Old TV programmes remembered

Busy Lizzie and Little Moe.

Rag tag and bobtail
Watch with MOTHER with Patricia Driscoll
Captain Pugwash
The wooden tops really used to scare me..🫣

Calendargirl

I remember Torchy the Battery Boy. Think he would look a bit clunky nowadays.

Also remember Four Feather Falls, a puppet western starring Tex Tucker. There was a song in it- “Big chief friend of two gun Tex- Kai -I-kalamakula- cum a Kai a” or something similar!

My sister and I loved it!

Big Chief Caramacola! Loved Four Feather Falls.

Also Fireball XL5 had a great theme tune!

Big chief Bilbo is getting kinda tough...
Not sure that would be appropriate now.

Ooh Hatty Town. 🙂
Everyone lived in hats.

Belle and Sebastian.

Juliet27

Prudence Kitten was one of my early favourites.

Me too, and I called my current rescue cat Prudence!

I loved Muffin the Mule in the 1950s. What's not to like about a puppet horse that dances on top of a grand piano? Also used to watch the Clangers for a while but got fed up with their weird whistled language.

Junior showtime, with Pinky and Perky.

Sooty and Sweep.
I loved Sweep.

Did Bill and Ben ... and Little Weeeed get a mention?

Five weekdays, five programmes - Monday was Picture Book, Tuesday Flowerpot Men, Wednesday Andy Pandy, Thursday Rag, Tag and Bobtail and Friday The Woodentops. Mum sitting with me on the sofa and always going to sleep. Blissful days. Must have been 1954/5/6 ish because I started school in 1956.

Watch with mother, the wooden tops and muffin the mule were on TV when I was a child. There weren’t many people in our village who had TV and when there was something special on we used to share our sitting room with some of the neighbours. It was fun as they always brought chocolate or sweets along. Ahhhhh those were the days. When I have watched some of the childrens programmes now with the grand kids I find them over the top and often creepy! But hey, a talking mule isnt? Haha!

The Magic Roundabout.
That's quite strange when you come to think of it.

I can remember the likes of Andy Pandy, Bill & Ben, Rag Tag & Bobtail, and the Woodentops. That was 4 days of the week, and I only saw them when taken to my mother's parents with her, so I presume she didn't visit on the 5th weekday?

We didn't have a telly until I was about 11 or 12 -- people nowadays don't understand that relatively few folk had a TV in those early days, it was a thing for the 'comfortably off' at least (and my mum and dad certainly weren't that!).

When we did manage to get a TV (dad may have had some small promotion?), it was from (I think) Radio Rentals, it had a meter on the back that took shillings or florins, and at the end of each week a chap came and took the rental from the coins in the box, and mum got a very handy rebate!

I remember it was crucial to have a supply of the right coins (as per electric and gas meters back then) as it was so annoying if the telly clicked off right at the end of something!

I loved Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley. The Herbs was also one of my favourites. I had a Herbs annual and inside the front cover was a picture of a beautiful garden and it said that to enter the magic herb garden (ie turn the first page) you had to sniff the flowers and say the magic word: herbidacious. I did this every single time - the power of suggestion and suspension of disbelief. - it never occurred to me that I could simply turn the page! I, too, enjoyed The Pogles of Pogles Wood. I also liked Hammy the Hamsters but my favourite was Busy Lizzy with her dress with the magic flower on it. She rubbed the flower and had three wishes a day, but if she tried to have a fourth wish, everything went back to normal. Her first wish was always to bring her Eskimo doll, Little Mo, to life and they had lots of adventures together.

Listen with mother was on the radio in the afternoons, too.
Mum would be doing the ironing, and I was allowed a small piece of apple and a drink of water. (Sometimes)
Pampered, eh?

For FannyD -- oh, that's what the 5th day had? I don't recall 'Picture Book' at all though!! And I'm sure Andy Pandy was Tuesdays, Flowerpot Men on Weds, as I liked the latter, and it was the middle one of the 5 shows? But maybe they changed them round?!

For ANYONE hankering after old shows, DO SEE the Talking Picture Channel, all sorts of old films and TV, some I remember, others not. They presently are reviving Dixon of Dock Green, Worzel Gummidge, Maigret, Rumpole, Dick Barton, Public Eye, Fireball XL5 and Out of Town (amongst many others). The films of The Huggetts (Jack Warner again, and the wonderful Kathleen Harrison) pop up every now and again, as does the best (IMO) Scrooge, in which she shared scenes with Alastair Sim. They do a nostalgia show at Sunday 'teatime' (repeated in the week) showing a wide variety of short films, grainy film clips sent by viewers, and other clips where people ask for help to identify what on earth was being filmed!

Talking Pictures TV is on Virgin 445, Freesat 306, Freeview or Youview 82 or on the Sky digital satellite platform, channel 328.

I don’t remember Sara and Hoppity so just watched a YouTube pilot episode, quite gruesome, why do the puppets look so clapped out? I loved Rag Tag and Bobtail, the Lassie programs always had me in tears.

Champion the Wonder Horse. Then ITV came with Rin Tin Tin which I desperately wanted to watch like all the other kids but Dad would not buy another telly so just BBC for another year.

Captain Scarlet, indestructible... something or other.

We are watching re runs of Last of The Summer Wine. Some are very amusing but the latest offerings show all the actors chain smoking Yeuk!!! Awful stereotypeing.

I remember Sara and Hoppity as it was the very first television programme I ever saw. We lived abroad, without television, when I was a small child; I saw S&H in the television lounge of a hotel in Richmond-upon-Thames, where we were staying after our flight from Bombay had landed.

H.R. puffnstuff.

I remember watching Six -Five Special when I was about seven loved it,sadly it only ran for less than two years circa 1957 to 1958.

Loved pippi long stocking and little house on the parare didnt have a tv until i was about 10