Magic E (Look & Read)

[Agentlucky21]

GAP and rap too funny

[paulspagetti]

memories baby  im getting old

[fastrac15565]

@paulspagetti

Tell me about it.

[paulspagetti]

merrys baby holy shit im old

[elijahunderw25]

This video went viral on Concord

[coecludd]

Darn better childrens programe than those Justin infested Cbeebies shows nowadays!

[juliantrevin38]

Your vid went viral on Tarawa Atoll

[RibbonsWorld]

I watched this at school when I was younger..

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­O! I HATE THIS SONG. IT ANNOYS THE HELL OUT OF ME NOW.

I used to love it..BUT NOW I HATE IT.

[Owen4004]

LOL so rap becomes rape with me

[IOnlyDateAliens]

i dont remember this being as trippy as it is, how high was the person who made this?

[mingell1]

Gap becomes Gape with me.

[silentbob82]

Rap becomes rape with me ;)

[stalehatred]

love this so much! i was in love with him

[deathbyjellybabies]

its not called the magic e anyomore! i nearly cried in my work experiance :'(

[JFredUK]

I remember this one very well..  when it was originally shown in the 70's!

[CashiTan]

MAGIC MAGIC E

[fjgh666]

All the way around, and up, and dow, and FLICK

[MsKianEgan]

Remember watching this at primary school in the mid 90s :D x this song has been stuck in my head all these years x

[swanvesta2882]

@MsKianEgan mine was late 80's primary but yeah, its been in my head since.. by the end of the 90's i was making magic with E's :D

[MsKianEgan]

@swanvesta2882 hahaha x

[thehollowsofficial]

half of my old mates are junkies, through the subliminal of this fucking tele show at school!!! a pip takes a pipe from me!! a smackhead takes a line from me!! some junkie's try tae shg a tree!! magic magic eeee

[mattjohn888]

No wonder I had to go to rehab after primary school

[jared1971]

Nobody could sing like Derek Griffiths!! Maybe Brian Cant, he was good at singing in a posh accent! Ooh memories.

[JonnyInfinite]

I heard Brian Harvey did a remix of this...

[Currie01]

But as we all know about ecstasy, trip turns to tripe when you come down.

[Arimor1]

@Currie01 LMAO

[clarebarat]

fantastic



[NeuralNeutrality]

I took some magic e last weekend...

I had a helluva good time...

[itsmarmalade]

no idea what made me look for this, but i'm glad i found it.

[FredFuchs77]

Derek Griffiths is it?

[coecludd]

I remember this as good way to educate children. Now, as a parent, my children have to watch Justin from cbeebies sigh... :-(

[BadEggCymru]

fucking briliant

[kawaiisis86]

This is my childhood i love you for uploading this!

[banneradders]

Im in year 2 at primary school again lol

[liamh1997]

shit

[darksquirrel409]

Haha "magic E" huh? Rave alert :p

[mrbiffolives]

To be honest, I just dance like a tit with Magic E....

[SirSathington]

Ah...Such childhood memories. Thanks for the upload

[blackcatsash]

Used to watch this at school in 1980!

[hallidayjohn27]

shi t will make a sh ite with magic E magic magic E! :)

[maxihadda]

Fcuk didn't realise this was so old, i used to watch this in Junior School in the 1990s and i assumed it was from the 90s, this looks like the bloody 70s to me or some shit

[MoleinaHole]

Why was this NEVER a rave song? The early 90's were BEGGING for a sample of this - sod 'A Trip to Trumpton'. And that's from me - a lifelong supporter of Windy Miller and the boys at Pippin Fort.

[andrew49848]

650 ok then. lame. 

[mattmit]

Shit, becomes shite with me! Magic magic EEE

I was singing it to my girlfriend once, she joined in with 'cat, becomes cake with.. no wait.'

[Xtopherous]

That tree looks more like a deformed umbrella tree than a pine.

[kinetic747]

I miss watching these so much! We were watching this when our teacher fell off her chair HAHAHA Badger Girl <3

[grinandignoreit]

I love it! I used to watch these haha

[pakmanmanc]

i took e's in the late 90's this song is right! they were magic.

