animal kwackers

[hulotati]

I'm.....all voiced by the same actor ! Great clip though.

[PhflyDan1]

SCARY! Talking animals... Kinda creepy star..

[marcsealey]

You can see where Kiss got their inspiration from

[terratec365]

the characters look like the equivalent of the banana splits.

[leedswiggy]

loving the memories!!!!!

[pawnsacrifice1]

Brilliant...I still remember the theme tune!....sounds like Paul Mcartney!

[fatpizzaman]

@pawnsacrifice1 more like a kindergarten version of Gary Glitter.

[SeventiesMania]

@pawnsacrifice1 Vocals sound like David Essex

[pawnsacrifice1]

@SeventiesMania yeah I can hear that

[JFredUK]

If my memory serves me right, this used to be shown on a Thursday lunchtime. A ten minute programme. old Yorkshire Television ident brings back some memories, too.

[roryfromlondon]

yeah but my name is Rory and i had 'rory tell us a story' all through school. mentally scarred for life!

[pickassoreborn]

There's not many memorable kids show theme tunes these days. This is definitely memorable.

[CallumR56]

Welcome to Panorama, with Charlie Brooker.

[BrainSpecialist]

Is it just me, or does the intro sound like 'Jenny Don't Be Hasty' by Paulo Nutini?

[charalastra606]

I agree :o

[LordPosho]

it took me over 25 years but i managed to track down the LP with the full 2minutes version of the Kwackeers theme tune - it grooves.

rest of LP is a bit pishy however, apart from the Rory Rory tell us a story bit - which is cool.

[JimShadyUK]

I've got that LP! My mother took me to see them play live (my first gig!) and bought it there. I only really cared about the theme song and "Rory Rory" as well, although I liked the drums in "Short'ning Bread".

[edgebet]

I remember my parents making me watch this and I can tell you it was definitely creepy, can still remember it!

[634ark]

How funny,had the same experience of being disbelieved. I share the view that compared to all the scarey kids stuff these days kwackers are lovable. I always remember them coming up in commercial breaks singing against a coloured background like cutouts and don't remember the show atall.Rory is kind of sexy. Rachel

[benlu123]

Why are animals coming out of a spaceship? Doesn't make any sense!!

[davidgrahamscott]

Coz they're starship troopers!

[bommmmmmmm]

I am sure the animals were so high on LSD they had no idea where they came from or where they were going to.

[KrisRamJ]

Wow, this is like a Mighty Boosh 'bit'

[mharding2008]

I remember this show from about '78 but as some of the others have commented, I don't think this is the proper animation. I reckon this must be the "animatic" or rough animation that's used temporarily in production until the final animation is ready. The time code in the corner gives away the fact that this is an "insider's" copy so I'm sure this must be a rough draft.

I'm sure the real thing was all colourful and trippy like Crystal Tipps!

[barnsburystore]

rory rory tell us a story

[daveave]

Been looking for this for ages-Rory still scares me -am glad i am not the only one!!

[jackosgal]

My little sister was scared witless by this at the time. Such memories!!

[miltongreen]

I'm 37 and this is my earliest telly moment! I've been searching for this for ages. Amazing!!

[CaptainCarling]

Same here im 35 and this is my first tv show. I went see them live lol

[GRAHAM2109]

I still thibk Rory will scare very young kids. Very Creepy

[sharpkev]

i think that david essex is singing the theme song but probably i'm wrong

[edenjukebox123]

no, it's my dad!

[chilled74]

i thought i imagined this!!! thank you you tube!!!!

[meatymundo]

dos he say im wa nk at the end ha ha

[PM1970]

What scary graphics lol! I remember watching this in Norfolk back in 1977! And to think, Giles Brandreth the presenter is now a MP! Makes you think!!

[fatpizzaman]

I like the theme song for this show, and I used to watch it as a kid. They didn't scare me though, I thought they were funny.

[jezzsterboy]

RORY terrified me!!! And yeah, I was well feaked out by this, but then just like 70's Dr Who, I still watched it behind the sofa!!!

[hpjess]

I saw them live too in about 1978 in Woolwich and I still have my signed album!

[swims73]

I went to see them live in Derby. Can't remember when but I did get a poster which I had on my bedroom wall!

[flanum]

holy sh*te! this brings back weird memories of me childhood! Did anybody else think it was a bit creepy?? also pipkins!!

