Geordie Racer - Look and Read BBC Complete show Pigeon Racing Blue Flash
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9 жыл бұрынLike a lot of children across the UK. I watched this educational TV program in primary school. Sometime around 1993. For some reason it always stuck with me. I thought it was called "Blue Flash" for years. Hence why I put "Blue Flash" in the title.
I recently found out it was called Geordie Racer and it was apart of the BBC's Look and Read educational series. In fact, I also watched "Through The Dragon's Eye" and "Spywatch" in primary school. These are already on youtube complete.
I've managed to track down the entire series and uploaded it here. So the next generation can see what we had to watch in school.
I've kept and been racing pigeons for quite a few years now. This show was definitely one factor of my love for pigeon racing.
Anyway, please enjoy. This contains all 10 episodes of Geordie Racer. The starting times for each episode is below:
Episode 1: Runners and Fliers = 0:55
Episode 2: Down The Cellars = 19:51
Episode 3: Pigeon Post = 39:21
Episode 4: This Is Radio Newcastle = 58:49
Episode 5: Race Day = 1:18:35
Episode 6: Light Of St.Mary = 1:38:08
Episode 7: Lost Bird = 1:58:01
Episode 8: Have You Gone Daft, Man? = 2:17:25
Episode 9: If Only We Knew When = 2:37:02
Episode 10: Run! = 2:56:44
@britishrecycledplastic3998 4 жыл бұрын
Finding that someone's uploaded the entirety of Geordie Racer has brought me an inexplicable burst of joy today. Thank you!
@stephentaylor8421 Жыл бұрын
Same here I've been coming bk to this now for years because I feel like a young man again and it gives me some very pleasant feelings I had bk then in boarding school called crowthorne it was in edgworth near Bolton I was around 14 back then now I'm 43 hope you get the same joy as I do from this nice to meet you 😊👍
@Wisdom_KS 5 ай бұрын
What about yellow brick rd
@Aqua_Man84 4 жыл бұрын
Wow this takes me back just over 25 years when I was in primary school watching these. The good old days... take me back to when life was simple
@scottshaw2489 3 ай бұрын
Same around same time
@MrSalfordm7 3 жыл бұрын
This takes me back to primary school id give anything to go back to that time almost seems like a different world in comparison to modern times
@Braveheart1984 Жыл бұрын
Must be 30 years since I last saw this!
@sarahmore4146 3 ай бұрын
As a 51year old I loved this late 70s early 80s now watching with a chocolate in my mouth in bed lol
@Tomsonic41 Ай бұрын
I watched this at school in 1988, when it was brand new. Together with "Through the Dragon's Eye" from 1989, this is one I remember most vividly.
@throttlebot Ай бұрын
Same here, I watched this, Badger Girl, Fairground and the best of them all Dark Towers. Would have been 1987 88 and 89 when I was at Primary school. Good times.
@rubymatthews2698 5 жыл бұрын
When I was little, in school we watched this show every week and we all sang along to the theme tune driving our teacher mad lol.
@Itsatintownthinthing 3 жыл бұрын
Tv on wheels?
@rubymatthews2698 3 жыл бұрын
@@Itsatintownthinthing no we had a small room just for the tv. There were no seats so we had to sit on the carpet floor.
@Chris-construction 2 жыл бұрын
@@Itsatintownthinthing tv on wheels for me too pal. Great memories
@plonkersbro 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah we used to as well, for some reason it was only the one year in our school that used to watch episodes of this before doing the two page worksheets that went with that episode
@nikkibell5805 8 жыл бұрын
I watched these in primary school in the early 80s.. The boy from outer space rings a bell
@jacolaco519 8 жыл бұрын
+Nikki Bell its just the boy from space :)
@JamieRossUK 4 жыл бұрын
I watched these in primary school in the late 90s, I was stunned to find out that it was so old!
