It was early eighties and Doordarshan had just started beaming two hr capsules on second Saturdays, I mean Mussorie antenna was ably catching signals for this transmission from Delhi....further explaining this, we were 100% sure Musorrie guys were doing their jobs properly this time rather than loitering about after opening the signal box which was a common complaint in doon valley those days wherin everyone thought blank/snowy TVs were fault of mussorie staff….it was all so innocent and mind you not only us but all mohalla firmly believed in this.
So coming back to this transmission which had just started consisted of recorded capsules handed over by “ Transtel ”..the deustcheland operator and consisted of movies, ‘Old fox’ and various other programmes but for us best was ‘Telematch’.
This gone Wednesday (08.10.2008) I just happened to surf the channels and voila!!!!the Familiar cry of “eins..zwei..drei” German for One..two ..Three reached my ear, POGO channel was actually airing the telematch ….same old episodes!! And it seemed audience were stuck in some kind of time machine ..“Bee Gee” type hair styles, long side burns and same freshness in villages, it was fight of two villages “Zimmers’ and “Oreim” or something like that.
If you remember it was easiest foreign programme to be understood by kids despite being in German and now they have made it further interesting with commentary in hindi and its very informative as well with quite an insight on German demography, tourism potential of these villages and best of all its all coloured now………….Joshita is totally hooked and more so by the knowledge that her father watched same episodes.
But my dear…..things do change we watched these programmes when were in our teens and still took immense pleasure , now small kids love it and by the time they would reach the comparative age what interests them is a question……………………….. that’s generation gap for you.
So coming back to this transmission which had just started consisted of recorded capsules handed over by “ Transtel ”..the deustcheland operator and consisted of movies, ‘Old fox’ and various other programmes but for us best was ‘Telematch’.
This gone Wednesday (08.10.2008) I just happened to surf the channels and voila!!!!the Familiar cry of “eins..zwei..drei” German for One..two ..Three reached my ear, POGO channel was actually airing the telematch ….same old episodes!! And it seemed audience were stuck in some kind of time machine ..“Bee Gee” type hair styles, long side burns and same freshness in villages, it was fight of two villages “Zimmers’ and “Oreim” or something like that.
If you remember it was easiest foreign programme to be understood by kids despite being in German and now they have made it further interesting with commentary in hindi and its very informative as well with quite an insight on German demography, tourism potential of these villages and best of all its all coloured now………….Joshita is totally hooked and more so by the knowledge that her father watched same episodes.
But my dear…..things do change we watched these programmes when were in our teens and still took immense pleasure , now small kids love it and by the time they would reach the comparative age what interests them is a question……………………….. that’s generation gap for you.
2 comments:
Tele matches were welcome rain interruptions during cricket matches, as well.
i think they make good betting events as well for those who are i nterested.
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