Emu's Wide World S1E1 (1987) - FULL EPISODE
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- The first ever episode of Emu's Wide World, originally broadcast on Friday, 3rd April, 1987, and featuring the songs Turn Up the Music (by Sammy Hagar) and Youth and Experience (from the Cliff Richard film Wonderful Life).
Quick recap for those taking notes: Rod's first show for ITV was Emu's World, which ran from 1982-4. Those shows were 20 minutes each and were basically children's comedy dramas, with each episode consisting of a storyline in which Grotbags would try to get Emu. The only other element was the inclusion of a couple of songs.
Then in 1984 came Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show, which was more of a magazine-type show. Its 45-minute episodes ran in the coveted last-thing-on-a-Friday slot, and was conscious that it was a television show. By that, I mean that for the first time Rod broke the fourth wall and addressed the viewer, who in turn could get involved in the Spin Quiz or by writing in to the Post Office. The studio audience was introduced (and they got to take part in Grotbags's Grotto) and the show basically became a high-energy TV pantomime - the experience was more important than any actual storyline.
That continued through 1985 (when the Twin Schools segment was introduced) and 1986 (re-titled Emu's Pink Windmill Show, though I'm not convinced it wasn't still live), but now we land in 1987 and the launch of Emu's Wide World. So what remains and what's changed?
Well, for a start, the whole feel is different as it's no longer shot in front of a studio audience. Bits are, but that majority isn't. It's not shot "as-live" any more, either. The narratives are a lot stronger in general, with Grotbags, Croc and Redford making the first genuine attempts to capture Emu (rather than take some brats back to the fortress) since Emu's World in 1984.
Emu's Bargain Basement is brand new, and basically replaces Emu's Spin Quiz (of which we've seen the last). Boggle's Kingdom returns, and this one features Pat Coombs as Lady Petunia, an unlikely damsel in distress. Emu's Diary is new, and it helps add to the international flavour in this one as it shows Rod and Emu in Hollywood. Speaking of the US, the Twin Schools segment has moved there from Australia, and in this episode features Cahuenga School in California. Rod's attempts to launch Emu in other English-speaking territories is also plain for all to see, and in retrospect actually tinged with a little sadness.
To be honest, this first episode is a bit all over the place, and it wasn't until three or four into the series that the plots got better and the new format started to feel really comfortable. The pacing's a little off, too, with the second song coming immediately before the end credits (and therefore a repeat of the first song). But all that's nit-picking - let's enjoy the show for what it is!
The ten Pink Windmill Kids for this series were:
Gianni Fuccio
Danny Hosier
Nick Pinnock
Daryl Peck
Kelly Rossiter
Abbie Shilling
Cassie Shilling
Tammy Smallworth
Claire Stock
Sarah Stone
And I would love to know what any of them are up to today.
Many thanks to Lindsay for lending me this tape.
(Please remember that this is an off-air VHS recording, so don't go expecting 1080p HD quality. I'm fairly certain that this video isn't commercially available, and I've uploaded it for its historic interest only. That said, if you are a copyright holder and object, please don't hesitate to contact me.)
1987- my favourite gang!! Out of those who werent in series before this, cassie and nick are my favourites from this group
Happy 35th anniversary of Emu's Wide World 🎉🎊🎁
I dread to think what a remake of the show would be like! I imagine some 19-year-old washed-up X-Factor nobody being cast as Grotbags or something. And would kids these days be happy to put in all that effort in the Bargain Basement to win... a football? Anything less than an iPhone wouldn't be worth a full minute of physical exertion!
So much has changed, but what I think these shows *are* are great time capsules - and of a much better time, too. :-)
VideotapeFTW they certainly wouldn't get away with calling the kids brats these days. I just find that hilarious ever time she calls them brats.
@@stevenholt458 Emu wouldn't be allowed to grab these days either. Folk are too soft now.
The growth spurt that all the returning cast had within less than a year still baffles me
I'm glad I'm not the only one to spot that. Seriously: I reckon it was nine or ten months between the 1986 series ending and this one being recorded, and look at them!
Danny rocking that guitar
Finally here! Still love the Pink Windmill! Damn, looks like Joe, Debbie and a few others whose names i do not remember aren’t around
Have you noticed that everyone from 1986 who returned less than a year later in 1987 - Abbie, Daryl, Kelly, Sarah, and Tammy - had a _massive_ growth spurt in between?
VideotapeFTW yes i have 🤭🤭🤭
@@VideotapeFTW you know, while they all grew, i think the addition of cassie and danny (and abbie no longer being the youngest and littlest for the first time since 1983) might have contributed to the illusion of them all growing two feet
I had radio cassette player exactly the same but in black. Wish was red
That first wallop Croc takes at 3:35 is so unprovoked it's hilarious! He's onscreen for a grand total of about three seconds before he gets it. :-)
In my opinion, had there been 15 people in Wide World, Daniel, Spencer, Helen, Debbie, and Alistair would have been in it as well!
I'm glad I'm not the one who had to make that decision - I'd never have been able to choose who was in and who was out!
Yeah.. Alistair left way too early in my opinion
I remember doing the finger print and footprint when i was in elementary school {Pleasant View Elementary in Golden, Colorado}. It was a nation wide thing in america
Interesting. I'm still wondering, under what circumstances would the parents really need them? I dread to think - it's like we're not being told the whole story.
