...I want to have this piece of music playing at my funeral as the curtains close. So beautiful, full of wonderful childhood memories, I also learnt to play this song myself, and my own children also love it,... wonderful, wonderful. :-)
Gosh, those blameless, innocent. wonderful years. 42yo here. Shed a tear for those old lovely things. wow. All boys my age should excuse themselves and enjoy this old stuff,
Sometimes, I just can't watch these things. The memories, good memories, they bring back are so intense, it's just more than I can deal with sometimes.
This was also back in the day when credits to programmes were allowed to run without mindless interruption from the announcers telling us what was on next. Why is everything so rushed now?! So many great themetunes now lost :(
@mouseketeery agree 100% I just turned 25 yesterday but those two people can take me back to my childhood in a heart beat, I still remember waking up on a cold Sunday morning at 5:55am turning on the TV and cuddling up with my mum and watch this and all her cartoons like the wooden tops & bill & ben that she grew up I'm so glad I got both world my childhood and my parent's childhood
"it's such a shame my children won't grow up on stuff like this"
To people of my age (46!) this is just perfection. Weekday lunchtime, Watch With Mother, the world seemed more at peace with itself to a kid at that time. Watching this has actually brought a tear to my eye, it is just wonderful. You can keep all the computer wizzardry they have now, these programmes were made with real love and affection and it was so great to see it again. For 90 seconds I was back in 1969!
Certain things stuck in our mind as kids, this outro music is one.. i find this particular, ( but all too short ) piece, particularly evocative,listening now, it sounds almost melancholy, the hypnotic chords, the 'safety' that you feel, knowing what chords are next, the higher few notes sliding up and down, again like long hot summers and snowy winters and the brighter melody seems to hark back to when the world indeed seemed happier, simpler and less harmful, hauntingly superb.
@maureenmo1 I'm 43 this year and grew up on the edge of a small town with fields nearby. This reminds me of total peace when it was on the telly on sunny afternoons : )
There's a real poignancy about these closing titles, especially Camberwick Green. I can still remember watching and listening to these programs all those years ago when I was in single digits, like it was yesterday.
I wonder how many people watching this clip have had THAT same thought?
Anyhoo, sad as I am, I now have this theme on my mobile phone, alerting me every time a text message comes in.
I'm obsessed withn the past. I live in it via Youtube! I dress like some time traveller from 1973! It is the reason I gave a very good cuddle to 60's Doctor Who actress Wendy Padbury!!
Nice to know there where no wars then and life was simple.but not now because everyone got greedy and selfish .down the govt scum only think about themselves as always .
Sadly most of the figures in this program were set on fire by the guy who made them in order to keep his sanity! Windy Miller survived and has been used in adverts recently.
Lovely music fom 0:40. Reminds me of being a child. I wonder if anyone has the intellect to allow todays children to see such programmes & grow up properly? Being submerged in Computer games, Rap & Gang Culture is creating a Ignorant, violent, Yob society in the UK. Luckily I moved abroad years ago.
@kevcify When I was very young (3 or 4) in the late 1990s, there was trash on television. These ghastly shows (even I thought so at the time) which weren't at all stimulating featuring fluffy characters or games shows with children jumping in pools of gunge. Not my cup of tea, even as a 4 year old in 2000. A few good things though.
However, I do think that you can get too hyped up about the whole 'children nowadays...' thing; most will come out of the wash all right in the end - I did!
I agree. It`s too easy to stygmatise a whole generation due to the actions of an, albeit large, minority. Good for you. Keep positive, study as much as you find enjoyable, and be happy. All the best for you :)
I think of old television like I do the land around where I live, it gradually got gobbled up by housing until the green pastures were no more.
Sad, but true; and all you can do is move on and not dwell, literally! It would make us all feel interminally sad, so we've got to appreciate the good from the past and take it with us to a better place.
remembering back to the days when i would watch this and feel so sad when he disappears into the jewellery box. i thought nothing then of crying in my moms arms and explaining why i was sad. 40 years on and my moms still here, i wish i could lay my head in her arms and thank her for those golden days, but something about getting old stops one from being able to show love to your mom.
Will people please get their tiresome heads out of their nostalgic arses. Yes, this was a brilliant show (I loved it too), but don't disregard modern telly for simply being about gunge. There's programmes to day that are much better dramatically than the 'by-numbers- entertainment of yester-year.
I wish that these these clips could only be accessed by those whose memories they belong too...they are sacred relics from a safer time and those who aren't able to respect them, shouldn't be able to see them..
what's even more upsetting is the fact that all the model's were burnt. But then I suppose Gordon Murray could see how disgraceful cartoons were gonna be in the future so he didn't want some generic twats getting their hands on them and making a future series.
I'm 14 and kinda love Camberwick Green. My mum fit into the age group who watched this when they were young and I've seen a few episodes...it's just so cool. it's a little creepy but very innocent and sweet at the same time.
