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David. Around the World in 79 Days was originally a segment from Hanna-Barbera's Cattanooga Cats, which was separated for U. K. broadcast.

Here is the shows opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyP-x0WCseI

You were right about Houndcats being produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. (A.K.A. DFE Films). It never ceases to amaze me how cartoon shows were re-packaged after it's original U. S. broadcast.

Thanks, Blaing.

Appartently I got my around the Worlds mixed up:

Yes 79 days was with CC, made by H-B; there was an "...80 Days" though made by DFE, which was a basic re-telling of Phileas Fogg (I remmeber the theme song "Around The World In 80 Days with Passper Tout!").

Came across it when trying to clarify another early TV memory of mine: DFE's version of DR.Doolittle with with closing titles with psychadelic style music.

Also ccame across Filmation's "Groovy Ghoulies". I can't get that theme out of my head! (I first saw GG in 1982, on Sat morning repeats - theme stuck then!)

I just had a look at the DFE entry at wikipedia, and it seems DFE never produced an adaptation of the book, and I'm now certain you were probably thinking of Air Programs International's (API) version of the series.

It was a very loose adaptation of Jules Verne's famous story. Here is the opening for the show.

http://youtu.be/YyW_vM7hJJI

This week's Weekly News has a competition with the prize being a Z-Cars dvd. Looking at the cover image it looks like a random selection of episodes over the full run of the show. I'll google it to see the full content. I preferred the later episodes with PCs Quilley and Render.

Thanks Blaing that's the very 80 Days I was thinking of (animation does look very DFE-esque).

I'll be looking out for those Z-Cars DVDs - am particulary interested in the 1970s episodes of this as they never get any recognition - it's often only the original 1962-4 ones that ever get talked about (which were said to be of better quality).

Remember my mother watching it, with their Mark 1 Ford Escorts.

be intersting of there are any surviving episodes featuring Detective Scatliffe - played by none other than Geoffrey Hayes later to present Rainbow.

I should think there are - to me it only seems like a few years ago I was watching those episodes along with Angels. I liked DCI Hagger as well, played by john Collin, every time we saw him he was eating. The casting was excellent as the actors were all very convincing and seemed like real coppers.

I just got that Z-Cars DVD in Leeds yesterday, all 1972 episodes with Escorts & a Northern accented Geoffrey Hayes. I agree it's a well put together acted & written show, lots of great characters, and also captures a feel of the times.

In fact I went to Leeds HMV yesterday & it had a lot of great old TV DVDs;I rather overspent & would've bought more but for budgets.
And that was after I chose to wait after the comic fair for a couple of DVDs (ie finance) and when I came back with more money that expected they'd gone! Cautionary should strike while iron's hot story.

True Entertainment channel is now on freeview (channel 61) showing Little House on the Prairie and Waltons reruns. I was a big fan of the Waltons first time round but never bothered with LHOTP.

Huh, they're always showing movies when I look at the EPG. Those must be the only actual programmes they have.

Thanks for info on True Entertainment, Steve. Never knew of this new channel.

I never liked the Waltons, but I do remember watching LHOTP on TV, was sometimes good - I saw one episode on Southern TV on school Hol morning, enjoyed episode and was annoyed the second part was to be shown when I was back at lousy stinking school. Had to wait for Channel 4 repeat years later.

Since that must be no later than 1981, I assume you didn't have a video recorder... they probably cost the Earth back then.

I can still remember my first video recorder which I rented from Rumbelows in the mid 1980s. I think the first video I bought was a feature length Yogi Bear film issued by Channel 5 video (long before the tv channel was founded). Budget priced from Woolworths.

I remember getting a VHS video before I owned a VHS player (it was a Godzilla movie), a DVD before I had anything to play it on, and even a CD before I had anything to listen with. Somehow I haven't been able to work up the same enthusiasm for Blu-ray.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I think it's just that I haven't seen anything on blu-ray that isn't available in a format I already have.

Correct, it was late 70s I had to miss shows thanks to stinking school.

It was not until 1985! that my parents finally entered the modern age. Yet in early 80s many kids at my school who lived on council houses and/or taunted me for living at the posh end of the village/having snobby parents (from working class backgrounds - like Mildred Roper) & sister already had video recorders when they were more expensive.

Parents were very anti-TV academics who felt I'd watch TV non stop if they got one. I was last kid in my class to have one!

I remember one of the first things my parents tried to record was some thing/Xmas concert? on BBC2, but they set the wrong channel and got Minder On The Orient Express instead (which I'd been watching on the balck and white portable next door as parents had visitors next door/showing off their trophy daughter (my older sister).

In the late sixties I had to sit in the kitchen watching the black and white portable tv as on Thursday nights there was Top of the Pops followed by the Man From UNCLE then the news and The Frost Report. Same with Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In on Sunday nights. And before VHS was invented i used to record tv comedy shows onto audio cassette and listen to them again and again. The wordy ones worked best - particularly Only When I Laugh.