Geordie Racer - Look and Read BBC Complete show Pigeon Racing Blue Flash
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Like a lot of children across the UK. I watched this educational TV program in primary school. Sometime around 1993. For some reason it always stuck with me. I thought it was called "Blue Flash" for years. Hence why I put "Blue Flash" in the title.
I recently found out it was called Geordie Racer and it was apart of the BBC's Look and Read educational series. In fact, I also watched "Through The Dragon's Eye" and "Spywatch" in primary school. These are already on youtube complete.
I've managed to track down the entire series and uploaded it here. So the next generation can see what we had to watch in school.
I've kept and been racing pigeons for quite a few years now. This show was definitely one factor of my love for pigeon racing.
Anyway, please enjoy. This contains all 10 episodes of Geordie Racer. The starting times for each episode is below:
Episode 1: Runners and Fliers = 0:55
Episode 2: Down The Cellars = 19:51
Episode 3: Pigeon Post = 39:21
Episode 4: This Is Radio Newcastle = 58:49
Episode 5: Race Day = 1:18:35
Episode 6: Light Of St.Mary = 1:38:08
Episode 7: Lost Bird = 1:58:01
Episode 8: Have You Gone Daft, Man? = 2:17:25
Episode 9: If Only We Knew When = 2:37:02
Episode 10: Run! = 2:56:44
Finding that someone's uploaded the entirety of Geordie Racer has brought me an inexplicable burst of joy today. Thank you!
Same here I've been coming bk to this now for years because I feel like a young man again and it gives me some very pleasant feelings I had bk then in boarding school called crowthorne it was in edgworth near Bolton I was around 14 back then now I'm 43 hope you get the same joy as I do from this nice to meet you 😊👍
What about yellow brick rd
As a 51year old I loved this late 70s early 80s now watching with a chocolate in my mouth in bed lol
Wow this takes me back just over 25 years when I was in primary school watching these. The good old days... take me back to when life was simple
Same around same time
This takes me back to primary school id give anything to go back to that time almost seems like a different world in comparison to modern times
Must be 30 years since I last saw this!
I watched this at school in 1988, when it was brand new. Together with "Through the Dragon's Eye" from 1989, this is one I remember most vividly.
Same here, I watched this, Badger Girl, Fairground and the best of them all Dark Towers. Would have been 1987 88 and 89 when I was at Primary school. Good times.
When I was little, in school we watched this show every week and we all sang along to the theme tune driving our teacher mad lol.
Tv on wheels?
@@Itsatintownthinthing no we had a small room just for the tv. There were no seats so we had to sit on the carpet floor.
@@Itsatintownthinthing tv on wheels for me too pal. Great memories
Yeah we used to as well, for some reason it was only the one year in our school that used to watch episodes of this before doing the two page worksheets that went with that episode
I used to watch this in primary school! I absolutely loved this show and randomly get the magic E song stuck in my head - oooooh the nostalgia :D
I'm from Sunderland myself, me and my friends at school used to love Geordie Racer. One guy in the class got into trouble, had a potty mouth and said "Shit becomes shite with me, wheee magic E!"
And in 34 years, not counting Geordie Racer, i've saw the swing bridge open once. I didn't even think it was still a functional swing bridge, but it is.
lol well it dose
Your school friend's remark made me laugh hard!
I was in the Granger market last week, it's hardly changed....apart from the prices. I wish I could get some meat for 68P as advertised here.
Although I did buy two Stotties from Asda the other day, 50P for two, so that's not too bad. I had to provide my own filling though.
"Shit becomes shite with me, wheee magic E!" same in south Northumberland schools 😂
I must admit that I also thought I was hilarious for singing about magic E producing shite. And I was a good kid!
I watched these in primary school in the early 80s.. The boy from outer space rings a bell
+Nikki Bell its just the boy from space :)
I watched these in primary school in the late 90s, I was stunned to find out that it was so old!
Great to see all the comments from people of the same generation here. I watched this in Primary school around 93/94 and my father took me up to Newcastle on a day trip. Growing up in the 90s was awesome.
thank you so much for doing this! such a big part of my childhood, and loved reading your story too
Thank you so much!! I watched it at the same time and have had the theme tune stuck in my head for over 20 years - every now and again the first two verses would spew out of my mouth!!!
