You and Me - Opening titles

[WiggyWittgenstein]

I got the reggae mix in my first year at school - 87'- '88.

[goonerreed]

Ignore grammatical issues, was bloody fantastic!

[MegaTerryWogan]

Holy shit....that's skillkid!!!

[shep751]

shakermaker oasis



[shep751]

@shep751 i meant she's electric, lol

[lazuliist]

I love this vid...I feel old now...

[MrDjc1970]

God i remember watching this aged 4 in 1974 along with larry the lamb, hartley hare and many other shows. brings back mems......

[dooronron69]

One of my favourite programmes as a kid.

[billygoatUK]

this song should be in the charts.. NOW

[vania1013]

great days no polish no joe daki no mobile phones just happy kids playing ball oh happy days

[lpatihis]

So this is where I learnt incorrect grammar as a kid!!

"Me and you"

should be

"You and I"

Thanks a lot BBC!!

Although growing up in the North of England I think we would get beaten up if we ever said "you and I!!!"

[EgoShredder]

@lpatihis

Yes the North really values good education.... :-\ I live in Yorkshire which is both beautiful (countryside) and ugly (the people and their lifestyles). I'm generalising of course but not much sadly.

[MrElliotpaige]

Crow & Alice in the mornings

Duncan the dragon in the afternoons.

Fuck gen xERs and their cosmo and dibbs.

[MsFanmail]

my childhood in my first school 1980

[manzumine]

That could easily be a eurovision contest song winner.....takes me back 30 years

[ellapaige1]

you and me me and you do do do do do do do do!

[niches01]

crow and alice was my era - any on here in existence?!

[johnykoop]

@niches01 crow used to give me nightmares.... i hjave been searching for any footage of crow all my life to kill the demons!

[RG7621]

Thanks to its title, this is one of the hardest shows to find.

[MyMandaM]

I want to watch a whole episode with Crow and Alice in it. I never cared for cosmo and dibbs

[pufferfishish]

@MyMandaM Cosmo and Dibbs remind me of Patrick Trueman in EastEnders. Yeah man...

[irok45]

The days of only 4 channels.. yes kids 4!

we had to wait for the our TV.. lunch times and 3 til 5.30.. that was it... none of this cbeebies, nick kids etc etc..all day everyday !!

[alcockell]

@irok45 You and Me aired in the 70s.. so it was 3 channels.. not 4.

[irok45]

@alcockell i'm 35 mate so i would know or care.. it was still on it the 80's i was 7 when C4 started you old git (",)

[Steve10578]

@alcockell - When this started there were only 3 channels but this series ran until 1995 way after C4 started.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Summer in the early 1980s....get up and have toast, juice and Kellog's Frosties. Out into the garden between 9 and 10.30 to re-enact The Empire Strikes Back with the Palitoy AT-AT and Snowspeeder. In to look at this. Rainbow/Pigeon Street at 12, ITN News with Leonard Parkin at 1pm..Findus Fish fingers at 1.30...in next door to play Simon Says and upstairs for a pillow fight. Get thrown out by 4pm in time for Robin and Rosie of Cockelshell Bay, Rentaghost...what happened to those days *sniff*

[matt78tv]

@TomthatiscalledTom I think we just got older is all so don't fret.

[charlhamer]

I used to watch this when i got home from nursery- it was quite emotional watching this, good days- *harvland, you're right, life seemes so much simpler then. Just being a kid, no worries.....nice

[71ibanez]

@charlhamer ...superbley put!!!....i also remember watching shows like pebble mill whilst being off sick from school!! ha ha

[charlhamer]

@71ibanez Pebble Mill- OMG, yeah!!! led on the settee feeling poorly, being mothered and watching tv that Mum watched- Fantabulous!!! :-)

[ellapaige1]

helo you and me !

[raindancer39]

Special thank you to people who put things like this on YT,brings back so many special memories...

[RTWUROTTS]

I remember this ,just

[poppins2047]

so many memories- I used to watch this at my Grandad's house lovely to hear again

[itsonelouder1]

reminds me of lying on the sofa sipping lemsip whilst on a sickie from school

[gallafey]

i remember this show & did anyon find Dunkan the dragon rather freeeeeeaky looking well if anyone in out there in you tube land can find footage of Dunken the dragon that would b great

[CelticPowerRanger]

@gallafey I think he's a multi-millionaire these days isn't he?

