Crackerjack - 1975 - with Ed "Stewpot" Stewart - part 1 of 3

[loggats]

it says more about the people looking at girls in dresses and thinking they look strangely sexual, than it does about the actual fashion - they're young girls! and you're all a bunch of perverts.

[TheRandomGirls113]

Where did you get this video from as I am looking for one between the years of 1970-1975. I have no idea what the show included but I'm looking for a girl playing a game where she had to use a straw to suck and hold on to a ping pong ball. This girl is my auntie if anyone has seen it or knows where I can get it from please contact me :D

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

They did not have NHS glasses in the 1780's.

[CiBi1968]

at 2:04 doesn;t he look like Sly Stallone !! LOL

[rantantara]

all that for a poxy pencil. if you gave that as a prize on a kids show today you'd get stabbed with it.

[radicalsystems]

wheres the one where they do bohemian rhapsody with peter glaze

[sumwotcurvie]

Umm the writing at the very begining asks "Who first introduced sex to kids TV?" No bloody idea..And he accidently spits on her around 6.50 LOL

[sumwotcurvie]

Umm the writing at the very begining asks "Who first introduced sex to kids TV?" No bloody idea

[kevinturvy]

Ed (ELLO DARLIN) Stewart is still on the radio, when did they upgrade the prize from a cracker jack pencil to a cracker jack pen...

Bloody cheapskates

[Feisty1967]

Those girls were older than me, I was 7 in 1975 and I remember wearing those 3 quarter length white pelerine socks, and girls always wore skirts in those days, not like today! From my older perspective, I now think there's something dodgy about little girls wearing short skirts.

[JFredUK]

@Feisty1967 At the time such things weren't an issue. Nobody thought any worse of the fact that little girls wore short skirts. It was just part of the fashion of the time. It wasn't until years later that such attire was deemed inappropriate for young girls to wear, especially with the media highlighting various crimes against children, etc. But, I guess, all in all, it's not a bad thing. They do look a bit odd, when seeing them dressed that way now.

[ancientraver19881989]

@Feisty1967 such talk just shows what a sick corrupt society we've become with such a complete loss of innocence

[EgoShredder]

@ancientraver19881989

I agree, girls have worn dresses for centuries & yet somehow in modern society, it is now somehow strange or perverse! Even fully grown women rarely wear a dress these days, which is a real shame because they look lovely in them. I have asked the female members of my own family why they rarely wear them anymore, & my mother said she felt the cold more in them. It's sad to see women with short butch hair wearing trousers; I mean why not go the whole hog & change sex!

[Cool2BCeltic]

I remember this opening with Don Maclean as an inept highwayman. I always thought, and I still think, Crackerjack was a bit crass.

[wanderer1955]

this was back in the good old days when there was childrens tv in the early evening. Now its relentless crap quiz shows. Shame!

[JFredUK]

I always liked the games section of the show, but some of the sketches weren't as interesting.  I don't think I was quite old enough to understand some of the jokes being told..

Imagine kids doing those types of games today. The, 'losers', would want more than just a pencil..

[semajttam]

@JFredUK The whole aurora about the pencil is that they were kept under lock and key, they weren't given out to all and sundry! It's like the "Jim Fixed It For Me" badge, y'know?

I prefer this comedy to the Krankies.....although I used to prefer the games part of that era because they gunged people and as a kid I used to jump with joy because I thought Stu Francis was a wally.

[JFredUK]

@semajttam I guess so. Those pencils were something to be revered, back then. But, I doubt it would be of any real interest to kids nowadays. I found the Krankies to be irritating, when they joined this show, but by then, I was almost a teenager and, for me, Crakerjack was definitely on the wane. It seemed that practically every kids' game show was using, 'gunge tanks', back then. Probably wouldn't allow it now. Not if the HSE has anything to do with it.

[semajttam]

@JFredUK Tiswas was using gunge....Although I do seem to recall Crackerjack being the first show to use the "Gunge Tank"

[milkybarkid70]

Great video clip.  Do you have any of them playing the games i use to like that.

[RobinCarmody]

Something that strikes me about this is that there weren't many girls that age in 1975 called Hannah, were there? Back then, it was thought of as an old woman's name if anything.

[RetroCool73]

I was born 73, and knew a couple in my year at school... I think it was just "on it's way back" so-to-speak, to it's high popularity in the 80s

[Cool2BCeltic]

@RobinCarmody My niece is called Hannah.

[UKSazzy67]

What year was this taken from? By the looks of Ed Stewart's flares and the Girl Guides short skirts, I'd say about 1974/75.

[terminus69]

it was 1975

[frasermoo]

that is a HUGE CHEAT at 1:34