Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show S1E2 (1984) - FULL EPISODE

[@kerrimatthews8480]

I am that little girl in Pink lol at 38 mins :) I am now 45 hahaha and I still have the Wham album and that little elephant . ...Thanks so much for posting this x It was filmed in Nottingham. There was interaction from Carol Lee Scott ....Not so much from Rod haha

[@VideotapeFTW]

+Kerri Matthews (Red) Wow - I hope it was a fun day out! I'd have loved to have been on the show, but sadly never had the chance. What was it like behind the scenes? Glad you get to see it again after all these years. :-)

[@kerrimatthews8480]

+VideotapeFTW As a young girl to get to see "How telly was made " It was fantastic ....The lights were so hot it was unreal ...It was all live and we were coached in the break to try and not freeze or dry up on camera ...Was very memorable .:)

[@VideotapeFTW]

+Kerri Matthews (Red) I hope you realise just how fortunate you were! A whole generation of kids would have given anything to swap places with you at that moment. :-)

[@johnspeers4946]

Kerri Matthews gghhcxc

[@beachboysswiftie]

Wow that must have been an amazing experience! You’ll never forget that

[@waltuhwhite24]

this is all i watch on KZbin now

[@pastanoodle5260]

kara bethany I have also been pulled into this show

[@hlo_tato]

yep

[@shaimartinez8451]

Same

[@megsy.moo_]

Same and I have no regrets! 😂😂😂

[@editandersson]

same I’m obsessed

[@therealjojis6748]

omg, im officially in love with emu's pink windmill, its so damn emotional for me to think about all the kids in the audience, sometimes i feel like some ppl there were having the time of their lives

[@BagChaserBrant]

4:02 Emma and joe low key kissed

[@eposboy5656]

I wish I could give this 10k likes

[@knuckledusterfan]

4:12 I love how Spencer is waiting for like a few seconds for them to pass the brick to him.

[@Julia-nj7lc]

The day all the kids became Trump 2:34

[@VideotapeFTW]

Now we know where he gets his ideas...

[@adamekhoff43]

I'm American! But this has to be one of my favorite British shows.

[@user-ok1zy2gl6u]

I have a feeling Joe likes Catrina...

[@shaimartinez8451]

Same

[@martha8676]

Same

[@plaguemaster4476]

No i do not

[@ВасяПупкин-в9к5щ]

@@plaguemaster4476 then who do you like?

[@plaguemaster4476]

@@ВасяПупкин-в9к5щ myself

[@beachboysswiftie]

15:27 HIS HEAD CAME OFF LMAO

[@hellokittyfifi]

40:16 Joe turned around and said something and then Emma and Catrina agreed.. I wonder what he said?

[@sirpoopsalot6524]

And in 17:12 Emma and Anthony were talking

[@olisaur1519]

uhm ship Sarah and Spencer, idk

[@mumumeme8496]

"and I'm Joe to you parapap pam pam"

[@beachboysswiftie]

11:57 the theme almost started playing again XD

[@freefredie]

Watching these shows again after hearing of the sad death of the wonderful Carol Lee Scott. I always thought that much as I loved Emu as a kid, Grotbags always stole the show. R>I>P> and sadly missed.

[@VideotapeFTW]

Yes, it wouldn't have been the same without Grotbags, or if anyone other than Carol Lee Scott had played the role. She was an absolutely perfect fit for the show.

[@dandyzinc]

I love Grotbags so much! "Take your hands off of me! That's very personal! How dare you touch me!" I'll have to start using that line. Thank you so much for uploading these. I've enjoyed them immensely over the past few months!

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're very welcome indeed - it's amazing how many people are enjoying the Pink Windmill here in 2017, whether they remember it from the first time around or have only just discovered it. :-)

[@gottahurtthealbertosaurus]

I love how angry Sarah gets when Rod knocks down the wall, all the kids act like they're angry but Sarah seems genuinely angry, like she was the only one who wasn't told that Rod was going to knock down the wall

[@mrmanusia]

Nope, Sarah just have 300% energy on everything

[@willows-and-reeds]

@@mrmanusia definitely! another reason why shes my fav

[@mrmanusia]

@@willows-and-reeds ah yes, Sarah and her energy, and hey, don't forget to include this scene in your next video ;-)

[@willows-and-reeds]

@@mrmanusia ok! i'll put it in my sarah's finest moments in the live show comp

[@Hulk2k6]

Organic reactions are underrated

[@teaveekid]

SONGS IS MY FAVORITE!! I’m so glad it got Emus Choice!

