Vintage Kids TV

[Del Boy]

I don't know How! he does it    Yes I agree Fred always did look 50.
He had a versatile career including news presenting and author alongside the children's tv programs we know him best for.

[B16YUG]

I had the strangest of dreams the other night... and I found myself humming the themetune of Chico when I woke up.


Who remembers watching Chico the Rainmaker - it was the strangest of programs.... maybe I was dreaming of Leslie Ash before she had her trout pout!

[Sparky]

Anyone remember the Cartoon "Wimpole"?

In this episode, about a film crew - the director in this,  according to the creator is based on the late, great Sweeney Director Terry Green who was good mates with him.

They've even got the gear they're using reasonably accurate for a cartoon too.

[Vienna]

Jun 30, 2020 16:47:00 GMT D.C. Burtonshaw said:

ITV I think had a competitor to Cheggers Play Pop, Razzamataz, which was a kids gameshow with a Pop music theme with contemporary Bands and singers appearing on it. One of the presenters was a young Lisa Stansfield, just 16 then. It ran from 1981 to '87.

Gerry, I saw at least one Razzmatazz episode from around 1985 at a Kaleidoscope event in Birmingham a year or so ago. I presume they had been wiped originally but had been found by someone recently or somebody who might have recorded it at the time.

Vi

[Sparky]

Jul 1, 2020 13:36:37 GMT Vienna said:

Jun 30, 2020 16:47:00 GMT D.C. Burtonshaw said:

ITV I think had a competitor to Cheggers Play Pop, Razzamataz, which was a kids gameshow with a Pop music theme with contemporary Bands and singers appearing on it. One of the presenters was a young Lisa Stansfield, just 16 then. It ran from 1981 to '87.

Gerry, I saw at least one Razzmatazz episode from around 1985 at a Kaleidoscope event in Birmingham a year or so ago. I presume they had been wiped originally but had been found by someone recently or somebody who might have recorded it at the time.

Vi

I thought I had read somewhere that most if not all of the Razzmatazz episodes had been wiped - or even lost.

Home video recordings have been quite a saviour to finding some thought lost programmes - as Kaleidoscope have discovered.

I was quite surprised that even by 1981 - they were still wiping stuff on mass - as video tape by then was much easier to store, good quality and much cheaper too.

ITVs archiving and record keeping was second to none - as it was done regionally.

All this went downhill in the 1990s when all these large Media & Communications industries were allowed to buy into the ITV system.

The attitude of these new companies was to ignore most, if not all Archive material - as it was seen as a huge money pit, as it needed to be stored, looked after and the various forms transferred to new formats when needed.

So the first casualties were the Archiving staff, and then scaling down of archives into one big centralised thing - without the correct records and data.

So - amongst all this, a heck of a lot got skipped, lost, stolen in some cases, wiped or even transferred to some "flavour of the month" medium that is hard to access these days. So not technically lost.

A lot of Childrens TV along with Schools TV was lost as that was deemed as worthless.

Luckily, the boneheads that ran these media companies - wanting to play at being a Big US Broadcaster (on a budget) - didn't realise that the real value was in DVD release of material until it was too late - when stuff had been lost - and poor old Network DVD along with the likes of Kaleidoscope and many enthusiasts & volunteers had to pick up the pieces.

While at Central, I saw literally wheel barrow loads of tape and film going into walk in skips when they closed the Birmingham Studio.

Luckily (with permission) I managed to recover a bit of it... one was the first ever Schools Programme ITV showed in 1957, in a can labelled "Unknown junk".....

[D.C. Burtonshaw]

Jun 30, 2020 18:05:54 GMT Sparky said:

Jun 30, 2020 16:47:00 GMT D.C. Burtonshaw said:

I thought of a few more which I don't think have been mentioned but 2 more Childrens BBC gritty crime fighting dramas were "Out of Bounds" from 1977 and "King Cinder" from the same year (set in the world of "Speedway" which starred a pre Blue Peter, Peter Duncan and Tony Caunter as his screen dad).

A couple of quite silly "Gunky" game shows involving contestants getting covered in gunk were "How dare you!" on BBC and I'm sure there was another called "Your Mother wouldn't like it!"

ITV I think had a competitor to Cheggers Play Pop, Razzamataz, which was a kids gameshow with a Pop music theme with contemporary Bands and singers appearing on it. One of the presenters was a young Lisa Stansfield, just 16 then. It ran from 1981 to '87.

And The Really Wild show? (Animals programme). Quite a groovy them tune actually!

I remember Razzmatazz - didn't Lisa Stansfileld present it along with Alistair Pierrie?

Tyne-Tees didn't make much notable for the ITV network (apart from the Tube and Supergran) - this was a bit more radical than Cheggars Plays Pops.

I used to think the theme tune was Led zeps "Whole lotta love"....... Suppose it was similar.

Yes Alastair Pirrie was his name, other presenters were Lyn Spencer, Brendan Healy and Suzanne Dando.

Also........ has anyone as this is a long thread, did anyone remember "Runaround" with Mike Reid?? Teams of kids who had a studio bound multiple choice questions first asked by Mike, who then gave them the go-ahead to "Runaround naaaow!" by runninf and then jumping on different squares, then the studio went darker and the correct answer was revealed.

In between question rounds they had guests bringing in various items of interest to the studio, like animals, antiques, vehicles, or acrobats,  or the army giving a demonstration on what they were trained in etc.

[Sparky]

Jul 1, 2020 14:56:51 GMT D.C. Burtonshaw said:

Also........ has anyone as this is a long thread, did anyone remember "Runaround" with Mike Reid?? Teams of kids who had a studio bound multiple choice questions first asked by Mike, who then gave them the go-ahead to "Runaround naaaow!" by runninf and then jumping on different squares, then the studio went darker and the correct answer was revealed.

In between question rounds they had guests bringing in various items of interest to the studio, like animals, antiques, vehicles, or acrobats,  or the army giving a demonstration on what they were trained in etc.

I remember "Runaround" - Mike Reid always gave a slightly uneasy feel to the show.

To me it seemed like a kids show presented by a villian out of The Sweeney

"Runaraaaaaaaaaaaaand!"

That was made by Southern TV - as was 'Saturday Banana' - with Bill Oddie; not sure if it was seen beyond the Southern TV region though.