BioTech;234017 wrote:
Can’t remember them to be honest. Must have been just before my time.
yep, by the time you were growing up CITV was controlled by Central and kids shows were starting to be funded by merchandising, the politics of that company were such that they wouldn’t have sacrificed 26 minutes of telly for a public sector funded film made by one of their commercial rivals..
this is also why you don’t see PIFs on kids telly much these days as they want to sell the slots for ads. something like this would cause a massive outcry as the advertisers would complain it scared kids and they might have run away and not seen the ads…
somehow it doesn’t register with todays telly companies that kids what don’t get killed in avoidable accidents tend to be worth far more as present and future consumers….:you_crazy
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..not sure if there is supposed to be an element of humour in there too but there are some quite funny bits.
Although we’re looking at it from the POV of adults, I think some of it is intentional. It was made quite deliberately to look like kids drama programmes of the time, many of which were set on location in the English countryside. It also has elements of the “hammer horror / tales of the unexpected” type of “adult” telly some of us may have then also been watching.
