Here are some e-mails I have been sent regarding this site and other TVOntario shows. These people share many of the same fond memories I have. Some recall shows I didn't watch. Some need help trying to remember show titles. Others offer more links. Have a read and feel free to send me an e-mail
January 3/08 from David:
I bumped into your website while looking for that series
ALMOST HOME / ON THE MOVE
I didnt know the series name, but remembered the lyrics so i typed " Drifting
down the highway " into google.....
and was suprized to find your page!
been looking for ages for some remanents of that show and your website`s the
only place ive found it
Im from Israel by the way, I remember watching that show tens of times when
i was a kid....
(i didnt have much of a choice - only one channel back then) they aired just
those 3 episodes you mention over and over.
i liked that show, and that song really got engrained in my mind also the song
from the third episode "AN OLD MAN WITH A SUITCASE FULL OF BOOKS "
when the dude is picking cotton there`s this neat song "back to the harvest"
Id really REALLY appreaciate if you can post the opening theme or even just
an mp3 of the songs or something.
the link on to the clip seems dead...
Thanks for creating such a great website!
(You are the third person from Israel to write to me about this show. The link indeed is dead. When I get a chance I will update it with a youtube clip of my own)
Jan 5/08 from Chantal:
I ran into your web page about the tvo shows, and I'm
wondering if you could help me find the name of one program. I believe it played
around
the 1990's, and i think was filmed in Australia, or maybe the UK. It was about
this girl from the future, she ends up in the present ( I
forget how) but starts chasing some man that is from a different point in time,
who is causing troubles. Meets another girl that has purple
dyed hair, and becomes good friends. The girl form the future has some kind
of device she puts on her head that allows her to focus
energy of sorts. It's been so long I don't remember now.
(The Girl From Tomorrow)
Jan 15/08 from Des:
Hello there. I liked the little info page you have on
Fables of the Green Forest. I wonder if you have a
complete list of the names of the 54 episodes? So far I only have found about
43 listed. I'd like to know
what all the eps were called.
(I don't have much of an episode list - I will add yours)
Jan 18/08 from Adeeb:
Hey, to "Rachel" on your Feedback on TVOntario... page, I have some info on "Getting to Know Me". I too was looking for this show, and I found this:
http://www.poconomountainsfilmfestival.com/index.php?pr=Frazier_Prince
Apparently this is the actor that played the preteen boy in the show!
Now if I can only find the girl, who I had a crush on back then (heh heh). The show was great though, really!
(Thanks for the info)
Jan 25/08 from Rob:
The last post on the CUCUMBER thread says:
"Cherly offers this info: One episode i remember
vividly had Moose trying to put together a plastic model dinosaur. The child
reporter did a story on dinosaur skeletons in Alberta. By the end of the episode,
Moose couldn't seem to be able to put the model together (even though there
were only about 4 or 5 pieces ... i remember screaming at the teevee screen),
but when he and Beaver left the lodge, some spooky music played and we saw a
stop-motion sequence of the model putting itself together
This show aired on TVO, TVOntario, TV Ontario"
I can offer the following insight:
Yes, Cherly you remember correctly. I didn't even remember remembering this sequence during a CUCUMBER episode until you mentioned it. When I read your description, I remembered the episode and a one-off joke Moose made about the pieces not fitting together and that one piece might have been last night's chicken dinner(?). And yes, there was a Royal Tyrell/Alberta introduction (where I've since visited as an adult without ever thinking of the show). They discussed fossil hunting, excavation, preparation, etc. if I am correct.
And lastly, after the episode had "wrapped up" there indeed was freaky music and the dinosaur model did assemble itself. Had you not mentioned this I would have never recalled these details. However, I can vouch for your experience as someone who grew up watching the show.
(Good stuff!)
