@Marfysarfy I think you are right. I remember Twizzle being a much darker character and also, if memory is correct, a woodland creature that resembled wooden sticks come to life. Hiowever, I remember this version too.
Try to show this today and every mind-foaming Marxist and their useful idiots would be waving court orders and cryiing on "Trisha" about how "offended" they were. It's time we all said "tuff! Go be offended, you sad little jack off." PC only works if we cooperate.
@auspete It's not really arbitrary when the media used it to villianise a race and to justify murders. It's all about context really so I can't see it being a problem being used in the movie but the way it was used in the media was very sinister indeed. Thanks for the upload by the way :)
@drb7777 when i was a kid my mum named our cat nigger only coz of the colour...how times have changed, why does everything have to be racial be it colour or otherwise...political correctness gone mad.
Ha, with all this "political correctness" they would not even let you use the word gollywog in public - now the PC Police are trying to edit the word nigga" out of Hunckleberry Finn!
I was mad for Twizzle when i was a kid. There's nothing racist about this, the Golly is just another toy in the shop and has nothing to do with race. Sooner my kids watched this than xfactor
Lovely to see this, was my favourite and hardly anyone I know remembers it. I was born in 1960 so it was going for a few years by the time I got to watch it. Oh how I longed to have arms likeTwizzle!
Gollywog is not racist, it's part of our childhood. I was shopping in Sassafrass in Australia and bought two back for my children, they were selling like hot cakes, why is it we can buy them there and not here what is wrong with people, Bring back the Gollywog
I am sure it was the Goons that did the voicover for this. This brings back memories, i used to sit enthralled at this, Torchy the battery boy, Four Feather Falls, the list is endless. I am 57 now, and if i knew then what i know now my life would have been so different, i wouldnt have a Stroke for starters caused through smoking.
I am sure it was the Goons that did the voicover for this. This brings back memories, i used to sit enthralled at this, Torchy the battery boy, Four Feather Falls, the list is endless. I am 57 now, and if i knew then what i know now my life would have been so different, i wouldnt have a Stroke for starters caused through smoking.
Long live twizzle grew up with this as a kid great stuff. The reason why they got rid of Golliwogs off of jam jars, is because black people were using them for bus passes
@JediNana2 If you are going to send replies for me to receive I suggest you stop being such a winging coward and leave your comments for everyone else to see, rather than making sure I receive the response and you deleting it from here.
In response to your deleted comment, I don't care if anyone "makes a pop" at 'my race. What's funny is funny. Contrary to your claim, no he has not removed the joke.
God, I so hate humourless, self-rightous, self-hating white liberals.
@CrankCase08 I removed it because I'd got part of it wrong as I was looking at the comment below that he had removed, rather than the tasteless, racist joke above. And for the record, I am not a coward, nor a "self-hating (I rather like myself, actually) white liberal". I simply don't find racist jokes funny. Unlike you. Saddo.
@JediNana2 I'm hardly a saddo when I have sufficient sense if humour to find a decent joke funny. With your limp-wristed attitude you'd fit in well with the current crop in television management that has wrecked television and culture with its ridiculous and nauseating political correctness.
I believe that this was the first programme aired on commercial television on 29th October 1957. This is one of the programmes I vividly remember from my childhood.
I can remember watching this as a kid, back in Clapham London, there wasent that many of them, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha those were the days, brings back all my childhood memories, that and Woodentop, Bill and Ben and Hoppity oh yes and Fireball XL5 wow thats was pree Thunderbirds
Thanks for uploading this! It's a shame this is the only surviving episode (out of an original total of 52), but at least this one episode gives us an idea of what the show was like.
Great program. I remember seeing this when I was a kid. By the way, Golliwogs are still available in the UK. Check out the toy shop in Bourton on the Water for just one outlet. Two fingers to political correctness!
Whenever my parents wanted to severely traumatize me, they would seat me in front of this programme. Twizzle himself was weird - apparently a boy doll but with a squeaky voice and long hair. Those extendable legs with diagonal stripes made me nervous as well. But when that jack-in-the-box took centre stage I really freaked out - a human head grafted onto a caterpillar body! The storyline was creepy - wandering around in the dark and meeting a scary cat - 7:37 gave me nightmares for weeks!
Happy days of childhood. Truly a bygone era....when a Teddy Bear was indeed just that and of course a gollywog was known the world over as a "gollywog". Oh! bring back the days before political correctness and twaddle.
@gramule Good Golly....I do not share your view. I do not wish to sound patronising, but would I be correct in thinking, that you are of the "new" age way of thinking? ie Political Correctness and Health & Safety Rules. The 1950`s and 6O`were, where childhood was concerned an "innocent" age.I wish it were the same today.
@TheWhitehall in the time it was innocent yes, but in the more enlightened era that we are fortunate to live in, we can see that golliwogs are racist. i hope that this helps.
