Hard to describe how exciting it was to me when you could watch Double Deckers during the school holidays. Magical times. Makes me sad for such a simple time….in my life at least. 😔
As a recently retired teacher who grew up on Saturday morning kids TV, I feel sad at how true, innocent childhood has been lost. I've never looked down at my classes and wished I could be young in these times.
@@majellafergus3643 Agreed. I watch the CFF films on a Saturday morning sometimes on Talking Pictures TV and they make me very sad for those days. The kids would find some robbers or something and the police would 'nick' them. Very simple and to modern eyes, corny storylines. But there was a sense of order then that is rapidly disappearing - and that's not just me being nostalgic, it's true. Ah well
It wasn’t simpler or better, we were kids then so life wasn’t serious. Every generation looks back on their youth but no age is better, probably in terms of longevity and medicine it’s always better now than before.
I got 40 pence pocket money. On Saturday morning, I ran to the shops and bought a bottle of lime soda, chocolate, and the comic 'Twinkle', which always had a free gift of a plastic ring or bracelet. I'd go into the front room of the house, put the heater on high, and watch The Double Deckers, Banana Splits etc. I was around 6 or 7 years old. I'm 61 now and miss those exciting Saturday mornings ❤❤ Watching this video brings back all those memories when life was great ❤❤❤
I did the exact same thing. I was six years old at the time. I loved the Double Deckers, Banana Splits, and H.R Pufnstuf, Nanny and the Professor, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
For me a 70’s kid double deckers reminded me of the halcyon days of childhood the sunny 6week holidays full of fun and play in a more happy innocent times before greed took its hold and sadly destroyed childhood forever 😢
Those were the days. During 6 week holiday I'd be down the newsagents to buy the 'Summer Special' comic editions. They were bigger and often had a glossy cover. Beezer, Whizzer & Chips, Sparky, etc Oh, and some sweets!
When summer was summer 🌞🏝️ When you were always guaranteed of good weather. Yes we had rain 🌧️☔ but never like this. Now we don't have have seasons it's just one season here in England Winter rain and rain ☔🌧️
Dinner and Tea....You must be from the North : ) When i moved down South, of course that changed to Lunch and Dinner. Prefer it the old way and yes, Sat mornings in the early 70s , 70 to 76 esp were great.
This is nostalgic joy for me! I absolutely worshipped the Double Deckers when I was about eight: I so much wanted to be in their gang I can remember the aching longing at half a century's distance. But what lovely, innocent fun it all was!
@lexloose2112 like everything else they have seemed to shrink, or is it because we got bigger. I used to fill my pockets up with them and go on the swing in the back garden before school. It always felt strange playing out before school?
I never liked the original Golden Nuggets cereal. Pour the milk on and they would go all soft, the favour wasn't very nice too. I'll pass on the new ones I think 😂
Klondike Pete's Golden Nuggets, my absolute favourite as a young-un. Watching this and the Banana Splits wiv my bruv. Then it was The Virginian and my dad came in to watch.
Here in Melbourne Australia Saturday mornings started with the test pattern then at 6am it was Thunderbirds. I remember the Banana Splits well including Danger Island. Who could ever forget Greenacres with Arnold the pig. Great times with fond memories of very special days.🖖✌️
@@zapkvrI’m 61 and remember it airing on Saturdays in the USA in the late 60's. The Beatles, James Bond, Tom Jones, among the other many wonderful things, as well as this show, us Yanks imported from y’all.
I had a hazy memory of an old TV show called Double Deckers that took place in England and there was singing but no one I know had any memory of it so I thought I must have imagined it and here it is. It must not have been on US television for very long.
61 this year , seems like yesterday watching the double deckers , banana splits and champion the wonder horse , great time growing up in the 60's and 70's .
The double deckers, Banana splits, The Monkees, flashing blade and Belle and Sebastian, staple diet for a kids Saturday morning in the early 70’s before the likes of Noel Edmonds and Tizwoz bored us shitless.
