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Erm...I can't remember saying that!
I'm sure they are, but for many years there were no breakfast programmes of any description - let alone all avaiable channels providing them - and I don't think either ourselves nor our parents have been damaged as a result
Not really a fair comparison. There is still a lot of educational gain to be had from 30-year old episodes of Look And Read. Sure the fashions and the technology have changed, but we still speak and read the same language - and teaching literacy is the show's main concern. Whether Look And Read really is as cheap to run as you claim I can't say, but it's worth mentioning there are no other vintage series in the ClassTV schedule?
There would genuinely be no case for re-running Muffin (if any episodes have survived!)
Since 27/12/2000 my viewing has been courtesy of a Hitachi 28" widescreen, which I hope to update in the longer term. The TV is connected to a Panasonic DVD recorder (of 2003 vintage) and this message is coming to you from an Advent 3211 PC with DVD writer and capturing facilities (a 2002 model).
But I do like to unwind with my 2" quad in the garage.
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You may live in a perfect world where children have their parents' full attention every waking moment but it's an impractical thing to suggest.
Erm...I can't remember saying that!
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I'm not for a moment saying that it's alright to put kids in front of the television for hours with no adult supervision or play, but most parents are grateful for something to occupy the children for a little time while they get on with the necessary tasks associated with bringing up a family.
I'm sure they are, but for many years there were no breakfast programmes of any description - let alone all avaiable channels providing them - and I don't think either ourselves nor our parents have been damaged as a result
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If there was a demand for repeats of Look and Read for purposes other than cheaply filling airtime on a channel whose target audience is at school, then they'd probably be shown. The problem is that they now look ridiculously dated. Today's kids aren't watching with the nostalgic notions you are - they'd have a good laugh at the house-sized box which prompted one character in the programme to ask "Ooh, is that a computer? I've never seen one before...".
To show those programmes now would be the equivalent of showing Muffin the Mule in the 1980s. Kids of the 80s were as far removed from the that as today's kids are from 1970s editions of Look and Read.
To show those programmes now would be the equivalent of showing Muffin the Mule in the 1980s. Kids of the 80s were as far removed from the that as today's kids are from 1970s editions of Look and Read.
Not really a fair comparison. There is still a lot of educational gain to be had from 30-year old episodes of Look And Read. Sure the fashions and the technology have changed, but we still speak and read the same language - and teaching literacy is the show's main concern. Whether Look And Read really is as cheap to run as you claim I can't say, but it's worth mentioning there are no other vintage series in the ClassTV schedule?
There would genuinely be no case for re-running Muffin (if any episodes have survived!)
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One last thing. Is your telly on a big metal trolley, with doors on the front and a big top-loading video recorder on a shelf underneath?
Since 27/12/2000 my viewing has been courtesy of a Hitachi 28" widescreen, which I hope to update in the longer term. The TV is connected to a Panasonic DVD recorder (of 2003 vintage) and this message is coming to you from an Advent 3211 PC with DVD writer and capturing facilities (a 2002 model).
But I do like to unwind with my 2" quad in the garage.