@the4thnonblonde 9 жыл бұрын
Hi, me again. Also discovered few months back, Declan Donnelly (a.k.a., Dec of Ant & Dec)'s TV debut, could almost be in Georgie Racer, as he was one of the 2 boys left, up for playing Spuggie. "Yeah, I can picture Dec playing him" I thought. But his fear of handling pigeons, meant the kid in this series got the part. No matter, as Dec got a small part in Byker Grove, a year or 2 later met Ant, and the rest is history...
@scorchx3000 8 жыл бұрын
I'm from Sunderland myself, me and my friends at school used to love Geordie Racer. One guy in the class got into trouble, had a potty mouth and said "Shit becomes shite with me, wheee magic E!" And in 34 years, not counting Geordie Racer, i've saw the swing bridge open once. I didn't even think it was still a functional swing bridge, but it is.
@rayskitten78 6 жыл бұрын
lol well it dose
@GeorgiaGeorgette 6 жыл бұрын
Your school friend's remark made me laugh hard!
@scorchx3000 5 жыл бұрын
I was in the Granger market last week, it's hardly changed....apart from the prices. I wish I could get some meat for 68P as advertised here. Although I did buy two Stotties from Asda the other day, 50P for two, so that's not too bad. I had to provide my own filling though.
@zephyrsky__ 3 жыл бұрын
"Shit becomes shite with me, wheee magic E!" same in south Northumberland schools 😂
@nippoland Жыл бұрын
I must admit that I also thought I was hilarious for singing about magic E producing shite. And I was a good kid!
@lindseyhiccups 2 жыл бұрын
I used to watch this in primary school! I absolutely loved this show and randomly get the magic E song stuck in my head - oooooh the nostalgia :D
@boo453 4 жыл бұрын
this stuck with me too. learning how to understand geordie has been more useful for me than french
@samaraisnt 4 жыл бұрын
I don't think they're real accents though, are they? They sound put on, but maybe it's changed significantly in the last 25 years haha. Sounds put on though :V
@boo453 4 жыл бұрын
@@samaraisnt i think they may have overemphasised parts of geordie that are different from standard english, but i'm not sure
@novo6462 12 күн бұрын
Great to see all the comments from people of the same generation here. I watched this in Primary school around 93/94 and my father took me up to Newcastle on a day trip. Growing up in the 90s was awesome.
@clvisugo 9 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!! I watched it at the same time and have had the theme tune stuck in my head for over 20 years - every now and again the first two verses would spew out of my mouth!!! My best mates surname was Sparriw, and because of Geordie Racer, has spent the rest of his life being called Spuggy (by me) He hated it, but it always stuck with me lol My daughter has just turned 11 and she said they never watched anything like this and only got to watch TV when for "treats" during "Golden Time" We watched all the look and read stuff in my school and they were the highlight of my Primary School life, every week we watched some kind of education film. But Geordie Racer was my favourite!
@calvingudgeon1322 7 жыл бұрын
Born in 1978 and I remember watching this at primary school in 1988.I guess back then it was brand new
@elliotjames9313 7 жыл бұрын
i was watching this is 97 ha, my school was so cheap
@youwinoneinternets 7 жыл бұрын
lmao did you have to watch dragons eye and earthwarp too?
@elliotjames9313 7 жыл бұрын
omg yeah hahaha, through the dragons eye was so boss lololol
@jackbrown4130 3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@Skelloween 6 жыл бұрын
Omg it's Derek Griffiths singing it. I loved this so much!
@miriamharris941 4 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for doing this! such a big part of my childhood, and loved reading your story too
@tomo8910vids 7 жыл бұрын
oh, memories of this in school. I was born in '97 so the fact that this was being shown in the early '00s is pretty impressive
@d2dar459 Жыл бұрын
What the hell? It was still being shown that recently?!
@brigoose7945 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this in school
@davidscott1348 4 жыл бұрын
This was a brilliant program to watch when u were a Kid
@LoveTwoExplore Жыл бұрын
So many memories of primary school flooding back. That backwards puzzle at the end of episode one resonates with me to this day and how in awe the class were trying to figure it out! Funnily enough we never finished this series whereas through the dragons eye and captain crimson we did. Thank you for posting!