Jan 26/08 from Shannon:
I was wondering if you remembered the show that had a gray-haird man that did pastel drawings while he told a story. I am not sure if it aired in Ontario, but it did air on our PBS station. I also wanted to tell you I loved your website! It brought back so many memories. :O)
(BirdBook or Read It with John Robins I think)
Jan 30/08 from Tony:
Just wanted to say Thanks for keeping a part of my childhood
alive! :-)
Specifically, I'm referring to the TVO portion of your tribute website. To see
those little snapshots of my fave TV shows almost brought a tear to my eye.
Keep up the good work
Feb 2/08 from Aaron:
Thanks for the impressively comprehensive site about
1970's TVO programmes. Shows which I had forgotten about were quickly remembered
with fondness.
Like others, I'd like to get my hands on some Secret
Railroad episodes, but they're hard to find (a few years ago, I learned of a
library that
carried some episodes in French, but that was it). I remembered an animated
story about a boy who was apprenticed to an evil wizard -- the
animation style was identical to that of the Secret Railroad. Thanks to the
feedback page on your site, I learned that the film was "The
Sorcerer's Apprentice," narrated by Vincent Price (http://www.rickstv.com/tvo/feedback2004.html).
As a fellow
Torontonian, I should mention that you can borrow the video from the public
library.
(I need to go check that out!)
Feb 8/08 from Andrina:
I have been wondering about a show and I found this site
and a woman asked the same question I was wondering about .. this was her post
Okay there was this show I think probably in the 80's or early 90's. It had
3 people, 2 guys and a girl. One guy was black and wore a painters outfit, kinda
like overalls. The other guy was white and he rode a bike all the time. The
girl was hispanic and she had long curly brown hair. They used to sing and dance
and do crafts all the time. They had this train too that would bring them out
lemonaid on the balcony. I don't know much more then that. The white guy kinda
looked like Noah Wyle. But all I need is the name of the show plz help me!
I have been dying to know what this show is called as well.. if you could post it on this webpage it would cure my frustration or email me back if you know the shows name!
(Join In)
Feb 13/08 from Jesse:
Hi, your site is great, I’ve been trying to remember the names of Starlore, Once Upon A Time and Tomes and Talismans for years now, but there’s one more I must identify: the premise was very similar to the aforementioned shows, except it was about a lady from the East Coast who moved to the Old West, bought a saloon and turned it into a “reading salon”. The main villain was a guy named “Black Bart”. Sadly, Google has come up short, and I’m not sure if this was ever aired in Canada, but it was definitely a product of the same Nebraska Public Televison people who did Starlore and Once Upon A Time. Any ideas?
(I am stumped)
Feb 16/08 from Janice:
found your site.. and 'we' are desperately trying to
remember the name of this tv show we watched as children... it aired in the
am and all we can remember about it is...
children are running through an open field a barn children holding big letters
that spell the name of the show?
at the end the children would jump into the hay a lady was talking to a puppet
HELP!!!
sorry about the vagueness of our memories...
we are also looking for clips of the little prince... would you be able to help
out on that?
(Sounds bizarre)
Feb 17/08 from Shannon:
Someone please help me!!!!!! there was a show on TVO when I was young, about 20 years ago! it was from the 70's or 80's. they were exercising, all the time, all kinds of different scenes, underwater ( fake obvioulsy) and sooo on! I cant remember the name! If you know, please post it, I will be forever grateful!
(Maybe it was Come Fly With Me)
Feb 28/08 from Christine:
Put me out of my misery! I'm desperate to find the name of a show I watched as a child (70s or 80s). I've asked everyone I know and posted the question online and have had no answers. I started searching online when I found your site. The show in question's opening had a covered waggon travelling through the countryside with a acting or Gypsies troupe in tow. Actors in ancient costume recreated fairy and/or cautionary tales on a modern-day stage. Closing credits played at dusk and the people and surroundings are now silhouetted. Does it sound familiar to you? I watched a lot of the shows you mentioned on TVO and even some you didn't (isn't "Let's Go!" a tvo program?)
