Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
The 1970s seemed to be a great time for kid's TV, animation and puppet shows. The Clangers, The Wombles, Hector's House, Magic Roundabout.
It's a shame that the powers that be decided it all had to stop when this happened.
Fab! I loved The Goodies how could I have forgotten them! My parents used to let me stay up extra late to watch them as a nipper in the early-mid 70s. Bill in particular has been a hero of mine for a long time not only for The Goodies but for his wildlife passion as I was also quite into ornithology as a kid.... and he's a great musician who knows his funk... some of the grooves in the incidental music he co-wrote for the series were deep and my first exposure to the funk and I'm not talking Funky Gibbon here either although that was a laff too