Like many others we also rented our telly from Radio Rentals.
The game changer though was the advent of vhs video recorders.
Our ‘baird’ video recorder quickly became the talk of the neighbourhood.
Sometimes mum would buy a three pack of blank TDK video tapes if there was any money left over at the end of the week. Dad never quite figured out how to operate the video recorder, or any tech stuff sadly, (like father like son).