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Back in the days before Cbeebies etc in the 70s, the only morning kids tv I can remember was the stuff they put on in the mornings during the summer holidays.
There was the Banana bunch, Arabian knights, Flash Gordon, but the one I want to get the name of was a black and white series that I think was in French but dubbed in English. It looked pretty old (50/60s) and the main character was a small boy called Sebastian.
Can anyone remember the name of this series. I loved it and I've been trying to remember its name for ages. Cheers.
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 12:43 - Oct 24 with 2707 views
Those names from Pugwash are an urban myth im afraid. Victor Lewis Smith wrote that in a tv review and was sued by Pugwash' creators. It cost him £25,000 in libel damages.
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 15:19 - Oct 24 with 2615 views
My wife and I quite often do a duet of The littlest Hobo theme — blinding it is — we’ve added in a few improvised bits over the years too. Had half the bar singing it out in Krakow when we played out there — good times.
Flashing Blade — loved it then and liked to sing along to the opening, but suspect it might actually have been a bit sh it?
Why Don’t You? was a classic case of watching the telly for the sake of watching it. If we’d had more than three channels to choose from and turning over hadn’t involved a war of attrition between me and my brothers — none of us being arsed to walk six feet across the front room to turn the telly over — I’d never have watched it. I think it was meant to be spread around the UK, but in my head, the kids on it were nearly always from Northern Ireland — is that a fair observation?
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That is a fair observation on Why Don't You, Konk. It was filmed in NI. I'm constantly being reminded about it by a very good friend of mine from Belfast who featured on one of the shows. I think he forgets that he has told me about it a thousand times before! There was a programme about it about a couple of years back on BBC NI. And yes, my friend phoned me at the time to remind me of when he was on it!!
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 16:07 - Oct 24 with 2593 views
some others not mentioned yet, jamie and the magic torch, cloppa castle, chorlton and the wheelies, fingerbobs, chigley, trumpton, cambelwick green (not sure thats the correct spelling) and the classic michael bentines potty time.
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 16:35 - Oct 24 with 2586 views
That is a fair observation on Why Don't You, Konk. It was filmed in NI. I'm constantly being reminded about it by a very good friend of mine from Belfast who featured on one of the shows. I think he forgets that he has told me about it a thousand times before! There was a programme about it about a couple of years back on BBC NI. And yes, my friend phoned me at the time to remind me of when he was on it!!
It was filmed from various locations each year, Bristol featured prominently if I remember correctly.
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
Although the BBC in their infinite wisdom called it Boss Cat.
The question that has long puzzled Top Cat scholars is this: If his intellectual close friends get to call him 'T.C.', what do the less mentally well-endowed members of his entourage get to call him?
Air hostess clique
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 16:49 - Oct 24 with 2564 views
Although the BBC in their infinite wisdom called it Boss Cat.
I read once that when it was first shown here there was a cat food being produced called Top Cat. The Beeb didn't want to be thought to be giving them free advertising so the cartoon makers edited in a card saying Boss Cat into the titles. Always confused me as a kid. Years later when the cat food had closed down they were able to change it back again.
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 18:08 - Oct 24 with 2535 views
Robinson Crusoe was brilliant. Repeated many times through the 60's and 70's. I believe it was French. Liked Belle and Sebastian too. I seem to remember a series of programmes in the 60's called Tales From Europe. There was one, I think from Czechoslovakia that had this talking tree in it. Scared me sh*tless at the time. Mentally scared by it. Does anyone remember Tom Grattons War? It was about a lad and his adventures during WW1.
"There was one, I think from Czechoslovakia that had this talking tree in it" The Singing Ringing Tree
The Red Hand Gang was on every summer holiday in the early 80s repeated again and again - another great theme tune that was.
This was a bit later but it scared the living shite of everyone I knew - Chocky, about an alien who appeared to a nerdy little kid trying to save humans from an invasion Dark as f--k
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KIds Holiday TV 70s on 08:10 - Oct 25 with 2385 views
Not a kids programme but if you were bunking off school,or genuinely off sick in the 70's there's a good chance you'd see the great Bob Hoskins in an adult literacy programme called On The Move..
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