Need help remembering a children's TV show!

[Solo]

I remember watching something in the 80's (probably around 1985 ish) - at the beginning, a guy in dungarees drove on in some sort of small truck/go-kart thing(??) and various clips would be shown (I remember one about a magpie). There was also an old-fashioned cassette player thing that would recite things and occasionally get it wrong, wound it back and try it again.

Was it Chockablock??

[Oggy]

Re: Need help remembering a children's TV show!

Was it something like Duncan Dares? not a clue really though to be honest.

[Solo]

Re: Need help remembering a children's TV show!

Nope, the more I think about it, I'm pretty sure it was Chockablock! Thanks anyway though!

[Oggy]

Re: Need help remembering a children's TV show!

C hockablock, never heard of that either

[andria]

Re: Need help remembering a children's TV show!

It was chock-a-block i can remeber it so well but none of my freinds can.
the cuy was really tall and had black curly hair and a moustache too i think.

[Oggy]

Re: Need help remembering a children's TV show!

Chock-A-Block was a BBC children's television programme in the early 1980s. "Chock-A-Block" was an extremely large yellow computer, modelled to resemble a mainframe of the time; it filled the entire studio and provided the entire backdrop for the show. The presenter of the show supposedly played the part of a technician maintaining the computer; there were two presenters, Fred Harris ("Chock-A-Bloke") and Carol Leader ("Chock-A-Girl"), but only one appeared in each episode. At the start of the show, they would drive around the studio towards the machine in a small yellow electric car (with the catchphrase "Chock-A-Bloke (or Girl), checking in!").
The presenter would then use the machine to find out about a particular topic. The name "chock-a-block" was supposedly derived from the machine's ability to read data from "blocks" - which were just that, physical blocks painted different colours. A typical show would include dialogue from the presenter, a brief clip played on Chock-a-block's video screen, and the presenter recording a song on Chock-a-block's audio recorder (which resembled the reel-to-reel tape drives used on actual mainframes, but with a design below to cause the reels to resemble the eyes of a smiling face).