Friday evenings as a child

Ann22

Now this brings cool memories:). Had choir in the afternoons at school on Fridays then the feeling of happiness leaving school with no homework...the joys of it...Uniform thrown out for washing. Fish and chips for tea. 'Play your cards right' used to be on. 'The Live Mike' for those who remember back that far.. it ran from 1979-1982. Bath night sometimes would be Friday night. All excited 'cos I was allowed up the town Sat mornings with my friends, 50p to spend:).

steveone

shopping in dunnes donaghmede, fish fingers, chips n' beans for dinner.
chips (tv programme) the late late, starsky and hutch, bed..
when I got older I was let watch the late movie after the late late..

Dave H

The main ones were being let stay up late enough to watch V and Sledge Hammer .

Ruu_Old

I actually got done with my homework so I wouldn't have it hanging over me at the weekend, very nerdy thing to do I know. I would do some on the school bus on the way home though so I wouldn't be too bad at all.

benj

Dave H wrote: »

The main ones were being let stay up late enough to watch V and Sledge Hammer .

ah v brings back those memories....
what was sledge hammer?......not that pi mike hammer?

Dave H

benj wrote: »

what was sledge hammer?......not that pi mike hammer?

It was spoof cop show from the 80's, the main star was Inspector (wait for it) Sledge Hammer!!!:D
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_Hammer!
That show had me cacking myself laughing back in the day.
Not so much now. Yeah,not so much now:rolleyes:.
Oh yeah, staying up late watching the Hammer Horror movies with my Ma was another Friday night memory, albeit from a different point of my youth.

simmoliz

There were loads of us kids in the house, and not much money to spare - but Fridays were always special - my dad bought us each a comic and a box of smarties on his way home from work. I got the Bunty, one of my sisters got the Judy, brother got the Hotspur or Sparkey, and the littlest got Twinkle - can't remember the rest of them. Always got fish on Fridays - yukky whiting fried in dripping, and chips fried in a pot - can smile now about it. I can still remember looking out the front door 50 times to see if my dad was coming up the road...off the bus!

emeraldstar

Ruu wrote: »

I actually got done with my homework so I wouldn't have it hanging over me at the weekend, very nerdy thing to do I know. I would do some on the school bus on the way home though so I wouldn't be too bad at all.

You got homework on Fridays?! That's shocking :eek: (if you're referring to primary school anyway...)

niceirishfella

ahhhhhhhhhhh, no homework! Life was good.

Ann22

steveone wrote: »

shopping in dunnes donaghmede, fish fingers, chips n' beans for dinner.
chips (tv programme) the late late, starsky and hutch, bed..
when I got older I was let watch the late movie after the late late..

Yeah I remember Chips:). Am I imagining it or was The Late Late on on Saturday nights in the late 70s? I seem to remember 'Tales of the Unexpected' was on on itv first. There'd be a horror double bill on then. An old black and white of 'Frankenstein' and then a more modern 70's Hammer movie.

mike65

No-one did homework on a Friday! No that was done reluctanly early Sunday evening.

Friday was Space 1999, Corrie, Rhoda (?) and a filum (there was a time when RTE closed down at midnight on the dot you know).

DenMan

Late nineties....my brother and I would watch WCW Monday Nitro on TNT. A bag each of crisps, popcorn, chocolate bars and coke. Beer came later. Great times.

emeraldstar

mike65 wrote: »

No-one did homework on a Friday! No that was done reluctanly early Sunday evening.

I did in secondary school! Hell, I wanted it out of the way ASAP so I could enjoy the weekend without it hanging over me!

In primary school we never got homework on a Friday. That was one of the worst things about moving to secondary school. But getting weekend homework in secondary made me feel very grown up because then I was like my older cousin :cool:

Ann22

mike65 wrote: »

No-one did homework on a Friday! No that was done reluctanly early Sunday evening.

Friday was Space 1999, Corrie, Rhoda (?) and a filum (there was a time when RTE closed down at midnight on the dot you know).

Space 1999, that's a blast from the past. What night of the week was the Six Million Dollar Man on? I remember being in a happy mood when watching that, maybe it was during the hols I'm remembering.

mike65

Dont remember, sadly my brain is full of holes these days!

Unlike the Radio Times its hard to find archives for the RTE Guide to check. I have a suspicion Rhoda was actually on Saturday just before or just after the news then the LLS.

DublinWriter

steveone wrote: »

shopping in dunnes donaghmede, fish fingers, chips n' beans for dinner.
chips (tv programme) the late late, starsky and hutch, bed..
when I got older I was let watch the late movie after the late late..