@gramule I certainly acknowledge that we now live in enlightened and tolerant times. Which is a good thing. But, I rue the passing of days when one could call a "spade a spade" without feeling as though one had made an outrageous comment. Political Correctness [in my opinion] is often patronising,pandering and does not always welcome direct and blunt factual/honest views incase they offend the sensitive. Anyway, I remember the days of Twizzle and Noddy and his pals with a smile.As we both do.
@gramule I don't see it as what you describe as 'political correctness' just concerned that any language, image or whatever which patronises, or disenfranchises folk in any way, deeply, deeply offensive. In the 1950's/60's, in the arena of mental health/disability, we were still using words/phrases such as: mentally feeble, spastic, mongol, thank goodness we are much more enlightned now about using language which alienates folk.
I don't see it as what you describe as 'political correctness' just concerned that any language, image or whatever which patronises, or disenfranchises folk in any way, deeply, deeply offensive. In the 1950's/60's, in the arena of mental health/disability, we were still using words/phrases such as: mentally feeble, spastic, mongol, thank goodness we are much more enlightned now about using language which alienates folk.
Definately on in Melbourne in the 60's. This, with Torchy and Space Patrol are my earliest TV memories. Thanks for this window back to a simpler time!
Auspete, this was definately on Australian TV in the 60's. I recall watching this and Torchy as my earliest TV experiences, along with Space Patrol. I was in Melbourne then. Thanks so much for your window to a forgotten world.
I have spent most of my adult life asking my friends if they remember TWIZZLE...."naah you made him up!" has been the answer.... well here he is TWIZZLE!!!... proof that he was not just in my imagination.... HURRAH!!!! thank you so much!!
Unless this series was repeated later, I actually remember watching it when I was 3 years old, as well as 'Torchy the Battery Boy', 'Supercar' etc. (Oo-er!)
I'm 15 and I found this for my mum and she remembers twizzle and the golliwogs, and the golliwog badges you could get with the tokens. People are too politically correct now. They shouldn't have got rid of golliwogs! I want one <3
This is great :) I am a baby boomer and it WAS aired in Australia in the early 60s on the abc I think Wish you included the Twizzle song I remember one line "If you got the measels or if you got the mumps" Cant remember the rest:) I was about 5 or 6 at the time Great trip down memory lane thanks:)
This series gave me the creeps even when I was a little kid. Something about the shadowy lighting and definitely creepy voices (especially those deep ones).
Lets start a campaign "BRING BACK THE GOLLYWOG". Come off it remember sitting at Breakfast and eating Robertsons Jam, whilst wishing you had enough tokens to send of for a Golliwig Badge. Racist it is not, nostalgic it is.
The introduction tells you that the golliwog was new. How is the bear's comment racist? It was a fact. Would you have said it was racist if it had been the other way round? Come to that it is a bear and a golliwog. They are toys, not differing human races.
I was thrilled to find Twizzle on youtube. I posted it to my sister for her 59th birthday pressie. I would love to find a recording of The Red Grass (sci fi episodes circa 1959). Anyone know of any recordings still in existence?
This one was made the year i was born , remember watching but sadlly not the story lines but i agree with another posting of feeling safe.....suppose thats similar to all generations.
Glad to find this, I dont know anyone who remembers this programme so thanks for puting this on. Does anyone have the opening credits. Strange how they give a rosy glow these programmes. Suspect because they made you feel safe
Great stuff, i saw Twizzle for the first time in the early sixties as a two or three year old. I used to think Twizzle was a girl, well what do you expect he had a womans voice. Half the things said in those days would not be allowed today, as an innocent child so what!! 2/6d that went a long way back then, when on earth did she get that money from?
I must have been one or two years old when I saw some of the Twizzle episodes on TV. I just remember how scarey they were... so dark and spooky. Almost nightmarish. The puppets faces with fixed expressions. All the same, lovely to see this.
Wow this is great stuff..what a lost art form. Twizzle I thought was a girl....freaky puppets...but the thing from the box was the scariest...a head on a caterpillar body!!! SCREAM!! LOL.
my dad just rememberd this tv show and i think it is very diffrent to the tv shows now ..and im 13 and my mum collects golly woggs but i think the golly wogg on this program is a bit freaky!!
My first memory, literally, is Twizzle. His neck and arms stretch out so he can climb over a wall. I was about two years old probably and it scared the hell out of me. It still looks a weird thing now.
How Brilliant is this, I can remeber all the words to Footso song, I am 51. Jiffy used to scare me a bit too. And at last found Torchy the Battery Boy and Sara and Hoppity- diddlededum, diddlede de.
My wife collects Golly Wogs - they are still around if you look hard enough.
