Thanks for putting these on 73 now ,I used to watch these every week,thanks for making my day ,so glad that theres good people about using their spare time to make people's days much brighter THANK YOU
I'm back. It's compulsive viewing. Such a pity that most of the episodes were wiped clean. As with a lot of other early material, the BBC did not know, and couldn't predict, the eventual historical value of these early gems. They thought the tapes were worth more than their content.
@@MuchWhittering I originally thought that, but I later learned that early episodes were shown twice in one night. The first before the 'toddlers' truce' and the second after, for adults. They must therefore have been taped or at least some of them were. But much early TV was, as you say, shown live.
would love to obtain a dvd of bunter with better quality of course,brings back the memories of great early tv programmes, "oh mr quelch ,i did,nt really eat that cake,besides it was rotten anyway".oh law.
Bunter's best ever excuse? I'm not me sir...I'm my Double! (A great many of the characters, including Mr. Quelch had evil relatives who tried to usurp them and rob them of their inheritance).
I was so absorbed and taken back in time when watching this in black and white that when the screen went blank at 31.35., I had a sudden thought that I needed to put another two-bob into our rented Redifusion telly. (I was 6 years old when I first watched this).
The BBC must have an enormous amount of classic TV like this in its archives. Why not show some of it, since they love repeating things. After all, we all have to pay the TV tax and might as well revisit some of the classics. All right, it's a bit dated and childish, and the sets are bad and the acting stilted - and it was filmed live which means all the fluffed lines are kept in - but that just adds to its charm. Come on BBC - you should be catering for ALL viewers - not just 'reality TV' and sports fans. nostalgia rules, ok!
We are not allowed to say people are fat, stupid, greedy or any of the rest that is obvious. It is known as being politically incorrect. Freedom of speech used to be something we were proud of. I loved these old TV programmes. The characters are just like they were portrayed in the Knockout, a comic of the fifties. The way they looked and spoke. It was so well done.
MaryPegler you are completely right 100%, millions of people will agree with you, to laugh at others differences,was not meant to be cruel or hateful or racist, coloured people could give it as good, back to you ,anytime of day, it's what you and I, and others from all of our industry's ,factory's etc etc that our forefathers built ,our great britain, to have a laugh,to eat what we like and have boundrys within the family unit,of mother+ father and discipline,love and respect, as your family to be respected by neighbours , and to respect others, also ,,or else, and if you got a smack from a policeman,you got another when you got home,and rightly so, but these do,gooders, social workers, government's,propaganda illegal wars etc ,as brought our country to its knees, there yesterday OH burnt toast ,roast potatoes etc can give you cancer, why man our forefathers will be crying beyond the grave, these are what built our country's here in England and Europe on blood sweat and tears as well as America Russia etc etc,
Sadly they don't. Very little of their early output was recorded, being broadcast live. And even later, in the 60s and early 70s, they wiped and reused the (then expensive) tapes. Quite a number were also just thrown away, found in skips outside BBC HQ. Dad's Army for example. It also appears to have been run by very petty people. When Benny Hill moved to ITV, his last BBC series was destroyed without ever being broadcast. Peter Cook offered to buy the tapes of Not Only but Also, but some power-crazed BBC manager refused and destroyed them.
Well remembered ... 'where's my wireless?' 1956 - I was in the Upper Fourth , and probably reading all about Bunter in a comic ... Happy days, nonetheless.
You know I'd love to see a modern adaptation where a bunch of modern kids are magically zapped back into the Greyfriars world. The bully who finds himself being given the cane by the Masters and physically attacked by the Famous Five for not playing the game, a fat kid discovering no amount of parental notes will excuse him games, a computer whizz left to struggle in a world where the local cinema and wireless is the peak of technology, the gay kid staggered by the sexual innuendo of the time who falls in love with 'The Bounder' Vernon Smyth....
There is a false rumour circulating that a young Elton (Reg Dwight) was in the original Bunter TV series... it stems from the fact that Elton was given the nickname Billy Bunter by a musical colleague called Caleb Quaye in the '60s because he was tubby and looked a bit Bunter-ish.
Seriously....the ''Royale Family'..is just SAD and boring....they all look and sound like the Public Housing welfare supported zombies that lout about in me neighborhood....LoL...
The Person who played Mr. Quelch look like William Hartnell who was the first Doctor WHO. In the Billy Bunter stories in the the Valiant the figure of Mr. Quelch make the Mr. Quelch seen here seem pretty tame.
@@tomkent4656 Kynaston Reeves was my grandfather.... Grandpa Phillip to me. If you like him, check out trash 50s sci-fi horror flick the Fiend Without A Face, he plays the mad scientist who accidentally invents hopping, brain-sucking monsters. Deemed so shocking it was actually discused in parliament.
Oh I say you fellows - a maggot - oh lovely grub !..Kynaston Reeves was always the best Mr Quelch, I seem to recall he was replaced by John Woodnutt in later episodes.
