Looking at nitelife40's recent thread on forum 40's it prompted me to bond with my fellow "Life Beginners" and ask if any of you remember the following:

A programme called the Double Deckers? There were a group of kids on a red bus - one little girl I think was called tiger cos she had a cuddly tiger with her.

All together now - "Come on Board, Come on Board, Come on Board with the Double Deckers!!!" :clap:

Other programmes - The Champions. There was Sharon who was telepathic and another 2 blokes with powers but can't remember what they were.

There was 'The pretenders' and 'The Persuaders' one of which Tony Curtis and Roger Moore were in!

The Banana Splits - I bet some of you are now singing the song!

Last but not least - 'Land of the Giants' when I was a kid I thought the special effects were great. That giant cotton reel and pencil wow! Now I bet it would look ridiculous to our kids!

Come on Owdlad - I know you will remember some of these!

Yeah I remember the double deckers!!!

Why don't you....?? Barnaby the Bear......Crystal Tips and Alastair.....Pipkins......Mary Mungo & Midge... I could go on forever!!

Some classics can now be seen on Noggin at 8pm on Nick Jnr!!

What about Belle and Sebastian. The Flashing Blade. F-Troop. Astronut. Casey Jones. The Virginian?

The little girl with the tiger is the now very talented
Lisa Stansfield..... believe it or believe it not!!!


ahhh the good old days!! I used to go home for my dinner (lunch) on school days and always watched Pipkins with Hartley Hare. And later Button Moon with Lisa Spoon.

Do you remember finger bobs. :nod:

And I used to love Champion the wonder Horse and Black Beauty and Anna Greengables and

what about Monkey with Pigsey and Tripitaka (ahhhh monki)

LOL

There was no telly when I was a lad! in fact after we had walked fifteen miles each way to do a 23 hour shift down the pit in our clogs, then walked back home there was little time to do anything, apart from having that blue stuff painted on our heads to get rid of ring worm.

We were so poor that to make it look good, we sat with the curtains open and formed a circle around a candle so it reflected on our faces, and as the flame flickered it looked as if the telly was on.

Them were the good old days:D

I used to dislike Blue Peter immensely, preferring the more laid-back Magpie, fronted by thigh-flashing Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable. Blue Peter seemed such goody-goody propaganda, full of tiresome, over-enthusiastic model makers, bottle top appeals for charidee, and kiddies on Outward Bound courses. My favourite moments were when Shep died, the Blue Peter garden was vandalised [nearly choked with laughter], and John Noakes narrowly escaped death on a Bob Sleigh run.

I liked Bananasplits very much though, especially the wreckless way they drove their cars, as if paralytically drunk. The show featured some good cartoons too.

Another memory is of the perfectly dreadful east European, black and white series with sub-titles like 'Belle and Sebastian'. Often, they would feature some wretched oaf of a boy called 'Galimjhan', or something, whose parents were travelling folk unwelcome in some Balkan village. As the slavic schoolchildren stoned the caravan, the subtitles would say, 'Poor, poor Galimjhan and his family'. Cue sentimental music.

Another awful kiddies' programme was How! This featured unutterably boring Jack Hargreaves, who would waffle on until he foamed at the mouth and fell over backwards about handloom weaving in eighteenth century Suffolk. His side-kick, Fred Dineage was nearly as bad. I remember he devoted nearly an entire programme towards 'How to build a dam'. When were we ever going to use the blasted knowledge?

Looking back, Dick and Dom don't seem quite as bad after all....

Originally posted by owdlad
There was no telly when I was a lad! in fact after we had walked fifteen miles each way to do a 23 hour shift down the pit in our clogs, then walked back home there was little time to do anything, apart from having that blue stuff painted on our heads to get rid of ring worm.

We were so poor that to make it look good, we sat with the curtains open and formed a circle around a candle so it reflected on our faces, and as the flame flickered it looked as if the telly was on.

Them were the good old days:D

Did someone use to have to walk in front of your first car Owdlad, with a red flag? :hihi: :hihi:

And as for clogs, god you were spoilt rotten.

Hey, Owdlad had some very hip wax cylinder recordings of The Inkspots!

Was having the 'childhood telly' chat in the pub the other night... 'Fraid the aforementioned programmes were a bit before my time though.

Does anybody remember the Moomins, Rainbow, Button Moon, The Raggy Dolls, Captain Bucky O'Hare, The Adventures of Willy Fogg, We Are The Champions or Fraggle Rock?

