Earliest Memories of Children's TV

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Tales of Rubovia, with "Whitherspoon" playing the organ and his pet cat pumping up the air bag, bet you don't remember that one!!

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Pussy cat Willum with Muriel Young, and wally Whyton. Muriel Young ah what a cracker she was in her day.

[Spardo]

Ah Wally Whyton, there's a blast from the past, much loved folk singer.

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Cy Grant, he used to be on think it was tonight with Cliff Mitchellmore, sang out the programme with a calypso

[Spectrum]

Bert Weedon anyone? mum and dad dragged us to see him live, and yes my dad bought his "Learn to play the guitar" books. Never remember him with one though

[Loup-garou]

Wally Whyton hosted a folk music programme on Tyne Tees Television (late to end of the 60s) called "Walk Right In". I was lucky to be invited to several of he recordings in Newcastle and saw a goodly number of local and national folk artists. Wally, a really nice fella, had a long history of TV work as well as continuing to record music himself.

I think I read that he died in 1996/97 when he was in his 60s.

[Char]

Just thought of another one Citizen Smith - Power to the People, and the tooting popular front.

[Spectrum]

Robert Lyndsay, come a long way since those days, was also in an early edition of "The Good Life" Too many good old things to remember, did the comedy make you laugh more than it does now, we certainly think so, that's why we have a lot of them in our DVD collection, remember "Clochemerle" a lot of famous actors in it, and very funny.

[Spardo]

Robert Lyndsay, come a long way since those days, was also in an early edition of "The Good Life" Too many good old things to remember, did the comedy make you laugh more than it does now, we certainly think so, that's why we have a lot of them in our DVD collection, remember "Clochemerle" a lot of famous actors in it, and very funny.

Yes his (Lyndsey's) origins were very close to us on the Notts/Derbys border. I remember his ancestry program where he visited long dead relatives in unmarked paupers' graves. Very moving. In contrast to Citizen, which was very funny.

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Children's family favourites with Uncle Mac, puff the Magic Dragon and I'm a troll fol de rol.