BBC Follow Me (1978)

Apologies for the interferences in the video (it was NOT intended to look like that!).

Here are presumably the first 5 minutes of the late 1970s BBC English course "Follow Me".

This came from a DVD seemingly prepared by a Video/DVD studio mentioned at the end, and it is copyrighted 1995 - in fact, this DVD featured the Follow Me sequences with a series of on-screen speaking exercises after them. The credits came at the very end.

I decided to do away with the on-screen exercises, since I wanted to concentrate more on the Follow Me sequence.

As you see, Francis Matthews and the late Diana King headed this course, with a number of other 1970s actors.

And as you can see in the end credits, the clips were all directed by Monty Python's Ian MacNaughton.

N.B. I originally dated it as 1977 until Robin Carmody pointed out the actual date of the Radio Times.

(Mind you, when I first saw this I thought it was older - from around 1974!!! Until I read somewhere that Follow Me was made towards the end of the decade. The 1977 date was speculated by me as well.)

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[RobinCarmody]

The Radio Times cover seen here is for 17-23 June 1978 - so it was probably made that year, not the year before.

Didn't know Monty Python's Ian Macnaughton had anything to do with it!

I can see what Applemask means. It shouldn't be surprising that Follow Me was eventually replaced by the American-led 'Hello'.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Thanks for that. I deliberatively included the end credits so as to make clear that Ian MacNaughton was also involved.

[friguron]

What's the name of the girl appearing in 2:00 ? I'm sure I've seen her somewhere else, and I can't say it for sure...

[nshiell]

00:03 Hello I'm Captin Scarlett

[Applemask]

Does this kind of thing seem vaguely nigtmarish to anyone else?