And what about the genius that was Wacky Races?

And Gentle Ben with the big brown bear? Think it was filmed in Oz or somewhere similar. That was a classic.

I've posted this before but for all you TV nostalgia buffs check out this site :

http://tv.cream.org/

Nomme

I remember Button Moon, Fraggle Rock and the Moomins- all very cute. Wacky Races was good- the Ant Hill Mob, Dick Dastardly, Penelope Pitstop, the Arkensas Chugaboom and other competitors- it's all coming back.

Originally posted by technophobe
The little girl with the tiger is the now very talented
Lisa Stansfield..... believe it or believe it not!!!

Well... believe it not I'm afraid! Lisa Stansfield was on Razzmatazz but not Double Deckers.

Which isn't to say that those bus-lovin' kids didn't go on to greatness. After all, Brinsley Ford was lead singer of the mighty Aswad and is now a Radio 6 DJ (ok, not exactly 'greatness', but Aswad were fantastic in their day). And Peter Firth is an actor of some renown.

Here's a nice pic of the gang:

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/herecomedoubledeckers.html

Even Owdlad dunt remember Humphrey Lestoq an' Annette Mills an' Muffin the Mule. Thi were a character an 'all called "Mexican Pete da Bad Bandit ".
A can vouch for t' bad owld days thu'. A used to see Owdlad in 'is clogs an' beg 'im to lend 'em mi when it were snowin' up ar end. ' e nivver would though an' we could nivver affurd candles an'luxuries like that. We used to share a mint 'umbug in t'Winter to keeap waarm.

Just remembered Mr Ben. I use to wish I could go into a clothes shop like he did and try on a costume and have an adventure.

What about the Clangers.

Micheal Bentins (probably spelt name wrong) Potty Time! All the little models when you could see little footsteps and things move from the tiny little creatures that were supposed to be there!

I wonder what the new Magic Roundabout will be like!

Originally posted by Fareast
Even Owdlad dunt remember Humphrey Lestoq an' Annette Mills an' Muffin the Mule. Thi were a character an 'all called "Mexican Pete da Bad Bandit ".
A can vouch for t' bad owld days thu'. A used to see Owdlad in 'is clogs an' beg 'im to lend 'em mi when it were snowin' up ar end. ' e nivver would though an' we could nivver affurd candles an'luxuries like that. We used to share a mint 'umbug in t'Winter to keeap waarm.

I'm sorry but could you repeat that in English please? I talk rough Sheffield-ese with the best and worst of 'em but I struggled to fathom what you were on about there :loopy:

What about the Munch Bunch and Babapappa?

Was The red hand gang another programme or the name of the gang in the double deckers ?can`t remember

Marina aqua marina

Originally posted by Damon
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Here's a nice pic of the gang:

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/herecomedoubledeckers.html

Good grief - was it really 1970! And it's never been shown since? Can you get it on DVD? I remember it oh so clearly and, in fact, recently considerd buying a rear platform London bus now they have got rid of them (fools). Would it be ridiculous to form a new, real life 'Double Deckers' in the grounds of my residence, Toffingham Hall? Bagsy being Doughnut.

Sorry to be a pedant, but as an Inkspots afficianado I feel impelled to point out that all recordings were originally released on 78rpm shellac discs - they had got rid of cyclinders by the 'thirties (fools)

Loved the ringworm ref, Owdlad, did you have your tonsils whipped out while you were still alive as well?

shoe shoe shoe shooooooooe people

tra la la la........

I think I must of watched an awful lot of television as so far I've regognised and remembered every single program mentioned!!
How about 'Daktari' with Clarence the cross eyed lion or even further back 'Gigantor' a cartoon about a huge metal flying robot. For years I thought I must of imagined this one aas no-one seemed to of heard of it, now thanks to the internet I know i'm not deluding myself.
Just remembered Hectors House and the badly dubbed Robinson Crusoe and I'm sure there was another foreign one about white horses?

Pah! No one has mentioned my fave yet which was......

Marine Boy!

I still want some oxygum! :D

Nomme

There were so many great kiddies programmes aound:

The greatest of them all, "The Flashing Blade" - unsurpassed;

Banana Splits - completely surreal, with fantastic cartoons. The Arabian Nights one was great, also the three Musketeers - and Robinson Crusoe, of course, with that stirring music.

