I can agree with you that it was definitely on terrestrial UK telly in that era, I can remember watching the odd episode at about that age, and we sure as anything didn't have satellite. Dates though, I can't help with, but as there's about a year between us, and my earliest telly memories are of Delia Smith being on before the weather and then Playschool, I'm leaning more towards 80/81 than 79.
And my favourite Monkee is Micky Dolenz.
As a very strange side note, one of the earliest words I learned how to spell was weather, because when the weather came on after Delia & before Playschool, it had WEATHER in big letters on half the screen for ages, and I used to sit in front of the telly and say W.E.A.T.H.E.R. in phonetics. I was a strange child.
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And my favourite Monkee is Micky Dolenz.
As a very strange side note, one of the earliest words I learned how to spell was weather, because when the weather came on after Delia & before Playschool, it had WEATHER in big letters on half the screen for ages, and I used to sit in front of the telly and say W.E.A.T.H.E.R. in phonetics. I was a strange child.