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Hang on, it was Andy Pandy on Monday, Bill and Ben on Wednesday and The Woodentops on Friday, so Rag, Tag and Bobtail must have been Tuesday or Thursday? And who was the number five slot?
(Or so my grandparents tell me.)
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #2221 on: 14:10:20, 18-12-2007 » |
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I thought it was: Picturebook Andy Pandy Bill and Ben Rag, Tag and Bobtail The Woodentops (and no, I'm not old enough to remember, but that's what my mum says  ) |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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Hang on, it was Andy Pandy on Monday, Bill and Ben on Wednesday and The Woodentops on Friday, so Rag, Tag and Bobtail must have been Tuesday or Thursday? And who was the number five slot?
(Or so my grandparents tell me.)
Umm, Twizzle? Maybe? Tales from the Riverbank? Oh, I`ve just remembered something by Postgate involving penguin-like creatures in a barn. I think  |
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« Reply #2223 on: 14:15:26, 18-12-2007 » |
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Ruth's mum is spot-on! (Though Picture Book and The Woodentops were later additions, c.1954 or 5: prior to that it was just the three mid-week programmes.)
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« Reply #2224 on: 15:53:13, 18-12-2007 » |
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For years I was inevitably called Andy Pandy by people, including my nephew and niece who are far too young to have seen the original.  More info on all these progs here. |
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« Reply #2225 on: 15:59:33, 18-12-2007 » |
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No telly in my childhood - I suppose it existed but we didn't have it until I was 17 or so - but when my children were small I used to love Bagpuss. Son says he can still say the opening and closing words.  But Emily loved him.This is Emily. She was Peter Firmin's daughter. Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate were the creators of this and other wonderful children's television progarammes.  |
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« Reply #2226 on: 16:05:45, 18-12-2007 » |
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What a great link, Andy! I couldn`t for the life of me remember Picture Book with Ruth mentioned it earlier. I had no recollection of it at all, or so I thought .... The mention of Bizzy Lizzy and the tray of objects brought it all back! |
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« Reply #2227 on: 16:12:05, 18-12-2007 » |
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This is Emily. She was Peter Firmin's daughter. Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate were the creators of this and other wonderful children's television progarammes.
... and Mrs Firmin knitted the original Clangers, the programme itself being filmed in a barn at Oliver Postgate's house. I've always had a particularly soft spot for the Clangers - peaceful, inventive creatures whose main interests in life are music and food. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2228 on: 16:13:47, 18-12-2007 » |
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These ring a bell. I think I might actually have owned them, or something very similar, when I was little. I'm sure sucking the lead figures might account for the state of decay of my brain now.  |
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« Reply #2229 on: 16:22:44, 18-12-2007 » |
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Ironically, I know more about my parents' generation of children's TV than I do about my own, as my parents both had TVs as children and I didn't have one until I was 13. There are several highlights videos available these days of 1950s kids' TV programmes.
Most of what I know about kids' TV programmes in my own preschool years is a result of reading the comic-strip versions in Pippin and Buttons.
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« Reply #2230 on: 16:25:39, 18-12-2007 » |
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Hah! Found `em. The Postgate pingwings. Phew, I wasn`t imagining them ....  |
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« Reply #2231 on: 17:49:33, 18-12-2007 » |
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I've had the link to the BBC Cult programmes page on my computer for ages since a discussion about The Clangers elsewhere. Unfortunately the BBC thought fit not to update the Cult website any more but if you scroll down to the end of the page you will find video clips of the Clangers (they open in RealVideo) and an interview with Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/intro.shtml |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2232 on: 23:37:36, 18-12-2007 » |
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Anyone interested in Oliver Postgate's work should read his autobiography - Seeing Things, published by Pan. Vernon Elliot wrote some charming music for the Clangers and other Postgate series (I went to a serious bassoon and piano recital once in which Ivor the Engine was included). I have a CD which has all the Clangers music used on TV (some nice use of the whole-tone scale) as well as the first act of a Clangers opera. Try looking here: The music was recorded in a village hall with the windows open and occasional outside noises can be heard, but that just adds to the charm. |
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« Reply #2233 on: 12:20:03, 19-12-2007 » |
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I have to say that I much preferred anything by Oliver Postgate to all that Watch with Mother twees-iness.
Captain Pugwash, Noggin the Nog.
By the time the Clangers came along I had reached nearly my present level of metropolitan sophistication, so it was rather kids' stuff, but I remember being delighted by the line from there "How would you feel slaving all day over a hot volcano ?"
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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