PEW.PEW,BARNEY MCGREW ...........WINDY MILLER HAS GUFFED ! Cue Trumpton Music
As we used to joke when we were kids
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My enquiring youngest ( i had children very late in life ) asked me if television was invented when I was a kid ....having replied yes but that it was in Black and white until I was about 9 years old the second question was "what was it like ?"
Thanks to You Tube I was able to quickly show TRUMPTON, CAMBERWICK GREEN ,WOMBLES ,MAGIC ROUNDABOUT ETC
I felt a wave of warm nostalgia ,my long dead grandmothers cajoling to drink my Ovaltine and the smell of Victoria sponge in the oven together with the anticipated joy of licking out the icing bowl ...................different days
Taking off the Rose tinted specs I have to say .............some of those Kids TV shows were so boring in retrospect ......all the pace and momentum of a bad bout of constipation !
Nice Memories of a far more innocent age .........
My daughter was bored in 20 seconds but asked out of frustration " OK ,but did you have better things on your phone ? "
Even 2 minutes of Catweazle couldn't hold her attention ............
My " younger " wife always recalls RENT-A-GHOST ,but what were your tv memories as a kid ?
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Bagpuss was another. (But I never worked out how Emily's house was a "shop" if it "didn't sell anything"...?)
Bod - always followed by Alberto Frog and His Animal Band. Viewers of a certain age will know exactly what I mean when I say "The squirrels on the trombone knew what he was going to ask for...."
I need to find an episode of Pipkins so I can give them nightmares from watching "Hartley (the partlty decomposed) Hare".
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Ulycees 31
Dogtanion and the Three Muskahounds
Topov the Brummy monkey.
Bing, bong, ding...time... for a story.
In the last couple of years of primary school I could get home for lunch and eat my sandwiches in front of half an episode of Pebble Mill at One, so my early television memories include coachloads of old ladies watching B division pop singers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8
He-Man, and the Masters of the Universe
ThunderCats
Dangermouse/Duckula
Dungeons and Dragons (cartoon)
...Stig of the Dump
Mr Ben was really excellent and I like the music
Michael Palin now doing the Clangers narrative ( what the fuck was a Soup Dragon )
Big One for me was HR PUFFENSTUFF and Banana Splits but these came later
I liked Pogles wood with Pippin and Tog
Worzel Gummidge
Other favourites were anything narrated by Oliver Postgate, The Freewheelers, Tightrope (great drama series), Ace of Wands and Pogles Wood.
ah the days when you could make kids TV whilst off your tits.....
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men,
Feared by the rich, loved by the poor,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!"
They don't write theme songs like that any more...
I used to almost burst with anticipation waiting to find out which of the characters were going to pop out of the music box.
I remember one episode of Chigley where Lord Belborough took Bessie the steam engine all the way to Trumpton. Blew my mind that did - it was like Mary, Mungo & Midge had come down in the lift and stepped out into the garden at Hector's House.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!