Childhood TV favourites

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Michael Bentines performing fleas ???

Good call. They were part of "It's a Square World".
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that man can never learn anything from history."
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On Wed, 2 May 2018 20:04:56 +0100, Andrew
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On 02/05/2018 14:01, Bill Wright wrote:
Robin Hood, William Tell, Popeye, Mr Edd, Beverly Hillbillies, Flintstones

Bill

Wooden tops and Clangers .. please

Michael Bentines performing fleas ???

And The Magic Roundabout when I should have known better.

My all time favourite line was when it once ended: 'Au revoir, said
Zebidee, in French'.

On 02/05/2018 21:00, Woody wrote:
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Robin Hood, William Tell, Popeye, Mr Edd, Beverly Hillbillies,
Flintstones

Here we go - in no particular order:

Four Feather Falls
Thunderbirds
Stingray
Joe 90
Space 1999
Green Acres
Bonanza (no-one ever got hurt!)
Lone Ranger
Gunsmoke

Oh, I could go on for ages but SWMBO wants a cuppa!

Newsnight, The Daily Politics, Prime Minister's Questions, The Money
Programme, Panorama, all round at the Rees-Mogg's.

Happy days.

In message , Woody
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Lone Ranger

Oh yes, a favourite of mine too, It was on on Saturday mornings in the
late 1950s, ISTR. There was also "Champion, the Wonder Horse".
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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John Hall wrote:
In message , Woody
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snip
Lone Ranger

Oh yes, a favourite of mine too, It was on on Saturday mornings in the
late 1950s, ISTR. There was also "Champion, the Wonder Horse".

we ddin't have television when I was a child, We went to a friend's house
to watch the Coronation. Indseed my parents didn't get a tv until I was at
university.

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"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On 02/05/2018 14:01, Bill Wright wrote:

Robin Hood, William Tell, Popeye, Mr Edd, Beverly Hillbillies, Flintstones

Yes, all those, plus Biggles with Neville Whiting, Roy Rogers, Wells
Fargo, Lucky Dip/Tuesday Rendezvous (with Bert Weedon) and Pathfinders
In Space/To Mars/To Venus.

On 02/05/2018 22:56, charles wrote:

we ddin't have television when I was a child, We went to a friend's house
to watch the Coronation. Indseed my parents didn't get a tv until I was at
university.


If they'd got one earlier you might not have got to university.

Bill

You lot are younger than I thought.

Not noticed any mention of Billy Bean and His Funny Machine.
He built it to see what it would do.

The Simpsons wrote:

You lot are younger than I thought.

Not noticed any mention of Billy Bean and His Funny Machine.
He built it to see what it would do.

:-)

For years, before the Internet, I began to think it had been a
figment of my imagination. Great programme!

I remember, but didn't really like, "All Your Own" presented by
Huw Weldon. Seemed to be lots of earnest young piano players and
other musicians, kids who had made a train set from a washing
machine (or was it the other way round)...

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Plant amazing Acers.

Yes well American cartoons did have a place. I think Flintstones, Yogi Bear
and top cat were OK but you needed to have some knowledge of american
culture for them to work.

I do not recall a lot of the other ones, you must be younger than myself.

No crackerjack was rubbish. As for John Noakes, Of course he was acting to
some extent. Nobody could be that chaotic. it was very well done, as
children love an intelligent idiot.

Some of the shows you mention were for adults though.

Brian

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Mr Magoo, Tomorrow People, Magpie, For the older and more mature bloke,
and the girls who like horses, Follyfoot.


How, I did not really reckon Blue Peter, but John Noakes exploits were
always worth a watch as things seldom actually went to plan.

Do not adjust your Set, Betty Boop, was this really meant for kids??

Clangers, magic Roundabout, Animal Magic. and though now considered
politically wrong to mention, anything with Rolf Harris in it.

I liked the various children's dramas: Chinese Puzzle, Out of Bounds, Sam
and the River, Tightrope, The Jensen Code. Even at the age of about 10, I
thought Christine McKenna in The Kids from 47a was rather fanciable, and
after 40 years I've not changed that view :-)

I always preferred Blue Peter to Magpie, Jenny Hanley (Magpie)
notwithstanding. John Noakes' exploits, and his down-to-earth "natural"
manner (which I now understand was all an act), really made Blue Peter
great for me. Likewise, Johnny Morris and the way he voiced what the
animals were thinking, was the best thing about Animal Magic.

I never enjoyed game shows like Crackerjack. Screen Test was good. I
loathed American cartoons like Boss/Top Cat.