Wasn’t Play School absolutely the best children’s tele program ever Brian Cant for 007

hollywoodrox

TheMarlin said:

Pipkins was brilliant and anarchic (or at least it felt that way when I was young). 

Way better than Playschool rubbish. 

Pipkins was what I watched when off sick 

TheMarlin

hollywoodrox said:

TheMarlin said:

Pipkins was brilliant and anarchic (or at least it felt that way when I was young). 

Way better than Playschool rubbish. 

Pipkins was what I watched when off sick 

Heartly Hare had a touch of Johnny Lydon/Rotton about him…

merlin

Brian Cant for Dr Who.

Dominic

The Herb Garden
 Hector's House 
 Stop the Pigeon ( Dastardly was modelled on Terry Thomas )
But , I was just talking to my adult children this evening about HR PUFFENSTUFF which featured the late Jack Wilde

Bellycaster

If Brian Cant was 007, he could ask you if you wanted to be thrown through the Round Window, The Square Window, or the Arched Window 

Kittyfrisk

Brian was a lovely bloke, definitely not a proper Cant.

tone1

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hollywoodrox

TheMarlin said:

hollywoodrox said:

TheMarlin said:

Pipkins was brilliant and anarchic (or at least it felt that way when I was young). 

Way better than Playschool rubbish. 

Pipkins was what I watched when off sick 

Heartly Hare had a touch of Johnny Lydon/Rotton about him…

Tortoise sounded like an east end gangster

richman6100

Loving this thread - so many great memories coming back to me. Brian Cant was an absolute legend. Looking back, I wonder if he was pissed at times, such was his crazy enthusiasm. Derek Griffiths was my personal favourite, followed by Johnny Ball and John Noakes.

Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Pogles Wood...the list goes on. I bought the box set of Mr Benn episodes for my son when he was around five years old. He loved it for a time, before Ben 10 and 'better graphics' took over. Philistine. 

Kurtis

hollywoodrox said:

TheMarlin said:

Pipkins was brilliant and anarchic (or at least it felt that way when I was young). 

Way better than Playschool rubbish. 

Pipkins was what I watched when off sick 

That was the thing for me. I don't so much remember watching some of these things at the time, but I remember being off school sick and watching them.
Was hard to tell if I was feeling weirdly nostalgic for something I wasn't even sure if I'd seen before...or having a fever dream...or maybe just wasted from whatever the Dr had given me! 

RobDavies

My mum worked for the beeb for years - she’s got lots of stories.  In the 70’s and 80’s she was part of the Blue Peter correspondence team and would get invited to end of season parties etc - which I was also allowed to go to.   Didn’t really appreciate it at the time but as an 8yr old, I was sipping pop in Television Centre alongside many of the names that have been mentioned in this thread. 

Jonathangus

RocknRollDave said:

Floella Benjamin, Derek Griffiths, Brian Cant….absolute legends.

You forgot Fred Harris:

Funkfingers

Dominic said:

H. R. PUFNSTUF

FTFY.

Jonathangus said:.

You forgot Fred Harris.

I mainly think of him in The Burkiss Way radio series. 

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Other stalwarts of British childrens' entertainment not yet mentioned include Ray Brooks (narrator of Mr. Benn), Oliver Postgate (Smallfilms) and Bernard Cribbins (almost everything else!).

Shrews

Grange Hill was class. I was in Tucker's year so grew up through my teens with them all. Then Tuckers Luck at 17 when Grange Hill just seemed for kids! 

Double Deckers in the decade before that! 

Kids morning TV in the holidays
- Casey Jones
- Champion the Wonder Horse
- Robinson Crusoe
- Tarzan with Ron Ely! 
- White Horses? 

Merrie Melodies cartoons with Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn, Roadrunner etc

It's a Knockout and especially the European finals with Je Sans Frontiers

I also remember one summer holidays there was a war gaming programme (Battleground?) that all us kids of 10, 11, 12 got into at the time. 

EDIT: Just seen Battleground is on YouYube! 




Tiswas of course, but also enjoyed Swap Shop when it arrived. Ended up flipping from one channel to another from memory. 

We were blessed. 

Offset

'Nuff said.  Only the originals from the 1940s and 1950s however - subsequent reboots were utter rubbish.  The artwork, storylines and sublime animation of the originals have never been bettered.  I have them all on DVD :-) 

Offset

tone1 said:

I preferred Crown Court when I was throwing a sicky….

You can re-live that particular 'pleasure' on Talking Pictures TV on some weekday afternoons...

the_jaffa

Offset said:

'Nuff said.  Only the originals from the 1940s and 1950s however - subsequent reboots were utter rubbish.  The artwork, storylines and sublime animation of the originals have never been bettered.  I have them all on DVD :-) 

Any with the involvement of Fred Quimby were the best ones

RocknRollDave

Jonathangus said:

RocknRollDave said:

Floella Benjamin, Derek Griffiths, Brian Cant….absolute legends.

You forgot Fred Harris:

I did, and you’re absolutely right to pull me up on it. Another absolute legend.

scrumhalf

Hattie Town.
Marine Boy.
The Freewheelers, which had a great theme tune.
Tightrope, a really good drama series.
Ace of Wands.

So much better than prime-time stuff these days.

Offset

the_jaffa said:

Offset said:

'Nuff said.  Only the originals from the 1940s and 1950s however - subsequent reboots were utter rubbish.  The artwork, storylines and sublime animation of the originals have never been bettered.  I have them all on DVD :-) 

Any with the involvement of Fred Quimby were the best ones

Absolutely spot-on.  You always had to look for that distinctive signature at the end of the opening credits :-)