I am literally back in Infant school (or maybe junior, doesnt matter, it was the same school anyway) sat in the library watching this, best flashback ive ever had
I've just watched threads aswell. Pretty depressing. I watched a bit off it when i was little but my mum sent me to bed just after the milk bottles melt. I now realise why she did.
If there is one thing I remember it is the tunes to childrens Programmes in the late 70s and early 80s. I know em all. Watchin them on youtube brings back such good memories but I know the tune before it even comes on.
Being of this generation I remember this show, but am having trouible with another one. There was a BBC schools TV show in the 80's regarding music. It would show you various instruments & pieces of music & then would show a road sign type triangle with a gnome (?) in cupping his ear while they played part back & you had to guess what you were listening to. Any help on this one?!?!?
@LilMs666 I think I know the one you mean, was there a girl hosting it with a slight lisp? I'm sure she was also Sylvester Macoy's assistant in Dr. Who?
@feeney2009 you are right her name is Sophie Aldred and she did two series of words and pictures september 1992- june 1993 and september 1997- june 1998. By 1992 I had moved into junior school and couldnt watch words and pictures as i was to old ! lol but my mum used to tape sophies episodes as She was the ''love off my life'' when i was a kid and so i loved words and pictures to bits!
@LilMs666 i too remember this n asked my mum who looked at me blank so did a bit of research n although couldnt find the actual gnome clip i found info saying it was music time :)
Look on the bright side, the northern hemisphere may be reduced to a medieval wasteland where gangs of illiterate mutants scratch a desperate existence from the radioactive ruins of civillisation....but at least your kids won't be watching Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Ball
wasn't this on weekday mornings when the bbc and itv had programmes for schools?...when i was ill at home from school i'd watch this on the sofa with me teddy and quil, back in the days of four channels and no sky t.v.
My psychiatrist has told me to watch this little clip, repeatedly. It brings out the most horrible feelings of despair, for some reason. But he told me to "keep on watching it, to get it all out".
@ctomarctus Seems like 1) He'd be the kind of shrink to torture terrorists locked in booths with, 2) He's taking the mick out of you or most likely, 3) He's completely barking.
narrated by chris tarrant there was a programme called stop look listen programme on ITV but wordy wasnt in look and read,or stop look listen he was just on this ''words and pictures''.
@mooody12 I don't think this will ever seem as charming and nostalgic as other kid's shows once you've seen that film. The grainyness of this vid really reminds me of the one in the film
No no no, you're all getting it wrong: 'Look And Read' was Wordy, with all the animations of "Build yourself a wall with an 'ing', to make it happening....", "Magic magic 'E'...", etc. 'Words And Pictures' was a litlle blue animated person who looked like Frankie Howerd who was called Charlie.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who still finds this terrifying. Is there anyone British over the age of 35 who doesn't think of post-nuclear dystopia when they hear this?
C'mon - someone's GOT to have video of the great Toni Arthur singing 'We're witches of halloween wooooo-ooh!'...and as for 'Threads' the image of the milk bottle melting and the wee coming down someones trouser leg has lived with me since I first saw it when a was about 13 - nearly 40 now...
Hmm. Mad- I saw this soooo many times as a nipper, growing up- both in school and with my mam after school. Then I watched Threads. From then on, the two just went hand in hand.
Did your school have a pye colour TV and a Granada video player stood on a tall trolley so the kids couldn't muck with it?!! Also the teachers could never work the video!! lol
@feeney2009 And the telly always had the same two faults, a colour imbalance giving everything a green hue, and the top of the picture wobbling off towards the right.
Pye colour TV! I remember that lol!! And it was housed in massive heavy duty wooden cabinet on wheels! I also remember the teachers not having a clue!
@cheekyleopard I laughed so hard when I read ur comment.PYE tv's lol, my grand dad used to have a black and white one, could never get a decent picture and we used a clothes hanger as an aeriel lol. wonder what happened to pye as a company?
@feeney2009 Hehe, yes! Our video player was a "deluxe model" with a remote control attached to it by means of a VERY long cable!!! Oh how high tec it all seemed at the time (and no, our teachers could never work the bloomin' thing either - the class geek normally had to assist!!)
I thought of threads and remembered the words and pictures scene ...frightened the hell out of me thinking about it as I used to watch this at primary school in the early 80's. I agree totally with
RogueSeraphim that the theme tune really creeps you out ...I have actually got goosebumps right now.
One day my two-headed son and six fingered daughter will watch in their hovel while I am out killing people for a few scraps of unradioactive raw lamb and getting home before the fallout arrives
@TomthatiscalledTom I have NEVER laughed at a YT comment more heartily. I congratulate you from the bottom of my 'scarred by 'Threads' for life' heart.
