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Childhood TV PROGRAMS

Top Cat (1961 to 1962)
Champion, the Wonder Horse
Pinky and Perky
The Sooty Show
Captain Pugwash
Watch with Mother
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (TV series)
Billy Bean and His Funny Machine
Noggin the Nog
Whirligig (TV series)
 
Pinky and Perky - not too keen on this programme, think their singing got a but irritating after a while. Remember they made a record which got into the Top Ten
Topo Gigio - how cute was this puppet ? I had one, it was made of bendy, spongy material. Loved the smell of him.
Yogi Bear - loved this programme, I had a Yogi Bear moneybox



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tinga and tucker
Ivor the Engine
Biggles (TV series)
Jackanory
Space Patrol (1962 TV series)
Supercar (TV series)
The Magic Roundabout
Magpie (TV series)
Clangers
Swallows and Amazons (TV series)
robin hood
william tell
TrumptonGrange Hill‎
Animal Kwackers
Bagpuss
Roobarb
Tiswas
The Flumps
How (TV series)
 
I think that my earliest TV memory is ‘Billy Bean and his funny machine’. For some reason this terrified me at the time, and I think that I must have hid behind the settee.
 
Temporarily increasing the screen size, just to mention the children matinees at the Kingston Cinema, just off the Coventry Road by the bus depot.

The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and (hi yo) Silver.

(Oh, and Zorro).

OK, thanks for your patience. Back to the small screen.

Time for bed zebedee, (boing).

Andrew.
 
Brummie a long time ago said:
Temporarily increasing the screen size, just to mention the children matinees at the Kingston Cinema, just off the Coventry Road by the bus depot.

The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and (hi yo) Silver.

(Oh, and Zorro).

OK, thanks for your patience. Back to the small screen.

Time for bed zebedee, (boing).

Andrew.
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Andrew. I saw the Wizard of Oz at the Kingston and that witch frightened me more than I can say! To get back on topic though, how about Hector's House, a bit later on it must be said.
 
I remember Michael Bentine and the Bumblies.
The Billy Bean song -
‘Billy Bean built a machine
To see what it could do.
He built it out of sticks and stones
And nuts and bolts and glue’. There was probably more.
How about The Cisco Kid., Hopalong Cassidy,, Roy Rogers, then a bit later Bonanza.
 

the rest of it lumpammer..........Billy Bean and his Funny Machine (1953)​


Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do,
He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.
The motor sang chuggle-arang, chuggle-aruggle-arator,
And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator.
Billy Bean built a machine to see what it would do,
It did the funniest things he’d seen,
So he called it his funny machine, machine,
Billy Bean and his funny machine.


 
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