This was the most disturbing programme I ever saw as a child growing up in the 80s. I still have nightmares about it to this day... the tune, the box, the programme, the creepy presenter... This upload has done nothing to allay my nightmares, only intensify them with an extended theme and the creepy man (or is it a woman?) cranking up the glass coffin. I can imagine myself in this glass coffin when I die and on my way down to hell this music will be playing for all eternity
Oh my goodness this is EPIC! The level of authenticity here is off the scale! We're talking Look Around You, or greater. So much understated humor and subtle details. The head nod gets me. Wow. No idea how I got here but I've subbed to this channel and excited (and terrified) about what else I'm going to find here!
Some of us have lived with this knowledge since childhood in the 1970s..... The "liquid cosh" sometimes helps, but mostly it's simply a fearful acid that just endlessly burns at the soul.... Genius as ever Quent...
The most ghostly, haunting, exotic, erotic (and a shade sinister) piece of music ever made. It ranks alongside the theme from the film Get Carter (1971) for the same reasons. There is almost a hypnotic or mesmeric resonance to it that you can't forget. Which is fine coz I never tire of hearing it. Ever since as a boy I watched the first broadcast on TV. Beautiful and soothing, even if it does sound like the type of tune Jack the Ripper might listen to before going out into the fog covered streets of Whitechapel. I will have this played at my funeral.
its played on a crystal baschet. glass rods stroked with wet fingers and resonating through metal leaves. 2 people playing in tandem ...czcams.com/video/awaFd6gArLg/video.html
Jimmy savile hand a hand in this, if not all his creepy bbc mates did. We're a generation raised by tbe sickest phucks on earth. Long live fraglerock!!@@@
This used to make the whole Television Room at Greystones Middle School vibrate when it came on. Come to think of it, the bloke who presented it looked a bit like Quentin's ventriloquist dummy/choirboy trying to sing Greensleeves.
Loads of Gen x'ers recounting stories of how scarring this music was to their mental psyche. When the Grim Reaper comes for me, it will be to this tune.
@@ConkerKing Haunted television? Can't say I'm surprised, there's was a kind off strange feeling throughout the 70's. I was born in '66 so I was growing up in that decade. It's an odd, barely describable atmosphere, like a deep undertow below an otherwise calm looking body of water. Does that make sense?
A man in his underpants wearing a women’s wig playing the sound track of a children’s programme and you don’t find anything weird or sinister about it. Says a lot about you 🤡😫😱
Good video, what’s with the puppets ifindeed they were, how was the box made to move, & what’s with the birdsong & flickering candles & bdautiful crystal Bachet organ?
It was decent of the the gentleman to take a few moments off from presenting Intermediate Trigonometry with The Open University to fill the role of organ grinder
The box is an antique glass jewellery box - pretty easy to find. The music is Manège by Les Structures Sonores, and no, it's not on iTunes or Spotify. Virtually none of LSS's music is.
One Halloween I accidently showed this to my nieces when telling them about this spooky schools programme from when I was young. That'll teach me not to preview watch. Though to be fair, my nieces did think it was spooky...and hilarious.
Exceptional melody, why”’s s it not available as a download? I find the tue soothing, ditto with that crystal bachet, who’s playing it & what’s it called? Please kindly assist? Cheers! 🤔
@@quentinsmirhes2977 Ooh you are still answering questions. Could you satisfy my curiosity about the box in your vid? Is it the actual one from Picture Box, or a similar one, or is it CG cleverness?
This is so beautiful, apart from the cwap in the miggle :-y and then the distortion at the end :-y otherwise, it's so like a very bassy musical box I find 🤔.. (/^v^)/!
FHR led me here and I while I'm amused I have no clue lol. Gonna have to find episodes of the show, though the theme sounds hauntingly familiar, or it's just familiar haunting.
Why do I find this so hypnotic and soothing and slightly unsettling all at the same times. Terrifying when I was a child.
100%
Because u were being hypnotised.
I’ve just watched the whole thing, twice, soooo therapeutic, especially after my mental breakdown yesterday 🙂 thank you Quentin.
That was genius.
I would love to see you're take on another 70's/80's classic - Tales of the Unexpected.
Velma really let herself go...
I would
🙈🤣🤣🤣
Scooby Doo
Think lock down affected a lot of people 😂
I don't know, I've gone out with worse looking girls.
Legs aren't too bad.
I used to be a bit spooked by the music but this is in a whole different league. Sinister genius.
I don't know what's weirder, this video or that I watched all of it.
