Jackanory

[mrwolf]

I'm using a weak excuse here, to see how easy it is to use the tags on this user interface. So far, all I can see is one isn't allowed to use HTML and that the tags are standard BBCode ones, though it doesn't prompt the user for data to wrap within the tags, it just puts the tags in the document and the right place then has to be found. The only downside to any of this is that I'm not able to make a hyperlinked image, which is hardly a big deal.

Anyhoo...

I have inordinate pleasure in being able to tell you that David Hamilton's Jackanory: The Sixties is now available for order at the princely sum of £4.00 (or £4.25 if you do it by Paypal).


www.the-mausoleum-club.org.uk/publications/pubs.htm

It is thirty-two pages long and contains:

o an introduction by Lee Montague, Jackanory's inaugural reader
o a foreword by TJ Worthington
o listings for all episodes transmitted between 13th December 1965 and 31st December 1969 (including repeats)
o Appendixes on Readers, Stories and Crew

To give you some example of the level of detail for each story, here are the first two stories (though obviously the data is not formatted as it is in the publication):

0001 Traditional English Tales

with Lee Montague

The stories this week are traditional English tales. (Marion Diamond is featured on 13th December only).

0001: Cap Of Rushes
04:45pm-05:00pm Monday, 13th December 1965

0002: Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar
04:45pm-05:00pm Tuesday, 14th December 1965

0003: Master Of All Masters
04:45pm-05:00pm Wednesday, 15th December 1965

0004: Tom Thumb
04:45pm-05:00pm Thursday, 16th December 1965

0005: thingy Whittington
04:45pm-05:00pm Friday, 17th December 1965

Written by: not known
Graphics: Jean Braid
Music by Michael Jessett
Production Team: Anna Home, Joanne Symons
Associate Producer: Molly Cox
Produced by: Joy Whitby
Channel: BBC-1 (monochrome)
Archive format: all episodes exist on 2" 625 line Quad VT (converted from 405 line original) plus timecoded VHS. The recording of Tom Thumb also includes trails.

0002 Little Grey Rabbit Stories

with Wendy Hiller

No text description in Radio Times listings.

0006: The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit
04:45pm-05:00pm Monday, 20th December 1965

0007: How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail
04:45pm-05:00pm Tuesday, 21st December 1965

0008: Wise Owl's Story
04:45pm-05:00pm Wednesday, 22nd December 1965

0009: Squirrel Goes Skating
04:45pm-05:00pm Thursday, 23rd December 1965

0010: Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas
04:45pm-05:00pm Friday, 24th December 1965

Written by: Alison Uttley
Graphics: James Matthews-Joyce
Pictures by: Margaret Tempest
Production Team: Anna Home, Joanne Symons
Associate Producer: Molly Cox
Produced by: Joy Whitby
Channel: BBC-1 (monochrome)
Archive format: non-extant

[David Brunt]

And very good it is too. Most impressed by the detail and clarity.

[mrwolf]

Cheers David. I'll pass your kind comments onto David Hamilton (who lives a hermit-like existence with no pc or internet connection!).

I'm sure it sounds smug, but I'm pretty pleased with the end result, especially TJ's preface and the coup of persuading Lee Montague to write a small introduction.

Full steam ahead on the Seventies!

[Mark Boulton]

Wonder why that first 1965 story was not only kept, but that they went to the trouble of converting it from 405 line tape to 625 line tape? A rare occurence, surely.

[mrwolf]

Guest-Mark said:

Wonder why that first 1965 story was not only kept, but that they went to the trouble of converting it from 405 line tape to 625 line tape? A rare occurence, surely.

Well, I would imagine they kept it as an indicative example of the series as a whole, but I couldn't tell you why they converted the 405 to 625 as it certainly wasn't repeated. It's possible that sections of it may have been used in some other programme that required it to be converted, but that's a wild stab in the dark...

[Alan Hayes]

A clip from the first episode was used in a Philip Schofield home video special in the 1990s - "Best Children's TV of the 60s". Not that this would have been an excuse to transfer the whole five episodes to VT...

Best,

Alan

[John Miller]

No, Pity. What about an edition I recall which ends in a recital of a poem which ends 'eyes as black as coals, Herod is his name'. I wondered if this exists? I recall it, an edition about 'the moomins', 'littlenose', one with Prince Charles and one with a recital of 'MaCavitie the mystery cat' as being all around 1970.

[Charles Roberts]

Are you the John Miller who was using the "Stewart" vaqriation, or someone else entirely?

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johnstuartmiller said:

Are you the John Miller who was using the "Stewart" vaqriation, or someone else entirely?

Yes he is. He's now posting under just "John Miller" again though so as long as you remain as "Johnstuartmiller" there shouldn't be any confusion.