Childrens television programmes of the past

Being born in the fifties, and having my formative years in the sixties and seventies, I believe some of the best television programmes were those made for children. I am a great fan of programmes made for children, and even now think there is some quality work there.But some of the programmes of rhe past excelled in real quality.

For starting this thread I will include one or two of my favourites from the sixties to the eighties.

I will come back to this later with others, I think my avatar would indicate one of my favourites so that goes without saying, for the moment.

The Owl service, a programme made in the late sixties, a mystery about a tea service and the remote.locarion it was set in.

Follyfoot, with its theme tune about a farm for retired horses, the characer of Dora every lad in my year fell in love with

Children of the Stones, a very creepy tale set in Avebury, with similarities to the Wicker Man

The Witches and the Grinnygog, a tale of a gargoyle with a seemingly strange power.

Worzel Gummidge, with Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs at their best.

Others to come, but opening up to reminiscences from other people.

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  • Loving all the shows mentioned.

    A few more of my favourites:-

    Catweazle. 

    Bagpus.

    The Mysterons.

    Thunderbirds.

    Stingray (marina)

    Joe 90.

    Hectors house.

    Magic Roundabout.

    Pitkins.

    Basil Brush.

    Michael Bentines Potty time.

    The list is huge include most of those already mentioned and add quite a few more.

    Stop frame animation was brilliant and didn’t appear to be as such. The puppet characters which were prevelant of the time were amazing and during close up hand scenes human hands were often substituted. 

    Fantastic and uplifting thread, thank you Trainspotter. X

  • The “Tomorrow people”, teenagers with the ability to connect minds and talk when apart and most important each had certain abilities beyond the norm, teleporting but limited I seem to remember, and not sure but I think one could stop time but only briefly. 

  • It was only when I had a colour tv set and stingray was repeated in about 1986, that I realised that the 'in Videcolor' was positioned in a very clever cut.  After 'Standby for Action' and the water explosion came the 'in VideColor' all photographed in black and white.  After the 'Videcolor' sign appeared the titles changed to colour.

    I just thought at the first showing it was just a way of saying the programme was in black and white, since we only had black and white televisions in those days.

    Stingray was the first complete British TV series to be filmed in colour.  However, some episodes of 'Sir Lancelot' (starring William Russell of Dr Who fame) were made in colour as can be seen from the dvd set.  And apparently some episodes of Ivanhoe (starring Roger Moore) were also made in colour.

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  • It was only when I had a colour tv set and stingray was repeated in about 1986, that I realised that the 'in Videcolor' was positioned in a very clever cut.  After 'Standby for Action' and the water explosion came the 'in VideColor' all photographed in black and white.  After the 'Videcolor' sign appeared the titles changed to colour.

    I just thought at the first showing it was just a way of saying the programme was in black and white, since we only had black and white televisions in those days.

    Stingray was the first complete British TV series to be filmed in colour.  However, some episodes of 'Sir Lancelot' (starring William Russell of Dr Who fame) were made in colour as can be seen from the dvd set.  And apparently some episodes of Ivanhoe (starring Roger Moore) were also made in colour.

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