Thanks for uploading - every tune of this song is freshly in my memory. What a weird one this type was! Charming series. I remember especially the frog "Kühlwalda".
Im with you topkat..I got so sick of the crap on tv today that I got rid of my television...mindless moronic stuff they put on now definately does not warrent owning one. Bring back the days when they knew how to make television..Catweazle, The Goodies, The Sweeny, The two Ronnies, Randal and Hopkirk..to name but a few.
To clarify. Geoffrey Bayldon is still alive ( but retired I think). Unfortunately, Robin Davies ( Carrot) died last year after battling cancer. Great series and if done properly would probably make a great movie as long as it was done in the UK and not the USA. Why? Because it is quintessentially British. Actually I think Ian Mckellen would play Catweazle rather well! ( he's a great comic actor as well)
Get the complete 1st series on DVD, Geoffery Bayldon ( sadly passed away now) and Robin Davies (carrot) revisit the farm 'Hexwood' ( Sedddlescombe Farm in Sussex), its very touching. Great series, Tch Tch electrickery !
@coolitababy Well having checked that out your quite right , i stand corrected, i was sure i remember he died a couple of years ago, quite a nice surprise to know i was wrong, not so was finding Robin Davies passed away in 2010. Much thanks for letting me know at least.
We were read the Catweazle books in school and enjoyed them so much that we all wrote fan letters to Richard Carpenter, who kindly responded with signed copies of his novel for each of us.
I think I still have mine somewhere. Wonderfully quirky stuff.
I'd been going on about Catweazle to my kids for years and last year the eldest got me a Catweazle collection of DVD. My youngest is 7years old and he really enjoys it, as his in words "it's very different to the others childrens programmes and really funny". I can't really add any more to that...
We really had some good kids TV back in the late 60's and 70's. Those magical two hours after school from say 4pm to 6pm were for kids while mum was cooking the tea. Then we had Saturday morning to ourselves for a good three or four hours of kids TV before Grandstand kicked in for the day, and then we had some more kids TV on Sunday evenings with programs like Catweazle, Black Beauty and Worzel Gummidge. The slow decline of kids TV over the last 15 years or so was all to do with saving money.
Amazing how the memory works - it would be well over thirty years (jesus!) since I watched this series - yet if you'd asked me to hum that song I wouldn't have missed a note. Then ask me to remember the name of someone I met and talked with yesterday... Ho hum... Great show, though! All the kids adored it. Same time as Pertwee was the Doctor, perhaps? Mate of mine had a pet rat named Touchwood in the early 80s (or was it the late 70s? .....)
I am an American in my 30s. I have watched PBS and BBC America religiously since I was ayoung child, watching everything from comedies to dramas and series from the UK. I have never seen this one and am positively crazy to try and see it. I think it is on VHS but not for the American region. I don't know if it is on DVD and if it was, it is likely not on North American region DVD. Maybe when I go to the UK, I will buy a VCR and sit in a hotel room and watch it. LOL
I'm 19 years old and have never seen this serie on television, but they once showed a few episodes on channel 3, (nederland 3)and I love it. :P I wish there were more programes like this, instead all those braindead-comic-series with stupid jokes and annoying voices.
"Kühlwalda", die Vertraute! Herrlich!
911fletcher 23 hours ago
Thanks for uploading - every tune of this song is freshly in my memory. What a weird one this type was! Charming series. I remember especially the frog "Kühlwalda".
TheAkelei 3 weeks ago
Wonderful series, didn't nearly miss an episode.
jmedia1 3 weeks ago
Charles "Bud" Tingwell? He was in bloody everything English back then. RIP Bud.
Richard Carpenter - obviously not the late Karen's brother.
JBofBrisbane 3 weeks ago
The best show ever and as a child we loved the phrase a telebone which actually makes sense.
