Phoenix Lazarus
Was it The Moondial? It had a young girl staying with an elderly female relative and she could go back to visit a Victorian boy and, I think, an Edwardian girl. I think she had to save them both and could only visit them using a Moondial in the garden.
Got so many theme tunes whizzing round my head I trhink it will explode!
Phoenix Lazarus
Was it The Moondial? It had a young girl staying with an elderly female relative and she could go back to visit a Victorian boy and, I think, an Edwardian girl. I think she had to save them both and could only visit them using a Moondial in the garden.
I take it you are answering this earlier post of mine.
Does anyone recall that series in about 1978, when a modern girl staying in the country goes back to the Elizabethan era, and falls in love with a young man there? I recall it referring to the tune, Greensleeves. Was that the title?
It was not Moondial I recalled. I've just googled, and that was a 1988 series. The one I recalled was a decade earlier.
It was not Moondial I recalled. I've just googled, and that was a 1988 series. The one I recalled was a decade earlier.
I think the programme you are looking for is A Traveller in Time, adapted from a book by Alison Uttley. This featured Greensleeves extensively (and as a side note, the building used in filming belonged to Simon Groom's parents; I remember Blue Peter doing a 'special' during the filming).
Anyone remember The Changes, an eerie drama that centered around people turning against technology, it was similar to Survivors in context, and screaming out for a modern take, as technology has reached far further into our lives.
Anyone remember The Changes, an eerie drama that centered around people turning against technology, it was similar to Survivors in context, and screaming out for a modern take, as technology has reached far further into our lives.
I recall the opening scene, with the telly malfunctioning, then the father suddenly and shockingly freaking out and smashing it. I recall there was then a montage of other scenes, of people smashing household technology. It was rather reminiscent of the film the Crazies, from 1973 (recently remade, but I've only seen the original) but in a much less nasty way. I recall the main character is a girl who goes on some trek to seek the cause of the wave of collective insanity, and somehow traces it to an underground cavern, and an intelligent megalith, who is able to talk to her, glowing with each word it speaks. I recall the climax has the roof of the cavern collapsing, to submerge the megalith, while the girl escapes.
I grew up in the early 90s and watched things like Woof!, Sooty Show/Sooty & Co, Knightmare, Fun House, Finders Keepers, Art Attack and Harry's Mad amongst other programmes.
He was the main character in Jigsaw, early 1980s, along with the O-Man Big (Sylvester McCoy, between Tizwas and Dr Who) and O-Man small (David Rappaport , between R2D2 and self-topping). 'Dinna dinna!'
Jigsaw also had that young bloke with a white-painted face, who did mime. He was in an advert for camera film, circa 1984, in character as the Jigsaw mime-man, and it included a scene when they showed a picture of a big pair of (covered) boobs, with a lot of cleavage on display (to show how well the film shows colours) and he is shown having gone bright red, not white, and covering his eyes with embarrassment!
I grew up in the early 90s and watched things like Woof!, Sooty Show/Sooty & Co, Knightmare, Fun House, Finders Keepers, Art Attack and Harry's Mad amongst other programmes.
I may add some more episodes in the near future too (just added two today).
I'm sure I must've seen that series as it aired at a time I was still watching kids tv, but I just can't recall that I actually did watch it. It aired on CITV, so perhaps there was something on CBBC that I was watching instead.
I'll certainly watch a couple of eps though. I'm glad people upload these classic gems to youtube, otherwise no one may ever see them again.
I'll certainly watch a couple of eps though. I'm glad people upload these classic gems to youtube, otherwise no one may ever see them again.
Its sad to think ITV will probably never show these programmes again. In a time when they are really cutting back on spending, why don't they try these programmes on CITV for kids of today to watch.
While certain things in Harry's Mad have aged (a mobile phone in one episode I uploaded was one of the old "bricks" and the computer they were using was a Commodore), I still think they would entertain kids today, especially the novelty of a intelligent parrot.
Its sad to think ITV will probably never show these programmes again. In a time when they are really cutting back on spending, why don't they try these programmes on CITV for kids of today to watch.
While certain things in Harry's Mad have aged (a mobile phone in one episode I uploaded was one of the old "bricks" and the computer they were using was a Commodore), I still think they would entertain kids today, especially the novelty of a intelligent parrot.
Indeed, many of these shows would be of great entertainment value to todays children. Also (despite an intelligent parrot) the old shows didn't talk down to kids, todays shows are just dumbed down.
Aside from out of date technology (which is of it's time, so may teach kids that the past is different?) the only time when a classic kids show might slip up is when there is mention of or a parody of something which was then current. A good example would the the Crystal Maze spoof in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men - todays kids would like it but wouldn't 'get it.'