@nAuGhTyKiTti666 4 жыл бұрын
Wow what a flash back to school days, thanks for the upload!
@Sara-jayne79 7 ай бұрын
If kids these days we're still so innocent , all the memories from1989 came flooding back fast 😅 omg I feel so old wordsworth!
@kevinjames_98 8 жыл бұрын
Watched this in school 😂 Proud to be a geordie
@97channel 8 жыл бұрын
Lovely. Knocking on thirty years since I saw this, just made it through the entire lot. I don't think I actually understood the majority of what they were saying though when I were a kid watching it at school. I only became reasonably fluent in Geordie through watching Auf Wiedersehen Pet repeats some years later. I have a vague recollection of a teacher giving us the observation test which accompanied each episode in the schools packs and, when none of us got a single answer right, couldn't understand how we'd all sat there glued to it yet not taken any of the dialogue on board.
@th8257 5 жыл бұрын
I'm from the north east, and the Geordie accents are very, very hammed up in this. It seems like the actors are deliberately going out of their way to lay it on with a trowel. I actually knew the kid who played the main part. He was *terribly* well spoken in real life.
@jdhill9184 4 жыл бұрын
Remember watching this when I was about 8-9 in 2001 in school it stuck in my head for years and was bugging me what it was so I googled pigeon tv show and I found it nostalgia for real thanks for upload
@hamishcameron1082 4 жыл бұрын
I use to watch these when I was a kid We even use to record them 🇬🇧
@MCHOKUM 5 жыл бұрын
I watched this at primary school as a child,in the 80s. and when I went to Northumbria Uni in Newcastle the first thing I did was buy a stottie!
@belliboo1005 4 жыл бұрын
This brings back memories 1985-1990
@Aerojet01 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the upload. This takes me back. I changed schools quite a fair bit and ended up watching the repeats. It was great to see Kevin Whately from Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Look and Read had the right idea making learning interesting, enjoyable and creative. I think the national curriculum should be based upon interactive teaching using analogies and learning strategies. It sticks in the mind. I can't count the number of lessons where the teacher/lecturer sends you to sleep with hours of waffle.
@sajamor0811 5 жыл бұрын
This is how you write and act for kids' TV - give them the same respect you would adult viewers and broaden their minds while you're about it!
@leetylr 5 жыл бұрын
I have the same experience, I remembered which series it was from but forgot about its story name. The theme tune gave me goosebumps, happy memories x
@CurtisGabrielMusic Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this at school in the 90s! A flood of memories.
@gail4431 4 жыл бұрын
Watched this in school. I suddenly feel old! Thanks for the upload
@PupRiku 2 жыл бұрын
Well this just brought a whole chunk of my childhood back. It was mad watching this while going to school in North Tyneside.
@LivingDeadMan1972 8 жыл бұрын
Geordie had a pigeon. A pigeon. A pigeon. Geordie had a pigeon. A pigeon he had. He flew it all day and he flew it all night. When it came back it was covered in...... Geordie had a pigeon..... Etc....
@davidscott8475 8 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this at my school
@DW-ut3fx Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Keep em coming.
@201081hero 6 жыл бұрын
Great upload - thanks for putting up all 10 episodes in one video. Just to note that a lot of the Great North Run footage they used throughout the series like the scenes at the starting line, the aerial shots etc. was actually from the 1985 event. Most people will know that this was filmed around the time of the 1987 event as hinted by the GNR posters and indeed the beginning of the chase scene at the end was specially set up in the actual event.
@mritchie85 6 жыл бұрын
Watched in Scotland in the early nineties, really enjoyed at the time, all I remembered was the racing pigeons lol.
@andrewhood6031 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing flash back thank you 👍
@Cashback13 7 жыл бұрын
40p for a Sandwich! Jesus I know it's a market in the North East in the late 80s, but it's like nearly 4 quid nowadays. Bloody Inflation's gone through the roof last 30 years!
