Look and Read - Cloud Burst (1974) - Episode 1 - Out of Control

[@maxinemckenzie6076]

Yes I remember this from school, I was 5 or six. The smell of crisps and disinfectant. Curtains drawn in the General purposes room, darkness , sitting cross legged on the floor, Focus' "House of the King" was played as the onscreen Clock ticked round. Mind boggling nostalgia hit. Thanks for sharing.

[@neilbiggin]

Wow, it's like you were in my classroom! It's funny, but a particular type of disinfectant still gives me a warm feeling and instant flashes to school days.

[@Biff-Nottingham]

I”ve waited 48 years to see the final two episodes of this to series. This was put on in the classroom in junior school in Petersfield. I broke my arm and was off school when the final two episodes were shown. Bizarrely the series always stuck in my mind especially the mysterious person on the yellow motorcycle. Was thinking about again the other day and thought there might be some clips on KZbin. Not thinking the whole series would be on here. As soon as I heard the early moody electronic music it too me right back. Brilliant !

[@neilbiggin]

Ditto! Although it was the last episode for me. Mum and Dad had to go out and take me with them, I was gutted.

[@christopherbishop5014]

I was born in 1965 left school in 1981 going to be 60 next year so im the generation that sat crossed legged on the floor watching this at school

[@Stratoszero]

Makes you think doesn’t it? I’ll soon be as old as our school caretaker and we thought he was as old as time!

[@winkyboyfarquar5107]

Brilliant! Been looking for this for years!

[@GriefTourist]

I have remembered this for fifty years!

[@BrennanYoung]

me too!

[@nicolacasali8304]

Unforgettable. This series kickstarted my fascination with RC planes when I was 5 or 6.

[@BrennanYoung]

Watching this is one of my earliest memories. I would have been 3 years old at the time, and never saw all the episodes, but I loved those I watched. And of course, it was repeated in subsequent years, and I caught some of the repeats when off sick from school. Ram Pandit FTW.

[@charlesdixon52]

I was six when it came out I remember it. It came on school holidays in the summer brilliant

[@questioneverything8301]

I was 6 also, I remember we watched it in school

[@steveroberts9453]

Watched this live at school. Thank You for taking me back.

[@imeka222]

Absolutely superb... I watched this when I was 7 ( 1977) at school, birchfields primary school Manchester.... This brings back so many great memories...for so many reasons.... Thank you so much for uploading this ...I hope many more watch this and comment.. God bless ... Great times Great era Many great memories....✨✨✨✨🤲

[@GaryMoore5573]

I watched this in my school around 1974. I was 7 at the time. We went to a room called the tv room and sat in chairs to watch it. I loved this series as it always ended in a cliffhanger and loved reading and writing anyway. Always wanted the episodes to be longer as i didn't want to go back to the classroom lol. Great series and happy memories.

[@louwoods9278]

I was the same age. We enjoyed these shows. They look so old now!

[@sillysausage2244]

This was filmed all around where I lived and played as a child - even came across a scene being filmed on the old airfield where I lived - then watched the series at school...

[@scottjspence70]

Where was it filmed bud

[@sillysausage2244]

@scottjspence70 Around Downham Market, Norfolk - especially on the old Bexwell Aerodrome - runways, radar tower and outbuildings have pretty much disappeared, now.

[@justinehayward2553]

No way, 'the man with the motorbike'!!!

[@Stratoszero]

He scared the shit out of me aged 6!

[@barney8953]

I remember watching this in 1974. Alaw Junior School, under the command, sorry the care, of the fantastic Mrs Trudgeon.

[@Eltonlaleham]

I saw this series in 1974 aged 5 and tv back then was fckg brilliant no like the crap we get today

[@nmarks]

Thanks for uploading. I remembered this being on television in the 1970s. My older brother's class at school got to watch it, and I remember him telling me what a cloudburst was, but I don't think my own class got to watch it. It's really quite different from what I thought I remembered, it's more like a Famous Five or Secret Seven adventure. The BBC produced this series in 1974. Kate Bush released her single 'Cloudbusting' in 1985. I often wondered if Bush got her idea for her song from this children's TV series, but according to Wikipedia, author Peter Reich published his 'Book Of Dreams' in 1973, which apparently contains source material she used. It just seems an odd coincidence that Reich and the BBC should release similarly themed stories around about the same time. If the BBC based their Cloud Burst series on Reich's story, they would have really had to have got their skates to make this series with the twelve months or so, which makes me wonder who really came first - and whose material Bush based her song on. I think there's a mystery that needs solving there . . . . (Kate Bush's Cloudbusting lyrics offer a hint) PS Astonishing to see a young Tina Heath. I can't say she was my favourite Blue Peter presenter, but she's great here. Old school accent and mannerisms which all too sadly, have long since disappeared. PPS Nice to see Michael Sheard here, who quite famously went on to play Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back.

