think I was around 13 at the time I'm 55

    • @ThomasViveiros
      @ThomasViveiros 5 місяців тому

      @@knoxieman Good job rascal Still get a kick outta working breakers your way via SSB WF1 Portable in the Big American Truck 73 from the lakes of central Rhode Island Stateside cheers

  • @TonyLing
    @TonyLing 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks Knoxieman, this is golden

  • @Aron102
    @Aron102 3 роки тому

    Great video, the old cb days that took me back. Remember watching that on the bbc

  • @richardcronshaw1963
    @richardcronshaw1963 3 роки тому +1

    Nice nostalga,had a president veep back in 1979/80,got it nicked so bought a hi-gain 160 ch.
    Fantastic days,met the mrs,40 years on still together,just purchased a president lincoln brill,
    just a real memory,(how things have changed though!!!!
    Rick. aka 007

  • @g1fsh
    @g1fsh 3 роки тому +1

    Mint video Paul and nice collection going on there lol

  • @RSCOZZY
    @RSCOZZY 3 роки тому

    Shame this episode isn't on youtube 😕 Nice nostalgic vid mate, thanks 👌

    • @knoxieman
      @knoxieman  3 роки тому

      Cheers, yes the BBC don't give anything away for free.

    • @sutitigi
      @sutitigi 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/bjw6wt5voiY/v-deo.html, i found it here

    • @kwakamonkey
      @kwakamonkey 3 роки тому

      @@sutitigi blocked in the UK due to copyright. I dont use a VPN so cant watch it.

    • @sutitigi
      @sutitigi 3 роки тому

      @@kwakamonkey ok, sorry to hear that, been Finland forgot about it might be held back due to copyright.

  • @andycarless9069
    @andycarless9069 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Still own my Cobra 148 gtl dx mk2 mint and in the box condition 😁😁 , Great Vid !!

    • @knoxieman
      @knoxieman  3 роки тому +1

      Cheers

    • @zukispur5493
      @zukispur5493 3 роки тому +1

      I run a 148 gtl DX also. Mark 1. With a astatic teardrop 575 m6 mic. New radio wise I use an alinco DX 10. My antenna is a simple silver rod. I have it 18 floors up on my tower block roof🌚

    • @andycarless9069
      @andycarless9069 3 роки тому

      @@zukispur5493 I use the my old turner expander 500 sweet sound still

  • @godhandneo505
    @godhandneo505 2 роки тому

    That's some collection !!
    I wonder how many uk 27/81 types of cb radios were made? Must of been in the hundreds.

  • @richardmillican7733
    @richardmillican7733 2 роки тому

    Haha I watched this when it was first broadcast, and yes, there indeed was a Rotel 240 under the tree... 40 years later I still have it!

  • @EmperorMingg
    @EmperorMingg Рік тому

    Absolutely right with factual nature of the CB x Police crossover... would be like trying to ring home on your calculator.

  • @chriswilby7679
    @chriswilby7679 3 роки тому +1

    I'm watching this with my rotel rvc 240 on.

  • @andrewsvonja1039
    @andrewsvonja1039 2 роки тому

    There may be a resurgence in cb thanks to "stranger things" on Netflix as the main cast of kids use a realistic 3 band CB to chat to each other!

  • @sutitigi
    @sutitigi 3 роки тому +1

    Full show on this link, ua-cam.com/video/bjw6wt5voiY/v-deo.html
    56CT004
    GLENN

    • @ThomasViveiros
      @ThomasViveiros 5 місяців тому

      Tnx for the link and hope all is well and good for yah. Still get a kick outta working breakers your way via SSB WF1 Portable in the Big American Truck 73 from the lakes of central Rhode Island Stateside cheers

  • @joeblow8593
    @joeblow8593 3 роки тому +1

    I've never seen the show on this side of the pond

    • @sutitigi
      @sutitigi 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/bjw6wt5voiY/v-deo.html

  • @vaughanwarburton9623
    @vaughanwarburton9623 3 роки тому

    Great video I can can remember an actual kids tv show on itv called cb channel 14 or something like that- also the Terry and June theme tune went like this d d d der der der d d d d der der der 😆 repeat as required

  • @wisteela
    @wisteela 3 роки тому +1

    Great bit of history. I bet lots of people got Amstrads.
    The funny thing is, all this snowflake offended and cancel culture stuff isn't actually real. People worry that people will be offended even though mostly nobody has been.
    73s M7TUD

  • @DanielGlover
    @DanielGlover 3 роки тому

    I had an old school one like Terry had at home. Maybe even what I had had more knobs on it. 2nd hand. 90's. A new one of the time. smaller, in the car. all gone now. amateur radio unit in the car now. That's all/ Nothing at home. Handhelds sold other week to get some money to replace the drone that did its own thing (not me), Dropped into the Oxford canal after deciding to go up 8m under a tree, you can guess the next bit. splash. That been on reruns, Seen that, might be 25 years ago but have.

  • @manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069
    @manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 3 роки тому

    Remember it like yesterday 👍

  • @sutitigi
    @sutitigi 3 роки тому

    Dempsey and Makepeace in the later episodes used a big Ham radio i think in the office, and it showed the band they were on, i think way too low for Police in those days? and some shots they are talking on the radio and its not on.

  • @ianmax69
    @ianmax69 2 роки тому

    "THIS IS HELL ALRIGHT LOCKED UP FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY IN A BRITISH LEYLAND CAR"🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @robertodwyer2979
    @robertodwyer2979 3 місяці тому

    The Dukes of Hazzard in the late 70s early 80s and 90s Strangers thing's

  • @TexasPrisonStories
    @TexasPrisonStories 2 роки тому

    Good video

  • @clyth41
    @clyth41 2 роки тому

    I've been on cb for over 40 years, started on am and went into fm...its all dead now with just little pockets of breakers... Sad...

  • @eddiejones.redvees
    @eddiejones.redvees 3 роки тому +1

    My arial was fixed to my ironing board

  • @johnnymac26
    @johnnymac26 3 роки тому +1

    i remember watching this episode gets a sub from me

  • @GateKommand
    @GateKommand 3 роки тому

    Four For Sure Good Buddy

  • @markg6jvy135
    @markg6jvy135 3 роки тому

    👍👏👏

  • @michaeltaylor2038
    @michaeltaylor2038 2 роки тому

    Convoy