Masterspy - phasey guitar and overdriven Rhodes. Perfect

Topic and Caramac please. 😋

David Nixon put me magicians to this very day. If I remember correctly it alternated with Opportunity Knocks, which I preferred 🤔. Never saw Monkey but was a fan of The Water Margin, Catweazle, Harry Worth and When the Boat Comes In.

Great years

Loved monkey. They did a remake recently. Poor

A series that really scared me was 'Time watch ' ( I think, with Bernard Braden?) Very hazy but epic. Various environmental disasters played out in half hour. I preferred the 'Water margin' to 'Monkey.

I loved my Sindy doll and house ❤❤❤ Who remembers lining up behind each other on the slide legs and the person in front 😂😂

Happy Days.

What is very interesting when you watch both seasons of Catweazle is how much better the first series is to the second. But both were great Sunday mid morning TV.

The Changes, along with Noah's Castle and Children of the Stones, are the pinnacle of Kid's TV during it's golden age.

Masterspy was, surprisingly along with Gambit and Winner Takes All, my Nan's favourite programme. We would always watch it together whenever we went round to her place.

Space 1999 for me glued to the tv 😊

Maybe Doctor at Large could be added as well as citizen smith & one of my favourites whatever happened to the Likely Lads.

Great video, as always. Imagine having to put batteries in a 15 inch tv for it to work!

i saw monkey recently on itv x has any-one heard of a show called tales of the gold monkey think late 70s

Superb stuff, lovely to see David Nixon get a mention , what a lovely, gentle presence he had back in the day.❤👍👍

Where is the US version of this ????

We didn't have a telly for most of these though I've an idea How Green is your Valley and When the Boat comes Home were shown on telly in NZ. The only one I can say with confidence I've watched - every show that was shown at least - was David Nixon and to me he is still THE greatest magician I've ever watched. I still remember one of the 'tricks' demonstrated by one of his guests [a German escape artist I think] and I can still not explain how the heck he did it as there was no obvious way he could simply escape and emerge elsewhere. He obviously did but it remains a mystery albeit one I'd dearly like explained. I do remember series like Muck and Brass with Timothy West and The Aphrodite Inheritance [loved that so much I not only purchased the book but also the series on DVD] and Dark Side of the Sun [again purchased on DVD] and naturally Return of the Saint [again have on DVD but I've been a fan of the books since I was about 8 or 9]. I do remember see the odd episode of Fantasy Island and didn't they do a modern version as well [vague memory of hearing about it somewhere] and the opening to the Harry Worth series looks familiar as well for some reason. I've definitely seen some episodes of Monkey - I think it was shown on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon just after lunch In NZ and I found it baffling but enjoyable. I suspect I'd still find it baffling but enjoyable even now. Great video as always.

I don't think you could call 'Monkey' forgotten, in fact it's impossible to mention it in mixed company of a certain age without at least one person going "Aaah, Munkeeh!" in an outrageously stereotyped pseudo Chinese accent. It's currently being shown on Talking Pictures TV over the weekend. I was a bit too old for Monkey, I was more of a 'Water Margin' kinda kid; X-Men set in Medieval China, what's not to love for a 13 year old? I also used to quite enjoy the dinner time programmes such as 'Galloping Gourmet', 'Paint along with Nancy' and 'Origami' because I came home from school for dinner.

I actually remember Master Spy but could never remember the name of the show. With the theme music to Monkey, you've probably already found out but what we got was actually the original, problem for KZbinrs like yourself is it is a commercial release and major chart hit for the band Godiego (I had to google their name but I did see an interview with them on the NHK World music Show J-Melo about 6-10 years back).

Oh yes. The Changes. It not only introduced me to the Sikh culture but also made me scared as hell of large power lines. Seriously scared, even to the point of still hearing a phantom noise when I go under one! ❤

Yes, 'Monkey' was weird for sure but I somehow found it fascinating as a young kid! That and 'water margin', we never really got any Japanese productions after that did we (aside Pokemon)? 🙂

What about sandokan the pirate I think.

Doesn't David Nixon look a lot like John Lithgow? (3rd Rock From the Sun etc.) I'm of that age where David Nixon is the magician I remember from my youth rather than Paul Daniels. I could never quite get on with Paul Daniels rather more 'smart arsey' kind of demeanor when performing. He's the prime example of the old trope that no one enjoys a magician's act more than the person doing the act.

The main thing that I remember about Fantasy Island was that any slightly short, Mediterranean skinned men of the time it was broadcast, were cursing it ever appearing on TV and lumbering them with the nickname 'Tattoo' for evermore.

That dude at 3:00 in the Masterspy bit definitely thought about going in for a kiss there.

Timeslip was an excellent TV series, from episode 1 to the very last, each episode followed on from the other untill the twist at the very end...Tightrope was another excellent children's TV series that has been lost in time.

