Childrens TV

[paranoid marvin]

One I eventually managed to track down was 'The Enchanted Castle'. On eBay, Aussie region code so I had to buy a cheap multi-region recorder.

With just about every other kids show I wanted now available on disc or YouTube, my wished are complete.

Shows like The Witches and the Grinnygog, Stig, King of the Castle, Rentaghost, Into the Labyrinth, The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, The Machinegunners, Blakes 7, The Great Egg Race, The Adventure Game, Worzel Gummidge, Chocky, Phoenix and the Carpet, Battle of the Planets, Dogtanian, Play Away, Take Hart, Educating Marmalade, Dramarama, Knightmare, Emu's World, Tiswas etc etc etc.

Youtube is a real godsend for some of these old shows that will commercially (probably) never see the light of day, especially now tha Network have gone.

It would be a real shame for legal bods to actively deter people and deny older viewers a glimpse of their childhood. Not envourage it, but not vome down like a ton of bricks on anyone daring to put up an old episode of Clive Dunne's 'Grandad'.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Worzel Gummidge.
Play School.
Rent A Ghost.

A few of my fave programmes as a child.

Rent A Ghost was pure genius. Obviously filmed on a shoestring budget, with likely equally poor pay cheques for the actors the put up a stirling job and a highly entertaining show, for kids and adults alike.

 

[Pyan]

Rent A Ghost was pure genius. Obviously filmed on a shoestring budget, with likely equally poor pay cheques for the actors the put up a stirling job and a highly entertaining show, for kids and adults alike.

I think of this show everytime I see the BBC's Ghosts patting themselves on the back for being so original...