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ITV SCHOOLS - PICTURE BOX: Peter And The Wolf Part 1 (TX 19.9.83)

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  • Alan Rothwell introduces the story of Peter and the Wolf. American actor Ray Bolger is the narrator, and music is provided by the Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra. Recorded in the Autumn Term 1983. Continuity includes a slide and ITV schools countdown clock. From my own personal collection of video tapes. Uploaded for educational purposes only.

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  • @Glamrockqueen
    @Glamrockqueen Рік тому +21

    We used to watch Picture Box at Primary school in the early 70s. No video recorders in those days, all sat round the television in the hall. Loved it.

  • @staggabob
    @staggabob 3 роки тому +28

    Amazing, I've a vague recollection of watching this "live" as a 7 year old! Our school didn't have a video recorder so sitting and waiting while that odd morphing clock counts down brings a great feeling of nostalgia!

    • @cityseabird
      @cityseabird 2 роки тому +2

      Yes! Waiting sitting on the dusty floor in the assembly hall waiting for the ‘pips’.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 Рік тому +1

      I would have been thirteen and had just started my third year at senior school, so only saw these programmes when off sick from school by this time.

    • @sk1d00
      @sk1d00 7 місяців тому

      Makes me want to sit cross-legged on the floor

  • @ArtyFishal
    @ArtyFishal Рік тому +12

    Fantastic memories of watching this programme. The theme tune alone instantly transported me back to my childhood ☺

    • @angharaddenby3389
      @angharaddenby3389 Рік тому +1

      Theme tunes was released by Feral Child on 10 July 2023, though only 99 copies were made and all quickly sold out.

  • @ryokan9120
    @ryokan9120 Рік тому +8

    I remember watching this program in the 70s and early 80s on ITV on weekday mornings. I could only watch it when I wasn't at school pretending to be sick. Such happy memories and puts modern children's programs to shame.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood Рік тому +2

      I do too. When I was 9 or 10 I was so scared/intimidated by my thug of a maths teacher at junior school I would pretend to be ill when it was time for maths. Our head teacher knew exactly what I was up to but I didn't care! Mr Mackney. *shudders*

    • @sweetlorraine6982
      @sweetlorraine6982 Рік тому +1

      Me to my husband had an old black and white film on and i said that’s the man from picture box.

    • @ryokan9120
      @ryokan9120 Рік тому +1

      @@sweetlorraine6982 Yes, he was an actor and he appeared in a few TV dramas as well.

  • @jasonladd6400
    @jasonladd6400 2 роки тому +9

    I liked Alan Rothwell's velvety voice as a child.

  • @jporritt
    @jporritt 3 роки тому +12

    Haunting Granada logo. Haunting Picture Box theme. Haunting Alan Rothwell.

    • @jezbollahxxx5653
      @jezbollahxxx5653 6 місяців тому

      Al's not "haunting" is he...?! Benign and avuncular, I'd say.

  • @charlottebruce979
    @charlottebruce979 Рік тому +5

    I actually remember watching this very one, takes me back to my happiest childhood days.

  • @dylanlancaster3160
    @dylanlancaster3160 11 місяців тому +2

    My love of music, all music, started right here.

    • @Lmlappin1
      @Lmlappin1 8 місяців тому

      Yes along with original dr who theme

  • @barnoidbatno3607
    @barnoidbatno3607 2 роки тому +7

    Jeez, I’m in 1979 again at primary school in the tv room

  • @willowvc1910
    @willowvc1910 2 роки тому +5

    The nostalgia.. happy memories.. thank you 💞💞💞 xxxx

  • @leesmith8366
    @leesmith8366 Рік тому +4

    Them giant tv's on legs with fold out doors, brown in colour if memory serves.

  • @DaveAndBeth1978
    @DaveAndBeth1978 Рік тому +3

    Remember watching this as a little girl of 5 when it was broadcast in 1983... My brother and I both liked watching Picture Box (which continued to air until finally being dropped in the early 1990s)... Such good memories, always loved Alan Rothwell's innocuous, avuncular and cheerful presentation style, but I can't deny that I found the titles / credits and theme tune very eerie and creepy as a girl, and still find it haunting now...

    • @gavinmartin5151
      @gavinmartin5151 9 місяців тому

      Picture Box carry on till March 1993. where Childsplay productions took over Production of Picture Box which was back in 1989

  • @tallchap30
    @tallchap30 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you. Brings back warm memories of a carefree time.

  • @richardsingh5827
    @richardsingh5827 2 роки тому +8

    I was a bit scared of the music but fascinated at the same time

  • @blumbotough1076
    @blumbotough1076 3 роки тому +10

    Me and my brother would organise a fight till the clock ran down.