@Crimsonedge1 6 жыл бұрын
While things are more expensive these days, we also get paid more. In the early 80's the average Brit earned about £6000 a year which is £19,000 in todays money. Here in the UK today, the average wage is currently £26,000. We're actually much better off today than the 80's although the 80's was recession, recession and recession by rights. It's the sort of thing that happens when a woman runs the country... Here in 2018 with a woman running the country again, things are much better... Oh no, wait...
@benjamincs1 5 жыл бұрын
More like in the years since the Brexit referendum...a small taste of what's to come
@krepsdnb5767 5 ай бұрын
ENGLAND WAS SO BEAUTIFUL ❤
@pyjamacritic1171 7 жыл бұрын
Remember this so well, I was in school in North London, they taught us Geordie like it was a foreign language. Seemed quite patronising of my teachers now I think about it.
@ks506soton 10 ай бұрын
Remember watching this is school..
@macca2760 6 жыл бұрын
Wow watched this in early 90s in school haha love it
@Sara-jayne79 7 ай бұрын
Can you imagine back being a kid and not being able to skip the crappy parts and waiting a whole week to see the next episode, it's getting me passed off at 44 haha 😅
@olivere5497 5 ай бұрын
Hearing the news today of that Geordie lad throwing the acid about in Clapham made me think of this classic telly!
@TheConsettonian1987 7 жыл бұрын
I saw this a few times when I was at school a few times and I loved it and I think it was filmed in 1988, so I was 1 year old.
@priteshpatel1312 6 жыл бұрын
Good memories watching this from school
@davidscott1348 6 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this when i was a kid
@Johnno9989 4 жыл бұрын
I think WatchMojoUK should do a top ten video for the Look & Read serials. If that does happen, I think Geordie Racer should be no.1.
@mistofoles 4 жыл бұрын
It's Kevin Whatley and that bird who used to be in "JOHNNY BRIGGS" and "CORONATION STREET" !
@stephentaylor8421 Жыл бұрын
I hope you are all Flying free flying high as we watch Geordie racer and remember day's gone by we are all still young in heart and soul 📺📼
@derektate8787 4 жыл бұрын
I love Wordy's "sponsored bounce!" in this one (at 24:45) What a fab TV series. I love a lot of these stories such as "Cloud Burst" from 1974 and "Dark Towers" from 1981. :D
@coltonconner782 Жыл бұрын
Omg 😱 best series ever it was the 80’s ha
@y0r00 8 жыл бұрын
Blue Flash has been investigated in the Yewtree inquiry! lol
@leemason8953 5 жыл бұрын
brings back memories
@THEoneNonlyFOX 5 жыл бұрын
Oh my god. I remember this like it was yesterday. The Badger Girl was good as well.
@gordontaylor5373 3 жыл бұрын
I loved Badger Girl! I saw it at school!
@the4thnonblonde 9 жыл бұрын
My first Look & Read series was The King's Dragon, which was almost 40 years back; am longing to view it again. Vaguely remembered The Boy From Space, and the one about the bird of pray & eggs thieves - forgotten the title - the last 2 series I viewed, before start secondary school, was Fairground and this one.
@clvisugo 9 жыл бұрын
The bird of prey - that's just rattled something in my brain!! It wasn't "Sky Hunter" was it? There was also "Badger Girl"... That was good!!
@geocachingwomble 8 жыл бұрын
There were 2 series of Skyhunter and Sky Hunter II
@pallyali786 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this in 1993 when I was in year 3.
@RelaxingWalks 2 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where I can buy Magic E car decals?
@johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist1372 7 жыл бұрын
The final episode No. 10, starting at 2hr 56/57 mins, features some excellent excerts from the Great North Run and stars Kevin Whately of Auf Pet and Lewis.
@PerpetualAlfa 3 жыл бұрын
""ay gannonome forrabit?" "uworreewitworreeewithessen" I don't know why I understood the dialogue perfectly when I was 6 but struggle now I'm 33!
