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How awesome these stories are in billions fo ways

The Highwayman is one nasty villain

These videos are awesome Paul and I hope if possible, you may get round to doing the Burglars in the Yard and Magic in the North at some point. I love watching these videos .

I don't remember seeing that program in 1973.

I like these stories they are well awesome in billions of ways and they never date.

Picture Box was not Creepy , but the 2 part episode that aired in June 1989 that was Creepy was Ben Rosie & The Bear where the Bear was chasing after the Boy and also The Ben Rosie & The Bear episode was the last one made by Granada TV before Childsplay Productions and Producer Peter Tabern took over , and also does anyone know what the title music used by Picture Box between 1989 till 1993 was called? and plus the opening titles from The Molotov Brothers with Martin Cheek was not Creepy

Those episodes that have other local kids in them are ruined by a disgusting gender inequality that is cruel to boys and could have had a real life oppression effect peer pressuring them. The girls' knees are bare but the boys' are covered. This is a social impacter wronging boys who have a heat sensitivity or a sensory issue against covered knees.

I do like the Hidden People and they are awesome.

I do absolutely like these stories they are awesome, in billions of ways and they are well worth reading and I always liked the idea of hidden people and strange ones I wish those people existed and also I wish I had a magic key and or a magic coin.

Proud to say I’m a long distant relative, great-great-great Nephew, if that’s such a thing!! The name ‘Tom’ lives on in the family, and he’s truly a remarkable athlete👍🏻

Miss Miff is well nasty.

I like these stories and they are awesome

Hi moving to nuthall hopefully. Nice area and safe?

Terrifying 😮. This, Pertwee Doctor Who, Ace Of Wands, and Timeslip were big deals as a kid. Catweazle too. Fantastic TV.

I was 18 when this was on. Used to watch it with my little brother. I have to say Noseybonk unsettled me even then. A real bad trip 😳

Tina Heath’s parents used to have a stationary shop in our nearest town. It was there for years. I remember when she was in this, and later on in Blue Peter the local papers interviewing her.

Thank you for doing this. A valuable historic record and a nostalgic trip for me.

Brilliant. Great work, thanks. I live in Australia but come from Notts and love to see these old scenes.

There are some errors in this. 30 metres is only just longer than a cricket pitch. Those platforms must have been more like 300 feet. In 1903 The King was Edward VII. His Queen was Alexandra. George V's Queen was Queen Mary.

If you want a children's TV programme that had a creepy theme tune look for Near and Far.

Great video. I have ancestry in New Basford. They lived at 29 Egypt rd. which is now a parking lot. Wondered if any pics of this address when a house was present would exist?

So… Benjamin Franklin is a villain, as he invented a creepy musical instrument, and wrote an essay about the art of farthing 😱

if you want creepy watch the opening of the paris olympics, this program was one of the best growing up, i include in that Rainbow Playschool and not forgetting Mary Mungo and Midge

I loved it as a child.

I remember a short kid in our class nearly 50 years ago and we used to say that box was his house.

I loved this music....trippy as hell.....but I was brought up by hippies during the 70's, soooo 🤷🤔🤭

regarding the theme tune, I think a large part of its creepiness is because the recording is muffled, and the instrument is not easily identifiable, so unless you're familiar with the recording, you don't quite know what it is you're hearing also, the instrument is slightly off-key (sometimes by nearly a full quarter-tone); intentionally or not, strange tuning can cause a strong psychological effect on its own

I remember watching this in the early to mid seventies. I had no idea that it continued to run until the nineties! I loved the music and i loved the program as it got us out of lessons and into the TV. Room.

Eerie, really sinister tune

These stories are awesome in billions of ways, and the characters are also awesome too.

She did turn out to be crap, though

I remember this show, I quite liked the music.

There was a short film I remember, and I'm sure it was shown on this programme. It was an animation that started with a boy fishing from a boat in a pool. Then the "camera" zoomed out showing more of the landscape around him. It continued zooming out showing the country, the Earth, and through the Solar System. Then zoomed all the way back in to the original shot. But then carried on zooming in in to a mosquito on his hand/arm. And still further showing the cells in his blood. If anyone knows the name of that film, and where I could find it I would be so grateful.

Many thanks. Was there meant to be a sound clip of a Glass Armonica at the end (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) - if so it can't be heard sadly.

Pssh. That's nothing compared to "Demonstrations in Physics with Julius Sumner Miller." czcams.com/video/LGwuhmh1KOI/video.html Seriously: "Spy Fingers" by Ib Glindeman. czcams.com/video/rQ9QLb32ELM/video.html

I think it sounds quite pleasant.

I must have been the only kid who loved this theme then lol Brings back good memories whenever I hear it and I thank Matt Berry for recording his own version so we can listen to it on Tidal whenever I want. Thanks for the video

I live in bullwell

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but when I was off school for the day as a teen, in the morning I watched the TV kids shows that the tv guide said were for Under 5's, like Playdays, Tellytubbies. I really enjoyed it

These stories are so awesome in billions of ways and they are fun.

Remember watching this at school. I absolutely loved the music, although it was a bit creepy .Happy memories!

a waist of 5 min with a blank black screen

I remember this as a child. It was and still is hauntingly beautiful. But then again I was the child that the other children were unnerved by.

I remember this. Was weird and I never really enjoyed it

Hi Paul, I totally remember this weird programme, and couldn't agree more about the music, it was very unsettling 😮

Frequency of sound can heal or harm, maybe the later in this case?

Miss Miff is well horrible

Tim and Tobias are awesome and so is Arun , it is awesome when Arun gets the magic key and like Tom can see the hidden people.

These stories are so awesome in billions of ways, it is a shame schools no longer have these books in the libraries I loved these stories as a kid in primary school, from the age of 7 or 8 when I first discovered them.