Old TV shows & personalities

[bluebell]

emmerdale farm when it was about farming ?

 

[Gordy1]

I like the old Jack Hargreaves shows, and have been given DVDs of the lot of them by Mrs Danllan. He was a very good presenter and very knowledgeable, he'd been a very high-powered TV executive too.

But he was also a bit of a fraud, he often claimed great poverty when he was growing up, yet he (with his brothers) was sent to the same public school that I went to and then on to the Royal Veterinary College (although he did have to leave that when his father's business went downhill).

Nonetheless, his shows are still very popular online and my children regard them as a treat; I'm sure that they would go down well and do good nationally if broadcast again, but what chance of that happening?

Theme tune/ Song "out of town" sung by Max Bygraves then later the theme tune was a piece by Francisco Tarrega " Merories of Alhambra"
Jack Hargreaves reckons he found the record in a shop in Holland I think it was, he said it reminded him of horses ploughing a field so used it for his theme music for out of town, it works I reckon.

 

[Paddington]

Can't get the Van Der Valk "Eye Level" tune off my mind now - tum diddy tum diddy tum tum tum tum, tum tum tum diddy tum tum tumm

 

[TheTallGuy]

Can't get the Van Der Valk "Eye Level" tune off my mind now - tum diddy tum diddy tum tum tum tum, tum tum tum diddy tum tum tumm

I usually end up whistling it off key & out of tune 

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Would there really be any point on putting an agricultural show on tv, as there has been lots of threads on here just pulling them to bits, does not matter what they do, someone always picks faults, they are never happy ,

 

[Danllan]

Theme tune/ Song "out of town" sung by Max Bygraves then later the theme tune was a piece by Francisco Tarrega " Merories of Alhambra"
Jack Hargreaves reckons he found the record in a shop in Holland I think it was, he said it reminded him of horses ploughing a field so used it for his theme music for out of town, it works I reckon.

A beautiful arrangement of the tune and you're right it fits perfectly with the series, but the Dutch story is a myth. The version used by JH was performed by a chap called Jonathon Coudrille (and his group Late November) who, apart from having a quite spectacular moustache and being a very good musician, was a musical director at Southern Television.

 

[Gordy1]

Can't get the Van Der Valk "Eye Level" tune off my mind now - tum diddy tum diddy tum tum tum tum, tum tum tum diddy tum tum tumm

Dammmmm it!!! It's in my head now......that's that for the day!!!!

 

[Still Farming]

Dammmmm it!!! It's in my head now......that's that for the day!!!!

Grey haired chap ?
Also iron side wheelchair detective simular?

 

[Still Farming]

emmerdale farm when it was about farming ?

Drugs, under age teacher pedo , disabled, mixed race, wife swapping etc etc.everyday stuff now is it???
Old matt dipping sheep long gone?
How will farmers know what to do these days as was topical threads???

 

[Gordy1]

emmerdale farm when it was about farming ?

Yes,.....they soon ruined that when the townies moved in & knocked the name "farm" off the title, I always remember watching it when I was a young lad they had a brand new Leyland tractor...I thought how could a small farm like that afford a brand new shiny blue Leyland tractor.......happy days.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Yes,.....they soon ruined that when the townies moved in & knocked the name "farm" off the title, I always remember watching it when I was a young lad they had a brand new Leyland tractor...I thought how could a small farm like that afford a brand new shiny blue Leyland tractor.......happy days.

Unfortunately, farming just isn't exciting enough these days!

 

[Prairie]

I was always led to believe it was a farm outside of Inkberrow were the Bull pub is that Brookfield farm was based on in the Archer's, Gordy1,but that was many years ago.

 

[Muddyroads]

Fred Dibnah’s programmes were the ones for me. Whether he was scaling chimneys or rebuilding traction engines, that man was a legend. Maybe not strictly farming, but he could have taken the bodging thread to a whole new level!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Would there really be any point on putting an agricultural show on tv, as there has been lots of threads on here just pulling them to bits, does not matter what they do, someone always picks faults, they are never happy ,

This farming life
Lambing live
Mud sweat and tractors
All seem to have gone down well, I’m sure there’s others.

 

[robcollins]

Feirm Factor (Farm Factor) was good to watch, but I think it didn’t do too well in the ratings. Kind of a competitive farming programme with farm tasks.

I’m sure you might find a bit on YouTube.

Hands would be worth a search. Filmed in Ireland in the Seventies, showing different trades. You can buy the box set, bit expensive though.

 

[Scribus]

Fred Dibnah’s programmes were the ones for me. Whether he was scaling chimneys or rebuilding traction engines, that man was a legend. Maybe not strictly farming, but he could have taken the bodging thread to a whole new level!

He was always cutting across people or butting in just as they were about to say something interesting, it's as if he hated having the competition. Didn't like the guy TBH.

 

[Scribus]

I've been watching the rerun of The World at War. An absolute classic in its day, the producers had decided that they had better talk to the movers and shakers of the conflict while they were still alive. Now, over 40 years later, it is still fascinating, but for different reasons. As a kid I loved the bangs and machines but now I wonder at the sheer futility of the death and destruction. The glimpse into the establishment mindset of the seventies is also a treasure. Mountbatten, considering worthwhile, almost necessary in fact, to waste lives in actions that were undertaken not for any territorial advantage but to test ideas and future strategies, an American general boasting of the ability to take causalities and so on.

we have certainly, and thankfully, moved on, but I'm not so sure that the establishment has let go of the notion that we are still fodder to be exploited, just in a different way.

 

[PSQ]

I've been watching the rerun of The World at War. An absolute classic in its day, the producers had decided that they had better talk to the movers and shakers of the conflict while they were still alive. Now, over 40 years later, it is still fascinating, but for different reasons. As a kid I loved the bangs and machines but now I wonder at the sheer futility of the death and destruction. The glimpse into the establishment mindset of the seventies is also a treasure. Mountbatten, considering worthwhile, almost necessary in fact, to waste lives in actions that were undertaken not for any territorial advantage but to test ideas and future strategies, an American general boasting of the ability to take causalities and so on.

we have certainly, and thankfully, moved on, but I'm not so sure that the establishment has let go of the notion that we are still fodder to be exploited, just in a different way.

Narrated by Laurence Olivier. Fantastic series, but as you say for different reasons as you get older. Grew up with a few WW2 veterans, all gone now.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Fred Dibnah’s programmes were the ones for me. Whether he was scaling chimneys or rebuilding traction engines, that man was a legend. Maybe not strictly farming, but he could have taken the bodging thread to a whole new level!

The early Dibnah stuff was okay, but the last couple of series were mostly guff & ego - particularly when he was talking to the camera. Balls of steel though - I watched an old clip a while ago where he was erecting ladders up a tower with a big overhang with no safety line or anything!