@@VideotapeFTW i'd don't remember,
i'd think in case we got lost or kidnap
Poor daryl, getting hit twice in the episode, those boomerangs are so wild lol
Absolutely! :-) Up the Ladder to the Roof is a blue-screen studio job, with painted backdrops making it look like they're on a roof, while Wrap Her Up is at a train station. The credits for that one give it as "Grand Central Diner".
Poor croc always getting whacked
I wonder if that is Grotbags first cell phone. :-) I do kind of feel sorry for Crock because he is always taking the brunt of the beatings. I just wish that one time Crock would get Grotbags stick or wand and hit her with it, so she can see how it feels. I know it is all in fun, but I wonder if Grotbags ever got hit with her own stick or wand?
I love how we're expected to believe the audience is in the basement, when it's in precisely the same place we've seen it in for years!
For some reason the games alternate from show to show in this series - we have bench and frisbees in this one, but cargo net and roll-the-ball-through-the-bridge the next. The prizes get better once the kids get higher scores, but never as good as series two - probably because then all were guaranteed to be on view on the table, ensuring "product placement".
Gianni’s first appearance! I had the biggest crush on him!
excellent very very pleased to hear that!!!!!!!!!
I don't know why Grotbags tries to capture Emu when I doubt that she could handle him. :-)
Well, that's got me all excited. :-) As it stands, I think I've got roughly half of the episodes broadcast - and I'm always on the lookout for more!
I've sent a private message to your UA-cam inbox (top right) on the subject.
Good news: I've got my hands on the remaining two episodes from this series, so I'll be uploading them soon. Stay tuned! :-)
I love how the audience, in the spirit of "Top of the Pops", has balloons and flags. They missed a trick not borrowing the Central flags on "The Price of Right".
Nice use of an upside-down PE bench for the plank in the Basement. I only remember the version with the cargo net and the better prizes myself. Also, Grotbags' absence for most of the Grotto game and taking the winner "upstairs" doesn't work for me at all.
ha ha. the campness of croc and redford is quite funny in a way, wouldnt be aloud nowadays i reckon.
If the show air on American television then it never made it to the stations that I used to watch. Although I think that if it were to be shown that it would have been shown during the Saturday morning with the cartoons. I hope that you can find more of these from the 85, and 86 years in order make the series complete. Another thing can you imagine having a door bell that say's "There's somebody at the door, oh there somebody at the door." over and over again.
:-)
Boggle talks funny
The segment with Rod in LA is like watching your Nan showing you her old Holiday photos.
No problem, mate - three more from this series still to come, thanks to Lindsay. :-)
That's awesome how it showed Tennessee Ernie Ford's star.
I'm not a fan of this format, removing the Post office and stopping the kids from hosting segments was a mistake... but how brilliant is that bargain basement, it looks like it was thrown together very late in the day. "You want an obstacle course... Yeah we got a gym bench, an old swing set, a shopping trolley and some of those frisbees we couldn't get rid of last year, we can put two windmill kids either side of the place where they are thrown too making them easy targets."
I get what you mean - the first series of Emu's Wide World felt like a step backwards for me, but then the second series is one of my favourites. They really nailed the format in that one, I think.
Good ol' Grotbags was using her bazazzer as a phone two or three years before the first mobile network was even launched in the UK! Who says she doesn't have special powers? ;-)
You know, there's probably a market for that sort of doorbell over here (the 80s retro thing is quite big at the moment). You should manufacture some!
I doubt the Pink Windmill Show/Emu's World/Emu's Wide World were ever broadcast in the US, at least not on a grand scale, but I do know Rod was trying to launch Emu over there in the late 80s. What about the EMU-TV series? That was a Canadian co-production, and a concerted effort to crack the North American market. Any recollections...?
They must have decided to call it a day with the phones and spin to win lol. I have to say it was a funny segment. When you think technology still causes issues contacting people on TV.
Well, phoning people while on air was a crazy idea in the first place! But from this series onwards the show was no longer live, so it didn't really make sense to continue and they introduced the Bargain Basement instead.
40:13 bye bye rod's manhood, thanks kelly
Poor croc 3 seconds on screen and he's getting walloped!!!!!!!!! and redford deserved that wallop later on he was so slimey and creepy
Oh wow they seemed to change clothes a lot in just one episode. Do you know why?
Haha - yes, the show was no longer live (or even pretending to be live), so everything was shot completely out of order, segment by segment. For instance, I think there were probably only two sessions of Bargain Basements to cover the whole series, rather than setting up for each episode.
@@VideotapeFTW Oh okay haha. Makes sense!
a hilarious first episode! excellent work! poor olod croc as usual gets walloped wher redford (who i didn't really like as much as Grovel) gets away with murder!
Something to do with being able to control all the brats in the world... but she wouldn't stand a chance!
By the way, have you any idea whether this show ever aired over in the US? The only reason I ask is because of the Twin Schools section. It would be a pity if the American schools never got to see their pieces.
E m e a u that's what they said
croc was scarier than grotbags!!
It's really odd hearing Rod interact with an American man
Welcome
Gianni
Natalie
Cassie
Idk the rest
They're listed in the description. :-)
The 80s were fucked up