How about "Grandad", the post-Dad's Army children's vehicle for Clive Dunn - he devised it in conjunction with Rentaghost writer Bob Block from what I remember, and sang the theme song too.
Also, can anyone recall the short-lived TX on Saturday mornings and, in particular, its game segment, Knock Your Block Off? I used to love it during the "Bean Bag Attack" if one of the bean bags caught the gold bricks on top of the wall and caused it to fall off - if one of those touched the floor, it was game over.
How about "Grandad", the post-Dad's Army children's vehicle for Clive Dunn - he devised it in conjunction with Rentaghost writer Bob Block from what I remember, and sang the theme song too.
Also, can anyone recall the short-lived TX on Saturday mornings and, in particular, its game segment, Knock Your Block Off? I used to love it during the "Bean Bag Attack" if one of the bean bags caught the gold bricks on top of the wall and caused it to fall off - if one of those touched the floor, it was game over.
I remember TX and Knock Your Block Off. U used to get a board game of KYBO even though it only ran for about 16 weeks
Ipso Facto (though as a council estate kid I always felt as though I had no right to be watching something with a Latin name, PSB at its best)
They were still repeating the 1988 editions four years later, so imagine my absolute surprise one morning to see former classmates, as they were in Year 10, as talking heads! Nobody said a word at the time of filming, surely something like this would have at least warranted a mention in assembly...
Unfortunately, the repeats I caught coincided with my A-levels and leaving, so I was never able to ask anyone still around how they got involved (and why it was kept quiet).
Anyone remember the early tvam programmes for children? I remember Data Run presented by a Scottish woman who used to speak to her computer, and one which I think was called Splat! which included James Baker ( later of WAC ) in a game show in which if the contestants got the question wrong an " egg " would open above their head, the audience would make clucking noises and out would poor feathers and / or gunge.
The Data Run presenter was Edwina Lawrie; viewers named the computer Edwin in a competition.
As for Splat! - James presented the game element, Crack It!, which was as you described. But the main presenter was Adam somebody-or-other and he had a moustache. Splat! also had a mock soap, No Adults Allowed.
EDIT: Adam Wide, according to the TV-am website.
ISTR Edwina Lawrie - Sister of Lulu aka Marie Lawrie & James Baker - Son of Richard 'BBC News' Baker.