  • @rs5001988
    @rs5001988 2 роки тому +13

    Take me back to the tv room at school 1983! This proper takes me back fond memories if only we knew how 2021 will be 😕💉

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka Рік тому

      It's called "getting old" !

    • @paulcrisp9861
      @paulcrisp9861 Рік тому

      @@zeddeka I have to agree with that 🙄🙄🤣😅😷 Apr twenty three where does time go 🚶‍♀️ 😳

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 Рік тому +1

      I would have been thirteen and had just started my third year at senior school, so probably older than you!

    • @paulcrisp9861
      @paulcrisp9861 Рік тому

      @@angelacooper2661 let's just say I'm no spring chicken anymore but I aint over the hill just yet at fifty four 🙄🙄🤣😂😅🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @Theagchm
    @Theagchm 10 місяців тому +1

    This was my favourite TV programme as a young kid in a slum in Glasgow in the 1970s. I loved the tune and I loved its quirkiness, not knowing where it was going to take you. Always wanted to get a hold of all the episodes and watch them (didn't always have a TV so missed most).

  • @nigelwatson1443
    @nigelwatson1443 6 місяців тому

    I watched this as part of English and Music at Far Forest Primary School all those years ago. Now I am in my 60s. What memories thank you, it made me cry big time😢

  • @davidhooper1767
    @davidhooper1767 Рік тому +1

    I remember this well from school and loved the music.

  • @richardmattocks
    @richardmattocks 3 роки тому +17

    The theme tune to this show used to freak me out

  • @Tconcept
    @Tconcept Рік тому +2

    That timer took forever 🙈🤣

  • @201081hero
    @201081hero Рік тому +4

    I'm pretty sure schools programmes started again on the date mentioned after the summer holidays, if so this could've been the very first programme of the new term.

  • @sweetlorraine6982
    @sweetlorraine6982 Рік тому +2

    In the school hall back in the seventies with what must have been the whole school cramming in to sit on the floor and watch a tv that was high up on a tall stand, looked like it was on stilts.

  • @antonyconnolly2738
    @antonyconnolly2738 2 роки тому +4

    I thought I recognised the nose of the narrator !! Yes, Ray Bolger, of 'Wizard Of Oz' fame !! 😀

  • @benpearce1021
    @benpearce1021 7 місяців тому +1

    Don't know why, but that box and music still scares me. I'm 44

  • @Canleykid
    @Canleykid 8 місяців тому +1

    I’m pretty sure the guy narrating the Peter and the Wolf story is Ray Bolger, who played the part of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.

  • @amandajanemarnoch4491
    @amandajanemarnoch4491 Рік тому +1

    Watched this at school every week

  • @ppotter
    @ppotter 3 роки тому +3

    The Scarecrow! I remember this well.

  • @martingolding4951
    @martingolding4951 Рік тому +1

    Just watching him now in an old episode of casualty

  • @badbadleroybrown
    @badbadleroybrown 3 місяці тому

    They actually put quite a lot of effort into these productions.

  • @NickSBailey
    @NickSBailey 2 роки тому +4

    That one wasn't so creepy, in fact quite ASMR 1980s style :)

  • @hameratahir
    @hameratahir Рік тому +2

    I remember watching picture box every Monday morning at school. Loved all the films. Does anyone remember the one with the guy doing up a broken old car and his neighbour had an expensive one and a pretty girlfriend.

    • @ryokan9120
      @ryokan9120 Рік тому +3

      I don't remember that one, but I remember the episode which followed the travels of a red balloon moving through a city. It was very surreal.

    • @superstarmand
      @superstarmand Рік тому +1

      ​@@ryokan9120omg as soon as l read your comment that came flooding back to me!

    • @ryokan9120
      @ryokan9120 Рік тому

      @@superstarmand Gosh, it's really good to know I didn't imagine that episode. I'm guessing it was 1979 or 1980 because I was still in junior school.

  • @drsyn9616
    @drsyn9616 Місяць тому

    He played the Scarecrow in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.

  • @tixie1895
    @tixie1895 Рік тому +1

    This used to scare me along with tales of the unexpected 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

  • @FranzSanchez-ky9up
    @FranzSanchez-ky9up Рік тому +2

    4:09 Timothy Dalton!

  • @Tommysgirl14
    @Tommysgirl14 2 роки тому +2

    Remember the brilliant theme, the twirling box and Alan the presenter....but haven't a clue about the rest! Like most kids shows from that era I just think WTF was it about??? 😄

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 2 роки тому +1

    Thank god 1985 came along with the BBCs broom cupboard and Children's BBC. It made telly worth watching after school. Picture Box was ALWAYS creepy.

    • @FoobsTon
      @FoobsTon 2 роки тому

      This was for watching AT school. The broom cupboard was just yer poor man's swap shop and the Gofor was no Posh Paws.