[bestyoulget]

She's Electric!! :D

[higsterful]

life was so much easier then.mum wud just stick ya in front of the tv while she did the housework or baked..You & Me,Words & Pictures,Rainbow,Jamie & The Magic Torch,Pipkins...so many...growing up in the 70's was the coolest thing ever....

[TheMasterNo6]

@higsterful All repeated in the early 80's as well so I know what you mean!

[al3699]

''.....and aunties and uncles, and grandmas and granddads....''

[cylon6]

@icfireplace I don't remember Crow and Alice. Would love to see a clip.

[cylon6]

@icfireplace I remember these blocks titles and associate them with a green crocodile and a guy with black hair and a moustache.

[2muski]

Was this with Crow and Alice? Who else used to do it?

[MrChappers500]

classic used to watch this at school in junior school some mornings when it was on

[Kelly14UK]

Think I remember saying this on YT before, but my favorite punk band The Damned ripped this off for a song called Dozen Girls.

[firekind1980]

Whats this show? It was on in the 80s and featured a curley haired guy who was a baker and he wore bicycle clips. I think this is all semi remember. Anyone have any clue? Reply please if it rings a bell.

[alexvegas]

This isn't the reggae theme I remember

[ionsgirl]

@alexvegas I agree with you i don't remember this theme at all I loved the reggae theme!

[robwwww]

Thanks for this, so many happy memories come back with the slightest hint of a childrens prog theme from the 70s-80s :)

[huvander]

tHIS IS THE YOU AND ME I REMEMBER .......

[SteelTurtle74]

Hello Crow ..... Hello Alice

[Nightjourney90210]

This is the You and Me that I liked. I didn't like the rubbish reggae starting, and I didn't like Cosmo and Dibbs.

[RevImhotep]

This was before my time, I only remember the reggae intro by UB40.

[matrixsenior]

Now we know where Noel Gallagher got the inspiration for 'She's Electric' from.

[miss2tone]

This is why I LOVE YOU TUBE

There is always somene fabulous who posts what ypure looking for no matter HOW obscure.

Thanks to you xx

[jaybo197306]

Great upload. I would love to see crow and alice again but there does not seem to be a clip anywhere

[Kelly14UK]

The Damned ripped this riff off for Dozen Girls.

[thesnowdens]

Great memories of the days when mums stayed at home with their kids!!

[TheCaulfield1]

When I watched this, I knew all of the words to the song.

Thnks for posting this and giving me fond memories of my chilhood.

[yz25098uk]

@TheCaulfield1

totally agree.

superb

#cries#

[mistofoles]

Who sings the theme tune anyway?

[RichXbox360]

I can't believe I actually used to watch this 30 years ago.. Till they ruined it by putting Cosmo and Dibs in it, fucking gay ass clown characters.

[MrClarkey01]

This takes me right back to my childhood. Great memories

[outofthegreenmist]

Wasn't there another show called "Me and You", featuring much the same content but for a slightly different age-group?

[gallafey]

does any remember Dunken The Dragon who used host this show my god was he scary!

[spacebats]

Duncan the dragon - didn't it used to snap it's teeth?

[CelticPowerRanger]

@spacebats He still does if you try and squeeze a hundred grand out of him for less than 30% equity.

[jaybo197306]

Why can't I find a video or even an image of crow and alice from you and me??

[bboychance]

doo dooo, doo dooo, doo dooo, dooo doooooo !

[jamiegrifter]

What a blast from the past!

My mom used to set the timer on the cooker so I knew when to switch the TV on for this, Mr Ben and Barnaby The Bear (Remember him?)

[MackenzieAndRankin]

magic memories from my childhood in the 70s...

[26highstreet]

where is the crow/blackbird that use to appear on the opening credits of me and you. as a child it was the only reason i watched the show

[djhejfdngszldlvvn]

I think this was a later version of the credits. "Crow" & "Alice" (a hamster?) used 2 be the presenters. They obviously didn't have time 2 bother naming the crow.

[steve371970]

Wasn't this the one with Crow and the Gerbil??

[steve8765]

I wonder why the Y And the U didn't fall off the brick wall,funny really

How did the BBC do that!! unless they stuck the Y And the U on with glue lmao!!

