children's tv exhibition [or take me back 40 years...]

[Howard of Effingham]

hmm, at last a HLF supported exhibition that's really worth their support is coming to Coventry in May 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-31752854

but what oh what was fulchester hotel? don't remember that one? 

in the diary on the to visit list methinks......

[Captain Canada]

Goes from May until September too ! Lots of time to get there. I'm sure that would be a lot of fun.

[Librarian]

Many, many years ago I contractually worked at TV AM in Facilities. We were told to clear an office and clear it we did, along with a box of manky old puppets. Into the skip, job done. Couple hours go by and a bloke comes tearing through our dept screaming blue bloody murder and were are the ****ing puppets. They'd guested on a show that morning to do with this thread....I'd only chucked THE Muffin The Mule, Pinky and Perky etc out. Having lived abroad most of my life I'd never heard of them.

[NARSES2]

..I'd only chucked THE Muffin The Mule, 

Probably my first TV memory in the original Watch with Mother. I had one to, nearly strangled myself with all those accursed strings 

[Steel Penguin]

the Furchester hotel is the later Muppet series   Cookie monster and friends are the stars

[PR19_Kit]

..I'd only chucked THE Muffin The Mule, 

Probably my first TV memory in the original Watch with Mother. I had one to, nearly strangled myself with all those accursed strings 

You had it easy, we didn't have a TV in those days and had to make do with the wireless. 

[NARSES2]

..I'd only chucked THE Muffin The Mule, 

Probably my first TV memory in the original Watch with Mother. I had one to, nearly strangled myself with all those accursed strings 

You had it easy, we didn't have a TV in those days and had to make do with the wireless. 

We got a TV when I was 5 Kit. Before that I can just remember "Listen with Mother". Or at least I was told I remembered it 

[McColm]

The old BBC site North Acton was a bit like that before they moved to Wood Lane, White City .
There were loads of props left over from "Childrens TV", eventually a member of staff from the Visual Effects Department boxed them all up. They moved to the Outside Broadcasting Unit site in Acton. The Cafe was used in the early series of The Apprentice.
Not too sure if the BBC are still there as the main building had subsidence.
I think the only section not to leave the North Acton site was the Costume Store. Getting close to a Cyberman from Doctor Who, still freaks me out. Been inside the tardis, now that's big! Met Melvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
The cast from Rent a ghost were very polite.

[Gondor]

Met Melvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Marvin, not melvin

Gondor

[Howard of Effingham]

the Furchester hotel is the later Muppet series   Cookie monster and friends are the stars

now how do you know that? 

[Steel Penguin]

article on the bbc breakfast news a few month back 
they were making a thing of the fact that one of the new muppets is british 

[McColm]

There was a French childrens program with the lyrics "white horses" in the theme tune. I think it was in black and white, what was it about?

[Rheged]

There was a French childrens program with the lyrics "white horses" in the theme tune. I think it was in black and white, what was it about?

I think it was set in the Carmargue,  and the title song included the line "On my horses, snowy white horses, let me ride away....."    Any one know anything more??

[Mossie]

the Furchester hotel is the later Muppet series   Cookie monster and friends are the stars

now how do you know that? 

I can tell you first hand, I'm a regular viewer!   I'd blame it on having kids, but I actually quite enjoy it.   It seems to me that whoever created it was a bit of a Fawlty Towers fan.

[NARSES2]

There was a French childrens program with the lyrics "white horses" in the theme tune. I think it was in black and white, what was it about?

I think it was set in the Carmargue,  and the title song included the line "On my horses, snowy white horses, let me ride away....."    Any one know anything more??

Well I vaguely remember it, it was targeted at the female of the species. Now my memory says it was about Lipihanzers (or however they are spelt) in then Yugoslavia, but that my be another memory entirely