[Blusko]

Wordy was a fag. Magic E for the win (have some wine with me!)

[Jermyn78]

0:13 - Rangers actually had an away top like that for the 2005-2006 season!

[CelticPowerRanger]

@Jermyn78 I liked that shirt! When football clubs went through that phase in the 90s of crazy designs for shirts like that Hull City tiger striped one, its a shame Rangers missed a chance to go for a morphinomenal blue and white diamond combination when the Power Rangers were all the rage. Can you imagine Ally Mc Coist and co running out to Go Go Glasgow Rangers (power rangers tune)!

[Pantharaz0r]

H.I.V. becomes hive with me, I'm magic magic E!

[plissken1973]

if anyone is interested i have a large selection of the look and read series on dvd , please email me for deatils on bigcastle@hotmail.co.uk

[rocksoliddude1]

"E"s are magic, i find ecstasy very magical

[sawasboarding]

yh boi, i wish i had sum magic e

[salsashark00]

Does anyone else remember this!

[debluemonkey]

OMG! I remember this!

"What about chocolate?"

"That's a sneeky e"

[spacehopper75]

wow i was back in the 80s for a minute there. Excellent stuff, thanks for posting.

[alunmillard]

Holy crap, I remember watching this back in t'day!

[damieandark]

There was far more emphasis on education alongside entertainment back then.

[Zarathustratosphere]

"The BBC's own "Cult" web page on the programme does NOT refer to that song with the phrase "Drop That E!" - this is the title of a different song. However they do include the comment "it's about spelling. Honest."

[greyroompictures]

...and to think that The Shamen were lambasted for Ebeneezer Goode! hehehehe

[earth123ism]

magic magic e we use the annoye our teacher with this theme tune

[ashleelmb]

Im 27 now but I remember watching this a school when I was 5 years old and I only remember it because of the little tune that's stuck with me...its been 22 years since ive seen good old magic e wizard turn words into new words with an e. he he.

[JonnyInfinite]

was anyone else thinking of the drug ecstasy? lol

[Karmoon7]

Imagine if some Ganfalf like dude totally off his face on amphetamines came up and turned your twin brother into a ball of twine.

That's effectively murder.

I'd be scarred for life.

[prben2]

Shit becomes Shite with me!

[spectres00]

Is that Derek Griffiths doing the music?

[lustreboy]

haha an apple becomes a pipe?

Good old Derek, we all know he was a toker ;)

[Euro3urger]

haha omg i just looked to see if it was here magic magic E would have been a great sample for an old skool rave record lol,,,

[bettySwollox]

@Euro3urger

I thought the exact same thing years ago too!

[GiggityGiggityGoo22]

Look and Read should be used in ESOL classes especially the Song 'Magic E' performed by Derek Griffiths. Derek also sang the theme tunes to many of the Look and Read programmes

[SimonB198207]

@GiggityGiggityGoo22 The two my school watched were Through the Dragon's Eye' and 'Geordie Racer', the latter introducing me to the geordie accent about a year or so before Biker Grove first aired.

[XECuteAble]

I love magic E!

[dready2007]

We got made to watch this at skool late 80's, up n down n round and flick, I think that makes a joined up b lol

[dready2007]

We was made to watch this at skool in the 80's, up n down n round and flick.... I fink that makes a joined up b lol

[XxHOLDIGHTxX]

I hated this shit in first school

[jaybo197306]

There was another called drop that e lol

[bigderekkeene]

''Shit becomes shite, with me!'' was the cry that rang around our playground!!

[jonanice]

@bigderekkeene least u learnt still thats the main thing lol

[assilembrandywine]

That was cute! Here in the States, we saw a similar vid called "Silent E" that was performed by Tom Lehrer, the same guy who did "So Long Mom, I'm Off To Drop The Bomb" and "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" and others.

[Cannibal600]

Primary School Days lol!!!