My best mates surname was Sparriw, and because of Geordie Racer, has spent the rest of his life being called Spuggy (by me) He hated it, but it always stuck with me lol
My daughter has just turned 11 and she said they never watched anything like this and only got to watch TV when for "treats" during "Golden Time"
We watched all the look and read stuff in my school and they were the highlight of my Primary School life, every week we watched some kind of education film.
But Geordie Racer was my favourite!
this stuck with me too. learning how to understand geordie has been more useful for me than french
I don't think they're real accents though, are they? They sound put on, but maybe it's changed significantly in the last 25 years haha. Sounds put on though :V
@@samaraisnt i think they may have overemphasised parts of geordie that are different from standard english, but i'm not sure
Hi, me again. Also discovered few months back, Declan Donnelly (a.k.a., Dec of Ant & Dec)'s TV debut, could almost be in Georgie Racer, as he was one of the 2 boys left, up for playing Spuggie. "Yeah, I can picture Dec playing him" I thought. But his fear of handling pigeons, meant the kid in this series got the part. No matter, as Dec got a small part in Byker Grove, a year or 2 later met Ant, and the rest is history...
Born in 1978 and I remember watching this at primary school in 1988.I guess back then it was brand new
i was watching this is 97 ha, my school was so cheap
lmao did you have to watch dragons eye and earthwarp too?
omg yeah hahaha, through the dragons eye was so boss lololol
Wow what a flash back to school days, thanks for the upload!
Omg it's Derek Griffiths singing it. I loved this so much!
When the TV comes into your classroom and it’s either this or Through The Dragons Eye ❤
This was a brilliant program to watch when u were a Kid
So many memories of primary school flooding back. That backwards puzzle at the end of episode one resonates with me to this day and how in awe the class were trying to figure it out! Funnily enough we never finished this series whereas through the dragons eye and captain crimson we did. Thank you for posting!
oh, memories of this in school. I was born in '97 so the fact that this was being shown in the early '00s is pretty impressive
What the hell? It was still being shown that recently?!
If kids these days we're still so innocent , all the memories from1989 came flooding back fast 😅 omg I feel so old wordsworth!
I remember watching this in school
Remember watching this when I was about 8-9 in 2001 in school it stuck in my head for years and was bugging me what it was so I googled pigeon tv show and I found it nostalgia for real thanks for upload
Lovely. Knocking on thirty years since I saw this, just made it through the entire lot. I don't think I actually understood the majority of what they were saying though when I were a kid watching it at school. I only became reasonably fluent in Geordie through watching Auf Wiedersehen Pet repeats some years later. I have a vague recollection of a teacher giving us the observation test which accompanied each episode in the schools packs and, when none of us got a single answer right, couldn't understand how we'd all sat there glued to it yet not taken any of the dialogue on board.
I'm from the north east, and the Geordie accents are very, very hammed up in this. It seems like the actors are deliberately going out of their way to lay it on with a trowel. I actually knew the kid who played the main part. He was *terribly* well spoken in real life.
Watched this in school 😂
Proud to be a geordie
This brings back memories 1985-1990
I use to watch these when I was a kid We even use to record them 🇬🇧
This is how you write and act for kids' TV - give them the same respect you would adult viewers and broaden their minds while you're about it!
I remember watching this at school in the 90s! A flood of memories.
I watched this at primary school as a child,in the 80s. and when I went to Northumbria Uni in Newcastle the first thing I did was buy a stottie!
I have the same experience, I remembered which series it was from but forgot about its story name. The theme tune gave me goosebumps, happy memories x
ENGLAND WAS SO BEAUTIFUL ❤
Great upload - thanks for putting up all 10 episodes in one video. Just to note that a lot of the Great North Run footage they used throughout the series like the scenes at the starting line, the aerial shots etc. was actually from the 1985 event. Most people will know that this was filmed around the time of the 1987 event as hinted by the GNR posters and indeed the beginning of the chase scene at the end was specially set up in the actual event.