In the Billy Bunter stories in the Valiant, Billy Bunter spends nearly all the time scheming to get his mitts on grub just like Fatty in the Banana Bunch in the Beezer. Brainy the specky one who is the boss seems has the same problem as Mr. Quelch which is keeping a fat rascal in line.
At the point 11:58 Mr. Quelch gave the two boys 1000 lines. I would rather have got the cane even though I am against caning. It is the lesser of the two evils.
To be perfectly honest, it's interesting; as an early example of a TV adaptation, and as social history...but it's pretty feeble stuff when you scratch below the surface. Much like the estimated 100 million words Mr Richards wrote...which I estimate as about 8 million self imposed lines...
It depends on the period. His pre-ww1 stuff is streets ahead of his later work, which, as you say, is pretty poor and formulaic. But try the earliest editions of the Gem and Magnet and the stories, characters and humour are all first class.
@@poppypalais3108 He did some Sherlock Holmes parodies, which are first-rate. All out of print, alas. You might like Tom Johnson's Greyfriars Suite - piano music based on characters from the stories. A youtube search will find it.
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Absolutely brilliant. I used to watch this programme avidly as a boy and this has brought back wonderful memories. Thanks for posting it.
2024 now Kevin. I hope you're still with us
Of course I am. I’m always going to be here!
Thanks for putting these on 73 now ,I used to watch these every week,thanks for making my day ,so glad that theres good people about using their spare time to make people's days much brighter THANK YOU
My God - how ancient I feel. I remember watching this when I was at my school in the 1950s.
Peter Baxter like
If you are still alive...Buy the Howard Baker reprints of the old Magnets.
They don't cost too much.
Mr. Quelch as I'd always imagined him! A real post Christmas treat, even if it does remind me of my age.Thank-you, stay safe in 2021.
It's time the BBC starting showing these oldies again, I given up watching the tripe they serve up these days and feel the license fee is legal theft.
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But there was a licence fee when they first showed this in the 1950s. Was it theft then?
1. The TV license has been around aince the 1940s.
2. They can't show them. Only 9 of them exist.
I though this is a documentary about Boris Johnson
You've got your tenses mixed up
And Rishi Sunak as Hurree Ramset jam singh
I'm back. It's compulsive viewing. Such a pity that most of the episodes were wiped clean. As with a lot of other early material, the BBC did not know, and couldn't predict, the eventual historical value of these early gems. They thought the tapes were worth more than their content.
For the early episodes, they weren't ever recorded in the first place. They were performed live.
@@MuchWhittering I originally thought that, but I later learned that early episodes were shown twice in one night. The first before the 'toddlers' truce' and the second after, for adults. They must therefore have been taped or at least some of them were. But much early TV was, as you say, shown live.
would love to obtain a dvd of bunter with better quality of course,brings back the memories of great early tv programmes, "oh mr quelch ,i did,nt really eat that cake,besides it was rotten anyway".oh law.
Unfortunately all but 9 of them were lost.
Bunter's best ever excuse?
I'm not me sir...I'm my Double!
(A great many of the characters, including Mr. Quelch had evil relatives who tried to usurp them and rob them of their inheritance).
I was so absorbed and taken back in time when watching this in black and white that when the screen went blank at 31.35., I had a sudden thought that I needed to put another two-bob into our rented Redifusion telly. (I was 6 years old when I first watched this).
The BBC must have an enormous amount of classic TV like this in its archives. Why not show some of it, since they love repeating things. After all, we all have to pay the TV tax and might as well revisit some of the classics. All right, it's a bit dated and childish, and the sets are bad and the acting stilted - and it was filmed live which means all the fluffed lines are kept in - but that just adds to its charm. Come on BBC - you should be catering for ALL viewers - not just 'reality TV' and sports fans. nostalgia rules, ok!
+DAVID JAMES Because we are not allowed to read or watch Bunter these days because it is fattist...
We are not allowed to say people are fat, stupid, greedy or any of the rest that is obvious. It is known as being politically incorrect. Freedom of speech used to be something we were proud of. I loved these old TV programmes. The characters are just like they were portrayed in the Knockout, a comic of the fifties. The way they looked and spoke. It was so well done.
I say these things at will. PC? Poo!
MaryPegler you are completely right 100%, millions of people will agree with you, to laugh at others differences,was not meant to be cruel or hateful or racist, coloured people could give it as good, back to you ,anytime of day, it's what you and I, and others from all of our industry's ,factory's etc etc that our forefathers built ,our great britain, to have a laugh,to eat what we like and have boundrys within the family unit,of mother+ father and discipline,love and respect, as your family to be respected by neighbours , and to respect others, also ,,or else, and if you got a smack from a policeman,you got another when you got home,and rightly so, but these do,gooders, social workers, government's,propaganda illegal wars etc ,as brought our country to its knees, there yesterday OH burnt toast ,roast potatoes etc can give you cancer, why man our forefathers will be crying beyond the grave, these are what built our country's here in England and Europe on blood sweat and tears as well as America Russia etc etc,
Sadly they don't. Very little of their early output was recorded, being broadcast live. And even later, in the 60s and early 70s, they wiped and reused the (then expensive) tapes. Quite a number were also just thrown away, found in skips outside BBC HQ. Dad's Army for example.