@CRiZLA 11 ай бұрын
I watched this in 1993 when i was 6y/o. I have no idea why our teacher at wchool made us watch this- we lived in birmingham so wrong ciry 😮
@markorollo. 9 жыл бұрын
apparantly ive been getting mixed up with this show if this was 1993, i seem to remember it but i was 19 then, my look and read era wouldve been about a decade earlier. although i did still watch a lot of schools and kids tv, still do lol
@BenBanjo87 5 жыл бұрын
The days when you could buy a stotty/sandwich for 45p!
@attinu 5 жыл бұрын
That Magic E Wizard helping criminals steal robes and escape the cops! Outrageous :)
@CaptainAndy 4 жыл бұрын
That’s the sort of thing you do when you’re off your tits on magic E.
@oldskoolforever79 6 жыл бұрын
originally 1988
@WillScarlet1991 7 жыл бұрын
Hi. Could you upload the Boy from Space?
@muddles200 4 жыл бұрын
My last ever homework was on this
@marystrong1490 4 жыл бұрын
This was an amazing resource for teachers. It was a properly brilliantly written story with teaching points about reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing style seamlessly woven in. It also included positive female role models and a positive attitude to racial integration. Wonderful music too. I wish we still had such rich resources available to us now.
@scorchx3000 2 жыл бұрын
That is true, but outside the North East its problematic. Teaches kids about Geordie grammar. Wonder how many bairns down London went around saying ha'way man and baffled parents.
@darren2514fv 6 жыл бұрын
Was Geordie Racer shot entirely on film with the exception of the Great North Run footage in the final episode
@thesound-chameleonman3580 3 жыл бұрын
is the boy from space available on here? thank you
@kristianbarford 7 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many of the Auf Wiedershen, Pet crew were directly/indirectly involved with Geordie Racer. Much of the incidental music is reminscent of AWP, and of course old Kevin Whately and Madelaine Newton both starring.
@benmarshall404 4 жыл бұрын
The music does sound similar I agree, but it's not the same composer on the 2 shows.
@gordontaylor5373 3 жыл бұрын
They're married in real life as well, aren't they?
@fraserkatie 8 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where the outdoor locations are in this? Theyre great!!! I love the loft where Baz's pigeons are!
@coatboy1981 8 жыл бұрын
Bazs pigeon loft is in north shields next to the fish quay the property is still there but abandoned
@jacolaco519 8 жыл бұрын
+coatboy1981 cool
@maddog5541 7 жыл бұрын
35mins in is that Seaton Delaval Hall?
@rayskitten78 6 жыл бұрын
omg im a kid again
@jackbrown4130 3 жыл бұрын
Look & Read 👀
@madmanks 7 жыл бұрын
classic
@joecb1000 23 күн бұрын
I watched this in school in about 2003/4 can tell our school was having its fund syphoned out by the governors 👀
@robdee81 3 жыл бұрын
Lol wordy , i had forgotten all about this , we used to watch this in infant school. Oh and anyone remember a pen that taught writing letters? It always went "top to bottom"
@marnanel Жыл бұрын
The pen was from Words and Pictures.
@marnanel Жыл бұрын
You might remember Charlie the bendy puppet too
@gordontaylor5373 3 жыл бұрын
I hate climbing up the bank to that Dean Street car park. It really hurts your legs!
@kellywallace9677 3 жыл бұрын
I never quite understood the purpose of watching these for the curriculum. (Reading and writing I know but what exactly was it teaching) I liked it though cos we got to watch tv for a lesson.
@dommidavros2211 Жыл бұрын
How dod that talking orange robot float like that??
@nisha7572 Ай бұрын
Fact: Declan Donnelly auditioned for the role of Geordie Racer and didn't get it. Shame. Imagine how his life would have turned out.
@Steve-nq8jc 2 жыл бұрын
Man this took me back to 1989 my first week in reception we watched this. That bloody head thing has tuck with me for years.
@gordontaylor5373 3 жыл бұрын
I thought the Great North Run was in September, not June!
