If memory serves - 0.43 Zak Ove and Alex Turnbull. 1.10 Manny. 1.11 Tim Balfour. 1.12 Cleo Rocos.1.24 Mayle brothers Chris and Nick. 3.29 Seth Cutts. 4.26 Laura Thornhill. 4.43 John Sablosky. 4.49 Jeremy Henderson.
Anyone remember a BBC1 local news programme of the same time as this called "Nationwide"? ...It was on TV every early evening at 6pm and presented by a guy called Michael Barrett. Anyway,one afternoon in the mid-1970`s at the South Bank a TV crew turned up and asked a few of us kids there to jump in the back of a white van with them (dodgy!! haha) and they took us to well-known places like Trafalgar Square,Westminster Bridge etc and filmed us skating around there and then the footage was shown on the BBC1 Nationwide programme that same evening in a piece all about "The new craze from the USA taking Britain by storm"!!.... I guess this was in 1976 or 1977.........If anyone knows if that little news feature still exists anywhere I`d love to see it again and/or get a copy somehow...Cheers!
I remember it well but don't know of any footage 👳 I got my first plastic skateboard around the time and then moved on to the joy of kryptonics . Skating still but a modern set up 🎦 hot wheels sickness bro . Powerslide forever
Wow! Thanks for posting this...We used to bunk in the ABC cinema southend to see this! Must've sat through Grease 30 odd times!! Brings back so many memories of going to skate city.Tooley Street.. the black bowl!!...HMS Belfast!!... and the south bank. Brilliant! The clothes...dungarees, hobie shirt, norcon helmets, dunlop green flash before we all got red/blue vans!..John Sabloski..my fave uk skater! In the process of overhauling my original Benjyboard from 1978!...Their warehouse was opposite skate city..But that's another story!!!
Yes, I remember Skitch Hitchybollock, Peralta, and all those guys. I skated all those great parks: Skate City, Rolling Thunder in Brentford was great, Mad Dog Bowl was great, there was a blinding park in Guildford, and Ashton Court in Bristol was great. Great memories.
I remember this when it came out, it was shown at the height of the skateboard craze, I think Animal House was the main film, we took our boards in the pictures with us as we skated everywhere in those days, never on a bus lol I found my old board in the loft recently inside two carrier bags, it's in great nick, Santa Cruz deck, quarter inch riser pads, Tracker full tracks and red kryptonics wheels, can't ride it now though. Used to go Southbank, Skate City, Hampstead Heath bombing down hills, wish I was a kid again, great film, great music too... Thanks for posting Pete Stern.
i think the main feature was Grease... could be wrong. That Santa Cruz deck of yours could be worth a pretty penny now. I still skate but only horinzontally on streets where i now live in Los Angeles. If you wanna be a kid again, get on that skateboard.! Great exercise and keeps your mind young.
Pete Stern I had another look in the loft earlier today and found my long Benjy board with riser pads, Bennett trucks and 70mm Road Rider wheels which I used for bombing down hills, Just remembered I also went to Talacre Road skate park in Kentish Town (still there) and the skate park on Camden Road (still there) might have to get some practice in and show the kids some old school skateboarding... Hahaha
Yep same as I have waited 30 odd years to see this Me and my mates saw Grease the movie about 5 times in a row just to see this as it was the preview film back them. Sweet
Searched and found!! thanks for uploading this classic footage! got to be the first oldskool video i ever seen when i was growing up!!! the music and slow motion footage at 7:12 has always stuck with me!!
the film maker who made skateboard kings is horace ove and yes his son is in hot wheels. however hot wheels was made by someone else who's name i fail to remember!
Thanks for the upload- lots of memories. BTW there was another cinema film at this time - and as I recall a lot of it was shot at Meanwhile - it was called (I think) "London Skateboarders" - anyone have any ideas?
