Summer Holidays

[4getmenot]

What programmes remind you off your summer school holidays when you were young, mine would be Heidi and Pugwall.

[tonymclark]

"The Sagas of Noggin the Nog", "Belle and Sebastian" and "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe".
All in glorious black and white.
And "Why Don't You..." but I never liked it.

[OBonio]

The Red Hand Gang, The Banana Splits and Why Don't You... who said we used to get outside more in the 80s?

[violetblue]

The Galloping Gourmet.
Crown Court (da da da da doom).
Rooms (about bedsitters).
Peyton Place.

[4getmenot]

violetblue I havent ever heard of any of yours, what year would they have been?

[ScreaminTree]

Cricket on the BBC, with Peter West. Never liked him (prolix, Oxbridge, humourless stuffed shirt), but always loved listening to Richie Benaud and Jim Laker's commentaries. Botham's Ashes, '81!

[redcrx]

we would get an elvis or cliff richard film every weekday.
Heidi, ah it drove me mad
Silas
why dont you?

[violetblue]

1970s - various - not kids progs though; used to watch them in the hols and when bunking off. The Galloping Gourmet was a forerunner to all this celebrity cooking stuff. Graham Kerr, an Australian cook with a cheesy grin, used to cook something and at the end he would invite a member of the audience to join him at the table to eat it.
Crown Court was a half hour drama about -guess what - people in court, and at the end of the third episode it used to have 'The Verdict' .
Rooms was about people living in bedsitter land, coming and going, and Peyton Place was an American drama.

[violetblue]

Oh 4getmenot and others, do you remember Sam and the Magic Ball?

[4getmenot]

No

[redcrx]

violet, i havnt heard of that, only Jamie and the magic torch

[4getmenot]

voiletblue do you live in England?

[violetblue]

It's on www.thechestnut.com/magic.htm - really gorgeous cartoon about a kid that lived near the seaside and I think he had to rub his magic ball before fantastic things started to happen.

[violetblue]

Yes I do, and it's a really 'English' type of programme, a bit old fashioned (even when it was on TV).

[4getmenot]

I looked it up but dont remember it at all i'm afraid. It does look good though :-)

[BigDogsWang]

Double Deckers

[BigDogsWang]

"The" Double Deckers. Sorry.

One of the kids went on to be the lead singer of Aswad. I think some of the others might have gone on to bigger and better things, but can't think which.

[~Wingnut~]

"Saved by the Bell!" I still love you Zack!
Will always remind me of my summer holidays off school :o)

[Pippa68]

That would be Peter Firth(Scooper), BigDogsWang :o)

The actual title of the show was 'here come the Double Deckers'..can't you just tell I adored that show?

Others I watched were 'White Horses', 'The Flashing Blade', 'The Beachcombers' & 'Why Don't You?'. Of course having kids programmes on during the day was a real novelty in those days..during term time it was school programmes or wait until 5.00pm for Crackerjack!

Violet I remember watching 'Crown Court' when I was off *ahem* 'ill' :o)

[tonymclark]

violetblue, you reminded me of some others on ITV, remember "Paint Along with Nancy" and ( I think ) "The Victorian Kitchen", a cookery programme with a little old lady.

Details of "The Magic Ball" can be found here

http://www.toonhound.com/magicball.htm

[Pippa68]

I remember 'Paint along with Nancy'!!!! my memory has also been jogged re 'Galloping Gourmet'..ahhhh the memories :o)

I also remember skiving off *ooops I mean being ill* and enjoying 'Cloppa Castle' and 'Button Moon'. And who could forget 'Chorlton & the Wheelies'?