[tonythomas1234567]

personally I'm convinced that there was a government conspiracy going on , we were made to watch this at school and 10 years later a lot of us were taking magic magic e's coincident i think not

[chrissyp82]

Ahh this was ace!

[TurboDally]

omg after all these years I find this on youtube ahahahaha :D

[herrloop]

That synth sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Ah the memories of Friday aft in infant school in the mid 80s.

[aarondirebear]

Haha magic E....

[OneMove33]

@BeeGrau lol that was random

[Geirern87]

Am I the only one who thougth of extecy when he started writing "stripe, pipe"?

[MaximusMingus]

lol at the irony in your spelling :-)

[TheMermaid84]

i think the one in the haunted castle is dark towers

[gullbag]

Wow- Nostalgia on it!!!

[Monkeystrummer]

This song is a million times better than the cruddy tom leher's song. You don't know what your on superAninja

[pufferfishish]

haha! yeah, bloody Derek Griffifths got everywhere didn't he?!

[badongism]

*Nostalgiagasm*

[superAninja78]

this is such a rip of tom leher's silent e song from the eletric company

[nameless616]

...

This is the greatest song in the world.

[jonuk74]

ha ha ha thats Derek Griffiths singing!!!!

[blaineybootsy]

Pining for a pin. He needs to get to a needle exchange.

[DMEB]

MEMORIES!!!!

[iloveacuppa]

im now 31,and i still remember this.i sung it to my 7 year old son not long ago and im so glad it's on here so he can see i am neither a liar nor a complete nut job....

[BUSNUT1]

I'm 32 now but this video brings the memories flooding back.

When we watched this in Junior school we used to go - magic magic EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I think after the drug conatations they had to drop this clip.

[damieandark]

Derek Griffith strikes again with the song.

[MrMonkeytrumpets]

shit becomes shite with me. .

[TheSallySeagull]

Nice bloody ecstasy

[hollowtin]

fucking junkie wizard talking aboot pipes and E'sss!!! nae wonder half of my mates are fucking aff thier nuts, subliminal messages fae when they learnt how tae wipe thier arse, aboot some fucking warlock tanning a pipe and E's in the wan song!! this wizard cunts made more junkies than pink floyd

[PM1970]

E meant something very different and more innocent in those days!

[TurboDally]

omg ahaahahah this is hilarious! I used to watch this when in primary school, I think I was like 9 years old :D I guess you can trust youtube to have clips of lots of old useless shows hehe :D

[keefybaby2007]

I TOOK A MAGIC E....14 yrs ago....eyes are still rolling.

[P1mpMyBr1de]

20 fkn years!

[whiteday26]

Rap becomes a Rape with me! Magic magic E magic magic E

[psychicfreakBastard]

LOOOOOL!

[pumpkinsouthlondon]

@whiteday26 its bad but its funny

[darramouss]

@whiteday26

FUCKING LOL!

[djcarrera1]

@whiteday26 funny as f#*k

[MrSalfordm7]

@whiteday26 top marks for that m8 u made milk come out my nose lol

[mandetlet]

no wonder everone started popin em a few years later lol

[fleamarket3000]

this has been in my head for over 10 years, it is one of the few things I remember from infant school. I never thought I would hear it again

[WideAwakeAsleep]

OMG same!

[tokuanimecitvguy]

Yeah! I remember this from year 2!

[rupertducker]

BIT SUGGESTIVE INNIT ? ; 'E's are good' or 'Magic magic E' ! ! !

[alzico]

Congratulations for being the first person in history ever to make that connection.

[tadge72]

this  was before the days of e's!!

[rupertducker]

true !

[rupertducker]

CLASSIC ! ! !

[danno700]

I AM MAGIC E!

[ijay22]

Magic e has a more saturday night feel to it nowadays

[soiamfine69]

oh dear god, i loved this show

i wish i was that age again, learning the basics of the english language, ive got a damn GCSE english Lit exam in 2 weeks

screw lord of the flies, i want my paper to be on look and read!

