Vision On - "Time"

[@rhessex]

It really was the golden age of children's tv in the 70s. So much care and creativity. I feel lucky to have grown up then.

[@ifeanyichukwuemeka8684]

I actually watched this in the early 90s...

[@wotireckon]

Yes, watching this decades later certainly brings home how privileged we were.

[@opetimistic]

@@ifeanyichukwuemeka8684 in Nigeria 😊

[@opetimistic]

I agree

[@carolwilkinson9688]

Used to love watching this programme growing up 💕

[@skunkhead2007]

all I can say is wow great big fucking wow I watched all this when I was a kid and I'm still here watching it now glued to the screen stoned

[@originalveghead]

No wonder I liked this as a child! It's fantastic!

[@GFSTaylor]

Delighted to find this; I used to enjoy this show as a kid. All of it is so imaginative and beautiful but watching Tony Hart make his pictures is the best magic on TV.

[@steveogorman6170]

My brother and I loved watching this as kids. I was never any good at art (and I'm still not), but Tony Hart was inspirational. The animations and 'The Prof' were always great fun to watch. It took me years to realise that this was originally intended for hearing-impaired children. It goes to prove that it transcended its target audience and reached us all. I'm so pleased to see that there are some editions online. I agree with the earlier comment - shame on the BBC for not hanging on to these treasures.

[@lostboy8814]

Excellent,takes me right back to being a kid!

[@paulsaxberg9441]

Thank you so much! I used to adore this show as a kid (Northwestern Ontario, Canada), and I thought I'd never get to see it again. I would be tremendously grateful if you found any more of it to upload.

[@sthom4bad]

Same, in Southern Ontario.

[@dominiquepilon5764]

Paul Saxberg Yeah me too it was one of my favorite program because I loved drawing and still do my dp photo is a bunny who I drew when when i was five or six I wanted to send one of my picture my mom sayd it may not reach because England was a long way Btw I live in near Ottawa Canada

[@funkydung.]

Yup lived in Northern Ontario as well in the late 70's 80's Atikokan to be exact

[@GuanoLad]

Tony Hart always did love his sponge paintings.

[@anyandeverything2952]

I am really happy to see this. I loved Vision On and it is simply one of the best children's programmes ever made. So full of great ideas and invention. Shame on the BBC for wiping most of them though!!

[@anyandeverything2952]

***** I think that no-one the 70's ever foresaw that there would be a market for home video and dvd. You would probably be amazed at the stuff that was wiped back in the day which would now be of immense historical interest if nothing else. From time to time a little gem turns that everyone thought was lost. Fingers crossed for more.

[@jimexley8341]

I believe only 11 black and white editions exist, but it seems in spite of the rumours of wiping that all of the colour ones from the 70s have survived. I've seen five recently and clips from many more.

[@choknuti]

A good place to look would be the colonies. I remember watching vision on in the early 80s. Maybe they haven't destroyed their copies unlike BBC.

[@mbvideoselection]

@@europa2000man There was an archive purge at the BBC in 1993, long after they knew about the home video market, and they concentrated on children's programmes.

[@dominiquepilon5910]

Im from eastern Canada i watch that show i loved to draw and doing craft and use my imagination too

[@prben2]

I love the slapstick, wacky humour, artwork and attention to detail of this.

[@rebelfox5630]

I would watch all of the Vision On series if it were available. It was one of my favourite childrens shows. It was so dynamic and energetic with so many different regular elements.

[@dominiquepilon4429]

Im from eastern Canada was my favorite tv show in the 1970-1980 hey is that the guy with glasses Sylvester McCoy who played one of the doctor in Dr who in the mid to late eighties

[@damonrobus-clarke5979]

Sure is!!

[@jimexley8341]

Thanks so much for uploading this. Great memories, this was my favourite programme back in the day, but very difficult to find any now. Just shown this to my son and he loves it too. If any other editions were to find their way here I'd be delighted!

[@Dayvilish]

this is a miracle to see that again

[@franckrive5624]

Thanks for sharing, I never forget this show but I think I'm the only one in France. It was broadcasted in my country on wednesday afternoon, something like every two months, I don't remember the channel, must be on TF1, inside the great children show "les visiteurs du Mercredi". The name was changed to "Declic", but the dialogues were kept in english, without subtitles.

[@Pitmirk_]

wow.. it really was a fantastic show. thanks for the post

[@robbie007]

Tony Hart and Sylvester McCoy and Pat Keysell. This programme was ahead of its time. Innovative. Funny. Inspirational. BBC did great stuff then. In the days before video I remember trying to recreate how Tony did his Art from memory. Loved the gallery, sign language, regular characters popping up.

