Nostalgic Children's TV and other themes from childhood....

[Nick Armstrong]

That shows an Aston Martin. I thought Rog had a Jensen Intercepter - or am I confusing it with another programme?

You are - Brett Sinclair's motor was always an Aston V8.

An Interceptor did feature briefly, it seems from this remarkable site: one reference in the three pages of results for film and TV appearances by the old Jensen -

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Jensen&model=Interceptor&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on

can you see the one you're thinking of?

[MrGongGong]

I bought 'The Herbs' (complete with The Adventures of Parsley...!!!)- some lovely music in there.

I was also of the Camberwick Green/ Trumpton/ Chigley generation and wore out my old LPs of the first two. Someone once observed that it was strange that no-one thought it odd that the town band, in whichever one of those had a town band (Trumpton, I think), sounded like a guitar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYOQOn-NPU

[Roslynmuse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYOQOn-NPU

As a Merseyside man, originally, the Trumpton Riots were much enjoyed (as were 'Seal Clubbing' and '99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd'*)

* Bob Todd was, together with Henry Magee, one of Benny Hill's sidekicks, the one who looked like a gargoyle, in fact.

[Beef Oven!]

You are - Brett Sinclair's motor was always an Aston V8.

An Interceptor did feature briefly, it seems from this remarkable site: one reference in the three pages of results for film and TV appearances by the old Jensen -

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Jensen&model=Interceptor&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on

can you see the one you're thinking of?

I can see the blue one behind the lady (is that allowed?) on the horse. Now you say it, my memory has returned - of course it was an Aston Martin.

So which programme had a Jensen Intercepter?

[Serial_Apologist]

What about Billy Bean? (vide supra) Shurely somebody remembers Billy Bean?

Yep - Michael Bentine, wonnit!

Billy Bean built a machine
To see what it could do
He built it out of sticks and stones
And nuts and bolts and glue

The motor sang, clickety clang
Rattle ti tattle terater
And all of a sudden a picture appeared
On the old..................

... and that's all I can remember. Not bad though eh, 60+ years on!

[Madame Suggia]

Pipkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmM9irJBT4

[pastoralguy]

Does anyone remember 'The Flaxton Boys' from the 1970's? The theme music was by some guy called Prokofiev from his 'Classical Symphony'. Pity it never caught on...

[Nick Armstrong]

Does anyone remember 'The Flaxton Boys' from the 1970's? The theme music was by some guy called Prokofiev from his 'Classical Symphony'. Pity it never caught on...

The Flaxton Boys - Prokofiev 1,the first thing that came to mind when reading the thread title.

[mercia]

don't remember Flaxton Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEZ4PCIHdo

#80 Billy Bean lyrics according to one website

Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do,
He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.
The motor sang chuggle-arang, chuggle-aruggle-arator,
And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator.
Billy Bean built a machine to see what it would do,
It did the funniest things he’d seen,
So he called it his funny machine, machine,
Billy Bean and his funny machine

http://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/themes/b.htm

http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/children/other/billybean.htm

[Lordgeous]

I wrote to the BBC to ask what the theme music to their 1966 version of The Three Musketeers was, I was so impressed with it. It was the March to the Scaffold. I think they used the final repeat of the big tune. My introduction to Berlioz.

As a kid I wrote to the BBC to ask what the music was that was used in The Railway Children (original B/W series). I believe it was a Greig Symphonic Dance. Years later I found myself arranging many of the Nursery Rhymes for "Listen With Mother" - though not sure I should admit to that!

[Nick Armstrong]

not sure I should admit to that!

...au contraire! you should tell us more!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

...au contraire! you should tell us more!

I think so too.

Though in later years... ahem...

[Serial_Apologist]

Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do,

And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator.

That's it! I'm sure George W Bush must have watched that programme! Thanks mercs.

[johncorrigan]

Hard to beat Batman TV theme tune - I remember queuing in the rain for a couple of hours to see the film in Paisley's La Scala when it came out because the first showing was full up. Wouldn't happen nowadays!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo94Z6Vm-gg

...and while we're there, complete with those two double-dealing do-badders, Wacky Races...stands the test of time for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESi7uGMNaMs

[antongould]

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don't remember Flaxton Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEZ4PCIHdo

#80 Billy Bean lyrics according to one website

Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do,
He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.
The motor sang chuggle-arang, chuggle-aruggle-arator,
And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator.
Billy Bean built a machine to see what it would do,
It did the funniest things he’d seen,
So he called it his funny machine, machine,
Billy Bean and his funny machine

http://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/themes/b.htm

http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/t.../billybean.htm

Breakfast this morning is awash with the Flaxton Boys...which I still cannot remember ...