Magnetic Shapes And Stories, Do you Remember..

Kids TV
Once upon A Time, 1979 A perhaps forgotten Kids pre-school TV series that ran in the classic weekday lunchtime slot.Very little information exists about the show but we think it ran for one series of perha...

Forgotten Kids Classic?

Kids TV
The Doombolt Chase, 1978 A perhaps forgotten Sunday tea-time drama, The Doombolt Chase was a naval themed kids TV serial.  Aimed at a teenage audience, as many of these Sunday tea-time dramas were, The Doombol...

Educating The Naughtiest Girl In The World

Kids TV
Educating Marmalade, 1982 Educating Marmalade was the follow up TV series to a one off TV show Marmalade Atkins in Space first screened in 1981 as part of the Theatre Box Series (a series of one off kid's TV d...

Where’s Robin?

Kids TV
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men, 1989 Maid Marian and Her Merry Men was a kids TV show devised by a man with a cunning plan i.e. Tony Robinson of Blackadder fame.The show ran for 4 series over 26 episodes be...

The Ghosts Of Motley Hall

1970's ITV Comedy, Kids TV
The Ghosts Of Motley Hall, 1976 BBC had Rentaghost, so in the days when there were only three channels there had to be a ghost series on ITV.Largely forgotten about in these days of repeating classic old s...

Jamie And The Magic Torch

Kids TV
Jamie And The Magic Torch, 1976 Jamie And The Magic Torch was a kids TV series that initially ran from 1976 for 3 series through to 1979 clocking up 33 episodes along the way.The series was repeated in the...

From Play School To Shopkeeper

Kids TV
Bric-A-Brac, 1980 During the 1970's Brian Cant had become a Kids TV legend appearing on Play School, Play Away and of course the voice behind the Trumpton Trilogy (Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley).By 1...

Blue Peter

Kids TV
Blue Peter, 1958 Blue Peter has been on TV screens for over 60 years making it one of the longest running TV shows and certainly the longest running children's TV show in the world, having notched up over 5000...

Screen Test

Kids TV
Screen Test, 1970 First of all apologies, once you've read this post the theme will be playing in your head for days !Screen Test was a Children's game show that aired on the BBC f0r fourteen years.  In th...

It’s The Wolf!

Kids TV
It's The Wolf! 1969 During the 1970's afternoon Kids' TV programming we just couldn't get enough of those great Hanna Barbera cartoons from the USA.It's The Wolf! being one such example.  Often airing betw...