Bring back Trumpton & Camberwick Green

You can't get any more innocent than that for kids viewing. All this bollox about censoring Tom and Jerry got me thinking.

Now i've grown up ( Yes really). I find out that The magic Roundabout had hidden meanings as did Captain Pugwash .

Please don't shatter my dreams that there are darker undertones to Trumpton and Camberwick green. Or even Itsy and Bitsy the spider puppets. Or that when i sang Puff the magic dragon at primary school it had hiden meanings.

I am now a puff smoking, bi curious, spider loving individual who lives near a corn mill and my brother is a postman with a cat called Jess.

Just a thought thats all.

Maybe they have a point. lol

* may be this belongs in metropol*

That reminds me - it's a wonder the Royal Mail aren't calling for Postman Pat to be axed considering the bad reputation he gives the service! No wonder people are getting their mail later and later!

And Chigley! Don't forget Chigley!

Who invented the whole Captain Pugwash Seamen Stains thing? It's all rubbish, there were no such characters! Yet everybody seems to think it's true

Children's TV was not always designed for children. It's for grown ups too, hence the double entendres.

One of the charactors in the story was Master Mate. That got renamed over the years by those into a bit of degrading rhyming slang. So the whole thing just snowballed from there.

Postman Pat, Postman Pat,
Postman Pat ran over his cat;
blood and guts went flying,
Postman Pat was crying,
you've never seen a cat as flat as that.

Nick, talk us through your childhood!

Hey, you thought Kids TV is bad now, we had to make do with wooden spoons dress as people and folk singers singing sea shanty's.

The makers of Ragtime & Handful of Songs have a lot to answer for!

It's the in-thing to take a well-loved kids TV series and say "Ha! Look at all the smutty innuendos! And look, they're all on drugs!" etc.

Rarely do people actually look at the shows fondly.

Monday was Picture Book.
Tuesday was Andy Pandy.
Wednesday was The Flowerpot Men.
Thursday was Rag, Tag and Bobtail.
Friday was The Woodentops.

I hope you were sitting comfortably throughout!

Ah, no, sitting comfortably was "LISTEN with Mother" at 1.45pm on the old Light Programme on the radio.

That pre-dated "Watch with Mother" by quite a time.

I DID listen to Listen with Mother regularly. I was well at school by the time the television version came along and it was at 3.30pm, so you couldn't get home in time. I simply remember it from the holidays.

One of the regular Listen with Mother presenters was Daphne Oxenford, who I met at an hotel near Axminster VERY many years later. We had a long and very interesting chat over dinner about her days on Listen with Mother.