I loved the tune with the clown rolling the credits back in 1975. If I ever have kids I'll try to stop them watching the US cartoon pap that seems to be on nowadays and see if they like some 70s stuff that I grew up on ;-)
Just after dinner. Sat on the sofa with my mum. A cold winters day and the coal fire pulsing gently in the grate and this evocative tune coming from the old valve driven 405 line TV with it's lovely warm sound - something digital with never be able to emulate - Nothing encapsutes the warmth and security of childhood better.
The BBC should play this on the hour, each hour, until the world becomes a better place.
Everything's just too American-ated now. Saw all this stuff nearly 40 years ago. Kids' programmes weren't urbanised and commercial like the PC oriented stuff now.
good god i hated these programmes and brian c*nt.... my mother surprised me with CW wallpaper on my walls when i got home from school one day... over a period of time i ripped more and more of it off. it scarred me that much i won't have wallpaper on my walls today, lol!
Whatever happened to the world? These programmes built our foundation... I'm no angel, but I'm not a hateful violent guy, and I know right from wrong, and I have compassion... Voices like that of Brian Cant, and the touching notes of the theme tunes of such masterpieces like this, and parsley the lion, play school in black and white... Today's world could really use a shot in the arm with this, but sadly, they wouldn't know what to do with it. All I can say is 'thank you' to all who gave us suc
@hardslug From the heart is usually the best. Early 70s, as a three year old watching this on sunny afternoons.
We had the Barrhead Dams here in Glasgow outside my bedroom window. No city, just fields and childhood dreams... Used to wonder what was over those hills and far, far away......
@hardslug i couldnt aggree more , perhaps there should be a channel dedicated to the stuff from the 60,s and 70,s , many of our age would show them to todays kids i expect, all the best to you lad .
@hardslug Easy to look back with rose tinted glasses. The world was horrible back then too hardslug. The same kids that watched this went on to become 80's football hooligans, and rioted in Brixtan and Tottenham
No Actually'..It was my favourite Childrens programme'Brian Cant'was a great narrator.Better than this crap on telly now eh?...Windy for Prime Minister yeah?..Sozzz!!
Even as a little girl I used to feel so sorry for Windy being put back into his box with the melancholy music, so sad........the little clown at the end always used to cheer me up tho, he he!
I'm sure I'm not the first forty-something to wax lyrical about the childhood magic of this show. Camberwick Green, together with Trumpton and Chigley were the sacred holy trinity of kids tv!
Windy Miller is my inspiration. I have spent the best years of my life slumped in a drunken stupor behind heavy machinery I'm supposed to be operating.
the thing that always gets me is what cant brian do? Oh and by the way i always feel so sorry for that poor clown he looks so dejected ! I mean come on honestly !
Dhakhaya, you have made me cry watching this, I am 37, old and ugly, this has taken me back to those days. thanks for posting and thanks for all the lovely comments
Its watching all these clips that has made me realise what great telly there was when I was young! Brian Cant was the best - we need him on the TV a lot more!
There's a lot more skill involved in producing a program like this. All stop frame exposures, now it's all computer animation and CGI. The storylines were better as well in these shows. No politically correct hidden messages to brainwash the kids with.
I'm trying to reference things from 70's early 80's childhood for a script I'm working on. I just noticed this isn't musical box music, is it a mandolin? Anyway cool and useful reference.
I'm trying to reference things from 70's early 80's childhood for a script I'm working on. I just noticed this isn't musical box music, is it a mandolin? Anyway cool and useful reference.
i remeber laughing at my mum and dad years ago for looking back at what they watched when they were kids, now im doing it and its so much fun....good times with great shows.....simple times
Wow - i remember that from when i was a kid. Always used to think, one day that box will go wrong and the lid will close while he's still going down, and chop his head off..!!..lol..lol
Hah! And here's me thinking I was the only one that was wierded out by that thing. Let's face it. A character just popping out of some wind-up toy and then going back into it at the end of the show... tha'ts a lot to comnprehend for a pre-schooler. Used to freak the hell outa me!
My mum bought me the annual with the music you could play. Mum and dad wanted me to play along to them; dad especially, but I never did learn to play.
Me too...makes me cry when I see the kids programmes of today..all they seem to be doing is throwing gunge at each other on crazy game shows..and they call that entertainment!
me and my bro wochin this glorious stuff.. we love it from our childhood..hell may be we are insucure or something i dont know. no we just love our childhood memmories
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I didn't even watch this as a child. I grew up in the early nineties in the USA, and only found out about this show when I was twenty. Call me weird, but I find the patronizing narrator to be HYSTERICAL.
"Windy Miller LIKES cider. It makes him very... sleepy."
I too was born in 1964. So, what on earth are we all watching this clip for? Maybe we must demand some answers to the mystery of time, answers that these shows failed to provide....
For people of a certain age (like me),this C G,Chigley and Trumpton will always bring the proverbial tear to the eye.These programmes had style,heart and soul,all but dissapeared from today's Children's (and indeed non-Children's) TV.
