Favourite Wanderly Wagon Character?

ecksor · 21-11-2004 6:54pm #1

Mine is Judge. Always the man to ask on Wanderly Wagon, he knew what the score was.

DMC · 21-11-2004 7:00pm

Aye, Judge was the man, or the dog.

He taught me all I know... crossing the road, for instance...

Our man in Havana · 21-11-2004 7:02pm

Crow was mine!

sceptre · 22-11-2004 12:44am

Aye, Mr Crow for me. It's almost always the one who might be able to understand sarcasm.

sceptre · 22-11-2004 12:48am

As for crossing the road, I'm afraid I learned very little from Judge. I rarely look for a safe place, I tend to hurry rather than stop and wait, don't look all around, screw letting the traffic pass me, can't even remember the next bit and (unless it's the bit about crossing, I do that) obviously don't keep watching while those murderous fools in cars try to hit me. I had the Judge badge that was compulsory issue for kids in the early 80s though.

So what I really want to know if that when the wagon visited Earth, why did they always choose to trundle around Irish roads in preference to anywhere else. I suppose that's a query for a different thread though.

Zombienosh · 22-11-2004 12:51am

it shud be re released on dvd
oh the fun

ecksor · 22-11-2004 1:10am

It'd be great, but I seem to remember someone posting somewhere once that the original tapes were destroyed

smoke.me.a.kipper · 22-11-2004 1:59pm

Judge.

gonker · 22-11-2004 9:25pm

1 look for a safe place
2 dont hurry stop and wait
3 look all around and listen before you cross the road
remember
4 let all the traffic pass you
5 and walking straight across you
6 keep watching thats the safe cross code..thats the safe cross code
know the safe cross code....know the code

Im sad

Judge was my favourite

of course

DMC · 22-11-2004 11:15pm

Time to change this into a poll

pickarooney · 23-11-2004 12:55am

Dr. Astro, he was some ho-boy.

DublinWriter · 23-11-2004 2:24am

sceptre wrote:

I had the Judge badge that was compulsory issue for kids in the early 80s though.

Christ I'm getting old. I remember getting my Judge badge from my teacher in class 1977 when I was 7 after he asked me the mandatory questions required to earn one.

Bear in mind that this was the same psychotic teacher who literally used to flog 7 year olds for getting sums wrong. Ahhhh, the 70's. God, I'd like to meet him now.

I've been driving around Dublin a lot lately and have noticed just how kamikazi Dublin pedestrians seem to be getting. Time for another TV-related brainwashing exercise on the kids I think.

Beruthiel · 23-11-2004 11:26am

come on you guys!

sissssssssssssssssssssneaky snake was by far the bestest!

Kêrmêttê · 24-11-2004 11:51am

gonker wrote:

1 look for a safe place
2 dont hurry stop and wait
3 look all around and listen before you cross the road
remember
4 let all the traffic pass you
5 and walking straight across you
6 keep watching thats the safe cross code..thats the safe cross code
know the safe cross code....know the code

Im sad

Judge was my favourite of course

Gotta agree with gonker here. Judge was definitely the best.
Apparently he makes guest appearances at the Lambert Puppet Theatre in Dun Laoghaire regularly.

PH01 · 24-11-2004 1:29pm

There's no mention of the Squirrels in the poll! Where's the Squirrels?! They scared the bejayzuss out of me!

Which character was it who went off to the Moon to stop the mice eating it? He was there for the first few shows then he pissed off to the Moon. Who was that?

Zombienosh · 24-11-2004 1:33pm

"Oh no, Judge! I've eaten too many sweets!" - O'Brien

"Oh no, O'Brien! You've eaten too many sweets!" -Judge

"Caw Caw, Caw Caw, What's the time? I don't know! Do you?" - Mr. Crow

memphis · 24-11-2004 3:20pm

gonker wrote:

1 look for a safe place
2 dont hurry stop and wait
3 look all around and listen before you cross the road
remember
4 let all the traffic pass you
5 and walking straight across you
6 keep watching thats the safe cross code..thats the safe cross code
know the safe cross code....know the code

Im sad

Judge was my favourite of course

Lol

I remember it like it was yesterday, god, those were the days.