[@johnm2012]

Notice that McCoy (real name Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) is credited as "Sylveste McCoy". This was the name of a stuntman character he once played and he adopted it as his stage name. He later changed it to Sylvester McCoy because of the traditional actors' superstition of names containing 13 letters.

[@jeankavanagh1485]

I barely remember a lot, mostly The Gallery . No wonder I've had a lifelong friendship with music from these old series xxxx

[@farmbrough]

Just watching this reminds me that it was as good as I had remembered.

[@sallysinclair4694]

I remember watching these as a kid!!!

[@mickeyh1961]

Remember watching this as an adolescent loved it , compulsive viewing , once you started you just could not go away , very creative and imaginative also , loved Morph the plasticine charachter,

[@john-of-the-north]

Love the chap in the white coat (4min 40) who tries to get on a train!

[@michaelreyes7641]

Yeah the hilarious wacky professor!!!!

[@infrequentvlogs4433]

I couldn't STAND him, as a kid. He always seemed sinister and nightmarish.

[@michaelt977]

i remember this being on wnet channel 13 at 10.30 in the morning.very wonderful show.

[@nicholascarey9705]

Believe it or not we were able to see this wonderful program in the US - at least for a short time on our public broadcasting service. As a child growing up in D.C. I absolutely adored this mysterious show - I had completely forgotten the name and only remembered the logo and some nice British people making art together. Thank you so much for posting this - a treasured memory from a gentler time....

[@jfr06]

In France and Belgium , the title was n’t Vision On but « déclic « As a child , I remember watching this show every Wednesday afternoon !

[@dominiquepilon5910]

Im from Quebec Canada we had two versions Vision on in English Canada and Declic in Quebec Canada

[@axs203]

The Grasshopper logo used to scare me so much. Images are powerful good or bad. They shape you and stay with you all of your life.

[@nobull9541]

It used to freak me out that image too!

[@manasbose8817]

65 last week and havent seen this programme since I was about 10 years old. Should I worry that I find it more interesting and funny(The Prof with trapped braces trying to catch a train) than most things on TV now 😂 They say when you get old you revert but I think this was just a great programme that could never be made now

[@newfie2keith]

I remember watching this as a kid in the late 70's. I believe it was on WNED Buffalo.

[@DaveJMcGarry]

Pat Keysell. And Tony Hart. Legends both

[@blueybarnes9442]

Fantastic Memories ❤

[@wyb80]

I’d forgotten that Animated Dinosaur ...having seen it again, it’s so familiar Tony Hart was such a clever man 👌🏽

[@zacetto]

I have been after the animation at 3:58 for about 43 years? I cannot thank you enough for putting this up. I watched it mostly for the plasticine animations.

[@degsbabe]

And WAY before wallace and Gromit. Nicholas Wulstan Park must have been watching this...

[@zacetto]

@@degsbabe I am pretty sure this was Morph’s Peter Lord & David Sproxton. I could be wrong

[@degsbabe]

@@zacetto I was jokingly inferring that the W & G creator Nick Park MAY have got his idea from watching this..

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

I remember watching this show on TVOntario back when I was very young. It was a lot of fun.

[@KristineMaitland]

I'm from Toronto. This show was a favorite of mine. The use of sign language fascinated me.

[@80s90smovies.]

Watched this show all the time...HAHA backwards lad ... maybe this is why i like Monty python

[@nobbilc]

I fancied Pat Keysell !!

[@mikedethlefs6326]

I know I'd seen Sylvester McCoy in something prior to Doctor Who, I couldn't remember. I remember watching this on PBS.

[@Jasonm25870]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4LFnpyfrKx9b6M

[@Kapricorn1]

awesome, Weston-super-Mare, 40 odd years ago, loved this programme as a kid

[@neilloughran4437]

Beautiful music segment at 13.18... Keith Mansfield Blue Bells... incredible..

[@joefish6091]

This show and a few others had a resonance, they shaped a nation. even when UK techno electronica and house came out, the people making crazy music grew up with Vision On, you can hear echoes in later music scenes.

[@aldiakaroofus]

Thanks for sharing! Too bad it's missing the end credits.

[@douglasfreeman3229]

What a joy to see a young Sylvester (Sylveste!) McCoy here. What a handsome fellow! That logo freaks me out, though. Looks a bit like one of the martians from Quatermass and the Pot.

[@mattetheridge6580]

Outstanding talent what a magic time

[@braunshugar1]

This used to come on 6am on Saturday Morning . . and I never missed it . . .

