Magpie Opening Titles And Susan Stranks Extract 1969

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5 жыл бұрын

The Easter edition of Magpie from 1969,Susan is in the VTR room while Tony gives a demonstration of the first domestic Sony reel to reel video recorder.

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@busterabcat 3 жыл бұрын

Susan Stranks (ITV) and Toni Arthur (BBC) were my two all time favourite female kids TV presenters that I really adored as a child growing up in the 1970s. That really was a true golden age for TV for kids then - coupled with some great music too. In spite of the political climate, at least we had this brilliant escape from the humdrum and dreary real world...Sadly there has never been any such equivalent from the 1990s onwards. We were so lucky as youngsters then....no over reliance on technology and social media to poison and pollute and make our lives a misery...just good old three channels on TV, a lot of (in hindsight maybe kitsch) innocence, that sense of wonder each time your fave programme came on..... and some truly amazing music too! And yes, before people say we're shameless nostalgists: let us freely admit that the ONLY GOOD thing about having access to social media and KZbin today is that at least we can actually revisit these archives that would otherwise be forgotten and long banished from view..... No denying how much I love KZbin for allowing us this sort of privilege again :)

@dopeydad1221 10 ай бұрын

Two words...Jenny Hanley.....

@darganx 3 ай бұрын

Can't forget Maggie Henderson, and Aunt Flo(ella)!

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

First time I've ever heard of this show as a little before my time but Susan Stranks is stunning and refined..

@martinwatson9615 Жыл бұрын

I will hold my hand up and say I remember the first episode of magpie on the new Thames Television, in 1968. Susan Stranks was standing on the lock at Teddington introducing the first episode. When the theme song to a children’s tv show is ten times better than anything you’ve heard in the charts recently

@fisherpeter695 Ай бұрын

Used to watch Magpie often after coming home from work in the late 1960s.TV back then was limited to 3 channels, hour close down early afternoon and ending 11-12 at night. Some might say we had a better mix of entertainment, than the wall to wall 24 hour TV today. Susan Strank's was the quintessential English lady of the 1960s. She also appeared as a pupil in the 1964 film the 39 Steps, She married the late Robin Ray the TV actor and son of the old comedian Ted Ray.

@EquinoxJones Жыл бұрын

Susan Stranks - A bird you must not miss.

@henryfitch8710 2 ай бұрын

The best part is that fantastic theme tune with the graphics sung by the Spencer Davis Group. I wish I had seen it as Blue Peter was on different days. I was that kid from the late 60s and early 70s who grew up adoring tv.

@stuartbritton7408 5 жыл бұрын

Nice and simple to understand. Innocent, unpretentious and full of hope and inspiration. Don't you wish it was like that today? Of course you do.

@saintgeorge6706 4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Keep it simple. Do not overload young minds with stuff that they do not need to know.

@actualbennett2245 3 жыл бұрын

Oh - that theme tune! They had it for years afterwards - and the logo! Memories!

@jackdexter9439 2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't realised Magpie dated back to the late 60s. Fascinating seeing this early title sequence

@woking1970 7 ай бұрын

Magpie started on the first day of Thames TV in July 1968

@darganx 3 ай бұрын

Magpie - Black & White

@glpilpi6209 3 жыл бұрын

We had one of those Sony VTR video recorders at our school in the early 1970s for playing school programmes . It only did black and white recordings , but at that time the school television monitor was black and white too , a big set in a wooden cabinet on a high wooden frame, made by Decca I think.

@victoroladuja2416 3 жыл бұрын

Yes... I remember our school class watching The Boy From Space on one of these.

@ex-scientia4234 3 жыл бұрын

Still looks fabulous! Some lucky people always do regardless of age.

@darganx 5 ай бұрын

I was too young for the Susan Stranks years on Magpie, but I remember her on Paper Play. R.I.P. Spencer Davis didn't need Steve Winwood for this tune!

@stephenspence1192 5 ай бұрын

According to her bio she is still alive at 85 years of age.

@darganx 5 ай бұрын

@@stephenspence1192 ?? I heard she died of Cancer a few years ago!

@stephenspence1192 5 ай бұрын

@@darganx No she is still alive.

@darganx 5 ай бұрын

@@stephenspence1192 Truly glad to hear that! Shame on the false reports out there.

@MrDegsy69 10 ай бұрын

God blimey we was easily impressed back in those days. Amazing to think that this gigantic behemoth was once cutting edge technology. You can now store shed loads of 1080p Mp4 movie files on a micro SD card the size of a fingernail then play them back on a solid state device the size of a pack of cards.

@stephenspence1192 5 ай бұрын

Yes and all of it that you store is absolute shite!

@NathanSimpsonnathanisbeast Жыл бұрын

If you listen closely at 3:28, you can hear the Thames fanfare!

@johnjtm1097 2 жыл бұрын

A snippet of the Thames TV jingle in the background at 3:29, possibly from the other studio.

@thefurrybastard1964 3 жыл бұрын

Ever notice how the presenters didn't talk to the audience like they were presenting Play School, unlike Blue Peter tended to do?

@richardseamon351 2 жыл бұрын

I remember getting Pete and Tony's autographs at Biggin Hill, must have been 1969, and being disappointed Sue wasn't there. I was 8.

@keithwaites9991 8 ай бұрын

I was in my early/mid teens when this was airing. Oh god I fancied her...

@Sportliveonline 5 жыл бұрын

love sue

@jackdexter9439 2 жыл бұрын

And didn't they use the same font for Spangles?

@darganx 5 ай бұрын

And the Goodies!

@xenu-dark-tony 3 жыл бұрын

I used to fancy Susan so badly, she was by far the sexiest woman on television. Probably I speak for half the population of British youngsters of that lovely era, who couldn't tell their mum how much they fancied the woman on the telly.

@nickturner4150 6 ай бұрын

Hear you and with you 💯 on that.

@ianbell7342 4 ай бұрын

yes iam with u on that one too ... very sexy woman❤❤

@TheTim59 3 жыл бұрын

Hippest theme tune ever

@busterabcat 3 жыл бұрын

It was by the Spencer Davis Group - under an assumed name! True fact! I only found out this later on too!! I initially thought it was somebody like Procol Harum as it sounded like them too....

@nickturner4150 6 ай бұрын

Oh wow. How cool is that? 😊 Thanks for sharing that info.