Dogtanian
Worzel Gummidge
Brendan Chase (early TVS, possibly late Southern, drama series)
SuperGran
Baggy Pants & The Misfits
Stookie (STV Sunday afternoon drama)
Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch
Finders Keepers (The BBC1 Richard Stilgoe quiz - not the unrelated and later CITV one)
On Safari
The 8:15 from Manchester
Connections (always on when Uncle Bob was on a Blockbusting holiday - hmmm..Sue Robbie)
Animaniacs
Tiny Toon Adventures
Freakazoid
Batman the Animated Series (1992)
Wizadora
Art Attack
Bernard's Watch
Chucklevision
The Demon Headmaster
The Queen's Nose
Finders Keepers
Get Your Own Back
Fun House
Whizziwig
Matt's Millions
Out of Sight
Mike and Angelo
Dexter's Laboratory
Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
I am Weasel
The Powerpuff Girls
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Courage the Cowardly Dog
SMTV Live
Scratchy & Co
SMart
Bodger and Badger
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
VR Troopers
Big Bad Beetleborgs
Kenan and Kel
The Secret World of Alex Mack
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Hey Arnold
Rugrats
Goosebumps
Pokemon
Digimon
Taz-Mania
The Smurfs
The Snorks
Wacky Races
Stop the Pigeon
Scooby Doo
Flintstones
Top Cat
Thunderbirds
Ducktales
Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers
TaleSpin
Darkwing Duck
Bonkers
Gargoyles
Recess
Pepperann
Mummies Alive
Reboot
Sooty & Co
Looney Tunes
Tom and Jerry
The Pink Panther
Rosie and Jim
Tots TV
The Wild House
Timmy Towers
Bimble's Bucket
To Me, To You (Chuckle Brothers gameshow)
The Riddlers
The Magic School Bus
Bikermice From Mars
Earthworm Jim
Super Mario cartoon
Angela Anaconda
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
Wolves, Witches and Giants
Finger Tips
My Parents Are Aliens
Gigglish Allsorts
Angry Beavers
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Postman Pat
Pingu
Funnybones
Spider!
Fireman Sam
Penny Crayon
Pigeon Street
Mr Benn
Banana Man
Crazy Cottage
Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop
The Real Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters
Men in Black (animated series)
Sesame Street
Thomas the Tank Engine
Titch
Tom and Jerry Kids
The Quick Trick Show
It's a Mystery
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Rupert
Oggy and the Cockroaches
The Worst Witch
Jumanji (animated series)
The Mask (animated series)
Ace Ventura (animated series)
Garfield & Friends
The Forgotten Toys
How 2
Dennis the Menace (both versions)
Children's Ward
The Adventures of Tintin
Woof!
Roger and the Rottentrolls
Anyone remember the Magic Grandad? Took his grandkids back in time to teach them about history.
There was this show I used to watch late 90s/ early 20s and all I can remember was that it was set in the past, there was a baby and some ghosts - it was on CBBC! Any ideas?
Ace of Wands
Timeslip
The Tomorrow People (Original)
Magpie
Sky (The weird HTV series not the TV company)
The New and Old Avengers
The Persuaders
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Moondial
Catweasel
Follyfoot
Dr Who (Pertwee and Tom Baker)
Thunderbirds/Et al
UFO
Bagpus
Robinson Crusoe
and so many many more!
Comments
This will be great interest to me to locate dvds of what I watched.
Was it The Moondial? It had a young girl staying with an elderly female relative and she could go back to visit a Victorian boy and, I think, an Edwardian girl. I think she had to save them both and could only visit them using a Moondial in the garden.
Got so many theme tunes whizzing round my head I trhink it will explode!
I take it you are answering this earlier post of mine.
It was not Moondial I recalled. I've just googled, and that was a 1988 series. The one I recalled was a decade earlier.
I think the programme you are looking for is A Traveller in Time, adapted from a book by Alison Uttley. This featured Greensleeves extensively (and as a side note, the building used in filming belonged to Simon Groom's parents; I remember Blue Peter doing a 'special' during the filming).
Would love to see it again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYkkfBMK-7c
I recall the opening scene, with the telly malfunctioning, then the father suddenly and shockingly freaking out and smashing it. I recall there was then a montage of other scenes, of people smashing household technology. It was rather reminiscent of the film the Crazies, from 1973 (recently remade, but I've only seen the original) but in a much less nasty way. I recall the main character is a girl who goes on some trek to seek the cause of the wave of collective insanity, and somehow traces it to an underground cavern, and an intelligent megalith, who is able to talk to her, glowing with each word it speaks. I recall the climax has the roof of the cavern collapsing, to submerge the megalith, while the girl escapes.
If anyone's interested in watching a few old episodes from Harry's Mad, I've uploaded some to YouTube and have created a playlist on my channel of them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD85CE88C584AF666&feature=plcp
I may add some more episodes in the near future too (just added two today).
singing ringing tree
Midnight is a place
toms midnight garden
ballet shoes
thursdays child
On the run ( soldier and me)
He was the main character in Jigsaw, early 1980s, along with the O-Man Big (Sylvester McCoy, between Tizwas and Dr Who) and O-Man small (David Rappaport , between R2D2 and self-topping). 'Dinna dinna!'
Jigsaw also had that young bloke with a white-painted face, who did mime. He was in an advert for camera film, circa 1984, in character as the Jigsaw mime-man, and it included a scene when they showed a picture of a big pair of (covered) boobs, with a lot of cleavage on display (to show how well the film shows colours) and he is shown having gone bright red, not white, and covering his eyes with embarrassment!