Seeing some younger people`s reaction to them is I think quite sad - after all they use to be such a common doll. Older generation individuals don`t have a problem with them. Also, let`s not forget the Golly Wog metal badges one could obtain from Robertsons - the jam & marmalade maker.
I saw this, I agree that it is more imaginative than US children's cartoons now. Just the puppets etc are somewhat crude. But it makes you wonder what will happen next.
Oh my God! I can't believe I am watching that awful toy again! He used to scare the living daylights out of me. I was only four years old at the time, but the worst character was the broomstick man, who gave me nightmares!
its not that kids dont have imaginations anymore ,its that their not given the chance to express them ! innocence is gone im afraid ,when i was young things like trapdoor and button moon were'nt far off this style still !
Why aren't kids' programmes like this any more? Because the Cultural Marxists took over society (leaving the economy to free-market fundamentalists).
This programme is actually brilliant! (Of course, the shallow, literal-minded children of today would point out the technical crudity - visible strings, etc. They have no souls or imagination, as you say.)
Found this on Youtube so my mum could remember when she was 3 or 4. she was amazed to see it again, and we all laughed watching it and seeeing how much things have changed! ;)
Nancy Nevinson, the voice of Twizzle and the narator, is having her 90th birthday on 26 July 2008. Thank you so much for posting this, we are putting together a presentation of her life's work, and the clip showing she is worth 2/6 will be hilarious
great stuff.recall this and muffin the mule/bill and ben/jiff the broomstick...oh dear youve got me started now!!!even talking about a golliwog all so innocent...imagine the uproar nowadays!!
I would hate to break down on some desolate country road and stumble accross this village in the dark. On the other hand, I would Definitely pay 2/6d for Twizzle!
thank you once again for the memories never thought i would see these again i cannot take my eyes off of them, like going back in time blow the house work today there wonderful.
this was amazing I really thought I was the only person who remembered Twizzle. I even had a Twizzle doll as a kid.. Thank you so much for posting this!
OMG!!!! I'm nearly 50 and nobody has ever known what I was talking about when I spoke about Twizzle and as we lived in uganda at the time I saw it I thought it must have just been something on there!! and I always thought Twizzle was a girl too!! lol ty for posting this vid xx
Wow certainly brings it all back!
pixiegirl59 5 hours ago
My local radio station is talking about this !!!
thurstable 2 months ago
Excellent puppet control. Almost a dying art these days.
DumblyBrilliant 4 months ago
i used to always watch Twizzle- i loved it so much
iamearthbornami 4 months ago
Twizzle looks like a chic no???
HandsInMyHead 4 months ago
Hmmm... was there a 1960s version? I remember Twizzle but not as a string puppet..... (very vague memory mind you)!
Marfysarfy 5 months ago
@Marfysarfy I think you are right. I remember Twizzle being a much darker character and also, if memory is correct, a woodland creature that resembled wooden sticks come to life. Hiowever, I remember this version too.
DumblyBrilliant 4 months ago
@Marfysarfy
Yes there was definately a sixties version. Any clue anyone?
tamara73018 2 weeks ago
Brilliant
twoslices 5 months ago
Fantastic! I haven't seen this in over 50 years-ahh the memories!!
hartnell1000 6 months ago
@hartnell1000 i cannot believe how i watched these shows as a kid the accents are so middle class lol
7777blues 5 months ago
who's she calling funny looking - that little girl looks a bit odd herself
MyMandaM 6 months ago
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boffinme80 6 months ago
that little girl was a spoiled little bitch
86compgeek 7 months ago 2
@86compgeek I think she may have been a feminist...lol
DumblyBrilliant 4 months ago
I remember watching this when i was 6 in 1957, if only things were as good now.
wolfoutlaw1 8 months ago
The shopkeeper must have made an impression on the makers of 'Psychoville' - he reminds me of Mr. Lomax!
MsBkirk 8 months ago
Twizzle and Torchy. Wow was a nostagla trip. the were the best.
VauxhallVictorMan 8 months ago
Try to show this today and every mind-foaming Marxist and their useful idiots would be waving court orders and cryiing on "Trisha" about how "offended" they were. It's time we all said "tuff! Go be offended, you sad little jack off." PC only works if we cooperate.
DumblyBrilliant 8 months ago
Waaaah ! Me no like creepy Jack in the Box! Me too scared to look and me is 56 now.......!
voxxer1 9 months ago
Waaaaaah! Me no like creepy Jack in the Box! Me still too scared to look and me 56 now!
voxxer1 9 months ago
Even back then it was happening. Even the puppet white girls were possible hits for the local black dude. How prophetic.
pbunyon2002 9 months ago
The golliwogs' probably outnumber the teddy bears there now!! LOL
FORTBAXTER1 9 months ago 2
@FORTBAXTER1 LOL!
ConcreteBarge 8 months ago
really
Btwisle 9 months ago
I was watching "Dam Busters" the other day on TV.
