Following RR's Sekiden gun what about kid's TV from the sixties etc? Found the prog below about The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe while looking for something else. There's a mention early on, in an intro for the first Crusoe episode to a programme called Tom Tom. A news & magazine prog that didn't seem to last long; I recall it but few others do!!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xhz8j
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Nope, don't recall that one. What about Torchy the battery boy? Another that few remember. Or Supercar, the first I think, of the "Supermarionation" series. Noggin the Nog and the all time favourite Captain Pugwash.
John
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>> Nope, don't recall that one. What about Torchy the battery boy? Another that few remember.
>> Or Supercar, the first I think, of the "Supermarionation" series. Noggin the Nog and the
>> all time favourite Captain Pugwash.
Pugwash and his cuhorts including Seaman Staines
You could have difficulty with this 50 years later
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Wasn't there Master, no let's not start that!
John
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I am a fully paid up member of the Fanderson club.
Hated his early stuff, up to Fireball XL5 - thats where he got into his stride.
Watch them
Stingray, Thunderbirds, UFO, Kapitan Skarlet, the use of plot, drama build up and music is rarely matched.
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Terrahawks.
It was the series that followed thunderbirds..i just happen to have the whole lot on DVD, yes i know, but watching them through older, i won't say adult, eyes, the tongue in cheek humour and non PC stereotypes are such a relief from modern programs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrahawks
well worth a youtube search.
As a young child i loved Watch with Mother, Flowerpot Men, Woodentops etc.
Naturally progressed through the Various Gerry Anderson series.
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In fact all the smutty Pugwash innuendos are a myth.
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do not ruin a great myth, damn all your eyes!
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That's quite disappointing re Cpt. Pugwash
Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Sun 23 Jan 11 at 19:36
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I remember the "Branded" series - I seem to remember a b/w American series "Commando" or such like - must have been around 5yrs old ! Noddy, Tweezle....
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Who called me Pugwash ! :-)
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The cabin boy....er....Roger?
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Thanks for the clips Humph for some reason I'd never searched for it......
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Among the less obvious ones, I used to like Marine Boy who chewed on his Oxygum to enable him to swim underwater.
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How about "Champion the Wonder Horse", "The Lone Ranger" and "Circus Boy" - all American I know, along with that Mexican cowboy with the huge hat. Viewing somewhat restricted in my day because we could only receive BBC 1 and that only in winter. For some reason, in summer all the programmes suffered from terrible interference from Dutch TV which made watching impossible!
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White Horses......oh, and all those badly dubbed eastern European black and white "fables"
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>> White Horses......oh, and all those badly dubbed eastern European black and white "fables"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZEDNkZ2L4
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>> yes - you would.
Marina - Aqua Marina?
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>> >> yes - you would.
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>> Marina - Aqua Marina?
"What are these strange enchantments that start whenever your near".
Written by Barry Gray - it sounds like something that John Barry would write.
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Tenderfoot was one of my favourite westerns along with Rawhide, the series which launched the career of Clint Eastwood.
And the best of all, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I am still an U.N.C.L.E. agent, as I never turned in my ID card or badge. Wish I'd kept them, they'd have been handy to flash at the old bill when I got a pull. I'd never have got those three points a few years back.
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For me it really has to be Rainbow, I think it sums up my generation better than any other TV programme. I have fond memories of Button Moon too.
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Follyfoot - Dora - need I say more ?
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Lesley Judd?
Pffttt Jenny Hanley perlease!
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Branded - love it.
Also Car 45 where are you?
And the Munsters.
And Lucille Ball.
Thanks for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. memory too. Illyana something wan't he?
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Mr Ed, Rawhide, Wagon Train, The wrestling on Saturday followed by Popeye and Tom & Jerry.
We got a little rented set in about '57.
I do remember a children's programme from then called Davy Jones' Locker. It was about a Welsh signalman on the railways. Very grainy, never seen any reference to it since.
Didn't really watch very much as a kid...too much else to do ...reading, making Airfix kits, etc.
Ted
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Tiswas
Grange Hill
Saturday Swap Shop
Blue Peter
Magpie
Jackanory
How
How2
All the geeky shows presented by Johnny Ball (think of a number, etc)
Hair Bear Bunch
Top Cat
Why Don't You? (or to give it it's full title - "Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?")
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Ivor the Engine. Oliver Postgate was the master of using simple techniques to tell stories, without ever allowing the medium to get in the way. Never infantilized his young audience either.
And, for storytelling with no technology at all, I offer Willie Rushton reading Winnie the Pooh on Jackanory; so much earthier and funnier than Alan Bennett's whimsical efforts.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3GcDBjQN4
Skippy, Flipper, Mr. Benn, TRUMPTON, Camberwick Green, Andy Pandy, Poggles Wood, Pipkins, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Swapshop, Wombles, Banana Splits, The Monkees, Batman, Scooby Doo.
