There's a word you'd like to know, break it up in bits like so

[venta]

Hmm. I was about to post the following poll:

[Poll #1878807]

Except it turns out that Wikipedia has a much longer list of stories. And their list doesn't include Peregrine Falcon (which I haven't seen anyway - maybe it belonged in a different series?)

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[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I may have watched more, but Dark Towers is the only one of those whose theme I remember.

Also: magic E!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I reckon I could still sing the theme from Fair Ground if pressed :)

I don't really remember Magic E so well... watching it on youtube now, and it's only vaguely ringing bells. Memory is a capricious thing... since I reckon I could sing the whole of the jingle my subject line comes from :)

[metame.livejournal.com]

I think I missed all this "e-learning" stuff since (at the relevant age) I was raised in a facsimile of 1920s rural England, for reasons that will presumably become apparent in a Dr Who documentary or similar.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I remembe the tune from Magic E but I sort of looked out of the window. I also remember (from the Wikipedia list) Geordie Racer, but I didn't concentrate hard enough to keep track of the plot. We also had Through the Dragon's Eye but the tape was a little bit mangled so every time the teachers put it on, it would get some way through the titles and then mangle itself a bit more. This led to it taking on an air of mythical things you cannot have, almost as magic as trailers for films you weren't allowed to go and see.

[venta.livejournal.com]

e-learning? e-learning? I'm not sure we had that in my day, either. Just sitting cross-legged on the floor round the telly, which was a monstrous thing which lived in its own cupboard.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't think we had the technology of tapes, I think we just had to be in the right room when it was broadcast :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Also, now I've looked at the WIkipedia list I think I might have seen Badger Girl as well. It clearly wasn't as memorable as the others - not that I can significantly remember the plot of the others, merely their existence. And theme songs.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Eeh, when I were a lad we 'ad to read out t'script from stone tablets.

[metame.livejournal.com]

Just sitting cross-legged
Extensor! Exercise! learning
on the floor round the telly
Electric! learning
, which was a monstrous thing
Enormous! learning
which lived in its own cupboard.
Enclosed! learning

We did have a bit of that "round the TV" stuff, but I guess at an older age.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Right, that it's, sack Gove, you're in charge of learning now :)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Although now I come to think of it, I can't swear that it was at school that I watched it. May well have been at home instead and/or as well as at school.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

All this new fangled moving pictures and voices-from-a-box technology passed my little village school by; I remember we had a bookclub where we collected owls (in stickers) to get those, but that was the learning experience as far as reading was concerned.

Collecting owls inofthemselves to get books would not be quite so practical, even the tiniest of owls is a lot of time and energy to devote to in looking after while you try and collect enough to get a book, unless like Futurama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama) the owls have become a pest, or a new breed of micro owls rises up to demand that they be used as currency for a new generation of bookworms or the pound crashes and owls become the go-to-backup when it's discovered that their beaks contain precious amounts of owlonioum....

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, we did owl stickers too. I'd forgotten about that.

Owls are rapidly becoming a pest. Everything in the shops seems to be owl-themed at the moment!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Perhaps owls the new Christmas must have? Are people all burnt out on penguins as Christmas themed avians that an alternative feathered substitute opportunity has opened up in the market and like lemmings the business world is scrabbling to supply their needs with the owl!

New for christmas the owl-toaster oven, burn shapes of a variety of owls using the handy metal plates into your choice of toasted cheese sandwich!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Actually that yellow round thing in the link/picture looks haunting familiar...

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

"Geordie Racer" and "Through The Dragon's Eye" for me!

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Through the Dragon's Eye was the best I saw, by miles. The final epic clash between the odd bird-like dude and the rubbish dragon costume? AMAZING.

Geordie Racer was about learning how to speak like a crazy northerner, and pidgeon racing. Such a disappointment after Dragon's Eye.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Looking at the wikipedia list, Badger Girl sounds vaguely familiar. I may have seen that?

[venta.livejournal.com]

If it's an owl-toaster oven, I wanna toast owls in it, dammit!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the description is a bit generic, but I think I do vaguely remember seeing a fairly generic one as well :)

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

It does sound a bit Enid Blyton-y? I may be confusing it for a Famous Five book or something.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the stories, but I do remember the songs. Why don't you build yourself a word? Derek Griffiths' finest, marvellous.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Having gone and looked it up, I now have a vague memory of The Boy From Space (the 80s version, not the 70s - I'm not that old!)

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking Peregrine Falcon was something else. Maybe Watch.

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Or Kes?

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps Picture Box

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, Wikipedia doesn't know about Watch. And trying to google for it is proving, well, tricky.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

The one I remember most is Badger Girl.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'd forgotten the whole TV-in-a-cupboard thing. Until now.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Oh, those! I don't remember any of the stories, but I do remember Magic E.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, me too, but until now I hadn't realized hwo deprived we were. Had literally never heard of this show at all, but it sounds really great :-(

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Look and Read. And it's called Skyhunter. (The sequel is called Skyhunter 2, dully.)

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=aa956187c7f605ac4e65e657582e0df5&media=skyhunter1978&type=mp4

[venta.livejournal.com]

All the others I listed were Look and Read, certainly. I never saw the relevant one, but people in years above/below at school definitely talked about one called Peregrine Falcon, never Skyhunter. I wonder if it was renamed at some point.