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  • would kids get this today?

  • Brian Cunt

  • Cant's name is too close to another word. It's asking for it.

  • Fucking brilliant!!!. Julie Steves I watched only a couple of days ago in Carry On Cleo playing a captured Brit taken to Rome to be a servant. I never knew that Tony Robinson had a part in Play School prior to his Baldrick days. "Now, the ladies of the harem of the court of King Caractacus were just passing by". I will never remember the rest of it!.

  • He acted like a cant, didn't he?

  • Baldrick + Scar = AWESOME!!! XD

  • Hello Baldrick !

  • Typical middle class BBC crap!....those of us with an independant streak/not being breast fed by mater were watching Magpie...Oh I love the middle-class...so desperate!

  • Tony Robinson moves surprisingly well!!

  • Very clever!

  • Oh dear lord, a singing Timelord!

  • brian cant is a legend after all he was the narrator and singer on trumpton and the like funny seeing tony robinson of blackadder and timeteam fame

  • I really regret hearing this. I've scoffed and ridiculed it as much as anyone. But the tune has been going around my head all the time and I find myself humming it. It's like some hideous neurological brain disease or a parasite that eats away your cerebelum from the inside out!

  • these characters are all camp and gay.......proper shit

  • I remember my brother Jonathan Law dancing to this!

  • It's either the 2nd Doctor or Baldrick!

  • super gay

  • Did he say harem ? :))

  • Brian Cant - TV God, he narrated 'The Organs' on TMWRNJ

  • absolutely mental. brilliant. but mental

  • The 70's were great but the clothes and fashion were absolutely hideous.

  • Why are some people against this Brian Cant person?

  • This is what your children should be listening to! Not dumbed down tweets, howls and screams! Wake up and realise what is happening!

  • I don't see Jeremy Irons in this video. You might want to delete that name from the description. He would have been about 21 back then.

  • @leostmark

    I see Jeremy Irons in that video right at the very last second! He was a playaway regular after all!

  • @leostmark It is Jeremy Irons. On TV Ark website, you can find a clip of him singing and named in the credits of a 1975 edition...

  • @leostmark Jeremy Irons was very definitely involved.

  • I grew up on this pre-school!...better than friggin tellytubbies..we had good telly in those days

  • Thanks for posting that: after watching it I cried for a long-lost childhood that now seems so much simpler and uncomplicated.

    Cheers, thanks.

  • Tony, Tony, Tony; I bet yer dun wanna let Phil see thart does yer - 'ee might have a frakin' larf at u wun'ee-be-flip; not quite yer 'ole in the ground wi' anglo or stone-age or roman be it?

    Bless you sir.

  • wonder how many takes that took?

  • Bloody marvellous stuff!

  • @KeepEuropeWhite You're either a troll or a complete bell-end.

  • Tony, great tank top - preserved for al time........

    Brian - gotta love it too

    Ladies - who did the dresses? so ....fashionless.

    Oh well. good try Love it and was WAY Ahead of its time!

  • @autopilotflight lol, at your comment but I have to say the ladies were indeed wearing the fashion of the time !!!

  • @autopilotflight its 1970's that was fashion in those days

  • Tony Robinson with hair

  • TV in the days before programme makers cashed in by making every programme a cartoon or cuddley toy which can be sold in the shops.

  • brian was always a cant too us dyslexiscunts/.com

  • i didnt turn out too bad watching this as a kid, lol

  • Tony Robinson ROFL!!! :D

  • that laidy with the black hair looks so cute in that dress

  • ...and don't forget the great British jazz drummer , Alan Rushton on drums in the PlayAway band...

  • Tony robinson of blackadder fame !.

  • hee hee he is singing about A HAREM lol

  • @featherbliss So?

  • Remember before anyone criticises thi...... remember this was the style of childrens TV back then and it was great.

  • that's what they called brian in london anyway!

  • @fj9fl and how dare you have a pop at me when YOU HAVE AN ENYA VIDEO AS A FAVOURITE!

    Any more lip from you bonny lad, and i`ll tell your workmates!

  • @darrowby1972 nice one ! 

  • laidy in blue is wearing a lovely dress

  • lol

  • Brian Cant is amazing!

  • @toptonychick is there anything brian cant do ?

