I remember those shows!
They even gave handicapping advice, like on jockeys, switches, etc.
It was like TVG as it was meant to be.
Another good time was back when some editions of the Form did not give the fractions. And no one gave race conditions. You just got "Alw" or a claiming price. I used to go through all the charts in the form that I could get a hold of and write down the conditions (we always had the fractions here). I had gaps in info, but sometime I would find horses dropping from open claimers in to nw2 go off at 10-1.