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"My Mother the Car", not really a favourite but appropriate to this site.
My Favourite Martian. Wonder if he ever got his flying saucer going.
Incidentally, in the final episode of The Lone Ranger, the LR shoots Tonto. He finds out what "Kimo Sabbi" means.
John
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>> Ivor the Engine. Oliver Postgate was the master of using simple techniques to tell stories,
>> without ever allowing the medium to get in the way. Never infantilized his young audience
>> either.
He never bettered this..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pyOJgNnvYo
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Not forgetting the somewhat creepy, "Singing, Ringing Tree"
May explain my phobia of vertically-challenged people :-)
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I have the DVD of Singing Ringing Tree - excellent surreality.
And this weekend made me a DVD of The Pogles, and will be making Robinson Crusoe this week too, both from me VHS copies.
Then chucked it into iTunes to stream from upstairs to TV downstairs.
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Daily Fable and the good old Magic Roundabout - I am Dylan !
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>> Daily Fable and the good old Magic Roundabout - I am Dylan !
I am Nogbad the Bad
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Bob Godfrey's Roobarb & Custard and Noah & Nelly
Always got the impression they'd been smoking something (the makers, not the characters)...
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Danger Mouse.
Willow The Wisp.
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Swallows & Amazons on BBC TV in 1963. I'd read the Arthur Ransome book and, as a 7yr old, very much anticipated a programme with a lead characted called Titty... sadly the BBC censored this and we got Kitty (played by a young Susan George).
I remember being captivated by the blonde pirate Peggy Blackett... I hadn't really thought of it until I found this clip today (not seen the programme for 47yrs) but she seems to be the template for the type of girl I looked for in later life! Perhaps TV influence really does work on a subconscious level.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESjxe5uuMc
Edit: I can hardly believe that the forum has censored poor old t**** too!!
Out of respect to a classic I've overidden the filter..
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I read them all as a kid, and then re-read them. Gave me a great love of the Lakes.
There were all the others, set in the Broads, Scotland and even the Far East. I have a copy of Swallowdale in front of me now. I wouldn't mind collecting all the books in older hardback....except my bookshelves are full !
Ransome knew his stuff. he was a reporter for the Manchester Evening News and Guardian. He was also a spy of some sort.
Ted
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>>I wouldn't mind collecting all the books in older hardback
You'll need to be a rich man then Ted, if you want firsts.
First edition Swallows and Amazons go for thousands - indeed there are a couple with asking prices of 16k and 11k on sale right now, if you're interested, although ex library ones go for under 5k as a rule.
Used to sell children's books for a "living" and still dabble, and these were always little gems, if you could get them.
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Never mind, your grand-children can save their favourite books on Kindle. :-(
John
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>>>your grand-children can save their favourite books on Kindle. :-(
Indeed. Last weeks project was shelving to enable another 130 of our old books to come in from storage. The teenagers looked somewhat unimpressed.
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Muffin the Mule anybody? First shown in 1946
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>> Muffin the Mule anybody?
Criminal offence these days.
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>> >> Muffin the Mule anybody?
How beastly!
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>> How beastly!
Yes. It makes you feel like dobbin him in.
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There wasn't any TV when I were a nipper, just wireless and Uncle Mac (outed a couple of years ago as a predatory nonce by the London Review of Books. My mother would have been horrified, although she would have had difficulty understanding what a nonce was). When TV appeared on a large scale in the fifties we didn't have one because the old man thought the idiot's lantern was a waste of time and money.
Anyone whose first experience of TV was a 9-inch fish-eye monochrome 405-line screen still gets a thrill of pleasure from a modern box with its beautiful 40-inch flat grainless colour image. I do anyway.
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Do you remember Journey Into Space on the radio, AC?
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>> Do you remember Journey Into Space on the radio, AC?
I remember "lost in space" DANGER DANGER Will Robinson.
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>> >> Do you remember Journey Into Space on the radio, AC?
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>> I remember "lost in space" DANGER DANGER Will Robinson.
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???????????????
Thinks: I must be in the junior forum.
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Anything could happen in the next half hour ! Want to think that was Stingray, might be wrong of course, Lesley Judd used to distract me from most other things at that time.
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Don't think this episode of Rainbow got to air:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc
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>> Anything could happen in the next half hour ! Want to think that was Stingray,
correctomundo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs
That really delivered, "Stand by for action" and then three microseconds later KABOOM
>>Lesley Judd used to distract me from most other things
>> at that time.
