Read if you watched Aunty (ABC) after school in the 80s
Hi All
Does anybody remember a filler that Aunty (The A.B.C) used to play often in the 80s to do with Voyager/Mariner and other cool space stuff?
It had fantastic animations of Voyagers "Grand Tour”, contemporary realtime video of Sol, and ended with the splashdown and recovery of what I think was an Apollo capsule.
The vision was set against a choral choir meets “Prog rock” kind of soundtrack.
It was often played at 17:50 or so before or after the video for the Fleetwood Mac song "Tusk" ((awesome video))
You might have caught it before episodes of Dr Who with Tom Baker which my very shaky memory recalls starting at 18:05 or so
The only ABC fillers I remember are "Laff-a-bits" which was vintage Keystone Cops type of stuff set to fast music, and the music video of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk".
These were often chucked in in front of Kenny Everett or The Goodies.
Yes-Tom Baker as Dr Who was great too-no annoying red head lady friends.
Later in the evening-'Yes Minster'-Sir Humphrey Appelby' was-well like how government really is.
Ah-the good'ole days
P.S on an astronomy note re A.B.C in the 80's those in Brissy may remember the Astro program on the radio on Thursday nights at 7.30 with Mark Riggby from Sir Thomas Moore observatory and Gary Ord.
Mark would give a tour around the night sky while we had the radio in the garden and he described position of star,details and then 'hop scotch' to the next celestial item.I remember all this so clearly,from Toowong in the 'burbs.
I learnt my major stars-the first was Canopus.-that was real astronomy-and so much fun!
Yes, it's an excerpt from Mike Oldfield's Incantations. The video is from a compiled movie which celebrated NASA and is called "The Space Movie". You can buy a dvd of it.
Yes, it's an excerpt from Mike Oldfield's Incantations. The video is from a compiled movie which celebrated NASA and is called "The Space Movie". You can buy a dvd of it.