Loved Double Deckers as well - wished I could have adventures like that! Scooper was the actor Peter Firth, and Brinsley Forde went on to form Aswad, I think;

And all those badly-dubbed, mainly East European series were brilliant - I loved them! Although the French ones were best - "Belle and Sebastian", "White Horses", "Desert Crusader", the one with the French test pilots ...... Fantastic!

Only the terminally uncool kids watched "Blue Peter" :gag: :gag:

StarSparkle :)

Originally posted by StarSparkle
There were so many great kiddies programmes aound:

The greatest of them all, "The Flashing Blade" - unsurpassed;

Banana Splits - completely surreal, with fantastic cartoons. The Arabian Nights




StarSparkle :) :

Arabian Nights I remember too 'Size of an elephant' sad to say it doesn't work!!! :hihi:

Originally posted by dawny1
:

Arabian Nights I remember too 'Size of an elephant' sad to say it doesn't work!!! :hihi:

And the donkey called Zazum? Poor thing was always getting his tail pulled!

The singing ringing tree!

Everytime I go to a garden centre and see a shrub with a long trunk I think of the program.

went scouting the net to see info about another programme and found this lovely link with tons of stuff about kids programmes

http://www.jedisparadise.co.uk/index.htm?childrenstv/Hickory_House/Hickory_House.htm&1

just look on the left for all the alphabetical programmes, gave me a right trip down memory lane :D

Originally posted by viking
Did someone use to have to walk in front of your first car Owdlad, with a red flag? :hihi: :hihi:

And as for clogs, god you were spoilt rotten.


You never know what you can find if you use the search button

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=356890#post356890

My partner and I went to Morrisons the other day, and he was moaning about all the shopping bags he had to carry. He said to me "where's the b***dy cabbage?" Can any one else remember Crackerjack? Didn't the kids have to answer questions to win prizes and if they got it wrong they got a cabbage?

I can't believe nobody has mentioned 'Pigeon Street'! Long-distance Clara, Molly and Polly, Mr MacAdoo, Dr. Glossop. Oh it was fab.

Remember these lyrics anyone?

Long-distance Clara drives a juggernaught
way down the motorway
to the busy port
Long-distance Clara - nothing's too far away
Picking up and dropping off, load after load

Long Distance Clara, shifts the gears
Long Distance Clara, she safely stears
Long Distance Clara, slams on the brakes
Long Distance Clara, accelerates
Long Distance Clara driving round the bend
Hot dinner waiting at her journeys end
Long Distance Clara, driving down the road
Always on time and never late

(spoken)-
Long Distance Clara, well, she could drive,
across the Sahara....

Pole to pole, east to west
nothing's too far away
for Long-distance Clara

Hr puff and stuff, tich and quackers,camberwick green,multi coloured swap shop,junior showtime,pardon my genie,pipkins,
just jimmy,tales of the river bank,moomins,the herbs,test card.-with the girl on front.
what was that one called katie kukleburer or something.
then there was the one with all the london kids on (suzanne tully.)they were cooking.
one of my other favourites was littlest hobbo.

Originally posted by citygirl
Can any one else remember Crackerjack? Didn't the kids have to answer questions to win prizes and if they got it wrong they got a cabbage?

Double or drop!! I remember that one! Three cabbages and you were out . . . all the prizes you could carry . . . quality telly!


I have to utter the immortal words BAGPUSS at this stage, however. It's an obvious one, but when I bought the video and watched it again - and I was in my thirties - I cried!!! It was like an amazing childhood blanket being wrapped around me . . . aahh, I miss that level of comfort . . .

JfG xx

Lizzie Mouse forever!!

Junior Showtime - what torture! Good grief, I remember it as a parade of precocious brats from stage schools with voices like air-raid sirens, intercut with the occasional chancer from the provinces who's impression of Elvis had caused a sensation at the trades and labour club, but which suddenly seemed cringe-making and ridiculous on national TV. The whole thing was toe-curling, even to a young urchin such as myself at the time. It was terrible and ugly, but strangely compelling - like watching a firing squad.

Tales Of The Riverbank, on the other hand, was sublime - I play guitar to this day as a direct result of the ace theme tune. And I talk to guinea pigs.......

my favorite tv shows as a kid were rainbow mr ben camberwick green trumpton and bagpuss:clap:

Yes quite . the people that were on the show(junior showtime) as kids and went on to be famous are mark curry, bonnie langford, kathryn apanowitz, and last but not least jack wild.
does anyone remember those singing poole brothers.-
(milly molly mandy sweet as sugar candy) lol.
the host was bobby something as i remember.