Any boy with any taste lusted after Susan Stranks. - And then of course Jenny Handley. Magpie was the much more risqué than Blue Peter
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>> Do you remember Journey Into Space on the radio, AC?
Yes. And Dick Barton, Special Agent.
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>> 'Whirlybirds' anyone?
Couple of Bell 47s?
Also remember 'Aeronauts' a dubbed import from France concerning a Mirage squadron somewhere near Dijon.
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For what it's worth, I don't think all the Captain Pugwash double-entendres are a myth.
I was, years ago, unfortunate enough to work for a sex-obsessed female editor who knew that I had links to the early production of CP, done by a couple in a barn in rural Somerset. I always rubbished what she said, but then my sister gave me a videotape of a series of CP episodes and I watched it. Sure enough, Seaman Staines is in it, to my great disappointment. All CP fans know, of course, that the cabin boy's name was Tom.
Anyway, I still have the tape in the attic somewhere, and the means to play it. Maybe if I could ever work out how to get it into the computer and use Youtube I could cause a bit of a stir.
Incidentally, my memory of children's tv from the 50s, 60s and 70s is so encyclopaedic that my team once won a bottle of bubbly in a quiz on the subject on a cruise ship. We scored more than double what anyone else could manage. People looked at me in a funny way from then until the end of the cruise...
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Dick Barton was a regulated treat for me!
My parents rather disapproved of comics, (Beano & Dandy) but they did buy "The Children's Newspaper" for me! Utterly boring, it was too!
To be fair, though, my father (career R.N.) once brought back from the USA, a selection of Marvel comics, in the days when in the UK hen's teeth were more common than those exciting rarities.
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>> "The Children's Newspaper" for me! Utterly boring, it was too!
I remember it. Awful patronising twaddle it was too.
Superman and Captain Marvel comics were OK. But the real thing came a bit later, so-called 'horror comics'. They were pretty lurid, but a bit American in tone hardly surprisingly.
I quite liked Dandy and Beano for a while. Desperate Dan was my favourite character.
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>> Anyone whose first experience of TV was a 9-inch fish-eye monochrome 405-line screen still gets
>> a thrill of pleasure from a modern box with its beautiful 40-inch flat grainless colour
>> image. I do anyway.
We were one of the first families in our street to have a TV - a 9" PYE, IIRC.
With curtains drawn (sunlight spoilt the dim picture) our front room was crowded with neighbours as we watched the Queen's coronation!
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The Coronation in 1953 was the first time I saw a TV. The local "squire" opened the grounds of his house and put one on the lawn for the villagers to watch. I don't think we had a TV at home until I'd left school. My dad thought it would interfere with our school homework. In my case he was dead right. My next recollection of TV was watching Kennedy's inaugaration in 1961 at a relative's house. I was stunned to find tears in my eyes when Marian Anderson started singing The Star Spangled Banner.
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Same here....1953 for the Coronation. It wasn't our telly, though. Me ole mam and me caught the MSJ&A Rly 1931 electric train to my aunty's in Timperley where a buffet tea was provided.
With her son, a couple of years older than me, we were more interested iUncle Wilf's bald patch and making it look like a bird's nest.
We got a telly in about 1957...rented, of course with a big H shaped aerial pinned up on the lounge wall. I remember a kid's series called, I think, 'Davy Jones' Locker' about the signalman in a Welsh signalbox and his mates. Never seen mention of it since so probably not RADA standard stuff !
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I used to really enjoy the Disney American natural history programmes that used to run on the weekend kids TV in the late 60s early 70s.
As well as Banana Splits, Blue Peter, etc.
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I remember reading a book called 'Seeing things'. About the life of Oliver Postgate.
And as for children's TV , my uni chums watched Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. His sidekick Wilma was almost as appealing as 12 pints and a Bradford curry.
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This'll be the chappy, Ted.......
openlibrary.org/books/OL16508539M/Davy_Jones%27s_Locker
"BBC TV Live broadcast from Broadway Studios,Cardiff:6 Dec 1955."
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That sounds like it Mark. Very grainy on the telly and I can't remember anything about it really.
I don't think I'll be looking for a copy of the book though.
Well found.
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I think the creepiest one for me was the Kenneth Connor voiced "Torchy the Battery Boy", which was a bit before my time on first broadcast but subsequent repeats put the willies up me for some reason.
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put the willies up me for some reason.
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Peter Firmin, who collaborated with Oliver Postgate on several classics that are or should have been mentioned in this thread including Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Noggin has the died at age of 89:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/01/bagpuss-clangers-basil-brush-creator-peter-firmin-dies-aged-89
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Kids TV You Remember - Tooslow