I was in that briefly! The film crew got me and my mate to get off the 31 bus and skate along the pavement to Meanwhile. I think it was "London Skateboards" but who knows? I recall it was on supporting one of the Peter Sellars Pink Panther films when I saw it. I was a local legend for about 10 seconds off the back of that one...
@BaddaBigBoom yeh my crypts are still in use too.. occasionally.. had to post this film for all who were there and for those who weren't and need to see the roots... enjoy
whats that the youth does at about 6.35... is that a kickflip? I remember bobby boydon doing kickflips on vert at the horticultural show round x mas 77
@sternoid yeah Dext told me about that. you was always north London as I recall, right? Last thing I heard you were a composer, am I correct? There is some classic footage of yourself and Jeff on Our Show in the vault. The Radical Stern Brothers: )
i was there.. horticultural show ''77.. got to hang with bobby boydon back in his home town..oceanside california. fucking dump back in the day.. marine military town.. last i heard, he was serving hard time for shooting dead someone in a gas station where he was pumping gas...shit happens. amazing freestyler. world freestyle champ in '77 if my memory serves me correct..radical lifestyle like you wouldn't believe..!
@fletchzz ...and you have in your possession copies of such classic footage of our show...? upload to youtube or some such video site, if do old sport.... be a good chap and sort it out...
This video is amazing. Never heard this version of Uptown Top Ranking by Althia and Donna at 1.45. Do you know anything about that version by any chance? Cheers for the upload, happy skating! Greg
Not sure if anyone's told you, or if you've found out in the meantime, but that track is "Calico Suit" by the Mighty Two. It was on the flipside of the Uptown Top Ranking single.
ohh shiiitt!! This was on tv when i was about 8 or 9. I used to watch it over and over but my mum recorded over it and i cried! that was about 1988 ish?? wow im so happy to see it again. Was that southbank pre graffiti i noticed??
@fletchzz graham... how's the journey!?!? my step son, it turns by coincidence went to creighton comp now called fortismere or something like that. anyway he was in the school play version of "bugsy malone" and your bro dexter wad there in the audience!. we chatted after and both commented on how little the place has changed and how we both felt like we were guilty of something or other and should really be headed straight to the headmistresses office.. birng back "our show" !!!!
@sternoid hey Peter, sorry for not replying sooner, I really should check this site more often. The clue is in the name Fletchzz as in Fletcher, mate I have such great memories of hanging out with you at South Bank. Much love to you and the brother. Graham
Hey sternoid - just picking up on your chat with fletchzz (penny has just dropped). I gather fletchzz will likely know this, but the BFI are showing several recordings of 'Our Show' in its vaults, one of which is a Bumper Christmas show from '77 and is listed to include a 'Skateboarder Special'. Could that bear fruit for you I wonder? By the way, wasn't the intro music used for the Our Show skate spot 'Pulstar' by Vangelis? Stuck in my mind for some reason.
@@mjh5437 It was a Saturday morning show on British TV in the '70s that included a special 'Skateboard news' spot presented by Graham Fletcher-Cook. I'm really sorry to say that I received a message a couple of days ago informing me that Graham has just passed away. Too young :-( A copy of the show, with skateboard news spot, was uploaded to RUclips in October 2018. You'll find it on here somewhere. RIP Graham.
If memory serves - 0.43 Zak Ove and Alex Turnbull. 1.10 Manny. 1.11 Tim Balfour. 1.12 Cleo Rocos.1.24 Mayle brothers Chris and Nick. 3.29 Seth Cutts. 4.26 Laura Thornhill. 4.43 John Sablosky. 4.49 Jeremy Henderson.
Cleo Rocos??...Hubba-Hubba!! I remember her very well!!