*wipes a tear from his eye*

Ah Jaysus, were you me in a parallel universe? Remember the crappy record shop upstairs in the Donaghmede shopping centre? Checking out the latest Barbie...ahem...I mean Subbuteo accessories in Pride and Joy?

All that ended for me when I was allowed to stay up late one Friday night and watch 'Erasorhead' on CH4 at the tender age of 12.

I've never been the same since.

Dr Bolouswki

Mork and Mindy?
The Gentle touch?
The Rockford files?
Petrocelli?

Or were they all saturdays?

Mint Sauce

DublinWriter wrote: »

All that ended for me when I was allowed to stay up late one Friday night and watch 'Erasorhead' on CH4 at the tender age of 12.

I've never been the same since.

was that the 3D looking fella, he scared the bejeuz outa me

:eek:

friday evening/night was getting a pic an mix from the newsagent after school, getting a copy of the beano or the dandy, and getting home usally to the smell of a chicken curry coming out of the oven, was allowed to stay up an extra couple of hours compared to a weekday night, watching either the beeb or itv

steveone

Ann22 wrote: »

Yeah I remember Chips:). Am I imagining it or was The Late Late on on Saturday nights in the late 70s? I seem to remember 'Tales of the Unexpected' was on on itv first. There'd be a horror double bill on then. An old black and white of 'Frankenstein' and then a more modern 70's Hammer movie.

I remember tales of the unexpected was on wednesdays after minder, which was after news at ten...that would be early / mid 80's...
anyone remember the powers of matthew starr... that was a friday 7pm thing..

dez_warlock

I remember my dad used to always bring me back cool stuff after work like premier league stickers and then I'd watch Walker Texas Ranger on Sky. Great times.

enniscorthy

DenMan wrote: »

Late nineties....my brother and I would watch WCW Monday Nitro on TNT. A bag each of crisps, popcorn, chocolate bars and coke. Beer came later. Great times.

mate:D

Dumb

Yea. Home from school the uncle would throw me into the bath for a wash. Then he would dress me up. Then we had cabbage and turnip. Always on a Friday we had that dinner. Then we played a game of ludo and watched the Late Late. Then we went to bed. Same routine all the time.

Ruu_Old

La de da, those who had Sky television! :eek: I do remember finding Monday Nitro on TNT when we got the dish in alright. We had the RTE's, the BBC's and UTV (but you had to twist the aerial to get the picture clear).

Land Of Idiots

We only had 1 and 2! I just remember the beginning of the Late Late and then it was time for bed!

Dumb

Ruu wrote: »

La de da, those who had Sky television! :eek: I do remember finding Monday Nitro on TNT when we got the dish in alright. We had the RTE's, the BBC's and UTV (but you had to twist the aerial to get the picture clear).

Do you need satelite to get BBC UTV Channel 4 down the south of the country?

Jaygon2009

Like I just wrote on another thread, Sky 1's Friday Fright Night that hosted a different horror movie each week and then Fredies Knightmares....

misssaucie

It was the only day of the week we were allowed chips for dinner, burgers & chips or fish fingers & chips were such a treat. Every other day we'd "white" dinners as we used to call them, Chicken, Cauliflower and Spuds, poor Mam was no Tania Ramsay :rolleyes: Had easi single sandwiches every day for the entire time (8 years) that I was in primary school...poor Dad is the only one who still has his white dinners

mike65

I like your desciption, I also had white dinners quite a bit at times usually fish based though. Plaice, Cauliflower, white sauce, spuds (actually still do as I cook for myself!). Drew the line at Easi singles after a while though.

Duckjob

I remember fish and chips for tea from the local chipper then later my Dad would go to the shops and get a treat for everyone - a chocolate bar of whatever you wanted - that was the start of my Wispa addiction

We'd watch TV (Simon & Simon sticks in my mind) and usually get to stay up late.

Ahh, memories....

chakotha

Friday evening our Dad used to come home with sweets and comics. I used to get Buster then switched to Whoopee then 2000AD.

Remember the Live Mike alright. Can't think what else was on on Friday nights in late 70's early 80's. A couple of years later there were the Hammer House of Horror films. And V was on - class show at the time. And they showed the entire James Bond series.

AdamusAdonis

Methinks Friday nights were "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" and YORKIE night!

WOO!

xxcocochanelxx

kenan and kel friday evenings...whatever happened to them? ahhh those were the good old days..

Terry Cotta

Thursday nights were my favourite because once you had your homework you were free till Monday. I always thought Friday was dos day in school.

Coming home on Friday from school I remember watching Fun House. I always wanted to get a go on those go-karts.

Then trying to hide from me mother on the street on Friday nights so I could stay out for ages.