How! UK ITV 1970's Childrens TV Programme

A rare clip from Southern Television's 'How' from the 1970's starring Jack Hargreaves putting a ship in a bottle & Fred Dinage cracking up on the potter's wheel. Great fun!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• How
• Fred
• Dinage
• Jack
• Hargreaves
• Southern
• Television
• ITV
• 1970s
• Childrens
• Nostalgia
• Potters
• Wheel
• Ship
• in
• Bottle

[vordman]

Great stuff, dear old Jack Hargreaves, can you imagine today's brats accepting him on children's television?

[bmmoS17]

Great informative programme from Southern - I used to watch it every week - HOW! HOW!!!

[Bevoin1970]

He'd get paid £250 for that today on You've been framed... ha ha

[yippitydodah]

@yippitydodah Furthermore, told my daugher how to do make the sea around the helicopter landing on the lighthouse on the Needles of Isle of Wight. Use white and variously depth coloured blue very small squares of white cloth stained with blue ink and water for the various shades, from very light blue to almost black, and glue a corner and build the sea in storm up with.

And I ask her to listen to this song, to visualise travelling on stormy seas, copter or not,

watch?v=u65KN1J9Nr0

[yippitydodah]

What Jack forgot to mention, you still use a stick still with plaster of paris also, pull the sail up, and use a cotton wick, as used to fire gunpowder, to trim the cotton, and us the stick to put it beneath the paster of paris "sea" so the secret is hidden. And also use some pen ink to stain the plaster of paris for the right colour, and you can do this after the plaster is put in, to give a stormy sea white-blue effect.

[squirm13]

I watched this as a kid, though other shows at the time were more interesting.

[jegjug]

One of my favourite programs as a kid, execellent!

[davidgrahamscott]

@TheDiddlysquat Yes, I thought it was kind of odd too how he'd never changed over the years. He was born in 1942 so probably only around 30 here.

[digitalbroadcaster]

From 'HOW!' to 'How do they do that?'. 

[digitalbroadcaster]

I've been retuning my TV for the past 30 odd years to no avail? Has this show now finished? :oD

(No! Don't even go there! I'm joking!)

[VinnyMonster1]

@vordman I think you'd be surprised. He had a quality that appeals to young and old. He never talked down to kids. The man was a legend.