The twizzle lyrics4/3/2023 ![]() When you are young everything seems to get magnified and when the TV Heaven website tells me that "although the series was high in drama it had a very low mortality rate and patients deaths were limited to five per year as it concentrated more on the lives of the men and women who staffed the hospital" I really do believe it. Not that the medical staff were knee deep in blood, guts and gore of course. Being a train driver had to be preferable to being knee deep in blood, guts and gore. In fact I blame it entirely for my hatred of hospitals, medical matters in general and destroying any illusions I might have had to become a doctor. I remember the lurid medical scenes and worst of all the operations. Well I remember the frighteningly horrible and tense opening credits. So what exactly do I remember about it (apart from Jill Browne). The first episode aired in February 1957 thus preceding Twizzle by almost nine months and maybe bringing it the glorious title of my first television memory. It had a ridiculous average audience of 16 million people and a high of 24 million. Now let me say right here and now that I have absolutely no problem with people being gay, my comments are designed to reflect the times I am writing about (i.e at this point the 1950s.)Įmergency Ward 10 was Britain's first medical soap and the first to be aired twice a week - on Tuesdays and Fridays. Now this to me was probably a good thing as it was first evidence that I wasn't going to be gay (or queer as it was referred to in those days). ![]() We come to (fanfare).īasically it scared me shitless although I fancied Jill Browne something rotten. But moving swiftly on to cover over the fact that I remember nothing else about Twizzle. I can't imagine anybody would buy a string tangled puppet without knowing anything about it. Original episodes of Twizzle cost all of £450! The seller goes on to explain just who Twizzle is (or was). As I build up my television heaven (and hell) I will often refer to the e-bay auction site.Ī visit there showed that a Twizzle adventure book was going for £3.99, an early annual for £1.99, but there had been no bids, and a Twizzle puppet described as having "strings in a terrible tangle and a missing box due to the seller moving house when a bit of the back of Twizzle's hat also went missing" was going for just £21. I just had one of those "I wonder what happened to that and how much would it be worth if I had kept it?" moments. I believe that my presents for Christmas 1957 included a Twizzle annual. That was much more likely than people "falling in love" whatever that was. I was more likely to believe that a doll could twist himself (and sorry to have to say that my recollections were that Twizzle was a girl) up to huge heights. Of course I wasn't aware of any of this lovey-dovey stuff going down. The show also led to the meeting of Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Thamm who later became Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. I suspect I was there sitting on the floor (as I usually did) to see this ground-breaking show. The first episode of The Adventures of Twizzle was broadcast on November 13th, 1957 at 4.30 pm. It was 1957 and I was just five years old when dear old Gerry changed directions, lost his credibility as a film-maker but turned into a family entertainer. The importance of Twizzle is it stopped puppeteer Gerry Anderson from going bankrupt. He lived in a toy shop but at 2s 6d was just too expensive to buy - until Sally Cross comes in and purchases him for two shillings. Twizzle was a doll with the ability to extend its arms and legs to amazing lengths. ![]() Now through the wonders of the internet I am able to re-live those days and find out just what attracted me to some of these strange programmes. For instance I remember a ridiculous cartoon character called Twizzle. So here we go.Įarly TV memories have to be dredged up from somewhere inside and trying to remember your first ever television programme is virtually impossible. The idea behind this section is to look at some of the programmes that made my TV heaven or TV hell. Some programmes leave a lasting impression, long after the bulk of them have vanished into obscurity. Anybody who grew up with a television in their family will have had their lives affected by it in some way or other. ![]()
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