Look and Read was a TV series used in schools. We had to follow a story and read along with it, and every so often the teacher would pause the video and ask questions about it.
The episodes I remember were "Badger Girl", "Dark Towers" and "The Boy from Space".
Do You Remember Look and Read?
Do You Remember Look and Read?
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Star Attraction
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Whilst I was at primary school, I saw Sky Hunter (autumn 1979) and The Boy From Space (spring 1980).
In recent years the CBBC Channel repeated most of the Look and Read stories in its Class TV strand, I recorded and watched them. It was great seeing Sky Hunter and The Boy From Space again in my thirties, plus a load of other L&R stories:
Joe And The Sheep Rustlers
Cloud Burst
The King's Dragon
Dark Towers
Fair Ground!
Badger Girl
Geordie Racer
Through The Dragon's Eye
Earth Warp
Spywatch
and the new one that came out on BBC2 about four years ago, "Shadow Play".
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Anonymous
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I remember Badger Girl, for some reason we all really loved that story in my class, I also vaguely remember one about a fairground or something...??..Do they still do these kinds of tings in school today?
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Anonymous
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RE: My last post (above/below.) I've been thinking about it, and I'm wrong! It was Look and Read. Was Charlie the violin from words and pictures then?
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Anonymous
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Words And Pictures (Now named "Writing and Pictures", I believe) was a series by BBC schools dept., shown to kids of primary school age. (Don't think it was called Look and Read, wasn't that the one for really little kids? With Charlie the violin as opposed to Wordy the ... What exactly WAS Wordy?!) One of the series was called "Geordie Racer", and was about racing pigeons. There was another one about about life on a fairground, was it actually called "Fairground"? Theme tune (Can't believe I actually remember this!) went:#"Fair's Fair at the fairground, Fair's fair at the fairground" Duh duh duh duh duh duh!! The series had cliffhangers at the end of these stories, like "I'm going to count to three and punch you on the nose!" (Cue end music...) Made school worthwhile, and yeah, we'd all wait impatiently for the ONE tv in the school to be wheeled in, and count down the seconds to the programme starting with the on screen clock. By the time we got to "FIVE!" it was pandemonium and we were all desperate to know what was going to happen next!
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Anonymous
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Look and Read was a great series; the best story of all was Dark Towers - I can remember all our class being glued to the TV screen and desperate to see the next instalment - brilliant!!
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Anonymous
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hi trudy i always remember the badger girl funny how every body remembers that one . they were good though i love it
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Anonymous
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I remember Badger Girl! I also remember a similar schools programme about a girl and some kind of secret garden? At the end they showed how they'd made it and I was gutted to find out that the pretty soft focus was just vaseline on the lense!
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