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[dreamer_easy]

So, what were you doing on Wednesday 26 September 1979? People in Canberra were watching a surprising amount of the test pattern. And, of course, Doctor Who, although I'm not certain which episode. Not to mention Harry Butler and The Inventors. And Community Billboard! For some reason this fascinated me as a child, especially the inexplicable cartoon of an English sheepdog that accompanied announcements about Housie.

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[endis-ni.livejournal.com]

So, what were you doing on Wednesday 26 September 1979?

Gurgling, mostly. I was born in February 1979!

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

I was being all embroynic-like, on account of being conceived the previous month.

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

OMFG Community Billboard!!!!

We must revive it! Get Ron Moore and Russell T Davies on to it at once!

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Working in a bookshop, living in a bedsit, and not actually watching much telly, as far as I can recall, on account of not having a telly. However, I would have been looking forward to the first episode of City Of Death, and there was a university hall of residence in Mecklenburgh Square whither soren_nyrond and I used to repair once in a while, and they had a telly. So I may have seen it there.

This was the story which featured a line which would never be said by any contemporary or prospective Doctor: "Well, you're a beautiful woman, probably."

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

a) how do you navigate that site? It's very poorly put together. Once I leave the 'tv guide' page I can't see how to return to it.

b) I was 13, so if Who was on I probably was watching it (although I was in Sydney, if that makes a difference.)

[pedanther]

So, what were you doing on Wednesday 26 September 1979?

What an interesting philosophical question.

(I was born in November 1980.)

[theta-g.livejournal.com]

Got up, ate breakfast, ran out front to catch a big yellow bus. I was eleven. Got back home just in time to shove the cassette recorder up to the TV set. Speed Racer was on Ted Turner's Channel 17.

I took a break at 3:30 when The Flintstones came on; I'd seen them all years ago. Then it was back up to the set at 4 (same channel) for the kid with the helmet: Space Giants!

I found Doctor Who weeknights at six in 1981. After several weeks I hauled the cassette recorder back into service, two episodes before the Fourth Doctor fell off a radio telescope. I didn't know about regeneration.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Probably listening to my audio cassette recording of "Destiny of the Daleks" (which had just finished that week), and thinking "There's not much music in this. Was Dudley off sick that week?"