@1000000man1 5 жыл бұрын
12:18 If his Resting Heart Rate was 102, he'd be on the verge of a Heart Attack! 102 is only normal when you're exercising.
@hutchmusician 4 жыл бұрын
Not for a child. For resting heart rate: Newborns 0 to 1 month old: 70 to 190 beats per minute Infants 1 to 11 months old: 80 to 160 beats per minute Children 1 to 2 years old: 80 to 130 beats per minute Children 3 to 4 years old: 80 to 120 beats per minute Children 5 to 6 years old: 75 to 115 beats per minute Children 7 to 9 years old: 70 to 110 beats per minute Children 10 years and older, and adults (including seniors): 60 to 100 beats per minute Well-trained athletes: 40 to 60 beats per minute
@danwoodward23 7 жыл бұрын
they made us watch this in school. the teacher would pause the tape sometimes to interpret the geordie gibberish
@captinweestain526 4 жыл бұрын
The baddies in this shoiw scared me.
@Kousaburo 3 жыл бұрын
I look, I read, I watch and smoke weed.
@DU.Wrestling 6 жыл бұрын
Jan-March 1988
@edmund184 5 ай бұрын
Derek Griffiths - the Bob Dylan of children's fiction
@Adam90909 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they still watch these in schools ?
@dancoulson6579 7 жыл бұрын
Is this the show where they find something yellow on the beach, and try to put in in a bottle? Or I remember something about yellow liquid coming out of a pipe into the water. Maybe I'm thinking of something entirely different?
@coatboy1981 7 жыл бұрын
Dan Coulson you are not sure what
@dancoulson6579 7 жыл бұрын
This could be it. I'm looking into it. Either way, thank you very much for the tip!
@dancoulson6579 7 жыл бұрын
Yup, that's exactly what I remember (well some scenes anyway) thanks very much for that! It's been bugging me since 2000!
@dickterpene8697 6 жыл бұрын
Haha brilliant
@dickterpene8697 6 жыл бұрын
That ugly hairy alien lmao
@anthonypotts8829 4 жыл бұрын
Peter Rowell who played the disc jock, BBC Peado.
@sauronbagginsd8032 2 жыл бұрын
I actually looked this up, 😱😱😱
@pferreira1983 7 жыл бұрын
There was actually a computer game of Geordie Racer, can't remember the computer it was on though.
@coatboy1981 7 жыл бұрын
P Ferreira theres a video on youtube of it
@pferreira1983 7 жыл бұрын
coatboy1981 I'm sure there is but I don't know what computer it was for.
@phippsdl 7 жыл бұрын
It was on the BBC Model B, and actually makes an appearance about 2h 28 mins into this video.
@pferreira1983 7 жыл бұрын
phippsdl I've never heard of the BBC Model B. Was it a variation of the BBC Micro?
@paulsawtell3991 7 жыл бұрын
Hi, this is very interesting; i wonder if you'd mind posting it without the logo in the top left hand corner of the picture? It is a bit of a distraction and I think it would have been transmitted without this..?? Many thanks indeed.
@201081hero 6 жыл бұрын
This has been recorded from one of the BBC's childrens digital channel, and as such its got the logo in the corner which cant be helped. When I recorded Geordie Racer around 2002-2003 the same thing happened to me but within the schools transmissions that BBC used to do it would've been broadcasted free of such things.
@dtwdvne 7 жыл бұрын
What I can't understand is how did the two accomplices from the robbery come to close in on Cath at 3:12:37 ? I wonder how did they know Spuggy and then Cath had the bag and how did they get to the other place if Victor travelled by Metro. Especially before mobile phones. I wonder if Mickey Stone tipped off the bridge operator to open the bridge.
@dtwdvne 7 жыл бұрын
plus how did Mickey know where to go with the police is not clear
@coatboy1981 7 жыл бұрын
Dan Woodvine in those days they had mobiles but where boxes
@gordontaylor5373 3 жыл бұрын
I like Janie! She's a brave little girl!
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