@@zapkvr I'm from Western Australia so we got it late in the day and probably a year late. I think the 'Micky Mouse Club' was on before it and 'Gomer Pyle' was on after it. I only every really watched channel 7 because it was the only clear signal our antenna could get back in the day _and_ in black and white...
This is also very emotional. As both of my parents are no longer with us since 1994 and 2014 Watching this takes me back to when they was mid to late 40s.. thank you for posting.
Fantastic stuff! Always loved this in the early 70s… great to see a bona mini Round the Horne reunion with Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden as guest stars. Betty was clearly enamoured of roles involving camping (as was Hugh in RTH!). As for Scooper, great role in preparation for Spooks.
You didn't think about it at the time and there is a temptation to look back with rose tinted spectacles, BUT. The 70s were the best years to be a kid. In the summer, out all day, jumpers for goalposts, adventure, grass stains, raging thirsts and back in time for tea. Mum didn't know where you were; we just all lived with risk better. Now..... none of the above.
I was born in 1961 and will join your crew for that time machine. They were the best days and my dad, who died 5 weeks ago at 94, would be back with me and mum. Wonderful innocent days. Do you remember the Belgian, English dubbed, black and white Robinson Crusoe that was always on during those Summer Holidays?
Her husband in this is played by Hugh Paddick who was hugely famous in the early 60s as half of 'Julian and Sandy' with Kenneth Williams on the "Round The Horne" radio show. A very edgy act in those days!
i was born in 2006 and watched the double deckers a lot when i was young, and i still watch it now for fun. it's so much better than a lot of the stuff on kids tv nowadays
"" Of the streets and not too far, safe and sound in every row at the Saturday morning cinema show" You got a card and free entry on your birthday. Great times in our hearts and memories forever.
I was literally obsessed with this show when it came to American TV! I was obsessed with all things and people British when I was little. The show just did not stay on our TV long enough!
I loved getting up early every Saturday morning to watch the fabulous kids television programmes. I was born in 1963 and loved them all. But if i had to pick a favourite it would be The Flashing Blade. Featuring the two French swordsmen Francois and Guiliot. Not sure if ive spelt there names right. Lol. They fought the war for France against Spain and it was all action from start to finish. They They were my heroes as a child growing up watching television on a Saturday morning. Fabulous memories.
This was on for a very short time in the early 70s in New York City. I’ve asked people over the years if they remember it and nobody ever does. I couldn’t get that song out of my head for the longest time. I love the show at least what I could remember of it.
Bona, that laugh like sawing wet wood stands out a mile. Never realised how much music was played over each scene with the occasional gap for key dialogue.
Good call. Steve. My wife were eating in a restaurant once, when she said "I'm sure that is Brinsley Fode from Aswad on the table behind you"; I was just about to have a look when she added..."Don't Turn Around"...!!! 😄
I was still at school when this programme was shown. Why were the days always sunny, warm with hardly a cloud in the sky. Then I left school a few years later and it p*ss*d it down for years afterwards.
If you were watching this in 1970, you might also remember a show that started in 1973, 'Why don't you just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead? which was on during the Summer holidays.
I'm nearly 64. I loved this show as a 10-year-old growing up in London, England. It always struck me as a very slick, rather Americanised production, and watching it again after all these years I don't think I was wrong. ("Avengerland" types - of which I am one - will love spotting the locations, and that theme song is a banger.) Quite apart from the eponymous Double Deckers themselves, the quality of the guest stars was always very high - not five minutes into this episode and we already have Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden!
@pheart2381 4k transfer of the original film negatives is possible. That's the beauty of shooting on film, modern day transfers will yield greater resolution compared to cheap and nasty video tape.
J'ai vu cela sur la télé française quand j'avais 11 ans, "L'autobus à impériale" ! I just read in wikipedia (french) that it was a big success at the time so I don't understand why they stopped after 17 episodes since they originally planned to shoot 2 seasons of 26 episodes... Bon ça n'a pas duré, mais c'était génial ! La musique du générique est super !
