Chockablock - Crow - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2008
- BBC preschool programme from 1981, presented alternately by Carol Leader (as in this video - she looks rather a lot more manic than I remember) and Fred Harris (interestingly, before he became an actual schools IT programme presenter).
This one's about a crow, apparently. And I'm sure I wasn't the only one who wanted one of those yellow buggies.
I was born here in 1980, from European parents. I never forgot this opening scene and the accompanying music. Now that I have the opportunity to view it again after several decades, I can comfortably say it reminds me of - England :-)
I broke several drawers at home due to this programme.
Me too!
brilliant :p
For all those people being rude about the presenter Carol Leader - she is my Mum! (cue predictable storm of offensive spam...). She's less mad in real life. A bit. Went on to have a successful acting career in the 1980s, and this was probably not her finest moment. Although given the number of people who used to come up to her in the street when I was a kid because they recognised her, this show (and the more famous Playschool) was inexplicably popular... Anyway, thanks for the upload.
jleadermaynard Your Mum was truly wonderful on this show. Many happy happy memories for myself and my sister watching and singing along. Your Mums infectious enthusiasm and ability to communicate to children through the television is still very much loved and appreciated.
I loved this programme. Your Mum was awesome!
Dorothy from Flambards! Loved her.
Your mum was my favourite tv presenter and this was my favourite show
I loved your mum as a child! She made me feel so comfortable & warm after my Dad died when I was a Baba! She was a wonderful presenter!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I desperately wanted that car and I longed to press those buttons as a kid! I found it fascinating 😂
Me too!
I remember in the early 1980s, this show seemed mind-blowingly futuristic!
@Jack Brown surely tape-powered mainframe computers were already a thing of the Frank Spencer-ish past
🤣😂🤭
Well the computer was designed to look like mainframe computers of the time, so they were fairly accurate apart from a couple of artistic design alterations.
I used to want to work in a factory because of this, now i work in a factory :(
that is so funny. ...but I did love chockablock. ...!!!
chocabitch.
why you sad then? your dream cam true.
Are you manufacturing big pink vibrators ?
You must absolutely LOVE Bertha, then.
I REALLY REALLY wanted that little car!
I still do!!
This was the first thing I ever watched on TV, I was fascinated by it. Ended up studying IT as a result.
I loved this when I was little .. We had fab tv!!!
That's fantastic :) Simple though it seems today, I grew up with this programme and loved it at the time. I try to log in and prune the more appalling comments every so often, but it's a losing battle.
#999
I knew it was a crow, even before the picture came up. EASY. NEXT
Wow! I remember sitting on the floor in the school library watching this. As others have said, I always wanted one of the cars which they rode around on. The buttons are really vivid in my memory too.
I recently taught in the very same school and wish I'd shown my year fives this video - they'd have found it hilarious for sure!
I so wanted one of those trucks as well, can't believe that there is a comment about somebody else wanting one. I'm a 30 year IT consultant now, I wonder if this program spurred me on lol!
Thanks for this, fantastic memories. ACE!!
Good grief - I had COMPLETELY forgotten about this - used to watch it all the time!!!
Wow this was my favourite programme as a very young kid, it was really spellbinding :)
I haven't seen it since I was a toddler so I'm ridiculously excited to find it on here! It's amazing how much I remember of this. So many happy memories!
I used to LOVE this as a kid. Thanks for sharing it takes me right back. :)
It’s so bloody weird because I can remember how I saw all the buttons and things as a baby! Sounds weird but they were so vivid!!!!
Oh my god, I've been vaguely remembering this show for years without being able to remember the name...
And this particular episode, too.
Thank you, RockPaperScissors!
Remember thinking at that time that I wish I had that car she drove
This is what the 21st century looked like to us kids in the 80s - and it could have if only we'd had the nerve to bring it into being. Damn you, 2020, you had the future at your fingertips but you threw it all away!
i seem to be the only one from my year at school who remembers chockablock...i loved it as a kid.....bring it back lol
I grew up thinking chock-a-block and chock-a-truck were actually silver and not yellow? Watching this really confused me!?...
Then I remembered we only had a B&W TV in the early 80's. 😂
My favorite TV programme as a kid :) THANK U 4 SHARING THIS
the memories are flooding back! and no, tributetothepast, you weren't the only one who wanted one those buggies! lol!
I loved that when it was on! , sea saw it had a different program every day! The flumps , brick a brack , king what ever his name was , mr ben , ect.
I used to watch this, bloomin' brilliant!
This is one of the first programmes I remember watching, I loved it!
I loved Carol Leader and Cloe Ashcroft, wonderful presenters fond memories from Playschool.
When I was three watching this, I really really REALLY wanted that little yellow car!
Carol Leader appears in ITV world-war one aviation drama 'Flambards' - first aired around 1981.
This is blooming marvelous! :)
Think this could quite possibly be my earliest memory of television apart from Mr Ben.
So happy i found the video of it! so people dont think i am mad explaining it to them
I used to adore this programme! I also wanted a car and the goggles.
Brings back so many great childhood memories from the 80s!
I was also born in 1979 and remember this very,very well, I too wanted the wee car that carol had!
Born in 1980 and remember this so well, one of my earliest memories of tv, must have been repeated in 83,84,85.... Can't remember tv from the age if 1???
Omg! I wanted this computer in my front room!!!! & that buggy!!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Choca buggy!!!! CAWWWWWW!!! I loved those graphics!!!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brilliant. I broke a drawer in my mum's sideboard trying to sit on it like a chair - all cos I saw it on chockablock. And they say the youth aren't influenced by what they see on TV.