[@VideotapeFTW]

Yeah, it's my all-time favourite, too.

[@gi0._.p506]

OMG!!!! The credits say the kids are from CORONA stage school

[@DonnyDunne]

I would have loved to grow up with this show, unfortunately im a decade or two too late.

[@anonymousii5130]

40:50 "song" from emu's world series 5

[@LoveKrystal471]

If i'm having kids, i want them to show this =,) at an adult age, this is very charming to me ♡♡♡ they're probably not gonna like the fact that they can't play games with them anymore =( like Emu Spin

[@sephstar-offical]

Emu spin looks so fun ngl

[@itsjemmabond]

VideotapeFTW, thank you so much for posting this. I've actually seen this video before, but I didn't actually finish it, so I missed this episode of Boggle's Kingdom; it was one of the first ones I saw. The irony of it all is that the house pest looked more ghostly than the pretend ghosts, particularly in that nightdress and the cloth on his head, yet no-one was scared of him.

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're very welcome! These shows really do bring back great memories, don't they? :-)

[@itsjemmabond]

VideotapeFTW They certainly do!

[@franciscovieira6642]

Donald Trumps inspiration! one brick at a time!!

[@gluestick7501]

wrong. the wall is being built out of solar panels

[@2kdemiks816]

2:35

[@2kdemiks816]

* 2:32

[@beachboysswiftie]

5:47 Redford got freaking ROASTED 6:07 wooooooow, grotbags is SAVAGE 15:45 again, wow

[@VideotapeFTW]

+Claire Edgar As far as I know, Carol Lee Scott (Grotbags) has retired from showbiz, David Tate (Croc) still works in theatre, and I honestly don't know about Freddie Stevens (Redford). Of the kids, Joe in this episode went on to do a fair bit of TV work (Spatz, Playdays, Wizadora) before moving into the technical side, while Catrina went on to present the DJ Kat Show (as did Joe, coincidentally). A handful had appearances in things like The Bill, other kids built careers on the stage rather than the screen, still others became dance and fitness instructors, and some left the biz all together. One even got pretty big in local politics. Nicholas Pinnock, who appeared in 1987/8, is probably the biggest success story of all of them - he played Nelson Mandela in a TV film a couple of years ago and had a role in the recent series Fortitude.

[@perthuser75]

Thanks for that. Also I did a bit of online research and the studios on Broad Street in Birmingham (where this was filmed) were demolished in 2015 to build Arena Central. Shops, offices and apartments.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+Claire Edgar And the Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham, where later episodes were shot, are now part of a university campus - the demise of all traces of Central is sadly practically complete.

[@perthuser75]

Thanks to all of you for this info. I'm also watching the animated tv show Pigeon Street. I don't know if you remember this but I loved it when I was growing up. I always thought that the way the characters were drawn was weird.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+Claire Edgar Oh yes, I definitely remember Pigeon Street, and I loved it. For some reason, the Long-Distance Clara song in particular is seared into my memory. Hard to believe that only 13 episodes were ever made...

[@mistofoles]

If you lived in Pigeon Street, you'd get pigeon shit on your feet!

[@killugonzolfreecss5355]

I like how the witch has supposedly kidnapped three children, and they went on like nothing has happened 🤣🤣

[@PeeckMedia]

14:24 Spencer TOOK OFF

[@우마니-r2l]

A nostalgia that I hadn't experienced from Korea

[@reneecarter6702]

This is the most precious thing 😩🫶🏻

[@zalkkareita9017]

7:30 my mood every morning

[@alexc6324]

Sarah was the best thing about this show, her and Grotbags. I was only 9 when this was on but I knew I wanted her as my second sister or something.

[@perthuser75]

I would love to know where these people are now. I know that Mr Rod Hull passed away in 1999 after falling off the roof of his house whilst trying to adjust his tv aerial.

[@Russ49232]

Claire Edgar wth, for real?

[@respectmyauthoriah]

Naket Jam Yes

[@madabbafan]

Sadly, Rod, Carol (Grotbags) and Freddie (Redford) have all died. I assume all the children are still living.

[@aoibhh]

@@madabbafan yes all the kids are still alive, cause they remade an episode with all the kids grown up

[@TheTurdle]

2:34 Sarah really built a wall before it was cool.

[@mistofoles]

Did you notice the boom mic creeping into shot @14:30?

[@VideotapeFTW]

Blatantly. :-)

[@AlexOjideagu2]

7:17 Look how he minces off! Amazingly Ironic how Camp characters were such in the mainstream in the 70's and 80's they were even on Kids shows despite the massive Gay taboo back then. I don't know how they got away with it considering the Robot is gay as a pink handbag. The same with Skeleton in Superted.