Another one of my favourites was timeslip, liz and simon travelling beyond the barrier.
I bought this series on dvd.old but very atmospheric.

If you're talking spooky atmosphere (I don't think anyone was, but that's by the by), I have two words:

The Changes.

Anyone still haunted by images of stark elecricity pylons, an infernal buzzing, and a general mistrust of machines? That would be The Changes that did that to you.

More info here:

http://www.bilderberg.org/changes.htm

What about 'the Tomorrow People' a remake was done afew years ago but that was c**p.

Remember Golden Shot. The contestant had to direct by phone a blinfolded person to shoot an arrow at a board. Vaguely remember golden apples being involved or is that one of my weird dreams? :loopy:

Another of my favourites was rentaghost!!!

Sadly a lot of the cast have died now!

Timothy Claypole, the Mumfords, the Meakers and Mrs Popov...
I remember Christpher Biggins featured in it somewhere though cannot remember his character name now!!

Grange Hill...with original cast of Tucker Jenkins, Zammo etc etc


:clap:

Originally posted by shieshuk
Another of my favourites was rentaghost!!!

Sadly a lot of the cast have died now!

Timothy Claypole, the Mumfords, the Meakers and Mrs Popov...
I remember Christpher Biggins featured in it somewhere though cannot remember his character name now!!

Grange Hill...with original cast of Tucker Jenkins, Zammo etc etc


:clap:

Mrs Popov was Audrey Roberts off Corrie.

I would love to know what the Singing Ringing Tree was all about, I remember a scary little goblin thingy and a man dressed as a bear, but that's about all.

In defence of Blue Peter, there wasn't much else on for kids to watch, childrens hour was 4 to 5 in the afternoon (if I remember correctly that long ago), and Blue Peter & "It's Friday, it's five to five, and it's" Crackerjack were firm favourites. Four Feather Falls - anyone remember that? And what about the Sunday special Tinga & Tucker Club with Auntie Jean? What programme had Ollie Beak in it?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Damon
[B]If you're talking spooky atmosphere (I don't think anyone was, but that's by the by), I have two words:

The Changes.

Anyone still haunted by images of stark elecricity pylons, an infernal buzzing, and a general mistrust of machines? That would be The Changes that did that to you.

I remember the theme tune, pylons and the buzzing. It was quite creepy. Can't recall what happened in the actual programme though. What was it about?

Did anyone ever make anything that was on Blue Peter, and did they ever turn out like the ones they made earlier? Mine didn't. (Probably because my mother never bought the sticky back plastic.)

Originally posted by citygirl
I remember the theme tune, pylons and the buzzing. It was quite creepy. Can't recall what happened in the actual programme though. What was it about? [/B]

This weird buzzing noise causes everyone in Britain to start smashing up machines. This girl's family flee to France, but somehow she gets split up from them and starts wandering through the countryside on her own. She has various adventures and ultimately discovers the source of the mysterious power - bafflingly, it turns out to be this huge spooky rock in an abandoned quarry that contains the spirit of Merlin (or something bonkers like that). She persuades the rock that it isn't being very nice, and lo! The madness stops!

I only know this because there's a guy on the internet who will send you a VHS copy of it if you send him a tenner. All I actually remembered from being a kid was, as you said, the pylons and the buzzing. Spooky indeed!

I remember Crackerjack.........everyone then shouted CRACKERJACK.

Its Friday, its five to five, its CRACKERJACK. Yes you won a cabbage for getting a question incorrect. The game was called double or drop and it came at the end of the programme. The frontman initially was Eamon Andrews, then Micheal Aspel and finally Stu 'I could crush a grape' Francis, now what happened to him.

Regulars on the show included, Don Maclean, now on Radio Two on Sunday Morns, The Late Leslie Crowther and Peter Glaze. One of the female helpers ended up in a group called Bardot that represented UK in Eurovision Song Contest singing 'One Step Further'

We used to watch The Golden Shot at my grandma's in Walkley (mother wouldn't allow us to watch commercial television at home). I seem to recall that if anyone ever did break the 'golden thread', they won one hundred guineas! When did guineas go out? Or are they still with us? Was it just the amount of currency that was a guinea (it was £1 and a bit, I think), or were/are there specific guinea notes and coins? If they are still available, I really think I should start using them down at my local Aldi, 'a guinea's worth of inedible polish breakfast cereal, my good man!'