Primary school lol. Thanks for sharing.x
I, for one, have fond memories of those shows. A lot of the programming back then was a bit mad (mostly in a good way) and/ or psychedelic - who knows what the creators had been smoking - but presenters such as Fred Harris and Carol Leader were the bee's knees of our TV-watching childhood... Silly as a lot of these programmes were, they seemed to have an innocence and an earnestness that has long since disappeared.
Brings me back
Oh how I LOVED this show. I wanted to press all the buttons so badly :)
We would have had the time of our lives playing on those computers back in the day
I recall watching Chock A Block on many occasions not just the first time round. Play School regulars Carol Leader and Fred Harris took it in turns to appear on Chock A Block during its run.
This is so cool. Chockagirl is like a sound engineer using a mixing console that dispenses plushies! :D
If I wait, when this video ends will Bric-a-brac with Brian Cant be on next?
I loved this show. :)
I'm 11 and my dad got me into this stuff and I like it
going to work on mushrooms must be is like this 😂
oh dear i remember watching this lol !
Used to watch this in the early eighties. Carol Leader Still Seems old to me, but in this video she's only a year older than I am now!
This is legendary
I loved this programme when I was too young to remember. BBC Micro Computer graphics? Thanks for sharing!
I'm sure I remember having to sit through this at school back in the 80's
"Choco girl checking in" ha ha this brings back memory's.
Loved this, everything is just so chunky chocka chickka chocka,graaa fakkin loved chockablock. I was 2 when this first aired,gotta be my first TV memory. I blame it for all the drugs i did in the late 90's. Chockafakkintastic
I loved this programme, i always wanted the little car lol.
My childhood right here xx
Haha, this is such a trip, I wanna be 4 years old again.....
aww I remember Carol from 'Playschool' too..happy days xx
I'm sure Shelagh Gilby also presented this occasionally!
Oh cool! Carol Leader being your mum , shes a legend! Great to hear! Hope she is doing great things now , I haerd she was doing childrens TV for children of miltary fathers.
oh wow i remember this...i'm getting old
Ahhh I remeber this exact episode from when I must have been around 4 or 5! I'm guessing my parents hsd these on video or they were repeated as it would have been about 89-90 when I watched them. Also yes, I really REALLY wanted one of those buggies!
Same here, dude. This was my favorite show.. it seemed so futuristic and cool. I wanted the truck and I wanted a big yellow computer like that in my bedroom.
Caruska you've made my day. I think its the same for Orange network!
And to think the archive tapes of this show survived all the way from 1981 till 1993, at which point they were erased/skipped and only VHS copies now exist.
BTW I believe Chock-A-Block was inspired not only by the Commodore VIC-20 but also the Akai X-8010 combo reel-to-reel/8-Track cartridge recorder!
Great upload - thanks! I'm not sure why I'm disappointed computers never turned out like Chockablock, but I am...
Broadcast on 25th January 1983, according to the chockaclock.
That was some next level compuational shizzle back then.
I remember this!!
:) Yes, their size as shown here made carrying them around without a buggy difficult, for a start...
Weaned on this. No wonder I wound up listening to electro and fixing aircraft!
Chocatruck is awesome!!
@billybifocals,
Me too, you know what, I believe this is why I got into IT as well! I remember ALL of this but I've not seen it since I was 2 or 3. Fantastic!
@dragonfitter Love that...my mate told me he had Kit in his shed....made it himself....we never saw it!
Chockablock is better viewing than the news.
Jesus what was this ha ha.Its weird.Used to watch it all the time😃
Oh god this came up randomly and I am having such a nostalgia attack. The thing is I don't remember the show at all, just images. The little car, the pulsing light pattern and that machine. It's like wisps of memory at the very edge of my mind. An intense experience.
I'm exactly the same, I only remembered a few images and have been wracking my brain for years trying to remember the name of the show. The only reason I even remembered a few images is because we had a big reel to reel tape machine in our house and as a kid I was obsessed with it. It's strange when you watch something so old and then it all comes flooding back.
I can just rember watching this. My only excuse was that there were only three TV stations then.
I used to watch this when I was but a small child. Is it me, or has British children's TV become a lot less British, a lot less educational and a lot less gentle since the 80s?
Yes.
Blame Tony Blair for opening the floodgates for immigrants...
If you watch CBeebies it's still quite gentle and educational. It's all the other kids channels that are different now.
@Silky24 My thoughts exactly! Just the car practically never made me forget the entire thing!
I always wanted the truck. It's like an older relative of Brum.
I remember this but I was 9 in 1981. Why was I watching a pre-school programme when I was 9?
Did you not see that great little car she drove in?
It was still being shown in 1985. They used to repeat shows like this a lot.
because it was 1981 -
@davejacko Yes, the almighty Fred Harris also presented this - about half the episodes, if I remember right.
I actually thought I'd imagined this show, for years nobody I knew had heard of it when I described it to them & I couldn't remember it's name
Same!
THis brings back memories, do you have any that Fred Harris presented.
2:30 Mary looks like Queen Elizabeth 1st.
Used to love this programme when I was little.
I admit, I just love the sound of the music. It sounds like one of those Bontempi home air organs - and is that seriously a vocoder in 1982?
Way ahead of it's time. lol.
Chockablock must have been put together with components of a BBC Micro :o)
Brill love it
Nevermind the chocatruck - I want one of those computers!
that intro, all i can think is "Mr. Smith i need you"
fucking hell for years i always tried to remember the name of this show people taught i was making it up but here it is
Is it possible to download the Chockablock Theme Tune from Spotify?
Leader = Legend
today this is an apple phone
The car is'nt the same as I remember it,..still ace to see it again
I used to LOVE this show back when i was little ! It would probably never get made nowa days cause technology's moved on so much. Perhaps they could repeat it on Cbeebies or something?
After watching every episode, I always asked my mum for a Chockablock car but, sadly, never got one :(