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

[teamsaint]

...and as it's nearly holiday time .....

(hands up those who related most to the bespectacled, shirt 'n' tie-wearing geek ... )

Not me.

Tiger was a friend of mine at Uni, though.

captain Scarlet wasn't, but he was probably the coolest guy around.
Nice tune, with the odd groovy harmony.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wV6m9NlsOJ4

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(hands up those who related most to the bespectacled, shirt 'n' tie-wearing geek ... )

I even looked like him. The lad who played "Doughnut" gave up acting and became important in chemical research - another tragically early death a few years ago.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Tiger was a friend of mine at Uni, though.

The stuffed toy? (Wasn't it a mascot on University Challenge?)

I always liked "Billie" - she teaches Drama at Royal Holloway (the University, not the prison).

[teamsaint]

The stuffed toy? (Wasn't it a mascot on University Challenge?)

I always liked "Billie" - she teaches Drama at Royal Holloway (the University, not the prison).

No the girl NOT The stuffed toy. That was one of the lecturers. (Actually, I never watched the show, but I dont think I mentioned that.)

Is our lovely monarchy sponsoring the ladies reform home now?!


And now I think of it, why do you assume that I have stuffed toys for friends? Something to do with hanging round here?

[amateur51]

Anyone else remember Four Feather Falls ... with Nicholas Parsons?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqLyY4zQOjk

This first episode appears to be a UKIP recruiting fillum ... which might explain a lot

[Roslynmuse]

...... and starts with some Beethoven (I think) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE8hRt_k6Q

like someone above ITV wasn't allowed in our house

Indeed - another 6th symphony!

[Roslynmuse]

This is a long shot, but who knows - there are plenty of long memories here!

I'm thinking of a programme on BBC (almost certainly), teatime in the early 70s. Group of children, a windmill, theme music played on a mouth organ (I think); ring any bells for anyone?

And another one, mid-70s, on Sunday lunchtime/early afternoon; a sort of compendium of stories, maybe three or four in each programme, little scenes, with a linking thread of a rather larger group of children/teenagers travelling by bus (the programme started, I think, with a sort of aerial view of the bus driving through winding country lanes). One story I remember involved an axe suspended from the ceiling of a cellar and the way to the exit meant passing underneath the axe...

Fragments of memories from my childhood that I would like to have tidied up, if anyone has any suggestions!

[teamsaint]

American cartoon or not, this was one cool tune, and a great fun show.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5-EtB3E-E

ITV very much frowned upon in our house too, if not actually banned.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... a programme on BBC (almost certainly), teatime in the early 70s. Group of children, a windmill, theme music played on a mouth organ (I think); ring any bells for anyone?

Could be Adventure Weekly? Imagine this played (much perkier) by Larry Adler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbP1kZiDlCc

And another one, mid-70s, on Sunday lunchtime/early afternoon; a sort of compendium of stories, maybe three or four in each programme, little scenes, with a linking thread of a rather larger group of children/teenagers travelling by bus (the programme started, I think, with a sort of aerial view of the bus driving through winding country lanes). One story I remember involved an axe suspended from the ceiling of a cellar and the way to the exit meant passing underneath the axe...

This isn't familiar - by the mid-'70s I'd stopped watching children's television.

[Serial_Apologist]

Anyone else remember Four Feather Falls ... with Nicholas Parsons?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqLyY4zQOjk

This first episode appears to be a UKIP recruiting fillum ... which might explain a lot

Yes - Bandit appears to be seriously Mexican, if I'm not racialistically mistaken...

[Radio64]

Yes - Bandit appears to be seriously Mexican, if I'm not racialistically mistaken...

Scarey!

But back to the future now . .and more geeky kids in glasses..... and a groovy theme tune!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Joe 90 - seriously dodgy child exploitation - they couldn't get away with it these days!

Souvenir du Florence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fI7zm7RXHs

[Radio64]

Joe 90 - seriously dodgy child exploitation - they couldn't get away with it these days!

Souvenir du Florence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fI7zm7RXHs

time for some pudding ..

[Roslynmuse]

Could be Adventure Weekly? Imagine this played (much perkier) by Larry Adler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbP1kZiDlCc

This isn't familiar - by the mid-'70s I'd stopped watching children's television.

I'm sure you must be right about Adventure Weekly - there's even a reference on the YouTube comments to the windmill episode which was, as someone remarked, quite scary. If it was last shown in 1970 I've been carrying that memory around since I was 5! Many thanks for this - no-one I've mentioned the programme to had any idea what I was talking about!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm sure you must be right about Adventure Weekly - there's even a reference on the YouTube comments to the windmill episode which was, as someone remarked, quite scary. If it was last shown in 1970 I've been carrying that memory around since I was 5! Many thanks for this - no-one I've mentioned the programme to had any idea what I was talking about!

I'd completely forgotten the series until your previous post - but as soon as I found the Music and series title, I remember it was quite popular at school and that I used to watch it. Can't remember a single story, though - not even the haunted windmill. Further information (from the Television Heaven website:

Adventure Weekly was the name of a junior newspaper set up by five budding reporters; Peter (Brent Oldfield), Andy (Len Jones), Tubby (Ian Ellis), Swot (Frank Barry) and Fred (Elizabeth Dear). As dynamic young reporters they got involved in a whole series of adventures spread over 13 episodes which included capturing a team of post office robbers and covering the story of an unexploded WWll bomb. The kids are offered facilities within the local 'Cliffsea Reporter' offices, itself an ailing publication with a very modest circulation which is faced with imminent closure until it is bought out by London based newspaper magnate Lord Huntingford. Even then the junior journalists are faced with losing the paper's support until they mount a successful campaign to save it and ultimately uncover their biggest scoop to date.

The series was originally conceived as a seven-part children's drama by the late Shaun Sutton, who was later to become BBC TV's Head of Drama, but when the extra episodes were added Sutton realised that he was too involved with other projects and he called in Victor Pemberton to write six of them. It was Pemberton's first job for the BBC and he remembers it with affection: "Although the idea was hardly earth-shattering, the series and characters were really very appealing. I enjoyed the job very much, not only because it gave me valuable television writing experience, but also because it gave me the chance to work with the late Joan Hickson, that enchanting Miss Marple in a later BBC TV series."