I agree with the comments people have been leaving here. Im from 64 and when I was a kid like all other kids I wanted to be grown up, but my old man would say "make the most of being young beacause once you get past 20 the years will go by quicker, and before you know it your 40" Never a did I think those words would be so true. I think these programs were the best childrens TV ever made.
I have to agree with all of you i am from 62 and this along with Andy Pandy, The Herbs and lets not forget Magic Roundabout were absolutely fantastic. Makes me smile inside when these tunes remind me of being a small child.
I was born in 64 too. This stuff is from a truly golden age when television was exciting and kids programs just seemed to be so much more interesting and the world was a rosy place. Even the people of the day, like Brian Cant or Johnny Ball, for instance, seemed to have much more personality and made me feel like I really knew them peresonally. Of course they wouldn't know me from Adam, and I'm so glad that I was a child back then and not now.
When summers were summers and winter was wonderful. Christmas seem an age away and your birthday included old people whom you didn't really appreciate but would give anything to go back and listen to them one more time.....
ledzeplad! Beautiful thoughts and words! I was a kid growing up during the late 60's and 70's and know exactly what you mean. A truly indescribable poignant and bittersweet feeling of both sadness and happiness.
Love your comment. I don't think we appreciate childhood until its gone. And the people that made childhood special I would love to hear again, happy days
@ledzeplad Its amazing how similar we all are in this big world, i to would love to go back to the 70s and listen to all those old grannies and grandads who we were too young to appreciate back then.
There are some things that just hit that spot at the back of your throat, and bypass all those layers and barriers you build up through those cynical years, reminding you once again what it was like to be happy, carefree and innocent. It's a humbling and somewhat painful experience; to wish those years back again.
Those barriers are known in orgonomy as "armoring", and its the reason our species is in such a shit state!..
"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."-Randall Jarrell.
The people that made all the brilliant kids TV programs back in the day hadnt "forgotten" (blocked out the memories of) what its like to be a child, thats what made them so good, and what made them care about what they were doing!..
Windy looks so dejected, slumped on his flour bag, disapearing into his musical box...as if he somehow knows that for so many of us he symbolises our childhood, our youth, a safer time...and that his magical box seems to be closing forever as we watch, the lid coming down oh-so-gently on the coffin of our collective innocence.
@Dhakhaya The writers may have been thinking your deep emotive issues, but this was for us kids (at the time!). But if you want to get deep..... the clown was turning the handle backwards as a reference to the 'backward' state of the economic state of the world. ...& his 'conical ' hat is an indication of thev 'tapering' of the world economy! How much do you want 'innocence' of kids programs to be linked to real life? Only joking of course! Just enjoy Camberwick! Regards!
The closing credit tune makes me wish I was a child again, playing in the morning sunlight, never a care in the world. People who say kids grow up too fast these days have got it spot on!
(: my name is camber :D
arabshowgirl24 1 week ago
...I want to have this piece of music playing at my funeral as the curtains close. So beautiful, full of wonderful childhood memories, I also learnt to play this song myself, and my own children also love it,... wonderful, wonderful. :-)
karenlday1 1 month ago
The music is absolutely dreamy. Surely these were happier and better days to be a kid? No wonder I am surrounded by hyperactive malcontent brats!
MegaGARFISH 1 month ago
this series just came out on blu-ray!
search Camberwick Green blu-ray on amazon.uk
16x9enhanced 1 month ago
The beautiful guitar playing of Freddie Phillips.
paddy9i99 1 month ago
@paddy9i99
It's dreamy playing isn't it, and yet not a name likely to appear in Guitarist as often as even Freddie King! Well what do they know eh?!
MegaGARFISH 1 month ago
@MegaGARFISH It's quite a simple piece really, but just so evocative and beautiful
paddy9i99 1 month ago
Gosh, those blameless, innocent. wonderful years. 42yo here. Shed a tear for those old lovely things. wow. All boys my age should excuse themselves and enjoy this old stuff,
F;ing magic lads
sussexpenguin 2 months ago
Every time I here this I think of those mini bottles of milk and custard cream biscuits they used to give us at nursery school, happy days
southlondon63 2 months ago
Sometimes, I just can't watch these things. The memories, good memories, they bring back are so intense, it's just more than I can deal with sometimes.
RAIDERS58th 2 months ago
Watched these in the 70s i wish i was a kid again good times
Bojayproductions 2 months ago
This was also back in the day when credits to programmes were allowed to run without mindless interruption from the announcers telling us what was on next. Why is everything so rushed now?! So many great themetunes now lost :(
jabberwocky88 3 months ago
There are two voices that take me right back through the years and still put a smile on my face - Brian Cant and Oliver Postgate.
mouseketeery 4 months ago 3
@mouseketeery agree 100% I just turned 25 yesterday but those two people can take me back to my childhood in a heart beat, I still remember waking up on a cold Sunday morning at 5:55am turning on the TV and cuddling up with my mum and watch this and all her cartoons like the wooden tops & bill & ben that she grew up I'm so glad I got both world my childhood and my parent's childhood
"it's such a shame my children won't grow up on stuff like this"
madridboy86 4 months ago
get mixed up between this and trumpton
jayne1969able 5 months ago
To people of my age (46!) this is just perfection. Weekday lunchtime, Watch With Mother, the world seemed more at peace with itself to a kid at that time. Watching this has actually brought a tear to my eye, it is just wonderful. You can keep all the computer wizzardry they have now, these programmes were made with real love and affection and it was so great to see it again. For 90 seconds I was back in 1969!
allanscot1 5 months ago
Brian Cant-what a legend.
