Clockwork Mouse

[davidn]

So far I've uploaded close to 30 videos from ten different programmes (split into ten-minute sections as needed because of the upload limit). A couple of them have been flagged as containing copyrighted content, but all that happens in that case (if they choose to do so) is that the claimer puts an advert on the page with the video, so for the moment at least, they are still safely preserved.

Since the last time I updated I've put up some of The Flumps, Bertha, Pigeon Street, a series that Tony Robinson did just after Blackadder called Story World, an episode of Watt on Earth (the serial about the morphing alien with backwards ears, written by a couple of the people who also worked on Doctor Who), one episode of Badger Girl from Look and Read, and Hart Beat.

Cluedo is definitely the one in the most demand - I'll have to see if there are more programmes aimed at adults on the tapes - but I think my favourite so far is something in the middle of Hart Beat that caught my eye, and I thought it was hilarious enough to earn its own separate video. It's a 30-second stop-motion piece, presumably by Tony Hart, that shows a clockwork mouse outwitting a mousetrap.

Comments

[lordrosemount.livejournal.com]

I'll vote for Cluedo too. Do you have any other series apart from the second? If so, it'd be great if in time you could get the whole lot up! But I did notice that someone else (a Joanna Lumley fan) has already put up Season 5, so instead of uploading them, if you were considering it, it might be a good idea to stick them in your 'favourite videos' just to make them easier for people to find.

Incidentally did you know that the format was exported to several other countries? I beleve Australia was the only English-speaking country to have it, but I'd love to see what they did with the show - unfortunately Youtube draws a blank.

[davidn]

I'm honestly not sure about which episodes of Cluedo we have - it was actually a complete surprise to me that one of them turned up at all, but if we had that it's likely that there are others from about the same era.

And yes, I'm trying to avoid uploading duplicates - I did see that the Nicholas Parsons-Joanna Lumley-Richard Madeley ones had been uploaded, so that was a welcome surprise! The idea of putting them in Favourites is a good one, actually, to sort of keep them together...

I was sure that I'd seen some bits of the Australian one on there, actually, but it's possible I was just confused by the episode titles.

[lordrosemount.livejournal.com]

I just had a look, and the only thing I could find was some kind of clip from an episode of the Swedish programme:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ezcCEE705l4

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

Wow, the surprise ending is what makes that.

Sadly, I don't think I ever watched any of the shows on your list. I only really watched kids' programming when I was quite young and so had a healthy diet of Thundercats, Voltron, and The A-Team but nothing much post-late-80s.

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

That's rather cute!

I think all this exposure to your LJ has made me start my own again. In theory this shouldn't be another abortive attempt...