Watched this in school. I suddenly feel old! Thanks for the upload
Thank you for the upload. This takes me back. I changed schools quite a fair bit and ended up watching the repeats. It was great to see Kevin Whately from Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Look and Read had the right idea making learning interesting, enjoyable and creative. I think the national curriculum should be based upon interactive teaching using analogies and learning strategies. It sticks in the mind. I can't count the number of lessons where the teacher/lecturer sends you to sleep with hours of waffle.
Well this just brought a whole chunk of my childhood back. It was mad watching this while going to school in North Tyneside.
Geordie had a pigeon. A pigeon. A pigeon. Geordie had a pigeon. A pigeon he had. He flew it all day and he flew it all night. When it came back it was covered in...... Geordie had a pigeon..... Etc....
I remember watching this at my school
Thank you for this. Keep em coming.
40p for a Sandwich! Jesus I know it's a market in the North East in the late 80s, but it's like nearly 4 quid nowadays. Bloody Inflation's gone through the roof last 30 years!
While things are more expensive these days, we also get paid more. In the early 80's the average Brit earned about £6000 a year which is £19,000 in todays money. Here in the UK today, the average wage is currently £26,000. We're actually much better off today than the 80's although the 80's was recession, recession and recession by rights.
It's the sort of thing that happens when a woman runs the country...
Here in 2018 with a woman running the country again, things are much better...
Oh no, wait...
More like in the years since the Brexit referendum...a small taste of what's to come
Omg 😱 best series ever it was the 80’s ha
Remember watching this is school..
Remember this so well, I was in school in North London, they taught us Geordie like it was a foreign language. Seemed quite patronising of my teachers now I think about it.
I hope you are all Flying free flying high as we watch Geordie racer and remember day's gone by we are all still young in heart and soul 📺📼
Watched in Scotland in the early nineties, really enjoyed at the time, all I remembered was the racing pigeons lol.
Can you imagine back being a kid and not being able to skip the crappy parts and waiting a whole week to see the next episode, it's getting me passed off at 44 haha 😅
Hearing the news today of that Geordie lad throwing the acid about in Clapham made me think of this classic telly!
It's Kevin Whatley and that bird who used to be in "JOHNNY BRIGGS" and "CORONATION STREET" !
Amazing flash back thank you 👍
I saw this a few times when I was at school a few times and I loved it and I think it was filmed in 1988, so I was 1 year old.
I remember watching this when i was a kid
I think WatchMojoUK should do a top ten video for the Look & Read serials.
If that does happen, I think Geordie Racer should be no.1.
Oh my god. I remember this like it was yesterday. The Badger Girl was good as well.
I loved Badger Girl! I saw it at school!
Good memories watching this from school
Peter Rowell who played the disc jock, BBC Peado.
I actually looked this up, 😱😱😱
they made us watch this in school. the teacher would pause the tape sometimes to interpret the geordie gibberish
Wow watched this in early 90s in school haha love it
Blue Flash has been investigated in the Yewtree inquiry! lol
This was an amazing resource for teachers. It was a properly brilliantly written story with teaching points about reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing style seamlessly woven in. It also included positive female role models and a positive attitude to racial integration. Wonderful music too. I wish we still had such rich resources available to us now.
That is true, but outside the North East its problematic.
Teaches kids about Geordie grammar. Wonder how many bairns down London went around saying ha'way man and baffled parents.
My first Look & Read series was The King's Dragon, which was almost 40 years back; am longing to view it again. Vaguely remembered The Boy From Space, and the one about the bird of pray & eggs thieves - forgotten the title - the last 2 series I viewed, before start secondary school, was Fairground and this one.
The bird of prey - that's just rattled something in my brain!!
It wasn't "Sky Hunter" was it?
There was also "Badger Girl"... That was good!!
There were 2 series of Skyhunter and Sky Hunter II
I remember watching this in 1993 when I was in year 3.
I love Wordy's "sponsored bounce!" in this one (at 24:45) What a fab TV series. I love a lot of these stories such as "Cloud Burst" from 1974 and "Dark Towers" from 1981. :D
""ay gannonome forrabit?"
"uworreewitworreeewithessen"
I don't know why I understood the dialogue perfectly when I was 6 but struggle now I'm 33!