The only thing I have watched on this list would be Monkey. I do remember being a kid and hanging off the branches with my friends while we all shouted monkey magic and attempted the whole calling our personal cloud routine while trying not to fall from the branch. I only remember this because I fell off the branch one day and smacked my nose on a brick that was underneath the tree. Otherwise, without the lesson in pain I would have forgotten all about that incident....but not the show though. The show itself was complete anarchy.

Very pretty Vicky Michelle

Julie walters excellent actress

Catweazel, a show about some kids befriending a weird old man in the woods.... I don't think they could make that show these days. Same with Joe 90, a middle aged scientist adopts a young boy and does brain experiments on him so he can be a trained assasin (I just hear the woke briggade crying into their skinny lattes). Anyone remember Ayesha Brough? She just sort of disappeared.

I never saw "Monkey". I do recall "How Green Was My Valley",especially the Headmaster; the Deputy Head of my last primary school was very ĺike him.👍Thank you, Stu.

I absolutely love Monkey! A Japanese show based on a Chinese legend/myth narrated by a man more famous for saying, "Que?", what's not to love! It's actually pretty weird that this was on here today as I've just finished watching Kamen Rider Ghost and one of the Legendary Heroes is Sanzo, who is a Japanese interpretation of Xuanzang, who's the priest in the original Journey to the West myth Monkey is based on! Fantasy Island was great too, used to love it. Not sure I'd want to sit and watch it now though, not like I would Monkey, or Knight Rider etc., little too slow for me. Catweasel was mental! Can't remember most of it now, but I seem to recall it being a bit... Unhinged. Great roundup as always Stu, cheers!

54 years later, I still remember "Timeslip!" I have the series on DVD. TIMESLIP "Cross The Barrier To Adventure!" I'm trying to FORGET "Monkey!" 🤣 I have fond memories of the wonderful Geoffrey Bayldon as "Catweazle" ... Although, if Catweazle knew the cost of "electrickery" these days, he would cast a spell on the nefarious energy suppliers, and smite them down with his trusty dagger, Adamcos! 🤣 "Come Touchwood, let us be gone from the Central Electrickery Generating Board!"

Many thanks from Australia for the memories. While some are unfamiliar, others such as Monkey and Catweazle bring back many happy childhood memories . Always amazed how shows like Catweazle had only two series of 13 episodes. They seemed to go on forever when I was kid. I have a vague memory of another English show , The terracotta horse that showed during school holidays down under

The 'Telling bone' has to be one of the best (insert posh word here) pieces of punnery I can remember. Are there still writers who can envisage 'four candles' as a comedy gateway or write a pop song including Bell end and Ring piece' I don't know. I feel we've been conditioned to not accept anything which might upset anyone. Salute the golden age of comedy, we shall not see its like again.

Peggy Mount played Peggy Mount in every acting role I have seen her in. From One Way Pendulum in the 1960s to You're Only Young Twice in the 1970s and 80s, she played the same character, herself. I found her comedic style predictable and, unfortunately, not that funny. To me, her normal acting character of the loudmouthed scold was formulaic and frankly boring.

I don’t remember the master spy at all but loved monkey but saw in the 1980s. I cannot remember changes or time slip but I do remember children of the stones. When the boat comes “have a little fishy on a little dishy, when the boat comes in”.

A lot of those dramas for slightly older kids were genuinely disturbing, not least because even if you were too young you probably watched it anyway. I think some of us have never completely recovered.

Loved this. However, the only two shows I definitely, clearly remember are My Name Is Harry Worth and Catweazle, with How Green Is My Valley a rather hazy memory.

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'Tattoo.... He tasks me... he tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him round the Antares maelstrom, the moons of Nivea, and round perdition's flames before I give him up'... or at least that's how I remember it.

The only Catweazle I remember was the micky taking wrestler.

Pretty sure Masterspy was on Monday nights, in the slot when Opportunity Knocks wasn't on.

I vividly remember the opening of Harry Worth doing his thing in the shop window reflection I don't remember anything else about the show. Masterspy nope I don't recall at all. The Changes I vaguely recall. Timeslip I remember well (I have the DVD collection) I actually missed the last episode at the time it was broadcast.

Monkey was a family favourite.

i have the wole series of monkey on dvd and its on itvx

William Franklin: could anyone outside the '70s be described as urbane?

Brilliant. Who didn't like Monkee? My brother and I used to dress up as Monkee and Pigsy and attack each other with our mum's Cotton Balls as pretend clouds and use her mop handle to hit each other lol... MMM? I never did find out if Tripitaka was Male or female. Cheers Stu for the memories.

I think I would have absolutely loved The Masterspy! Looks ridiculous fun! The Changes and Chocky look absolutely terrifying! I saw Children of the Stones on KZbin and it didn't sit well with me. I vaguely remember Monkey from the 80s but I was very young. The repeats from a while back are fresher in my head.