En ce sens, la série ressemblait à "The Prisoner" de Patrick McGoohan, qui devait également durer deux séries mais n'a duré que une seule série tronquée.
Douglas Simmonds, the actor who played Doughnut in the Double Deckers series, died . His death was attributed to pneumonia, which was believed to have been caused by exposure to radiation from the Windscale nuclear reactor incident. However, it is important to note that his family never received compensation from the British Nuclear Fuels (BNF), the organization responsible for managing the Windscale site. Douglas Simmonds was a promising young actor who gained recognition for his role as Doughnut in the popular British children’s television series “The Double Deckers.” The cause of his death was officially recorded as pneumonia. However, there were suspicions that his illness may have been linked to his exposure to radiation from the Windscale nuclear reactor incident that had occurred IN 1957 The Windscale nuclear reactor incident took place on October 13, 1957. It was one of the earliest major nuclear accidents in history and resulted in significant releases of radioactive materials into the environment. The incident occurred when a fire broke out in one of the reactors during routine maintenance work. The fire burned for several days before it could be extinguished, leading to widespread contamination both locally and throughout Europe. Despite these concerns, Douglas Simmonds’ family never received any compensation from British Nuclear Fuels (BNF), the organization responsible for managing the Windscale site at that time. This lack of acknowledgment and support has added to the tragedy surrounding Simmonds’ untimely death and raised questions about how such incidents are handled by those responsible for their causes.
Aw, thank you Denise. I am constantly going through countless boxes of old VHS tapes, and you can rest assured if I find any more DD episodes i will upload them. Much appreciated...
The Double Deckers was my idea of after school TV heaven when I was 10 years old. And now? One of my all time fave TV progs is Spooks with Peter Firth as the head of MI5 and one of my all-time fave gigs was seeing Aswad (with Brinsley Forde) at Notting Hill carnival. 😀
That bridge where they stop is also seen in the Avengers.Emma Peel John Steed. "You've just been murdered " episode. It's called Tykes water lake and bridge. Elstree. Used in a few other tv shows and the odd film or 2 I believe.
Yep, Tykes Water Lake. As an Avengers fan I sneaked into the grounds of Haberdashers' Aske's School with my brother just to bag this location! (Mind you, I was in my 20s back then - I'm nearly 64 now.)
I ❤️ LOVE the Double Deckers, but you know what when they first came on american TV, couldn't stand them , but then I watched the summer Camp episode I loved that show from then on ,my favorite one was DOUGHNUT and the girl named tiger,I ❤ all of them and the show.MAX.
Hard to describe how exciting it was to me when you could watch Double Deckers during the school holidays. Magical times. Makes me sad for such a simple time….in my life at least. 😔
As a recently retired teacher who grew up on Saturday morning kids TV, I feel sad at how true, innocent childhood has been lost. I've never looked down at my classes and wished I could be young in these times.
@@majellafergus3643 Agreed. I watch the CFF films on a Saturday morning sometimes on Talking Pictures TV and they make me very sad for those days. The kids would find some robbers or something and the police would 'nick' them. Very simple and to modern eyes, corny storylines. But there was a sense of order then that is rapidly disappearing - and that's not just me being nostalgic, it's true. Ah well
Better days play outside with friends not a care in the world ❤❤❤❤
Hugs from south Brazil 🤗☀️🤗🌺..!!!Namastê 🌙🙏🏻✨💕❤️❤️❤️..!!!
It wasn’t simpler or better, we were kids then so life wasn’t serious. Every generation looks back on their youth but no age is better, probably in terms of longevity and medicine it’s always better now than before.
Saturday mornings were ace as a kid ,, double deckers , banana splits and the Arabian knights ,,,* size of a elephant 🐘"
I remember it well 😊
yeah i remember watching all the above on a colour tv for the first time, blew me away thanks for upload
The hair bear bunch
‘Shazam’ to you too my friend
Flash Gordon with Buster Crabb
Loved this I’m 58 this year and remember this well
Now it looks like a children’s Carry On film
I'm 58 this year to and feel exactly the same😂
And the lady in the car was in Carry on Camping if I’m not mistaken
Is that woman the one who played the annoying wife of Terry Scott's character in Carry on Camping? The one who laughed like a horse.