One of the pilots had a dog he called it nigger.
Just imagine trying to own a dog these days and naming it nigger.
drb7777 11 months ago 4
@drb7777 I wish people would do it, it'd help take the taboo out of what are really just arbitrary sounds we assign too much meaning to.
auspete 11 months ago
@auspete WOW really??? You must not know much history.
kauldplai7 9 months ago
@auspete It's not really arbitrary when the media used it to villianise a race and to justify murders. It's all about context really so I can't see it being a problem being used in the movie but the way it was used in the media was very sinister indeed. Thanks for the upload by the way :)
theprince08853 2 months ago
@drb7777 when i was a kid my mum named our cat nigger only coz of the colour...how times have changed, why does everything have to be racial be it colour or otherwise...political correctness gone mad.
roseelee1 2 hours ago
Ha, with all this "political correctness" they would not even let you use the word gollywog in public - now the PC Police are trying to edit the word nigga" out of Hunckleberry Finn!
angol42 1 year ago
Oh its brilliant. It was my favourite as a child in the late 50's. It looks so funny now though. Im very pleased to have found it on YouTube
suemartin
mcflylinkinpark 1 year ago
all my nightmares in five minutes...i was terrified ..and i still find twizzle scary
Mandz4me2 1 year ago
I was mad for Twizzle when i was a kid. There's nothing racist about this, the Golly is just another toy in the shop and has nothing to do with race. Sooner my kids watched this than xfactor
busolglou 1 year ago
I am so glad I have just found this!! I remember it was a programme I loved and then it vanished!!
Joannew187 1 year ago
Lovely to see this, was my favourite and hardly anyone I know remembers it. I was born in 1960 so it was going for a few years by the time I got to watch it. Oh how I longed to have arms likeTwizzle!
prawno8 1 year ago
Gollywog is not racist, it's part of our childhood. I was shopping in Sassafrass in Australia and bought two back for my children, they were selling like hot cakes, why is it we can buy them there and not here what is wrong with people, Bring back the Gollywog
berniebubble 1 year ago
THanks for a quick trip down Memory Lane, This was one of my favourites! Like was so much simpler in those days :)
melsm57 1 year ago
I remember this as a child, is it me, or do'es the gollywog sounds a little like bungle
WASPdaddy 1 year ago
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I am sure it was the Goons that did the voicover for this. This brings back memories, i used to sit enthralled at this, Torchy the battery boy, Four Feather Falls, the list is endless. I am 57 now, and if i knew then what i know now my life would have been so different, i wouldnt have a Stroke for starters caused through smoking.
1953Poppa 1 year ago
I am sure it was the Goons that did the voicover for this. This brings back memories, i used to sit enthralled at this, Torchy the battery boy, Four Feather Falls, the list is endless. I am 57 now, and if i knew then what i know now my life would have been so different, i wouldnt have a Stroke for starters caused through smoking.
1953Poppa 1 year ago
Long live twizzle grew up with this as a kid great stuff. The reason why they got rid of Golliwogs off of jam jars, is because black people were using them for bus passes
guitarman128x 1 year ago
@guitarman128x 1 - that's a tired old joke
and
2 - it's not funny anyway
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it's racist so go away.
JediNana2 1 year ago
@JediNana2 It was very funny. Get your self-righteous head out from up your arse.
CrankCase08 1 year ago
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JediNana2 1 year ago
@JediNana2 If you are going to send replies for me to receive I suggest you stop being such a winging coward and leave your comments for everyone else to see, rather than making sure I receive the response and you deleting it from here.
In response to your deleted comment, I don't care if anyone "makes a pop" at 'my race. What's funny is funny. Contrary to your claim, no he has not removed the joke.
God, I so hate humourless, self-rightous, self-hating white liberals.
CrankCase08 1 year ago
@CrankCase08 I removed it because I'd got part of it wrong as I was looking at the comment below that he had removed, rather than the tasteless, racist joke above. And for the record, I am not a coward, nor a "self-hating (I rather like myself, actually) white liberal". I simply don't find racist jokes funny. Unlike you. Saddo.
JediNana2 1 year ago
@JediNana2 I'm hardly a saddo when I have sufficient sense if humour to find a decent joke funny. With your limp-wristed attitude you'd fit in well with the current crop in television management that has wrecked television and culture with its ridiculous and nauseating political correctness.
CrankCase08 1 year ago 3
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guitarman128x 1 year ago
Gerry Anderson was a genius!
Tonyblack261 1 year ago
I wonder this is the only ever episode still available for viewing. What happened to the other episodes?
