An oddball collection of easy listening show tunes inspired by the children’s TV favourites of the early 1970s.
Tag: children’s TV
Thunderbirds Are Go – Exhausting Audio Action From International Rescue
Tension overload in a breathless and relentless audio adventure from 1966.
Rainbow Rising: The Oddly Dour Children’s Folk Songs Of Telltale
The odd folk-rock soundtrack to the legendary children’s TV show is an odd mix of jollity and depression.
I Want A Monster To be My Friend – Sesame Street’s Banned Song
The educational TV show’s song encouraging kids not to be afraid of imaginary monsters has some unfortunate lyrics.
The Boy From Space: BBC Juvenile Science Fiction
The vintage children’s TV science fiction show from the 1970s.
Kate Bush On Swap Shop
The collision of a serious artist and Saturday morning TV phone-ins.
Jon Pertwee’s Novelty Songs
The Doctor Who and Worzel Gummidge records from the third Doctor.
Turtle Power – A Grown Man’s Introduction To The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A belated discovery of a 1980s cultural phenomenon.
Roobarb and Custard – Bob Godfrey’s Cartoon Classic Remembered
The absurdist, rather hallucinogenic cartoon series remains a bizarre highlight of 1970s TV.
I Am Big Bird – The Story of Caroll Spinney
Looking at the life of the man inside the costume of one of children’s TV’s most iconic characters.
Animal Kwackers -A Very Strange Pop Music Primer For 1970s Kids
Curious pop cover versions by men in animal costumes in an oddball 1970s children’s TV show.