@@pbworld7858 yep
@@pbworld7858Think her name was Harriet (in the carry on film)
I got 40 pence pocket money. On Saturday morning, I ran to the shops and bought a bottle of lime soda, chocolate, and the comic 'Twinkle', which always had a free gift of a plastic ring or bracelet.
I'd go into the front room of the house, put the heater on high, and watch The Double Deckers, Banana Splits etc. I was around 6 or 7 years old. I'm 61 now and miss those exciting Saturday mornings ❤❤ Watching this video brings back all those memories when life was great ❤❤❤
I did the exact same thing. I was six years old at the time. I loved the Double Deckers, Banana Splits, and H.R Pufnstuf, Nanny and the Professor, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
@@jacobrivers5728 😊👍❤️♥️
Wonderful memories,I ache to go back to my childhood.
If I do ever finish off my Time machine, I'll pick you up and we'll go back to then, if only!!
I'll be waiting,but until then,we have our beautiful memories.
@@NinaDay-f8l Me too!!
@@johnbarry1965 There will probably be time machines available on Amazon in a couple of years.
Joe 90, Banana Splits, Catweazle, Doctor Who before he was transgender, Sid James and Walls ice cream.
For me a 70’s kid double deckers reminded me of the halcyon days of childhood the sunny 6week holidays full of fun and play in a more happy innocent times before greed took its hold and sadly destroyed childhood forever 😢
Those were the days. During 6 week holiday I'd be down the newsagents to buy the 'Summer Special' comic editions. They were bigger and often had a glossy cover. Beezer, Whizzer & Chips, Sparky, etc
Oh, and some sweets!
When summer was summer 🌞🏝️ When you were always guaranteed of good weather. Yes we had rain 🌧️☔ but never like this. Now we don't have have seasons it's just one season here in England Winter rain and rain ☔🌧️
Could not have put it better, the country and world was a safer place, feel so sorry for children growing up today
THESE WERE THE GOOD GOOOD OLE DAYS....not a care in the world...only what you were going to have for dinner and tea !!!!!❤❤❤
Happy days you could play outside with friends no worries better days
@@Paula-e4h True. All the nonces were on the BBC so the streets were safe.
Dinner and Tea....You must be from the North : ) When i moved down South, of course that changed to Lunch and Dinner. Prefer it the old way and yes, Sat mornings in the early 70s , 70 to 76 esp were great.
This is nostalgic joy for me! I absolutely worshipped the Double Deckers when I was about eight: I so much wanted to be in their gang I can remember the aching longing at half a century's distance. But what lovely, innocent fun it all was!
I was 10 and so wanted to be in the Double Decker gang! So glad we got to watch this here in the States 😄
Even in France this serie was incredibly popular in the seventies. Thanks!
I didn't know that. I assume that it was dubbed rather than subtitled, in which case a lot of the verbal comedy would have needed to be reworked.
« L’autobus impérial « …😇👍🌈
Les Sentinelles aussi.
Saturday morning, up early in my PJ's, a bowl of Golden Nuggets and watching the great TV, Valhalla xxx
Same here, have you tried "new" Golden Nuggets? VERY DISAPPOINTED!
@lexloose2112 like everything else they have seemed to shrink, or is it because we got bigger. I used to fill my pockets up with them and go on the swing in the back garden before school. It always felt strange playing out before school?
I never liked the original Golden Nuggets cereal. Pour the milk on and they would go all soft, the favour wasn't very nice too. I'll pass on the new ones I think 😂
Klondike Pete's Golden Nuggets, my absolute favourite as a young-un. Watching this and the Banana Splits wiv my bruv. Then it was The Virginian and my dad came in to watch.
Strawberry Golden Nuggets ❤ remember them?
Double Deckers forever - timeless entertainment for the young at heart! Thanks for uploading.
