BBC small people children’s TV promo
1998-1999
(by wayzotoichi)
– Pure parent bait. It misses what’s meaningful about many of the programmes. Just a set of visual shorthands.
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His own face was extraordinarily easy to read. Malcolm’s thoughts flitted over it almost as clearly as if he had spoken them. It was the strangest part of the whole horrible experience. He had never been able to tell what Malcolm was thinking before.
The Ogre Downstairs, Diana Wynn Jones
If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.
Lily Tomlin,
An Uncommon Scold
Archer’s Goon, Episode 1,
BBC 1, 1992
With extraordinary perceptiveness, she realized that each grown-up must kill the child he was before he himself can live. Nesbit’s vow to survive somehow in the enemy’s consciousness became, finally, her art—when this you see remember me—and the child within continued to the end of the adult’s life.
Gore Vidal, “The Writing of E. Nesbit”, NYRB, Dec 1964
Waybaloos on CBeebies
Plenty of interesting extra bits here. I like the Yogo printouts to do the yoga with your kids. You’d better make sure you’ve dressed them in Boden clothes first, mind.
The DVDs
Waybuloo: Time for Yogo.
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All television is Children’s television.
Richard P. Adler, Research on the Effects of Television Advertising on Children; A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research, 1977
The Changes: Excellent fansite
The Changes: Excellent fansite
While the BBC lets the series languish in its unloved Cult TV section, this fan has gone to town. It is crammed with links (of great age) and has an interview from 1996 with the lead actress.
We’re also invited to join the campaign to persuade the BBC to release the series on VHS tape, which is either a little old now or a particularly quixotic modern effort.
Also the first reference I have seen to Anna Home’s Into the Box of Delights: A History of Children’s Television