  • i have one word regarding julie stephens and toni arthur in this clip...threesome...

  • Am I right in thinking the pianist was a "fourbee" called Jonathan Cohen?

  • @darrowby1972 racist dick!!!

  • @fj9fl

    Are you aware what "fourbee" actually mean? fourbee / 4 x 2ish = Jewish

    dunderhead

  • This is a great cover of a cool Rolf Harris song by a team of childrens presenters who actually in those days educated children to respect parents, teachers & others. Unlike now where they all run riot because of (political correctness). Bring back the cane in schools & corprall punnishment.

  • Used to watch this every Sunday. Considered it a poor version of playschool, which i missed greatly at weekends.

  • Good old Baldrick... Robinson's a history buff and delver : D

  • try singing this fucker afetr 10 pints on a friday!!!!!!!!!

  • Play Away was YEARS ahead of it's audience and it's time. Absolutely brilliant. And if anyone wants to criticise Brian Cant, they can bloody well see me outside.

  • @nmlt5398 Brian Cant is a legend - top guy

  • @nmlt5398 id like to criticise brian but i cant hahahaha

  • @mcpartridgeboy Tiddy boom tish - Ay thang yew. That's the Play Away spirit alright .....

  • @nmlt5398 Brian Cant is a children's TV god, and like me, a Suffolk boy. So if anyone wants to criticise him, you can see me outside as well!!

  • @pab70 That's the spirit. Now we're getting somewhere!

  • @pab70 me too!!

  • Toni Arthur, Oh Lordy!

  • fucking hell i just had a big fat jakey (joint) and the aint know way i can remember all that

  • Balldrick.. has a cunning plan.. 

  • this is too bloody funny omg :')

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  • @marksplaceuk Brian Cant a Legend in his own life time... poor bloke has parkinsons..

  • Mummy, what's a harem? :)

  • fucking hell no wonder i turned out the way i did!....one trippy mother fucker

  • Jesus, drama school darlings and Baldrick mincing about. Jeremy Irons - a complete cant. Boring, no story and excessive poncing about.

  • 0.59 it's baldrick!!!!

  • Well - I absolutely loved Play Away - actually wrote to Jim'll Fix it to be in an episode of Play Away with Brian Cant - is this sad or a sign that I was a child genius - having realised that he was a genius? Anybody remember his 'dry bath' routine adding hot water to a tepid bath??!

    Please be gentle with me!

  • How do you say that in Spanglish Swiper? Oh, Maaaan. Thankfully we had the benefit of the Beeb in Ireland.

  • Brian Camp more like :o)

  • @sixthspirit He has four children and very long marriage..And he understood children too, He was fab, nobody is like him now..

  • Did they expect the children to follow along to this? And they probably could follow along. Now they wouldn't expect so much from the kids... They don't even teach the alphabet any more.

  • @Nightjourney90210 actually yes. I knew this song in its entirety as a young child as did most of my friends. King Caractacus was/is a classic. It is like "My Darling Clementine" for U.S. children.

  • @JasmineRaven I can really believe you since this song has been in my head all weekend! My kingdom for a lobotomy!!!!

  • @Nightjourney90210 actually yes. I knew this song in its entirety as a young child as did most of my friends. King Caractacus was/is a classic. It is like "My Darling Clementine" for U.S. children.

  • I can't believe I forgot that song til now! OMG! Classic telly that was! Loved it!

  • Back in the days when Children's TV presenters actually spoke to their viewers, (children), as children. What do kids have now? Teenagers or ealy 20-somethings straight out of, 'drama school', who have trouble stringing together a coherent sentence, taking to the viewers like someone they drink with down the local pub!

  • excellent...lol thank u very much

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  • @weldon0m None of them are gay... Brian Cant has four children...

  • mummy, 'whats a harem?' ....ha ha

  • @meisterly The wives of a sheik?

  • HAHAHA, Tony Robinson? i had no idea he did this. Could tell it was him a mile off.

  • 'Telly Tubbies' eat your heart (s) out!!

  • You got this off a video tape...

  • Now this is what I call entertainment.

  • Happy Play Away days! Loved this show!

  • LMAO all these years.....i've loved Tony Robinson and didn't realise i had seen him so many years before on this show!

