ITV SCHOOLS - PICTURE BOX: Peter And The Wolf Part 1 (TX 19.9.83)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Alan Rothwell introduces the story of Peter and the Wolf. American actor Ray Bolger is the narrator, and music is provided by the Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra. Recorded in the Autumn Term 1983. Continuity includes a slide and ITV schools countdown clock. From my own personal collection of video tapes. Uploaded for educational purposes only.
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We used to watch Picture Box at Primary school in the early 70s. No video recorders in those days, all sat round the television in the hall. Loved it.
Amazing, I've a vague recollection of watching this "live" as a 7 year old! Our school didn't have a video recorder so sitting and waiting while that odd morphing clock counts down brings a great feeling of nostalgia!
Yes! Waiting sitting on the dusty floor in the assembly hall waiting for the ‘pips’.
I would have been thirteen and had just started my third year at senior school, so only saw these programmes when off sick from school by this time.
Makes me want to sit cross-legged on the floor
Fantastic memories of watching this programme. The theme tune alone instantly transported me back to my childhood ☺
Theme tunes was released by Feral Child on 10 July 2023, though only 99 copies were made and all quickly sold out.
I remember watching this program in the 70s and early 80s on ITV on weekday mornings. I could only watch it when I wasn't at school pretending to be sick. Such happy memories and puts modern children's programs to shame.
I do too. When I was 9 or 10 I was so scared/intimidated by my thug of a maths teacher at junior school I would pretend to be ill when it was time for maths. Our head teacher knew exactly what I was up to but I didn't care! Mr Mackney. *shudders*
Me to my husband had an old black and white film on and i said that’s the man from picture box.
@@sweetlorraine6982 Yes, he was an actor and he appeared in a few TV dramas as well.
I actually remember watching this very one, takes me back to my happiest childhood days.
The nostalgia.. happy memories.. thank you 💞💞💞 xxxx
I liked Alan Rothwell's velvety voice as a child.
My love of music, all music, started right here.
Yes along with original dr who theme
Thank you. Brings back warm memories of a carefree time.
Remember watching this as a little girl of 5 when it was broadcast in 1983... My brother and I both liked watching Picture Box (which continued to air until finally being dropped in the early 1990s)... Such good memories, always loved Alan Rothwell's innocuous, avuncular and cheerful presentation style, but I can't deny that I found the titles / credits and theme tune very eerie and creepy as a girl, and still find it haunting now...
Picture Box carry on till March 1993. where Childsplay productions took over Production of Picture Box which was back in 1989
Haunting Granada logo. Haunting Picture Box theme. Haunting Alan Rothwell.
Al's not "haunting" is he...?! Benign and avuncular, I'd say.
Jeez, I’m in 1979 again at primary school in the tv room
I was a bit scared of the music but fascinated at the same time
This was my favourite TV programme as a young kid in a slum in Glasgow in the 1970s. I loved the tune and I loved its quirkiness, not knowing where it was going to take you. Always wanted to get a hold of all the episodes and watch them (didn't always have a TV so missed most).
I watched this as part of English and Music at Far Forest Primary School all those years ago. Now I am in my 60s. What memories thank you, it made me cry big time😢
Take me back to the tv room at school 1983! This proper takes me back fond memories if only we knew how 2021 will be 😕💉
It's called "getting old" !
@@zeddeka I have to agree with that 🙄🙄🤣😅😷 Apr twenty three where does time go 🚶♀️ 😳
I would have been thirteen and had just started my third year at senior school, so probably older than you!
@@angelacooper2661 let's just say I'm no spring chicken anymore but I aint over the hill just yet at fifty four 🙄🙄🤣😂😅🇬🇧🇬🇧
I remember this well from school and loved the music.
Them giant tv's on legs with fold out doors, brown in colour if memory serves.
Me and my brother would organise a fight till the clock ran down.
In the school hall back in the seventies with what must have been the whole school cramming in to sit on the floor and watch a tv that was high up on a tall stand, looked like it was on stilts.
Watched this at school every week
I thought I recognised the nose of the narrator !! Yes, Ray Bolger, of 'Wizard Of Oz' fame !! 😀
That timer took forever 🙈🤣
The Scarecrow! I remember this well.
I'm pretty sure schools programmes started again on the date mentioned after the summer holidays, if so this could've been the very first programme of the new term.
