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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.11.198 |
Our transatlantic brethren may only be familiar with him as the voice of the daleks but Roy Skelton entertained millions of us as kids over here with a variety of weird characters so I don't think it's out of place wishing him RIP on this board: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/dalek-voice-actor-skelton-dies-172547940.html | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Christ, there goes my childhood well and truly down the pan. RIP. *** Rainbow was marvellous. Don't know anybody who grew up with it who didn't enjoy it. Better than that bloody rubbish Play School. A bit like Swap Shop versus the almighty Tizwaz. No contest. Never had any Action Men to sway anyway. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.11.198 |
Yes indeed - I was always a Tiswas man / boy. And I used to watch Rainbow when I came home from primary school for lunch - I even remember the very first series they did without Geoffrey Hayes!! (I also suspect the original Pipkins with George Woodbridge may have influenced my fiction as much as the Amicus films did. As someone rightly said - it was like being locked in the mildewed hymnbook cupboard of a moldering church for twenty minutes, which can do a lot to a 5 year old mind!) | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I have fond memories of Tiswas, which is strange considering I was only five years old when it ended. I'm sure there's still a vinyl single of The Bucket of Water Song in my parents' attic back in Scotland. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Pipkins was just about my very favourite TV programme as a young child. Wonderful stuff. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.57.248 |
...and suddenly I realise that Zippy always did sound a bit daleky. I was a Swap Shop rather than Tiswas (which I found too boisterous and chaotic). Disney rather than Warner Bros. PC rather than Mac. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
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| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
John - you're absolutely right about Pipkins. Whenever Hartley Hare popped up, all ragged and moth-eaten, it was quite scary. RIP indeed, Roy Skelton | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Perhaps we should have a thread dedicated to children's greatest TV shows. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Swap Shop rather than Tiswas (for the same reasons as Proto, weird that). Blue Peter rather than Magpie (we're talking John Noakes era here). There was something about the pig that I found creepy. Hartley was like a surrogate parent/teacher figure in my eyes. The monkey was my favourite. TIME... ... to do some work! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.33.242.34 |
For me it would have had to have been Magpie rather than Blue Peter (we're talking Flesh & Blood Show era Jenny Hanley here) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.35.255.176 |
I remember watching the first ep of Rainbow - I went off the series when Bungle's head ballooned and stopped watching. Pipkins was great, but the black guy sort of broke the spell, nice as he was. The old man felt sort of right. And the tone shifted, became more 'upbeat'. I can't put my finger on it. I'd love to write a story set in that world. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
For me it would have had to have been Magpie rather than Blue Peter Me too, John. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Jenny Hanley was one of the most fanciable women on TV in the 70s, the one thing 'Magpie' beat BP hands down on, and why I was sometimes drawn to watch it without quite knowing why. But John Noakes & Shep were like my best friends at that tender age. It helped that I too had a border collie, called Rusty, with whom I shared many a hair-raising scrape. I think I must have identified with Noakes as the kind of adult I wanted to grow up into lol. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Hey, is Jenny Hanley in 'The Flesh And Blood Show' - the Pete Walker movie?! That's one of only three of his films I don't own and haven't seen. Does she take her clothes off!!  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.33.242.34 |
Stevie, I can save you the trouble - she doesn't really take her clothes off, it's one of those nude double situations. But you can pretend if you like. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Now I wish I hadn't asked lol. Pete Walker is one of my fav Brit horror directors. Shockingly under-appreciated imo. Having checked I see there are now only two of his films I still have to get - 'The Flesh And Blood Show' & 'Schizo'. I may be alone in considering 'House Of Mortal Sin' his best work. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh no! I didn't realise it was Roy Skelton who'd died. I was in the hairdressers when I overheard bits of the news on the radio yesterday - the hairdresser said it was somebody who had something to do with Rainbow (which I never watched - too old for that era, I guess?). Anyway, I do of course have fond childhood (and adulthood) memories of the original daleks. All my childhod Doctor Who legends seem to be going this year ...  RIP to another Who legend. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.42.115 |
Oh yes, I'd go for Blue Peter over Magpie. Chilly-voiced, warm-hearted Leslie Judd! | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 81.159.123.64 |
And nice to see that Roy and the gang had a great sense of humour. I certainly don't remember seeing this episode as a kid. Still cracks me up,lol! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZbNR5dgUlk | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.8.4 |
You wouldn't have seen it, Sean, unless you worked at the BBC at the time! It was part of one of the BBC Christmas tapes that the VT department used to put together strictly for circulation within the Beeb each year. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
RIP. Though I must admit I always hated 'Rainbow' as a kid and thought the lot of them were a bunch of jessies lol. One can laugh about it now. I was a fan of the more sedate thrills of 'Play School' and loved it when they brought the wee white mice on. |