[@dominiquepilon5764]

I love that show because I loved to draw and make art n craft I still do the bunny on my dp I made him

[@WabbitHunter68]

Most of the kids in the gallery would now be in their 50s.

[@EducationPineapple]

The man in the glasses is the actor who played the wizard in Lord of the Rings with Smaug the dragon. He was one who was being driven around by a bunch of rabbits on a sledge.

[@andrewbrunton8664]

That was a treat. Thanks for uploading this.

[@ravinathwani9758]

if you or anyone have anymore vision on tv series please upload them please thank you

[@lpsp442]

First the cheeky git steals Tony's chair, and then he gets in a very cheeky position with Pat at about 2:00! I'd poke the Doctor in the eye.

[@johnm2012]

The pixilation (that's stop frame animation using subjects that are normally not static, such as humans, and not to be confused with pixelation) at the end of that sequence must have been both tedious and hilarious for the three of them.

[@ravinathwani9758]

IF ANYONE HAS MORE VISION ON TV SERIES LIKE THIS ONE, PLEASE UPLOAD THEM ON KZbin, PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONES ATTENTION OKAY, PLEASE REPLY ASAP, THANK YOU

[@keithfrmcov]

The great Sylvester McCoy.

[@douglasfreeman3229]

Abso-flippin'-lutely!

[@learo05]

Interesting... Sylvester McCoy travelling between time periods, and no references made in the comments!

[@tracik1277]

Rob Lea I saw him walking down the street in Clapham a few years ago. Looked just the same but white hair.

[@dominiquepilon5764]

Sylvester McCoy was the seventh Doctor in Doctor Who from 1987 to 1990 I’m a Doctor Who fan I’m from Canada btw

[@PhyzzFizz]

and a great panto dame lol

[@johnm2012]

He was playing a regular character called Pepe/Epep who lives in the world through the mirror. That's why the motion (and presumably time too) runs backwards in the other world.

[@degsbabe]

I'd rather Morph had played the Doctor. Twice the acting talent.

[@nickburton100]

A brilliant programme and signing for deaf.

[@芮紫烯]

儿时的回忆 谢谢🙏

[@gan9e]

13:16 great little vignette about time

[@funkydung.]

Great TV show watched it every time it was son TVO

[@JasonJason210]

Fantastic to see a full epsiode like this, although it is not quite as I remember. Where is Wilf Lunn and his crazy machines, the cuckoo clock with all the numbers that fall off, and the furry worm thing they are always trying to catch?

[@johnm2012]

Well, it ran for several years (this episode is from series 14) and it evolved so as not to become stale. I remember the furry worm too. It had its own sound effect - a honk like an old car horn as it popped its head out, followed by a kind of siren sound (like a kazoo/whistle with a rotating part that spun up when blown) as it shot along its very angular path. Humphrey Umbrage, the tortoise featured in this show, was a long time feature, as was the Gallery. The modelling clay character Morph came along later and, I think, even had a five minute spin-off show of his own for a while.

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

Humphrey the Tortoise was always my favorite (🇺🇸, spelling is correct); it just was so cute-and innocent...

[@johnm2012]

Humphrey Umbrage was his full name. I like how the use of the name pre-dates its use in Harry Potter by a few decades.

[@steveemmett-inotherwords]

Great music

[@mungomidge1090]

Great music.

[@KristineMaitland]

I love the music.

[@richinoable]

Here for the tunes

[@butzee]

we all loved the 'prof' and his zany antics!!

[@3enjoy3]

One of the few episodes remaining. I wonder where the children and adults featured in the clips are now and whether they know they have been preserved for posterity! :)

[@dunebasher1971]

While nearly all of the 1960s editions are gone, almost everything from the 1970s still exists - that's over 100 programmes (I think about 107 in total last time I counted).

[@diabolicalartificer]

Brilliant.

[@speeta]

18:30 the turtle music!

[@darrengomes2203]

Tortoise!

[@sirjaunty1]

Tell me that inventor Wilf Lunn of Vision on isn't the UK' s very own 70's Adam Savage.

[@mccartney2]

the gorgeous Pat Keysell

[@GreenJimll]

I never really understood half of Vision On as a child in 1970s, and now watching this forty odd years later I still don't! A very strange television programme.

[@DM-hh7wl]

It was for deaf children 👍🙂

[@dominiquepilon5764]

I wanted to send a picture to them but my mom said it may not reach them I live in eastern Canada

[@dominiquepilon5764]

Lol@21:20 I think the professor used to much starch on his coat lol 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@d72jjpilc]

Does anyone have the episode 'Curves' from Vision On? I liked the music of a car driving down a curvy road (live-action film) in that episode. Thanks in advance.

