Look and Read videos at school

[gnarlyboy1984]

Does anyone remember the Look and Read videos at school? Like Geordie Racer and Through The Dragon's Eye? I think after you watched the video you had to do a little test on it.

[sdt]

i still remember the song to geordie racer. sure the start of the program was from a helicopters view over the a bridge with a marathon going on even thou it was about pidgeons. there was an orange dude in throught the dragons eye and they had to find these block which formed a big piller thing, haha. i can still mind that the orange guy used his wooly jumper, by takin the stiching out and so they could leave a trail behind them in a set of caves. o the good old days. dont remember there bein a test

[gnarlyboy1984]

wow! you remember them much better than I do.

Maybe it was just at our school where they made you do a test on it.

[dean80's]

i dont remember that but i remember watching a animated educational programme at school called "thinking" which i vaguely remember being about a thin king and involved words and numbers etc

[gnarlyboy1984]

I can't remember that... I was in primary school in the late 80's/early90's. How about you?

[dean80's]

primary school for me was mid/late 70's (how old do i feel!!!!)

[gnarlyboy1984]

lol.

[CherryMay]

Oh man, I remember seeing those in primary school...

I can hardly remember them though now, I'd really like to see them again. I can remember three random scenes, not sure if they were from 'Look and Read' or not, but either way they were shown in school.


The first one was something about a dragon, and a guy had to cross a really thin bridge. I distinctly remember the guy was carrying, or trying to get, some orange glowing rock-like object.

Secondly, was a different 'series'(?), where a guy would type in 'QWERTYUIOP' as a secret password on a computer. I remember this because he pressed random keys all over the keyboard to type it, instead of the top row, which I found odd.

Thirdly, there was some kind of acted-musical thing, involving witches and someone in a cage. I have no idea what that was all about. XD

[gnarlyboy1984]

The dragon one you are thinking of, is most probably 'Through The Dragon's Eye'. Not sure about the others though.

[gnarlyboy1984]

Look and read was on the CBBC channel on sky the other day.

[dean80's]

i was watching CBeebies with my youngest and they have a new version of Andy pandy. wow... so thats what he was like in colour!!! LOL

[gnarlyboy1984]

what is a weeble anyway? :S

[deeks]

Re: Look and Read videos at school

Yeah, watching "The Boy From Space" was like an amazing thing for me in primary school.

Like - we can watch scifi, interesting TV... in a school lesson..! Win!

I really looked forward to those episodes. I also liked "Dark Towers" as well...