Anyone remember a BBC1 local news programme of the same time as this called "Nationwide"? ...It was on TV every early evening at 6pm and presented by a guy called Michael Barrett. Anyway,one afternoon in the mid-1970`s at the South Bank a TV crew turned up and asked a few of us kids there to jump in the back of a white van with them (dodgy!! haha) and they took us to well-known places like Trafalgar Square,Westminster Bridge etc and filmed us skating around there and then the footage was shown on the BBC1 Nationwide programme that same evening in a piece all about "The new craze from the USA taking Britain by storm"!!.... I guess this was in 1976 or 1977.........If anyone knows if that little news feature still exists anywhere I`d love to see it again and/or get a copy somehow...Cheers!
I remember it well but don't know of any footage 👳 I got my first plastic skateboard around the time and then moved on to the joy of kryptonics . Skating still but a modern set up 🎦 hot wheels sickness bro .
Powerslide forever
Yeah, the filmmaker and his son were just in here in my place....OLD SCHOOL
PURE GOLD!
Wow! Thanks for posting this...We used to bunk in the ABC cinema southend to see this! Must've sat through Grease 30 odd times!! Brings back so many memories of going to skate city.Tooley Street.. the black bowl!!...HMS Belfast!!... and the south bank. Brilliant! The clothes...dungarees, hobie shirt, norcon helmets, dunlop green flash before we all got red/blue vans!..John Sabloski..my fave uk skater! In the process of overhauling my original Benjyboard from 1978!...Their warehouse was opposite skate city..But that's another story!!!
Yes, I remember Skitch Hitchybollock, Peralta, and all those guys. I skated all those great parks: Skate City, Rolling Thunder in Brentford was great, Mad Dog Bowl was great, there was a blinding park in Guildford, and Ashton Court in Bristol was great. Great memories.
I remember this when it came out, it was shown at the height of the skateboard craze, I think Animal House was the main film, we took our boards in the pictures with us as we skated everywhere in those days, never on a bus lol
I found my old board in the loft recently inside two carrier bags, it's in great nick, Santa Cruz deck, quarter inch riser pads, Tracker full tracks and red kryptonics wheels, can't ride it now though. Used to go Southbank, Skate City, Hampstead Heath bombing down hills, wish I was a kid again, great film, great music too...
Thanks for posting Pete Stern.
i think the main feature was Grease... could be wrong. That Santa Cruz deck of yours could be worth a pretty penny now. I still skate but only horinzontally on streets where i now live in Los Angeles. If you wanna be a kid again, get on that skateboard.! Great exercise and keeps your mind young.
Pete Stern I had another look in the loft earlier today and found my long Benjy board with riser pads, Bennett trucks and 70mm Road Rider wheels which I used for bombing down hills, Just remembered I also went to Talacre Road skate park in Kentish Town (still there) and the skate park on Camden Road (still there) might have to get some practice in and show the kids some old school skateboarding... Hahaha
Yep same as I have waited 30 odd years to see this Me and my mates saw Grease the movie about 5 times in a row just to see this as it was the preview film back them. Sweet
Searched and found!! thanks for uploading this classic footage! got to be the first oldskool video i ever seen when i was growing up!!! the music and slow motion footage at 7:12 has always stuck with me!!
Omg! I've been searching for this for years and years. Thank you so much. I knee i wasn't mad! It does exist.
This is a piece of history
the film maker who made skateboard kings is horace ove and yes his son is in hot wheels. however hot wheels was made by someone else who's name i fail to remember!
Lol at the kid in the Pepsi hat drinking Pepsi!
Thanks for the upload- lots of memories. BTW there was another cinema film at this time - and as I recall a lot of it was shot at Meanwhile - it was called (I think) "London Skateboarders" - anyone have any ideas?
I was in that briefly! The film crew got me and my mate to get off the 31 bus and skate along the pavement to Meanwhile. I think it was "London Skateboards" but who knows? I recall it was on supporting one of the Peter Sellars Pink Panther films when I saw it. I was a local legend for about 10 seconds off the back of that one...
@BaddaBigBoom yeh my crypts are still in use too.. occasionally.. had to post this film for all who were there and for those who weren't and need to see the roots...
enjoy
Fuckin radical ! I haven't seen this since the time - brought a tear to the eye. Thanks a million for posting.
