The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “Ivor The Engine: The Next Generation”

The Golden Age Of Children's TV with Mitch Benn on Clangers, Hilary Machell on Go With Noakes, Garry Abbott on Button Moon, Paul Kirkley on Saturday Superstore and Andy Lewis on The Changes.

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. If you’re looking for a new hobby to take up and fancy a bit of fresh air, Hilary Machell has a few tips for getting out and about with Go With Noakes. Andy Lewis will be joining us in the studio for a look at some of the locations used in the exciting new serial The Changes. Garry Abbott will be giving us all the up to the minute scientific facts and figures on the latest expedition to Button Moon, Mitch Benn will be dropping by to show us how you can sound like the stars of Clangers, and do we have a rival in our mist? Paul Kirkley is on hand to man the phones and check out the score down at Saturday Superstore. So if you want to join in the fun – or just swap a copy of Noakes At Large for a copy of Super Claire by Claire Usher – ring the show now!

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Clangers (BBC1, 1969-74) - listen to Mitch Benn and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Go With Noakes (BBC1, 1976-80) - listen to Hilary Machell and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Button Moon (ITV, 1980-88) - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

Saturday Superstore (BBC1, 1982-87) - listen to Paul Kirkley and Tim Worthington talking about it in The Golden Age Of Children's TV.

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

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Further Listening

There’s much more on children’s television in Tim’s podcast Looks Unfamiliar including Mitch on Nobody’s House here, Rainbow here, Star Turn and Grange Hill here, Eureka! here and Space Sentinels here, Hilary on Noah And Nelly In SkylArk and CBTV here, Paul on The Saturday Picture Show here and Andy on The Secret Of Steel City and The Aeronauts here.