Blue Peter Special Assignment was a factual BBC TV series broadcast in the 1970s and early 1980s, the first spin-off from the long running BBC series Blue Peter. It ran regularly from 1973 until 1981, usually at weekends on BBC1, and was heavily promoted on Blue Peter itself. The concept for the series was developed after Valerie Singleton had made a successful documentary 'special' with HRH Princess Anne when she had visited Kenya in 1971. The Special Assignment series was mainly produced by Edward Barnes and presented initially by Valerie Singleton and later by Peter Purves, Lesley Judd and reportedly Simon Groom, all of whom had been presenters on Blue Peter itself.
Series One featured Valerie Singleton looking at six European Capital Cities. These included Rome, Paris, London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Brussels. The first programme to be filmed was the one featuring Rome and included a personal address to the children of Britain from Pope Paul VI in The Vatican.
Series Two continued to feature Singleton lookin
What's Up! ¿Que Pasa is an American children's television show that teaches older children and tweens how to speak English and Spanish. Syndicated through TVSCO of Lakeland, Florida, the series is carried on various broadcast and cable channels nationwide as well as on the America One network.
This show combines entertainment with education in a half-hour format. Children learn about music, travel, multiculturalism, and positive moral and health choices. Supported by compulsory E/I requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, the target age group of the show is between 8 and 12 years of age. The program is closed-captioned.
Papa Rap is the main host of the show followed by Emily, Jessica, DJ Torres, and Traveling Tom. All travel segments with Traveling Tom involve culture, sports, and/or food.
Les Voyages du tortillard was a French language series of animated shorts made in Quebec.
The English version aired in Canada on the Global Television Network and TVOntario in the late 1970s, and in the United States on The Great Space Coaster in the early 1980s.
The main character is a young boy named Simon who discovers a magical steam locomotive hidden in the basement of his apartment building. Acting as the engineer Simon uses the locomotive to travel on many magical adventures.
Joining Simon every episode is Monsieur Globetrotteur, an old man who awaited the coming of the train for many a decade before Simon finally arrived. With Mr. Passenger is Mélanie, Mr. Passenger's cat who always rides atop his long stove pipe hat.
Each episode also features a character named Stella, a girl with star shaped hair. Stella's character changes from episode to episode but she always has her star shaped hair.
Eye Bet was a Canadian television game show hosted by Jim Perry, which debuted on CTV in 1971. His announcer, as with most Jim Perry game shows in Canada, was smooth voiced CFTO weatherman Dave Devall. The object of Eye Bet was for contestants to view old Hollywood movie clips, then answer questions about each clip, testing their skills of observation.
This game show is more or less similar to that of an ABC game show, The Reel Game, hosted by Jack Barry around the same time Eye Bet aired in Canada.
According to TV North, by Peter Kenter, a history of Canadian television, production of Eye Bet was cancelled after one season when the costs of licensing the movie clips became prohibitive. Its U.S. counterpart The Reel Game was also discontinued after a short run on ABC.
In the News is a series of two-minute televised video segments that summarized topical news stories for children and pre-teens. The segments were broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1986, between Saturday morning animated cartoon programs, alongside features like Schoolhouse Rock and One to Grow On, which aired on competing networks ABC and NBC, respectively. NBC would also go on to produce its own competing version called Ask NBC News.
The "micro-series" had its genesis in a series of animated interstitials produced by CBS and Hanna Barbera Productions called In The Know, featuring Josie and the Pussycats narrating educational news segments tailored for children. This was eventually metamorphosed into a more live-action-oriented micro-series produced solely by CBS' news division.
In the News segments attempted to explain the essence of complex news stories to children, and to do so in a way that might engage a young audience. Video clips of national or world events and sp
The Steam Video Company was a 1984 comedy series produced by Thames Television for ITV written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
The six episode series was a low budget spoof of the horror genre, intermingled with spoofs on contemporary television programmes, such as Nationwide. The programmes starred the same repertory cast of comic actors in a variety of roles. The cast included: William Franklyn, Barry Cryer, Anna Dawson, Bob Todd, Madeline Smith and Jimmy Mulville. The title is thought to be a reference to 'the golden age of steam railways', with the 'steam video' apparently a spoof on the multitude of low-budget horror and exploitation films available during the early days of the British home video boom.