With regards to Threads. If i'd knew Words and Pictures was to be the only veiwing choice available after a Nuclear attack, i would rather get vaporised by the bomb.
Well....aye, throw in some He-Man & the Masters of The Universe cartoons too, and i'll consider riding out the nuclear storm. (how depressing is all this. lol)
@undergroundsplee Just save every episode of Doctor Who (except Time & The Rani), & a lifetime supply of beer, & I can sit out anything. Even alien invasion.
Soon as this vid began playing I thought "Threads", and then read your comment. I guess my association of Words and Pictures with Threads were connecting two memories of my childhood, the fond memories of Words and Pictures and my nightmares about holocaust reinforced by watching Threads.
It reminds me very much of both school and later on in life, that extremely brief moment in threads where we see the TV plugged into a generator or light fitting.... I cant remember what exactly! But its weird to think that such a brief clip on threads has stuck fast inside a foreign mind! And weirder still, that makes it all the more pronouncedly British - the announcers voice, the music, the BBC. Quirky and strangely endearing (to me at least).
Well unfortunately, (or fortunately, depening on point of view), the American media were shielded and protected from the true horrors of nuclear war during the Cold War Era. While "The Day After" was no doubt scary, it does not even come close to the realism of "Threads", both of which I only saw the full length of as an adult almost 20 years later. The only thing that might come close is Sesame Street playing in the background at the moment of attack in "Testament", which like Threads..
most of us Americans did not see. As an American I believe the Reagan administration and current politicians at the time did NOT want the average American taking an anti-nuke stance. So very few Americans actually got to see "Threads" and the PBS produced "Testament". When I think about it, had I been British and grown up with something as innocent as Words and Pictures, I wouldn't simply associate the clip with the attack on Sheffield scene, much as I now still remember Sesame Street fondly.
I have to say that I didnt really hold "words and pictures" in the same light as sesame street. W&P was very much an educational program for preschoolers and infants. We did have other programming as well which was much more along similar lines to Sesame Street - although not comparable!! But its the starkness of the titles, and how it feels so very bland and matter-of-fact that somehow makes it instantly recognisable as 1970s Britain! :)
@Pdasilva0324 You know, I think I saw that one late sunday evening as a child on our video machine. I remember being freaked out by that Sesame Street scene. Don't you hate it when a plan "doesn't come together?".
Yeah, I remember words and pictures in school as I kid, use to like the theme tune untill we watched Threads in scohool in the early 1990's, now it just gives me the shivers!
We watched this at school in the 70's and loved it along with Look and read, Music time and occasionally Good health, Stop look and listen or How we used to live (Victorian series), do they watch education programs at school now they've been replaced by Jeremy Kyle crap for chav parents, some of these rat families could learn a thing or two !
Most of the chav parents would have been kids themselves in the 70s-80s. Maybe watching this has in their formative years had a detrimental effect on their development? Even if they'd been skiving off school they'd have watched these progs while lying on the settee scoffing Mars bars or Double Deckers.
The guy's name was Henry Woolf. He was a bit scary!
Radiation poisoning really frightened me. Do you remember those Protect and Survive public information films too?
The Soviets were getting very bulshy in their diplomatic language back then. President Brechnev was old and sick and it was their last ditch effort to overtake the West.
Little did we know however it was all set up as part of the New World Order. Now we have them overtaking Europe anyway :D
Yeah; I'm just glad that this clip doesn't wow like the one on the VHS player in threads did - I'd want to do and hide under the bed like I did whenever the 4 minute warning went off by accident.... As a small kid I was obsessed with - and terrified of - nuclear war O_o
All I seem to remember from the late 70's early 80's TV was Derek Griffiths seemed to be singing/playing guitar to everything. Look & Read defo the voiceover for Skyhunter but also theme tune (hands and fingers knees and toes knees and toooooeeees!), Words and Pictures (magic, magic Eeeeeeeee.... etc). Last thing I saw him in was Holby City about a year ago, but he's been in loads of other stuff.
Yeh Derek Griffiths and Wordy weren't on Words and Pictures - they were on Look and Read. People including the video poster often get confused between Wordy and the character on W&P. The character on W&P was called Charlie ( see tvarksouthwest's comment ). Anyone remember the presenter before Vicky Ireland?
Vicky Ireland. Oh Yes! I really loved her when I was a kid. I think I had a crush on her too. We used to watch this at primary school, and after it ended we read books called 'Billy Blue Hat Goes Fishing' or something like that. Childrens TV is rubbish now. Far too PC and all that stuff. These memories of a bygone era are what make good childhoods. ;-)
I also remember Vicky Ireland presenting this in the mid-80s when I was at primary school. The series was still running fairly recently, a pale shadow of its former self!