    • @TheStevenWhiting
      @TheStevenWhiting 2 роки тому +1

      @@FoobsTon Yep, I know as we'd watch it sometimes but it was still creepy. Broom cupboard was still good.

  • @cosmicwartoad2587
    @cosmicwartoad2587 2 роки тому +5

    Why can't they bring ITV school televeion back? It wouldn't be any worse than the shite that's on now!

    • @davidtownson1476
      @davidtownson1476 Рік тому

      And BBC Schools programmes too!

    • @ryokan9120
      @ryokan9120 Рік тому

      @@davidtownson1476 Do you remember Wordy in Dark Towers?

    • @DaveAndBeth1978
      @DaveAndBeth1978 Рік тому +1

      @@ryokan9120 Oh man, Dark Towers and The Boy From Space! Both creeped me out big time yet were so compelling

    • @ryokan9120
      @ryokan9120 Рік тому

      @@DaveAndBeth1978 Yes, we used to watch those at junior school. They were brilliant. The best performance was by Towser, the dog.

  • @helentart1980
    @helentart1980 Рік тому +1

    The music is still really creepy. I remember an episode I think it was about Canada and I saw all these logs floating in water. That’s all I can remember but the theme tune so creepy

  • @mAiSiEbOOOO
    @mAiSiEbOOOO Рік тому +1

    The spinning jewelled box was a piece of stock footage, which can be seen here - ua-cam.com/video/IMpiUVSCtQk/v-deo.html

  • @williamwillis9066
    @williamwillis9066 Рік тому +1

    This just reminds me how crap tv was in the 80s probably the reason we all stayed out to it was dark

  • @TransoceanicOutreach
    @TransoceanicOutreach 2 роки тому +2

    4:38 this bit was 'borrowed' by Fargo in this episode: ua-cam.com/video/EHfMpu7vxpg/v-deo.html

  • @squirehaggard4749
    @squirehaggard4749 3 роки тому +4

    Prokofiev?? All my life I thought Tchaikovsky wrote it. One lives and learns....

  • @mikehudson8884
    @mikehudson8884 Рік тому +1

    Ken Barlow's brother....

  • @davidtownson1476
    @davidtownson1476 Рік тому +1

    What was the lovely schools clock music called? A great tune!

  • @nicolagalton9457
    @nicolagalton9457 2 роки тому +1

    Quentin Smirhes brought me here. Which one is real?

  • @herbert9241
    @herbert9241 Рік тому

    Our primary school teacher played us a vinyl LP of this harrowing tragedy when we were about five years old. We impeached her to append an alternative ending where the duck survives (spoiler alert).
    You can't go wrong with the Russian Romantics but the protracted intro is redundant here. "Don't think Mr. Prokofiev would mind"?? I like to think he'd punch you in the face for your gall.

  • @AndyPansy-hv6yr
    @AndyPansy-hv6yr 3 роки тому +10

    2:10 How not to get kids engaged in schoolwork. Grey man in a grey suit with grey hair in front of a grey background talking to the camera. 😴😴😴

    • @TheMagicCardTraderUK
      @TheMagicCardTraderUK 3 роки тому

      Grey was the new black in the 80s!

    • @bradjones1977
      @bradjones1977 3 роки тому +2

      Alan Rothwell. Played David Barlow, Ken's brother in 1960s Coronation Street. Ran the Corner Shop with wife Irma, for a while, before being killed off screen in Australia in 1970.

    • @nickbussey6971
      @nickbussey6971 2 роки тому +3

      @@tom-66 I'm inclined to agree, he had a calmness about him that drew you in.

    • @mrburgess1698
      @mrburgess1698 2 роки тому +5

      He was enigmatic and down to earth, and so much better than the shouty and inane kids tv presenters of recent years:

  • @David-uf8ex
    @David-uf8ex 6 місяців тому

    Can you imagine todays lawless thugs sitting down to watch this at school

  • @nath7242
    @nath7242 Рік тому

    That guy looks like Edward rictoffen

  • @DeepakVerma-cd4fe
    @DeepakVerma-cd4fe Місяць тому

    There was no wolf in the story when u filmed u should have had a pet wolf a husky

  • @skylined5534
    @skylined5534 Рік тому

    *Stare with Mother*

  • @MrWizzleTeets
    @MrWizzleTeets 3 роки тому +3

    Ducks can't fly according to this educational film for children.

    • @mileslindley3760
      @mileslindley3760 2 роки тому +1

      some can't. Mine can't.

    • @MrWizzleTeets
      @MrWizzleTeets 2 роки тому +3

      @@mileslindley3760 you're not throwing them hard enough

  • @neilrobinsonproperty
    @neilrobinsonproperty 9 місяців тому +1

    Just who on earth thought this would be a good idea for a kids programme? Creepy tune, and Alan Rothwell clearly hates kids, looking and sounding like the creepy uncle you really don't want to be left alone with.