MALCBAGGIE 5 months ago
I wonder how many heart strings are adding to the chords of this!
acheface 5 months ago
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Surely someone has this as their ringtone.
steve1976ification 6 months ago
Certain things stuck in our mind as kids, this outro music is one.. i find this particular, ( but all too short ) piece, particularly evocative,listening now, it sounds almost melancholy, the hypnotic chords, the 'safety' that you feel, knowing what chords are next, the higher few notes sliding up and down, again like long hot summers and snowy winters and the brighter melody seems to hark back to when the world indeed seemed happier, simpler and less harmful, hauntingly superb.
LinuxManUK 6 months ago
did anyone else as a kid try and second guess when the clown was going to turn the lever and try and do it at the exact same moment?
mrspivvy 6 months ago
Dont want to sound morbid but I would love for this to be played at my funeral - good bye windy!!
Schenkerflyingv 7 months ago
@Schenkerflyingv and i thought i was the only one!
rogerball0 6 months ago
Now I know why I like add 9 and 6/9 chords! fantastic!
visog 8 months ago
@maureenmo1 I'm 43 this year and grew up on the edge of a small town with fields nearby. This reminds me of total peace when it was on the telly on sunny afternoons : )
Kelly14UK 8 months ago
There's a real poignancy about these closing titles, especially Camberwick Green. I can still remember watching and listening to these programs all those years ago when I was in single digits, like it was yesterday.
I wonder how many people watching this clip have had THAT same thought?
Anyhoo, sad as I am, I now have this theme on my mobile phone, alerting me every time a text message comes in.
Camberwick Green will never die!
Brilliant!
AngryOfMayfair 8 months ago
Best end credits sequence ever.
burlearth 8 months ago
Watch this video then watch kids tv any afternoon of the week. It becomes clear where society has gone wrong.
matrags 9 months ago 5
I'm obsessed withn the past. I live in it via Youtube! I dress like some time traveller from 1973! It is the reason I gave a very good cuddle to 60's Doctor Who actress Wendy Padbury!!
borgduck 10 months ago
Sob.....!
topliff12345 10 months ago
Nice to know there where no wars then and life was simple.but not now because everyone got greedy and selfish .down the govt scum only think about themselves as always .
TheAdecarter 10 months ago
Sadly most of the figures in this program were set on fire by the guy who made them in order to keep his sanity! Windy Miller survived and has been used in adverts recently.
toptonychick 10 months ago
Lovely music fom 0:40. Reminds me of being a child. I wonder if anyone has the intellect to allow todays children to see such programmes & grow up properly? Being submerged in Computer games, Rap & Gang Culture is creating a Ignorant, violent, Yob society in the UK. Luckily I moved abroad years ago.
kevcify 10 months ago
@kevcify When I was very young (3 or 4) in the late 1990s, there was trash on television. These ghastly shows (even I thought so at the time) which weren't at all stimulating featuring fluffy characters or games shows with children jumping in pools of gunge. Not my cup of tea, even as a 4 year old in 2000. A few good things though.
However, I do think that you can get too hyped up about the whole 'children nowadays...' thing; most will come out of the wash all right in the end - I did!
animotioned 10 months ago
@animotioned
I agree. It`s too easy to stygmatise a whole generation due to the actions of an, albeit large, minority. Good for you. Keep positive, study as much as you find enjoyable, and be happy. All the best for you :)
kevcify 9 months ago
I think of old television like I do the land around where I live, it gradually got gobbled up by housing until the green pastures were no more.
Sad, but true; and all you can do is move on and not dwell, literally! It would make us all feel interminally sad, so we've got to appreciate the good from the past and take it with us to a better place.
musicplateau1 11 months ago
remembering back to the days when i would watch this and feel so sad when he disappears into the jewellery box. i thought nothing then of crying in my moms arms and explaining why i was sad. 40 years on and my moms still here, i wish i could lay my head in her arms and thank her for those golden days, but something about getting old stops one from being able to show love to your mom.
wozelbeak 11 months ago
@wozelbeak Your never too old to tell your mum or mom that you love her, one day when she is no longer with us you won't be able to.
frogstamper 11 months ago
@wozelbeak I know the feeling!
borgduck 10 months ago
@wozelbeak Fuck off man, has she stopped showing her love for you?
