Tv Heroes Of The 60's

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

The Woodentops and Andy Pandy were 1950's children programmes, I think they were just old repeats used during the early to mid 60's until colour TV came on the scene.

We did have The Monkees during the 60's!! Hay, hay were're the Monkees!!

[katyjay 5,091]

Somebody's telling porkies!

[piggy and babs 544]

Was Circus boy Micky Dolenz (Monkees)? !! and Torchy was the battery boy..............

AND WHO CAN REMEMBER TORCYS SONG. I CAN, SAD ARNT I

[piggy and babs 544]

Ok then , "Aunty Jean's" surname was "Morton"

"Willy Wombat" was their co conspirator and the theme tune went something like .

"Woomerang Boomerang , look over there , it's Tinga and Tucker the two little bears"

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Nah never saw it !!!.........

REMEMBER GOING TO SEE JEAN MORTON WITH TINGA AND TUCKER AT THE CASTILE LATE 50S LUNCH TIME SPECIAL / ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THIS . DID NOT SEE MUCH THOUGH TOO MANY PEOPLE IN FRONT OF US NEARLY ALL GROWN UPS TOO.

[Cliff Ton 10,466]

While we're in the early 60s with kids programmes.... if I think back to being at my grandmas's house in Lenton, I always remember watching their primitive black and white telly and seeing Mr Pastry

Anyone else remember him?

If you aren't sure.....Pastry

[mick2me 3,033]

OK. Lets go back

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Wasn't Dad's Army on in the 60's too?? And that bloody awful Coronation Street started back then, then worrabaht Crossroads..

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Then a show they'd never get away with today, Till Death Do Us Part!!

[susyshoes 69]

oooh yes thats it - loved it although at first i didnt because i liked the puppetry of the others and this was 'the real thing' ....well as near as!

[mick2me 3,033]

Can anyone remember storyteller 'Peter Piper' "Fiddle Diddle here's a riddle"

And the little song he sang?

[denshaw 2,872]

What about "Love thy Neighbour" They'd not get away with Chalky and Honky.

[Scriv 168]

Can anyone remember storyteller 'Peter Piper'

And the little song he sang?

It was "Mr. Piper" actually; played by a Canadian opera singer called Allan Crofoot.

Come with me, come and see

All the wonders there will be

In my stories,in my songs

And everywhere where fun belongs.

There'll be heroes, giants bold

Visit lands both far and old

With magic tricks to shiver your skin

Laughs galore with animals in

Your world of fun, Pied Piper's home!

I swear I've just typed that out without recourse to Wiki! Funny how some things stick in your mind.

[radfordred 6,284]

Smash! Bang! Wallop! Kerang!!!

[Fynger 841]

It said no-entry on the wall....obviously superheroes are above the law.

[mick2me 3,033]

Holy Babylon Robin!

[Guest]

John Banner: AKA Master sergeant Shultz.

[BilboroughShirley 1,120]

My favourite in the 60's was The Avengers, the first series with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale.  I loved her outfits, hair do and the way she chucked the blokes over her shoulder!  The stories were far fetched but the inclusion of a powerful female leading character was cutting edge for the time.  On one of the digital channels they put Avengers repeats but I have never seen a Cathy Gale one.  I guess the BBC destroyed the tapes.  Emma Peel was not as good as Cathy Gale and as for those who came later, I never bothered to watch them.

My dad and I used to watch Dr Who but mum thought it was too scary!

[benjamin1945 16,160]

The Untouchables' 1959-63............brilliant Robert Stack as Elliot Ness.............Thursday nights I think.........

[Merthyr Imp 729]

49 minutes ago, BilboroughShirley said:

My favourite in the 60's was The Avengers, the first series with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale.  I loved her outfits, hair do and the way she chucked the blokes over her shoulder!  The stories were far fetched but the inclusion of a powerful female leading character was cutting edge for the time.  On one of the digital channels they put Avengers repeats but I have never seen a Cathy Gale one.  I guess the BBC destroyed the tapes.  Emma Peel was not as good as Cathy Gale and as for those who came later, I never bothered to watch them.

 

 

You can get an almost complete boxed set of The Avengers - have a look on Amazon or somewhere. It includes all but some of the very earliest series pre-Cathy Gale when Ian Hendry was in it. It was ATV, by the way, not the BBC.

 

I must say I prefer Emma Peel! But you're right, it went downhill after she left.

[BilboroughShirley 1,120]

#69 Thanks for this Merthyr Imp.  I will look for the boxed set.

[Merthyr Imp 729]

I should have said ABC not ATV.  If I remember right it was ABC that provided the programmes at weekends, with ATV during the week - or Granada which was what we got in Lincolnshire.