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The Flashing Blade (Le Chevalier Tempête) is a French television serial made in the late 1960s, which was broadcast in the UK on BBC children's television during the 1960s, with several re-runs in the early 1970s.
Dubbed from French into English, the action was set in 17th century France, during a period of war between France and Spain.
The dubbing was not exactly brilliant, so in the 1980s John Culshaw redubbed a comedy version (which is the one I remember best).
In the '60s and '70s the BBC had a habit of buying childrens programmes from European countries which were then very badly dubbed into English - often to hilarious effect.
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childrens
tv
bbc
adventure
funny
Added: 11th July 2007
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British stop motion animated children's television series. The first episode was broadcast by the BBC on November 16, 1969 and a further twenty-five episodes were made. The twenty sixth episode was broadcast on November 10, 1972 and the final Clangers programme was a four minute election special on October 10, 1974. The programme featured a number of small creatures living in peace and harmony on - and in - a small, hollow planet far far away, nourished by Blue String Pudding, and Green Soup harvested from the planet's volcanic soup wells by the Soup Dragon. The Clangers looked similar to mice and anteaters, though they were pink, wore clothes, and spoke in whistles. These whistles (performed on swanee whistles)followed the rhythm and intonation of a script in the English language, including swear-words!
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childrens
animated
TV
BBC
Added: 11th July 2007
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SuperTed is a Welsh language animated television series from the United Kingdom that first aired on 1 November 1982. It was commissioned by Welsh television channel S4C, and later dubbed into English for BBC1 and dubbed into Irish for TG4. The series won numerous awards, including the 1987 BAFTA for best animation. In 1984, Superted became the first British cartoon series to be bought by Disney, to be aired on the Disney cable channel in the US. The series was redubbed with American voice-overs for the 1985 airing.
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childrens
tv
animation
Added: 13th July 2007
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As an April Fools joke in 1957, the respected BBC program Panorama broadcast this bogus news feature about the springtime spaghetti harvest...in Switzerland. Many people were duped by the prank and contacted the BBC to request more information about spaghetti farming.
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spaghetti
harvest
hoax
Added: 1st October 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |

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First performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first ever live global television link. Broadcast to 26 countries and watched by 350 million people, the programme was broadcast via satellite on June 25, 1967. The BBC had commissioned The Beatles to write a song for the UK's contribution and this was the result. It is among the most famous and significant songs performed by the group.
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the
beatles
all
you
need
is
love
bbc
television
Added: 11th October 2007
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Posted By: Guido |

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The great Nat King Cole sings Ramblin' Rose in his 1961 BBC concert. (This clip has been colorized.) He invites you to sing along with him. How can you refuse?
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King
Cole
Added: 16th October 2007
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A young Drew talks about how she got the part in E.T. in an interview from 1982.
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drew
barrymore
et
BBC
interview
Added: 18th October 2007
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Posted By: Guido |

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