I remember Vicky Ireland presenting when I watched it at school circa 1983-1985. It was set in a library and remember that they did have a lot of books from authors like Pat Hutchins, Shirley Hughes and David McKee on the programme.
It was always on Mondays at 2.00 pm right from the early 1970s to about 1990 when it moved to Fridays. It also moved from BBC 1 to BBC 2 in about 1983.
Surprised nobody's sampled that theme and done a rap mix yet . . . nice analog synth sounds. Well, this show was something I saw when I was off school with chicken pox or the common cold. Brought back some memories. And yes, THREADS, anyone . . .
And what about that pereguin falcon thing, was that part of W an P?
Yes, the Threads scene was v disturbing. Imagine surviving a nuclear war and end up watching Wordy on an old Ferguson Videostar somewhere in South Yorkshire.
i always remeber the haloween episode, the 2 witches gave me real nightmares, then the music was used in the bbc programme "threads" which really was horrible, a very haunting sound now.
I remember Henry Woolf presenting 'Words and Pictures'. It was a bit scary seeing him as a kids presenter because I used to see him elsewhere playing gangster roles in an evil troll sort of way. (One of his roles was the dwarfy godfather type, Frankie Barrow, in Steptoe). I think he used to wear a sort of high collared artist's smock which was creepy too. Anyone else remember this?
magic pencil - was a large orange pencil (looked more like a pen) that would write for example A '' all the way round down and flick'' under the instruction of the presenter on a black background and the letter formation would by thick white ink
''magic pencil'' i think has always been in words and pictures it would proceed an animation for example ''cold cat'' then the presenter would say '' cold cat, both these words start with the same letter,watch how magic pencil writes it''. when i was in infant school we would have our teacher say ''fingers up'' and write the letter in the air..-) sweet memorories!
I was certain I was the only one who would have clicked on this link with threads in my mind... yet here we all seem to be, associating this with that film. I've looked at a lot of the memerobilia on youtube... and they all make me feel warm...but not this one. This seems very dark, and almost a bit frightening in itself now.
Did not one of the guys that present this programme, end up in prison???
converse91970 1 day ago
Would anyone know where I could find the skeleton and skulls episode?
Standuble 2 weeks ago
This clip is in a better condition from the one in Threads. Makes me feel how lucky we were that war didn't break out.
Standuble 2 weeks ago
I am literally back in Infant school (or maybe junior, doesnt matter, it was the same school anyway) sat in the library watching this, best flashback ive ever had
xneverwalkalonex 4 months ago
I've just watched threads aswell. Pretty depressing. I watched a bit off it when i was little but my mum sent me to bed just after the milk bottles melt. I now realise why she did.
casemaster333 4 months ago
can anyone remember the kids show that audrey roberts out of corrie was in around the middle seventies.
popy797 4 months ago
@popy797 it was called RentaGhost. I think she was called Mrs Poppoff.
casemaster333 4 months ago
@casemaster333 That has now put my mind at rest.I thank you.
popy797 4 months ago
@popy797 Rentaghost?!
southlundon 4 months ago
If there is one thing I remember it is the tunes to childrens Programmes in the late 70s and early 80s. I know em all. Watchin them on youtube brings back such good memories but I know the tune before it even comes on.
MOONST0MP 4 months ago
Threads. Reminds me too.
HiggsBosonNova 5 months ago 2
thats the phattest keyboards ive ever heard (thats phat with a p.h, wordy wouldnt be amused)
snips42 5 months ago
Wordy ended up on crack cocaine and tried to get clean in the 90's he now lives as a recluse in Portsmouth
elwoodlpool 5 months ago
schools tv in the 70s was great
RockAndRollMassacre 5 months ago
Ahh the seventies!
redcardinalist 6 months ago
i want my 21 seconds back
94Annkim 7 months ago
haha did feeney 2009 go to my school lol
baggyboo 7 months ago
is it from the telly or video cam or the compurter
ellapaige1 9 months ago
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ForBigCash 9 months ago
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ForBigCash 9 months ago
Reminds me of sitting around the television in a cupboard on wheels at Primary school!
brandybuck1984 10 months ago 2
"Baby come!"
zeonbub 10 months ago
wow!!!!!!!!
blackpoolacer 10 months ago
10 years after the attack...
ctomarctus 11 months ago
I think our school trolley telly was a Rediffusion, and the VCR was a Ferguson Videostar , with the clunky piano keys on top. Aaah what mammories.
