BACK IN THE DAY

[newmark401]

HR Puff n Stuff recently married Rupert the Bear in a civil ceremony in London.

[xcraig1961]

shit i used to love puff n stuff

[Nuron666]

I remember all these tunes.

[AnthonyUK]

This is an era when television was better than it is today!

[Loverboy19691]

@AnthonyUK I quite agree with you!, a time of our childhood and with family watching just three channels, family entertainment, great days of a time sadly gone forever! now its sex, violence and swearing on tv, most of our family gone and paying bills!

[ticketyboooo]

Not all of these were on Thames some were BBC.

[skunkhead2007]

this scared the shit out of me when i was a kid me sister boyfreind used to pull a mad face and that made me scared as fuck,im gunn kick the fuck out of him one day for that gave me a complex later in life he used to scare me with a broken football to,his daughter lives just rounfd the corner from me,gunna get the cunt for tortureing me when i was a kid,thinking back and know ing wat i know they were full of acid at the time ;-)

[MrDjc1970]

no idea what the 4th one was after rupert bear. i skipped it as it went on too long. maybe i was out playing kerbs or knock on ginger wen that rubbish was on lol. nice upload tho

[jacksiin1000]

If you are in your late 30's early 40's then this all brings it back as a child...Where did it all go..One minute you are a care free child the next a sad 40 something in a shitty marriage with 2 kids to put through a expensive private school, taking shit from a wanker of a boss!.....Mid life crisis on the way.......

[prac2]

''JENKINS!'

[pinkfrog6]

absolutely bloody marvelous!A thousand thanks for this trip down memory lane.

[MrPookah777]

yeah lets jaunt

[Paulywint]

The Simon skit sure brings back me memories!

[mr20thcenturysam]

Thames?

[kaferere]

Every time I watch these retro-TV videos, I notice the huge absense of aggression in the imagery and the music. We've definitely created a worse environment psychologicaly for our kids. It's no wonder they're much more tense now. Thanks for your great vid.

[barnowl1969]

What the fuck was raggety supposed to be? scared the life out of me.

[councilglasses]

What a fantastic time when people believed TV detector vans where real,and the only porn you could get was in magazine or 8mm form.Humans can have too much of a good thing

[D1nny2oys]

Donno if any one else has noticed,but the backing tune on the 70's Rupert theme kinda sounds like the theme tune to He-man.

[LaughingPsycho]

Classics from before the right on brigade ruined everything.

Actually, the ones that freaked me as a kid were those weird dubbed ones like the Singing Ringing Tree.

[LaughingPsycho]

Classics from before the right on brigade ruined everything.

[Boosteroid]

Thanks, some great old memories in there. But I always used to think of Grange Hill as "strange hill" because it was so utterly unlike my own experience of school. I suppose that's what you get for growing up catholic in the midlands! ;-)

[Davewise1965]

I was born in 1965 and i remember all of these programs. As far as i am concerned they really were the good old days.

[ooeyb]

ah yes - tv was much better way back then. All we get these days is reality tv shows..

[HGtibby]

Erm, wasnt Rupert from ATV and not Thames - this is a disgraceful blatant attempt to steel this output from its rightful creator - Lew Grade will be turning in his grave - this is pressing crisis - sod the cuts and the budget deficit, im going to write to my MP about this issue instead.

[gurneyer]

gave it up after 40seconds

[vermintude]

Gromit, lad eat your heart out!

[MrCol2020]

great selection, TV at its best in those days, no more sad to say, ps Rupert was my FAVORITE :)

[loveablemoggy]

Wow, Bernhard Cribbins has been narrating children's stories forever.

[tonylegs]

Great compilation especially H.R.Pufnstuf Thank you

[TheShmoo123]

robertgreen35.....hehehehe....­.that really made me titter.

[adrianjamestansmu]

Thanks for the memories! Wonderful!

[CoolDudeClem]

When TV was TV.

[zzennon]

The tomorrow people was my fav,

[alieenvspreDATA]

It's weird in colour

[twenty1forty1]

fantastic memories now a grandad have to let them c proper kids tv nd television

[tintin20001967]

Great..t.v at it's best.

[hamkham]

for all who query as to why I put Grange hill on the compelation was exactly that, it was a compelation of childhood memories with programmes which i deemd memorable, and its evident that you knew what channel Grange hill was shown on, so that alone proves there was no need for that perticular ident.

thanks for your time and your comments all the same! Hamkham

[linnyhaha]

Thanks for posting, this is fab, quite a few i'd forgotten.

[tads1970]

Great memories,the tomorrow people used to be on around tea time back in the mid 70's,along with Michael Bentine's Potty time iirc.The hand was scary but that thing at 1:55 in RTB done it for me.

[robertgreen35]

i dont care where the tomorrow people were, that hand frightened the shit out of me - it still gives me the creeps now and im 39!!!!