(Someone please help!!!)
Feb 28/08 from Janelle:
Your website is one of the reasons that I love with the internet.
I had a very strange flash back yesterday of when I used
to watch the show "All About You". I must have been 5 years old.
I was trying to explain it to my husband. He had never seen it. I remember an
episode where the host told us not to get inside a refrigerator, because we
could get locked in. It wasn't any type of fridge that I had seen before, but
the point was well taken and I never did get inside my refrigerator. What a
life saver that episode was. I remember that the host had a very deep voice
and interesting manner of speaking, and the theme song was great.
Do you have any info on a show that (I think) aired on PBS around the same time? The host was a chubbyish guy with black hair and he had some kind of bird puppet as a side kick. Perhaps it is already on your website, but I didn't recognize the title.
Thanks for keeping me and many others connected with their childhood.
(Maybe BirdBook again with John Robins?)
Mar 8/08 from Brett:
I grew up on TVO programmes and fondly remember all of the programs listed. I particularly like the particular schedules that you have posted. I was wondering if you would be able (and willing) to help me out. I've been trying to piece together when Doctor Who episodes were broadcast on TVO. I have everything from Jan 1986 onwards. If you have the episode titles for the Nov 1980, July 1981, Sept 1981, June 1984, Sept 1984 schedules I would be greatly indebted to you!
(Any Doctor Who fans out there?)
Mar 13/08 from Leslie:
Feb 21/07-I do remember that show! It was a PBS show that was aired in I think 1983 and was called "Palabrajot" and was about a cricket that would hop along the words in a sentence as the narrator read the sentence. The cricket's name was Palabrojot and each time you would unscramble a sentence grammaticly correct, the cricket would yell, "Palabrojot!!!" The show would cover misspelled words, punctuation, sentence fragments, verbs, nouns, etc... I remember we use to set aside time in school for that show. It was one of my favorites. I sure wish we had things like that on public television for our children now a days.
(Thank you!)
Mar 18/08 from SR:
Hi I know this sounds crazy but after comming upon ur
website I thought you might beable to help me. For a couple years now I have
been trying to
think of the name of this show and I'm really starting to think I made it up
because whenever I try and find it nothing comes up. All I can remember
is I watched it when I was like 10 and Im 20 now soo it could be 10 yrs old,
I dont know if its a tv show, movie or like just one episode from a
movie? In this show/movie/etc. its like this magical place where one of the
families is wearing all red and they are singing in their front lawn
to someone..its def. a little kids show maybe on pbs or disney? There's a fountain
that they all meet at at the end and there is lots of singing..I
feel like the red family was representing the raggity anne dolls im not sure...if
you cant help me I understand because my memory of tihs is
really blurry now but it bugs me lol
(Wow - I have no idea)
Mar 29/08 from Mark:
Hey, great site! Brings back a lot of memories. I was searching the net trying to find out about an old PBS show when I stumbled upon your site. It seems like a lot of people were also trying to figure out what the show with a tag line 'palabra jot' was. Well, I found out it was called 'The Write Channel'. There's even a wiki article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Write_Channel
So there you go! Next time someone asks you about that show or line, you have the answer.
Mar 30/08 from Eyal:
I could not help myself after reading your article about
Fables of the green forest.
That's my absolute favorite series of my lifetime.
It's rare and so hard to get, you must think about the preservation of it. I
mean, to encode this to divx and share it with the world.
With me atleast. I would gladly give you back any 80 cartoon you want, in high
quality. But today you can get practically anything.
EXCEPT for Fables. We must preserve this, and god I envy you!!
(Trouble! Trouble!)
Apr 5/08 from Liat:
I am wondering if you have copies of Math Patrol and
Read all about it on Dvd or VHS as mentioned on your website?
I have been looking for math patrol for years, but I couldn't remember the name
of the show, all I could remember (as a strong memory from grade 2) was a man
in a kangaroo suit and the lampost, and no one knew what I was talking about.
