The decade that brought bread shortages, power cuts, disco dancing, decimalisation, ABBA, and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee was also responsible for the following BBC children’s television programmes; just a small number of which are illustrated below for your enjoyment. It starred Melvyn Hayes as Edek and Frazer Hines as the other boy. I was 9 in Scotland in the late 1970's. Play School soon went on to be a favourite with pre-school children to such an extent that a spinoff series Play Away was created for older children, and Play School itself continued throughout the 1970s right up to its eventual demise in 1988. Check out these 70's and 80's TV Shows, click a show to be reminded of the theme tune. I am trying to remember the name of a 1960s children’s’ TV series that came from Eastern Europe. Jackanory has over the years featured some very famous and distinguished guests, including no less than HRH Prince Charles reading from his own book “The Old Man of Lochnigar”. It was scary and exciting. ), I think they had hopes on it being a really big hit. avg. Ah, that's the one, thanks. Another inappropriate game show. I thought I was the only one who remembered Let's Pretend and Palace Hill and Ghost Train I thought I'd imagined! //]]>The 1970s was a period of great change for television in general – at the start of the decade colour had only been available on BBC1 and ITV for a few months (and only from key main transmitters), and over half of programmes were still in black and white. BBC children’s output also comprises of factual-based programming such as Blue Peter and Record Breakers – as well as being informative they set out to entertain as well. Grange Hill. I was born in 1962, so most of the list was after my time. The masked serial killer in the Saw movies is called Jigsaw. Don’t.
1970s British TV has a glut of comedy, some good, some not so good but some out and out great. TV shows from the 80s and 90s we can’t believe we loved, 9 reasons Saturday morning kids TV ruled in the 90s. called. I can't recall watching 'Tales of the Rodent Sherlock Holmes' though I'm sure I did see it (again it probably clashed with something else), but I do recall really enjoying it's similar-themed predecessor, 'Ratman'. I’ve been trying to recall the name of a cartoon that aired the 80s- it featured a small boy living in an apartment with his dad- it was a very quiet gentle programme. She tried washing it in a puddle on the way home and was befriended by a little boy. Like the Roman times or the battle of 1066 etc. Can anyone remember a show from the late 70s/early 80s for young kids and the intro had different coloured balls of plasticine which bounced along.
Does anyone remember a show .possibly early 80s that was some epic show like hercules but it was dubbed over with comedy?
The 1970s witnessed the dawning of a golden age in children's television, with the talents gathered in the 1960s now nurtured with the kind of funding and institutional support for which they had fought long and hard, and thus able to achieve their ambitious ideas. Reply Delete. Ivor The Engine. This is a long shot. 1960s-70s maybe? This list may not reflect recent changes . She runs over one bit on her bike. It was possibly either on BBC2, ITV or Channel 4/S4C meaning it may have only been on in Wales.Any thoughts? I got chatting to the bass player who was playing a Fender VI he's bought from Colin Hodgkinson, one of my heroes at the time! It featured a little girl who came to school with lice and the teacher cut off her long hair. The girl Emily (second picture above) who owned Bagpuss was infact Peter Firmin’s youngest daughter. (Just incase you were wondering about The White Seal, it was a cartoon based on a Rudyard Kipling story.). The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
This update in colour from the 1971 version still had the creepy looking Peep-peep who was meant to be our would-be alien friend, but it also had the absolutely hideous Thin Man who was pursuing the boy and any human children who dared to help him. Some scary stuff in the 70s. I can’t even go there. You could almost feel that plasticine slithering over your body. Gulp! Anyone remember a programme from late 80's (possibly) filmed in Mossley, Ashton under Lyne...thinking its set in a hostel or similar...? Shudder. Does anyone remember this animal show where in a particular episode there were a bunch of animals participating in a race. any ideas? Good article. The long-nosed besuited creature in a mask that crept around infiltrating the show and our dreams with his creepy clues and white gloves. 'Telebugs' I remember well, in fact I recall it being one of my favourites for a brief time (though I recall getting a bit bored of it later).
The other one that puzzles me is another drama series, early ot mid 70s, which featured some sort of time travel and memorisation of a code to get them to return to the present. It was shown on an early Sunday eve was only ever one series. Pugwall.
Pulls another out of a bog? Pages in category "1970s British children's television series" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total.
But back in the 70s and 80s kids TV was genuinely frightening! Hi, Yes remember children of the the stones, think it was filmed in Aylesbury, and the tomorrow people had a rather disturbing intro, not to mention Terry Nations, Survivors,All very disturbing as a child.
Very trippy intro. Jonny Briggs.
The Master Of Infinite Disguise had no real face of his own and it was just that, the very concept that he could be anyone that kept us awake. Haha, I …
Sinister. The final objective of the race was somewhere along the lines of hopping into this cloudy ring.
I can't remember much more detail apart from one episode where the son convinced his dad to buy an arcade machine for the hotel and then he changed the order to 10 arcade machines.
'Granddad' is one of my earliest afternoon children's TV memories, possibly due to the Clive Dunn connection and my dad having the song on some old record somewhere. Atara came to our school in the mid-late 70s, absolutely terrific band. :) Some misc. Vision On, The Magic Roundabout, Clangers) were still going thoughout all or most of the 1970s in either new or original versions, as well as the later colour episodes of Andy Pandy. It was Blackpool so nowhere near South Coast. But back in the 70s and 80s kids TV was genuinely frightening! Because a scarecrow with no qualms about killing others wasn’t scary enough… He used to take his own head off and replace it with another one. Does anyone recall a scifi show 80s-90s possibly on CBBC (Phil Schofield or earlier) about a girl that finds different parts of a spaceship? 'Ragdolly Anna' has always stuck in my memory, though I don't know why, as it it was a bit too girly and "babyish" for me by that time - though I think I might have sat and enjoyed a few episodes on the quiet!
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Or were you working there in some capacity? The 1970s was a golden era for quirky and brilliant television, but 1977’s schedules in particular seemed to produce a bountiful crop of what is now termed folk horror.
Forty years later, these small-screen gems retain the power to surprise and unsettle… BBC Children’s TV: 1970s December 11, 2017 November 27, 2017 by admin The 1970s was a period of great change for television in general – at the start of the decade colour had only been available on BBC1 and ITV for a few months (and only from key main transmitters), and over half … (e in b)&&0
I was wondering if it was a segment within another show - possibly Pipkins - but I don't think it was. I remember a children's program probably early seventies about a child that discovers a train and train line bricked up behind a wall.I know I didn't imagine it but can't find anything about it.David, Yep - I remember that and have been trying to identify it, but I would have placed it mid to late 70s, Hi David, I remembered that one, it may have been a famous five episode, What about Children of the Stones, and Tarot Dodds the mystery man.
Anyone recall a children's early 1960s series "Counterspy" set in the Channel Islands during WW2? One of the characters called Spider? score: 58 of 100 (58%) required scores: 1, 33, 56, 71, 82 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. Sound familiar to anyone? does anyone remember a 1970's t.v. And, thanks, I'm slowly uncovering the forgotten side of British TV one article at a time. It's driving me mad! Hi all.
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