They don't make tv themes like this anymore, what a TUNE.
willdatsun1 1 year ago
Always reminds me of Threads ,the film about nuclear war.The survivors were watching an old video tape of this!!
benlu123 1 year ago 2
i once saw wordy in the toilets at southport please beach. he was hanging around the gents for a while and left with a middle aged man.
rightfredsdead 1 year ago 2
a Cat's Skeleton........the Skeleton of.....a Cat!
apl175 1 year ago 5
I'm guessing this is where the intros from Modern Toss were taken from
kinder7 1 year ago
I jumped when I heard the first few seconds of this in Threads,and watching it now I jumped again.Synth music should be banned.
bawoman 1 year ago
Whale Oil Beef Hooked! I used to look forward to this every week when I was little.
BadGirlOfAutism 1 year ago
Being of this generation I remember this show, but am having trouible with another one. There was a BBC schools TV show in the 80's regarding music. It would show you various instruments & pieces of music & then would show a road sign type triangle with a gnome (?) in cupping his ear while they played part back & you had to guess what you were listening to. Any help on this one?!?!?
LilMs666 1 year ago
@LilMs666 I think I know the one you mean, was there a girl hosting it with a slight lisp? I'm sure she was also Sylvester Macoy's assistant in Dr. Who?
feeney2009 1 year ago
@feeney2009 you are right her name is Sophie Aldred and she did two series of words and pictures september 1992- june 1993 and september 1997- june 1998. By 1992 I had moved into junior school and couldnt watch words and pictures as i was to old ! lol but my mum used to tape sophies episodes as She was the ''love off my life'' when i was a kid and so i loved words and pictures to bits!
PCJoejoe 1 year ago
@LilMs666 i too remember this n asked my mum who looked at me blank so did a bit of research n although couldnt find the actual gnome clip i found info saying it was music time :)
jaggedittlegirl 1 year ago
Look on the bright side, the northern hemisphere may be reduced to a medieval wasteland where gangs of illiterate mutants scratch a desperate existence from the radioactive ruins of civillisation....but at least your kids won't be watching Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Ball
TomthatiscalledTom 1 year ago
wasn't this on weekday mornings when the bbc and itv had programmes for schools?...when i was ill at home from school i'd watch this on the sofa with me teddy and quil, back in the days of four channels and no sky t.v.
GARETH012005 1 year ago
This was all nice and innocent and jolly until I saw Threads. Now it scares the willies out of me.
undergroundsplee 1 year ago 3
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Pulsar205 1 year ago
nice theme tune. lively and interesting. makes me want to pick up some instruments!
Pulsar205 1 year ago
My psychiatrist has told me to watch this little clip, repeatedly. It brings out the most horrible feelings of despair, for some reason. But he told me to "keep on watching it, to get it all out".
What a weird bloke!
ctomarctus 2 years ago
@ctomarctus Seems like 1) He'd be the kind of shrink to torture terrorists locked in booths with, 2) He's taking the mick out of you or most likely, 3) He's completely barking.
Any which way, you need a new shrink :/
Pulsar205 1 year ago
TributeToThePast has uploaded several editions of this show (not including the 'Skeletons & skulls' episode, unfortunately).
Dristarg 2 years ago
I don't remember a female presenter. I thought it was a bloke!
jared1971 2 years ago
wordy was originally on " Look and Read", there was a little cartoon dort of chap on words and pictures - he looked like he came from a pop up book
starktik 2 years ago
electric elephant
Both these words start with the same letter. Watch how Magic Pencil writes it.
E
Straight across and round.
am9224 2 years ago
wasn't wordy on 'look & lislen' too?
antonjon1 2 years ago
narrated by chris tarrant there was a programme called stop look listen programme on ITV but wordy wasnt in look and read,or stop look listen he was just on this ''words and pictures''.
PCJoejoe 2 years ago
10 years after the attack...
Ashworth6 2 years ago 3
After watching threads, this is a very dark show
mooody12 2 years ago 15
@mooody12 I don't think this will ever seem as charming and nostalgic as other kid's shows once you've seen that film. The grainyness of this vid really reminds me of the one in the film
ph1980 2 years ago 2
@mooody12 I youtubed Threads, then this!
23hublock1 4 months ago
Crow and Alice were the best though Cosmo and Dibs were pretty funny.
baseballfan99 2 years ago
I used to love this show is the 70s. We watched it at primary school. I loved Charlie. lol
mygreatlovenova 2 years ago
Just one word: THREADS!
cottonwhiskersuk 2 years ago 4
yeah the old women knows every word haha!!
chiefzorf1883 2 years ago
What a pity Lazy Lion didn't survive the apocalypse.
ShutUpYouMong 2 years ago
"Today, we're looking at skeletons..."
