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Post by Nightfly on Jan 16, 2022 13:19:18 GMT
Looks like an early series of Pipkins at lunchtime with its original name Inigo Pipkin, featuring puppeteer Nigel Plaskit who became famous as the Malcolm, the Mummy's boy in the Vicks sinus spray ad, Oh Mum, I can't take my exams blocked up like this. Good to see the presenter of Reflections at midnight with a famous rhyming slang name...I don't think it was the same chap who played for Leeds United in the 70s though...... I'll get me coat...
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 16, 2022 17:23:22 GMT
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 16, 2022 18:31:35 GMT
16 Jan 1974 Uncommon to see a single page of listings & from one of the lesser known tv regions Westward.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 16, 2022 18:54:36 GMT
Westward had Gus Honeybun, doing the links between childrens programmes and the birthday slot and remained with TSW until sometime in the mid 1980s. For late night viewers - a little easter egg just after the official closedown on Westward, the screen would go black for about 30seconds; and then a short 10 second animated piece with Gus saying 'goodnight' would be shown.
ATV (originally) had "Tingha & Tucker" - before it became a major series. Channel had "Oscar Puffin" - still on Channel in the 2000s.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 16, 2022 21:03:05 GMT
Cheers Arthur! Noticeably there doesn't seem to be much in the way of Childrens early evening programmes, on ITV the, with only programmes for the pre school children midday. BBC seemed to be the one for the programmes for the kids who had just come home from school.
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Post by Nightfly on Jan 17, 2022 12:46:03 GMT
Westward had Gus Honeybun, doing the links between childrens programmes and the birthday slot and remained with TSW until sometime in the mid 1980s. Somewhere deep in a drawer at home, I have a Gus Honeybun badge that was sent without notice with a "Happy Birthday" compliment slip from Gus. I got it on my 25th birthday ! For months I tried to figure out why a TV station some 300+ miles away would send me something at random, until a Telly anorak mate came clean and told me he had written to Westward asking if Gus would wish me a happy 25th. TSW replied to him with "Regretfully, Gus is getting a bit too old to do 25 bunny hops at once, but we'll send your mate some goodies instead" ! They obviously had a sense of humour down at the Plymouth studios. Always loved the Westward Diary theme music which always conjured up pictures of rabbits frolicking on Bodmin Moor rather than the introduction to a serious regional news show.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 17, 2022 18:43:40 GMT
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Post by Sparky on Jan 17, 2022 18:43:56 GMT
Westward had Gus Honeybun, doing the links between childrens programmes and the birthday slot and remained with TSW until sometime in the mid 1980s. Somewhere deep in a drawer at home, I have a Gus Honeybun badge that was sent without notice with a "Happy Birthday" compliment slip from Gus. I got it on my 25th birthday ! For months I tried to figure out why a TV station some 300+ miles away would send me something at random, until a Telly anorak mate came clean and told me he had written to Westward asking if Gus would wish me a happy 25th. TSW replied to him with "Regretfully, Gus is getting a bit too old to do 25 bunny hops at once, but we'll send your mate some goodies instead" ! They obviously had a sense of humour down at the Plymouth studios. Always loved the Westward Diary theme music which always conjured up pictures of rabbits frolicking on Bodmin Moor rather than the introduction to a serious regional news show. Think I have a "signed" card from Oscar Puffin somewhere. While visiting family in Guernsey, it was Battle of the Flowers festival and Channel TV had a roadshow setup - with Oscar Puffin.
Tingha & Tucker (the puppets) were stolen; they had been stored in a cupboard at ATV - and vanished sometime during the late 1980s.
Westward Diary theme was called 'Telgraph House' - though was re-ochestrated; I think it even had a funky 70s disco version.
Here's the original version of it is here.
Here's the funky Disco version - dig out your white suit and medallion!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 17, 2022 19:17:16 GMT
Very peculiar choice of music for a news programme, it sounds like incidental music from a 50's comedy show as a voice informs us 'a woman dies as fire sweeps through a house in Somerset'.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 17, 2022 19:20:58 GMT
Very peculiar choice of music for a news programme, it sounds like incidental music from a 50's comedy show as a voice informs us 'a woman dies as fire sweeps through a house in Somerset'. It is a bit of an odd choice; considering news programmes normally open with a bleak story. Not sure if it's a piece of Library music (as many were) or something that was purposly Orchestrated.
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