My pleasure, Mark. Glad you enjoyed...
@@tush001 Many thanks Tush - this show, as for many others, was a big part of my childhood growing up. Thanks for the great memories again, Mark
Here in Melbourne Australia Saturday mornings started with the test pattern then at 6am it was Thunderbirds. I remember the Banana Splits well including Danger Island. Who could ever forget Greenacres with Arnold the pig. Great times with fond memories of very special days.🖖✌️
My gosh, my childhood just rushed back at me. Thank you.
Thank you UK to have produced such a wonderful series 🙏✨💕✨💕✨
Wasn't it actually a joint UK and US production with Twentieth Century Fox.
@@michaelturner4457 Ho really !!……🤔 thank you for the information 👍
@@michaelturner4457 That makes sense. The production style is very American.
Yes double production , and I'd say more american themed than here in the uk
@@Khayyam-vg9fw..but the execution has a touch of the Carry On's, about it. Loved it then.
I love this. Takes me back. It's wonderful.
I’m 21, no one my age ever knows what this show is when I tell them I loved it as a kid. So glad my mum showed me this, and I still love watching it!
I'm 62. I watched the original run.
me too, I can't find anyone else who watched it of my age, I'm sixteen :)
I'm 60, and I also watched the original run on BBC1.
@@zapkvrI’m 61 and remember it airing on Saturdays in the USA in the late 60's.
The Beatles, James Bond, Tom Jones, among the other many wonderful things, as well as this show, us Yanks imported from y’all.
Me too I’m from Merseyside remember it well 😊
I had a hazy memory of an old TV show called Double Deckers that took place in England and there was singing but no one I know had any memory of it so I thought I must have imagined it and here it is. It must not have been on US television for very long.
I was 7 in 1970, and I've still got my Here Come The Double Deckers annual.
I just loved this program, Christ I started crying, beautiful memories, innocent times❤❤❤❤
A criminally underrated show
Wow an awesome flashback to my early childhood in London x
Mine too, Ellie. Glad you enjoyed...
The wonderful film , "Melody" features the wonderful London in the 70's !
61 this year , seems like yesterday watching the double deckers , banana splits and champion the wonder horse , great time growing up in the 60's and 70's .
We are the same age, both 1963 models and grew up watching some of the greatest children's TV programmes that were ever made.
We never came in for dinner only tea when my mum used to shout as loud as she could that tea was ready, magic memories 😂😂
My god that brought some wonderful memories back ❤
That took me right back to my teens carefree days
The double deckers, Banana splits, The Monkees, flashing blade and Belle and Sebastian, staple diet for a kids Saturday morning in the early 70’s before the likes of Noel Edmonds and Tizwoz bored us shitless.
Yes indeed beverly,happy days great kids tv, i was 10 when this was on tv forgot all about it,so nostalgic,so moving to watch this😒
And champion the wonder horse and batman...also a programme called white horses but not sure when that was on.
@@lucius4556 middle to lateish 60's😊
@@lucius4556 lol,they would have showed it in the 70's also👍
@@dougreed2257 Oh 😆😆 ..I know my older sister watched it and also had the record of the theme tune, probably why it's imprinted in my brain.
Part of my afternoon line-up after school in about 76/77. Great to see it again...
It was on Sunday morning in Australia
@@zapkvr I'm from Western Australia so we got it late in the day and probably a year late. I think the 'Micky Mouse Club' was on before it and 'Gomer Pyle' was on after it. I only every really watched channel 7 because it was the only clear signal our antenna could get back in the day _and_ in black and white...
@gecko 1968 it was mid 70s. It was on Nein
@@zapkvr The series was made in 1970.
Wonderful innocent times. Never seen this in colour many thanks
You're right. Heaven knows, it was colourful enough in black & white!
Wasnt it broadcast in colour, I dont remember seeing it in B+W
@@alimantado373 Wow you must have been rich,we all had black and white.
@@alimantado373 It *was* broadcast in colour but many people in the UK at the time (including my parents) didn't have colour TV sets.
