Late 70's - Early 80's

ccc1sec

Ive three programmes that i swear i watched when i was a young one, can anyone else remember them.

One was an irish programme about a gypsy girl - used to be on once a week, think there mite have been a granny, defiently the gypsy caravan was in it, have vague memories of it going up in flames. (and its not Into the West)
The other two were uk, one was like a quiz programme which ended up with the team having to make their way over a puzzle with letters and numbers and colours and they had to pick their way across and if they made a wrong move they would disappear and i mean literally disapear. and the other was very strange with statues that came alive in the garden of some big house..
They would have been circa 78-84

Wishbone Ash

ccc1sec wrote:

One was an irish programme about a gypsy girl - used to be on once a week, think there mite have been a granny, defiently the gypsy caravan was in it

I have a vague memory of a program about a gypsy girl in the late 1970s but it was set in Britain and I think was on BBC. (The girl may have been Irish though?) I may think of the name later!

raananhax

The program was called "Kizzy" I believe.

raananhax

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

Wishbone Ash

raananhax wrote:

The program was called "Kizzy" I believe.

That's the one!

Wishbone Ash

Kizzy

deman

raananhax wrote:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

I loved The Adventure Game. Really exciting at the end! Brilliant show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bC0aUPcnE

Dudess

As for the statues one: just a wild guess - Children of the Stones? Or maybe The Witches and the Grinnygog?

ccc1sec

Thats brill, thanks....:D

pippyfagan1

im trying to find that programme kizzy .it was about an irish traveler and her grandmother,yes her cavaron was set on fire she was teased in school because she is was traveler id love to see it again

Cardinal Richelieu

pippyfagan1 wrote: »

im trying to find that programme kizzy .it was about an irish traveler and her grandmother,yes her cavaron was set on fire she was teased in school because she is was traveler id love to see it again

You can see some of the shows here
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1366122/index.html

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Adapted from (Margaret) Rumer Godden's 1972 novel The Diddakoi, the only major change apart from a linear re-ordering of events was regarding the title. In the TV serial, little Kizzy Lovell is not diddakoi, a half-gypsy, but a full Romany. This simplification aside, the serial remains the story of orphaned traveller Kizzy and her trials and tribulations as she fights to be accepted by village gorgios (the gypsy word for those who live 'in brick').

As Kizzy's young teacher Miss Blount says: "Children can be so cruel," and at its core this is a story of bullying and intolerance. Kizzy continues a tradition of hardship fiction, in which misery after misery is heaped upon the shoulders of an unfortunate hero to great reader/viewer sympathy (The Railway Children and A Little Princess are among earlier examples). In the course of events Kizzy's guardian Gran dies and her gypsy caravan home is burnt down (in accordance with gypsy custom). Kizzy then catches pneumonia, is threatened with being put into care, bullied and physically attacked and sees her beloved horse die of old age.

Kizzy is no shrinking violet victim however but an ambivalent heroine, who gives as good as she gets. Given to tantrums, she pouts and sulks her way through six episodes. Hot-tempered, almost feral at times, she is quick to lash out or even scratch and bite. She spits during a juvenile court appearance. Viewers' parents complained about the poor example being set.

Kizzy's bad behaviour brought some grit to what is overall a sweet story but with some tough moments. A frightening sequence in which Kizzy is attacked by a posse of bullying girls and sickeningly cracks her head open on a brick wall was edited for maximum impact and is well remembered by many who saw it.

Kizzy's themes include comments on the care system, tradition versus modernity, middle class snobbery (mostly from society busybody Mrs Cuthbert, Angela Browne's hairstyle and performance perhaps owing something to the then-Leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher?) and above all tolerance for - and indeed celebration of - difference and cultural diversity.

The sheer misery Kizzy undergoes demands a happy ending - sentimental and unlikely it may be but who would begrudge the battling little Kizzy a little happiness? Aimed squarely at the female half of the young audience Kizzy was one of the best-remembered 'weepies' among girls of that era.

Alistair McGown

desolate sun

I think the TV prog with the statues that came alive in a big garden is a BBC one. I will come back with the name as I can't think of it at the mo. Did it have a young bespectacled boy who goes to live with his granny in a stately house (It might have been war time when kids were shipped off to the country)? Anyway the statues came alive and they were a few hundred years old - they were children too.

I also came across this link that might bring back a few memories
http://www.thechestnut.com/index.htm

Cardinal Richelieu

desolate sun wrote: »

I think the TV prog with the statues that came alive in a big garden is a BBC one. I will come back with the name as I can't think of it at the mo. Did it have a young bespectacled boy who goes to live with his granny in a stately house (It might have been war time when kids were shipped off to the country)? Anyway the statues came alive and they were a few hundred years old - they were children too.

I also came across this link that might bring back a few memories
http://www.thechestnut.com/index.htm

Is this it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Knowe

I presume I can post this as its a Youtube screened Vid? 4.10 in shows a statue alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HoKQonsbQY

Dyr

the moving stones was'nt the witches and the grinnygog was it? have memories of that

WindSock

Was it 'Children of the Stones'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Stones

Creepy opening sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpcr7KTi9I