CrankCase02 1 year ago
@CrankCase02
According to Wikipedia, this is the only surviving episode, though gerrybriley, a commenter on IMDB, reckons he has 20 on Betamax
recklesswraith 1 year ago
this was one of my favourites when I was 5yrs old. Such a long way from Toy story but brings back great memories
aphramoon1 1 year ago
I was born in 1959 and remember watching this as a child.
baldcat59 1 year ago
Look closely. I can see the strings.
Mattcrowley2a 1 year ago
I believe that this was the first programme aired on commercial television on 29th October 1957. This is one of the programmes I vividly remember from my childhood.
MrDnorfolk 1 year ago
I can remember watching this as a kid, back in Clapham London, there wasent that many of them, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha those were the days, brings back all my childhood memories, that and Woodentop, Bill and Ben and Hoppity oh yes and Fireball XL5 wow thats was pree Thunderbirds
dtdavie01 1 year ago
Twizzle is a boy? It looks like a girl! I love these video's.
SuesDaytona 1 year ago
As a child we NEVER put a 'colour' to a toy - a golliwog was simply a golliwog. It is YOU pc people who are racist and bloody minded
michael72401 1 year ago
Nice to see this. My favourite was always jiffy the broomstick man though twizzle was a bit of a goody goody haha
uncarajillo1 1 year ago
"I'm Twizzle, and i DO" "Oh what DO you do?" 1:00
It's very funny, even the little sentences.
violin614 1 year ago
Did Michael Jackson really look like that in 1957???????
perthgloryboy 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this! It's a shame this is the only surviving episode (out of an original total of 52), but at least this one episode gives us an idea of what the show was like.
Lexx2 1 year ago
Great program. I remember seeing this when I was a kid. By the way, Golliwogs are still available in the UK. Check out the toy shop in Bourton on the Water for just one outlet. Two fingers to political correctness!
alfrunrig 1 year ago 2
This used to scare me silly as a kid. I think I can see why. Didn't know it was a Gerry Anderson show before. A Eureka moment!
Pluff506 1 year ago
i remember in 1966 watching this in london as a kid..lol
girton1 1 year ago
Whenever my parents wanted to severely traumatize me, they would seat me in front of this programme. Twizzle himself was weird - apparently a boy doll but with a squeaky voice and long hair. Those extendable legs with diagonal stripes made me nervous as well. But when that jack-in-the-box took centre stage I really freaked out - a human head grafted onto a caterpillar body! The storyline was creepy - wandering around in the dark and meeting a scary cat - 7:37 gave me nightmares for weeks!
quarthex1 1 year ago
I loved this as a kid !
twoslices 1 year ago
Happy days of childhood. Truly a bygone era....when a Teddy Bear was indeed just that and of course a gollywog was known the world over as a "gollywog". Oh! bring back the days before political correctness and twaddle.
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
@TheWhitehall erm it is racist
gramule 1 year ago
@gramule Good Golly....I do not share your view. I do not wish to sound patronising, but would I be correct in thinking, that you are of the "new" age way of thinking? ie Political Correctness and Health & Safety Rules. The 1950`s and 6O`were, where childhood was concerned an "innocent" age.I wish it were the same today.
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
@TheWhitehall in the time it was innocent yes, but in the more enlightened era that we are fortunate to live in, we can see that golliwogs are racist. i hope that this helps.
gramule 1 year ago
@gramule I certainly acknowledge that we now live in enlightened and tolerant times. Which is a good thing. But, I rue the passing of days when one could call a "spade a spade" without feeling as though one had made an outrageous comment. Political Correctness [in my opinion] is often patronising,pandering and does not always welcome direct and blunt factual/honest views incase they offend the sensitive. Anyway, I remember the days of Twizzle and Noddy and his pals with a smile.As we both do.
TheWhitehall 1 year ago 3
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gramule 1 year ago
@gramule I don't see it as what you describe as 'political correctness' just concerned that any language, image or whatever which patronises, or disenfranchises folk in any way, deeply, deeply offensive. In the 1950's/60's, in the arena of mental health/disability, we were still using words/phrases such as: mentally feeble, spastic, mongol, thank goodness we are much more enlightned now about using language which alienates folk.
gramule 1 year ago
I don't see it as what you describe as 'political correctness' just concerned that any language, image or whatever which patronises, or disenfranchises folk in any way, deeply, deeply offensive. In the 1950's/60's, in the arena of mental health/disability, we were still using words/phrases such as: mentally feeble, spastic, mongol, thank goodness we are much more enlightned now about using language which alienates folk.
gramule 1 year ago
I Loved Twizzel! God bless xx
OLaverty111 1 year ago
Definately on in Melbourne in the 60's. This, with Torchy and Space Patrol are my earliest TV memories. Thanks for this window back to a simpler time!
DeltaBlue31 1 year ago
Auspete, this was definately on Australian TV in the 60's. I recall watching this and Torchy as my earliest TV experiences, along with Space Patrol. I was in Melbourne then. Thanks so much for your window to a forgotten world.