Ennio Morricone"man with a harmonica" 7:12
whats that the youth does at about 6.35... is that a kickflip?
I remember bobby boydon doing kickflips on vert at the horticultural show round x mas 77
@sternoid yeah Dext told me about that. you was always north London as I recall, right? Last thing I heard you were a composer, am I correct? There is some classic footage of yourself and Jeff on Our Show in the vault. The Radical Stern Brothers: )
i was there.. horticultural show ''77.. got to hang with bobby boydon back in his home town..oceanside california. fucking dump back in the day.. marine military town.. last i heard, he was serving hard time for shooting dead someone in a gas station where he was pumping gas...shit happens.
amazing freestyler. world freestyle champ in '77 if my memory serves me correct..radical lifestyle like you wouldn't believe..!
@fletchzz ...and you have in your possession copies of such classic footage of our show...? upload to youtube or some such video site, if do old sport.... be a good chap and sort it out...
Skitch Hitchcock , Mike Weed and Ellen Berryman
...still got my ACS 651s and Kryptonics LOL
This video is amazing. Never heard this version of Uptown Top Ranking by Althia and Donna at 1.45. Do you know anything about that version by any chance?
Cheers for the upload, happy skating! Greg
Not sure if anyone's told you, or if you've found out in the meantime, but that track is "Calico Suit" by the Mighty Two. It was on the flipside of the Uptown Top Ranking single.
..who remembers Skitch Hitchcock and Stacey Peralta (two names that suddenly sprung to the mind of this 48 YO !) ? :-)
@fletchzz your memory is spot on... who is fletchzz?
ohh shiiitt!! This was on tv when i was about 8 or 9. I used to watch it over and over but my mum recorded over it and i cried! that was about 1988 ish?? wow im so happy to see it again.
Was that southbank pre graffiti i noticed??
South Bank pre-grafitti yes.
@sternoid that depends whether you are Jeff or Pete Sternoid
@sternoid not got any tapes I'm afraid and there is precious little on youtube. I do know someone who has though and will endevour to contact her
@fletchzz graham... how's the journey!?!? my step son, it turns by coincidence went to creighton comp now called fortismere or something like that. anyway he was in the school play version of "bugsy malone" and your bro dexter wad there in the audience!. we chatted after and both commented on how little the place has changed and how we both felt like we were guilty of something or other and should really be headed straight to the headmistresses office.. birng back "our show" !!!!
@sternoid hey Peter, sorry for not replying sooner, I really should check this site more often. The clue is in the name Fletchzz as in Fletcher, mate I have such great memories of hanging out with you at South Bank. Much love to you and the brother. Graham
@fletchzz ,
ok,ok... it's pete stern... you're havin' a laugh
HELMET!
Hey sternoid - just picking up on your chat with fletchzz (penny has just dropped). I gather fletchzz will likely know this, but the BFI are showing several recordings of 'Our Show' in its vaults, one of which is a Bumper Christmas show from '77 and is listed to include a 'Skateboarder Special'. Could that bear fruit for you I wonder? By the way, wasn't the intro music used for the Our Show skate spot 'Pulstar' by Vangelis? Stuck in my mind for some reason.
What was "Our Show"? Any more details you remember?
@@mjh5437 It was a Saturday morning show on British TV in the '70s that included a special 'Skateboard news' spot presented by Graham Fletcher-Cook. I'm really sorry to say that I received a message a couple of days ago informing me that Graham has just passed away. Too young :-( A copy of the show, with skateboard news spot, was uploaded to RUclips in October 2018. You'll find it on here somewhere. RIP Graham.
@@TheAmazingMrBlunden I can`t find it,any Links?
@@mjh5437 Grahame's Skateboarding News spot is at 44:35: ruclips.net/video/hnC3xutWT88/видео.html
@sternoid :-)
this is so not the best skating movie ever watch dogtown z boys u will see!