[pufferfishish]

It probably would have been filmed on a flat surface rather than a vertical plane; so that gravity caused no problems.

[ACNC1]

should´nt be you and I

[pufferfishish]

Probably. While we're on the subject, it should also be 'shouldn't'

[ACNC1]

Also it should be two spaces between your full stop and the word while

[pufferfishish]

What nonsense. No, it shouldn't.

[pufferfishish]

*brushes tear from eye*

does anyone remember a schools programme from the late '70s called 'Near and Far'? The intro was zooming out from children in a playground into space and I thought it seemed so sinister, it really gave me the creeps!! :)

[mallardvasey]

"Near and Far"? I remember it well, and the intro gave me the creeps too - it was the music I think, strange plinky plonky with a howling wind background. Also the zooming out from what was friendly and familiar, out to the empty blackness of space. A precursor to Douglas Adams' "Total Perspective Vortex" perhaps? :-)

Well, whatever the intention was, it used to freak me right out.

[pufferfishish]

Hey I think you've captured the essence of it there totally- I never ever knew why I thought it was frightening but understand it now- thanks! :)

I think the music might have been made by the Radiophonic Workshop (responsible for Tardis whooshing noise and stuff) but am not sure.

[jobling9]

wow, we watched this in the infants about 100 years ago. well it seems that long.

[Sipie007]

Anyone remember the Hamster and I think it was a crow in this? before dibs and cosmo? id like see a clip of that but have never been able to find one.

[UncleFeedle]

I remember those two. The crow would get things wrong and the hamster/bear thing would go 'noooo crow'.

[shuhelali]

I thought the crow was adorable at the time - I can't find a clip of them anywhere though

[fistofonan]

Yup - crow and hamster. I'd like to see that too. Crow was a bit sinister? At least it seemed that way to a four year old.

[mistofoles]

Yes, I remember! The hamster was called "Alice"! And what about Duncan the Dragon??

[Sipie007]

yep thats right. its got to be one of the earliest things I can remember on TV as I think it was very early 80s when they were replaced by dibs and cosmo. Never been able to find a clip of the hamster and crow though :o(.

[gallafey]

now if any out there has video of duncan the dragon on you & Me just show soome people wat we mean post them for thanx

[koksy]

I always remember being very disturbed as a kid about why the Y and the U blocks never fell off.

[gallafey]

did anyone think dunken the dragon was a little bit freeaky?

[superyob1946]

Yes, my younger Brother was scared poop-less by it. We had a puppet Duncan and I'm ashamed to say we terrorised him mercilessly.......to this day he has a slight stutter as a result!! Oops!

[PM1970]

I remember watching this at junior school back in 1975 and I used to love Duncan the Dragon! Can't you see the irony here - it's strange that now in 2009, the programme, Dragons' Den has an infamous Scottish bloke on it called Duncan - is this a namesake or is it just me reading more into it?

[fivepointsix]

i prefered this to the reggae credits.

[pufferfishish]

Did the reggae credits accompany Cosmo and Dibs as the 'presenters'? Every time I see Patrick Trueman on EastEnders I can't help but think about them, haha.

[cottonwhiskersuk]

Does anybody know where I can see footage of Alice and Crow?

[ECWC72]

The theme tune sounds like a Pete Townshend riff.

[dmt2]

I remember watching this when I was 3.

[harvland1]

It reminds me of my lovely Mum also. I can see her now, a bubble perm and denim flares. Life was a lot simpler then.

[BuddahUK]

@harvland1 awww thats so sweet. I find these clips have the same effect on me!

[pufferfishish]

@harvland1 :)

[MOONST0MP]

@harvland1 Haha!! I know what you mean there mate. It sure was. I remember somthin about a squirrel and a crow on this programme!!

[saxonfield]

This is quality!!!

[smileitsworking]

I loved this...reminds me of my mum :(

[letsmakeit31]

Do do do do!!!

[Xxfancythat79xX]

Anyone know if there's a video on youtube with an actual episode from this era...I can only find the later episodes with cosmo and dibs

[paulhunter123]

yer saying this is rostrum camera

[paulhunter123]

i wander how the cubes were animated?

[NateSean]

Stop-motion animation has been around since the 30's.

[MPireMallDOTnet]

3ds max and adobe after effects

[andymillsacoustic]

I did laugh when Frank Skinner busted Noel Gallagher for ripping lines from this song. What a great guy!!