[@VideotapeFTW]

ojideagu I think Redford was based on C3PO, but taken to ridiculous extremes. His campness was definitely a running joke - practically the very first line he ever said on the show was something like, "My arm's gone all limp". They certainly weren't subtle about it!

[@alexojideagu]

+VideotapeFTW How on earth did they get away with it on a kids show? As a kid you don't notice and just think he's soppy. But as an adult wow. It's not like people didn't associate camp with gay back then. Mr Humphreys from are you being served everyone knew was obviously meant to be gay.

[@VideotapeFTW]

+alex ojideagu I think that's the point - it's an in-joke for the parents rather than for the kids. I suppose they got away with it because it wasn't hateful, but silly and OTT. (Like every panto ever.)

[@alexojideagu]

+VideotapeFTW Well yes, he definitely reminds me of a Panto Dame. This is basically panto.

[@MrMagigreen]

Heanor in Derbyshire is my home town!

[@CPingu]

Adventures in life and reading I’m from Belper

[@MatgoStyles]

The song at the end, is that possibly the only time Spencer has a solo line (albeit a brief one)?

[@VideotapeFTW]

Good question - you've got me thinking now! He definitely had speaking parts, but you're right that he very rarely sang solo. I'm going to see if I can find any other examples... :-)

[@MatgoStyles]

It doesn't sound too bad a voice - perhaps he just wasn't comfortable with singing. Having said that, it may not even be his voice! :D

[@VideotapeFTW]

Right on both counts. Spencer always looked like he lacked confidence unnecessarily, and also they sometimes did indeed have the wrong kid miming to a given line. Further investigation is needed...

[@VideotapeFTW]

Well found! I don't have much from the 1985 series, so perhaps that's when he really came into his own.

[@MatgoStyles]

Having heard those two tracks now, the more I play Can't Stop The Music (which is obviously daily as it's compulsory) the more I can hear Spencer's voice in the group vocals.

[@VideotapeFTW]

Deep down, I think all Grotbags ever really wanted was a bit of peace and quiet. Either that, or to be invited to join in the fun and games - I'm not really sure...

[@pwkstan7755]

34:58 awww look at emma and sarah in the background🥺🥺they’re so cute i love them💗💗

[@sephstar-offical]

look at spencer lol

[@R3z4n]

Emma had 3 different hairstyles during this season i believe

[@BLJtheYoutbeAddict]

Emma had THE most 80’s hair out the bunch lol 😂

[@willows-and-reeds]

I reckon Sarah has that many as well :)

[@thebuzzer63]

Who only watched the songs until they discovered it’s a series?

[@willows-and-reeds]

Me, and now I’m a diehard fan!

[@glenncooney3959]

42:38 Sarah Jeffs is left handed. I’m left handed too so it’s good to see a fellow lefty in the Pink Windmill Kids.

[@VideotapeFTW]

Good spot - yes, she is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKOvpH6rncqDj9k

[@willows-and-reeds]

Was wondering when someone was going to point that out! That’s something really interesting about her :)

[@rodhulltotallyrulesgrottba8430]

20:41 ooh my gawd!

[@Yourm_m_]

what am i doing eith my life

[@therealxensation]

Khadijah Kemp same here....same here

[@multistantrash6367]

Khadijah Kemp making it 100x better

[@zephyrr108]

😢😢

[@mikef.4991]

Pink Windmill Post Office! 11:42

[@Sener]

came for this, thanks!

[@lanaxmcd5015]

Roses are red Violets are blue I came here for the memes And so did you. I know you did ; )

[@VideotapeFTW]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm Sarah, I'm Emma, And I'm Joe to you.

[@lanaxmcd5015]

VideotapeFTW nice one XD

[@VideotapeFTW]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Rhyming is sweet, And my name is Abbie.

[@VideotapeFTW]

Roses are red, Grotbags is green, You're enjoying all the dancing, But you came for the meme.

[@lanaxmcd5015]

Rose are red Violets are blue Congratulations my friend I have subscribed to you!

[@MegaAshWilliams]

I was raised on this awesomness

[@rodhulltotallyrulesgrottba8430]

'Bloody hells bells love, I've been trying to get through for an hour!'

[@frostbluez]

15:28 The illusion is shattered!

[@mistofoles]

@10:59 "Oh..ohh..ohhh....YESSSSS!!!" Actually, no - you can clearly see the wheel landed on the 8, not the sail !