[@maxinemckenzie6076]

Written by Peter Reich huh? Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting" references another Reich-Willhelm Reich's Orgone Weather Machines feature, Wilhelm was put behind bars by the U.S Government for claiming that his Orgone Accumulators could cure Cancer. 🌧

[@andyhinds542]

My god!! I was 7 when I first and last watched this! 1974.

[@diggers7169]

I loved this when I was a kid! Back in the day when leather and motorbikes were very sinister 😂 I love the prog rock keyboards too!

[@neilbiggin]

those synths!

[@Thascales]

Fantastic - love this!

[@christopherbishop5014]

We all must of been 1965/66 birthdays generation.

[@marquisofcarrabass]

This one was written by Richard Carpenter, who also created Catweazle and Robin of Sherwood.

[@nygelsylvester4634]

lizzy dripping

[@porscha901]

Roger limb radiophonic workshop did the music

[@jingham2387]

Me also 6 I loved it

[@manxpuss]

Oh god this takes me back to primary school around 77. Amazing to see it again.

[@Eltonlaleham]

I to remember this awesome series better times to live in than today

[@andrewhinds6560]

That railway level crossing is at Downham Market. I'm guessing that the sluice gate featured is at Denver.

[@belbo1221]

It is indeed the Denver Sluice, as it was in the early 70s. The gates were all replaced in 1983 and so it looks quite different now, but the keeper's cottage seen at 1:59 is still there and basically the same (bar a bit of double glazing). The "old airfield" was the remains of RAF Downham Market, which closed in 1948. The derelict hangars seen here would have been demolished when the A10 bypass was built through that section of it in 1979, and there's no trace left now of the runways (as you'd expect after 75 years of cultivation!) All that's left are a few battered old Nissen huts which were absorbed by the business park which was built on the southern edge near Bexwell.

[@visog]

Thought I recognised Tina Heath, latterly a Blue Peter presenter.

[@terrygale6769]

I went to junior school in Reading in the early 70s and like you this program always stuck in my mind. I was 9 at the time and now I'm 59 where does the time go

[@martinianpaul]

I had completely forgotten about this. Another educational series the Scotttish broadcast channels largely ignored...

[@NoRemainingCommercialPotential]

Return on May 20th when the rest will be uploaded!

[@andrewhinds6560]

You mean it wasn't on Scottish TV's BBC programmes for Schools and colleges?

[@martinianpaul]

@@andrewhinds6560 If it was, we weren't shown it... 🙄🙄

[@Bobby884]

I saw it in a Scottish school

[@christopherbishop5014]

Omg i remember this at school

[@wiggyflat]

I had to tape this on one of those TV/Toploader video combos on wheels for lessons at school

[@MrMagigreen]

Weird to think Tina Heath was 22 when she made this

[@andyhinds542]

She'd have been what is now known as a "PC World false alarm".

[@Stratoszero]

@@andyhinds542😂

[@GreenhorseRecords]

Those bikers scarred me for life

[@adrianjames3815]

This was Wordy's first appearance

[@freepieanchipsgarage]

Tina Heath was actually 20 when she made this.

[@mackenzie77777]

Does anyone remember a similar series from maybe the early eighties. These kids seem to have been trapped in the tv room in a school, and they talked to this female alien who was very masculline looking, with short hair and a long face. She had a deep distorted voice, it could have been "words and pictures". Scared the hell out of me.

[@Stratoszero]

I loved this, but hated the interruptions by the bloke, it felt so patronising when I could read fine! Plus I loved the story, and Renu Setna was great, he was definitely under used as an actor. As well as this series another which stuck with me was “The Changes”, remember that? I recall it was about an ancient force reacting to modern technology and electric pylons humming in a sinister way. Of course now “ The Message” is that pylons are all cuddly and necessary, and there are colouring books to teach kids to love them 😢

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[@leogreen6116]

No way did Jenny make that plane

[@bobacrey1068]

That's how she got the Blue Peter job

[@errolnicholson1864]

It was in 1975 I first watched Cloudburst at a Private School age 11 and I had a book called Cloudburst and me and my school friends use to read it in class and that was a Education program. Memories!!!📘📖📝🖋📐📏