[feckingbillgates]

You're doing your GCSEs and saw this at primary school? This was a 70s-80s show; I'm surprised and glad they've kept showing classic Look and Read since then!

[soiamfine69]

our school was... slightly uner-funded

while other schools learned to read with brand new books...we had 'the village with three corners', 'puddle lane' and an array of other books that were covered in drool from kids who, by the time we started reading, were in their twenties!

but i still miss every minute of it!

[feckingbillgates]

That's quite a gap though. I saw them in the late 80s and they were already almost ten years old then! I grew up with toys that had been kicking around since 1973 as as well.

[SimonB198207]

i'm 27 and remember this from twenty years ago. this is just class schoolie TV. Then go home and watch Danger Mouse and play with my He Man figures...

[leachlewis96]

ye we watched them all in primary school aswell and i'm only 12

[AvalaDemson]

i watched them and im 14

we watched throught the dragons eye, the one with the pigon, earthwarp and the one with the perigine falcon too!!

[feckingbillgates]

The one with the pigeon was Geordie Racer. I can't remember the falcon one, but I remember hearing about it a little later. Too bad you missed The Boy From Space. That was the one I remember the most. The scariest story of the lot!

[dragonfitter]

boy from space scared some of the kids in my class but not me any of joel curds gang as we were pretty damm hard

[bonemanjack]

haha just wait 'til A-Levels/uni, then you'll be wishing you were back doing GCSEs! :D

[johnthemutineer]

SHIT! i remember wwatchin this at school....

HOW DID THESE GUYS GET AWAY WITH THAT?!?!?! :P

[an1m4l]

SHIT YEAH!!

Geordie racer, geordie racer, flyyyyyyyy!!

So many memories :D

[calibar38]

nobhed

[llewsedwod]

ahhh magic E I remember this when i was a kid, now magic E has a new definition to me :D

[Jezzzboo]

"Sh*t, becomes sh*te with me..." etc.

I loved this show!

[delysidmdma]

Brilliant.

[Lazyguy22]

I vaguely remember this - I think I might be thinking of something else though - a girl doing a magic act with a top hat, putting in a pin and pulling out a pine.

If anyone else can remember that - or, for that matter, a show with a song called 'Condor Flies' in it, please PM me!

[jhillst]

What show is this? It looks a lot like The Electric Company.

[fraserkatie]

BBC Schools Look and Read , a popular schools programme in the early days of any kids childhood!

[graveheart1138]

Classic Magic Magic E!!!! Derek Griffiths singing of course!!

[SuperStefferz]

Lol, I remember how bad I was at reading & writing, this even helps me at my age! xD

[86sammas86]

thank you so much for uploading this it brings back so many memories

[AiiiChihuahua18]

Wasn't there a song about the word 'ouble'?

It was like a parrot in a tree that stole a man's wallet and the song went:

'Trouble is my name and trouble is my game'...

[popchiken3]

haha I had some magic e last nite

[IckleMaggot666]

i remember this!!

[kitty3309]

Me too! XD

[IckleMaggot666]

lmao

[killercat123123]

is this from kidz tv?

[sarahloumc1978]

I loved this show.

[scottyajb101]

MAGIC E so much better than MAGIC I dont you think?

MAGIC E rocks i would rarther watch this all day than go to school! :)

[surfingthesea]

Well, letters are a bit magic to me. :)

[tofastpy]

magic extacey

[eliseweinz]

ooooh god, i nhad to watch that when i was in junior school =_= and im only 16....i feel sooooo old =_=

[djwedgewood]

Imagine what a nice place the world would be with everyone on pills?

[daveaffleck007]

hed be class in retro him

[dratsab1980]

It was a pigeon called BlueFlash right? The theme tune sticks in me head more!!!! been 20 years like!

[alexvegas]

Brian Cant? Derek Griffiths, please.

[rebisdead]

That synth is sick - what a song.

[naughtytree]

Magic Magic E!! I've had this song in my head for the past 15 years :S

[faintpraise]

It's better than Ebeneezer Goode.

[cmh1985]

TUNE