Gen-X Uk-er here - I was there and TV was BONKERS.
Check the “Children of the Stones” theme tune
It’s not a satire - this was actually on telly and the show was just as scary as the intro.
The whole series is streamable if you dig around.
After the terrifying bleakness of “Children of the Stones” Scarfolk seems positively utopian.
Sweet dreams!
Feels a bit uncomfortably minstrely, doesn’t it?
Anyway, I like the take The Brothers Chaps had on British children’s TV.
And I’d thought that it was Madonna who was first with the whole ‘wind in the hair’ thing on stage!
It just occurred to me that our local Romper Room mascot, the Do-Bee bee went to our high school.
Strictly speaking, neither Sapphire nor Steel are elements.
There was a particularly fine awful Saturday morning kids TV show called Tricky. It was presented by a very poorly animated green dragon who linked cartoons and such.
There was live outside broadcast in which a producer would wander around some random streets trying to assemble a throng of kids world compete for a prize. A rather good prize, the first episode gave away a Caribbean cruise for 4. The method for allocating the cruise involved throwing a dead trout into the middle of a scrum of children and the one who emerged holding the fish got the holiday.
Then Princess Diana wrapped herself around a concrete pillar and it went away.
The people who came of age in the Second Summer of Love did some serious drugs before they all went off and got jobs. Interesting times.
How about:
We’re only a few years behind schedule.
Let us not forget, Pob.
I wish I could.
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