Plenty of those around after a nuclear apocalypse! This tune was lovely and jolly until I saw that film...ARGH!
undergroundsplee 1 year ago 2
i can remember the halloween one where there was a pumpkin on a stick scary
molly19721 2 years ago
I WANT THE RINGTONE!!!!!
chiefzorf1883 2 years ago
lol,! -) recorded it off the computer to my phone and it worked sweet as a nut!
PCJoejoe 2 years ago
good job, just wish i knew how to do it haha
chiefzorf1883 2 years ago
hehe i remember a creepy lookin squeeky voiced fooker looked loike a perve who used to do this show around 1976
britelite2657 2 years ago
I remember the guy! Kinda looked like Peter Lorre.
cottonwhiskersuk 2 years ago
Henry Woolf was his name.
mazzab1970 2 years ago
No no no, you're all getting it wrong: 'Look And Read' was Wordy, with all the animations of "Build yourself a wall with an 'ing', to make it happening....", "Magic magic 'E'...", etc. 'Words And Pictures' was a litlle blue animated person who looked like Frankie Howerd who was called Charlie.
dhoggy5 2 years ago 6
I wanna see how Magic Pencil writes the letter 'b'!
skebo32 2 years ago
top to bottom up and all the way round!
PCJoejoe 2 years ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who still finds this terrifying. Is there anyone British over the age of 35 who doesn't think of post-nuclear dystopia when they hear this?
AndyGriff72 2 years ago 5
C'mon - someone's GOT to have video of the great Toni Arthur singing 'We're witches of halloween wooooo-ooh!'...and as for 'Threads' the image of the milk bottle melting and the wee coming down someones trouser leg has lived with me since I first saw it when a was about 13 - nearly 40 now...
safari1610 2 years ago 2
safari1610 "...the ugliest you've ever seen wooooo-ooh! They fly around at night and give you such a fright!".
Yeah, wouldn't mind hearing that again myself. : )
97channel 2 years ago
Hmm. Mad- I saw this soooo many times as a nipper, growing up- both in school and with my mam after school. Then I watched Threads. From then on, the two just went hand in hand.
keelen35 2 years ago
Just what a illiterate feral child wants to watch after a hard day's scavenging and stealing amid the radioactive ruins of Sheffield
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 5
Ha ha ha! Very good. Wonder how many people get the comment?
stormmine 2 years ago
I've eaten too much radioactive sheep!
undergroundsplee 1 year ago 3
Hahaha. I remember this. So many memories this brings back.
theglitterband 2 years ago
Did your school have a pye colour TV and a Granada video player stood on a tall trolley so the kids couldn't muck with it?!! Also the teachers could never work the video!! lol
feeney2009 2 years ago 68
@feeney2009 And the telly always had the same two faults, a colour imbalance giving everything a green hue, and the top of the picture wobbling off towards the right.
97channel 1 year ago
@feeney2009
funny thing is, i said almost that exact thing in a post about another 70's kids prog earlier!!
teachers used to wheel in the tva nd VHS on a tall frame thjng,and we was all there sat crosslegged on the floor!!!
brilliant!!!!!!!
yz25098uk 1 year ago 2
@feeney2009
Pye colour TV! I remember that lol!! And it was housed in massive heavy duty wooden cabinet on wheels! I also remember the teachers not having a clue!
LOL.
Damn, was we in the same class?! HE HE
cheekyleopard 1 year ago
@cheekyleopard I laughed so hard when I read ur comment.PYE tv's lol, my grand dad used to have a black and white one, could never get a decent picture and we used a clothes hanger as an aeriel lol. wonder what happened to pye as a company?
IrrepressibleGuile 1 year ago
@feeney2009 Yes we had the armored TV trolley with the lockable VCR cabinet.
lizichell2 1 year ago
@feeney2009 That is so true about the telly and video - classic.
simpson30 8 months ago 2
@feeney2009 lol!!! Yyou must have gone to the same school as me.
jamieb700 6 months ago
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drakeramorey78 5 months ago
@feeney2009 Hehe, yes! Our video player was a "deluxe model" with a remote control attached to it by means of a VERY long cable!!! Oh how high tec it all seemed at the time (and no, our teachers could never work the bloomin' thing either - the class geek normally had to assist!!)
drakeramorey78 5 months ago
Oh man. The best days at primarys school were when they wheeled out the giant tv and we'd watch words and pictures
napalmenema1 2 years ago 3
"Skeletons aaaaaaaand... skulls !"
tomekjankowski49 2 years ago 4
Haven't seen this since the late 1980s, thanks for sharing it
typicalaussiebloke 2 years ago
electricity is restored on a very small scale to watch words and pictures while wearing rags for clothes. Does anyone know what i am reffering to?
arnolddisco 2 years ago 7
THREADS!
biopsychosocio 2 years ago 4
Exactly!!!
arnolddisco 2 years ago
Yeah! I'm watching it now.