And I'm so thankful I came across your site, because I was starting to think
i had made it up.
(The Man in the Kangaroo suit stumps many people!)
Apr 16/08 from Sharon:
I love this site! So many memories!! I grow up in Buffalo, NY so I watched all the Canadian show. One I never knew the name of was the one that was in french the name looked like a bug and they wrote it out and than below that they wrote it again and that was were they got the bug. What was the name of the show that they kids said hello in different languages? I might be big blue marble. No one every said anything about the other Jeremy show (I think its different) He had a magic suitcase that could change into anything.
The one that I need to know what it was. I was in the 70's and I think in B&W it came on after school on PBS about 3:00 I think. It began with a drawing of a house and a land and that was how you go to his house. I think he was a Professor and I think he had a dog. He wore a hat and suspenders and I think he would show cartoons. I'm pretty sure he was in a workshop.
Just some of my favorites
"Lets all sing a song today with tony Salatan"
Tiny Talent Time!- Theme Here is a show that hip.. for those of you who are small.....that's all I know!
Special Place....I still have the Finder Reminder!!!
Fables of the Green Forest
SO SO SO many I can't even tell you! Wish we could get together and talk about all the great shows!
(Thanks for the comments)
Apr 20/08 from Greg:
I remember watching Read All About It in school when
I was in the sixth grade in 1989. Each week we'd watch a chapter in the classroom
or in the library. It might have been the first serial storyline in my life
that really captured my interest. Very quickly I began to
look forward to the show each week. The background music and the text during
the previous chapter's recap, they particularly invoked a
high level of positive anticipation with the suspense of what was going to happen
next.
When the story came to its end in the first season, I
was delighted to learn that there were more episodes. The following week we
continued with the second season. However, the length of the school year wasn't
going to permit us to finish the season. It was a relief
when the teacher told us she'd double up the chapters for the final weeks to
complete the story.
I wanted to capture something from the story. The best
thing I could think of was to write down the chapter title each week, and I
still
have the notebook that contained the titles. Unfortunately, some weeks I forgot
to do it. But thanks to the Internet, I now have all
the chapter titles and can view the episodes again!
One odd memory I captured was the name of the actress
who played Lynne. I had something of a crush on her back in the day, and
somehow my memory has retained the name Lydia Zajc. It's amazing how the mind
retains selective memories.
(Seems like many people had a crush on Lydia Zajc - thanks for the story)
Apr 25/08 from John:
I trust today finds you well. I was wondering if you could help me figure out what this program was – it may, in fact, not be children’s programming in the traditional sense. But I remember it as a child (it’s almost dreamlike). It was an animated show that might have been on in the evenings, it was an account of human history that always featured the same characters. By the same characters, I mean it was the same bloodline and it gave a historical account of Roman, Greek society, etc. They literally began the series as cavemen, and advanced through history and ended with space travel. It definitely aired in the 70’s. I’m also fairly certain it was a dubbed European program. I really just need to know the name if it – any help would be much appreciated!
(One Upon a Time...Man - orginally was done in French)
Shows on this site: TVOntario TVO TV Ontario PBS AIT All About You Barbapapa The Body Works Bits and Bytes Cucumber Eureka Fables of the Green Forest Guess What? (With Jan Rubes) Harriet's Magic Hats Jeremy Kidsworld Let's All Sing(with Tony Saletan) Mathmakers Math Patrol Parlez-Moi Read All About It Readalong Report (with Heather Conkie) The Adventures of Timothy PilgrimTwo Plus You! Vision On(with Tony Hart) What If...(starring Billy Van)World of B.J. Vibes Write On AIT Programming PBS Programming (In Other Words, Math Wise, It Figures, Thinkabout, Inside/Out, High Feather, Dragons, Wagons & Wax) Edison Twins, Just Like Mom, Camp Cariboo, YTV's Rec Room)