Absolutely brilliant, let's start a campaign to make BBC bring it back.
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Great Forgotten TV Programmes
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Rowdey
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Wasn't that the name of the whole night time schedule, but had shows within it with Roland Riveron and The Thunderbirds ?
Anyone for The Adventure Game - Great Uncle the Aspidistre (sp?) Drogna and the Vortex - Top Telly..!
Actually BB2 used to do it for me - Harold Lloyd, Great Egg Race...
Brilliant stuff. I watched it with my kids and we were shouting at the screen as to which square to go to next.
The Adventure Game - UKGameshows
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On a TV note, does anyone else remember watching the 'Look And Read' programs at primary school?
I remember one called "Through The Dragon's Eye" and one called "Geordie Racer" but any time I mention them if a conversation wanders onto this topic, people look at me as if I have 3 heads.
Are they actually just figments of my imagination?
I remember one called "Through The Dragon's Eye" and one called "Geordie Racer" but any time I mention them if a conversation wanders onto this topic, people look at me as if I have 3 heads.
Are they actually just figments of my imagination?
footychick
Nicola
footychick
Nicola
I remember 'Look and read' but don't remember those two though I'm sure you didn't imagine them.
"Now Get Out Of That!" with teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities building rafts and stuff in the woods 
Maybe the ones I mentioned were shown when I was at school, which would explain why you may remember different ones.
footychick
Nicola
Rentaghost
That I do remember. Used to be show on Saturday mornings if memory serves - Timothy Claypole, MacWitch, Dobbin, Miss Popov et al.
If you're roughly in the 30-35 age catagory, prepare to literally shit yourself...
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Jous son frontierre (probably spelt that wrong), the international version of It's a knockout.
Stewart Hall, Eddie Waring, us against Johnny Foreigner in silly giants outfits, it doesn't get any better than that.
Stewart Hall, Eddie Waring, us against Johnny Foreigner in silly giants outfits, it doesn't get any better than that.
footychick
Nicola
OMG I've just remembered Day Of The Triffids - scary stuff.
YouTube - Peter Gabriel-Games Without FrontiersJous son frontierre (probably spelt that wrong), the international version of It's a knockout.
Stewart Hall, Eddie Waring, us against Johnny Foreigner in silly giants outfits, it doesn't get any better than that.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Dennis Potter's Blackeyes ... much of it filmed in Firle
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Hell yes. They had that floating orange character called Wordy, and frequent appearances from kids television LEGEND Derek Griffiths.
Check out this Look & Read song, sung by the aforementioned Griffiths, extolling the virtues of (ahem) "Magic E"
YouTube - Magic E (Look Read)
Not to mention Geordie Racer:
YouTube - BBC Look and Read - Geordie Racer opening titles
And Through The Dragon's Eye:
YouTube - Look Read - Through The Dragon's Eye, Part 1
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Oooh, can I also volunteer We Are The Champions, which I think was presented by Ron Pickering?
The school sports day element of most of it was a bit crap, but I always wanted to jump in the pool at the end
The school sports day element of most of it was a bit crap, but I always wanted to jump in the pool at the end
Icy Gull
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The racism would not go down well these days either.
Blake's 7. The sets wobbled, Avon was
and Vila was a quality coward. Good looking women and decent (at the time) sci fi stories. Loved it, they should remake and update it.Oh and the Liberator kicked the Starship Enterprises' arse.
The Great Egg Race
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
Adult - All Quiet on the Preston Front
It's a knockout
Superstars
Fist of Fun
Kids - The Banana Splits
Rentaghost
There was laso a French programme on Saturday mornings (dubbed) about the Franco-Spanish wars..... three musketeer-type characters... anyone remember the name?
It's a knockout
Superstars
Fist of Fun
Kids - The Banana Splits
Rentaghost
There was laso a French programme on Saturday mornings (dubbed) about the Franco-Spanish wars..... three musketeer-type characters... anyone remember the name?