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A friend and I were having a conversation yesterday about childrens TV from the 70s/80s. My friend said she remembered a programme where a box appeared at the start and the box slowly opened to reveal the story. I thought this was Camberwick Green, but she said she thought it was another programme. I can vaguely remember such a programme - can anyone help? I know CG did start with a music box opening up.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I immediately thought of the same programme as epstein - Picture Box presented by the very straight-mouthed Alan Rothwell. I have just listened to the theme at www.tv.cream.org and it took me back, might it take your friend back too?
Picture Box was a School's programme.
The opening titles were indeed a revolving box shape ( it had no sides, just a silver framework ) the camera would slowly zoom in and the box would go out of focus.
I seem to remember that the box was on a dark blue background. Each programme took a different subject and would more often then not show animation from around the world.
Camberwick Green had the music box and the soldiers (Captain Snort of Pippin Fort), I think, while Trumpton had the firemen and started with the clock - "This is the clock, the town hall clock, telling the time, never too quickly, never too slowly, telling the time for Trumpton". Always ended with Captain Flack and the fire officers playing a concert on the town bandstand.
I don't remember Chigley so well, but I remember some lord with his butler who had their own personal train - "time flies by when you're the driver of a train, standing on the footplate, there and back again".
I don't remember Chigley so well, but I remember some lord with his butler who had their own personal train - "time flies by when you're the driver of a train, standing on the footplate, there and back again".