Bernie The Bolt had a cushy job, didn't he? All he did was step forward at Bob Monkhouse's signal, put a bolt into the crossbow, then step back again!

Golden thread? Crossbows? The general public? Guineas? Bob Monkhouse? All thrown together? This planet is insane!!

The Golden shot was originally hosted by Canadian Jackie Ray, he of 'Spot The Tune' fame and the bolt loader was Heinz

Originally posted by technophobe
The little girl with the tiger is the now very talented
Lisa Stansfield..... believe it or believe it not!!!
LOL

Sorry, but that is not accurate..... The "little girl" who played "Tiger" was definitely not Lisa Stanfield. That actress is older than I am.

Lisa Stansfield is younger than me, so could not possibly have been in "The Double Deckers". Sorry! Believe it not!

I know Brinsley Forde is now part of the reggae band Aswad, and also presents a music show on sattelite tv. (VH-1 iirc)

There was a programme, about 2 years ago, on the tv about The Double Deckers: a "where are they now...?", and although the others appeared, (brains, donut, and company) the actress who was "Tiger" could not be traced. I think she is enjoying her anonymity. lol

I used to like watching a drama series called "The Boys Of Flaxton Hall", made by yorkshire tv in the late sixties or early seventies.

I also liked "follyfoot", (another yorkshire production iirc!) and I liked watching "Black Beauty" which had the actress Stacy Dorning in it.

My mum loved the Golden Shot. Thanks for that memory, Lord Snooty, and Boppin Bruce. Do you remember the "dolly bird" type, that they had assisting on that show, her name was Anne Aston (Or was it Ashton?) She could not add up, and used to have to count on her fingers to calculate the contestants' scores!?

PT

Plain Talker,
I am sure that I read of Anne Aston's death, a short while ago. I recall her rapport with Monkhouse, and the mini skirts she wore.

Do you remember Tom Gratton's War? I have a memory of the short series around 68/69. I think it was set in Yorkshire.

oh, timo, i really hope that what you read was mistaken.

I know most dads thought she was lovely. and I did think that her "daffy-ness" was sweet. I think that was her appeal.

I don't remember ton gratton's war very well, but i do remember the original "Carries War" -which was brought back recently, as a 2-hour remake.v I enjoyed watching that, as much as I enjoyed watching the original.

PT

Originally posted by Plain Talker
oh, timo, i really hope that what you read was mistaken.

IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040051/) don't list her as dead, so maybe she isn't. They're normally quite accurate!

K x

Anyone remember Stig of the Dump, Worzel Gummidge and Why Don't You??

I've got a few Worzel Gummidge tapes, it stands the test of time.

I've also got The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole that's still quite funny......

I used to watch Stig of the Dump :) I also loved things like "The FallGuy" and "The Bionic Man" and "Dukes of Hazzards" etc. But it never ceased to amaze me the amout of bullets expended each week on "The A Team" with I don't think 1 single fatality :rolleyes:

Originally posted by BoroughGal
Anyone remember Stig of the Dump, Worzel Gummidge and Why Don't You??

I've got a few Worzel Gummidge tapes, it stands the test of time.

I've also got The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole that's still quite funny......

adrian mole is a classic bert baxter with his beetroot and adrians mum trying to defrost a turkey in the bath on xmas day

i liked murphys mob and cbtv educating marmalade was worth a watch as well.......... but if you wanna go back further there was lift off with alisha plus another show cant rember the name of it but it had a band called FLINTLOCK who did songs in it:) :) :)

Originally posted by panda79
adrian mole is a classic bert baxter with his beetroot and adrians mum trying to defrost a turkey in the bath on xmas day

LMAO!! Do you remember when Bert Baxter's dog (the name escapes me - anyone?) ate his false teeth? And when Adrian found them in the dog's mouth, Bert put them straight back in, without washing them??

And Adrian being totally oblivious to all the signs of his mother having an affair and getting pregnant?

Heh heh!

Originally posted by BoroughGal
LMAO!! Do you remember when Bert Baxter's dog (the name escapes me - anyone?) ate his false teeth? And when Adrian found them in the dog's mouth, Bert put them straight back in, without washing them??

And Adrian being totally oblivious to all the signs of his mother having an affair and getting pregnant?