[teaface1976]

@robertgreen35 I don't actually remember it but it scares me too :(

[GloucesterAdam]

@robertgreen35 same here - all seeing eyes and secret pyramids!

[PM1970]

@robertgreen35 I'm 40 and I found the theme and the hand very eerie!! I used to have nightmares about it lol!!!

[007sladegreen]

I don`t remember the chalk one either,and wasn`t 2morrow people on BBC as well as Grange Hill ????

[Cromper]

I don't remember the chalk kid or puffnstuff so maybe they weren't shown on ATV (Central)???

Or perhaps I'm too old...

[eduardoisland]

HR Puff n Stuff was on of ITV's 'duds'. It starred Jack Wild, who was the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver.

[Rawlinson18]

Alot of old stuff should be back on telly but you can bet the p.c brigade would sit and pick holes in it until they found a reason for it not to be shown or adapted it beyond all recognition to suit their way of thinking, sad.

[darganx]

Simon, the original Graffiti kid..

[Wishworks]

Wow. Rupert in super old CGI...

[marymungoandmidge]

Wow this is brilliant!, lovin this! all my faves!, used to watch all of these when I was young! those were the days!

[marius478]

I am in America but I still remember watching nearly all of these at one time or another.I always feel so melancholy when I hear the theme from "Simon in the land of chalk drawings."Fond memories of that one.

[TashkentFox]

When I was young (in the 1990's) Granada was obsessed with showing ropey old 16mm prints of National FIlm Board of Canada crap.

[BS2Dos]

Some of those animals on Rupert the Bear are terrifying!!!

[MisterSenseless]

Where's DangerMouse and Count Duckula? Those were both Thames Television

[Forestamtul]

Grange Hill wasnt on itv why was that featured?

[russianruski]

wtf lool ... i gave this my best shot just couldn't finish

[neemz2000]

Grange Hill was produced internally by the BBC.

[jezzyby47]

Blimey, HR Pufnstuff was a long theme tune. Was there any time left for the programme?

[krakenwave]

The hippy-pop HR Puff n Snuff theme is awful crap. Compared to the Kroft Bros other famous kid furry offering: The Banana Splits (especially the Barry White-number "Doing The Banana Split" - check it out). But those Tomorrow People titles are excellent

[lungburn]

Yep this scared me too but in a good way

[Rawlinson18]

I think we all did, check out World in action theme and picture box.

[lesliekwan80]

BENNY HILL

[theseus27]

Oh wow,I loved watching the Tomorrow People and some of the others that were showed in this video.I loved listening to the Thames introduction.

It really brought out the child in me.

Great stuff!! Thanks for the posting of this video.

[lonelywolf1966]

ARRRRRGGHHHH !!!!! The intro to the Tomorow People used to scare the crap out of me when i was a kid lol

[gazmic]

yeah no wonder i had freakin nightmares lol

[3DFANATIC1024]

Don't forget one of the most famous shows that Thames put out -

"Dangermouse".

[chrismumford]

Why hasn't Rupert been released on DVD?

[spumemonk]

That was great, a real blast.. Thanks..

[dvscorp]

I always wanted to go to Grange Hill. Redlands Primary in Reading just didn't seem to cut it.

[krakenwave]

The school they filmed it at was just up the road from mine in Kingsbury NW9. Todd Carty went to my junior school (Roxeth Manor in Harrow - the headmaster was on Carty's This Is Your Life). He was in the year above me.

PS Why is hamkham using the Thames ident for Grange Hill? It was on BBC1!

[Sherigami]

damn they got some crazy stupid hair

[newmark401]

Simon and Rupert the Bear recently became conjoined as the result of a civil partnership, and have since been involved in a lot of puffnstuff...

[bodnotbod]

Always nice to see the ol' Thames logo.

[radiodarkhorse]

I'll gladly second that!

[chelseapeg]

GREAT felt young

[vlunney]

damn, three channels NO REMOTE CONTROL. HOW did we survive???And NO INTERNET. This was IT.

[DingKong]

My region was Border TV but we did get lot's of Thames stuff. The opening sequence to The Tomorrow People used to freak me out! Great theme though. Grange Hill is iconic!

[crazyclive]

I'm no longer a child, so I don't really care if children's TV is as good now as it was then...

[neemz2000]

Did anyone else think that Ragetty (sp.?) from Rupert the Bear was just plain evil?

[26highstreet]

as a kid i hated ragetty, very disturbing have that evil looking tramp in rupert

[limeyosu]

hr puff and stuff was very trippy looking!

[smellmikehunt25]

do you wonder why ?? listen to the lyrics and then look on wiki

[wildenfree]

13 again - cheers

[cartrefle123]

The tomorrow people intro - shit, time to get familiar with the back of the sofa again!

[lukessummer]

You tube!..only known cure for Mid-life crisis........Branded, Krazy comic, Doctor Who, Pew, Pew, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub, salem's lot, 2000 AD, Catweazel, Tale's of the Riverbank, The Arabian Knights ( The Banana split's)Ken Dodd And The Diddymen, Robinson Crouse, Foolyfoot Farm,

Down in the meadow where the wind blows free in the middle of a field stands a lightning tree.

