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.
During the early 1960's, many programmes from America were shown during the children's programming slot, although not really children's programmes
There were Westerns such as Tales of Wells Fargo, The Lone Ranger, and Bronco. And comedies such as The *** Van *** Show, Hogans Heroes, and my favourite The Adventures of Hiram Holliday which was a sort of parody of James Bond in some sort of way.
Hiram Holliday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIS2tVeXJ8w
(the advertisments may be a bit annoying)
This forum does not like *** Van ***!
Perhaps it will accept Richard Van Sea-Wall.
How can an actor of such highly acclaimed films such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang get censored by the NAS or forum software. The thought never struck me about his name being worthy of the language police!
Me again (a week later!); sorry to bother you, but I am seeing if typing it in this way will work: The DickVanDyke Show...
...So far, yes it did. 'Bye for now anyway. (Another Thread run out of steam, maybe?)