This is also very emotional. As both of my parents are no longer with us since 1994 and 2014 Watching this takes me back to when they was mid to late 40s.. thank you for posting.
My pleasure, Ernir. So glad you enjoyed...
@@tush001 ah yes 100%
Watching these as a person who was born in 2003. Man I love the old transport related shows.
This was the BEST of my childhood, thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I am 64 now but I immediately sang along with the theme tune! Loved this show and the Banana Splits and of course, Scooby Doo.
Wonderful memories born in 64
Great memories of school holidays, loved the DD's
Fantastic stuff! Always loved this in the early 70s… great to see a bona mini Round the Horne reunion with Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden as guest stars. Betty was clearly enamoured of roles involving camping (as was Hugh in RTH!). As for Scooper, great role in preparation for Spooks.
You didn't think about it at the time and there is a temptation to look back with rose tinted spectacles, BUT. The 70s were the best years to be a kid. In the summer, out all day, jumpers for goalposts, adventure, grass stains, raging thirsts and back in time for tea. Mum didn't know where you were; we just all lived with risk better. Now..... none of the above.
yeah i remember watching all the above on a colour tv for the first time, blew me away thanks for upload
One of the greatest television programmes from the early 1970’s I think.
i need a time machine more than ever , i was 8 in 1970.
if you build one, i know a few others who would crew it for you Chris
I was 10
I was 7
@@vivienneandersson6019 Me too. Now 61. How did that happen?
I was born in 1961 and will join your crew for that time machine. They were the best days and my dad, who died 5 weeks ago at 94, would be back with me and mum. Wonderful innocent days. Do you remember the Belgian, English dubbed, black and white Robinson Crusoe that was always on during those Summer Holidays?
Double Deckers & Joe90 were my fave programmes as a child.Bought them since on dvd,magical !
J’adorais cette série quand j’étais jeune !
Vive les feuilletons anglais !!
Les Sentinelles aussi.
Cosmos 1999.
I was a toddler just about when this show was on! Yet, I remember it!
I was 2, but have no memory of this.
This brings back memory's .
I was 11 when this came out. Hard to believe I'm 65 now. Lost days of innocence. Lovely hot summers and ice-cream vans playing jaunty tunes.
..memories....big nostalgia: )
What memories! Fun trivia: Millie is played by Betty Marsden, who'd been in Carry On Camping only the year before.
Yep, married to Terry Scott, shared tent with Charles Hawtrey too.
I think Mr Giles (the farmer) was in Carry on Dick. Played the sailer that Hayley Mills poured the beer over
And she was in "Carry on regardless" she is the woman who winks on the train with Kenneth Connor!
Her husband in this is played by Hugh Paddick who was hugely famous in the early 60s as half of 'Julian and Sandy' with Kenneth Williams on the "Round The Horne" radio show. A very edgy act in those days!
@@ramsey6681 With the use of "Palare"!!
I’m having major flashbacks to the 70s & a bowl of Sugapuffs on a Saturday morning!
Please put some more Double Deckers on please
And very entertaining and comedic even by todays standards I think even young children would enjoy this now on the dvds too.
Crikey, this has brought back some memories!!! 😀👍👏
Brings back great memories
i was born in 2006 and watched the double deckers a lot when i was young, and i still watch it now for fun. it's so much better than a lot of the stuff on kids tv nowadays
I didnt know they re-ran it?
@@ColinBarrett001 haha they didn't, I have the dvd!
all still going strong .except douglas (doughnut ) simmonds who sadly passed away in 2011 aged 53 .good wholsome fun from a time long gone
Thats what donuts will do to ya
Watch this at the ABC Saturday morning cinema club. What a memorable time
Those badges 😮
"" Of the streets and not too far, safe and sound in every row at the Saturday morning cinema show" You got a card and free entry on your birthday. Great times in our hearts and memories forever.
Omg not to mention The Childrens Film Foundation stuff lol. The badges... it's all coming back... Nurse? Nuuurse
I was literally obsessed with this show when it came to American TV! I was obsessed with all things and people British when I was little. The show just did not stay on our TV long enough!