DeltaBlue31 1 year ago
Thanks mate, a load of Brits I know are hugeley impressed. Thank you...sharing to my FB. Thank you again for the share:-)
DSVOP 1 year ago
I have spent most of my adult life asking my friends if they remember TWIZZLE...."naah you made him up!" has been the answer.... well here he is TWIZZLE!!!... proof that he was not just in my imagination.... HURRAH!!!! thank you so much!!
dinkyandwinky 1 year ago
Unless this series was repeated later, I actually remember watching it when I was 3 years old, as well as 'Torchy the Battery Boy', 'Supercar' etc. (Oo-er!)
drwhatson 1 year ago
This brings back memories,i grew up with this programme and can still remember the songs!
petermackett37 1 year ago
What wonderfull memories of my chilhood.
Definetly not Racist
docskinuk 1 year ago
I'm 15 and I found this for my mum and she remembers twizzle and the golliwogs, and the golliwog badges you could get with the tokens. People are too politically correct now. They shouldn't have got rid of golliwogs! I want one <3
bunnieluv27 1 year ago
loved this
schortje 1 year ago
I was brought up with golliwogs on TV, in storybooks, and in toy shops. To me they were just a kind of toy, not representations of black people.
Kira1Moe 1 year ago 4
Bloody hell...haven't seen this for 40 years
marcuscato 1 year ago
@marcuscato
Me too!
Things were of a different quality in those days!
violin614 1 year ago
what happy memories
bigchick100 2 years ago
very pc with the golliwog
121Swaleskid 2 years ago
This is great :) I am a baby boomer and it WAS aired in Australia in the early 60s on the abc I think Wish you included the Twizzle song I remember one line "If you got the measels or if you got the mumps" Cant remember the rest:) I was about 5 or 6 at the time Great trip down memory lane thanks:)
Beachinus 2 years ago
i find these 50's children shows quite unsettling
criztafer 2 years ago
This series gave me the creeps even when I was a little kid. Something about the shadowy lighting and definitely creepy voices (especially those deep ones).
brit1958dec 2 years ago
Lets start a campaign "BRING BACK THE GOLLYWOG". Come off it remember sitting at Breakfast and eating Robertsons Jam, whilst wishing you had enough tokens to send of for a Golliwig Badge. Racist it is not, nostalgic it is.
geminimanuk 2 years ago 24
@geminimanuk no no no it is racist...look at the doll...very very dangerous to say that its nostalgic
gramule 1 year ago
Thank you for this nostalgic visit to the early sixties when we were children.
But, I cannot find Jiffy the Broomstick anywhere. Can anyone help?
aligilli 2 years ago
do you know that character used to scare the crap out of me as a kid..
radicalsystems 2 years ago
whats a goliwag?
riklay246 2 years ago
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The bear says to the golliwog, "You can tell you haven't been here long." Racist!
Fronika 2 years ago
The introduction tells you that the golliwog was new. How is the bear's comment racist? It was a fact. Would you have said it was racist if it had been the other way round? Come to that it is a bear and a golliwog. They are toys, not differing human races.
hawkmoon03111951 2 years ago 10
@hawkmoon03111951 gollywogs are a manifestation of racism, end of.
gramule 1 year ago
IM OFFENDED !!!!!!!!!!!!!
plutoplatters 2 years ago
And I'm disparaged!
restcure 2 years ago
Phone Call to Harriet Harperson. Compensation please!
CrankCase08 2 years ago
I was thrilled to find Twizzle on youtube. I posted it to my sister for her 59th birthday pressie. I would love to find a recording of The Red Grass (sci fi episodes circa 1959). Anyone know of any recordings still in existence?
bettyinthebox 2 years ago
This one was made the year i was born , remember watching but sadlly not the story lines but i agree with another posting of feeling safe.....suppose thats similar to all generations.
bardelolayolay 2 years ago
Glad to find this, I dont know anyone who remembers this programme so thanks for puting this on. Does anyone have the opening credits. Strange how they give a rosy glow these programmes. Suspect because they made you feel safe
Faybells 2 years ago
Great stuff, i saw Twizzle for the first time in the early sixties as a two or three year old. I used to think Twizzle was a girl, well what do you expect he had a womans voice. Half the things said in those days would not be allowed today, as an innocent child so what!! 2/6d that went a long way back then, when on earth did she get that money from?
mamhenry 2 years ago
I must have been one or two years old when I saw some of the Twizzle episodes on TV. I just remember how scarey they were... so dark and spooky. Almost nightmarish. The puppets faces with fixed expressions. All the same, lovely to see this.
LsBaba 2 years ago
I'm so pleased to find this, I didn't think there was any video material for Twizzle. Thank you for posting.
scarletmagic 2 years ago
Wow this is great stuff..what a lost art form. Twizzle I thought was a girl....freaky puppets...but the thing from the box was the scariest...a head on a caterpillar body!!! SCREAM!! LOL.
