Childhood TV favourites

Yes Follyfoot had a similar effect on me as the one you mention, but \I
don't remember it, only the name.

As for younger.
Hmm, I can remember

andy Pandy, and the Flowe Pot men from our old telly with a magnifier and
the windmill interlude and trying to work out where the join in the film
loop was from clouds and a jump in the blade position. I know little things
please little minds...
Then I recall Gerry Andersons first really successful one Four Feather
Falls, a puppet western with a guy with magic guns. Very violent when you
think about it.

When you think of all the series he had some involvement in.
Twizzle, Fireball XL5, Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Secret
Service, Captain Scarlet, UFO some live action of course, Secret Service
was the one starring Stanley Unwin of course.

Other puppet driven ones still get runs today, Torchy the Battery Boy, and
Space Patrol,

Brian

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Bill Wright wrote:
Robin Hood, William Tell, Popeye, Mr Edd, Beverly Hillbillies,
Flintstones

Bill


Huge subject to cover really as compared to adulthood the various stages
of
childhood are fairly short and what appeals to a 5 year old will not to a
12 old whereas the same persons by the time they are 22 and 29 could both
be interested in the same programme.

I would not so say it was a favourite but there was series called the Owl
Service which I recall.
It was aired around the time of my own puberty and my interest in it would
be basically covered by " If him and her have spent the night in that
tent/hut then the lucky sod must have a had a good chance of seeing her
bits uncovered, the characters being a teenage boy and girl not that much
older than I was.
The rest of the story was a bit weird.
Don't know if it has ever been shown again since then or even if it was
made in colour .

Catweazel roughly in the same era was fun and spawned a few phrases that
outlived it.
I still think of a phone as a Telling Bone to this day.

GH

So post 69 then, i was at work by then.
Brian

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I would not so say it was a favourite but there was series called the Owl
Service which I recall.
It was aired around the time of my own puberty and my interest in it
would
be basically covered by " If him and her have spent the night in that
tent/hut then the lucky sod must have a had a good chance of seeing her
bits uncovered, the characters being a teenage boy and girl not that much
older than I was.
The rest of the story was a bit weird.
Don't know if it has ever been shown again since then or even if it was
made in colour .

The Owl Service is on Youtube somewhere and it was in colour.

You can still see Avengers that far back sometimes. They were very good and
lots of innuendo. Not sure how they got away with it, perhaps we were all
innocent back then.


Anyone remember zocko?
A kind of music juke box in pictures.
I have strange recollections of a series wherere this bloke was driving a
hovercraft up a river and got involved in all sorts of people who were
lawless. the general plan seemed to be lots of pictures of boats being
chased by a hovercraft and British blokes looking unruffled and British at
every opportunity!

Brian

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

Space Patrol, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Doctor Who, whirlybirds,
Cannonball.

Avengers (for Cathy Gale).

Bob.

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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".

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.


IIRC, we got a TV in 1955, when I was six or seven. I don't think we got
to see the Coronation, two years earlier. I would have been four then. I
can remember all the grown-ups being very excited about this thing they
called "the Coronation", but I never did find out what it was.

Of course it was during that decade that Britain went from hardly anyone
having a TV to almost every home having one.
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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.

I have fond memories of Pathfinders.
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that man can never learn anything from history."
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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.

All three Hanna-Barbera of course.
I would argue they *gave* us our first glimpse of what it was like in
America. No prior knowledge necessary.
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On 03/05/2018 08:08, Chris J Dixon wrote:
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

Doomwatch was quite interesting for older teenagers.

I well remember one program where they were castigating the
idea of using peoples genetic makeup to try and predict their
chances of becoming a crim.

And another program had a two-headed animal of some sort
after some badly thought out genetic cloning.

Way ahead of its time.

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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".
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We musn't forget Skippy, the Bush Kangeroo must we?


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So post 69 then, i was at work by then.
Brian


I saw the original in 1969 (Dec) and the repeat in 1978. I
particularly remember the extended continuity announcement, paying
tribute the cinematographer David Wood who had recently died, He was
"far sighted" and used colour stock. (I suppose the expectation for a
childrens series was still B&W).

The Wiki says it was due to a technicians' strike that it wasn't Tx in
colour, I suppose they mean a work to rule

The wiki also says a multi-camera setup was used, which I would doubt
on a 16mm film shoot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ow...ice_(TV_series)


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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

Yes indeed. Television was just what John Reith needed to ensure there
would be someone left to empty his bins.
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