Leowen2 1 month ago
@Leowen2 It was telling-bone
coolitababy 1 month ago
Im with you topkat..I got so sick of the crap on tv today that I got rid of my television...mindless moronic stuff they put on now definately does not warrent owning one. Bring back the days when they knew how to make television..Catweazle, The Goodies, The Sweeny, The two Ronnies, Randal and Hopkirk..to name but a few.
LionheartNh 1 month ago
To clarify. Geoffrey Bayldon is still alive ( but retired I think). Unfortunately, Robin Davies ( Carrot) died last year after battling cancer. Great series and if done properly would probably make a great movie as long as it was done in the UK and not the USA. Why? Because it is quintessentially British. Actually I think Ian Mckellen would play Catweazle rather well! ( he's a great comic actor as well)
simonm7133 2 months ago
Ha! he used to scare me... but i watched anyway... weird...
Begbutts 2 months ago
War echt schön .....lang iss her
Rohrrax 2 months ago
Got the DVD set last year for Christmas!...best prezzie ever!!
googleisshittoss 2 months ago 2
GEOFFREY BAYLDON (AND THUS CATWEAZLE) IS STILL WITH US! HUZZAH!!!
knshinn2 3 months ago
Get the complete 1st series on DVD, Geoffery Bayldon ( sadly passed away now) and Robin Davies (carrot) revisit the farm 'Hexwood' ( Sedddlescombe Farm in Sussex), its very touching. Great series, Tch Tch electrickery !
permaveg 3 months ago
@permaveg Geoffrey Bayldon is still alive. Carrot's dead.
coolitababy 1 month ago
@coolitababy Well having checked that out your quite right , i stand corrected, i was sure i remember he died a couple of years ago, quite a nice surprise to know i was wrong, not so was finding Robin Davies passed away in 2010. Much thanks for letting me know at least.
permaveg 1 month ago
I loved Catweazle!!
DutchHeartMonger1 3 months ago
Oh, and his pet toad was called Touchwood. I wonder if Russell T. Davies knew that...
lawzalexander 3 months ago
We were read the Catweazle books in school and enjoyed them so much that we all wrote fan letters to Richard Carpenter, who kindly responded with signed copies of his novel for each of us.
I think I still have mine somewhere. Wonderfully quirky stuff.
lawzalexander 3 months ago
my dad told me about this series so i bought the dvd & after just 1 episode i was hooked :-)
19MisterT84 3 months ago
Was'nt life so much bettter before that cunt Thatcher popped out on the scene?
Good days and sound post!
lakmeister 4 months ago
Pu pu tu tu sa sa saaaay!
StimpsonJCatEsquire 4 months ago
electrickery... I always thought it would make a great band name!
kissyxander 4 months ago
Awesome programme, I have a paperback novelisation of series two (I think)...
afterlee 4 months ago
If I remember this used to be on Sunday afternoons before the religious programmes
MegaWellington1815 5 months ago
loved this show and always wondered what happened to cat weasle till he appeared on fort boyard lol.
MrDjc1970 5 months ago
I remember this show long time ago.
HawkeyeBrodine 5 months ago
I'd been going on about Catweazle to my kids for years and last year the eldest got me a Catweazle collection of DVD. My youngest is 7years old and he really enjoys it, as his in words "it's very different to the others childrens programmes and really funny". I can't really add any more to that...
TheFirstBassman 5 months ago
Ill never forget "electrickory" and the "telling bone" i still call them that now lol
Fluffski2006 5 months ago
geoffory balydon is 103 and still alive great news
vania1013 6 months ago
@vania1013 He's not 103, he was born in 1924 which means he was in his forties when he played Catweazle.
flaxonx3 5 months ago
We really had some good kids TV back in the late 60's and 70's. Those magical two hours after school from say 4pm to 6pm were for kids while mum was cooking the tea. Then we had Saturday morning to ourselves for a good three or four hours of kids TV before Grandstand kicked in for the day, and then we had some more kids TV on Sunday evenings with programs like Catweazle, Black Beauty and Worzel Gummidge. The slow decline of kids TV over the last 15 years or so was all to do with saving money.
