How! UK ITV 1970's Childrens TV Programme 

Jack Hargreaves and Fred Dinage...legends. There really are people out there who have the ability, in 2010, to entertain and educate and delight in the way these two did in the 70's. Isnt it a tragedy that children today would NEVER get the opportunity to experience them on TV? Its just wrong.

i used to love how. it never talked down to kids.

What class! Smoking a pipe on a kids tv What would the anti smoking crowd think now? Jack was a star

Just a shame theres not more clips of this series on the tube.......I loved it when i was a kid.

Along with Magpie, I loved this programme. This programme gave me answers to some questions that I always wanted to know. A great and interesting series for kids that were growing up in the 70's.

I used to love watching how when I was a youngster.

Miss this show from my childhood!, always found Fred Dinenage exciting to watch!.

Great stuff, dear old Jack Hargreaves, can you imagine today's brats accepting him on children's television?

Fred Dineage used to have a normal voice! Who knew? In Most Evil Killers he shouts constantly

Where Jack Hargreaves pipe?...he used to puff away on the thing teaching the kiddies....add the mad theme tune to that pipe and all of a sudden my disaster of a life has a certain perspective to it.

Thanks for the posting I loved this show in the 70's and always wanted teachers like these

I remember watching how on Southern Television in the 70's!

Sure. Today's individual children sure. Just gotta raise them right. They are born with good solid minds, it's what you feed them that makes a difference. :)

Then Later In 2020, HOW Would Later Come Back As An Experiment Show On CITV! With The Answers Being WOW!

"dear old Jack Hargreaves, can you imagine today's brats accepting him on children's television?" Well...equally, I'd say that Hargreaves wasn't a miserable patronising old git, unlike today's people of the same age he was in the 70s! There was just as many brats in the 70s - it depends how you approach them. Jack did it well.

What a difference between this original and now!?? Then it was entertaining learning, Discovering, exploring, informing, Now its total shyt, I fail to understand why blowing up a toilet is Anyway beneficial to children!! SAD TV!!!

@lillabethsmum I loved it as a six year old in the 70's. I suspect your son will be a wise man too-he has good taste in his influences!

lol, was a running gag that Fred's sections would end in disaster. Main reason we watched it at the time. :)

Brilliant show .😀😀😀

50 years later we have AI . Better days? In some ways yes, but its quite scary how fast things are going to 5h1t

omg i can actually remember watching this at the time! feel so old......

I loved HOW brilliant show i and loved listen to jak Hargreaves

From 'HOW!' to 'How do they do that?'.

Soc many happy memories of this programme.

I used to love this when I was a kid thanks everso for uploading this vid!

It's a kids program based on adults taking the piss out of each other...of that potters wheel didn't put at least a smile on your face you need to up your prescription. A lot.

wow happy memories jack hargreaves was the man loved him in out of town as well

The bit with the potter's wheel seems like something that would be in Dad's Army.

Loved this show!❤

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I've been retuning my TV for the past 30 odd years to no avail? Has this show now finished? :oD (No! Don't even go there! I'm joking!)

Brilliant show!!

Anybody got the hands UP symbol for this tune/song like well old lmao?

How do you get the plassteine in the bottle or plaster of Paris to look like waves begore the ship is inserted

Loved the seventies when I was growing up .TV was fab! Especially these sort of programmes which were fun and you learnt stuff. Harry was like a surrogate grandad teaching you the history of things. Fred Dinenage made the science things fun. Great programmes with interesting presenters who cared about the young viewers not their celebrity image like today's do. I love and miss those days .We all used to sit down and have tea together as a family in those days too and watch Ask the Family ,Call my Bluff and The Krypton Factor! Used to love Saturday tv if it was an indoor kind of day ,we would watch one after the other .So many great shows .Flipper, Lassie ,Follyfoot, White Horses ,Black Beauty ,Belle and Sebastian ,Bizzie Lizzie ,The Double Deckers, The Banana Splits ,Daktari , Bugs Bunny and so so many more I could go on forever 😂. I liked mysteries too.. Like the Famous Five stories. Also science fiction like Tomorrow's People and Timeslip. Who else remembers these ? The spooky series 'Shadows ' I think it was called was amazing to me back then. Can anyone remember the name of a programme which was set in or around a castle ? Two lads and their bloodhound in it? Happy Memories❤

they got your name spelled wrong Fred tsk tsk

Wasn't it this show where a horse got 'fresh' with a female presenter ?

I loved Jack's wisdom.

01:56 "Lubrication is the next thing". There's always time for lubrication.

Fred Dinage... always entertaining.

and how did they get the plasticine in the bottle?

Magic!

Someone said Fred Dineage was doing pot.... well, they weren't wrong

Be a For Kids. . Silly.

@TheDiddlysquat Yes, I thought it was kind of odd too how he'd never changed over the years. He was born in 1942 so probably only around 30 here.

He'd get paid £250 for that today on You've been framed... ha ha

a true age of innocence! before Fred dinenage started consorting. wiv tasty London geezers such as the Richardson's, krays and everybody,s favourite lovable old rogue, mad Frankie Fraser. as sent on sky!!!

we were easy pleased

I tried it once and couldn't keep my clay on the wheel long enough to make anything.

Fred...when I first wanted to throw a pot I bought Potters Wheel from a toys/games manufacturer.I think Chad Valley made it but I bought it in Walvale on Walton Vale Liverpool 9 when I was about 19 or 20.The art is that the wheel has to spin at a fast steady rate....ah! Got it!

I don't remember Fred Dineage being as rude to people on this as he was on Gambit.

Ahem! Hardly think 45 is ancient GT, speak for yourself, but however....

Hardly think 45 is ancient GT, speak for yourself, but however....

How! did this ever make TV?🤭

Been looking for the openig theme on RU-vid but no luck do far:O(

The theme tune to this used to terrify me!

"I don't dance,don't ask me!" That was the question and this is the answer.

all i can say is "Trippy"

is fred dineage immortal? He hasn't aged a bit.

I loved this when I was a kid when things would go wrong

Bonjour Frederique!, Did you mark my maths yet?

I remember Fred Dinenage when it made its comeback in the 90s with How 2 and the only member from the original cast, wonder if hes done much since.

HOW COME A LATE 80'S PHILLIP SCHOFIELD APPEARS AT THE END OF TH E CLIP? ANYONE KNOW?

This guy was the best.

HAOW

S....Taunton!

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Omg very nice

Jon Millar

Maths 1/My grandfather was Prof.Poirot McManon .He was born in Santander in Spain and he practised Law.He was killed in Liverpool north UK on 22/12/1961.He was married,significantly,to a French Professor of Music:Prof. Magdalen McManon.(deceased 2/Ref:the liver birds.bbctv,"areyoudancin?who's askin?I,m askin'I,mdancin'" The story of the ballerina? ...I dance again

I remember watching this as a kid. Oh those were the good ole days

Are ya dancin'? Are ya askin'? I'm askin'. Ya dancin'.

good old fred even in how 2 he was great in it never looses his cool when something goes bad

Fred Dineage,the thinking man's Fred Dineage.. But didn't we love him.

Fred Dinenage is absolutely beautiful. Even the idea of him doing a Ghost with some old guy is insane.

I watched this as a kid, though other shows at the time were more interesting.