The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “Too Much Information About The Krankies Elektronik Komik”

The Golden Age Of Children's TV with Tim Worthington and Joanne Sheppard on The Baker Street Boys, Ben Baker on Round The Bend, Ricardo Autobahn on Rainbow, Carrie Dunn on Maid Marian And Her Merry Men and Georgy Jamieson on Bod.

Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties – and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts, laughs and thrills. Joanne Sheppard will be dropping in to follow some unreasonably cryptic – and unreasonably perilous – clues left by Sherlock Holmes for The Baker Street Boys. For all you budding Doc Crocs out there, Ben Baker has a few tips on how to get ahead in actual literal gutter journalism in Round The Bend. Ricardo Autobahn will be putting his pop chart stardom to good use by becoming the latest third member of Rod, Jane And in Rainbow. Carrie Dunn has a few tips on why girls are smarter than boys and she’s seen Maid Marian And Her Merry Men to prove it, and Georgy Jamieson is ready to take your calls about the philosophical ramifications of citrus milkshakes in Bod. So if you want to join in the fun – or just swap a copy of The Giant Spitting Image Komic Book for Derek Griffiths’ Bent Outta Shape – ring the show now!

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The Baker Street Boys (BBC1, 1983) - listen to Joanne Sheppard and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Round The Bend (ITV, 1989-91) - listen to Ben Baker and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Rainbow (ITV, 1972-82) - listen to Ricardo Autobahn and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Maid Marian And Her Merry Men (BBC1, 1989-94) - listen to Carrie Dunn and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Bod (BBC1, 1975) - listen to Georgy Jamieson and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

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There’s tons more about The Baker Street Boys, Round The Bend, Rainbow, Maid Marian And Her Merry Men and Bod in The Golden Age Of Children’s TV, available in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here, from the Kindle Store here and directly from Black And White Publishing here.

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Further Listening

There’s much more on children’s television in Tim’s podcast Looks Unfamiliar including Joanne on The December Rose and The Enchanted Castle here, The Strange World Of Adelaide Harris here, and Blue Peter, Jackanory: Spine Chillers and Dramarama: The Exorcism Of Amy here, Ben on Toksvig here and Roland Rat: The Series and Grange Hill here and Ricardo on The Sooty Show here.