The very sight of the sinister-looking vans would spark a mad rush of non-payers switching off their sets 😅📺
They were the sinister-looking white vans that had generations of Glasgow locals glued to their windows instead of their TV sets.
Of course, as long as you were paying your television licence fee then you had absolutely nothing to fear. And according to BBC-funded public service information ads, they could pinpoint non-licence payers with devastating accuracy. Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox
On a recent post on a popular nostalgia group on Facebook, locals recalled seeing the dreaded vehicles prowling their streets. Naturally, rumours were abound that they were only to scare us into paying the licence. Whether or not they actually worked as well as the likes of the BBC claimed is still up for debate in the eyes of many, but there may be some truth in the notion that TV detector vans were simply used a scare tactic.
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