School Telly Years Ago

[Halb]

MonkeyHanger said:

"Words & Pictures" i think....

That was good, along with Pigeon street.

I liked Johnny Ball, it wasn't him though he had the same enthusiasm. Not the Heinz Wolfe either.
He was the archetypal mad scientist/professor. A bit like Doc Brown.

He would get his own five minutes on sopme programme, maybe Johnny Ball, maybe something else, with wacky inventions.

[andy_s]

Wilf Lunn?

[MonkeyHanger]

JAM35F said:

video recorder kept in a locked metal storage box on a shelf below.

Top-loading Ferguson Videostar by any chance? Ours was

[JAM35F]

MonkeyHanger said:

Top-loading Ferguson Videostar by any chance? Ours was

Definately a toploader and the remote control was on a cable so the teacher had to sit on the front row.

[Eric Mc]

MonkeyHanger said:

JAM35F said:

video recorder kept in a locked metal storage box on a shelf below.

Top-loading Ferguson Videostar by any chance? Ours was

With lock down keys?

[clonmult]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSE7NwXSjI

Greatest kids TV show EVER!!!

[Eric Mc]

clonmult said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSE7NwXSjI

Greatest kids TV show EVER!!!

May be - but not much to do with schools TV - which is the topic under discussion.

[smileykylie]

Zigzag

[5pen]

JAM35F said:

Anyone remember how we used to live. It followed a Northern family through the ages as far as I remember, same family members and how they did different things in different ages. There was the Edwardians and a WW1 series, each lasting a term I think.

'How We Used To Live' is the only one I can remember. There was definitely a later period too as I remember a post-WWII series including the beginning of the NHS.

Just checked IMDB and it says the HWUTL ran for 17 series between 1968 and 1996! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493329/

I have a vague recollection of listening to BBC Children's radio shows too - I'm sure there was a 'Country Ways' type program presented by Phil Drabble? Would've been 1980-81ish?

[jdw1234]

I remember

Geordie Racer
Badger Girl
Dark Towers

[MonkeyHanger]

Eric Mc said:

MonkeyHanger said:

JAM35F said:

video recorder kept in a locked metal storage box on a shelf below.

Top-loading Ferguson Videostar by any chance? Ours was

With lock down keys?

We had those on some of the classroom chairs, possibly on the VCR too

[Tycho]

JAM35F said:

The big TV with slide/fold out sides and a hood to cut out reflections with the video recorder kept in a locked metal storage box on a shelf below. Members of the class in turn had to wheel the TV out of the store cupboard and plug it in ready (health and safety!!), meant missing 5 minutes of break time annoyingly.Someone else had to set out all the wooden dining hall chairs in neat rows.

Luxury, we had to sit on the floor cross legged....

[Halb]

Thanks, it is probably Wilf Lunn.

The main thing I remember aboot HWUTL is that Joey from Bread was in it.

[m444ttb]

haha this thread just reminded me of Geordie Racer and Through the dragon's eye. The former probably distorted my view of the north for life!

[PaulG40]

I always remember Simon and the Witch!





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se70WTG6I3A

The 'witch' was played by my great auntie (my nan's sister), Elizabeth Spriggs.