Childhood TV favourites

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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?



I never saw that. When was it on?
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Late 60's/early 70's. Google it, there's a Wiki item.

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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?



I never saw that. When was it on?

Late 60's/early 70's.

Too late for me. I was too old for children's TV by then.

Google it, there's a Wiki item.

I've heard of it, and vaguely know about it.

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I can see the similarity to "Champion, TWH".
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On Thu, 3 May 2018 08:01:33 +0100, "The Simpsons"
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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.


Yes! I remember that. Did the machine not make collar studs, or
something equally random?

Anyway, it put me in mind of Michael Bentine and The Bumblies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJeIX8y3Go

On Fri, 04 May 2018 07:14:58 +0100, John J Armstrong
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.


Yes! I remember that. Did the machine not make collar studs, or
something equally random?

Anyway, it put me in mind of Michael Bentine and The Bumblies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJeIX8y3Go

The only thing I remember from the Bumblies was their train set, which
run upside down on the ceiling, just like them. I daresay that would
have amounted to a special effect in those days, as it would probably
have required reversing scan coils in cameras because physically
mounting a 4.5" Image Orthicon camera upside down would be seriously
impractical. Some cameras were fitted with switches to reverse the
scan coils but there was a rule that we had to switch the beam current
off first to avoid the risk of burning the target, so it wasn't a
quick manoeuvre.

The Youtube clip that played immediately after this one (because
autoplay seems to be on by default) was one with Spike Milligan
playing a Pakistani Dalek, which I somehow doubt would ever get made
nowadays, as it would probably be called "politically incorrect", or
"hate speech" or "offensive". It would be pretty much guaranteed to
offend several of the factions that routinely seek to be offended. It
reminds me of another of Michael Bentine's recurring themes, those
miniature dioramas with little invisible people represented only by
voices and sound effects, and usually explosions. One memorable one
was about the IRA, the little voices had Irish accents and one by one
the miniature props were all blown up. It's been a long time since
anything like that could be made too.

Those were the days when it was assumed that people could separate
fantasy from reality and humour from evil intent. Today you can't even
teach a dog to raise its paw.

Rod.

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On Wed, 2 May 2018 14:01:24 +0100, Bill Wright
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Robin Hood, William Tell, Popeye, Mr Edd, Beverly Hillbillies, Flintstones

I wonder how many man/woman hours were expended trying to think of a
better line for 'Do re me' in The Sound of Music than 'La - a note to
follow so'.

On Friday, 4 May 2018 08:56:57 UTC+1, Roderick Stewart wrote:
Today you can't even teach a dog to raise its paw.

You can, just not in response to Sieg Heil.

Owain

On 03/05/2018 13:56, wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:06:23 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
There was also "Champion, the Wonder Horse".

Which was back on again in the 1980s.

I'm disappointed no-one's yet mentioned Open University mathematics with wooden wheels and cranks to demonstrate sine waves.

Owain


And the Liverpool analogue tide calculator !

On 04/05/2018 09:25, Scott wrote:

Bill Wright wrote:

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

I wonder how many man/woman hours were expended trying to think of a
better line for 'Do re me' in The Sound of Music than 'La - a note to
follow so'.

I too had wondered about the weakness and self-circular contrivance of that.

Perhaps Oscar could have used the line:

Doh - a deer, a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long, long, way to run
So - a needle pulling thread
La - the Liverpool for "lad"
Te - a drink with jam and bread,
....which will bring us back to Do.


["Self-circular" - you could call a road that.]

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On 04/05/2018 09:25, Scott wrote:

Bill Wright wrote:

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

I wonder how many man/woman hours were expended trying to think of a
better line for 'Do re me' in The Sound of Music than 'La - a note to
follow so'.

I too had wondered about the weakness and self-circular contrivance of
that.

Perhaps Oscar could have used the line:

Doh - a deer, a female deer
Re - a drop of golden sun
Mi - a name I call myself
Fa - a long, long, way to run
So - a needle pulling thread
La - the Liverpool for "lad"
Te - a drink with jam and bread,
...which will bring us back to Do.

I have a confession. I learned the song long before I'd ever heard of the
do-re-mi musical system of notes. They were just random words (Doe, Ray, Me,
Far, Sew, La, Tea, Doe) and it wasn't until I was well into my teens that I
saw a reference in an old textbook about do-re-mi and the penny finally
dropped. It didn't help that our "music" lessons were more about getting us
to appreciate very highbrow classical music than about the science and logic
behind chords, chord progressions and why one key sounds subtly different to
another (because notes are not *exactly* 2 ^ (1/13) ratio apart). That would
have been far more interesting that the music teacher going into raptures
about Mahler's symphony or Das Lied Von Der Erde - Alby had a thing about
German composers and matronly contraltos with power-assisted voices.

On Fri, 04 May 2018 09:25:06 +0100, Scott
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Robin Hood, William Tell, Popeye, Mr Edd, Beverly Hillbillies, Flintstones

I wonder how many man/woman hours were expended trying to think of a
better line for 'Do re me' in The Sound of Music than 'La - a note to
follow so'.

Perhaps they checked the dictionary entry for "two" which says "one
more than one", and then "three" which says "one more than two", and a
few subsequent numbers, and then realised that it was what could be
called a precedent and they'd be wasting their time worrying about it.

Rod.

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