This man is frightening and addictive. I think I might be insane
This was the most disturbing programme I ever saw as a child growing up in the 80s. I still have nightmares about it to this day... the tune, the box, the programme, the creepy presenter... This upload has done nothing to allay my nightmares, only intensify them with an extended theme and the creepy man (or is it a woman?) cranking up the glass coffin. I can imagine myself in this glass coffin when I die and on my way down to hell this music will be playing for all eternity
Bloody hell I had COMPLETELY forgotten about that!! Thank you for reactivating dormant neuronal circuits Quentin!!
I remember watching this program as a kid.the tune is still creepy. Thanks for the memories.
Oh my goodness this is EPIC! The level of authenticity here is off the scale! We're talking Look Around You, or greater. So much understated humor and subtle details. The head nod gets me. Wow. No idea how I got here but I've subbed to this channel and excited (and terrified) about what else I'm going to find here!
I will never stop watching this.
I've been waiting for this all my life.
Fantastic melody, love it, I find it calming& reflective, sounds like something in a ballet or fairground! 💕😁☺️
That music, that introduction, that voice - takes me back 50 years !
How the hell did you get hold of THE picture box? Genius.
I wondered that too
If ebays selling knock offs, I want one!!!
He says in an interview that it's a replica he got from an Australian maker.
Some of us have lived with this knowledge since childhood in the 1970s..... The "liquid cosh" sometimes helps, but mostly it's simply a fearful acid that just endlessly burns at the soul.... Genius as ever Quent...
The most ghostly, haunting, exotic, erotic (and a shade sinister) piece of music ever made. It ranks alongside the theme from the film Get Carter (1971) for the same reasons.
There is almost a hypnotic or mesmeric resonance to it that you can't forget. Which is fine coz I never tire of hearing it. Ever since as a boy I watched the first broadcast on TV. Beautiful and soothing, even if it does sound like the type of tune Jack the Ripper might listen to before going out into the fog covered streets of Whitechapel. I will have this played at my funeral.
its played on a crystal baschet. glass rods stroked with wet fingers and resonating through metal leaves. 2 people playing in tandem ...czcams.com/video/awaFd6gArLg/video.html
I used to find this scary but now, thanks to the extended version, I find it very relaxing and not a little erotic.
I’m terrified.
Jimmy savile hand a hand in this, if not all his creepy bbc mates did. We're a generation raised by tbe sickest phucks on earth. Long live fraglerock!!@@@
Ohh my giddy aunt
@@sammygirlie345
Is that you, Jarvis?!
@skylined5534 indeed it is
Good Lord. This is fantastic.
This used to make the whole Television Room at Greystones Middle School vibrate when it came on. Come to think of it, the bloke who presented it looked a bit like Quentin's ventriloquist dummy/choirboy trying to sing Greensleeves.
Greystones Middle School in Sheffield? That's where I watched it back in the 70s!
This is a whole different world... & one which may be difficult to leave after a certain number of videos... !
I thought the Picturebox was lost forever. It's the Arc of the 70s Covenant.
Quentin obviously has a portal to the 70s he's not telling us about.
He stole it from me in the 80's
He borrowed it first.
Could you please let me know how the video was made? I ask as it sure looks & sounds Fantastic, what with that crystal organ playing, sounds French!
Well I was not expecting that.
A masterfull show of how one should turn ones box.
Funny and disturbing as f***! Groin shot!!
Where's his trousers?
What a beautiful song!
I agree, that crystal bachet always seems fab!
It's the sort of video where if you were to watch it in a haunted house, all the ghosts would enjoying watching it along with you!
The eerie sounds of my youth.
Well that will haunt me forever
1970's England . I bet some of you remember this from school I think .
omg! do you really have the actual box!? You must be a wizard.
How was the video so cleverly done, & whdre can that tune be obtained? It sure is a belter!
This is hilariously sick!
Ermmmmmmm ok not what I was expecting but none the less I LOVE IT!
This doesn't actually make the opening titles for Picture Box any more disturbing than they were 😳
I was expecting Alan Rothwell.
Yet got something even more creepier.
Genius!
Eerily haunting yet can’t get it out of my head 🤷♂️
My dad herded this song at school😊
Loads of Gen x'ers recounting stories of how scarring this music was to their mental psyche.
When the Grim Reaper comes for me, it will be to this tune.
WTF did I just watch, and why am I about to watch it again?
Is that the actual picture box?! I always wondered what happened to it...
That little 'nod' cracks me up......
The nod just tipped me over the edge.
Saw this on Vimeo years ago, amazing parody 👌
The legend that is Joe Kazmi, brought me here.🤔🙃
Bask in the presence of Joe Kazmi
@@wanderingshadow1372 🤣
JFC! hahahaha. I will never sleep at night, ever again.
