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Post by Brian D not logged in on Nov 10, 2005 17:16:38 GMT
(1) Which company made "Time for a Laugh" ("..time for some fun, why don't you join us everyone? We'll have a ball, cartoons for all, if you're six or you're sixty it's time for a laugh..") which a mention of Wally Whyton has brought back to me. I tried googling it, but without success. It was also presented for a while I think by Brian Inglis.
(2) And...does anyone remember [an American import?] called The Pied Piper presented by a fat guy in an eponymous fancy dress. Song - "Come with me, come and see, all the wonders there will be. In my stories, in my songs - everything where fun belongs. We'll see heroes, giants bold, visit lands both hot and cold; magic tricks to shiver your skin, laughs galore with animals in - a world of fun, Pied Piper House"
Can't claim the lyrics will be word perfect after 40 years...
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Post by andrewm on Nov 11, 2005 10:20:54 GMT
I remember the one with the pied piper, never realised it was American, I think it was called "Mr Piper". Wasn't he just the presenter, and the show consisted of unrelated stories? I seem to recall a regular feature with talking animals.
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Post by helpful hartley on Nov 11, 2005 10:35:06 GMT
Pied Piper was actually a Canadian import, a co-production between CBC and Lew Grade's ITC company. introduced by a huge opera singer called Alan Crowfoot. one of Canada's first color tv programmes. "come with me come and see all the fun there will be in my stories in my songs everything where fun lingers on"  |
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Post by h hartley on Nov 11, 2005 10:36:52 GMT
freudian slip
Mr Piper i should have said not pied piper
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Post by helpful hartley on Nov 11, 2005 10:56:06 GMT
btw Brians D lyrics are correct
not mine
Mr Piper IIRC
"A Bag of Tricks" Mr Piper does tricks with magic and chemistry
"Port of Call" tales from around the world.
"Animal Farm" Mr Piper chats with his own ' farm ' animals
"Tales" - Mr. Piper tells a story - which comes to life -
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Post by Laurence Piper on Nov 11, 2005 18:55:37 GMT
Did someone call?!?
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Post by Brian D not logged in on Nov 11, 2005 19:30:23 GMT
I think Rupert the Rat and Kooky the Kitten were the animals.
Still don't know the company for Time for a Laugh though...Brian Inglis presented All Our Yesterdays too. Was that Granada?
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Post by john g on Nov 11, 2005 20:14:48 GMT
Yes
Brian Inglis presented 'all our yesterdays' rather solemnly I recall
So he was not the sort of person you would associate with kids programmes- I would have thought?- I maybe wrong?
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Post by Brian D not logged in on Nov 12, 2005 16:26:07 GMT
Quite. So now I must know if my memory is playing tricks re Time for a Laugh. It wasn't particularly special, merely a vehicle for showing cartoons with a link man. One cartoon character whom I don't recall seeing elsewhere was 'Snagglepuss', whose catchphrase was "Exit....stage left!" (or right, as circumstances dictated...).
Wally Whyton definitely presented the later editions, but you've sown the seeds of doubt re Brian Inglis now.
Anybody help?
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Post by john g on Nov 13, 2005 12:18:21 GMT
Wally Whyton (wiht guitar sometimes)
presented ' small time '
along with Muriel Young. Judith Chalmers, Fred Barker and Ollie Beak
I may have recalled wrong though,
this is Lawrence's department ;D
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Post by Martin Dunne on Nov 14, 2005 0:51:42 GMT
I saw Mr Piper on a library DVD of various items, mined for being out of copyright.
A 45 year old TV show in company with '30s and '40s cartoons, it seemed out of place.
Is that right? Mr Piper is in the public domain?
Martin?
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Post by H Hartley on Nov 14, 2005 9:25:30 GMT
No visual material in the UK goes into the public domain.
Public domain happens in the USA basically when a material becomes neglected .
In the UK public domain can happen to audio recordings
after 50 years but this does not happen in the USA.
so a sort of visa versa happens on each side of the atlantic
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Post by Mark Dowding on Nov 14, 2005 11:41:07 GMT
I certainly remember Brian Inglis presenting "Time for a laugh" for a period before Wally Whyton took over. The theme for Brian's programme had a very dull "dumpy" sound to it but I've no idea what it was called. Wally Whyton introduced the show singing the song mentioned above.
I watched it in the Granada area but I wouldn't know if it was seen in other regions I was probably about 5 or 6 at the time - mid to late 1960's.
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Post by Brian Denton on Nov 14, 2005 22:15:34 GMT
Mark - thanks for confirming my memory re Time for a Laugh. Now, does anyone remember Sugarball.....very racist in retrospect. Wouldn't pass muster now....
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Post by Martin Dunne on Nov 15, 2005 1:11:50 GMT
Thanks Hartley; that'd be a "yes"!
Martin!
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