I'm sure I must've seen that series as it aired at a time I was still watching kids tv, but I just can't recall that I actually did watch it. It aired on CITV, so perhaps there was something on CBBC that I was watching instead.
I'll certainly watch a couple of eps though. I'm glad people upload these classic gems to youtube, otherwise no one may ever see them again.
Its sad to think ITV will probably never show these programmes again. In a time when they are really cutting back on spending, why don't they try these programmes on CITV for kids of today to watch.
While certain things in Harry's Mad have aged (a mobile phone in one episode I uploaded was one of the old "bricks" and the computer they were using was a Commodore), I still think they would entertain kids today, especially the novelty of a intelligent parrot.
Indeed, many of these shows would be of great entertainment value to todays children. Also (despite an intelligent parrot) the old shows didn't talk down to kids, todays shows are just dumbed down.
Aside from out of date technology (which is of it's time, so may teach kids that the past is different?) the only time when a classic kids show might slip up is when there is mention of or a parody of something which was then current. A good example would the the Crystal Maze spoof in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men - todays kids would like it but wouldn't 'get it.'
Dogtanian
Worzel Gummidge
Brendan Chase (early TVS, possibly late Southern, drama series)
SuperGran
Baggy Pants & The Misfits
Stookie (STV Sunday afternoon drama)
Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch
Finders Keepers (The BBC1 Richard Stilgoe quiz - not the unrelated and later CITV one)
On Safari
The 8:15 from Manchester
Connections (always on when Uncle Bob was on a Blockbusting holiday - hmmm..Sue Robbie)
Telebugs
The krankies
Rod hull and emu
Sooty and co
Chucklevision
all of the T-bag adventures
Grotbags
Count duckula
Was that with Grotbags?
"There's somebody at the door"
"There's somebody at the door"
What's Happening?
Tiny Toon Adventures
Freakazoid
Batman the Animated Series (1992)
Wizadora
Art Attack
Bernard's Watch
Chucklevision
The Demon Headmaster
The Queen's Nose
Finders Keepers
Get Your Own Back
Fun House
Whizziwig
Matt's Millions
Out of Sight
Mike and Angelo
Dexter's Laboratory
Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
I am Weasel
The Powerpuff Girls
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Courage the Cowardly Dog
SMTV Live
Scratchy & Co
SMart
Bodger and Badger
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
VR Troopers
Big Bad Beetleborgs
Kenan and Kel
The Secret World of Alex Mack
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Hey Arnold
Rugrats
Goosebumps
Pokemon
Digimon
Taz-Mania
The Smurfs
The Snorks
Wacky Races
Stop the Pigeon
Scooby Doo
Flintstones
Top Cat
Thunderbirds
Ducktales
Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers
TaleSpin
Darkwing Duck
Bonkers
Gargoyles
Recess
Pepperann
Mummies Alive
Reboot
Sooty & Co
Looney Tunes
Tom and Jerry
The Pink Panther
Rosie and Jim
Tots TV
The Wild House
Timmy Towers
Bimble's Bucket
To Me, To You (Chuckle Brothers gameshow)
The Riddlers
The Magic School Bus
Bikermice From Mars
Earthworm Jim
Super Mario cartoon
Angela Anaconda
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
Wolves, Witches and Giants
Finger Tips
My Parents Are Aliens
Gigglish Allsorts
Angry Beavers
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Postman Pat
Pingu
Funnybones
Spider!
Fireman Sam
Penny Crayon
Pigeon Street
Mr Benn
Banana Man
Crazy Cottage
Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop
The Real Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters
Men in Black (animated series)
Sesame Street
Thomas the Tank Engine
Titch
Tom and Jerry Kids
The Quick Trick Show
It's a Mystery
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Rupert
Oggy and the Cockroaches
The Worst Witch
Jumanji (animated series)
The Mask (animated series)
Ace Ventura (animated series)
Garfield & Friends
The Forgotten Toys
How 2
Dennis the Menace (both versions)
Children's Ward
The Adventures of Tintin
Woof!
Roger and the Rottentrolls
That's all i can think of for now...
There was this show I used to watch late 90s/ early 20s and all I can remember was that it was set in the past, there was a baby and some ghosts - it was on CBBC! Any ideas?
Timeslip
The Tomorrow People (Original)
Magpie
Sky (The weird HTV series not the TV company)
The New and Old Avengers
The Persuaders
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Moondial
Catweasel
Follyfoot
Dr Who (Pertwee and Tom Baker)
Thunderbirds/Et al
UFO
Bagpus
Robinson Crusoe
and so many many more!
Marine Boy
Thunderbirds
TISWAS
to name a few
CITV "Non repeats"
CBBC "Non repeats"
Channel 4 "Non repeats.
1996 - 2000 "Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, Disney, Nick, TCC"
2000 - 2003 "Sky 1 when WWE Smackdown first showing was after, mostly late 90s stuff"
2003 - 2012 "Rubbish other than adult comedy cartoon shows"