Andy Pandy

Another trip to Bradford on Wednesday, this time to visit the cathedral and the Science and Media Museum.

This shot was taken in the Science and Media Museum, in a gallery with a display linked to various TV shows, and shows Andy Pandy and his friends Looby Loo and Teddy 'who have endless fun in their candy-coloured world'.

Andy Pandy is a British children's television puppet series that premiered on BBC TV in the summer of 1950. The original episodes were shown live, but in 1952 a series of 26 filmed programmes was shown, and frequently repeated until 1970, when a new series of 13 episodes was made. A revival of the show was made in 2001 with 52 new episodes, this time using the stop-motion technique rather than puppets. The revival was shown on the CBeebies TV channel. This shot is a recreation scene from that series.

Ian

[Casablanca]

I adored the original Andy Pandy with Teddy and Looby-Loo! In fact, I am sitting here sitting the song "Andy Pandy's coming to play, tra la la la laaa la" as I type!! A highlight of my childhood.......in black and white on our rented telly!

[Jesika]

I remember him well. About 30 years ago I met a childhood hero at the Art Gallery. Muffin the Mule had come to visit, couldn’t miss seeing him!

[carol white]

Very cute. I remember Andy Pandy well

[Margaret Brown]

Loved Andy Pandy and saw all the original episodes as I was growing up in the 50s.

[bruni]

I'm sure those were nice memories for a lot of across the ocean.

[gloria jones]

Great capture of this fun display

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot of this cute display.

[Kathy A]

This is so cute

[bkb in the city]

Great display

[KWind]

A detailed display!

[Fisher Family]

@casablanca @jesika2 @carolmw @craftymeg @bruni @seattlite @pyrrhula @kjarn @bkbinthecity @kwind

Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, which are very much appreciated!

Thank you too for the memories. My mum reminded me last night that back in the 1950's, Andy Pandy was on at lunchtime, and we had to catch a bus from my grandma's that only ran hourly, and I used to complain and protest about missing the end of Andy Pandy. We didn't have a TV at home at that time.

Ian

[Jesika]

@fishers you didn’t have tv? We didn’t get ‘the electric’ until I was about 10 but Mr & Mrs Stocks bought a tv in advance of the great turn on. 9 inch screen in a big cabinet, came on at 6 after a long warm up. Silvia Peters read the news in an evening gown. Can’t remember the man who was co-news reader.

[Nina Ganci]

Again I do not recognize these TV characters, though they are cute and adorable.
South Africa only got TV in the late 70's, the last country in the world to allow TV

[Fisher Family]

@jesika2 I think I was about 8 years old when we got TV. My grandma had it before us, so that was yet another good reason for going to see her!

Ian

[Fisher Family]

@ninaganci Thank you Nina. I'm amazed that South Africa was so late in allowing TV.

Ian

[Nina Ganci]

@fishers It was the apartheid era - they did their utmost in keeping us in the dark and TV was just one of the items we never had

[Fisher Family]

@ninaganci

I'd never have though of TV being prevented in an apartheid context.

Ian