what was going on with daytime school tv back then

[joefish]

Peter Serafinowicz's first series of Look Around You was a brilliant spoof of the 'BBC Programmes for Schools and Colleges'. They were fairly short programmes, but had the countdown clock, dodgy beards and patronising voice-overs spot-on. If you've only ever seen the second series (which spoofed early Tomorrow's World) the first ones are well worth checking out.

[Liamh1982]

^ Got the first series on DVD, was slightly disappointed in the second - what worked in 10 minute chunks was hard to sustain over 30.

[DoctorForbin]

Remember back in the day when there used to be school programmes on channel 4

No. There were only 3 channels when I was at school.

For some reason we only ever got to see them on tape. My theory is if the teacher was particularly hungover, they'd suddenly say it was am AV Period and sling on a tape.

[SpecChum81]

I remember these!!

Another nice little trip down memory lane!

[joefish]

^ Got the first series on DVD, was slightly disappointed in the second - what worked in 10 minute chunks was hard to sustain over 30.

True. Although the different approach helped. The visit from an 80s Prince Charles, combining genuine archive footage with back-views of a stand-in and partially lip-synched dialogue from an impersonator was an outstanding bit of editing.

[parappa]

I remember a man called Leonard Hatred who wanted to spray peoples mouths shut, lol.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

We always had the Magic Pencil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8n5VAfT ... re=related

After a couple of years of this, it looked (to me) like the Magic Pencil was running out of ink/lead/magic dust. That was a sad day.

EDIT:

Oh, and Playbox as well! Me and my brother used to empty our toy box and get into it to re-enact this stuff.