TheDjinn2 6 months ago
Will people please get their tiresome heads out of their nostalgic arses. Yes, this was a brilliant show (I loved it too), but don't disregard modern telly for simply being about gunge. There's programmes to day that are much better dramatically than the 'by-numbers- entertainment of yester-year.
batmanofni 11 months ago
@batmanofni You're 20.
Kelly14UK 11 months ago
@batmanofni You might have a point. Look at Horrible Histories. Both entertaining & educational!!
And Sarah-Jane Smith Adventures R.I.P.
borgduck 6 months ago
Watch with Mother please take me back! Such happy memories. Rightly or wrongly the world just seems so much crueler now.
DiamondSmilesAgain 11 months ago
I wish that these these clips could only be accessed by those whose memories they belong too...they are sacred relics from a safer time and those who aren't able to respect them, shouldn't be able to see them..
Tixylixx 11 months ago
The BOX! I loved the way the panels opened and closed - Today I discovered that I still do.
uberpedant 1 year ago
Brilliant, i was mesmorised by this as a child and still am mesmorised as an adult!
Everything was so well thought out with proper stories and no bland numifying cgi graphics.
v6v10 1 year ago
Wow, now I wanna sit on the floor and get me toy cars out. Superb. Love you
GoonerAli 1 year ago
Brian Cant - Legend.
This takes me right back to my childhood.
Schenkerflyingv 1 year ago
This does bring a tear to the eye.
stevenjackson1958 1 year ago 2
what's even more upsetting is the fact that all the model's were burnt. But then I suppose Gordon Murray could see how disgraceful cartoons were gonna be in the future so he didn't want some generic twats getting their hands on them and making a future series.
SwamplandRecordsLtd 1 year ago
I'm 14 and kinda love Camberwick Green. My mum fit into the age group who watched this when they were young and I've seen a few episodes...it's just so cool. it's a little creepy but very innocent and sweet at the same time.
SoulButNotSoldier 1 year ago
that clown used to scare me id hide behind the sofa
hutch19720 1 year ago
I loved the tune with the clown rolling the credits back in 1975. If I ever have kids I'll try to stop them watching the US cartoon pap that seems to be on nowadays and see if they like some 70s stuff that I grew up on ;-)
psprog 1 year ago
Just after dinner. Sat on the sofa with my mum. A cold winters day and the coal fire pulsing gently in the grate and this evocative tune coming from the old valve driven 405 line TV with it's lovely warm sound - something digital with never be able to emulate - Nothing encapsutes the warmth and security of childhood better.
The BBC should play this on the hour, each hour, until the world becomes a better place.
starstorm55522 1 year ago 39
@starstorm55522 Without todays technology you wouldn't be able to see this whenever you want!
borgduck 6 months ago
@starstorm55522 Awwww I remember sitting with my Nan nice cuppa tea. In the front room coal fire and good old BBC. Where has those good time gone?
britthing72 5 months ago
@starstorm55522 Well said sir.! (or madam)
Lytton333 4 months ago
goodbye windy parrrrp my grandma used to call me windy miller
t2narmy 1 year ago
I am 6 years old again
deptford 1 year ago
Wish people would stop thumbing innocence like this down.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
this theme tune always moves me when i watch it.i remember my early childhood, very bittersweet....
topliff12345 1 year ago
childrens programs will never be this innocent again!
broom2000 1 year ago
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Slagheep 1 year ago
Everything's just too American-ated now. Saw all this stuff nearly 40 years ago. Kids' programmes weren't urbanised and commercial like the PC oriented stuff now.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
good god i hated these programmes and brian c*nt.... my mother surprised me with CW wallpaper on my walls when i got home from school one day... over a period of time i ripped more and more of it off. it scarred me that much i won't have wallpaper on my walls today, lol!
playgirlc 1 year ago
@playgirlc There is no hope for people like you, even with therapy.
maccagrabme 1 year ago 2
@maccagrabme - i think i needed therapy because of this programme
playgirlc 8 months ago
brian cant narrate!
MCILROK11 1 year ago
Such wonderful memories. Thank you.
hardslug 1 year ago
Whatever happened to the world? These programmes built our foundation... I'm no angel, but I'm not a hateful violent guy, and I know right from wrong, and I have compassion... Voices like that of Brian Cant, and the touching notes of the theme tunes of such masterpieces like this, and parsley the lion, play school in black and white... Today's world could really use a shot in the arm with this, but sadly, they wouldn't know what to do with it. All I can say is 'thank you' to all who gave us suc
hardslug 1 year ago 77
@hardslug From the heart is usually the best. Early 70s, as a three year old watching this on sunny afternoons.
We had the Barrhead Dams here in Glasgow outside my bedroom window. No city, just fields and childhood dreams... Used to wonder what was over those hills and far, far away......
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
@hardslug I concur
MikeHudson65 10 months ago
@hardslug Well said.
arobekie 9 months ago
@hardslug Well Said.
paul70uk 6 months ago
@hardslug the 70s was a golden era in many ways - a very creative time before the 80s commercialism kicked in.
