After a drunken 2am conversation saturday night - who remembers these 80's TV classics? We used to watch them at school - Dark Towers was the best. They were part of "Look and Read" - and was presented by Wordy, a yellow hat that talked alot about "magic magic eeee!"

I remember watching Badger Girl at Junior school, and Geordie Racer! :D

I don't think we saw 'Dark Towers' though.. :(

Dark Towers and Geordie Racer were the ones we got.

And anyone remember the song 'with me, magic e...wheeee, magic e'?

You wouldn't get that these days...

I remember all of these. We also watched one called Through the Dragon's eye.

I bought the complete series of Dark Towers on Ebay last year, classic... They just don't make Educational TV as good nowadays... Apart from anything featuring Sophie "Ace" Aldred that is :love:

I loved the wizard magic E. I'm the wizard magic eeeeee. You take hop, and then you hope. with cop, then you cope. With me magic E, me magic EEEEEE!!!

And dragon's eye too - north for south, east for west, the quest.. to save the land of der der der goes by. Look bravely through the dragon's eye... la la la!!

Lovely :D

I dont remember Dark Towers but we definately watched Geordie Racer, Badger Girl and Through the Dragons Eye!!!
I can remember us all singing along to the Geordie Racer theme tune [!] and Magic magic E!!!

"Dust and cobwebs everywhere...footsteps on the winding stair...mysteries in the air...in Dark Towers...dun dun dun dun duun!"

Eee! God! Watched them when I was about 7 at school.

Got Dark Towers, Badger Girl AND Geordie Racer ^_^

And who can forget the Magic E!!!???!!!

Ecclesfield Primary's got a big orange Wordy painted on the short corridor wall...along with Bill the Brickie and the little Full Stop woman...well, it did six years ago...Eee! Loved them!

I remember Badger Girl :D

Ahhhh! I'd forgotten about Through The Dragons Eye - was the dragon called Smorknoff or was that the dragon in Knightmare?!:huh:

OMG Through the Dragons Eye, I think that used to scare the heck out of me!

anyone used to watch bagpuss

I loved dark towers. To the guy who bought the DVD, is it still good, or are we best sticking with the memories?

Geordie Racer was filmed in the lighthouse next to my house.....so it was kinda weird when we watched that at school becuase we had all stood around watching it get made.

I loved Through The Dragons Eye.

http://www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/stories/eye/index.shtml

I loved dark towers. To the guy who bought the DVD, is it still good, or are we best sticking with the memories?

Geordie Racer was filmed in the lighthouse next to my house.....so it was kinda weird when we watched that at school becuase we had all stood around watching it get made.

The guy who bought the DVD was me... And yes it is stil just as good as it was in 1981 when they showed it us in a dark room at Rivelin First School.... Even though the acting is pretty wooden by even early 80s standards, the storyline is still exciting enough to hide this.

The guy who bought the DVD was me... And yes it is stil just as good as it was in 1981 when they showed it us in a dark room at Rivelin First School.... Even though the acting is pretty wooden by even early 80s standards, the storyline is still exciting enough to hide this.

Brilliant! Cheers marra, I shall seek it out.

I remember the lot! Through The Dragons Eye, was that the one where they had to go find golden eggs or something? I seem to remember that being quite weird, It was Geordie Racer that got a cheer when that was coming on in the classroom though hehe.

The Boy from Space was my favourite.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/lookandread/

There was a great site which contained loads of L&R material, including details of when they were bring showed on the CBBC channel, but I can't find the link :-(

I used to enjoy you and me, me and you lots and lots of things to do, lots and lots of things to see me and you , you and me, do, do, do, do, do, do,do ,do....
oh and Words and Pictures, that was fab, anyone remember sitting on the itchy carpet at school watching the clock on the telly tick away untill the programme came on

We watched Badger Girl, Geordie Racer and Through the Dragon'e Eye. I remember the magic EEEEE thing as being an orange dustbin thing with arms called Wordie. He was helped by cartoon characters in little rhymes, ie Bill the Brickie "Why don't you build yourself a wall with ED, to say it happenED" etc

AAahh Happy Days!

We watched Badger Girl, Geordie Racer and Through the Dragon'e Eye. I remember the magic EEEEE thing as being an orange dustbin thing with arms called Wordie. He was helped by cartoon characters in little rhymes, ie Bill the Brickie "Why don't you build yourself a wall with ED, to say it happenED" etc

AAahh Happy Days!

Oh yes, the Bill the Brickie bits were in the Dark Towers episodes.

And the magic E... They just wouldn't make kids educational telly like it these days, it's all Teletubbies and Boobahs, crap.