I'm so happy that I was a 1970s kid.
I loved getting up early every Saturday morning to watch the fabulous kids television programmes. I was born in 1963 and loved them all. But if i had to pick a favourite it would be The Flashing Blade. Featuring the two French swordsmen Francois and Guiliot. Not sure if ive spelt there names right. Lol. They fought the war for France against Spain and it was all action from start to finish. They They were my heroes as a child growing up watching television on a Saturday morning. Fabulous memories.
Think that guy's name was Guillaume..which is the French version of William.
Wonderful 😍😍💕❤️❤️❤️.. O am brasileira i loved i miss this ..!!’
Crazy how time flies used to watched it on our black and white telly 😂 the good old days back then
Ah, memories of childhood. Loved the Double Deckers.
Debut on ABC Saturday Morning on 9/12/1970.Lasted for 2 seasons.Aired reruns the following year until it was cancelled for good on 9/3/1972.
This was on for a very short time in the early 70s in New York City. I’ve asked people over the years if they remember it and nobody ever does. I couldn’t get that song out of my head for the longest time. I love the show at least what I could remember of it.
Loved this show.
Loved all these but had a particular favourite in Catweazle. We were a lucky generation
Nice to see those “Round the Horne” stalwarts Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden.
Bona, that laugh like sawing wet wood stands out a mile. Never realised how much music was played over each scene with the occasional gap for key dialogue.
I used to love these when I was a kid
Loved it
Brindsley Forde who went on to be in Aswad. Incredible
Good call. Steve. My wife were eating in a restaurant once, when she said "I'm sure that is Brinsley Fode from Aswad on the table behind you"; I was just about to have a look when she added..."Don't Turn Around"...!!! 😄
Sure he was in please sir (the film) as well.
He and Michael Audreson are still good friends with each other.
Oh how I loved this as a 5 year old in 1970
I was 9 and feel the same. Wish i could go back to the 70's !!
Telling my six year old grand daughter I was 10, 53 years ago when I watched this.
Loved this as a kid 😂
I was still at school when this programme was shown. Why were the days always sunny, warm with hardly a cloud in the sky. Then I left school a few years later and it p*ss*d it down for years afterwards.
If you were watching this in 1970, you might also remember a show that started in 1973, 'Why don't you just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead? which was on during the Summer holidays.
My childhood most favourite TV series
Wow Gillian bailyt
Showing my age, but this was fantastic in my youth
I'm nearly 64 and should probably be reading Spengler or watching Tarkovsky instead, but the show holds up very well as entertainment even now!
I'm nearly 64. I loved this show as a 10-year-old growing up in London, England.
It always struck me as a very slick, rather Americanised production, and watching it again after all these years I don't think I was wrong. ("Avengerland" types - of which I am one - will love spotting the locations, and that theme song is a banger.)
Quite apart from the eponymous Double Deckers themselves, the quality of the guest stars was always very high - not five minutes into this episode and we already have Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden!
When summer was summer always seems to rain these days
JOJ20E is a 1967 4 litre Vanden Plas scrapped in 1989.
great memories ❤
The good old days
Back when kids tv was good !
I used to watch that show Double Deckers when I was only 9 in 2001 for my after school program on tv right before supermarket sweep
I was 10 in 1970. Blimey. I remember the theme song.
Happy days, Baza...!!!
Once heard not easily forgotten.
Shot on film. Maybe if the negatives are safe someone will do a nice uhd 4k release of the series
All Deere and easy these days innit it.
All free and easy
I spotted that too the programme captured on film as opposed to crappy video tape.
4k? It was never 4k in the first place! At least its colour,which I didnt get to see at the time😊
@pheart2381 4k transfer of the original film negatives is possible. That's the beauty of shooting on film, modern day transfers will yield greater resolution compared to cheap and nasty video tape.
Betty Marsden in the car\pond wasn't it? Round the Horne anyone?