[@VideotapeFTW]

Even Hugh shakes his head slightly to begin with! I think they actually edge one of the cameras to the side after that to make it more convincing, but the first close-up says it all.

[@Bumbaclatrastaclat]

bro i live in birmingham and now it's 2021 fam i live in b8 come on i love this show

[@phippsdl]

Nice attempt to style it out at 4:20!

[@asherwilliams4410]

HAHAHAHA XD

[@alondrasosa1035]

Debbie XD

[@jrboxtv]

The witch segment is amazing! There something Magic about this show.

[@jaidenmcmichael8115]

15:26 Woopsie Freddie's robot hat fell off and exposed his hair 🤣😂

[@LoLzZ85]

I can recall Redford being rather camp, but damn, he's as limp as a Vicar's handshake!

[@madabbafan]

So was Croc but it was the same actor

[@shaimartinez8451]

I love this show

[@coolestvideoproductions7375]

Grotbags is Coming, RUN FOR YOUR LIVE!!! 😧😧 14:25

[@slurpeeslurp4701]

2:43 Build a wall!

[@z8080]

What is that 0,1 sec of music at 11:57 ?

[@VideotapeFTW]

It sounds like the Post Office jingle accidentally coming back in. They were probably trying to cue up the next pre-recorded insert and someone pushed the wrong button.

[@BrendanMcClelland]

I ship Joe/Catrina.

[@R3z4n]

Joetrina 👌

[@ricardodeslattera7710]

14:55 she says fuck

[@avidviewer67]

+ricardo de slattera Grotbags does *not* say the f-word, Ricardo! She's about to say "frighten", but only gets as far as "f..." when she suddenly realizes that Redford has failed to join her! :-)

[@AshleyTheWolf259]

+ricardo de slattera She was stuttering "Frightened". .w.;

[@stripformebabestripforyou8327]

Indeed she does....

[@RacingAtHome]

I got that.

[@VideotapeFTW]

And her big brother, Hugh, has to be just the coolest of all the Pink Windmill Kids...

[@VideotapeFTW]

Thanks for sharing - that was very interesting. You were even more privileged than I thought, getting to go backstage like that! Looks like the transfer to Nottingham coincided with the show going live, then. (Strange that the write-in address is still given as Birmingham, though.) And the Hovergrot shots didn't reappear in the series until 1987 - after live audiences were cancelled - so it looks like that was down to technical limitations rather than Rod's choice. Thanks for the insight. :-)

[@fizzbuck]

14:52 grotbags sounds like she drops an F bomb.... This show is a delight by the way.

[@octomonkey1980]

Wow, another one of these! Really enjoy the live Pink Windmill shows. Do you have any more of Emu's Wide World (the first series perhaps)? Also did Anthony nudge that girl next to him at 18.15?? She gave him a bit of a funny look...:-)

[@Rexy725]

Donald trump would be proud

[@VideotapeFTW]

If this is where he's getting his best ideas, I for one look forward to the day when Trump starts walking around with an emu under his arm.

[@patriciahendler]

I come from Germany. I don't understand everything with my school English, but it's still more than just entertaining. Even 40 years later.

[@sunnynation13]

tysm

[@octomonkey1980]

Excellent, thanks very much. Looking forward :)

[@anthonyellis987]

Do you think Justin Fletcher saw this as Redford is not that too dissimilar to Robert the Robot in 'Justin's House'? This takes me back to my childhood. Thank You.

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're very welcome - and, yes, you're not the first person to point out that similarity. It wouldn't surprise me at all!

[@hellokittyfifi]

2:34 alright donald trump..

[@sephstar-offical]

26:21 I like this joke "How are you cousin Poorly? poorly."

[@PeeckMedia]

36:38 TAKE THE LP KID!!!!

[@teaveekid]

Redford is so funny

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're very welcome. :-)

[@yukinoneno4079]

WAS THAT GIRKLS NAME KIRSTIE CAUSE IF ITS SPELT THE SAME I WILL NOW KNOW 3 KIRSTIES KIRSTIE ALLY INCULDING ALONG WITH ME OMG ITS SUCH A RARE NAME

[@VideotapeFTW]

I never noticed that - she *did* have an odd expression on her face, didn't she? There are four episodes from the first series of Emu's Wide World still to be uploaded. I'm just about getting on top of things now, so it shouldn't be long to wait. :-)

[@RacingAtHome]

That went politically quickly. I liked episode 1.

[@RacingAtHome]

And the black one ran out of bricks.

[@VideotapeFTW]

You mean Debbie? She styled it out like a pro, though. :-)

[@RacingAtHome]

Yes and true.