I watched this in 1993 when i was 6y/o. I have no idea why our teacher at wchool made us watch this- we lived in birmingham so wrong ciry 😮
apparantly ive been getting mixed up with this show if this was 1993, i seem to remember it but i was 19 then, my look and read era wouldve been about a decade earlier. although i did still watch a lot of schools and kids tv, still do lol
originally 1988
The days when you could buy a stotty/sandwich for 45p!
That Magic E Wizard helping criminals steal robes and escape the cops! Outrageous :)
That’s the sort of thing you do when you’re off your tits on magic E.
The final episode No. 10, starting at 2hr 56/57 mins, features some excellent excerts from the Great North Run and stars
Kevin Whately of Auf Pet and Lewis.
Man this took me back to 1989 my first week in reception we watched this. That bloody head thing has tuck with me for years.
brings back memories
Fact: Declan Donnelly auditioned for the role of Geordie Racer and didn't get it. Shame. Imagine how his life would have turned out.
Anyone know where I can buy Magic E car decals?
I watched this in school in about 2003/4 can tell our school was having its fund syphoned out by the governors 👀
is the boy from space available on here? thank you
I wonder how many of the Auf Wiedershen, Pet crew were directly/indirectly involved with Geordie Racer. Much of the incidental music is reminscent of AWP, and of course old Kevin Whately and Madelaine Newton both starring.
The music does sound similar I agree, but it's not the same composer on the 2 shows.
They're married in real life as well, aren't they?
My last ever homework was on this
12:18
If his Resting Heart Rate was 102, he'd be on the verge of a Heart Attack!
102 is only normal when you're exercising.
Not for a child.
For resting heart rate:
Newborns 0 to 1 month old: 70 to 190 beats per minute
Infants 1 to 11 months old: 80 to 160 beats per minute
Children 1 to 2 years old: 80 to 130 beats per minute
Children 3 to 4 years old: 80 to 120 beats per minute
Children 5 to 6 years old: 75 to 115 beats per minute
Children 7 to 9 years old: 70 to 110 beats per minute
Children 10 years and older, and adults (including seniors): 60 to 100 beats per minute
Well-trained athletes: 40 to 60 beats per minute
I hate climbing up the bank to that Dean Street car park. It really hurts your legs!
Lol wordy , i had forgotten all about this , we used to watch this in infant school. Oh and anyone remember a pen that taught writing letters? It always went "top to bottom"
The pen was from Words and Pictures.
You might remember Charlie the bendy puppet too
omg
im a kid again
Derek Griffiths - the Bob Dylan of children's fiction
The baddies in this shoiw scared me.
I look, I read, I watch and smoke weed.
Hi. Could you upload the Boy from Space?
I like Janie! She's a brave little girl!
I never quite understood the purpose of watching these for the curriculum. (Reading and writing I know but what exactly was it teaching) I liked it though cos we got to watch tv for a lesson.
How dod that talking orange robot float like that??
Bill the Brickie sounds like Dec from Ant & Dec
There was actually a computer game of Geordie Racer, can't remember the computer it was on though.
P Ferreira theres a video on youtube of it
coatboy1981 I'm sure there is but I don't know what computer it was for.
It was on the BBC Model B, and actually makes an appearance about 2h 28 mins into this video.
phippsdl I've never heard of the BBC Model B. Was it a variation of the BBC Micro?
35mins in is that Seaton Delaval Hall?
Anyone remember playing the accompanying game on the BBC micro? 🤣
I remember that
First released 1988
Am I imagining things or was the 'man in the blue overalls' John Hannah?
Brian Hogg (if you mean Victor)
20:57 GREGGS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR AGES 🤦♂
before biker grove there was geordie racer
Not racist, just British. Let's keep it that way, it's fun.
Is this the show where they find something yellow on the beach, and try to put in in a bottle?
Or I remember something about yellow liquid coming out of a pipe into the water.
Maybe I'm thinking of something entirely different?
Dan Coulson you are not sure what
This could be it. I'm looking into it. Either way, thank you very much for the tip!
Yup, that's exactly what I remember (well some scenes anyway) thanks very much for that! It's been bugging me since 2000!
Haha brilliant
That ugly hairy alien lmao
I thought the Great North Run was in September, not June!
44:52 is my jam
LuLzMrTom big tune. Build yourself a woord