J'ai vu cela sur la télé française quand j'avais 11 ans, "L'autobus à impériale" ! I just read in wikipedia (french) that it was a big success at the time so I don't understand why they stopped after 17 episodes since they originally planned to shoot 2 seasons of 26 episodes... Bon ça n'a pas duré, mais c'était génial ! La musique du générique est super !
En ce sens, la série ressemblait à "The Prisoner" de Patrick McGoohan, qui devait également durer deux séries mais n'a duré que une seule série tronquée.
Douglas Simmonds, the actor who played Doughnut in the Double Deckers series, died . His death was attributed to pneumonia, which was believed to have been caused by exposure to radiation from the Windscale nuclear reactor incident. However, it is important to note that his family never received compensation from the British Nuclear Fuels (BNF), the organization responsible for managing the Windscale site.
Douglas Simmonds was a promising young actor who gained recognition for his role as Doughnut in the popular British children’s television series “The Double Deckers.”
The cause of his death was officially recorded as pneumonia. However, there were suspicions that his illness may have been linked to his exposure to radiation from the Windscale nuclear reactor incident that had occurred IN 1957
The Windscale nuclear reactor incident took place on October 13, 1957. It was one of the earliest major nuclear accidents in history and resulted in significant releases of radioactive materials into the environment. The incident occurred when a fire broke out in one of the reactors during routine maintenance work. The fire burned for several days before it could be extinguished, leading to widespread contamination both locally and throughout Europe.
Despite these concerns, Douglas Simmonds’ family never received any compensation from British Nuclear Fuels (BNF), the organization responsible for managing the Windscale site at that time. This lack of acknowledgment and support has added to the tragedy surrounding Simmonds’ untimely death and raised questions about how such incidents are handled by those responsible for their causes.
I love and miss this show do you have anymore , you made my day finding your channel thanks 😁💗💗💗
Aw, thank you Denise. I am constantly going through countless boxes of old VHS tapes, and you can rest assured if I find any more DD episodes i will upload them. Much appreciated...
I’m glad the younger generation likes the 70s to 😊
This documents the very first time ever that someone was surprised that it rained in England.
Ha! Ha!. Very true. I like it... 😄
Loved this as a kid. Grasshopper Island too!
I completely forgot about grasshopper Island nice one !
The Double Deckers was my idea of after school TV heaven when I was 10 years old. And now? One of my all time fave TV progs is Spooks with Peter Firth as the head of MI5 and one of my all-time fave gigs was seeing Aswad (with Brinsley Forde) at Notting Hill carnival. 😀
Wow!!!. You are officially a DD addict, Si...!!!
@@tush001 It just brings back good memories tushy mate
Better days
Good memories from my childhood on a Saturday
David Gerber later on produced "Police Story", "Police Woman" and other series for Columbia Pictures Television in the 70s and 80s
I loved the double deckers ..
Aswad .... what a brilliant band
Rainbow culture.. brilliant
Brinsley Forde lead singer
I used to watch this along with the banana splits.I remember The White Horses as well.
Wow! What excellent nostalgia 🎉❤used to love this programme 😊😊🎉
That bridge where they stop is also seen in the Avengers.Emma Peel John Steed. "You've just been murdered " episode. It's called Tykes water lake and bridge. Elstree. Used in a few other tv shows and the odd film or 2 I believe.
It used in the opening sequence of the Rigg/Thorson episodes too.
Also in the Avengers ‘The Hour that Never Was’ I believe
Yep, Tykes Water Lake. As an Avengers fan I sneaked into the grounds of Haberdashers' Aske's School with my brother just to bag this location! (Mind you, I was in my 20s back then - I'm nearly 64 now.)
I ❤️ LOVE the Double Deckers, but you know what when they first came on american TV, couldn't stand them , but then I watched the summer Camp episode I loved that show from then on ,my favorite one was DOUGHNUT and the girl named tiger,I ❤ all of them and the show.MAX.
The show aired here in Canada on Sunday at 12 noon. We watched it every week.