[@jemmabond]

VideotapeFTW, do you by any chance have that episode where Croc dances with the Pink Windmill kids, and Grotbags angrily hits him...as usual? My father laughed at that one! Also, there was another one where Grotbags laid out a spread for her equally evil nephew who was visiting, but when he arrived he seemed more interested in the food? Towards the end as they flew home, she hit him, which made a change from bashing Croc...

[@rodhulltotallyrulesgrottba8430]

Rod's face at 20:59 'flipping hells bells!'

[@SireSkelly]

15:28 Redford's lost his head.

[@rodhulltotallyrulesgrottba8430]

17:20 rod: toodleloo

[@ronaldesma5111]

The address was changed to Emus All Live Pink Windmill Show Central television Lenton Lane Nottingham NG 7 2PA in 1985. Reason: their original studio was demolished I think...

[@VideotapeFTW]

Central had two studios at the time - one in Nottingham and one in Birmingham. There was even a series of Emu's World shot at Elstree.

[@MrGoneNucelar]

What's the name of the song at the end?

[@VideotapeFTW]

It's simply called Songs, and was previously featured in both Fame and Sesame Street. Here's the full Pink Windmill Kids version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqDLhKSepr6Hr9U

[@patriciahomeier9745]

What inspirations got Trump from this show? (Sorry for asking, but I'm from Germany and I did'nt understand that point).

[@VideotapeFTW]

It's a joke about their plan to build a wall to keep out the bad guys, like Trump promised to do on the border of Mexico: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5iohWihoNSGkKcm33s

[@VideotapeFTW]

You're most welcome. :-) So, you're one of the privileged few who actually went to the Pink Windmill when they broadcast live! Was it a fun day out? Did the cast talk to/interact with audience before and after, or were they too stressed out? I didn't know it was shot in exactly the same studio as The Price is Right. I think I'm right in saying that this was the last series that was shot in Birmingham before the move to Nottingham. And hand-cranked credits? I wonder when that stopped...

[@VideotapeFTW]

By the way, you may be interested in this clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5OWdoSHp6qbsJYm13s On a couple of occasions for a few brief seconds the camera points in the wrong direction and you get to see the studio layout, breaking the magic.

[@betaville72]

Even as a kid, i always hated it when Grotbags would ask 'Do you know what you have / would have won'? As if the kids were clairvoyant!

[@VideotapeFTW]

It's a take-off of fellow Central production Bullseye, isn't it? That's what I always assumed.

[@bigrarr]

I can relate to grotbags now, them happy, dancing, exagerated facial expresioned brats do my brains in, but, it is great ;-)

[@mistofoles]

75 million viewers watching?? Think you're being a bit optimistic there, Rod!

[@AlchemillaRed]

25:51

[@alondrasosa1035]

8:37, 18:44 star prize 7:30

[@VideotapeFTW]

No problem! Credit to Louise for the tape, of course. :-)

[@VideotapeFTW]

I'm afraid I don't have one with the nephew, but it's mentioned here and one of the songs played for Emu's Choice: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5SbZ599jt2pf9Em49s I'm pretty sure that's from Emu's World series five (1984), which has proved elusive so far. Perhaps the other one you're thinking of is this: /watch?v=qoqRezqARMI Right at the end of the episode, Croc is seen partying with the Pink Windmill Kids before Grotbags delivers a walloping, and drags him off *by the snout*. Made me laugh, too! :-)

[@kryff4306]

2021 anybody?

[@mistofoles]

Ok, I stand corrected, but it's much more entertaining when they phone kids on the off-chance :D

[@jackiewalker694]

the arrow went on the8

[@VideotapeFTW]

Blatant, isn't it? Even Hugh seems to be shaking his head before finally going along with it... :-)

[@michaelstephens360]

The phone calls always seem to stress him so

[@sephstar-offical]

27:45 What is he saying here?

[@z8080]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THESE!!! WHERE DO YOU FIND THEM?

[@andrewbamborough4192]

Whos watching In 2020 like me

[@sephstar-offical]

3:50 what are they both saying here?

[@VideotapeFTW]

"A cup of lime, then stir until it's hard, And up she'll climb, by inch, by foot, by yard." Full lyrics in the subtitles here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWqqfpmqfNmnaKs

[@sephstar-offical]

@@VideotapeFTW 4:59 Do you know if this was part of the script? because it looks like joe tripped up for real here

[@VideotapeFTW]

@@sephstar-offical Definitely scripted.

[@sephstar-offical]

@@VideotapeFTW k