chockablock (cat)

[@funnyfiveminutes]

I wanted that battery truck she drove in and out on. Still do really, and I'm 38.

[@phoebecarter8269]

Omg I remember this! I know this sounds unbelievable as I was only a year old in 1981 but somewhere in my subconscious I can remember how vibrant all those colours were. I can remember how fascinated I was by them and that pulley out thing. Wow! I'd forgotten all about this and I'm now seeing it as a 36 year old woman it's weird....because I can certainally remember all those colourful buttons and the mouth on chocka block. I'm like a one year old living in Southampton again!!!!!

[@phoebecarter8269]

I realise now just how amazing colours look when you are a baby. As you grow up the world gets duller. Those buttons and colours really take me back and yet as an adult they look pretty mediocre. Some child psychologist earnt their money on that show....

[@ehowie]

I know what you mean, I just watched it and it brought it all back to me, the spinning circle and the big colourful buttons. I remember wanting them to push all the buttons and pull all the levers.

[@russellthompson9271]

I'm the same age as you, but I don't remember watching this until the late 80's! I read on Wikipedia that it was repeated up until 1989, so I was watching repeats. Like you, I probably did watch it as a 1 year old. My baby watches Peppa Pig lol.

[@stephengame4229]

hi that's OK I'm sorry I've been ill for a week

[@grahampearson5670]

Phoebe Carter, I remember this series well as a small child and the songs the hosts sung.

[@phampton6781]

Does anyone remember the episode with Chockagirl just sitting there for 10 minutes while Chockablock downloaded and installed updates? No me neither.

[@Jermyn78]

Nah, but I remember the one where Chockablock caught a virus after Chockabloke downloaded some porn...

[@jamesmitchell8922]

​@@Jermyn78 Sick joke

[@joannmorse3146]

I watched this when I was a kid, I wanted the electric car.

[@rover218vvc]

My childhood right there....

[@mistofoles]

Carol Leader. Pretty sure Fred Harris was in this show too as "Chockabloke", also Shelagh Gilbie.

[@billzeebub6045]

Happy days! Many thanks for uploading this!!!

[@shazad1977]

Blast from the past I had forgotten about this show.

[@DIDCOTTWIST]

Loved this when I was little.

[@MarkFrancis-xt7ni]

thank you so much for posting this

[@Junglism78]

Holy shit I used to watch this, I specifically remember the opening theme song. I must have been so young, like 3 or 4.

[@BlackpoolPilgrim]

Gosh yes, I remember this!!!

[@BlueSummers101]

@0:34 *FART*

[@PGSL-r5n]

I remember watching this episode age 5. Now aged 40.

[@stephengame4229]

I enjoyed it too I'm after the shoe episode

[@ashp2005]

I remember all of these, god I feel old !

[@CrazyTobster]

God that's a blast from da past!

[@Tomsonic41]

To this day I still wonder how that circle pattern on the screen was generated. What kind of electronics could make that in 1981?

[@ajs41]

BBC computer.

[@TruculentSheep]

Siri's come a long way.

[@RobinCarmody]

Amazing that Carol Leader makes a reference to "wiping this tape" when, long after they had officially stopped doing so, the BBC did just that with this episode (and the other one you've uploaded). So something pretty rare here.

[@ajs41]

How do you know the BBC wiped it?

[@stephengame4229]

has any one the chockablock shoe full episode please

[@Potionette81]

So Chockablock farts when it hears non-rhyming pairs of words.....

[@Theavguyuk]

still better than siri lmao

[@dcsMagazine]

This was aired when I was 3, yet I appear to remember all of it. I used to brood for that car.

[@stephengame4229]

Yes it used to be on bbc 2 at 1:20 in the afternoon

[@885555]

glad you liked the chockablock my mum taped it for me when I was 3 years old there the only two I.ve got

[@cerinolancerinolan7148]

When you gave a wrong answer you heard a fart type noise there was rhyme chime too purr said the cat well it hardly say quack quack.

[@rocksmore]

I loved Chockablock. It's the new X-box One now!

[@Goldenmask8]

Fave show as a kid!!! No wonder I make beats for a livin

[@samholden2256]

remember watching this.Think it used to be on bbc2 in the afternoons.

[@Potionette81]

And that rhyming cat looks like something out of John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.

[@jason_a_smith_gb]

Raspberry Pi Giganto

[@NWOConspiracyGroup]

Ha ha.... I remember this well but preferred Words and Pictures

[@Languageofshapes]

How to socialize a generation in computing. Smart.

[@dodgydavetime1943]

Carol leader anybody know what happened to her since then

[@plentyonions]

She's a psychoanalysist

[@ajs41]

She was the receptionist on Casualty series 3, in 1988.

[@alanreader2009]

chockablock wow. And no one decided to make a dance tune from it LOL.

[@snufkin84]

Alan Reader not yet....

[@zetametallic]

Banging tune this is! Unfortunately for me, i only got to see it when i was off sick from school as i started in 1980.

[@885555]

thank you for the comment I loved all these as well I would like to see the bee at the sea the shoe and the bear I wished that some one had these copies my name is steve

[@ShaneJoshua1980]

Yeeeeeees! Nostalgia

[@yippyialeftside8351]

saw this bird in tales of the unexpected one dirty cow great tits

[@officesaredull]

Richard Taylor idiot

[@richallenxbox1976]

The BBC knew how to do good kids' TV back then, not like the pap that passes for pre school entertainment nowadays.

[@Potionette81]

Chockablock probably works better than most iphones.

[@stephengame4229]

Yes I know that

[@skc7450]

When your middle aged brain,addled with a few decades of....erm....misuse.....confuses chockablock with blockaboots.....and takes you into fragments of memories of utter WTF....and makes you remember why were outside playing football/making dens/getting muddy knees/doing jumps on your bmx/grifter/strika,...playing star wars...but limiting your tv time to when something decent was on.....the bbc made the right decision wiping shite like this off the tapes and recording jossies giants over it!!!.....(i'm joking!!!....lol)

[@martinwarren2004]

#MDWARREN

[@hoggy2much999]

Did you know that this episode no longer exists in the BBC archives. This is the only remaining copy of this episode.

[@evonne_]

What a fail by the BBC. At least people can enjoy.

[@hoggy2much999]

Evonne Okafor This isn't the only one. There are a few on youtube that the BBC no longer have. According to lostshows.com out of 13 episodes made 6 have been wiped from the archives, one episode is incomplete and 2 exist on formats inferior to the original.

[@evonne_]

hoggy2much999 Glad for KZbin then 👍

[@evonne_]

hoggy2much999 Strange that shows from the 1980s were being wiped. Thought it had stopped by then.

[@hoggy2much999]

Evonne Okafor Yeah and people with old videotapes.