Nostalgia

Lunch Box with Noele Gordon. The resident band were called Gerry Allen
and the TV Trio as I recall !

Twizzle
Andy Pandy
The Woodentops - Mrs Scrubit the cleaner, Willy and Jenny the twins and
the biggest spotty dog you ever did see
Wagon Train

Prudence Kitten, with, I think, Annette Mills, Aaah, memories!

Paton Place, The Brady Bunch, Its A Knockout, The Avengers

Rag Tag & Bobtail and the Woodentops
Z Cars and then Softly Softly with Stratford Johns
Double your Money with the slimy Hughie Green ( I mean this most sincerely)
BFPO requests on the radio on a Sunday lunchtime and the Goons
On the Buses with Reg Varney
Bonanza which I loved as a child
The Val Doonican Show with him singing in his rocking chair
The Clangers and the soup dragon and Ivor the Engine and Captain Pugwash
The Professionals
Callan I always jumped when the light bulb smashed
The Morecombe and Wise Show
Cathy Come Home I was a teenager and was shocked rigid by it- the first really traumatic documentary I remember

I could go on and on they don,t make them like this anymore what a great nostalgic thread!

Muriel Young, talking to Pussycat Willum...
Yes, The Clangers
The Magic Roundabout, narrated by Eric Thompson
Pipkins

Of course, I was an adult when I saw all these ... when I was child there was no TV.

Told GD that we did not have TV when I was a child, " did you just watch your programmes on the computer then Grandma " ?

I have a violin with a label ' Giovanni Marelli fecit 1875' when young my son asked if I'd bought it new?

Cafe continental and the coronation.

Muffin the mule with Oswald ostrich and willy the worm. All with Annette Mills

Belated thanks for the info about the Box of Delights, Feetlebaum.

Does anyone remember Mr Pastry (Richard Hearne)? I remember him trying to paste wallpaper onto a wall.

I actually got to watch the whole 'Pathfinders' series as I had it as a Christmas present. Pathfinders to Venus was a series that had been on my mind since childhood..never thought Id get to see it again. At first I was a bit disappointed but then I became more and more charmed by it. It was very ground breaking in it's day and meant to be educational. I'd love to see The Box of Delights again, along with The Children of Green Knowe and The Children of the New Forest [I was in love with Humphrey, I think ;prior to long hair being fashionable I was quite taken with his long golden locks].]

Now you're talking - Muffin the Mule ... Grace the Giraffe; Mr Pastry...Crackerjack all in monochrome ... nostalgia!

The Twilight Zone

Galen - Café Continental - I had forgotten that! I remember one very funny act on there with a cellist and a harmonium player - knockabout stuff that made me roar - and I never saw them again...

Watch With Mother!

I was so happily surprised to discover how many old items are now available on YouTube!
Here is one for the Muffin lovers ....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQY2FbCUtM

I have lost hours exploring old favourites!!

Just for Tegan .....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkOsMSN7PI

feetle - 'harmonium' or do you mean 'harmonica'? Just wondering.

I didn't think to look on utube!

Ity was Harmonium (or other small organ) - I remember the player sitting astride it at one point - the back fell off and he kicked it it up into place just as the cello player peered onto the gapnto see what was happening - like aI said, it was a real knockabout act - with wonderful timing.

And I have just this moment remembered - I think they were billed as 'Les Chesterfield'...

KatyK - Gerry Allen was the organist - and nto this day, the strap-on trolley used to move Hammond (and other electronic) organs around, bears the name 'Gerry Allen Trolley'... at a low point in my life I sold electronic organs...