Heh heh!

i remember that scene lol i think the dog was a alsation i no i shouldnt admit to this but i bought the theme tune to adrian mole sung by the late ian dury:thumbsup:

anyone remember SUPERGRAN think it used to be on itv on a sunday around 84 or 85

http://www.serienoldies.de/images6/supergran_supergran.jpg

the above pic might refresh someones memory

Originally posted by panda79
adrian mole is a classic bert baxter with his beetroot and adrians mum trying to defrost a turkey in the bath on xmas day

i liked murphys mob and cbtv educating marmalade was worth a watch as well.......... but if you wanna go back further there was lift off with alisha plus another show cant rember the name of it but it had a band called FLINTLOCK who did songs in it:) :) :)

Oh dear, I remember Flintlock - one of my friends was a rabid fan of theirs :gag: (actually, one of them was very cute but moving on swiftly....)

The programme was called Pauline's Quirkes, and introduced the world to Miss Quirke, for which I've never forgiven it. The good thing about Pauline's Quirke's was that the Flintlock fans were always screaming so loudly you couldn't hear her horrible, grating voice :D

StarSparkle :P

'Russian roulette......the winner always loses'. Wasn't that one of theirs?

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Oh dear, I remember Flintlock - one of my friends was a rabid fan of theirs :gag: (actually, one of them was very cute but moving on swiftly....)

The programme was called Pauline's Quirkes, and introduced the world to Miss Quirke, for which I've never forgiven it. The good thing about Pauline's Quirke's was that the Flintlock fans were always screaming so loudly you couldn't hear her horrible, grating voice :D

StarSparkle :P

sorry to drag ths up lol but im sure a member (ooer missis) of flintlock joined the bay city rollers at some point:loopy: :loopy: :loopy:

Originally posted by Damon
This weird buzzing noise causes everyone in Britain to start smashing up machines. This girl's family flee to France, but somehow she gets split up from them and starts wandering through the countryside on her own. She has various adventures and ultimately discovers the source of the mysterious power - bafflingly, it turns out to be this huge spooky rock in an abandoned quarry that contains the spirit of Merlin (or something bonkers like that). She persuades the rock that it isn't being very nice, and lo! The madness stops!

I only know this because there's a guy on the internet who will send you a VHS copy of it if you send him a tenner. All I actually remembered from being a kid was, as you said, the pylons and the buzzing. Spooky indeed!


It's all coming back to me now, thanks. I don't think I will bother getting the VHS copy though. I might have nightmares.

wowwwww yeah i remember land of the giants!!! and double deckers.only just seen ya post dawny1.. anyone remember HR puff n stuff? with jack wild? and romper room??? long gone are the days of innocent childrens tv when in romper room someone spied children through a magic mirror .......things would be commented today about that im sure...............such innocence....and fun! just remembered i watched in awe david nixons magic show!! and dick emery's " hello honky tonk, oooh you are awful ..... but i like you !!! :D :D :D :

Originally posted by panda79
sorry to drag ths up lol but im sure a member (ooer missis) of flintlock joined the bay city rollers at some point:loopy: :loopy: :loopy: werent flintlock on something called"you must be jokin" with pauline quirk too and they sang the theme tune.??

Originally posted by cobaltblue
I used to watch Stig of the Dump :) I also loved things like "The FallGuy" and "The Bionic Man" and "Dukes of Hazzards" etc. But it never ceased to amaze me the amout of bullets expended each week on "The A Team" with I don't think 1 single fatality :rolleyes:

That was my normal comment about "The A-team"...

I was not at all fan of "the A-team", but my lad, and his dad loved watching it. therefore , erm.. we watched it...

I'd say "what a load of rubbish! How is it, they can fire a flippin' machine gun, into a crowd of a thousand people, and miss every one of the buggers?!"

the basic plotline was "How are we going to dope B.A. Baracus, 'this' week, and get him onto a plane!?" hardly intellectual stuff!

Stig Of The Dump" was one of my favourite books, as a child. it was one I could read over, and over again.

The six-million dollar bionic man was my cousin's favourite programme when she was little, she couldn't say "Steve Austin", she used to call him "Shteem Ost"

talkin of worzel gummidge .........anyone who has anything they would like to sell , let me know.....someone i know collects stuff to do with the series.:thumbsup:

Nitelife40
Wow, Forgotten all about the Worsel Gummidge series-----probably the best children's series ever made. Adults could enjoy it too as it contained a lot of very funny , sly humour that I don't think kids would have cottoned onto.
The casting was near-perfect too.
I know a bit about Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs but have you any idea whether the kids who played the young brother and sister ever became famous later on ?