[colmbie]

I remembered the start of this program as SO MUCH COOLER...wasn't it in colour?

[yetiresearch]

I just found the Animal Kwackers LP here in the US, wanted to see what the show was like (obviously never shown here in the States), though this little bit doesn't tell me much. I drove my co-workers mad playing the entire double album.

[ringwraith73]

Flippin brilliant!! I didn't dream this at all! Yay!!

Rory Rory Tell Us A Story!!!! My 1st born was called bongo in the womb and my second was called boots in the womb!!!

[CALBRINI]

I really thought I had dreamed this programme as nobody admits to remembering it! The only thing is I thought the beginning was better than I remember, it was coloured in at least Im sure!

[634ark]

Definately. You can imagine the faint whiff Of whisky as rory draws near.Ours were more gritty and home made.

[norfolkinchance]

Tremendi!

I thought I was on acid in my youth to have thought up this one. It must have been the hyperactive fish fingers instead.

America had the Banana Splits, with all the proper costumes and budgets, We in the UK had Animal Kwackers, with outfits left over from the facy dress shop.

Even though we didn't have the budget, ours was more cool!.... A blue lion, and a tiger with an eye patch...

[dollydaydreamzappa]

I knew it! I knew it existed! My mates had me convinced this was all part of a weird childhood dream I must have had as none of them knew what the hell I was talkin about. I searched on the internet for ages a few years back and couldnt find a thing! Thanks so much for posting this hpjess.....anyone got any clips of the actual show that they'd bekind enough to share?

[crowder1975]

There is a dvd that is available from time to time on ebay, It has one episode called stars. Price £5-10 usually comes with album on a cd.

[crowder1975]

Type itvcom animal kwackers, to see full song and part of a story.

(Not Stars episode)

[talcy]

Are there no other clips of Animal Kwackers around? I need to see a clip of an episode if I'm to purge my mind of the damage inflicted on it as a child.

[ThaFourFour]

It was on the 100 greatest moments from t.v. hell someone must have that clip !

[ThaFourFour]

Rory Rory tell us a story ! Bongo Twang n Boots

first book I ever read was theres rabbits on carrots in space if I remember, no wonder my heads fuked up!

[cryingonion2]

Was great to watch the theme tune, but could you post some footage of the programme? I'd love to see scary dreadlock lion again.

[radialpukesplat]

I remembered the animation being waaaaaay more amazing than that. Looks like a doodle with a felt tip pen. Kids today get Buzz Lightyear. We had Bongo, Rory, Twang and Boots.

[beansweet07]

My God! The lion in this programme gave me the creeps as a kid, I think he still would today!! It was his mouth...

[mcan4287]

So there is this powder-blue styrofoam rastafarian lion that slides down a pole, out from the under-side of a UFO, and says with a fixed grin, "I'm Rory"... Oh my God... that is pure evil.

[GlammyDave]

ah ok buddy,thanks for that,shame me Dad thought I was gonna hook him up again after alot of years.

[edenjukebox123]

Bobgo was played by my dad!!

[GlammyDave]

Your Dad was Bobby Parr? My dad was in a band with him back in the sixties,when Kwackers was on tour and would come to Grimsby in the 70s your Dad would come round to see us,from memory he always wore shorts?.I remember him being in a couple of films too,land that time forgot with doug Mclure was one.Well hope evrything is well and im gonna call me old man up let him know.

[edenjukebox123]

I'm afraid not. My Dad was Peter Eden. Apparently Bobby played Bongo on the live tours, whereas my dad played him on the TV program.

[siddles]

Best kids show ever! Thanks for posting. Had a 20 year argument with a mate who was convinced it went "Boots and Twang" rather than "Twang and Boots"

[jbe14]

This was real!! For years nobody knew wot I was talking about but I knew that I watched this program as a kid. Pure Class

[hpjess]

I still have the album but this was the only video footage I could find on the net :-(

[tidyTV]

as a lad i lived a few miles from the YTV studio where this show was made. someone's gotta have some archive video of some of the songs? get 'em posted please, let's relive the surreal nightmare.

[quoboy2006]

This was my absolute favourite as a young'n!! Rory rory tell us a story, rory rory tell it like it is!!

[clockworklou]

this is cool but omg, the blue head lion used to scare the cr*p out of me as a kid!

[mcan4287]

Adam from Adam and Joe summed it up: he hits you like a repressed abuse memory.