4165mc 5 months ago
@hardslug i couldnt aggree more , perhaps there should be a channel dedicated to the stuff from the 60,s and 70,s , many of our age would show them to todays kids i expect, all the best to you lad .
Jazzawray 1 month ago
@hardslug Easy to look back with rose tinted glasses. The world was horrible back then too hardslug. The same kids that watched this went on to become 80's football hooligans, and rioted in Brixtan and Tottenham
wonder8606 1 month ago
brian cant was a superb choice for narator
skunkhead2006 1 year ago
I'm a big strappin 15 and a half stone bloke and this makes me want to sit on my mams knee with my teddy and blanket! Bloody love it!
acheface 1 year ago 4
The 80's was depression personified with everything put back into a box.
ILiveOnMyBoat 1 year ago
Hands up all who used to mime turning the credits at the end of the prog with the wee clown? I so wanted that music box.
wnesbitt1 1 year ago 2
No Actually'..It was my favourite Childrens programme'Brian Cant'was a great narrator.Better than this crap on telly now eh?...Windy for Prime Minister yeah?..Sozzz!!
Jangalene1 1 year ago
I remember this used to make me sad as a child? I watched it when I had meningitis? when I was 5. Scary?
Richie979 1 year ago
Even as a little girl I used to feel so sorry for Windy being put back into his box with the melancholy music, so sad........the little clown at the end always used to cheer me up tho, he he!
Jamandmand 1 year ago
Just magical. The end music reduced me to tears, brings back so many happy memories.
munph70 1 year ago
I wonder'Was Windy Miller gay..?...He as always grinding anyway!lol
Jangalene1 1 year ago
I'm sure I'm not the first forty-something to wax lyrical about the childhood magic of this show. Camberwick Green, together with Trumpton and Chigley were the sacred holy trinity of kids tv!
whouster 1 year ago 3
I always remember coming home from school when I was 7 years old to watch this show on B/W tv !
limeyjoe1957 1 year ago 2
God i loved this when i was nout but a nipper....
teamfab 1 year ago
the good old days
MrBuckley123 1 year ago 2
@MrBuckley123 That thay were Wish i was back there
HELLO2YOU3 1 year ago
@HELLO2YOU3 thanks my friend the kids to day do not now thay are born
MrBuckley123 1 year ago
magical simply magical!
vader1970 1 year ago
Windy Miller is my inspiration. I have spent the best years of my life slumped in a drunken stupor behind heavy machinery I'm supposed to be operating.
TheRealBoroNut 1 year ago
Goodbye
twobillies 1 year ago
I Love this it should come back on tele instead of the crap lazy town put barney back on and camberwick green
nipples2k9 1 year ago
the thing that always gets me is what cant brian do? Oh and by the way i always feel so sorry for that poor clown he looks so dejected ! I mean come on honestly !
8492grob 1 year ago 2
reduced me to tears. the music and those images just stir up a lot of very happy memories. thank you.
ATVmidlands5581 1 year ago 4
Collective innocence!! Bet you don't remember the episode that Windy got pissed, in his shed, on cider!!!!
areyouthefarmer2 1 year ago 3
Dhakhaya, you have made me cry watching this, I am 37, old and ugly, this has taken me back to those days. thanks for posting and thanks for all the lovely comments
spearmarine 1 year ago 2
Its watching all these clips that has made me realise what great telly there was when I was young! Brian Cant was the best - we need him on the TV a lot more!
phildan1969 1 year ago
Brian Cant for Prime Minister I say!
taxidude 1 year ago
I wonder how appeling it would have been without freddie`s wonderfull music.
strumitt 1 year ago
My favourite programme ever!
jsbd1 1 year ago
There's a lot more skill involved in producing a program like this. All stop frame exposures, now it's all computer animation and CGI. The storylines were better as well in these shows. No politically correct hidden messages to brainwash the kids with.
airscrew1 1 year ago 4
I'm trying to reference things from 70's early 80's childhood for a script I'm working on. I just noticed this isn't musical box music, is it a mandolin? Anyway cool and useful reference.
clymangus 1 year ago
I'm trying to reference things from 70's early 80's childhood for a script I'm working on. I just noticed this isn't musical box music, is it a mandolin? Anyway cool and useful reference.
clymangus 1 year ago
i remeber laughing at my mum and dad years ago for looking back at what they watched when they were kids, now im doing it and its so much fun....good times with great shows.....simple times
jayshere1973 1 year ago 2
Wow - i remember that from when i was a kid. Always used to think, one day that box will go wrong and the lid will close while he's still going down, and chop his head off..!!..lol..lol
crawleygat37 1 year ago
Hah! And here's me thinking I was the only one that was wierded out by that thing. Let's face it. A character just popping out of some wind-up toy and then going back into it at the end of the show... tha'ts a lot to comnprehend for a pre-schooler. Used to freak the hell outa me!
