Television shows

[Guest sandpipper]

You were a kid for a long time there a few years between some of those!

 

Dan dont you start its bad enough with me misses keep telling me to grow up lol

[Mat Hillman]

Ijust found an interesting episode of rainbow online . . .

 

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/rainbowkidsshow.html

 

NOT SAFE FOR VIEWING AT WORK!!!!!

[nogbert]

TALES FROM EUROPE= ANYONE REMEMBER THE NAME OV THE ONE WHERE THE KID WAS TRYING TO CATCH A MONSTER PIKE.

[DavyR]

TALES FROM EUROPE= ANYONE REMEMBER THE NAME OV THE ONE WHERE THE KID WAS TRYING TO CATCH A MONSTER PIKE.

 

I don't remember the name, but I remember a lot of other stuff about it. The kid's main motivation was to protect his "pet" carp that lived in the river. He'd previously caught a good perch and, following local tradition, had killed it, split it open and nailed it to a shed door!

 

He failed to catch the pike until he followed his grandfather's advice to use a small eel as bait. When he finally hooked it, it broke his line, and was finally beached by the kid and a long line of his mates wading through the water!

 

It made a big impression on me (can you tell?) - I must have been 12 or 13 at the time, so that would have been about 1966/7...Polish, wasn't it?

[DavyR]

Anyone remember space patrol?

 

The poor man's Fireball XL5! Captain Dan Dart, a Martian called Husky (!) and a (possibly gay) Venusian called Slim.

 

The same "taking off" sequence used *every* week, with the spaceship being a thinly-disguised gyroscope...

 

"Space walks" involving jet-packs that were quite obviously lit sparklers stuck in the puppets' backsides...

 

"Gamma rays on! Yobba(?) rays on! All in order, Captain - I'm ready!"

 

"I wish I had some Martian sausages!"

 

Great, wasn't it?

[corydoras]

Not sure if it was mentioned earlier, but we used to watch a programme called The Herbs. I remember because after it came on tv. I acquired the nickname Parsley...............

I remember that one. It was written by Michael Bond of Paddington Bear fame.