Boys and Girls come out to play

[Grosh62]

Does anybody know anything about a TV prog probably mid to late 70's where children's voices sang 'Boys and Girls come out to play'. It was unnerving as a kid watching it. It could have been a Play for Today or Menace??

[Heather74]

Re: Boys and Girls come out to play

taken from Wiki

Girls and Boys Come Out To Play is featured in the television series The Prisoner in the episodes 'The Girl Who Was Death' and 'Once Upon a Time'. It also plays part of the storyline in A Tale of A Vampire

[Grosh62]

Re: Boys and Girls come out to play

It wasn't The Prisoner but i will look into A Tale of A Vampire, Thanks Huggie!!

[Grosh62]

Re: Boys and Girls come out to play

Just found it Huggie. It was a BBC2 series called Menace as i vaguely suspected and the last episode was called Boys and Girls come out to play aired in 1973. Thanks

[vanhelsing]

Re: Boys and Girls come out to play

'Boys and Girls come out to play'.

'On the busy motorway'

(This was on the OIL episode of The Young Ones).

[macster123]

Re: Boys and Girls come out to play

I remember this being very eerie! I seem to remember the small girl taking some drugs that she found somewhere?

[emily13]

Ms

Could it have been Dramarama? That tune always gives me the creeps ever since watching that! The story was about a girl who was possessed by her imaginary friend who kept making her do bad things - getting rid of her involved a battle of wills where the girl had to write her own name on a blackboard. I can't remember the name of the episode offhand.

[Mountain Rover]

I remember it. It popped into my head again today and I thought I'd look for it on YouTube but it's not there. I was a teenager on holiday in the Lake District and we watched it on the B&B's tv in the evening. I found it quite chilling. I don't know what I'd think of it now but I'd like to see it again.

[I. R. Fincham]

Sadly, many episodes of Menace were not kept by the BBC and are currently missing, presumed lost forever. 21 episodes are gone, including Boys and Girls Come Out to Play.

https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?...&type=lostshow

[George 1978]

The tune does sound like that BBC Schools series Zig Zag.