  • couldnt keep up brilliant ,kids tv was so educational back then

  • Pure camp. I was actually looking for a clip containing the theme song from the show 'Julia' (pursuant to a conversation I was having with my sister) when I stumbled across this. I don't remember this show at all, but the sketch is fun, fun, fun!

  • used to fancy the arse of toni arthur lol, loves this show as a kid ...good times

  • Brian Cant, there's a spelling mistake if ever I saw one

  • <3d brian cant

  • Written by Rolf Harris!

  • Try explaining to a 4 year old what a harem was...

  • I'd like to see Beyonce attempt this - she couldn't do it.

  • he's gay

  • Brian Cant's losing a battle with a dodgy combover there! lol.

  • What fabulous memories. Playaway was a staple in our house... hee hee..... I also remember Rolf Harris singing and I had to slow the 'Record down' just to work out what was being sung... Love it love it... jolly good clean fun... :0)x

  • Mad skills.

  • I used to fancy Toni Arthur like mad!

  • @AtheistOrphan I didn't recognise Tony Robinson there. He's changed a lot!!

  • @AtheistOrphan Get in the queue. And I wanted floella Benjamin to be my aunty.

  • If I tried for the rest of my life to sing this, I couldn't. Amazing. Such talented people. Might not be to everyones taste, but it is an amazing thing to do. Brilliant.

  • OMG I really fancied Tony Arthur.

  • Brian Cant was away with the fairies:-)

  • Imagine being trapped in a lift for a weekend with this playing over and over. You'd do a Derek Bird when you got out!

  • Silly Cant

  • BBC2 saturday afternoon we would watch this having come back from the pub!

    a lot of it was aimed at adults !

  • @fletch61 Back atcha! 'Playaway' was indeed most amusing for us adults (and it got even better after a couple of good tokes, too). Brian Cant and co could get pretty daft at times but the humour was often surreal and they never talked down to the audience. One of those shows kids could watch with their parents and they'd both get something out of it.

  • Now

    If

    You

    Want to take the piss out of the flatulating witches who put irritating itches up the snatches of the poofs who put the powder up the noses on the faces of the arses on the programme with the loony Brian Cunticus

    You're too late dear

    Oh. They've just

    fucked

    away!

  • Quality  BBC children's programming i those days ,I grew up in the 60's and 70's great days

  • Wow - all that effort .. I had a good tv education!!!

  • whats this song actualy called? if it is an actual song that is, its been in my head for ages!

  • @1485x Rold Harris did some lyrics for it with the title "The Court of King Caractacus" Youtube wont let me post the website address, but just Google for that title.

  • @glynbrain arr thank you :) i found the song on google and the lyrics now haha :)

  • baldrick!!!...

  • I remember playaway, it was targeted at children, a bit older then playschool.

  • Now we know where Baldrick got his humility. After Tony Robinson did this, ANYTHING else was promotion and advancement.

  • @glynbrain Brian Cant is funnier than Tony Robinson

  • They dont (they really dont) make programs for children anymore. I still remember Play Away with great affection.

  • I still sing this song and kids still love it!

    But where's Johnnie Ball? He rocked big time. Or was he only on Play School proper before becoming a boffin (and a dad)?

  • fuck is that tony robinson???

  • @TheMekon ...zoooom....... My comment obviously went right over your head.....There is and R in "class" when posh people pronounce it.......as in ARSE.

  • I loved this show.

  • Saturdays; BBC2.  The only alternative to Grandstand or World Of Sport. A relatively short programme, but one much enjoyed by us 70's kids.

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  • Oh my god loving Tony Robinsonhere! Before he did the lovelyMaid Marian and his merry men and storyworld for channel four schools(remember that?) and JulieStevens sang the songs with Derek Griffiths ( Playschool man) in BBC schools Look and Read series and stories!

  • Brian cant is a god along with Derek da god griffths

  • Mommy, what's a harem?

  • Heh!

  • So camp but great fun

  • Ha ha ha - brilliant.

    Give it a go, it's bloody hard

  • Tony Robinson looks like Patrick Troughton with that haircut

  • Back in the old days, when Dick & Dom were glints in the milkman's eye, Brian Cant dominated the 70's children's television with full gusto. He later married Fern BRitton's sister Cherry .

    His favourite party trick was juggling rats

    later the authorities banned it.

