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This just popped into my mind for some reason - a series I used to love when I was young. Very original and unusual - i wonder what today's youngsters would make of it instead of all the squeaky clean Disney series they seem to watch these days.

Catweazle Series 1 Episode 1 - The Sun in a Bottle (Part 1) - YouTube

Any others you used to love as kids?:D

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I used to love watching Catweasel.

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Worzel Gummidge - A Cup o' Tea & a Slice o' Cake (1980) - YouTube

This was good fun too! Daft as a brush, but John Pertwee is always watchable.:D

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I remember Worzel leading Accrington Carnival.

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'Squeaky clean Disney' - not really ;)
Top 10 Hidden Images Found In Cartoons

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Well you did ask... We didn't get a TV till 1957 when I was 11. Favourites from that time include Sooty, Noggin the Nog, Captain Pugwash, Huckeberry Hound, Ivanhoe, Robin Hood, William Tell, the early Gerry Anderson series Torchy the Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls, and a sci fi serial called The Red Grass about a waving red grass that seeds itself all over the world and is fatal to the touch:

A group of ordinary young people with no special expertise or knowledge struggle to understand the Red Grass, where it came from, what its purpose is on Earth and how to combat its spread and wipe it out before it kills the last human beings to survive. I vividly remember that one.

I was a teenager by the 60s but used to enjoy a programme for younger children called Five O'clock Club with puppets Ollie Beak and Fred Barker and Muriel Young, Wally Whyton and Bert Weedon.

I never watched Worzel Gummidge but I was Aunt Sally at one time... my Partner's surname is Gammage and at one pub in the New Forest we used to go to every Friday he was always known as Worzel - especially as he comes from the West Country - so I was Aunt Sally, still am if we go back there and any of the old-timers are still about.

Re Margaret's clip about Disney films - it seems some folks have nothing better to do than look out for things like this (not you, Margaret!). A similar thing happened with Captain Pugwash:

snopes.com: Captain Pugwash Double Meanings

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Catweazle used to spook me.

Odd little creature.

He's Archbishop of Canterbury now, I believe.

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Mary, Mungo and Midge is the first programme I can remember watching.

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And in between he joined Jethro Tull....!

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A bit after my childhood, or perhaps appropriate for my second one... I love the Treacle People, with lots of local references too. Pity it was pulled for lack of viewers, they just don't get the humour I guess...

The Treacle People

The Treacle People - YouTube

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You just had to get a prog rock reference in there did'nt you steve:D

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Hasn't the writer just died ?

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What about Mr Benn, used to like that.:)

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Yeah, Mr Benn...loved that!
and when I was a bit older: Cloppa Castle....!!

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Yes remember Cloppa castle, also liked Chorltan and the Wheelies" ooh i hate that dragon" (said in a welsh accent):D

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Oh dear I do feel ancient - never heard of them!

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They "looked" similiar, might have been from the same stable.
Also liked Pipkins....(bet Sue hasn't heard of that!!!)

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Thundercats, Grange Hill, Tucker's Luck, Supergran, Rentaghost, Stig of the Dump, Count Duckula, Fraggle Rock, He-Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Why Don't You?, Dungeons & Dragons

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I used to watch these with my oldest son before he started school, he's 37 this year - also Hickory House, Rainbow and others which I'm sure he'd remember but I can't remember the names of - I do remember Hartley Hare.
When I was little in the fifties it was Watch With Mother every afternoon:
Monday - Picture Book
Tuesday - Andy Pandy
Wednesday - Bill & Ben
Thursday - Rag Tag & Bobtail
Friday - The Woodentops.

I remember throwing a strop because sometimes they'd take The Woodentops off and replace it with horse racing.
And after Watch With Mother there sometimes used to be a keep fit programme on for the mums!

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Rub it in Steve why don't you... :p:(

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Pipkins - Hartley Hare and Humphrey Cushion!

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On the conspiracy tip again Margaret ;):D


disney's hidden messages - YouTube

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The Magic Roundabout - my dad is a "Brian" the Snail.

Anyone remember The Herbs -Parsley the Lion, Dill the dog...?

Was a mega-fan Of Roobarb and Custard - truly zany! Love the way it's all shakey!:D
Roobarb and Custard - YouTube

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Surprised non of the lads thought of this one:
Captain Scarlet - Old Series music video - YouTube

Or even better, Stingray , stirring stuff even now!:D

Stingray TV Show Intro (1964) - YouTube

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Could never get my head round the fact that Roobarb was yellow and Custard was pink.

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Inverse logic, Sue.

Or else Custard was really Blancmange!!:eek::D

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I watched these programmes too, as well as Tales Of The Riverbank featuring Hammy The Hamster. Incidentally, I used to think Andy Pandy was a girl.

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OMG! Had completely forgotten about Hammy the hamster.... :D

Andy Pandy was a bit ambiguous, must admit, very sweet looking. Doesn't really matter that much when you're a toddler though...

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The lady who made Andy Pandy used her son as a model. He was a toddler at the time and is now an expert on the Antiques Roadshow called Paul Atterbury.

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So Andy Pandy is really Paul Atterbury?

Tales from Antiques Roadshow, 14 February 2010 - YouTube

Still wearing stripes then...hasn't changed much;)

watch with mother Andy Pandy 1952 - YouTube
:D

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Yep, that's right - and he must have been bald then - that's why Andy wears a hat. Hasn't changed at all! :rolleyes:

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I wonder who Looby-Loo was based on?

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Classic episode of Magic Roundabout. All my favourite characters in it. Only missing Zebedee...
Great political comment - about trains being Nationalized and ends with Dougal saying the countries going to the dogs!:D

THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT - ORIGINAL BBC 1970's EPISODE - YouTube

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In my day it was good old Andy Pandy, always wondered what he got up too with looby loo, in that toy box:D then there was Bill and Ben and the little Weeeeeeeed and not forgeting Muffin the Mule:rolleyes::D

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Just tried to talk to my friend Charlotte on the phone - she has terrible laryngitis and sounds like on of these!:D

"The Clangers" - the beginning - YouTube

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The treacle mines closed as the treacle viens dried up.

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Richard Carpenter, creator of Catweazle, dies aged 78

Richard 'Kip' Carpenter, the creator of cult children's TV series Catweazle, has died at the age of 78.

Carpenter wrote all 26 episodes of the 1970s show - about an "eccentric, dishevelled" time-travelling wizard - winning him international recognition and a Writers Guild award.

He later wrote the 1980s hit ITV show Robin of Sherwood, first starring Michael Praed and then Jason Connery.

Author Anthony Horowitz, who worked with Carpenter, called him a "mentor".

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How sad - didn't know this when I started the thread!

Strange coincidence...