School / Educational television programmes

[GreenKnight]

Re: School / Educational television programmes

My earliest memory of school TV was a programme called "Watch". Unfortunately the most memorable thing about it, for me anyway, was being captivated by the clock counting down before the programme started and that music which filled us all with anticipation, as we sat cross-legged on the hard floor. Happy days!

[Sly]

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For me, schools tv memories were:
Story World
Zig Zag
You and Me
Word and Pictures (and the magic pencil)
Maths is Fun
Stop Look Listen (liked the opening titles with the face)
How we used to live
And most of all the rotating ITV logo with very pleasant music, then the logo changed into a clock with music we all had to hum along too.
I also liked the S4C interval which had a clock with red balls bouncing to the beat.

Pretty much this from me. There was a weird one where there was a King and a Queen, and after the show we used to colour the pictures of these 2 characters in. I don't know which show this was to, I think maybe Words and Pictures.

I can still remember the You & Me music.

Maths is Fun was never fun. Not back then. Not now.

[stuckinthe80's]

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I used to love 'Stop, Look, Listen '. Chris tarrant used to narrate it I think.

[Wil]

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I remember two television programmes we regularly watched at school when I was about seven. One was 'Watch', the other was 'Up In The Attic'

Up In The Attic was the forerunner to Words and Pictures and is, probably, my earliest memory of schools TV from the early '70s (I was probably off ill that day and allowed to watch TV downstairs). There's info about it here - http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk...s_and_Pictures

[Star Attraction]

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Do you remember the little "ghost" Charlie on Words and Pictures?

There was one programme where he sang this song (this is something like how it went):

These are some of my favourite foods
And I like them all with chips.

Chicken and chips, chicken and chips,
Everybody here likes chicken and chips.
We eat them all day, never throw them away,
We all like chicken and chips.

Chocolate and chips, chocolate and chips,
Everybody here likes chocolate and chips.
We eat them all day, never throw them away,
We all like chocolate and chips.

Chewing gum and chips, chewing gum and chips,
Everybody here likes chewing gum and chips.
We eat them all day, never throw them away,
We all like chewing gum and chips.

Does anyone else who was around in the 1970s remember that little song? I do well. I know chocolate or chewing gum with chips seems ridiculous, but I think that song was really intended to teach children the CH sound, i.e. chips, chicken, chocolate, chewing gum.

[Richard1978]

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I remember watching the 1954-70 run of How We Used To Live, my Teacher was impressed that I knew about 1 or 2 events mentioned.

[julie and david]

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i rememeber play school and play away blimey i was about 4 or 5 and thats a long time ago lol

[Clagsey]

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I have all of HOW WE USED TO LIVE

Where did you get all of 'How we used to live' ?
Id love to get the whole series, i loved it in school.

[Wil]

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Then there was 'On The Move' with Bob Hoskins playing one of a team of removal men. It was related to adult literacy and had another great theme song.

On The Move was a BBC programme and, like you said, was part of the adult literacy scheme and not really a normal schools programme. When we were at school we'd sing 'on the loo' to the same tune.

[angie-baby72]

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i think it is!! my memory tells me he was blue, but for some reason i remember his skin being blue.. thats why no-one i know can remember what the hell i'm on about! thank you
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[HG]

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I think it was probably The Boy From Space which was on Look and Read

[angie-baby72]

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i vaguely remember watching a sci-fi series at school, probably around about 1977-78, there was an alien boy in it who was blue or maybe green. can't remember much more about it. it was definitely a schools programme tho' i remember the psychotic blue, green and purple flowery curtains being closed in the assembly hall and the dot clock counting down..... i wish my memory was better :-D

[The Peppermint Pig]

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I loved the theme tune from "Merry-Go-Round."

There was also a geography programme called "Near And Far." Anyone remember that? Started with a clip of children in a playground, then the camera got further and further away until only a picture of the entire globe was visible on screen.

I loved those Maths programmes with those crazy cartoon number machines, too.

[Marillion]

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There was also 'Merry-go-round', including the sex education series. I seemed to be the only one in the class who didn't find it embarrassing - it told me little I didn't already know. We were nine then - I didn't know how babies were conceived - that wasn't revealled to us until we were twelve - though the rumours started long before then. And they were correct.

[Marine Boy]

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...Around late morning or lunchtime there was a show called 'Stepping Stones', a simple theme song with a female vocalist went like this - "Stepping Stones, Stepping Stones, one and two and three. If we rely on stepping stones, they'll bring you to me." - and whilst this was playing, three diamond shapes in a line formed on the screen with a rounded font for the programme's title. Can't recall the content of the show, but I think, like 'Picture Box' or 'Five To Eleven' it was short stories or poetry...

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was presented by Elisabeth Sladen; our very own Sarah Jane Smith!