Anyone remember these

[ian baker]

Re: Anyone remember these

what I remember of sunday tv when I was a kid was bag puss,
'the marvelous mechanical mouse organ', and space 1999. brillo

[Wil]

Re: Anyone remember these

Hammer house of horror on a saturday night

Thriller was a better and more frightening Saturday night watch

[janw2000]

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That finger bobs clip was soooo funny! Im glad things have moved on since then. They really splashed out on that programme, a man, pot of paint and a sock. ha ha Dont think todays kids would be fooled!

[Wil]

Re: Anyone remember these

That finger bobs clip was soooo funny! Im glad things have moved on since then. They really splashed out on that programme, a man, pot of paint and a sock. ha ha Dont think todays kids would be fooled!

You'd think, but those simpler programmes are still as effective and as entertaining for their target age range today. My son of 4 will quite happily enjoy Fingerbobs, Mr.Benn, or any of those Watch With Mother programmes made in the 60s and 70s, just as much as anything made today. If you actually watch something like Cbeebies you'll see that things haven't changed all that much in preschool TV there's just a few more CGI characters about.

[DoubleAgent]

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Wasn't it cabbages???

[Fatboy]

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Saturday nights for me were tales of the unexpected, hammer house of horror this used to scare the s*** out of me, especially the one with Diana Dors in it, eeeeew, does anyone remember this?

Sunday night was The Professionals, I bought the complete series (every episode) of it last year, class viewing!

[karenbrown18]

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Can anyone remember watching Shazzan , where two kids had to put their gold rings together?

Or does anyone remember Marine Boy?

[Heather74]

Hi Karen welcome to DYR, I'm sure there are threads on both the above shows If you pop them into the "search" at the top I'm sure you will find what you are looking for.

Having said that the search wont except three letter words, so for example just type in "marine" and it will find it for you.
Hope that helps

[sixtyten]

Re: Anyone remember these

Can anyone remember watching Shazzan , where two kids had to put their gold rings together?

Used to watch that as part of the early 70's saturday morning shows ( Banana Splits Adventure Hour)with Arabian Nights and Danger island, Three muskateers,etc. Used to be on before or after 'Outer Space' (70-73)

[Rapanui]

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Saturyday mornings on TV - I remember watching H R puff n suff and the beachcombers ...

[rossobantam]

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Karen, I recently 'rediscovered' Marine Boy on youtube....by accident really, jumping between links, came across it. hing is, I'd not even thought about it for nearly 40yrs (unlike Banana Splits, Robinson Crusoe, Belle & Sebastien etc) , no memory whatsoever...BUT.. .....as soon as the music started playing I was a kid again. Wow! here you go... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY

[sixtyten]

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Well I never..I had always though Marine Boy was live action

[GunnerGraham]

Re: Anyone remember these - Upstairs Downstairs

sunday mornings always remimded me of the waltons, house on the prairie and in the evening upstairs downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs, the classic television saga of a Belgravia family and its servants, will return next year in a new version on BBC One. The new version will be set in 1936.
It will be written by Heidi Thomas, who also wrote the BBC’s recent adaptations of Cranford and Ballet Shoes. “The house itself remains the central character,” said Miss Thomas. “It’s very, very close to the corridors of power. In the original series, Mr Bellamy was quite an influential MP and King Edward VII came to dinner. This house remains in Belgravia, it remains at the hub of empire – we’re going to have politicians and royalty passing through the house.”

Miss Thomas confirmed that the producers are trying to retain the original Upstairs, Downstairs theme tune. “We’re talking to the original composer,” she said. “It’s never occurred to us to do anything different. I think we’ll reorchestrate it slightly – perhaps come in on strings, and then morph it into more of a jazz sound.”
Miss Marsh will reprise her Emmy-winning role as Rose - now no longer a maid, but the housekeeper at the same celebrated address, 165 Eaton Place.
“If you had told me 35 years ago that I would be playing Rose again – for the BBC – I think I’d have had a good giggle,” said Miss Marsh. “Rose will have much more help in this one. There’ll be sweeping machines and washing powders and things. I can see disasters when it doesn’t work – when the Hoover explodes instead of sucking it in.”

The original series – which starred Gordon Jackson as Hudson the butler and Angela Baddeley as Mrs Bridges the cook – was shown in over 70 countries.
Dame Eileen did not appear in the original series, as filming would have clashed with her burgeoning career in the theatre. She is however likely to take a prominent role in the new version, as one of the wealthy and connected Holland family, who now own 165 Eaton Place.
“I probably will, sadly, have to be a lady upstairs,” said Dame Eileen. “I would much rather have been downstairs – they’re much more fun to play. But I’m too old to be employed as a servant.”

Along with the independent production company Sagitta Productions, Miss Marsh and Dame Eileen still own the rights to Upstairs, Downstairs. They have received many offers over the years to revive it – but, until now, none that has come to fruition.
“A long time ago Jack Webb, an American producer, wanted Gordon Jackson and me to film a series in Los Angeles with us running an employment agency,” said Miss Marsh. “Then a musical was going to be done, but that fell through.”
The new version will start as two feature-length episodes, executive produced by Miss Thomas and Piers Wenger, the head of drama for BBC Wales. It will start to be filmed next spring. It will be transmitted on BBC One later in 2010, with a full series possibly following in 2011.

[sixtyten]

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Are you being paid by the Letter?

[GunnerGraham]

Re: Anyone remember these

Are you being paid by the Letter?

Yes