TRUMPTON - old kids TV not a new name for Washington DC

dogload

Fretwired said:

The magnificent Do not adjust your set ..... Thursdays at 5.25 .. predated Python.

Yes I remember as a Teeny tiny tot sitting watching this. When it came out on DVD I got it for my lad who was well into it. He'd already experienced the entire series' of The Clangers and Bagpuss as a nipper.
He appreciates the finer aspects of gentler times!

starwarsnosebleed

Some of my favourites were:

Thundercats
Batfink
The magic roundabout
Rent-a-ghost
Rainbow (with Rod ,Jane and Freddy)
The pink windmill (with Grotbags the witch)
Dangermouse
The pink panther
Fraggle Rock
Sesame street
Masters of the universe
Mask

boogieman

Fretwired said:

The magnificent Do not adjust your set ..... Thursdays at 5.25 .. predated Python.

That was such a weird program for its time, I loved it for the Bonzos though. 

Most of my memories of tv programs have already been mentioned but I loved Watch with Mother as a littl'un and then Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds when I got older. 

boogieman

Nitefly said:

"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen,
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...

It's "feared by the bad, loved by the good" isn't it? 

jonnyburgo

Animal Kwackers, the blue lion thing was scary.


And even more sinister was the music to picture box

Fretwired

And the Flashing Blade .. I saw it in the 1960s although I think it was repeated in the 1970s as it was made in colour. I recall seeing it in black and white ...

 

RocknRollDave

@jonnyburgo Oh man, I freakin' LOVED Animal Kwackers!

robgilmo

FX_Munkee said:

snakemanStoo said:

Mysterious Cities of Gold
Ulycees 31
Dogtanion and the Three Muskahounds

Best theme music. Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

Bridgehouse said:

snakemanStoo said:

Mysterious Cities of Gold

Didn't this go on for like 60 episodes and achieve absolutely nothing?

I loved the shit out of this, it went on forever, I missed the last one, proper gutted.

Nitefly

boogieman said:

Nitefly said:

"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen,
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...

It's "feared by the bad, loved by the good" isn't it? 

Certainly possible, @boogieman it was 60 years ago!

RocknRollDave

Blue Peter was always shit though. I think it was Nick Hancock who described it as ;
"Get home from school, put the TV on....MORE SCHOOL"

Dominic

boogieman said:

Nitefly said:

"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen,
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...

It's "feared by the bad, loved by the good" isn't it? 

No ,it's the first version and his name was Jeremy Corbyn not Robin Hood 

Dominic

RocknRollDave said:

Blue Peter was always shit though. I think it was Nick Hancock who described it as ;
"Get home from school, put the TV on....MORE SCHOOL"

 How true 
Although John Cravens Newsround was even worse
I think that's probably why I can't watch grown-ups tv even today at 56 years old I only watch Disney ,Nickolodeon channels and some animal programmes ..........I have never understood how people could watch things like Newsnight,Paxman,WORLD IN Action, Question time etc ............they're for really boring grown-ups -just like the News

robgilmo

Bridgehouse

robgilmo said:

This. x1000

Fretwired

And the never ending Robinson Crusoe from 1964 ...

EricTheWeary

RocknRollDave said:

Blue Peter was always shit though. I think it was Nick Hancock who described it as ;
"Get home from school, put the TV on....MORE SCHOOL"

I used to go to school with a lad who was obsessed by Blue Peter. He had every Blue Peter annual ever published, signed photos of the presenters and regularly wrote in, did the fund raising campaigns,etc. Yes, he had a Blue Peter badge although I forget what for. His older sister had died (some kind of cancer I think) and he was a rather odd, over protected mummy's boy (I'm assuming as a result of what happened to his sister)so he didn't seem the best advert for the show.
Not that I watched Blue Peter much but surely worse was Grange Hill. The concept of coming back from school to watch a programme set in a school just seemed truly awful to me. It may have been brilliant but I took agin it on principle and I've never seen an episode. 

PolarityMan

FX_Munkee said:

snakemanStoo said:

Mysterious Cities of Gold
Ulycees 31
Dogtanion and the Three Muskahounds

Best theme music. Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

quoted for truth

Bygone_Tones

Dont know if I had a favourite, Worzel Gummidge was quite cool.

EricTheWeary said:

RocknRollDave said:

Blue Peter was always shit though. I think it was Nick Hancock who described it as ;
"Get home from school, put the TV on....MORE SCHOOL"

I used to go to school with a lad who was obsessed by Blue Peter. He had every Blue Peter annual ever published, signed photos of the presenters and regularly wrote in, did the fund raising campaigns,etc. Yes, he had a Blue Peter badge although I forget what for. His older sister had died (some kind of cancer I think) and he was a rather odd, over protected mummy's boy (I'm assuming as a result of what happened to his sister)so he didn't seem the best advert for the show.
Not that I watched Blue Peter much but surely worse was Grange Hill. The concept of coming back from school to watch a programme set in a school just seemed truly awful to me. It may have been brilliant but I took agin it on principle and I've never seen an episode. 

I know what you  mean I never really liked Blue Peter, but Grange Hill used to be good and quite funny. Surely the worst was Play School, absolutely dire program, but great comedy value for taking the mick out of the presenters. Watch the first minute or so of this, absolutely ridiculous:

robgilmo

Come a long way since then though.

RocknRollDave

Bygone_Tones said:

Dont know if I had a favourite, Worzel Gummidge was quite cool.

EricTheWeary said:

RocknRollDave said:

Blue Peter was always shit though. I think it was Nick Hancock who described it as ;
"Get home from school, put the TV on....MORE SCHOOL"

Not that I watched Blue Peter much but surely worse was Grange Hill. The concept of coming back from school to watch a programme set in a school just seemed truly awful to me. It may have been brilliant but I took agin it on principle and I've never seen an episode. 

I know what you  mean I never really liked Blue Peter, but Grange Hill used to be good and quite funny. Surely the worst was Play School, absolutely dire program, but great comedy value for taking the mick out of the presenters. Watch the first minute or so of this, absolutely ridiculous:

I refuse to even watch that clip on the grounds that you dare to use the word "dire" in association with something featuring the mighty, legendary Derek Griffiths. Even a 10 hour TV marathon of paint drying would be essential viewing if Derek Griffiths was providing the songs to accompany it.