ITV SCHOOLS - PICTURE BOX: Peter And The Wolf Part 1 (TX 19.9.83) 

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.

Fantastic memories of watching this programme. The theme tune alone instantly transported me back to my childhood ☺

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!

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.

Thank you. Brings back warm memories of a carefree time.

I liked Alan Rothwell's velvety voice as a child.

The nostalgia.. happy memories.. thank you 💞💞💞 xxxx

I actually remember watching this very one, takes me back to my happiest childhood days.

Haunting Granada logo. Haunting Picture Box theme. Haunting Alan Rothwell.

My love of music, all music, started right here.

Jeez, I’m in 1979 again at primary school in the tv room

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...

I was a bit scared of the music but fascinated at the same time

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😢

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).

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.

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 😕💉

I remember this well from school and loved the music.

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.

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 !! 😀

The theme tune to this show used to freak me out

The Scarecrow! I remember this well.

Don't know why, but that box and music still scares me. I'm 44

That timer took forever 🙈🤣

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 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.

They actually put quite a lot of effort into these productions.

Just watching him now in an old episode of casualty

That one wasn't so creepy, in fact quite ASMR 1980s style :)

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.

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??? 😄

This used to scare me along with tales of the unexpected 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

He played the Scarecrow in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.

Why can't they bring ITV school televeion back? It wouldn't be any worse than the shite that's on now!

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

The spinning jewelled box was a piece of stock footage, which can be seen here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IMpiUVSCtQk.html

4:09 Timothy Dalton!

This just reminds me how crap tv was in the 80s probably the reason we all stayed out to it was dark

4:38 this bit was 'borrowed' by Fargo in this episode: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHfMpu7vxpg.html

What was the lovely schools clock music called? A great tune!

Prokofiev?? All my life I thought Tchaikovsky wrote it. One lives and learns....

Ken Barlow's brother....

Quentin Smirhes brought me here. Which one is real?

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.

Can you imagine todays lawless thugs sitting down to watch this at school

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. 😴😴😴

That guy looks like Edward rictoffen

There was no wolf in the story when u filmed u should have had a pet wolf a husky

*Stare with Mother*

Ducks can't fly according to this educational film for children.

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.