It also appears to have been run by very petty people. When Benny Hill moved to ITV, his last BBC series was destroyed without ever being broadcast. Peter Cook offered to buy the tapes of Not Only but Also, but some power-crazed BBC manager refused and destroyed them.
Well remembered ... 'where's my wireless?'
1956 - I was in the Upper Fourth , and probably reading all about Bunter in a comic ...
Happy days, nonetheless.
Great show
You know I'd love to see a modern adaptation where a bunch of modern kids are magically zapped back into the Greyfriars world. The bully who finds himself being given the cane by the Masters and physically attacked by the Famous Five for not playing the game, a fat kid discovering no amount of parental notes will excuse him games, a computer whizz left to struggle in a world where the local cinema and wireless is the peak of technology, the gay kid staggered by the sexual innuendo of the time who falls in love with 'The Bounder' Vernon Smyth....
Everyone, including the teaching staff, EJACULATED frequently.
Often in the classroom.
One of my classmates used to do that - literally!
What was that from Sky News about supermarkets in the start?
I say you chaps. We live in beastly times now.
THEIR All. Billy Bunters TODAY
At least they're all able to write properly, unlike you.
Bunter looks about ready for grad school, I say really.
My mother knew Gerald Campion quite well ..went out with him a couple of times . Wonder if he still around?
Melcome Pay greetings. Around only in the spiritual context, RIP, he died quite a number of years ago now.
Met him once at the London drinking club he owned.
Died 2002
Is that a young Melvyn Hayes playing one of the boys?
yes think you're right
Well spotted. Did you spot Anthony Valentine?
elton john the early years
There is a false rumour circulating that a young Elton (Reg Dwight) was in the original Bunter TV series... it stems from the fact that Elton was given the nickname Billy Bunter by a musical colleague called Caleb Quaye in the '60s because he was tubby and looked a bit Bunter-ish.
Bob Cherry anticipating Draco Malfoy - "I didn't know he could read"
That lot didn't know what they were on about. With titles like that i'd love to read Demon Dick stories.
Did Toby Meyer attend greyfriers . Interesting to see teen Anthony Valentine's face developing from teen to adult.
Much great than "The Royle Family".
Seriously....the ''Royale Family'..is just SAD and boring....they all look and sound like the Public Housing welfare supported zombies that lout about in me neighborhood....LoL...
A classic
The Person who played Mr. Quelch look like William Hartnell who was the first Doctor WHO. In the Billy Bunter stories in the the Valiant the figure of Mr. Quelch make the Mr. Quelch seen here seem pretty tame.
Kynaston Reeves.
@@tomkent4656 Kynaston Reeves was my grandfather.... Grandpa Phillip to me. If you like him, check out trash 50s sci-fi horror flick the Fiend Without A Face, he plays the mad scientist who accidentally invents hopping, brain-sucking monsters. Deemed so shocking it was actually discused in parliament.
one of my favorite movies
When in 2000 was this recorded?
Lol year I was born this was playing
Oh I say you fellows - a maggot - oh lovely grub !..Kynaston Reeves was always the best Mr Quelch, I seem to recall he was replaced by John Woodnutt in later episodes.
Gerald Campion played this part well
The actor who plays Skinner looks a bit old to be a pupil.
Melvyn Hayes. He would have been 20-21 at the time. Played "Gloria" in It ain't Half hot Mum>
Campion who played Billy Bunter was 35 years old in this Episode, by the time This series ended Campion was 40 years old
In the Billy Bunter stories in the Valiant, Billy Bunter spends nearly all the time scheming to get his mitts on grub just like Fatty in the Banana Bunch in the Beezer. Brainy the specky one who is the boss seems has the same problem as Mr. Quelch which is keeping a fat rascal in line.
At the point 11:58 Mr. Quelch gave the two boys 1000 lines. I would rather have got the cane even though I am against caning. It is the lesser of the two evils.
To be perfectly honest, it's interesting; as an early example of a TV adaptation, and as social history...but it's pretty feeble stuff when you scratch below the surface.
Much like the estimated 100 million words Mr Richards wrote...which I estimate as about 8 million self imposed lines...
It depends on the period. His pre-ww1 stuff is streets ahead of his later work, which, as you say, is pretty poor and formulaic.
But try the earliest editions of the Gem and Magnet and the stories, characters and humour are all first class.
@@poppypalais3108 He did some Sherlock Holmes parodies, which are first-rate. All out of print, alas. You might like Tom Johnson's Greyfriars Suite - piano music based on characters from the stories. A youtube search will find it.
Are they really calling him "fat ass"?
Yes, but it refers to the animal rather than the body part!😊
@@poppypalais3108 ...or both
Boris Johnson 😂😂😂