Judge tops the poll for me anyways!

Nukem · 24-11-2004 3:56pm

Has to be crow all the way!

pickarooney · 24-11-2004 4:00pm

PH01 wrote:

There's no mention of the Squirrels in the poll! Where's the Squirrels?! They scared the bejayzuss out of me!

Which character was it who went off to the Moon to stop the mice eating it? He was there for the first few shows then he pissed off to the Moon. Who was that?

I think that was Rory.

It was only last year that I finally understodd wtf step 5 of the Safe Cross Code was.

"The walking straight across you." ????

I'm sure it almost cost me my life on several occasions as I struggled with the hidden meaning of that contorted syntax mid-crossing.

I needed my sister to point out that the full-stop was a comma before it finally sank in and I was at last able to cross the road in relative comfort.

SprostonGreen · 24-11-2004 4:05pm

Has to be Judge, he is the Don.

doh.ie · 24-11-2004 4:38pm

DublinWriter wrote:

Christ I'm getting old. I remember getting my Judge badge from my teacher in class 1977 when I was 7 after he asked me the mandatory questions required to earn one.

Has to be Judge. They were still giving out these badges in 1984 when I got one! Teacher - a kinder one - used to play the tape with the song as well. That Safe Cross Code song featured on Bosco a few times long after Wanderly Wagon ended, still with Judge, too.

Keano_sli · 24-11-2004 6:42pm

Crow for definate. He was the coolest.
Hard to belive that was the most popular Kids TV show in the country for so long and to think of all the Abuse Travellers get these days...

fozzle · 24-11-2004 8:43pm

Oh my god oh my god oh my god! Gleee!!!! A whole Wanderly Wagon board! :eek:

My favourite was Judge the dog, saviour of countless thousands of Irish school children when they cross the road, I still hear the song when I cross!

My claim to fame is (as posted on the TV board) I got to meet Judge every time Lamberts came to Waterford in the 80s. Man, he's just so cool.

thund3rbird_ · 26-11-2004 10:55pm

gonker wrote:

1 look for a safe place
2 dont hurry stop and wait
3 look all around and listen before you cross the road
remember
4 let all the traffic pass you
5 and walking straight across you
6 keep watching thats the safe cross code..thats the safe cross code
know the safe cross code....know the code

Im sad

*sadder*

Brendan Grace sung it !!!!!!

cazzy · 29-11-2004 10:17pm

I still have my judge badge
In the attic in a shoe box full of badges
we used to collect them in the 80's
Got it in school

azezil · 30-11-2004 12:32am

lol!

Amz · 30-11-2004 2:09am

Yeah me too! For safe cross code!

Judge is the reason I haven't been hit by a car ... yet.

fozzle · 01-12-2004 5:36pm

Must find my badge, I know it's in my room at home somewhere...

Half-Bicycle · 01-12-2004 5:48pm

DublinWriter wrote:

Bear in mind that this was the same psychotic teacher who literally used to flog 7 year olds for getting sums wrong. Ahhhh, the 70's. God, I'd like to meet him now.

Hi DW. Sounds like my old teacher! He battered a classmate for humming in maths class. I would have liked to meet him but he's dead now.

(the teacher, mind, not the classmate)

Anyways, my fave was Foxy.

There was a Foxy, wasn't there?

graciegrace · 24-10-2008 12:05am

this was the best, the greatest, Rory was so cool, he was like in charge of it all the father figure of kids tea time telly. Mr. Crow was great, loved judge he is so cute and cuddly. When my son was a kid brought him to the Lambert Puppet Theatre near dunlaoghaire. Mr. Crow was there and he really liked his character and thinks he is the best. Judge appears. they had model minutures of the wagon in the Lambert Museum.

CrowdedHouse · 02-12-2008 7:36pm

Judge.

Didn't he fly a plane occasionally 'cos these two lines are stuck in my head for the last 40 years...

"I am the flying Dog

With lots of flying hours in my log !"

(I even put them as a caption for this pic on Flickr)

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