It's limbs all torn from the day it was born for the tree was born in a thunderstorm.

(That's enough Ed!)

[fraserkatie]

Eh? Grange Hill wasnt on Thames! LOL!

[AnthonyUK]

I remember the oil pattern kaleidoscope at the end of the tomorrow people;very psychadelic!

[rustler69]

those were the days i miss them alot

[welshguy28]

rupert the bear scared me, still does! don't know why?!

[keobeo]

Just the Thames TV ident brings back all the good memories I have of the 70's! Someone should petition Granada/Thames to give us a a retro only channel on sattelite/freeview that only shows TV from the 60's & 70's. If we can have soo many crappy channels (shopping etc) then I'm sure thaey could make a mint out of this idea!! I live in hope...

[Chiggs58th]

Why do we have to grow up? Jesus, I miss those times.

[davidgrahamscott]

You can watch this and relive your happiness...it ain't lost...it's still with you every day. Look deep and you'll find it!!

[xbritt99]

Shivers ran thru my spine on the first clip, The Tomorrow People...I'm 43, and these clips just opened a door to memories long forgotten.

Wow.

[phillper0906]

Who the hell was Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings? When was that on? Obviously it can only be from the summer of 1968 I've never heard of him and I'm 41, I remember the first tune - The Tomorrow People.

[uofmrules1]

Dude, Simon and The Land of Chalk Drawings is a classic I almost forgot about. I used to watch it on TVOntario in the 80s.

[reknawfiend]

Bring back Phillip Elsmore! Or should that be Dig up Phillip Elsmore!

[Chiggs58th]

Oh my god! I thought I'd imagined all these things. Thanks for reawakening some long, long dormant memories.

[boathopper]

i just remember the thames opening and knew it was a good time ahead, because i knew benny hill was coming on, that i've been sneaking to watch since i was 10, seeing him chase hot chicks, slap his father on the head, and be a creepy pervurt, maybe that's where i learned it when i got to high school

[arksy]

Oh what memories.

Blues brother has it right, bring back a classic channel with all this stuff on it.

Just gets you feeling so good.

BRING BACK THE 80'S

[bluesbrother37]

We need a THAMES GOLD station, complete with classic idents and original continuity announcers.!! The petition starts here!!

[Andyhinds]

That sounds like a great idea,I still have on VHS that final program that went out on New Years Eve 1992 called A Farewell To Thames,A great show and after that was the start of Carlton Television.

[theblueruby]

h.r. puff and stuff has just freaked me out!!! how long has it been since i seen that?!?!?! let alone the tomorrow people!!!

[BionicChango]

Love the Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

[Reggiec727]

Ah, the good old days... when life was uncomplicated, kidfree, mortgagefree and...

Man I am so old.

[knebworth92]

Nice to see those intros again but to be extra authentic, you need to correct the following:

Rupert The Bear should be preceded by the ATV Ident.

HR Pufnstuff was not broadcast by Thames. Certainly in the London area it was shown by London Weekend Television. Grange Hill was a BBC effort.

[halsalli]

Whilst it is true that Grange Hill was produced by the BBC, the same theme tune was used for a time in the opening titles to Give Us a Clue with Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair.

[buffykidd1971]

Hey did anyone else used to freak out when they were a kid with those tomorrow people intor's, I thought they were so creepy (that and children of the stones)

[bunnysss]

Well done sir, keep up the good work.

The women who sings Rupert the Bear also sings Little White Horses.

[yeslets]

omg! i've had that 'thames' image stuck in my head for the past 24 years but couldn't remember what it was from.

[AidanLunn]

3 corrections: Rupert - ATV not Thames, HR pusnstuff - no ITV company as that was internationally produced and Grange Hill - no ITV ident as that was BBC.

[paulymoss]

Rupert the bear was my very favourite thing when I was young and this has brought back so many fond memories, dancing round the living room to the theme!

My mum bought me the single!

[pintofkimberley]

Just to be sad, wasn't Rupert the bear an ATV production? I'm fairly sure I've got an old anual that is both an Express & ITC publication.

I don't remember huff & stuff, or simon in the land of chalk drawings. Where they both pre '68,or not networked (we had TISWAS years before anywhere else in the Midlands).

[Lemonaid24One]

OMG!!! The Rupert the Bear song - I am embarrassed to say I remember snging this over and over in my house (which annoyed my mum no end) - Kind of reminds me a bit of Digby! And Grange Hill - who used to yell "Bang" when the sausage came in? When it had decent storylines as well. Brilliant!

[MISS2WINGS]

talk about a blast from the past havnt seen these in 30yrs

[fireblade929]

fantastic, apart from grange hill was on bbc1 and never on thames tv, charlton & the wheelies were though.