From June 12 2007 HORSIN’ AROUND I’m sure I’m not the first blogger of my age to mention how lucky today’s kids are in terms of what they can watch on TV. In my day, it was three terrestrial channels – BBC1, BBC2 and Scottish Television – and quite frankly, most of the shows aimed at those aged under 12 were crap. Except for Tom & Jerry . Nowadays, with all sorts of specialised channels on satellite TV, there is a wider choice, and while much of it is probably just as crap, at least they can watch something different all the time. I just remember every single school holiday being marked on BBC1 with a re-run of two black-and-white TV series. One was called Belle & Sebastian . The other was The White Horses . The former had a really creepy theme tune that was sung in a foreign language, the latter had a theme tune that was ace. Here’s an abridged extract from wikipedia:- The White Horses is a 1965 television series co-produced by RTS of Yugoslavia and BR-TV of Germany. It follows the adventures of a teenage girl (played by Helga Anders) who visits a farm, run by her Uncle Dimitri (played by Helmuth Schneider), where white Lipizzaner horses are raised. It is called Počitnice v Lipici in Slovenian and Ferien in Lipizza in German

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FROM THE ARCHIVES : A SERIES FOR SATURDAYS

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