[@liamstammers5123]

When was this transmitted? I’m guessing maybe 1975. The music you hear in the sequence with Auggie the dinosaur was first heard in Mary, Mungo And Midge.

[@rebelfox5630]

I think the time is right for Burbles - what ever they were (!?) to make a comeback

[@dominiquepilon5764]

Lol 6:34 there were not only the tardis that took you into time but also-a mirror

[@Jasonm25870]

for reference with transferring mirrors see the Doctor Who episode "Warriors Gate" from 1981 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2Xcen5ofciDkLM

[@theprof291166]

Where on earth did you dig this up from? Many thanks!

[@LachlanMadsen]

The grasshopper thing used to disturb me

[@martin-mi3cg]

At 13:17 that song and video is pure Boards of Canada !

[@KristineMaitland]

Not surprising considering CBC helped fund Vision on.

[@nickforbes-warren6602]

4.46 CLASS 47 DIESEL!!

[@ravindernathwani1]

do you have anymore episodes of vision on if you or anyone does can anyone upload them thank you

[@aldiakaroofus]

At 13'16, the turntable is a Lenco. Can't tell which model though.

[@kevinpatrickmacnutt]

it's also a 45 that appears to be moving at 33 1/3

[@aldiakaroofus]

+Kevin MacNutt Well spotted!

[@MarkMcCluney]

Sylveste and Pat were pretty good dancers!

[@highwindsclarke2685]

Ben Benison and Sylvester McCoy went on to star in the cult series Leapfrog. What sort of insect is the logo?

[@caddis]

Does anyone know what the music is playing when the Burbles come on?

[@jonathanmelia]

'goofy', by Cliff Jones, apparently. Someone's put up all the tunes used in the show with a playlist, called Vision On: Themes. Awesome!!!

[@jonathanmelia]

Or rather Vision On: Selected Themes.

[@ravindernathwani1]

do you have anymore vision on tv series?

[@Sharptooth100]

I like Tubes and Tunnels for this Vision On tv show. However I dislike the Monsters one because I found that freaked me out over this black monster creation coming towards you. That can freak out other kids also.

[@darrengomes2203]

What a shame the closing credits have been chopped off.

[@johnm2012]

You get the VT clock at the beginning as compensation!

[@IanWelland]

Is that Weston-Super-Mare beach in the opening scene?

[@jamesbutler6253]

Sylvester McCoy, my favourite Dr. Who.

[@degsbabe]

Who's sylvester McCoy...? He came in last on the Who popularity poll....

[@Quiet_Observer]

I loved this program. Was this the same Sylvester McCoy who went on to become the Doctor?

[@CrackedTroyster]

Yes, he played the 6th Doctor.

[@Quiet_Observer]

@@CrackedTroyster Hey, thanks for that. He has come a long way since then.

[@mestopig]

Okay. Who did it?! Who put LSD in my food?!?

[@betsysuetrueman3532]

i think in those days it was in the water!

[@rebelfox5630]

Why could they never return the pictures if they were sending a prize anyway?

[@dunebasher1971]

They got sent thousands of pictures a week. Completely impractical to be sending them all back.

[@Kotka67]

A young Sylvester McCoy, lol

[@l1n5n8]

This show makes me feel like I’m on mushrooms

[@vapourtrail7194]

at the 10:00 minute mark what is this melody played?

[@Witheredgoogie]

Leftbank 2 by The Noveltones (1964)

[@KristineMaitland]

​@@WitheredgoogieOne of the coolest tunes ever.

[@Concreteowl]

Time Lord

[@justaskunclejim]

This really appealed to the young hyperactive me , Tony Hart's spin offs where very tame in comparison. Sylvester Mc Coy rocked, any chance of some play away? Older kids play school. I hope not all of them turn out to not be kiddie fiddlers.

[@rhessex]

Does anyone know what the prize was for having an artwork shown in the Gallery? (11:09)

[@johnm2012]

I think the only people who know that are the producers and the actual winners. If I had to guess, I'd suggest art materials. What I can tell you is that the Gallery music is called "Left Bank Two" by Wayne Hill and features vibraphone, brushed drums, double bass and acoustic guitar.

[@diggerpete9334]

Pat Keysell was already in her late 40's but looked hot and younger.

[@dlamiss]

she did indeed

[@europa2000man]

There's women now that are in their late 20's/early 30's and look much older than Pat Keysell did.

[@andy-the-gardener]

WHY DIDNT YOU RETURN MY PICTURE!! WHYYYYYYYYYY??

[@joefish6091]

Sylvester McCoy