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Does anyone remember when Children's ITV had a five minute cartoon series stripped across the week just after the ten minute repeat f what was on at midday, and just before the mainstream CITV programmes? Think of the Telebugs; Thomas the Tank Engine; Victor and Maria, etc.
Not to be confused with the 9.00 pm series Minder starring George Cole and Dennis Waterman, in around the spring or summer of 1986, there was a series called Bill the Minder (which I thought was called Bill the "Miner", rather than "Minder" thanks to a false memory) - I remember very little about the series apart from the fact that it was an animated five minute series on at 4.10 pm Monday to Fridays. Episodes are on YouTube right now so I watched a couple of them in order to jog my memory.
I believed that it was a very northern-feel "Hovis advert" animation series, and was made by an independent company for Central - for some reason I remember it on Fridays most of all, probably before Emu's World, although it was stripped across the week in the same slot. The opening and closing titles had a very Edwardian to 1920s font and credits look to them, which felt very unusual for a 1986 children's television series - it could have been a history-themed series, showing youngsters "this is what things were like back then".
The theme tune was a familiar piece of classical music that I just cannot put my finger on its title and its composer (Dvorak, perhaps?) Around the same time, the Saturday afternoon Wrestling on ITV (divorced the previous the year from the then defunct World of Sport, although Kent "Have a Good Week, Till Next Week" Walton was still doing commentary on it), also used the same piece of classical music when used at the venues where the wrestling took place, and was perhaps used when Big Daddy and Haystacks made their entrances. I certainly found it weird that they were using the same music as the same time as BIM was on, even though it was a well-known piece of classical music to any Radio 3 regular back then.
Does anyone remember the series, and also know the name of the theme and composer? - I know that I might have a bit more luck with the former...
Not to be confused with the 9.00 pm series Minder starring George Cole and Dennis Waterman, in around the spring or summer of 1986, there was a series called Bill the Minder (which I thought was called Bill the "Miner", rather than "Minder" thanks to a false memory) - I remember very little about the series apart from the fact that it was an animated five minute series on at 4.10 pm Monday to Fridays. Episodes are on YouTube right now so I watched a couple of them in order to jog my memory.
I believed that it was a very northern-feel "Hovis advert" animation series, and was made by an independent company for Central - for some reason I remember it on Fridays most of all, probably before Emu's World, although it was stripped across the week in the same slot. The opening and closing titles had a very Edwardian to 1920s font and credits look to them, which felt very unusual for a 1986 children's television series - it could have been a history-themed series, showing youngsters "this is what things were like back then".
The theme tune was a familiar piece of classical music that I just cannot put my finger on its title and its composer (Dvorak, perhaps?) Around the same time, the Saturday afternoon Wrestling on ITV (divorced the previous the year from the then defunct World of Sport, although Kent "Have a Good Week, Till Next Week" Walton was still doing commentary on it), also used the same piece of classical music when used at the venues where the wrestling took place, and was perhaps used when Big Daddy and Haystacks made their entrances. I certainly found it weird that they were using the same music as the same time as BIM was on, even though it was a well-known piece of classical music to any Radio 3 regular back then.
Does anyone remember the series, and also know the name of the theme and composer? - I know that I might have a bit more luck with the former...
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