This program still gives me nightmares after 40 years.
Shiver ran down my spine from the dark memories ov school life
I used to watch this programme. It was a part of the uncanny 70's.
It has actually has a real name apparently... 'Haunted Television' Fortean Times did a whole feature on the phenomena.
@@ConkerKing Haunted television? Can't say I'm surprised, there's was a kind off strange feeling throughout the 70's. I was born in '66 so I was growing up in that decade. It's an odd, barely describable atmosphere, like a deep undertow below an otherwise calm looking body of water. Does that make sense?
midnightmosesuk If it doesn’t make sense... why do I feel strangely drawn to the idea?
@@tom-66 Me too.
I can't believe that your orderlies can be roped in to do the props and filming.
this id scary and very unerving, hes half naked his face is scary, this would not get past the sensors today
Shit-sticks! What was that? Goes with the creepy music perfectly. I will never be able to 'unsee' that.
Was this on another channel previously? I'm sure I saw this on B3ta years ago, and Quentin looks a lot younger.
This is my childhood explained and ruined
Proper eerie
Nothing sinister about any of this at all.
A man in his underpants wearing a women’s wig playing the sound track of a children’s programme and you don’t find anything weird or sinister about it. Says a lot about you 🤡😫😱
..he's just replaying how it was originally filmed 😂
Why hasnt he got any trousers on, i thought it was Vic Reeves.
Lol, it's something he would do as well
Good video, what’s with the puppets ifindeed they were, how was the box made to move, & what’s with the birdsong & flickering candles & bdautiful crystal Bachet organ?
How young Quentin looks here. This must be back in the 1970s. He has matured like a cheese since we entered the 80s.
i sence a bit potential in this channel
Bloody hilarious! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Is this the original or did you add that bit on the end LMFAO, i dont remember that bit
lovely
It was decent of the the gentleman to take a few moments off from presenting Intermediate Trigonometry with The Open University to fill the role of organ grinder
Cool tune, how was the moving box created & what figures featured & can someone please tell me whether the track’s downloadable on iTunes?
The box is an antique glass jewellery box - pretty easy to find. The music is Manège by Les Structures Sonores, and no, it's not on iTunes or Spotify. Virtually none of LSS's music is.
Lord spare us.
I've had my suspicions
I think Quentin needs to do a takes of the unexpected special…..
One Halloween I accidently showed this to my nieces when telling them about this spooky schools programme from when I was young.
That'll teach me not to preview watch. Though to be fair, my nieces did think it was spooky...and hilarious.
I thought he was doing something else with he’s hand for a minute 🤚 hand
Exceptional melody, why”’s s it not available as a download? I find the tue soothing, ditto with that crystal bachet, who’s playing it & what’s it called? Please kindly assist? Cheers! 🤔
Tis here.....czcams.com/video/ihiOqMw6-KI/video.html
@@quentinsmirhes2977 Ooh you are still answering questions. Could you satisfy my curiosity about the box in your vid? Is it the actual one from Picture Box, or a similar one, or is it CG cleverness?
The Picture Box!....but how?
Yes! Fantastic!
That is fkin hilarious! Well done!
I want you Quentin. Damn you, I do.
Fantastically weird....and those pants
What the bejesus did I just watch?😂
Mulligan and O Hare
This is so beautiful, apart from the cwap in the miggle :-y and then the distortion at the end :-y otherwise, it's so like a very bassy musical box I find 🤔.. (/^v^)/!
Insidious
This is when i died
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant, now I know why it gave me the creeps 😅
Omg!! What the hell?????? Disturbing perv
He has no trousers 😮😂
FHR led me here and I while I'm amused I have no clue lol. Gonna have to find episodes of the show, though the theme sounds hauntingly familiar, or it's just familiar haunting.
seriously .... WTF 0:46
This is less scary than I remember from my childhood.
Is that good old Quentin S???
Just the thing for me. As a single self isolating person i did watch the entire thing, and now feel obviously dizzy, hysterical and slightly aroused
Mummy 😖😱
If Jimmy Saville had an ice cream van then this is the Tune he'd of played.
For those who are interested in how this sound was produced and who played the instrument.. your welcome czcams.com/video/awaFd6gArLg/video.html
don't like black pants Quentin!
Whats next, do you plan to dissect Charlie Mouse from Bagpuss. Whilst he`s still alive?
Fantastically sinister
Now come on please- I have breakfast in my stomach I’ve just lost!!! THIS IS SOOOO Funny!!!!!!!
Quite a belter, old chap!