Smudge
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We should be doing the Hokey Cokey
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Post by Smudge on Mar 18, 2005 1:10:21 GMT
Was amazing, was it not?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2005 17:09:07 GMT
Doodle-oodle-oo-do-doooo...
*throws luminous piece of card with name on over fence*
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Post by klee on Mar 18, 2005 17:14:07 GMT
Utterly kicked arse. And the books were quite good as well.
I still can't look at Elizabeth Spriggs without mentally demanding why she isn't wearing fingerless gloves and a pointy hat.
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Post by pauliepoos on Mar 18, 2005 17:16:57 GMT
And wasn't the lovely Nicola Stapleton so suitably evil?
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 19, 2005 0:06:28 GMT
I watched a lot of this, but the only episode I remember involved using some 3D glasses to see the laser security system in a bank they broke into for some thoroughly understandable reason. Where have my memories gone? And where are my memories of Johnny Briggs come to mention it? He lived in a terrace, he went down a slide, his sister bought stupid clothes, but that's all.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Mar 19, 2005 21:07:31 GMT
Johnny Briggs! Say what you like about the modern obsession with nostalgia, you can't deny the sheer punch-in-the-mind power of suddenly being reminded of weird old kid's TV you didn't even like very much.
Johnny Briggs had an older brother and I think he was always growing mushrooms, he also had a dog called Razzle (hmm) and there was a plot about a kite and a plot about a hamster/gerbil. And he had a very depressing yard.
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Post by Carrotline on Mar 21, 2005 12:38:04 GMT
I remember in one episode of Simon and the Witch they sang "Congratulations!" by Cliff Richard but they changed the words and from that day I've never been able to sing the song (not the worst thing thats ever happened to me, mind) without lapsing into their alternative version.
The words had something to do with toad in the hole and dog in a blanket.
Does this ring any bells with anybody else?
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Post by groopie on Mar 22, 2005 12:20:40 GMT
... a witch's dinner is as tasty as can be.
I can't get any further though.
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Post by Barbarella on Apr 6, 2005 17:12:18 GMT
Eek I forgot about this programme, I just looked it up on google and I was scared by the images. Poor Simon.
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Post by lexicon on Apr 8, 2005 17:58:42 GMT
I loved Simon and the Witch
About 7 or 8 years ago, my brother and I realised that a woman that lives round the corner from us was very familiar...then one day....we realised.....
it was Simon's Mum....from Simon and the Witch
She used to bake cakes and stand in the kitchen and say "oh simon" several times an episode...
My brother and I have a long-standing bet about who can stop her outside her house, get an autograph and walk away calmly and with dignity, without her calling the police or thinking we're mentally ill.
the bet is still open, and she still lives there.
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Post by toby3000 on May 8, 2005 16:03:05 GMT
She was playing Queen Anne in a video I watched for history the other day and I exclamed loudly 'Its the witch! Out of Simon and the witch.'
She was being bitchy cos she got to open St. Paul's.
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Post by Ben on Jan 21, 2007 23:20:43 GMT
Where have my memories gone? And where are my memories of Johnny Briggs come to mention it? He lived in a terrace, he went down a slide, his sister bought stupid clothes, but that's all. And the classmate who said "My mother, who's a nurse...." |
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Post by urbanninja on Mar 14, 2007 16:07:25 GMT
Where have my memories gone? And where are my memories of Johnny Briggs come to mention it? He lived in a terrace, he went down a slide, his sister bought stupid clothes, but that's all. And the classmate who said "My mother, who's a nurse...." Vague memories of this..... Mostly of the cheap as chips titles! |
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Post by fused on Mar 15, 2007 0:19:42 GMT
Only have very slight memories of this- one where the another witch kept turning the Elizabeth Spriggs witch's cat into a dog, and another where this woman was disgusted that she had been served spaghetti as she thought it was her pet worms and snakes.
I think I might have read one of the books at one time in school as well, one where the witch goes on holiday.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jan 30, 2008 20:23:00 GMT
Albert from Johnny Briggs was an early crush of mine.
*embarrassed silence*
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Post by mcintyreman on Apr 22, 2008 13:22:53 GMT
I absolutely love Simon & The Witch. I still watch it all the time now and i'll be 33 soon (Blushes).
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swonky
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Post by swonky on May 22, 2008 18:46:34 GMT
It was indeed, pretty spiffing. They don't' make them like that anymore, and should frankly be ashamed of themselves.
I have the complete series on DVD and I dip in now and then for a bit of Cuthbert or Mrs Er..... type joyusness.
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 6, 2008 10:48:18 GMT
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Smudge
Su Pollard
We should be doing the Hokey Cokey
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Post by Smudge on Jul 20, 2008 14:28:35 GMT
Oh SHITSOCKS!
How could the witch have been dead for 17 days and I did not know?! I liked her as Iris Rainbird in Midsomer. Boo.
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