Please help!!
Desperately trying to find out the name of a kids television programme that was on cbbc (I think) in about 1986/1987.
All I can remember is that it was set in Australia during the big depression of the late 1920’s and featured a kid growing up with his family and his pet dog. Seem to remember he wanted to be a pilot or something if that had any baring on it.
The reason I am desperate to remember is because I have had the bloody theme music stuck in my head periodically for the past 24 years, and I’m hoping that some Youtube therapy may just shift it….although it could go either way!!

Any ideas??

They were gold miners weren’t they?

Grr, can’t remember, it’ll come to me

Was it a bit magicy?

Round the twist?

Could have been, don’t remember…….only the bloody music.

All I can remember is that it was set in the uk during the big depression of the late 2010`s and featured a kid growing up with his family and his pet dog, being targeted by animal vivisectionists, and seeing his house burnt down after strikeing firefighters failed to turn up.

Seem to remember he wanted to be a pilot or something if that had any baring on it.

Called “The Cameron years”,Nightmare on Downing st, part 2.

Fixed it for you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_children%27s_television_series

Any help (on the off-chance the program was Australian!)?

Hunter’s Gold was the one about miners. Not sure it was this one though.

Round The Twist was a different one, it was the magicy one, although it did have the catchy theme tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdL5qJ1I3I

Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Do strange things happen? Are you going Round the Twist?

The OP’s not on about that but thanks for getting that stuck in my head!

http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/Category:80%27s ?

You’re welcome.
Strangely I still remember the episode “without my pants” 😯
Not me, I was wearing pants I mean the episode where…….nevermind.

backhander it sounds like tht series had a profound affect on you. It wasn’t an instructional guide for how to live your life you know?

If only you knew mate. If only you knew.
<sobs>

Nope…not Magicy, round the twist or Hunters Gold and I don’t remember anything about pants.
Keep going!

There was a series around ’64 which I can only remember one scene, where some kids get into a small cave and the camera suddenly cuts to a skull with a very elongated cranium, very like the ‘Greys’ of modern alien lore. Often wondered what it was called.

Spit Macphee?

or one of these: http://www.australiantelevision.net/telemovies/198x.html

Embrace it backhander…. sing with me…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zj0QMqPgAY[/video]

The Outsiders (http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/Outsidersarticle.htm)

I remember watching it in the school holidays and one episode had swearing in it!!!!

I remember the one when the little boy went without washing his feet for weeks to a turtle would be saved… can’t remember how or why though.

Nope. None of these. Damn it.

Good god, Round The Twist. I thought I’d hallucinated that, no bugger else has ever heard of it.

Top trivia, the theme tune was sung by the blonde lass in the show.

My mrs says could it be skyways?!
Never heard if it me self.
Though I did really like round the twist.

I distinctly remember in an episode of Round the Twist, a young boy, probably about 13 or 14, getting a proper, puckered lip smacking snog (sorry but kiss doesn’t quite describe it) from a much older woman (and again, an ‘older girl’ wouldn’t quite describe it, although we’re talking MILF not GILF here).

I remember that one scene having a particularly profound effecet on my development 😆

Please tell me someone else remembers that.

Hunters Gold – now that takes me back. Set in NEW ZEALAND by the way, the smaller but superior country about 3 hours away from Australia on the plane, about the same distance as England to Turkey.

Sorry can’t help you though mate. I assume you have already eliminated Skippy The Bush Kangeroo ??

Patrick packard?

Still none of the above.
Any more ideas?

1920’s / 1930’s
Australian outback
Family didn’t have a pot to piss in.
1986 aired on BBC1 between John Craven’s Newsround and Masterteam!!!

If your remember the theme tube can you post some of the lyrics you remember? If it had any?

http://tvlistings.thetvroomplus.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBC_children%27s_television_programmes