Unfortunately, the computer within the box has been damaged in a flood and lost all of its knowledge about maths and shapes. However, with a wave of his curious ‘trustock’ wand and a quick utterance of “Tiki tiki tox, into the box” Powka could shrink himself down into the box. Powka’s mode of transport across the galaxies was a magic box which was so small you would never imagine anyone, aside from an ant, fitting within it. 10 fifteen-minute episodes, written by Alex Glasgow, were broadcast, with repeats continuing up until 1984.ĭressed like a medieval knight-cum-spaceman, Powka (Eugene Geasley), who was from the faraway planet Sooter, found himself in a quandary. All Tess and Max had to do was mount a rescue attempt before Dr Buscombe was taken out of the country.īlessed with a hypnotically catchy synth theme tune, Maths-in-a-Box was an imaginative BBC Schools programme which explored the worlds of maths, geometry and numbers. Eventually it was discovered that Dr Buscombe has been handed over to the Middle Eastern state of Y-Ban by Special Branch and was being held at the Y-Banian embassy in London. With her story dismissed by the police, Tess was stranded in London with no one to turn to.īut help was at hand in the form of Max (Robert Longden), a librarian who Tess had met on the train down to London. Watch All Night told the tale of 17 year old Tess Eveling (Lucinda Bateson) whose nuclear scientist father, Dr Gerald Buscombe (Paul Ratcliffe), had been kidnapped in London whilst on a short break in London with her. Watch All Night was written by long-time Granada associate John Foster, a writer with a huge catalogue of writing credits including Z-Cars, Crown Court, The Bill, A Family at War, King Cinder and Juliet Bravo. Granada Television brought this Sunday teatime thriller to our screens in the summer of 1980, with seven episodes broadcast at 5.30pm.
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Finally, Davy Jones (yes, of The Monkees) and Eileen Fletcher took part in The Riddle of Skull Island for series five, this involved tracking down a specific point in a building. Series four was fronted by presenters Kirsty Miller and Howard Stableford this time, the viewers had to hunt down a criminal in Puzzletown who had stolen a set of secret plans.
Boyd was back in series three where OS map reading skills were needed to track down the exact location of the hidden treasure. Series two changed things up with Tommy Boyd as presenter, Boyd had lost a mystery object and was retracing his steps to find it. The first series of Puzzle Trail was hosted by Donna Reeve and Andy Johnson as they tasked viewers with identifying a square on a map to uncover hidden treasure. Clues were dispensed to the viewers through a series of sketches and discussions featuring various characters. Episodes ran on consecutive school evenings and gave the viewers the chance to write in with the solution and win a special prize. Hopefully, we can get it online to provide a better representation of the programmes.Ī fiendishly tough, yet engagingly interactive game show, Puzzle Trail ran for five series on BBC1 and set a different puzzle each series for the viewers to try and solve. Many of the programmes on this list have little to no footage online, so please get in touch if you have old video tapes with 'unseen' footage on. To make this list, a programme's original broadcast had to come solely between 1980 - 89, anything which started or finished a millisecond either side of the decade was not eligible.
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a very long) look at 159 British children's TV shows from the 1980s you forgot about. And that's why we're going to take a quick (actually. Thankfully, Curious British Telly is here to rectify this lack of recall. Most of us have moved on and replaced these programmes in our memories with the bureaucracy of adult life. And much of it, well most of it, is now forgotten. And all it takes is a quick Google of "British children's TV in the 1980s" to see that programmes such as Pigeon Street, Saturday Superstore and Button Moon were, indeed, magnificent.īut there was much more for children to be tuning into than just these three shows. Technology was slowly starting to make its mark felt, pop music was exploding like never before and the dawn of Channel 4 meant there was even more opportunity for children to be catered for. The 1980s was an innovative and exciting time for British children's television.
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