&quot;No, Not the Mind Probe!!?!&quot;

I'm going to assume it was contagious because you've just inspired me to go look up the Canadian equivalent and... well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLrVQ8onlg&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPMQkBqcKWI&playnext=1&list=PLE5C303B63FC10C15

(the bit where they were showing pictures of children and telling where they lived - and some of those communities are quite smallish - was my biggest wait WAIT what?!?! moment. Ahh... for more innocent times)

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Strange times, but in some ways happier times... ;D

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Oh, Clocket, you make me so happy I had cbbc to watch! Sorry. Although I'm sure that's very unfair. We must have had some awfully embarrassing young childrens stuff, too. :lol:

(I watched the elephant clip. Eek.)

(Hmm. *thinks* I can remember when my youngest sister was watching pre-school stuff, there was a puppet on Ch 4 that used to breathe/spit all over the screen and draw things in it. That was definitely weird...)

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Aw, the elephant show was awesome back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xul7waCH590

(oh course now it's just a leeeetle bit cringe-worthy). And we had the Polka Dot door which as I understand it was a straight up rip-off the Blue Peter show but with a less unfortunate name. lol

(Drawing in spit?!? That is definitely weird...)

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Aw, sorry. Well, elephants are always good, really. Except in certain circustances.

Does Blue Peter mean something else elsewhere? - it's the name of a flag. That's why the badge has a flag and a ship on it. Blue Peter was kind of the show that was traditional and never ever cool. You didn't actually watch it that much; you just wanted it to be there in a reassuring all-is-well-with-the-world sort of way. And you wanted to collect bottle-tops and have a Blue Peter badge, obviously. :-D

Yes, see, as soon as I grew up at all, children's TV got weird. :lol:

(In this comment, I am not mentioning at all any of the things lurking at the back of my head that must indeed be cringe-worthy by anyone's standards: Whizzbit, Mr Blobby... Oh, wait, you've already seen Edd the Duck. :-D)

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Gosh, you've got me all nostalgic! I was watching clips of the elephant show and singing skinamarinkidink... I'll probably end up doing one of these nostalgia posts with a link to that song. I'm pretty sure everyone in Canada over twenty knows it off by heart, actions and all, whether they'll admit to it or not.

And to answer your question, um... see number three: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peter

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Aw, nostalgic Clocket! Nostalgia is good for you (in small and happy doses).

:lol: Right, I see!! :-D

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I will...never look at Blue Peter the same way again... O.o Not that I really look at it to begin with, or indeed ever have. As lost_spook says, it's not really the kind of thing kid's watched so much as knew of. I do remember seeing Colin Baker and Sil on there, though, back when Vengeance on Varos was about to air and being a bit scared by the latter.

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john_amend_all

(Drawing in spit?!? That is definitely weird...)

I found it. Now where did I leave that jar of brain bleach?

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john_amend_all

You speak of Pob's Programme — from the people who later brought us the Teletubbies. Ask me not how I know this.

I daresay clips will be findable on YouTube, in case you want to have the Master watching it in some future fic :-)

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I should have read down a bit before providing exactly the same answer as you... ;D

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POB! That was his name, I think. I remember him, a bit, but I don't think we really used to watch C4 much in those days. Apart fom Countdown. My mum used to like watching Countdown and getting the sums wrong... ;D

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Thanks. I knew what his name was, but I didn't think it would be of much use to Clocket.

It was something my little sister used to watch, and she and my Dad found it particularly amusing, anyway. We had to see it at some point to explain what my Dad and baby sis were doing impressions of all the time. :-D

(And apparently pob is not a good search term for YouTube, because that was where I started.)

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Oh dear. Poor Andy Crane. He was just the guy who came between Philip and Andi Peters, really. And I knew Cities of Gold was the longest thing ever, but I found a clip of Philip singing along ages ago, so it must have stretched over both of their periods in the broom cupboard.

You're giving an unfair picture of the broom cupboard & cbbc here; it was good fun at times. Just not really with poor old Andy Crane... Oh, dear... :lol:

ETA: Just in case Andy Crane was yr broom cupboard fave and you think I'm being mean... I liked him at the time much better than Andi Peters (I was too old for him being all enthusiastic when he turned up), but after a gap of 20+ years, looking back at clips, you can see why the other two on to present other stuff, more than he did. And he must have been shoved in the broom cupboard and told to do what Philip did, and given his own puppet - you can see in one of these clips he looks really nervous and uncomfortable, and by the next he's got more confident. So I was just thinking, hmm, poor guy! :-D

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I have no particular attachment to Mr Crane, really ;D - I have quite fond memories of Andi Peters, though. I think Cities of Gold ran for about thirty years, or so it seemed. I missed a couple of episodes somewhere in the middle when I used to go to the after-school swimming club at the local baths, and never, ever knew what was going on from there on in. And people say Ghost Light is dense?! ;D

Willy Fogg was the thing, though. I used to love that.

What I was really looking for though, was something Dogtanian-related... I found quite a few clips and stuff, but nothing from the broom cupboard. Am I just imagining similar fun malarkey involving the Dogtanian song?

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Aw. I was a little too old for Willy Fogg at the time, I'm afraid, and also in some ways Andi Peters (when you're young a year makes a lot of difference, doesn't it?) Or possibly I just found the theme song too annoying to go any further, I forget... ;-)

Dogtanian was on the Other Side. I am pretty sure of that. Whether or not at one point much later, it swapped channels, I couldn't say, because I do recall them having a sort of next generation version that was after my time, but it was one of the few ITV things we used to go for. So you need to be looking for whoever would have been on ITV, and not a broom cupboard person, or glove puppet. Certainly, if it ahd been on cbbc, they'd have sung it, because it was definitely sing-along material.

Cities of Gold was epic in every sense of the word. My friend had to go to hospital while it was on, and I was under orders to write down everything that happened in the episodes she missed. I'm pretty sure I didn't miss more than one, and I still didn't know what was going on by the end, either.

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I went to look for PHilip singing Cities of Gold if it was still on there... and found that apparently it's included as an extra on the boxset. I thought the poster was being sarcastic, but it's mentioned elsewhere. *is stunned* (Surely only on the British release? :lol: If it's general Region 2, must be a lot of confused Europeans wondering what that was about...)

Now I'm amused.

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XD That's brilliant, that! Confirms my suspicion that most of the people buying these things on DVD are...probably a bit older than the original target audience. In fact, they _are_ the original target audience. ;D

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I haven't dared to watch the videos, but just the stills at the start reminded me of what my feelings were when they started having visible announcers between the programmes in the first place. Bluntly, I hated the idea then, and like it no better now.

... And it's taken me 20 minutes to come up with a comment that's not full of abuse directed at the announcers in question.

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:D

For some reason, I first read that as "20 years" instead of "20 minutes".

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I couldn't find any Faroese childrens' stuff on youtube. I did find this, though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNJn0JI0oE

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WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?!?!?!

I agree with the one guy "This is the closest you'll ever get to a nightmare."

THE MAIN PUPPET'S EAR FELL OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF A SONG!! AHH!!!

(the opera singing panda was kind of cool/ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING though)

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I pity the kids who grew up watching that... O.o

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I don't think a lot of kids did. It's sort of fringe-y:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Liebe_Hart

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One kid is probably too many!

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Or like he also said: it's like something out of a David Lynch film.

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That might be one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life! O.o I think I'm going to have nightmares now... ;D

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We'll suffer together.D:

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