Nunsweepit421 6 months ago
haha
RadiantsUK 6 months ago
Didn't he play a Doctor?
borgduck 7 months ago
the best opening ever. i've got season 1 ad two at hoe. its classic!
barzron98 8 months ago
Amazing how the memory works - it would be well over thirty years (jesus!) since I watched this series - yet if you'd asked me to hum that song I wouldn't have missed a note. Then ask me to remember the name of someone I met and talked with yesterday... Ho hum... Great show, though! All the kids adored it. Same time as Pertwee was the Doctor, perhaps? Mate of mine had a pet rat named Touchwood in the early 80s (or was it the late 70s? .....)
gorlassar 9 months ago 2
Go Catweazle It's the best show ever
bibzyboy 9 months ago
This episode is titled "The Sun in a Bottle". I presume this is Catweazle's description of a lightbulb.
Cool2BCeltic 9 months ago
watched this when i was about 8 scared the shit out of me!!!
skerman59 9 months ago
The best show ever made,end off.
currypot1965 11 months ago 3
I am an American in my 30s. I have watched PBS and BBC America religiously since I was ayoung child, watching everything from comedies to dramas and series from the UK. I have never seen this one and am positively crazy to try and see it. I think it is on VHS but not for the American region. I don't know if it is on DVD and if it was, it is likely not on North American region DVD. Maybe when I go to the UK, I will buy a VCR and sit in a hotel room and watch it. LOL
TheSoulflower 11 months ago
@MrRemoved , Actually Catweazle was shot in 70' and 71'.
jrrm3 1 year ago
xD höhö
Shial2005vsInu 1 year ago
Oh wow, was this the 70s? I was thinking it was the 80s. Used to enjoy it though, but I was a bit young for it (no older than 6). :-o
RetroGirl1974 1 year ago
loved this as a kid still do an im 47! tssssssssk
cass2112 1 year ago
I'm for the re run. count me in.
windymiller7 1 year ago
I hope Catweazle will return once again... (on tv)
jacobidrachten 1 year ago
i agree with topkkat (below me)
I wish CATWEAZLE's would been renew again as a film
ameanwi214 1 year ago
My family still say things like 'Tellingbone'. !
All episodes were released onto dvd a few months ago.
101325 1 year ago
@101325 hi there, we do too!!! tellingbone and electrickery, so I wonder how many other parents of a certain age use them too with their children?
creepmag62 1 year ago
Bring back Catweazle and make the world a better place!
Instead of all this X Factor shite, let's have some quality. Who's with me?? (cue embarassing silence punctuated only by a cough)
topkkat 1 year ago 104
@topkkat : I'm with you!! You have right! Greetings from Germany
SergeantPaenzer 1 year ago
@topkkat
Yeah, you are right! No more X factor, the Voice of , or Idols or other shit.
SuperTheo1963 1 year ago 2
@topkkat sorry i have been wizzing around You tube time for months and have now seen your post, Totally agree. Bring him back!!
adminelf 10 months ago
@topkkat I'm with you Topkkat!!
saucyviolet 6 months ago
Sadly I think Robin Davies has died recently
kawasaki5187 1 year ago
@kawasaki5187 Unfortunately yes ! R.I.P. , Robin
omegamann71 1 year ago 2
coool, i saw that fist time when was 8 or 10 yo
Panthera124 1 year ago
I just got a Catweazle dvd box for my 18th birthday. Love it!
Xanthyke 1 year ago
I'm 19 years old and have never seen this serie on television, but they once showed a few episodes on channel 3, (nederland 3)and I love it. :P I wish there were more programes like this, instead all those braindead-comic-series with stupid jokes and annoying voices.
Widdekuu91 1 year ago 19
Dear Richard Carpenter , Thank you so much for creating this wonderful series !
omegamann71 1 year ago 2