MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: "This is what The Movies are supposed to be all about, magical, transporting confections of dreams and hopes and kindness and true love."
Memorable Magic TV Programmes:
Time Travel, Sorcerers & Magic...
TIME
Travellers
Adam Adamant Lives! - Sixties hero
Catweazle - Nothing works, Touchwood !
The Databanks of Clive
Banks contain many memories of cult TV.
Dr Who - in Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, with travelling companions such as Wendy Padbury
The Millennium Effect (of
Doctor Who)
Let's go Back to the Future with Marty & The Doc.
Sapphire and Steel
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available:
Gold, Mercury, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel
Sapphire and Steel have been assigned...
The Tomorrow People- going for a jaunt ?
Time After Time (The 1979 film) with Mary Steenburgen.
Timebusters - Timebusters go, catch the bus !
MAGICAL
Themes
Ace Of Wands- Michael Mackenzie working his magic.
The
Adventure Game
As shown on BBC2 in the Eighties: an early Crystal Maze with thought provoking
words such as Doogy Rev and a strange currency of Drogna.
| AMÉLIE is humorous, questioning, and strange, and it will change the lives of all who watch it... | |
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MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: "This is what The Movies are supposed to be all about, magical, transporting confections of dreams and hopes and kindness and true love." |
Bewitched -The original Samantha Stephens with Elizabeth Montgomery, twitching her nose.
Catweazle -Nothing works Touchwood!
Children of the Stones- Seventies time, space and magic.
Joe 90 - Most Special Agent.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
There are so many great pages to find, here is just a small selection..
The Lord of the Rings-Film Trilogy
One Ring: The complete guide to Tolkien on-line.
Go to the The Grey Havens (no Dark Skies here) Tolkien resource.
Learn more about The Hobbit - editions of the book and the forthcoming movie.
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Noggin
the Nog
There are two excellent sites, both endorsed by Oliver Postgate of
Smallfilms: The first is
Noggin
the Nog and the other is Noggin's home, the
Northlands.
Check
out the newly formed
Dragons' Friendly
Society and the release of the Complete Saga of Noggin the Nog on
video.
After an absence of many, many years, we're happy to say that Noggin is back. We hope that what we can offer will give you the chance to relive some of that long-lost childhood, or perhaps provide the chance for today's children to experience real storytelling at its best.
Shirley Holmes a keen new-age relative of Sherlock.
Small Time with Pussy Cat Willum, Ollie Beak and Fred Barker.
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Sara
& Hoppity -A series of puppet stories highly popular with children
about a girl, Sara, and her doll.
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Check out Catherine's Star Maidens site or Alistair's Star Maidens site. Buy the DVD and watch a young Judy Geeson and Gareth Thomas in this cult 1970s sci-fi series.
Terrahawks Gerry Andersons space witches.
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Everyone feels some nostalgia for the TV programmes that they watched when very young, so here (at Whirligig) we attempt to bring back to you some of the flavour of television in the Fifties. |
The Wizard of Oz -follow the yellow brick road, but watch out ! " I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too! "
Wizzard- Roy
Wood -his songs go on
FOREVER
FOREVER
FOREVER...
Drama/Thrillers
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