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Roisin McSorley - Aug '08
My mum was on Tommy's Toyshop and would like to know if there is any footage of it in approximatley 1965/1966...???
Her name was Peggy Donaghy..?

Robert Kirkwood - Aug '08
My father in law says he was on it, him and his brothers had a group called 'The Yorkers'
has anyone else heard of them?

Jennifer Elwood - July '08
I too was on Tea Time with Tommy. Ithink it was 1967ish. Do you think the show would be archived? I'd love to see it!!

Brian Cunningham - May '08
My aunt Brighid McDermott nee McAvoy was on Tea Time with Tommy in either 1962/63 when she was a student nurse in Lurgan and Portadown Hospital, I would like to see some footage of that episode.

Se谩n McGrady - Dec '07
One balmy summer evening my parents and I (I think I was about 11 at the time) were returning from a run out in the car...all windows down to let the cool air in...when a car drew up beside us in the inside lane at some traffic lights. All eyes turned left and who was driving the other car but Tommy James. Recognition was instantaneous and I cried out, much to the embarrassment of my parents, "Hey, it's teatime with Tommy!" Those traffic lights took an eternity to change and we all sat in the most uncomfotable of silences. Needless to say I was told off for premature shouting...

Tara Grainger - Feb '07
My dad appeared on tea time with tommy too playing guitar . Can you belive a tax man happened to be watching and heard him mention he got his guitar tax free, he was tracked down by this weasel and made to pay up with the sum he got from the show! Any archives of those shows?

Alison Patton - Jan '07
My grandfather was the 'Tommy James', and he was a great man, very talented. I have fantastic memories of him working at UTV. It is lovely that you all remember him too. Thank you for the nice comments.

Eamonn O'Kane - Nov '06l
I appeared on the show in 1971 and got 拢8 for doing so. I still have the original letter (and envelope) from Tommy asking me to come to an audition on Sunday 14th March 1971. If you know anyone else who appeared on the show around that time please let me know. I sang 'The Westmeath Batchelor'. Eamonnokane 1105 @ aol . com

Bernadette Fitzpatrick - Aug '06
I remember Tommy playing a birthday request for my Granny McAvoy, I think I must have been about seven or eight and I wanted to be a drummer when I grew up. I'd love to see archives if there were any as it is all a bit foggy now.

Andy Hefferon - July '06
Hi all my father was also on "Teatime with tommy" during 1967 as part of the "tal trio" does anyone know if these programs were archived? I would be very interested to find/ locate this particular program can anyone help?

Harry McCormick - October '05
I wonder is there any footage from Teatime with Tommy archived, my dad was on it around 1967/68 and I remember it vaguely but I know he got paid the princely sum of 8 pounds for his time

Jennifer Curtis nee Phair - July '05
I was a member of the "West-Winds" along with Ian Cowden and David Anderson, all of us from Carrickfergus and we were the first winners of "Tea-Time With Tommy". That was back in 1965/66. In those days there were no "archives" kept but I still have photographs taken as part of our prize.

I think we got 拢50 and a demo recording with Solomon's recording studios in Belfast. We "modelled" ourselves as a trio on a variety of Peter Paul and Mary, The Seekers, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and various artists of that era. Those were the days! Does anyone remember us?

Ronnie Sloan - July '05
I was part of the Lisnasharragh Jazz band on Tea time with Tommy. In 1970 I got paid 拢8.00 for appearing on the show, it was a fortune to me then.

P.S. I am still playing saxophone.

George, Newtownards - February '05
I can remember the introduction to 'Tea time with Tommy' as the song 'Tea for two and two for tea'. I think I remember that the show was broadcast around 6.oopm. The show was in black and white and Tommy James looked quite old sitting at his grand piano.

Eileen Johnston
I was just browsing through the 大象传媒 web site when I came across the item on tv down the years and felt I had to make a contribution. I made my one and only tv appearance on 'Tommy's Toyshop' (UTV) back in Nov 1969 at Havelock House. As an impressionable 10 year old I can recall feeling very much in awe of the late Tommy James who to me seemed very tall and had a funny (English I was later told) accent.

My audition for 'Tommy's Toyshop' took place on a Sunday morning in October and I received a telegram no less, the very next week to confirm my slot on the show. My late parents recorded the show on an old reel to reel tape which I still have and can just about listen to without cringing after 30 odd years!

The idea of the show was that you did your 'turn', in my case a song accompanied by Tommy on piano, chose a toy from the toyshop for some unfortunate child in hospital and then exited stage left to a round of applause from the studio audience. I think it was Andy Warhol who said that everyone could be famous for 5 minutes. I now tell my kids that those were my 5 mins (at least among my family circle).

I remember this programme because I too appeared on it around '69. However I'm nearly sure it was called "Teatime with Tommy" and not "Tommy's Toyshop". Am I right?
(Lone Walker)

Yep I think you're right here. It was "Teatime with Tommy". It was broadcast on Saturday nights I think. Must've been black & white surely.. yes?
(Jim in Derry)

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Two stories about the station logos you are showing on the previous page.

The UTV three-dimensional silver-coloured "box" upon which was imprinted their logo: In the days when both the 大象传媒 and UTV used to process their own black and white news film, part of the process of developing the negative involved the chemical removal of parts of the silver nitrate that made up the film's image. UTV recovered this by-product of silver and when they had gathered enough, had it melted down to make this station ident.

The 大象传媒's revolving "world": In my early days working at the 大象传媒 in Belfast, I was taken to a technical area and my guide gently opened a metal box and there inside (being looked at by a TV camera) was a little "world" on a stick quietly revolving around to itself in a black painted container. In these days of computers you tend to forget that years ago things like revolving worlds had to be actually constructed from cardboard and fibreglass (and probably sticky backed plastic too).