British Children's TV of the 60s and 70s Quiz

Answer: Idris

Idris lived with his wife Olwen and their twins, Gaian and Blodwyn in the extinct volcano Smoke Hill. He sang in the local choir (The Grumbley and District Choral Society) with Jones the Steam and Ivor. Luckily for Idris, when Smoke Hill went cold Mr Dinwiddy (an old gold miner who lived in the hills above the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited) was able to provide a geothermally-heated cave under the ground for them to live in.

Answer: Penelope Pitstop

Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Mutley drove 'The Mean Machine'. Professor Pat Pending drove the 'Convert-a-Car 3' and The Ant Hill Mob drove 'The Bulletproof Bomb 3'

Answer: Tingha and Tucker

Tingha and Tucker was broadcast on the ATV network from 1962 to 1970. Auntie Jean was Jean Morton a continuity announcer, she was one of the four original announcers on the Midlands regional independent television station. Like many children's shows of that era Tingha and Tucker had a 'club', at its height the Tingha and Tucker club had 750,000 members, in the end it had to be closed down because it couldn't cope with the quantity of correspondence it received.

Answer: Fifteen minutes

Each episode was 15 minutes and generally followed the same format of an actor sitting in an armchair reading a children's story. The series ran from December 1965 to March 2006 and clocked up somewhere in the region of 3,500 episodes.
The first story to be broadcast was a fairy tale called 'Cap-o'-Rushes' which was read by Lee Montague and the final tale was A A Milne's 'House at Pooh Corner' read by Alan Bennett.

Answer: World Aquanaut Security Patrol

Troy Tempest piloted 'Stingray'. Do you remember these other supermarionation 'Captains/Pilots' from Gerry Anderson TV series?
Mike Mercury - Supercar
Colonel Steve Zodiac - Fireball XL5
Captains Scarlet, Blue, Ochre, Magenta, Grey and Black - Captain Scarlet
Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon and John Tracy (all named after real Mercury astronauts) - Thunderbirds
Joe McClaine - Joe 90.

Answer: The Clangers

The music for the 'Doctor Who' special was composed by Murray Gold, it featured at the 'Doctor Who' Prom (Prom being short for Promonade Concert).

The Clangers ran for a total of 26 episodes from 1969 - 1974 and introduced us to such favourites as 'The Soup Dragon', 'Froglets', 'The Iron Chicken' and 'Blue String Pudding'(my mum could never get the recipe right!). The first episode was titled 'Flying' in which Major Clanger invented a flying machine and it all concluded with 'Music of the Spheres' in which Tiny Clanger was accidentally taken into space by the Hoot planet. Ah what memories!

Answer: TIM

TIM was a biological computer ('biotronic' in the series) he was capable of original thought, telepathy and he augmented the powers of 'The Tomorrow People'. The original TV series ran from 1973 to 1979.
In 2001 Big Fish Productions revived the series as a set of audio plays based on the original TV programme. Philip Gilbert reprised his role as TIM, but when he died Trevor Littledale took over the role.
ORAC and ZEN were both computers in 'Blake's 7' and Ernie is the Premium Bond computer.

Answer: Sir Prancelot

Everyone remembers Captain Pugwash but how many remember 'Sir Prancelot'.'The Advetures of Sir Prancelot' was originally aired in 1972, each episode was 5 minutes long and there were a total of 32 episodes. The series was narrated by Peter Hawkins who also performed all of the voices.

Answer: Crackerjack

Crackerjack was a children's variety/comedy series that ran from 1955 to 1984. Over the years many different children's entertainers appeared in various guises. The show was always hosted by a well known front man and those were;
Eamonn Andrews (1955-1964), Leslie Crowther (1964-1968), Michael Aspel (1968-1974), Ed Stewart (1975-1979), and Stu Francis (1980-1984).

Answer: Barbara Euphan Todd

Barbara Euphan Todd wrote 10 Worzel Gummidge Books between 1936 and 1963. Extra adventures were published between 1979 and 1984 to accompany the television series, these were written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.
ITV made a total of four series' between 1979 and 1981, a further 2 series were made by Television New Zealand and Channel 4 in 1987 and 1989. Titled Worzel Gummidge Down Under they also starred Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs but were set in New Zealand.