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Oh and I remember loving the serialisation of The Diddakoi too. I've got the paperback too and read it to the DD's when they were younger

sulkygirl I am the Mary Plain fan and I've got the Family from One End Street books too, love those too

I know so many "Kizzy" named after that book.

Kizzy is based on the book 'The Diddakoi'. Loved it.

I love the Family from One End Street, too.

Can anyone remember Kizzy? It was about a gypsy girl who went to a village primary school and the hard time the other kids gave her.

Also a BBC childrens series called The Changes (I think) about when the world can no longer generate electricity. This plot seems to have been nicked by a new SciFi series 'Revolution'.

Limited, it was one the most cheesy films I've ever watched, but it had me glued to my chair when I was a youngster [ancient old bag emoticon]. You can have a nosey on the link.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtrqXBfiE4

Thanks to whoever it was for reminding me of Mary Plain!
Anyone remember The Family from One End Street?
Seven Little Australians on telly?
The surviving one from Flanders and Swann performed once on our 'school birthday' to an audience of very unappreciative girls. I felt for him.

Oh the Carbonel books, I have all three of those too. I read them to my DD's when they were younger, they adored them too!

Jules - I adored Carbonel! thanks for putting the Amazon link up.

Me too! Was about 15 I think, and adored him in it.

I loved The Monocled Mutineer, and loved Paul Mcgann in it.

Oh yes, Frank Finlay fancying his daughter and the daughter's husband shagging the MIL. Loved it.

YY to Housecall, Cherry being the main one I remember, so unintentionally funny. Think I used to watch it as a reward during revision time as light relief

Will have to look on YouTube, haven't thought about it in over 20 years

And I thought I'd imagined the chocolate bars made of up individual chocolates welded together

Bouquet of Barbed Wire anyone? Didn't understand it, well past my bedtime, but knew it was risque and remember odd bits from it. No idea how I managed to see it

Don't think into the west is the right one, it was made in 1992 and I saw it a few yeas befoe that, on holiday in Dublin. Anyone emember the 'Just Musk' ad on telly?

Yugoslavia was the first foreign place I'd ever been. We went to Dubrovnik.

My mum used to drag me on coach trips. I was the only one in my family too young to resist.

I've been travel sick in some of the premier beauty spots of England and also in a vinyl washbag on a terrifying hairpin bend on the way to Montenegro.

I loved that show: my parents took me to visit Lipica when we were on holiday in what was then Yugoslavia (does anyone remember that?!).

<sings> On white horses, snowy white horses, let meee riiide aaawaaayy...

Sing with me

Bumply I know what you mean but that was the charm really. Kids doing stuff that I would never have been allowed to do. Same with the Famous Five. I longed to go on camping trips with no adults around and have amazing adventures.

Ada I do remember Belle and Sebastian but I don't remember the Russian ballet school thing. It really doesn't ring any bells with me whatsoever.

limited I never really got into Follyfoot in the same way, probably because of drippy Dora .

But I wanted to be Julia from White Horses. When I was aged between 11 and 17 it was my ambition to have a Lipizzaner called Boris.

Sort of still is, if the truth be told.

To those of you who remember "White Horses" and "Belle & Sebastian", shown only in the school holidays, do you remember a series set in a Russian ballet school? The main incident I recall was when one girl locked another on the roof. What I do remember is the continuity announcer saying the programme had only been borrowed from Russia for three years and, now it had been shown three times, they had to send it back and we would never see it again. Did I imagine this?

I've read a couple of the Fell Farm books.
The one I remember they were hiking on their own, took a wrong turn in the fog and ended up 70 odd miles by road from where they should have been. Hitched a lift on a hay cart.
These days they wouldn't be allowed out hiking on their own, or at least the alarm would have been raised

No, chiggers but that reminds me of a so-bad-it's-good '50s film called Fiend Without A Face where a nuclear power station creates evil monsters

They're invisible at first but the growing radiation reveals them to be brains that shuffle along on their spinal columns and little arm-like nerves before leaping at you and sucking your brains out.

Tartex is great in cakes.

picnic at hanging rock was made up story, love the sound track.

Has anyone heard of the thriller/horror movie "The Deadly Spawn"? The spawn are creatures that look like teeth and gums. I think it was released in the 80's IIRC.

sonia I'm a nutty horse person who used to watch White Horses and Follyfoot and think: 'why have they got people in it?'

Follyfoot wasn't about horses at all. It was about drippy Dora's love life.

I think I should have watched The Riff Raff Element and Cutting It and Tutti Frutti too. I know they're not obscure but I think I missed out. I must have had a social life while they were on the telly.