Originally posted by Fareast

I know a bit about Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs but have you any idea whether the kids who played the young brother and sister ever became famous later on ?

Wasn't the little girl Charlotte Coleman, who was in 4 Weddings & a Funeral and Oranges are not the only Fruit (was she also Marmalade Atkins??)

Her sister was in Casualty for ages too.

She died a couple of years ago from an ashma attack. Shame cos she was only really young.

I sincerely hope I am wrong about the death of Anne Aston. Maybe I saw a feature on the death of Bob Monkhouse, and got the two's circumstances mixed up? I ought to have checked up, but didn't know where to look. Kris is probably right [fingers crossed...].

Someone mentioned Junior Showtime and the appalling Poole Family. I think the Uncle figure was called Bobby Bennett. I seem to recall seeing Glyn Poole [the angelic, Leeds schoolboy 'entertainer'] on a documentary in the early nineties. He had turned into a screamingly 'camp' man, who was still involved in music [of a sort...]. He looked absurd, dressed in clothes of a 'New Romantic' style a decade too late. The Pooles were a kind of Yorkshire Von Trapp family, minus the lederhosen and talent. I used to watch them on a Sunday evening, and wonder how they were received at school by their peer group? I seem to remember a single was released called 'Milly Molly Mandy'. I bet that made Glyn Poole a lot of new friends in the playground. I would have ducked his head down the lavatory in disgust.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by timo
[B]I sincerely hope I am wrong about the death of Anne Aston. Maybe I saw a feature on the death of Bob Monkhouse,

I didn't know Bob Monkhouse was dead!!! Are you sure, I know he was knocking on a bit but he still looked quite healthy! :confused:

Originally posted by Plain Talker

the basic plotline was "How are we going to dope B.A. Baracus, 'this' week, and get him onto a plane!?" hardly intellectual stuff!



LOL Plain Talker, "I pity da fool!" It used to annoy me immensely yet we watched it every week :rant: I blame my wee brother!!

Thanks , Boroughgal
Sad to hear of the girl's death though.
I hate to tempt fate by asking you this but I only spend a bit of time in the U.K. but is Jon Pertwee still going strong and for that matter , Una Stubbs ?

Originally posted by Fareast
Thanks , Boroughgal
Sad to hear of the girl's death though.
I hate to tempt fate by asking you this but I only spend a bit of time in the U.K. but is Jon Pertwee still going strong and for that matter , Una Stubbs ?

Jon Pertwee is no longer with us, died quite some time ago, although his son, Sean, is an actor and has been in a lot of "gritty" British low budget films.

Una Stubbs, I think she's still doing ok, if someone can confirm?

And Bab's Windsor was also in Worzel, she's in Eastenders (a popular (?) soap) here.

The Herbs
Andy Pandy
Crystal Tipps and Alistair
Tales of the Riverbank
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
Mr Benn
The Singing Ringing Tree
Double Deckers
Timeslip
Land of the Giants
Magpie
Catweazle
Worzel Gummidge
Bill and Ben
Bagpuss
Swap Shop
Come Dancing - Yes, Come Dancing:)
Black and White Minstral Show
Doctor Who
Woodentops
Magic Roundabout
Hector's House

I could go on but it would be too boring...

I miss,

Gentle Ben

Champion The Wonder Horse

Flipper

The Fall Guy

Tis Was

Charlton & The Wheelies

Willow The Wisp

Button Moon

Jamie & The Magic Torch

Missb,
You miss Bill and Ben. Have you not seen the new ones with the voiceover of John Thomson [Fast Show etc]? They are very nice. The originals were the best though. There was an element of mystery to the originals; what lied beyond little Weed, I used to wonder? Bill and Ben would sometimes wander off, and I used to wonder where to. The actors were good too. I thnk they were National Theatre players.

And dont forget lorraine chase of recent emmerdale fame, wasnt she also in worzel.
Wasn't bill pertwee of dads army fame the brother of john.
And is he too no longer with us.

going back to time slip, i was fascinated to see the photo section on the new dvd it shows you what they look like now.

I also use to like black beauty the series, with vicky and doctor gordon.

Originally posted by Fareast
Nitelife40
Wow, Forgotten all about the Worsel Gummidge series-----probably the best children's series ever made. Adults could enjoy it too as it contained a lot of very funny , sly humour that I don't think kids would have cottoned onto.
The casting was near-perfect too.
I know a bit about Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs but have you any idea whether the kids who played the young brother and sister ever became famous later on ?
wasn the little girl in "four weddings and a funeral" with hugh grant? if im not mistaken she passed away not long after...