K1w1scot 1 year ago
search for -- very windy miller.wmv
THEIRONMAN9 1 year ago
O' God i remmeber watching this when the milkman come when i was of school in the mid 70's, Great stuff!
rufusandburne 1 year ago
My mum bought me the annual with the music you could play. Mum and dad wanted me to play along to them; dad especially, but I never did learn to play.
Choking back tears now :'(
Pulsar205 2 years ago
OMG havent seen this for yrs im 38 now and its bringing tears to my eyes thanks 4 posting it x
pigonthewing1972 2 years ago 10
@pigonthewing1972 me tooooooooo! I want to be little again! x
paprikachick 2 years ago
The clown at the end is so cute looking at the names. .....& I'm hetrosexual!!!
martynpank 2 years ago
@martynpank Is the music Mike Oldfield! LOL!
martynpank 2 years ago
I used to get upset at the ending!
vntr2006 2 years ago 3
@vntr2006 Yes me too. Funny how music affects us.
Pulsar205 2 years ago
When a child I was terrified of this clown, finding him unbearably creepy. I have no idea why--was it the beady eyes and that weird stare?
rederic2004 2 years ago
@rederic2004 I'm sorry you felt that way. I thought he was innocent looking and just wanted to do his job rolling the credits for us :)
He probably reminded you of someone horrible. Either that or you got upset with someone when you were watching. Kids can be affected like this.
He's only a little clown who wants to help :)
Pulsar205 2 years ago
i was born 1975 .i so love this better than tripe of today.
broon1981 2 years ago 4
The music to this show (and Trumpton/Chigley) was/is truely special. It's so gentle and warm. Brings back many memories from a happy childhood.
matrags 2 years ago 4
THat would be Freddie Phillips, who, sadly, is no longer with us.
JFredUK 1 year ago
Brings a tear to my eye : )
kellieroughley 2 years ago
Me too...makes me cry when I see the kids programmes of today..all they seem to be doing is throwing gunge at each other on crazy game shows..and they call that entertainment!
tralens 2 years ago 17
why dont they put all these old school shows on again on a free tv channel uk.
carnt beat them
grahamcuddy070707 2 years ago
Put it on a pay per view channel even, Id suscribe!
MavisRileyJunior 2 years ago 2
I was born in the mid nineties, but i grew up watching this at my nans house great tv i hav the dvd on my xmas list
deathripper777 2 years ago
I think these were released on video/dvd some years ago. How many bought them for their children, but in reality wanted to watch them themselves?
martianboy99 2 years ago
I bought them for me!
sketchy2 2 years ago
me and my bro wochin this glorious stuff.. we love it from our childhood..hell may be we are insucure or something i dont know. no we just love our childhood memmories
markroberts12 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I didn't even watch this as a child. I grew up in the early nineties in the USA, and only found out about this show when I was twenty. Call me weird, but I find the patronizing narrator to be HYSTERICAL.
"Windy Miller LIKES cider. It makes him very... sleepy."
sketchy2 2 years ago
yeh windy miller loves his cider, he's a real alcky haha! the guy who wrote the show was high on magic mushrooms or LSD LOL
markroberts12 2 years ago
i wa born in 1960 remember all these old shows .
millwallpaul76 2 years ago
Camberwick Green is a multicultural area now-with a vibrant Somalian community and its own Mosque.
acidsunrise 2 years ago 4
Born in '92, but grew up watching videos of this........got to love it!
cezonline 2 years ago 3
Groovy!
KookyMiss2 2 years ago
I too was born in 1964. So, what on earth are we all watching this clip for? Maybe we must demand some answers to the mystery of time, answers that these shows failed to provide....
psybinetic 2 years ago
Thrilled and honoured to be born in 1965 and to have watched childrens TV at its very very best
dojj1968 2 years ago 3
Also born in 64 - seeing this again and hearing that music again after a lifetime makes me yearn for my childhood. Where did life all go wrong..?
101Cromwell 2 years ago 4
For people of a certain age (like me),this C G,Chigley and Trumpton will always bring the proverbial tear to the eye.These programmes had style,heart and soul,all but dissapeared from today's Children's (and indeed non-Children's) TV.
JFBridge 2 years ago 10
I agree with the comments people have been leaving here. Im from 64 and when I was a kid like all other kids I wanted to be grown up, but my old man would say "make the most of being young beacause once you get past 20 the years will go by quicker, and before you know it your 40" Never a did I think those words would be so true. I think these programs were the best childrens TV ever made.