LastTree 2 years ago
So, the narrator says that Footso has a black nose...that's a pretty light shade of black!
Seriously, though, thanks for posting this! I've always wanted to see this show.
(And remember, kids, if you want 20% off a toy, threaten to stamp your feet!)
ebwarg 2 years ago
am i the only one seeing all t he euphemisms?
Gruagakh 2 years ago
my dad just rememberd this tv show and i think it is very diffrent to the tv shows now ..and im 13 and my mum collects golly woggs but i think the golly wogg on this program is a bit freaky!!
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XemziiX123 2 years ago
I was looking for Jiffy The Broomstick Man (remember him?) and ended up here instead. Great memories though, I'm off to find Hoppity now.
sonicattacker 2 years ago
He used to terrify me! And wasnt there a spooky cellar full of broken toys?
night69angel 2 years ago
You will find it under Sara and Hoppity. It's Sara who probably terrified you, she looks as if she has come straight out of The Excorcist.
sonicattacker 2 years ago
My first memory, literally, is Twizzle. His neck and arms stretch out so he can climb over a wall. I was about two years old probably and it scared the hell out of me. It still looks a weird thing now.
Amphy002 2 years ago
If you don't watch this video and just listen to it, it sounds like an old radio program.
visor109 2 years ago
How Brilliant is this, I can remeber all the words to Footso song, I am 51. Jiffy used to scare me a bit too. And at last found Torchy the Battery Boy and Sara and Hoppity- diddlededum, diddlede de.
TheFlossy1 2 years ago
I can still remeber the song as well and yes early 60's. I am looking for Tinker and Tucker (alan Taylor),
TheFlossy1 2 years ago
I thought all the footage of Twizzle was gone! (deteriorated and the like) Fantastic to see kids TV like this still around.
Korpze13 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this... I remember watching it in 1963! I can still remember Footso's song. How sad is that!
Carokin 2 years ago
Hehe - I remember watching this in the fifties - how bizarre!
SkylarkNZ 2 years ago
How well spoken children's progs were then. Not like the sreet slang you get now.
adebarde 2 years ago 2
This episode ran in the mid-sixties as well. At least in the London region. Tx for uploading.
minutegongcoughs 2 years ago
Footso's voice was done by Eartha Kitt !
AlanNeale 2 years ago
Actually, she was voiced by Denise Bryer, Alan.
alexelliottwelch 2 years ago
TWizzle was produced by AP films (Gerry anderson) - the precursor the Supercar, XL5 and of course THUNDERBIRDS!
Twizzle is voiced by Nancy Nevinson
spottydog4472 2 years ago
You wouldn't see the Golly Wog now, sad really as loving such a doll as a child would probably be a good thing for stopping racism.
cjwaywell 2 years ago
My wife collects Golly Wogs - they are still around if you look hard enough.
Seeing some younger people`s reaction to them is I think quite sad - after all they use to be such a common doll. Older generation individuals don`t have a problem with them. Also, let`s not forget the Golly Wog metal badges one could obtain from Robertsons - the jam & marmalade maker.
Long live the Golly Wog !!!
226pya 2 years ago
I saw this, I agree that it is more imaginative than US children's cartoons now. Just the puppets etc are somewhat crude. But it makes you wonder what will happen next.
agreenslade49 2 years ago
Goodness I remember watching this - love it - but there IS something quite spooky about Twizzle. Excellent - thanks so much for posting.
storebror21 2 years ago
Oh my God! I can't believe I am watching that awful toy again! He used to scare the living daylights out of me. I was only four years old at the time, but the worst character was the broomstick man, who gave me nightmares!
bellabinti 3 years ago
Auspete, great post, thank you very much. This was a favourite show, and I love the quality. If you ever get to London, a few stubbies on me mate.
DSVOP 3 years ago
oh wow, i never heard of this program til now :) i like it... why aren';t kids programs like this anymore? kids nowadays have no imagination
vamprincess1986 3 years ago
its not that kids dont have imaginations anymore ,its that their not given the chance to express them ! innocence is gone im afraid ,when i was young things like trapdoor and button moon were'nt far off this style still !
1984kid1 3 years ago
your 22 so you understand what i mean !
1984kid1 3 years ago
Why aren't kids' programmes like this any more? Because the Cultural Marxists took over society (leaving the economy to free-market fundamentalists).
This programme is actually brilliant! (Of course, the shallow, literal-minded children of today would point out the technical crudity - visible strings, etc. They have no souls or imagination, as you say.)
JekyllBoote 3 years ago
More please.
ihaveknowledge 3 years ago
i grew up watching this and torchie and i had a golliwog in black rubber that i used to bite into, not sure i,d do that now
tinker5k 3 years ago
"You can tell HE hasn't been here long!" These gollywogs came here to do the work that other toys wouldn't do!