Coerlin 2 years ago
wheres the magic pen!
macstar2002 2 years ago
Yes!! The Threads theam tune!! Words and Pictures and Threads will be forever connected :-)
SurrealAspie 2 years ago 3
Threads? the 1984 drama?
arnolddisco 2 years ago 4
I know it's been commented a hundred times already, but....THREADS!
cottonwhiskersuk 2 years ago 3
I thought of threads and remembered the words and pictures scene ...frightened the hell out of me thinking about it as I used to watch this at primary school in the early 80's. I agree totally with
RogueSeraphim that the theme tune really creeps you out ...I have actually got goosebumps right now.
gpo746 2 years ago
Like many others, I can't help but just think of Threads now and find it totally creepy just to hear the theme tune. <.<
RogueSeraphim 2 years ago
One day my two-headed son and six fingered daughter will watch in their hovel while I am out killing people for a few scraps of unradioactive raw lamb and getting home before the fallout arrives
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 25
@TomthatiscalledTom You've seen Threds, I assume?
Feces4 1 year ago
@TomthatiscalledTom I have NEVER laughed at a YT comment more heartily. I congratulate you from the bottom of my 'scarred by 'Threads' for life' heart.
MoleinaHole 1 year ago
@TomthatiscalledTom inbreeding is a bitch isn't it?
RobbieTyler1 8 months ago
Funny, I used to love watching this as a kid at school and now like the people below just associate it with Threads! :)
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khetagstar 2 years ago
With regards to Threads. If i'd knew Words and Pictures was to be the only veiwing choice available after a Nuclear attack, i would rather get vaporised by the bomb.
BuddyFantastic 2 years ago 4
I'd consider the horrors of the aftermath worthwhile if we could save a few episodes of Rainbow.
undergroundsplee 1 year ago 2
Well....aye, throw in some He-Man & the Masters of The Universe cartoons too, and i'll consider riding out the nuclear storm. (how depressing is all this. lol)
BuddyFantastic 1 year ago
@undergroundsplee Just save every episode of Doctor Who (except Time & The Rani), & a lifetime supply of beer, & I can sit out anything. Even alien invasion.
borgduck 1 year ago
OMG!!! I used to watch this at school!! Dark Towers used to be in the middle of it!!!
And dont forget how the magic pencil taught us to write words!! "Top to bottom, up and round"....(that was an n in case anyone was wondering lol)
Debzy77 2 years ago
Does anyone remember the presenter from the early 70`s. Henry Woolf was his name, he played the villain in "Steptoe and Son" called "Frankie Barrow"?
KENNYB110 2 years ago
Just what I want to see after the holocaust!
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 5
Soon as this vid began playing I thought "Threads", and then read your comment. I guess my association of Words and Pictures with Threads were connecting two memories of my childhood, the fond memories of Words and Pictures and my nightmares about holocaust reinforced by watching Threads.
tkw251070 2 years ago 3
I am American and the only thing I can think of when I see and hear this is the BBC movie "Threads" from the 80s. Creepy!
Pdasilva0324 3 years ago 4
Same for me... terrifying!
053bss 2 years ago 2
It reminds me very much of both school and later on in life, that extremely brief moment in threads where we see the TV plugged into a generator or light fitting.... I cant remember what exactly! But its weird to think that such a brief clip on threads has stuck fast inside a foreign mind! And weirder still, that makes it all the more pronouncedly British - the announcers voice, the music, the BBC. Quirky and strangely endearing (to me at least).
seamanrob 2 years ago
Well unfortunately, (or fortunately, depening on point of view), the American media were shielded and protected from the true horrors of nuclear war during the Cold War Era. While "The Day After" was no doubt scary, it does not even come close to the realism of "Threads", both of which I only saw the full length of as an adult almost 20 years later. The only thing that might come close is Sesame Street playing in the background at the moment of attack in "Testament", which like Threads..
Pdasilva0324 2 years ago
most of us Americans did not see. As an American I believe the Reagan administration and current politicians at the time did NOT want the average American taking an anti-nuke stance. So very few Americans actually got to see "Threads" and the PBS produced "Testament". When I think about it, had I been British and grown up with something as innocent as Words and Pictures, I wouldn't simply associate the clip with the attack on Sheffield scene, much as I now still remember Sesame Street fondly.
