It’s Friday , It’s 5 To 5 , It’s Time For ?

[Bobbisox1]

What was your favourite kids TV programme to watch?

[Mozz71]

Togo, Chorlton and the Wheelies (alongside Jamie and his Magic Torch) were both big favourites of mine back in the 70s.

Was also a big fan of the Oliver Postgate/Peter Firmin shows on the BBC: Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine...

They don't make them like that anymore.

[tonyav]

Remember Torchy ( didn't relies that Gerry Anderson did that to ).

[Togo]

[Bobbisox1]

Arhh bring out the wee lads in yous now :0))

[Togo]

Best part is Mozz ... at the time is was service manager in a television repair workshop in Bangor N. Wales. All the other staff were proper Welsh lads and a Welsh lass in the office. Fennela the witch was Welsh and they all howled with laughter every time she spoke. Now they would be complaining and reporting it as a hate crime.

[Bobbisox1]

Such innocent times Togo

[Mozz71]

Coupled with Chorlton's thick "Fred Trueman" Yorkshire accent, you really wouldn't get away with it nowadays.

"I love that witch" :-D

[Togo]

I had a couple of "girlfriends", one from Bethesda and the other from Rhiwlas who turned out to be clones of her Mozz. (^_*)

[Mozz71]

Just watched your vid Togo. 45 years on, and it still made me chuckle.

[Togo]

Me too before I posted Mozz. We were "considered", at the time, to be reasonably intelligent lads with electronics qualifications and a lot of responsibility considering just how dangerous those old devices were. If anyone had seen us, just for those moments, they would have considered us as halfwits.

[Dagman]

Thunderbirds, UFO, Captain Scarlet, Here Come the Double Deckers.

[Togo]

//Here Come the Double Deckers.//

Still looking for free biscuits then. :))

[jourdain2]

Billy Bunter - Greyfriars School, Mr. Quelch, the fat owl of the remove. Played by Gerald Campion. I then read the books avidly - still have a couple. probably politically incorrect now. :)

[Mozz71]

The Cosgrove Hall shows always managed to hit that funny bone with me Togo. Dangermouse and Count Duckula did the same a few years after Chorlton ended.

[Bobbisox1]

Anyone remember Whacko with Jimmy Edwards?

[jourdain2]

Yes, Bobbi - poor Mr Dinwiddy. The school boating song 'Sun on the Chisel shining'. Chiselbury school - wonderful stuff!

[Togo]

//Such innocent times Togo//

I don't think we were all innocent Bobbi, nor the times without guilt. What we got wrong was allowing the sociopaths and control freaks assume, slowly but surely, positions of influence and a hand on the control levers. We shrugged and thought if we ignored them they would "go away". They took it as a green flag to push their divisive intentions. Our grandchildren and their childen will not be granted the freedom to laugh as a reflex action. They are already having to question themselves instead of the teacher.

[Bobbisox1]

It was , they’d never get away with caning kids backsides now , haha

[Togo]

//Chiselbury school - wonderful stuff!//

I was quite fond of St Trinians. The pupils were outstanding ... as were mine sometimes.

[Togo]

Haha. Thanks Bobbi. I have now gone "full circle" on B.A's. Off to bed with a smile.