My brother and I loved watching this as kids. I was never any good at art (and I'm still not), but Tony Hart was inspirational. The animations and 'The Prof' were always great fun to watch. It took me years to realise that this was originally intended for hearing-impaired children. It goes to prove that it transcended its target audience and reached us all. I'm so pleased to see that there are some editions online. I agree with the earlier comment - shame on the BBC for not hanging on to these treasures.
I am really happy to see this. I loved Vision On and it is simply one of the best children's programmes ever made. So full of great ideas and invention. Shame on the BBC for wiping most of them though!!
***** I think that no-one the 70's ever foresaw that there would be a market for home video and dvd. You would probably be amazed at the stuff that was wiped back in the day which would now be of immense historical interest if nothing else. From time to time a little gem turns that everyone thought was lost. Fingers crossed for more.
I believe only 11 black and white editions exist, but it seems in spite of the rumours of wiping that all of the colour ones from the 70s have survived. I've seen five recently and clips from many more.
@@europa2000man There was an archive purge at the BBC in 1993, long after they knew about the home video market, and they concentrated on children's programmes.
Thank you so much! I used to adore this show as a kid (Northwestern Ontario, Canada), and I thought I'd never get to see it again. I would be tremendously grateful if you found any more of it to upload.
Paul Saxberg Yeah me too it was one of my favorite program because I loved drawing and still do my dp photo is a bunny who I drew when when i was five or six I wanted to send one of my picture my mom sayd it may not reach because England was a long way Btw I live in near Ottawa Canada
Delighted to find this; I used to enjoy this show as a kid. All of it is so imaginative and beautiful but watching Tony Hart make his pictures is the best magic on TV.
I would watch all of the Vision On series if it were available. It was one of my favourite childrens shows. It was so dynamic and energetic with so many different regular elements.
Thanks so much for uploading this. Great memories, this was my favourite programme back in the day, but very difficult to find any now. Just shown this to my son and he loves it too. If any other editions were to find their way here I'd be delighted!
Thanks for sharing, I never forget this show but I think I'm the only one in France. It was broadcasted in my country on wednesday afternoon, something like every two months, I don't remember the channel, must be on TF1, inside the great children show "les visiteurs du Mercredi". The name was changed to "Declic", but the dialogues were kept in english, without subtitles.
Im from eastern Canada was my favorite tv show in the 1970-1980 hey is that the guy with glasses Sylvester McCoy who played one of the doctor in Dr who in the mid to late eighties
65 last week and havent seen this programme since I was about 10 years old. Should I worry that I find it more interesting and funny(The Prof with trapped braces trying to catch a train) than most things on TV now 😂 They say when you get old you revert but I think this was just a great programme that could never be made now
Remember watching this as an adolescent loved it , compulsive viewing , once you started you just could not go away , very creative and imaginative also , loved Morph the plasticine charachter,
Believe it or not we were able to see this wonderful program in the US - at least for a short time on our public broadcasting service. As a child growing up in D.C. I absolutely adored this mysterious show - I had completely forgotten the name and only remembered the logo and some nice British people making art together. Thank you so much for posting this - a treasured memory from a gentler time....
Tony Hart and Sylvester McCoy and Pat Keysell. This programme was ahead of its time. Innovative. Funny. Inspirational. BBC did great stuff then. In the days before video I remember trying to recreate how Tony did his Art from memory. Loved the gallery, sign language, regular characters popping up.
Notice that McCoy (real name Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) is credited as "Sylveste McCoy". This was the name of a stuntman character he once played and he adopted it as his stage name. He later changed it to Sylvester McCoy because of the traditional actors' superstition of names containing 13 letters.
What a joy to see a young Sylvester (Sylveste!) McCoy here. What a handsome fellow! That logo freaks me out, though. Looks a bit like one of the martians from Quatermass and the Pot.
I have been after the animation at 3:58 for about 43 years? I cannot thank you enough for putting this up. I watched it mostly for the plasticine animations.
The man in the glasses is the actor who played the wizard in Lord of the Rings with Smaug the dragon. He was one who was being driven around by a bunch of rabbits on a sledge.
He was playing a regular character called Pepe/Epep who lives in the world through the mirror. That's why the motion (and presumably time too) runs backwards in the other world.
The pixilation (that's stop frame animation using subjects that are normally not static, such as humans, and not to be confused with pixelation) at the end of that sequence must have been both tedious and hilarious for the three of them.
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I never really understood half of Vision On as a child in 1970s, and now watching this forty odd years later I still don't! A very strange television programme.
This show and a few others had a resonance, they shaped a nation. even when UK techno electronica and house came out, the people making crazy music grew up with Vision On, you can hear echoes in later music scenes.
Fantastic to see a full epsiode like this, although it is not quite as I remember. Where is Wilf Lunn and his crazy machines, the cuckoo clock with all the numbers that fall off, and the furry worm thing they are always trying to catch?
Well, it ran for several years (this episode is from series 14) and it evolved so as not to become stale. I remember the furry worm too. It had its own sound effect - a honk like an old car horn as it popped its head out, followed by a kind of siren sound (like a kazoo/whistle with a rotating part that spun up when blown) as it shot along its very angular path. Humphrey Umbrage, the tortoise featured in this show, was a long time feature, as was the Gallery. The modelling clay character Morph came along later and, I think, even had a five minute spin-off show of his own for a while.
One of the few episodes remaining. I wonder where the children and adults featured in the clips are now and whether they know they have been preserved for posterity! :)
While nearly all of the 1960s editions are gone, almost everything from the 1970s still exists - that's over 100 programmes (I think about 107 in total last time I counted).
When was this transmitted? I’m guessing maybe 1975. The music you hear in the sequence with Auggie the dinosaur was first heard in Mary, Mungo And Midge.
Does anyone have the episode 'Curves' from Vision On? I liked the music of a car driving down a curvy road (live-action film) in that episode. Thanks in advance.
I like Tubes and Tunnels for this Vision On tv show. However I dislike the Monsters one because I found that freaked me out over this black monster creation coming towards you. That can freak out other kids also.
for reference with transferring mirrors see the Doctor Who episode "Warriors Gate" from 1981 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q4yIK2HcPZQ.html
I think the only people who know that are the producers and the actual winners. If I had to guess, I'd suggest art materials. What I can tell you is that the Gallery music is called "Left Bank Two" by Wayne Hill and features vibraphone, brushed drums, double bass and acoustic guitar.
This really appealed to the young hyperactive me , Tony Hart's spin offs where very tame in comparison. Sylvester Mc Coy rocked, any chance of some play away? Older kids play school. I hope not all of them turn out to not be kiddie fiddlers.