Pdasilva0324 2 years ago
I have to say that I didnt really hold "words and pictures" in the same light as sesame street. W&P was very much an educational program for preschoolers and infants. We did have other programming as well which was much more along similar lines to Sesame Street - although not comparable!! But its the starkness of the titles, and how it feels so very bland and matter-of-fact that somehow makes it instantly recognisable as 1970s Britain! :)
seamanrob 2 years ago
@Pdasilva0324 You know, I think I saw that one late sunday evening as a child on our video machine. I remember being freaked out by that Sesame Street scene. Don't you hate it when a plan "doesn't come together?".
borgduck 1 year ago
Yeah, I remember words and pictures in school as I kid, use to like the theme tune untill we watched Threads in scohool in the early 1990's, now it just gives me the shivers!
bert031078 3 years ago 3
I wanna be dead again.
borgduck 3 years ago
What program was it that had the boy from space in and the watch tower?:)
fallingstar7360 3 years ago
peep peep the boy from space look and read..proper freaky scary kid..i had nightmares bout him and that old man with a cap and a mack
jay11acr 3 years ago
Me too. I love it.
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IntoxicatingRedHead 3 years ago
i wanna be little again....
FrozenExplosion 3 years ago
We watched this at school in the 70's and loved it along with Look and read, Music time and occasionally Good health, Stop look and listen or How we used to live (Victorian series), do they watch education programs at school now they've been replaced by Jeremy Kyle crap for chav parents, some of these rat families could learn a thing or two !
chapleeds 3 years ago 3
Most of the chav parents would have been kids themselves in the 70s-80s. Maybe watching this has in their formative years had a detrimental effect on their development? Even if they'd been skiving off school they'd have watched these progs while lying on the settee scoffing Mars bars or Double Deckers.
The guy's name was Henry Woolf. He was a bit scary!
mazzab1970 3 years ago
was this the one with that creepy man in,he was an extra in the rocky horror show?
themachman1969 3 years ago
Wordy was in Look & Read - the character in this was called Charlie (a monochrome cartoon)
spinaltapfan999 3 years ago
Fantastic - i am so reliving my childhood tonite! Was this the one with Cosmo and Dibs?
clare01bear 3 years ago
No, that was 'You and Me'.
richedwards79 2 years ago
We used to watch this at school all the time.Love it.
scrog77 3 years ago
I feel like I'm 8 years old again seeing this. Oh memories of when I didn't have to worry about bills and could just play.
cylon6 3 years ago
Didn't you worry about nuclear war, though?
undergroundsplee 1 year ago 2
Too young to know what it was all about. When I was older was when I saw Threads. Then I became shit scared!!
cylon6 1 year ago
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@cylon6 @undergroundsplee Same here! Are you sure it was this programme?
Radiation poisoning really frightened me. Do you remember those Protect and Survive public information films too?
The Soviets were getting very bulshy in their diplomatic language back then. President Brechnev was old and sick and it was their last ditch effort to overtake the West.
Little did we know however it was all set up as part of the New World Order. Now we have them overtaking Europe anyway :D
Pulsar205 1 year ago
Yeah; I'm just glad that this clip doesn't wow like the one on the VHS player in threads did - I'd want to do and hide under the bed like I did whenever the 4 minute warning went off by accident.... As a small kid I was obsessed with - and terrified of - nuclear war O_o
ReeallityBytes 1 year ago
Do not delete this clip. We'll need it to educate the feral children wandering around ruined cities after the next World War
TomthatiscalledTom 3 years ago 28
That would be as seen in threads....
Mixomoxim 3 years ago
@TomthatiscalledTom
lol
cheekyleopard 1 year ago
All I seem to remember from the late 70's early 80's TV was Derek Griffiths seemed to be singing/playing guitar to everything. Look & Read defo the voiceover for Skyhunter but also theme tune (hands and fingers knees and toes knees and toooooeeees!), Words and Pictures (magic, magic Eeeeeeeee.... etc). Last thing I saw him in was Holby City about a year ago, but he's been in loads of other stuff.
juddct 3 years ago
Yeh Derek Griffiths and Wordy weren't on Words and Pictures - they were on Look and Read. People including the video poster often get confused between Wordy and the character on W&P. The character on W&P was called Charlie ( see tvarksouthwest's comment ). Anyone remember the presenter before Vicky Ireland?
Rufusboy74 3 years ago
Sorry just read it further down! Henry Woolf was the guy I can remember from my infant years.
Rufusboy74 3 years ago
classic nostalgia- top music...
rdg2274 3 years ago
Vicky Ireland. Oh Yes! I really loved her when I was a kid. I think I had a crush on her too. We used to watch this at primary school, and after it ended we read books called 'Billy Blue Hat Goes Fishing' or something like that. Childrens TV is rubbish now. Far too PC and all that stuff. These memories of a bygone era are what make good childhoods. ;-)
kabogga 3 years ago
I also remember Vicky Ireland presenting this in the mid-80s when I was at primary school. The series was still running fairly recently, a pale shadow of its former self!