Originally posted by nitelife40
wasn the little girl in "four weddings and a funeral" with hugh grant? if im not mistaken she passed away not long after...

Scroll up!!!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :D

Originally posted by timo
Missb,
You miss Bill and Ben. Have you not seen the new ones with the voiceover of John Thomson [Fast Show etc]? They are very nice. The originals were the best though. There was an element of mystery to the originals; what lied beyond little Weed, I used to wonder? Bill and Ben would sometimes wander off, and I used to wonder where to. The actors were good too. I thnk they were National Theatre players.

No timo, I haven't seen the new Bill and Ben. The old programme although by today's technical standards is poor, had a certain magic that can't be replicated.

Ok, a bit late but always worth it:

Andy Pandy
The Wombles (great for teaching kids eco stuff)
Rupert the Bear
Vision on (that mad Sylvester McCoy!?!?!?, what a hoot)
The Phoenix and The Carpet
Thunderbirds
The Secret Garden
A Pair of Jesus Boots/Rocky O'Rourke (or was just a book I read)

Anyone remember Kizzy about the gypsy girl. The main thing I recall of that programme is that the housekeep at the old man's house where she went to live said that a girl needed three of everthing "One on, one off and one in the wash" and I still do it to this day.

Hector's House was ace.

I have very fond memories of the Singing Ringing Tree; I read somwhere that the BBC had lost the reel and it will never ever ever be shown again. Now that made me sad.

I think one other person has mentioned the immortal Tiswas...

Ace programme - The Phantom Pie Flinger, The Cage where people got hosed down (think League of Gentleman - Papa Lazarou!), Sally, Chris and Lenny Henry...

And, I know I didn't dream this, but I used to come for dinner at lunchtime from junior school and Yorkshire (YTV) showed a cartoon called Gideon - about a swan with an amazingly long neck, who used to get in scrapes all the time... the crazy thing with this cartoon though, was it only last an average of 10 to 13 seconds!!! The theme tune was haunting too!!

Sport Billy - love it!

A programme that scared the living daylights outta me when I was young was Armchair Thriller (Theater?!), the opening scene used to show a long spindly shadow sitting down in a chair.....

Love Heidi too - Peter the goat boy, Urhe, Grandma, Clara and one of the best character names ever Fraulien Rottenmeyer!

Class tv:thumbsup:

Originally posted by timo
Missb,
You miss Bill and Ben. Have you not seen the new ones with the voiceover of John Thomson [Fast Show etc]? They are very nice. The originals were the best though. There was an element of mystery to the originals; what lied beyond little Weed, I used to wonder? Bill and Ben would sometimes wander off, and I used to wonder where to. The actors were good too. I thnk they were National Theatre players.

That's "what lay beyond Little Weed", surely timo? ;)

Every time they said "the man who works in the garden has finished his dinner and is coming back" I always used to wonder what he'd had. Meat and potato pie with Henderson's relish, probably.

Has everyone forgotten the Multi-Coloured-Swap-Shop? It was the very first of the big Saturday morning shows and gave way to direct descendants Saturday Superstore, Going Live and Live & Kicking. Did anyone ever successfully swap anything on Swap Shop?

But the best one was ITV's competition (and I DON'T mean Tiswas!) Somebody had the brilliant idea of doing a live Saturday morning kids show aboard a Mersey ferry. Duggie Brown hosted from a specialy built glass dome studio on the open deck of the boat dressed in pirate uniform to tie in with the shows title of 'The Mersey Pirate'.

In those long gone days they didn't have all the computerised satellite links they have now, and getting a live TV signal from ship to shore seemed something of a challenge. It always went wrong in some was, which made it so bad it was good if you know what I mean.

The best one was when poor old Duggie thought he was getting through a show without any problems, then realised the ferry had docked 15 mins early and loads of Liverpudlians crowded aboard.

Any body Remember Banana Man

"This is 29 Accacia Road, and this is Eric the
schoolboy who leads an amazing double life..."

when he eats a banana he becomes Banana Man :banana:

A few years ago when i was new to the intertwit, i made my own cd with over 80 different childrens tv titles, the theme tume, to all my favorite childhood tv shows, from danger mouse
:hihi: to worzel gummidge :hihi: and not forgetting play school & tizwas...:hihi:
those were the days...:)