Al Mancini reads Jackanory, followed by Blue Peter on BBC1. Do please subscribe here on RU-vid and follow us on twitter @thetvmuseum for more goodies from the archives.
Great days...sooo lucky being a kid in the 70s...Chopper bikes,..board games you played with all the family.. Tiswas on Saturday morning..swap shop...wish I could jump into a time machine....To the past...Awesome
The Jackanory end sequence, with original music and to top it off 'BBC COLOUR' with no year, took me right back to pre-school.. suddenly I can taste Farley's Rusks on my tongue 😁
I was 2 when this aired. I sang all through my childhood ‘jackanory, jackanory, jackanory, boom boom’ and I never knew why it was stuck in my head... now I know!
I remember at school in the 70’s whenever we knew someone was telling tales or a lie, we would say to them, “Jackanory, Jackanory”. The theme became synonymous with telling fibs.
Al Mancini played one of the American PoWs in Colditz. This was not the only time he was a Jackanory storyteller. He also did a good job of telling The Pushcart War a couple of years later. I notice this episode still has the old theme, with the clarinet and flute and the very clear precise voice saying "Jackanory, Jackanory".
Al Mancini was in TW3 as well. I loved the old Jackanory music and was sad when it got jazzed up. I would be 5 when this went out and almost certainly watched both programmes.
A lot of BBC Colour slides before 1972 didn’t have the year on them, including Doctor Who, Steptoe and Son after April 1972 they started to put on the year on them.
I have a way of dating BBC programmes from the 60/70s: If it's colour and just says 'BBC tv' - 1968-1971 If it says 'BBC COLOUR' - 1971-1972 If 'BBC COLOUR 197x' 1972-1976 If 'BBC COLOUR MCMLxxxx' 1976-1979 If 'BBC TV MCMLxxxx' 1979-present I was a TV addict when I was a kid 😲
I used to watch B.P. religiously as a child after getting home from school. The presenters are Peter Purves, Leslie Judd and John Noakes. I remember Valerie Singleton being there as well. I always thought that she was a bit frightening. Apparently she was one of the first presenters of the show I don't know where the bridge footage was. Amusing to see the lads trying to scare Lesley. The Yorkshire accent of John Noakes was a revelation amongst the 'plummy' BBC English. After an accident in a bob-sled he was allowed to show the colourful bruises on TV, (Thighs only). He also did a free-fall parachute jump. Imagine stuff like that passing a Risk Assessment these days. The dogs were Shep & Petra. I think the cat's name was Jason. I know it was a Siamese.
I'm guessing a Quad tape transfer held by BBC Archives? All Blue Peters where film recorded from 1965 to about 1982 I believe and Videotaped as they where broadcast live. Biddy Baxter refused to allow BBC engineering to wipe any of the tapes or allow the BBC film library to junk film inserts or telerecorded ( Film recorded) editions. Blue Peter even though it was live and is still live, it has one of the best survival rates of any TV show. I think an edition from 1966 is missing. Very little exists from 1958 to 1962 though.
It appears it was repeated in Sept 1973, from where this clip is taken. Blue Peter and Scooby-Doo all match the details here - genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1973-09-27#at-16.35
As a kid I used to read books all the time but I absolutely hated Jackanory. I would switch channels to watch anything BUT Jackanory. I always thought it was a programme for the thick kids who couldn't read.
I blew hot and cold on Jackanory, if it was Kenneth Williams or Cribbins doing a funny story with voices I'd hang around , if it was Hannah Gordon doing some s### about a pony you wouldn't see me for F####### dust .
I was a very keen reader as a child (still am!) but I never liked Jackanory. I found it so desperately dull to just sit there listening to somebody else telling a story. I would far rather read it for myself.