DIAMONDGEEZER64 2 years ago 6
I have to agree with all of you i am from 62 and this along with Andy Pandy, The Herbs and lets not forget Magic Roundabout were absolutely fantastic. Makes me smile inside when these tunes remind me of being a small child.
wolfmans46 2 years ago 3
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blackmajor1 2 years ago
Me too, born in 64 and I totally agree, kids shows were great, I loved this show and dozens of others.
kalboflyscot 2 years ago
I was born in 64 too. This stuff is from a truly golden age when television was exciting and kids programs just seemed to be so much more interesting and the world was a rosy place. Even the people of the day, like Brian Cant or Johnny Ball, for instance, seemed to have much more personality and made me feel like I really knew them peresonally. Of course they wouldn't know me from Adam, and I'm so glad that I was a child back then and not now.
tmmitzzie 2 years ago 6
So true manga, one day, we will stay young forever, one day my friend
happinesscounts 2 years ago 2
When summers were summers and winter was wonderful. Christmas seem an age away and your birthday included old people whom you didn't really appreciate but would give anything to go back and listen to them one more time.....
ledzeplad 2 years ago 14
ledzeplad! Beautiful thoughts and words! I was a kid growing up during the late 60's and 70's and know exactly what you mean. A truly indescribable poignant and bittersweet feeling of both sadness and happiness.
dalexruz 2 years ago 9
@ledzeplad The Greatest teacher to visit this earth .. you may only enter the Kingdom Of Heaven As A Child .. Listen ! God Bless ..
totalforgiveness 1 year ago
Love your comment. I don't think we appreciate childhood until its gone. And the people that made childhood special I would love to hear again, happy days
Grahampk73 1 year ago 3
@ledzeplad Its amazing how similar we all are in this big world, i to would love to go back to the 70s and listen to all those old grannies and grandads who we were too young to appreciate back then.
Ahh the joys of getting older.
Encore1234567890 1 year ago
Brilliant! Happy days. :-)
MrSonicAdvance 2 years ago
There are some things that just hit that spot at the back of your throat, and bypass all those layers and barriers you build up through those cynical years, reminding you once again what it was like to be happy, carefree and innocent. It's a humbling and somewhat painful experience; to wish those years back again.
mangahead21 2 years ago 64
you took the words out of my mouth!! ;0)
4456416 2 years ago
Too true!..
Those barriers are known in orgonomy as "armoring", and its the reason our species is in such a shit state!..
"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."-Randall Jarrell.
The people that made all the brilliant kids TV programs back in the day hadnt "forgotten" (blocked out the memories of) what its like to be a child, thats what made them so good, and what made them care about what they were doing!..
gurtjobby5 2 years ago 2
@mangahead21 I know what you're saying but I wouldn't want to have to go through school again!!
spongeything 1 year ago
@mangahead21 That is just so true. I have tears pricking my eyes after watching this.
FlamingFairy 1 year ago
Dhakhaya. Thats oh so true, so poignant. I didn`t know if the tears in my eyes were of sadness or happiness till I read your comment
andyward170464 2 years ago 3
Andyward
I'm guessing you were born in 64, I was born in 65.
I always find it hard not to well up watching these old clips.
I reckon I must have nearly 50 CD's of 70's music and my kids think it strange when I tell them I would give my left arm to be back at school.
dojj1968 2 years ago
Windy looks so dejected, slumped on his flour bag, disapearing into his musical box...as if he somehow knows that for so many of us he symbolises our childhood, our youth, a safer time...and that his magical box seems to be closing forever as we watch, the lid coming down oh-so-gently on the coffin of our collective innocence.
Goodbye, Windy. God bless .
Dhakhaya 2 years ago 77
This has been flagged as spam show
hes happy now he can have a wank in peace
2bigbollocks 2 years ago
Dhakhaya. What a profound comment,so sad it's true.
mancsmoveseast 2 years ago
@Dhakhaya The writers may have been thinking your deep emotive issues, but this was for us kids (at the time!). But if you want to get deep..... the clown was turning the handle backwards as a reference to the 'backward' state of the economic state of the world. ...& his 'conical ' hat is an indication of thev 'tapering' of the world economy! How much do you want 'innocence' of kids programs to be linked to real life? Only joking of course! Just enjoy Camberwick! Regards!
martynpank 1 year ago
@Dhakhaya Woah...deep...man...
ClaireClooney 1 year ago
@Dhakhaya Your comment was a beautiful expression of our collective thoughts & memories.
hiyadroogs 1 year ago
@Dhakhaya I nearly cried reading that. It's so true! Thanks for such a beautiful comment xx
llaslah 1 year ago
I forgot that the clown at the end looks like Pennywise from It.
tabitha501 2 years ago
The closing credit tune makes me wish I was a child again, playing in the morning sunlight, never a care in the world. People who say kids grow up too fast these days have got it spot on!
tbrown2892 2 years ago 5
truly wonderful, yet oddly, it brings a tear too
ZXC5000 2 years ago 6
How beautiful is that.
DeckardWill 2 years ago 8
Oh I love it! Brings back so many memories.
I can remember trying to mime turning round the credits roll at as exactly the time as the clown - SAD!
alligatoruk 2 years ago 2
Brings back some great memories from innocent childhood
1214maz 2 years ago 2
I always thought the end of this was very odd. Where were the puppets going in that box? Creepy...
sirtinycreep 2 years ago
It was a TARDIS.
borgduck 2 years ago