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Today in pulp... I homeschool with some classic programmes for schools and colleges!
Wheel in the school TV... #FridayFeeling
Wheel in the school TV... #FridayFeeling
Both the BBC and ITV produced a range of TV programmes to help with the school syllabus from the 1970s onwards. As a treat you got to suit cross-legged in the school library in front of the & #39;school telly& #39; - a monstrous thing in a wooden cabinet on wheels!
Look and Read was one of the longest-running BBC educational programmes, starting in 1967 and continuing up to 2004. It was fronted by Wordy - a nightmare-inducing floating goofball typewriter head! Who thought that was a good idea?
Look and Read featured a story for viewers to follow across the weeks, many of which are now classic tales such as The Boy From Space and Geordie Racer.
ITV& #39;s flagship story programme was Picture Box, with Alan Rothwell. A Badic TV storytime show it did feature the most terrifying opening titles ever - more like a supernatural horror show than schools TV!
History was covered by How We Used To Live - Yorkshire TV& #39;s soap opera of the past covering everything from the Victorians up to the swinging 60s. It did feel like watching The Sullivans at times...
Experiment was just that - a video of an experiment for schools with no chemistry labs. You had to take down readings from the screen whilst listening to a disembodied scientist point at Leibig condenses with a pencil. All very surreal...
Zig Zag was the show with the exciting futuristic titles making the slightly dull magazine-type content: history, science and geography for seven year olds. Oh how cheated we felt!