RogerHoare 3 years ago
Oh Snap! lolz!
ratuse 3 years ago
Found this on Youtube so my mum could remember when she was 3 or 4. she was amazed to see it again, and we all laughed watching it and seeeing how much things have changed! ;)
oxBestDamnThingxo 3 years ago
how was this obtained and why no episode with jiffy the broomstick man
byrd5d 3 years ago
Well it was the 1950s things were very different then - we didn't need drugs to enjoy ourselves in those days
jbpss 3 years ago 2
the "gollywog" sounds like spike milligan!
jamierourketen 3 years ago
My God, I remember all these so well, and I was only 4 years old! Does anybody else remember Jiffy the Broomstick Man - or is it just me?!
jacqknife 3 years ago
I can assure you there have been stupider things than this on TV. Have you watched lately?
auspete 3 years ago 5
You are right, this person probably thinks Big Brother is good!
fedupworking 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
my god,no wonder kids were so daft in the 1950's,having to watch this crapp,thank god for the simpson's...........
alreadyou 3 years ago
I too was terrified of this as a toddler. It has a nightmarish quality about it. Still good see it again after forty years!
soundzok 3 years ago
It still scares me !!!
ANGLOSAXONGOD 3 years ago
This programme used to scare the living daylights out of me.
twolunches 3 years ago
The first thing I ever saw on TV and I was 4 at the time and we didn't have a telly, we were allowed to watch it on a neighbours TV.
Many happy memories
swiftshaw 3 years ago
memories
thank you
LLesleee 3 years ago
Thanku for this I love these such memories
Cherstars 3 years ago
Nancy Nevinson, the voice of Twizzle and the narator, is having her 90th birthday on 26 July 2008. Thank you so much for posting this, we are putting together a presentation of her life's work, and the clip showing she is worth 2/6 will be hilarious
hugehc 3 years ago
Screened in New Zealand in 1960 in the days when telly started at 6pm and finished at 10pm lol. What a weird buzz to see this again!
dharmatraveller 3 years ago
great stuff.recall this and muffin the mule/bill and ben/jiff the broomstick...oh dear youve got me started now!!!even talking about a golliwog all so innocent...imagine the uproar nowadays!!
daisypodd 3 years ago
How wonderful. Took me back to my childhood. Thank you for bringing back so many lovely memories.
pamelah10 3 years ago
Fantastic now when I tell people im not Twizzle if I show them this they will understand!I remember watching this when I was small Happpy Days.
marbelous1 3 years ago
It wasn't just limited to the Uk, it was only shown in certain ITV areas. Don'r recall it on Granada,
jonnybottle 3 years ago
where did you find this?
SIGFAB32 3 years ago
It came as an extra on the Space Patrol box set.
2hot4paper 3 years ago
how wonderful to see torchy and twizzle again it brings wonderful memories of childhood many thanks
lolonothefast 3 years ago
Thanks for uploading this!! I remember it but many people think I'm making it up when I describe it, now I can show them!! brilliant!!!!
sparkypeter 3 years ago
I would hate to break down on some desolate country road and stumble accross this village in the dark. On the other hand, I would Definitely pay 2/6d for Twizzle!
damiandal 3 years ago
Good luck! I bought a Twizzle Pelham puppet at a toy fair yesterday myself for £120! That's inflation for you, I suppose!
nimos1 3 years ago
So, 2/6 is £120 in today's money? Can we blame Thatcher?
ebwarg 2 years ago
2/6 (i.e. 2 shillings and sixpence) or 12.5 new pence is probably worth the equivalent of about 4 or 5 pounds and nowhere near £120!
nimos1 2 years ago 2
thank you once again for the memories never thought i would see these again i cannot take my eyes off of them, like going back in time blow the house work today there wonderful.
noellebishop 3 years ago
This is priceless, many tks for posting it - I can remember watching this & Torchy
bb409 4 years ago
Hoppity was cooler
tommyrotter 4 years ago
Wow never thought i would see twizzle again , and i remember jiffy the broomstick man and his song . bloody marvelllous, thanks for the memorys
haroldwade 4 years ago
i thought I'd never see Twizzle again. Oh what innocent days?
headcookbw 4 years ago
this was amazing I really thought I was the only person who remembered Twizzle. I even had a Twizzle doll as a kid.. Thank you so much for posting this!
purrkittypurr 4 years ago
OMG!!!! I'm nearly 50 and nobody has ever known what I was talking about when I spoke about Twizzle and as we lived in uganda at the time I saw it I thought it must have just been something on there!! and I always thought Twizzle was a girl too!! lol ty for posting this vid xx
littlestardrop 4 years ago
fo twizzle my nizzle!
poetry276 4 years ago