  • These was another quality show for children back in the days when the BBC was a decent broadcaster with first class producers. Nothing like the trash now.

    Jeremy Irons also started out with this show.

  • @maxiboy666 I know.....

    ... ladies and gentlemen I am unhappy to announce that the Starbucks generation will only have chefs, chefs and more chefs to watch on tv...

  • @maxiboy666 How right you are in your sentiments I say!

  • So now we know what inspired THAT McDonald's ad.

  • This was a time when middle aged men run the programming and you know what? It was so much better. Now we have trendy liberal types straight from uni who havent got a clue about childrens programs and are far too concered with their wacky political agenda...

  • thats so true, kids presenters today are all gits! they probably dont even like kids anyway. brian cant and co all specialised in kids entertainment and did it with passion and integrity. this lot today are faker than jordans tits

  • Thats like the old presenters of Play School (here in Aust at least!) they all had to be trained in early education, unlike these days were you have to be a second rate actor!

  • Here here! BUT even better if you are a crap badly animated crappy CGI cartoon with crappy bright coloured rubbishy nondescript characters today's programmes that treat children like idiots and are REALLY just to sell toys and branding and push the pester power are just cynical mass produced rubbish

  • Absolutely brilliant, when kids programmes were actually FUN, and there wasn't an "agenda" or any of this PC nonsense. Also nice to see Baldrick, aged 10, and what a great haircut he had. I remember this being on, and watching it, and trying to sing the song. And NO scouse accents or wacky regional dialects on show anywhere.

  • @Jeet27 You forgot to mention the ex topless models and coke scandals.

  • @Jeet27 There seems to be a belief that children will only identify with "youthful" presenters. This is not always true. In fact, it is patronizing.

  • @Jeet27 Jesus.. bringing politics to a vid about a kids show... wacky liberal types?

    Think ya might want to look at little closer to home there, sparky, what with your unsolicited, out of place political comments.

    I know, you won't :)

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  • @Jeet27 You must have got top marks in troll school to turn play away into a political rant.. lmao. what a twat!

  • @MonsterMozz Not my fault you can't accept another person's opinion without resorting to name calling - like all good liberals do. Your reply reflects deeply on your mentality, thanks for showing everyone that. Good day sir :-)

  • @Jeet27 It's playaway you bellend not some nazi rally, rofl.

  • @MonsterMozz If your tiny brain can't handle an opinion on the internet, then god help you in the real world. You are sounding more stupid with each comment, but please, keep going :-)

  • @Jeet27 I see pretty much everyone agrees you're a tit :)

    Sometimes it really IS that obvious XD

  • @Keltibarian Yes it IS that obvious. You see those 19 green thumbs up? That's people agreeing with me. You see the lack of green thumbs up by your comments? That's no-one agreeing with you. I doubt you are intelligent enough to understand that concept, or to offer any form of mature reply, so I'll bid you farewell. I'm not accustomed to conversing with dullards like you, but it's been entertaining to see you try your best to insult me, shame you are out of your depth :-)

  • @MonsterMozz BTW I'm loving the comments on your page from other users who also think you are a complete cretin, hilarious!

  • @MonsterMozz Anyway I'm done replying to you, you simply aren't worth my time. 19 people agree with me, I bet that grates on your nerves, I'm glad. Don't bother replying again - your nonsense wont be read :-)

  • @MonsterMozz hilarious post dude.

  • @Jeet27 A very good and accurate observation.

  • ??????? Political agenda?

    Most Childrens TV I've seen recently has been faster than lightning japanese imports. The only agenda I can see is to induce epilepsy!

  • @Jeet27 And yet another dick drags politics into an unrelated thread. GG, dick. Top marks on your dickishness.

  • @Jeet27 Middle aged men still run programming, it's just they're liberals now (liberalism isn't wacky)

  • @Jeet27 I know what you mean, Teletubbies is insidious isn't it?

  • @Jeet27 Indeed.

    Toni Arthur, Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin, Carol Leader, Fred Harris and all the others, still remembered, still loved.

    Can you honestly say that the screaming maniacs that pass for children's TV presenters nowadays will still be remembered in 25 months, let alone 25 years?

  • @vagabondicus Fred Harris the maths and computer wizz, he was great.

    How did kids TV go from this to Ant and Dec, Teletubbies and other crap.