Children's spelling programme from the 70's/80's

[merc_man]

Chaps,

Can anyone remember the name of the spelling programme where there was this kind of hovering head puppet thing in the 70's/early 80's?

[Plotloss]

The typewriter golf ball?

That was Wordy from You & Me

[merc_man]

That's the one. Cheers plotters.

[Puggit]

Me & You

[merc_man]

[pedant]Actually, having done further research, it was Look and Read[/pedant]

[parakitaMol.]

Lots and lots of things to do.

[Plotloss]

merc_man][pedant said:

Actually, having done further research, it was Look and Read[/pedant]

Ahh you're quite right.

Theres one episode that sticks in my mind from either Look and Read or You & Me that featured platform shoes called Blockaboots.

There was a song.

It went

Blockaboots, Blockaboots, Block, Block, Blockaboots, they're in fashion todaaaaaaaaay.

I remember the oddest things.

ETA: God love YouTube http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKBPl3VZXg

Edited by Plotloss on Monday 19th January 09:04

[scumbagjag]

"Take 'happen' and 'ing'
and build yourself a word."

[rich1231]

Words and Pictures

[ytrebil]

I remember Look & Read...

Magic, magic E!

Round, up, down and FLICK - I remember being a little ankle biter and really exaggerating the flicks at the end of d's etc. I remember one that went across an entire double spread in my book which I got in trouble for.

Anyone remember Geordie Racer from the 80's? We watched that in school too. With his pigeon, Blue Flash IIRC.

[bigandclever]

Sad bd that I am, the bloke who voiced Wordy plays nasty Brian Aldridge in The Archers.

[Plotloss]

bigandclever said:

Sad bd that I am, the bloke who voiced Wordy plays nasty Brian Aldridge in The Archers.

Who once hosted a show with Bernard Manning.

[Vee]

Anyone watch the programme which followed Look & Read ?
About a kid from space who was stuck on Earth with a wierd looking bloke chasing him (called the Thin Man iirc). For some reason he used to freak me out, even in daytime.
In defence I was very young at the time !

[erolb]

parakitaMol. said:

Lots and lots of things to do.

Melody copied by Noel Gallagher in one of the Oasis songs - As admitted in this interview http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2JnT0gQe2h4 at 2:14

[ytrebil]

Vee said:

Anyone watch the programme which followed Look & Read ?
About a kid from space who was stuck on Earth with a wierd looking bloke chasing him (called the Thin Man iirc). For some reason he used to freak me out, even in daytime.
In defence I was very young at the time !

Olly The Alien?

[ytrebil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Warp

[Vee]

ytrebil said:

Vee said:

Anyone watch the programme which followed Look & Read ?
About a kid from space who was stuck on Earth with a wierd looking bloke chasing him (called the Thin Man iirc). For some reason he used to freak me out, even in daytime.
In defence I was very young at the time !

Olly The Alien?

Nope, that was mid 90s according to your link.
I was at uni then. I'm talking about 1979/80 ish.
. . The Boy from Space.

[JRM]

ytrebil said:

I remember Look & Read...

Magic, magic E!

I was actually in one of the programmes and chanted that saying! Along with making words ending in -LY from the BBC B Computer programme that generated them.
My word was 'Badly' so I had to sing badly.

Oh and that floating head thing was actually just a person in blue tights next to a blue screen - sorry if that's wrecked things for anyone here

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