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Post by Peter Stirling on Dec 20, 2020 21:15:14 GMT
Looks like Kaleidoscope reads these pages LOL as they have appeared to have looked for
and found the long lost 'Anita in Jumbleland'.. quirky kid's show made at Shepperton
other clips on YT but this one features a drag act and Billy Dainty looking rather good in a mini skirt.
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Post by stevej on Dec 21, 2020 19:54:02 GMT
That's fantastic Peter, I had the 'Anita in Jumbleland' LP a few years ago and always wanted to see what the show looked like. Further clips courtesy of Kaleidoscope below, starting with some opening titles apparently filmed on a new or unopened part of Spaghetti Junction. The 'Lion Television Presentation' ident at the start is an oddity- a division of British Lion films judging by the logo?* I thought Jumbleland was a standard Thames production. Anyone know more?
I don't know if how many editions these clips are from and indeed how many shows survive.
Steve
*EDIT Apparently it was a 'Triple Seven' presentation for ITV.
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Post by John Green on Dec 21, 2020 21:58:22 GMT
Clive Dunn singing, and dancing to, 'When I'm 64'...Wow.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Dec 22, 2020 11:56:25 GMT
That's fantastic Peter, I had the 'Anita in Jumbleland' LP a few years ago and always wanted to see what the show looked like. Further clips courtesy of Kaleidoscope below, starting with some opening titles apparently filmed on a new or unopened part of Spaghetti Junction. The 'Lion Television Presentation' ident at the start is an oddity- a division of British Lion films judging by the logo?* I thought Jumbleland was a standard Thames production. Anyone know more?
I don't know if how many editions these clips are from and indeed how many shows survive. Steve *EDIT Apparently it was a 'Triple Seven' presentation for ITV.
I think Triple 7 was Anita's husband's own production company? IIRC the domestic version had Thames idents on and was shorter than the international version which presumably ran a half hour. TV Brain says there was another series in 1977 but I am wondering if that was now repeats of the original international version?...Anita's hair would tell all as she was very much cropped by 1977 I don't think Thames actually even filmed it, I think that was down to British Lion who had access to their own VTR facilities..but maybe used some Thames crew? Thames seemed to be into co-productions at that time. . |
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Post by garygraham on Dec 22, 2020 13:51:07 GMT
Ouch! This and Junior Showtime both on the same day on Christmas Eve 1971. Who is the boy in the clip who doesn't sing his lines and is just messing about laughing? At first I thought it was Peter Firth.  Strangely the series was repeated in 1976/7 but only in Anglia region from what I can see. Was it made on video? It almost looks like 35mm in the YouTube clip. |
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Post by stevej on Dec 22, 2020 16:52:52 GMT
Interesting- according to that Xmas Eve listing Jumbleland was only a 10 minute show. That's a good programme line-up by the way, with Lift Off, a Charlie Brown Christmas (repeated many times since), The Persuaders, Fenn Street, Val Doonican... 'All This And Christmas Too' is one show we can see again as it was included on Network's 'Christmas at ITV' dvd set.
Pretty sure Jumbleland was studio-based and made on tape judging from the excerpts and in the light of Peter's comments about British Lion having their own VT facilities. That's something I'd not heard of before. I wonder where the studios were based? As usual with archive telvision, there are more questions than answers... Incidentally the tie-in LP is subtitled 'Sings Songs from the Thames Television Series' . Amazingly it's been the subject of a proper CD reissue:
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Post by tonyrees on Dec 22, 2020 17:27:29 GMT
From Daily Mirror 12th October 1970
It's magic when Anita goes into Jumbleland by Clifford Davis
A BRIEF appearance by Anita Harris with a Chinese, boy on magician David Nixon's programme was the inspiration for a new twelve part children's series on ITV.
"She got on so well that we had the idea of building a children's show around her," said Peter Frazer-Jones, producer of Anita in Jumbleland (some ITV areas, times vary). The setting is a junk yard. There are old chairs a milk cart, a broken down car and a magic piano that plays itself.
A London area TV Times listing for the show on 26th October 1970 claims it's a Thames Television production. The 26th October 1970 show mentions When I'm 64, but nothing about Clive Dunn.
The Thames shows seemed to have run from 12th October 1970 - 21st December 1971. Re-appearing 5th August 1976, finishing January 1977 - TV Times doesn't mention any ITV production company for these second set of shows.
Her soundtrack LP for CBS in 1970 was called "Anita Harris, The David Whitaker Orchestra – Anita Harris Sings Songs From The Thames Television Series Anita In Jumbleland"
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Post by garygraham on Dec 23, 2020 8:27:00 GMT
That's the final listing in The Guardian on 27 Jan 1977. The 1976/77 listings seem to show the programme only in Anglia region.  21 Oct 1976: Attachment DeletedThere are a number of similarities to Here Come the Double Deckers by the look of it. |
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Post by Alan Turrell on Dec 23, 2020 12:56:53 GMT
I see there's a show called Pop Awards 1976 I wonder how many of those were made and if they still exist.
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