The theme tune to this show used to freak me out
I'm 45 and it still freaks me out mate.
Me too
@@davidlister6721 I feel your pain.
It is the music of the secret world order, pure evil.
@@_.OX._ totally agree!
I’m pretty sure the guy narrating the Peter and the Wolf story is Ray Bolger, who played the part of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.
I think so to
Just watching him now in an old episode of casualty
Don't know why, but that box and music still scares me. I'm 44
I remember watching picture box every Monday morning at school. Loved all the films. Does anyone remember the one with the guy doing up a broken old car and his neighbour had an expensive one and a pretty girlfriend.
I don't remember that one, but I remember the episode which followed the travels of a red balloon moving through a city. It was very surreal.
@@ryokan9120omg as soon as l read your comment that came flooding back to me!
@@superstarmand Gosh, it's really good to know I didn't imagine that episode. I'm guessing it was 1979 or 1980 because I was still in junior school.
They actually put quite a lot of effort into these productions.
Thank god 1985 came along with the BBCs broom cupboard and Children's BBC. It made telly worth watching after school. Picture Box was ALWAYS creepy.
This was for watching AT school. The broom cupboard was just yer poor man's swap shop and the Gofor was no Posh Paws.
@@FoobsTon Yep, I know as we'd watch it sometimes but it was still creepy. Broom cupboard was still good.
This used to scare me along with tales of the unexpected 🤦🏼♀️😂
Remember the brilliant theme, the twirling box and Alan the presenter....but haven't a clue about the rest! Like most kids shows from that era I just think WTF was it about??? 😄
That one wasn't so creepy, in fact quite ASMR 1980s style :)
The music is still really creepy. I remember an episode I think it was about Canada and I saw all these logs floating in water. That’s all I can remember but the theme tune so creepy
He played the Scarecrow in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.
The spinning jewelled box was a piece of stock footage, which can be seen here - ruclips.net/video/IMpiUVSCtQk/видео.html
How on earth did you find that??
4:09 Timothy Dalton!
Why can't they bring ITV school televeion back? It wouldn't be any worse than the shite that's on now!
And BBC Schools programmes too!
@@davidtownson1476 Do you remember Wordy in Dark Towers?
@@ryokan9120 Oh man, Dark Towers and The Boy From Space! Both creeped me out big time yet were so compelling
@@DaveAndBeth1978 Yes, we used to watch those at junior school. They were brilliant. The best performance was by Towser, the dog.
4:38 this bit was 'borrowed' by Fargo in this episode: ruclips.net/video/EHfMpu7vxpg/видео.html
This just reminds me how crap tv was in the 80s probably the reason we all stayed out to it was dark
What was the lovely schools clock music called? A great tune!
Clockwise, by Johnny Patrick
Prokofiev?? All my life I thought Tchaikovsky wrote it. One lives and learns....
Ken Barlow's brother....
Our primary school teacher played us a vinyl LP of this harrowing tragedy when we were about five years old. We impeached her to append an alternative ending where the duck survives (spoiler alert).
You can't go wrong with the Russian Romantics but the protracted intro is redundant here. "Don't think Mr. Prokofiev would mind"?? I like to think he'd punch you in the face for your gall.
Quentin Smirhes brought me here. Which one is real?
That guy looks like Edward rictoffen
Can you imagine todays lawless thugs sitting down to watch this at school
*Stare with Mother*
2:10 How not to get kids engaged in schoolwork. Grey man in a grey suit with grey hair in front of a grey background talking to the camera. 😴😴😴
Grey was the new black in the 80s!
Alan Rothwell. Played David Barlow, Ken's brother in 1960s Coronation Street. Ran the Corner Shop with wife Irma, for a while, before being killed off screen in Australia in 1970.
@@tom-66 I'm inclined to agree, he had a calmness about him that drew you in.
He was enigmatic and down to earth, and so much better than the shouty and inane kids tv presenters of recent years:
There was no wolf in the story when u filmed u should have had a pet wolf a husky
Ducks can't fly according to this educational film for children.
some can't. Mine can't.
@@mileslindley3760 you're not throwing them hard enough
Just who on earth thought this would be a good idea for a kids programme? Creepy tune, and Alan Rothwell clearly hates kids, looking and sounding like the creepy uncle you really don't want to be left alone with.