[wishtobanon]

Aw I used to watch this at primary school!!

[SickOfObamaAlready]

duh doo

duh doo

duh doo

duh dooooo

[tmcoleman999]

Who can remember Alice and Crow ??

[angiehazelaar]

yeah! did Alice have a weird voice?

[tmcoleman999]

Yes that's right !

[cottonwhiskersuk]

I remember as a little kid there were huge, blazing arguments in our house regarding what manner of creature "Alice" was. I think we finally settled on guinea pig.

[pufferfishish]

HA! Reading your comment I can't help but imagine a couple in the process of divorce proceedings and one on them citing irreconcilable differences over opinion as to what type of creature Alice from 'You And Me' was. LOL!

[Delibuzz]

I do I do!! OMG! I loved them! Anyone got a link to any videos or photos?

[RICOBLAB]

Ahhhhhhhh my brain hurts.

[hosslar79]

WTF! I remember this, also words & pictures from when i was about 4, talk about blast from the past.

[oldskoolmacboy]

So that's where Oasis got there lyrics from

[Lukeee09]

whats this gotta do with oasis?

[97channel]

Lukeee09 - "Coz I'll be you and you'll be me

There's lots and lots for us to see

There's lots and lots for us to do

She is electric, can I be electric too?"

[kitty3309]

Oh My God!!! This was my favourite programe before I went to school! Good ole days!

[tkw251070]

My thoughts even before I read your comment "Oh My god!" I loved this. I found it by accident to.

[itsonelouder1]

reminds me of being sick off school, laying on the couch and drinking lemsips

[webboffin]

I remember seeing this at home when sick off school. Nothing was entertaining for kids them days on the tv other than watching schools and colleges. My primary school showed Twigwich instead because our teacher Mrs Rose was into music. Not the good stuff but triangle and tamborine stuff. Boring. But I remember the theme tune song to Twigwich to this day. Well the start of it. How 33 years have slipped away, lol.

[tedlpool]

spot on there, it was worth throwin a sicky in 4 tho wasnt it

[clarence335]

How we used to live was another classic!

[clarence335]

Them tv sets not only had doors but a strange black sunshade type of thing that stretched from door to door! I won't even go into the reel to reel tape player they used to use in PE!

[Sledge101]

Haven't seen these titles for over 30 years, but from the first couple of words I could sing everything perfectly... bizarre what's in your head.

[NameNotaNumber]

We used to watch this at primary school in the 70's on one of those standard issue 70's school TV sets....big wooden box on a stand, shutters on the front, wheels on the bottom...we'd also watch "Watch" on it. All sat cross legged on a cold wooden floor in our shorts, wiping bogies on our sleeves and occasionally licking our knees to taste the salt.

[mirall2006]

So true ..

[pufferfishish]

'Watch' - Bloody hell I haven't thought about that in years.

Also, 'Seeing And Doing' with Toni Arthur!!

Anyone remember an episode where she dressed up as a witch? To date, I have never met a single person who remembers this episode, but I remember being absolutely petrified.

[everybodyreach]

Yes, I think I do.

I remember being scared by the Hallowe'en episode of Words and Pictures with a pumpkin head on a stick.

[Tobycek]

I do remember it, but I would have forgotten the name totally if you hadn't reminded me :-)

I remember we were watching it and overdoing the scared reactions and Miss Sims got annoyed with us and told us to calm down haha

Toni Arthur was also on Playaway...

[pufferfishish]

haha, you were overdoing it? I was shit-scared!! I seem to remember she was out on a bleak hillside somewhere, and then suddenly came right up to the camera. Makes me shudder to think about it; the fake witchy nose and make-up seemed so convincing but if i saw it now it'd probably be like something from a joke shop!

[foxgirl100]

i remember watching this when i was in nursery. must have been about 4

[dagm80]

3 main characters on this series were, Clive and the rabbit, Alice (the hamster) and Crow, and Duncan the Dragon

[sparks1976]

alice + crow were best but any of the above pissed all over cosmo + dibs

[kabogga]

dagm80: Yes, I loved those characters. We used to watch it at primary school and sit there as our teacher opened up her flaps, 'To the television I mean' Lol! And we would sit there mesmerised until it finished. Kids today just get American junk to watch and not classic telly like that. Pity. ;-)

[MrBooojangles]

I had forgotten about this programme until I saw it in a search. I used to watch all these You and Me programmes.