DaveDaRave1980 3 years ago
I remember Vicky Ireland presenting when I watched it at school circa 1983-1985. It was set in a library and remember that they did have a lot of books from authors like Pat Hutchins, Shirley Hughes and David McKee on the programme.
It was always on Mondays at 2.00 pm right from the early 1970s to about 1990 when it moved to Fridays. It also moved from BBC 1 to BBC 2 in about 1983.
GeorgeASFTHM 3 years ago
Surprised nobody's sampled that theme and done a rap mix yet . . . nice analog synth sounds. Well, this show was something I saw when I was off school with chicken pox or the common cold. Brought back some memories. And yes, THREADS, anyone . . .
rubis945 3 years ago
'A witch wears a big black hat...'
I loved the Hallowee'en episode the best.
And what about that pereguin falcon thing, was that part of W an P?
Yes, the Threads scene was v disturbing. Imagine surviving a nuclear war and end up watching Wordy on an old Ferguson Videostar somewhere in South Yorkshire.
everybodyreach 3 years ago 3
the pereguin falcon was look and read - skyhunter,back in the 70's and skyhunter 2 in the early 1990'ss
PCJoejoe 3 years ago
THREADS!!!
dnalor1975 3 years ago 5
Shit! You're right. Threads turns this from something innocuous into one of the most creepy and terrifying things I've ever seen!
undergroundsplee 3 years ago 13
Skeletons and skulls...
stig114 3 years ago 3
Just what is needed to restore basic linguistic skills to the post-holocaust generation who have grown up as scavenging barbarians
TomthatiscalledTom 3 years ago 9
Henry Woolf's version was better!!
metaltron88 3 years ago
Yeh, the pen floating about always amused me. IT HAD NO HAND HOLDING IT!!!1111oneone
craigkore 3 years ago
where the magic pen???
'up and down and around and up'
macstar2002 3 years ago
If you are gonna intercept what i write, then at least try and do it properly without me noticing you fucking amateurs
AshleyBellamy 3 years ago
sorry ppl. wrong vid. lol
AshleyBellamy 3 years ago
One of the best TV theme tunes ever IMO
simpson30 3 years ago
i always remeber the haloween episode, the 2 witches gave me real nightmares, then the music was used in the bbc programme "threads" which really was horrible, a very haunting sound now.
fireblade929 3 years ago
Oh my god, i remember the witch flying on the broom, her eyes were so intensively scarey. Spooky!
stardance99 3 years ago
Anyone got the 'lazy lion' clip from this show. It was on a show about 1976?
Long shot I know...
Johnoco66 3 years ago
..... if someone gets it for you, could you let me know aswell, ta.........
FrozenExplosion 3 years ago
I remember Henry Woolf presenting 'Words and Pictures'. It was a bit scary seeing him as a kids presenter because I used to see him elsewhere playing gangster roles in an evil troll sort of way. (One of his roles was the dwarfy godfather type, Frankie Barrow, in Steptoe). I think he used to wear a sort of high collared artist's smock which was creepy too. Anyone else remember this?
formby2 3 years ago
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austo777 3 years ago
Don't make me ban you.
paedotrish 3 years ago
I am looking for words and pictures videos so if anyone has any out there send me a message ^_^
tobeon85 3 years ago
What was the stencil creature that used to teach us to write the letters...you know..the one with the magic chalk? Wasn't it invisible or something?
Fm
fruitmousse 3 years ago
magic pencil - was a large orange pencil (looked more like a pen) that would write for example A '' all the way round down and flick'' under the instruction of the presenter on a black background and the letter formation would by thick white ink
PCJoejoe 3 years ago
Yeah...that was it - that was also from this show I think.
Fm
fruitmousse 3 years ago
''magic pencil'' i think has always been in words and pictures it would proceed an animation for example ''cold cat'' then the presenter would say '' cold cat, both these words start with the same letter,watch how magic pencil writes it''. when i was in infant school we would have our teacher say ''fingers up'' and write the letter in the air..-) sweet memorories!
PCJoejoe 3 years ago
Threads..just watched the film and came straight here...lol. Ended up scanning all the retro kids shows to make me feel happy again.
Fm
fruitmousse 3 years ago 4
I also thought the same about Threads!! It gave me the shivers.
bules72 3 years ago 3
I was certain I was the only one who would have clicked on this link with threads in my mind... yet here we all seem to be, associating this with that film. I've looked at a lot of the memerobilia on youtube... and they all make me feel warm...but not this one. This seems very dark, and almost a bit frightening in itself now.
ph1980 3 years ago 4
THREADS !!!!!! I'll always associate the two!
benlu123 4 years ago 7
blimey i thought it was me, every time i think of the program, threads, i remeber this tune played, spooky
fireblade929 4 years ago 2 <