This was a show which otherwise featured an adult reading its young audience a story. Although it was, as far as I recall, a fully acted production, it was screened under the Jackanory brand. It starts as a children's holiday adventure of the Blyton or Saville variety, but later takes a supernatural turn.Īnd it really was dramatised by the BBC in 1969. This is the first book in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series, but is very different in tone from the rest of the series. In it a gang of children ran their own newspaper and I think it has links with the better remembered Here Come the Double Deckers.īut the programme that got most attention was one that no one else remembered: Over Sea, Under Stone. The latter was a serial for children, shown on BBC1 at teatime in 19. The former was a situation comedy with John Bird and John Fortune from 1976 - years after their fame in the original satire boom and more years before their rediscovery when they appeared with Rory Bremner. In reply, the novelist Jonathan Coe told me he remembered both Well Anyway and Adventure Weekly.

It was a little exaggerated - there is a comment on this blog from the man who wrote the music for Gophers! - but largely true.

Gophers! Adventure Weekly Well Anyway Mystery Hall Over Sea, Under Stone American children's series that went on for ever in the 60s and had a water tower Captain Zeppos The Best of Football If You Were Me

Television programmes I remember that no one else does:

Under stone over sea