[1783carol]

oh yes the clock to count down (schools n colleges ) my old teacher used to pretend to erase the marks on the clock out to the end he was comical for a teacher. what about choco o block? or words n pictures n blocker boots!

[kengen74]

Coming home half day at school watching this with my sister, eating banana a sandwich.

[cylon6]

Now that takes me back. Forget Cosmo and Dibs this was the version I grew up with. It was presented by a guy with a moustache and a green dragon if I remember it correctly.

[testcardgirl76]

Brilliant memories-all I need now is a boiled egg, a bottle of Lucozade and a bed made up on the sofa! :-)

[romero72pjb]

or chicken soup

[salvadormarley]

Oh yes, those pretend illness's we all had and the bottle of lucozade that gran brought round with the orange wrapping. After you and me it would probably have been crown court.

You'd suddenly be feeling better at 4 o clock, just in time to play out with mates if memory serves me.

[VanWhistler]

When did Lucozade stop becoming a "medicine" and start being called pop? If I went to the corner shop in the 70s for Lucozade and a packet of Arrowroot biscuits, we got asked who was ill!!

[salvadormarley]

When they brought out those different flavoured lucozades like lemmon and orange lucozades. Pretenders to the crown in my opinion.

[neil73]

Mid 80's. They dropped their advertising slogan 'Lucozade Aids Recovery' and went for the sports market reselling their product as energy drinks (and tablets/sweets), then brought out new flavours and the rest is history.

[sundaeg1rl]

If you were watching ITV I think it was Rainbow and The Sullivans before Crown Court. Sometimes it was Painting with Nancy...

[billabongodrum]

Holy Easel!

I'd totally forgotten about painting with nancy...

I'm probably going to have nightmares about that show now, thanks a lot :)

[pufferfishish]

Charlie's Angels too! I remember Mr Ben, The Mr Men and The Flumps being on at lunchtime back then and my mum and I used to play a game where I'd have to guess which one of them would be on! She had the answers in the TV Times, lol. :)

[uglybus7]

this reminds me of watching this at school and the BBC Clock counting down before it came on!!! does anyone remember them clocks? ah to be back in the 70's watching great kids TV....I wish.

[JimShadyUK]

I'm going to take a massive punt now and guess that around nineteen seconds into this clip, you started singing along, if you hadn't been already. I hope you watched it at home and not in the office like I just did. My colleagues all stared at me, the young scamps...

[Rufusboy74]

I remember Crow and Alice, which apparently was hi-tech stop frame animation for those days, and Ducan the Dragon. Also remember one season there was a long running theme set in a shop around alphabet and numbers.

They did often talk about oblongs as well as rectangles. This taught me bad habits - oblongs don't exist in the Scottish education system!

[pufferfishish]

Sweet. :)

[kabogga]

Ah the memories! Wasn't this the programme that had the crow and the hamster in it? I used to love watching this programme. Sheer class.

[xoffender74]

oh my god..... I can't believe I have seen this nearly 30 years after the fact!!! primary school memories

[alabam5]

What was that all about?

[keefybaby2007]

screwattackeurope.......i know wot ur trying to get at you stiking racist. just cos the later theme was reggae. tosser. get over it. i wasn't a big fan of that theme but U KNOW IF U HAD A BRAIN, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED BETTER YOU BELL END.

[cheekyleopard]

Im sure it sounded better back in the day. lol.

[H4NDCRAFTED]

Anybody else used to sing 'Wee and Poo' to this.

Hell I still do!

[satguru]

Yep, never heard this version before either. I'll have to find the usual one and link it for you.

[DFORCE1969]

You & me ROCKS!

[mazzab1970]

Where's Crow and Alice???

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Cosmo and Dibbs had them killed in a drive by.

[Rillington2000]

and here's a bit of trivia. You and Me was introduced by the BBC1 globe and not with the School dots/diamond.

[jetrainss]

ive not heard this for 30 years but always remembered it...even the do do do do do do do dooooh lol

[barnsburystore]

do!do! do!do! do!do! do!dooooooooo!

mum cant goto school feeling ill. must watch you & me and y dont u

[Cromper]

This music does not fit into my memory. I'm sure it was much cooler than this!!!