The lovely Andy Dean didn't know what he was starting when he wrote:
no, the song on the end of that tape is 'white horses' by Jacky (and i know, i put it there!). it was a hit in the late 60s and is a theme tune to a kids' tv show about, duh!, white horses that aired in the early 70s on bbc tv, saturday mornings before whatever 'live and kicking' was called in those days.
Then the equally wonderful PJMiller added:
As I recall, there wasn't anything like Live and Kicking on BBC until Multi.Coloured Swap Shop opened its doors for business, it was just a collection of kid's programmes such as Zorro, The Flashing Blade and the Banana Splits (which was in itself a forerunner of the Swap Shop format) with the odd cartoon (have you ever noticed that whenever you put a group of people in a room together they always end up talking about Northy?), followed by an Abbott and Costello film.
There was a whole plethora of those dubbed black & white series which were run over and over again during Saturday mornings and long school holidays. Not just White Horses [did this series originate in France?] but also the original Belle & Sebastian and Robinson Crusoe and in colour there was The Flashing Blade. The BBC also used to continually showing Zorro, Whirlybirds, Champion the Wonder Horse and Casey Jones. Oh hell we seem to be plunging backwards in time through the history of TV! Richard http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander@netfront.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------