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My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show).

My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned.

Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too.

Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.

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Thanks Weenie

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I had exactly the same reaction to Morph from my 18mth old Grandson this Wednesday. There was a short report on the TV about the new Morph videos due to to be released on YouTube and young Jack sat entranced. Later in the day I found a couple of the old videos on YouTube and again he sat mesmerised by this animated lump of clay. Though he was upset when Morph broke into little pieces. ( the ice cream episode) :D

I have just received a DVD, Morph: The Morph Files which I ordered on Wednesday as part of the 4 for £10 offer from Amazon and look forward to a morning of reminiscences watch that DVD and the 3 others Bagpuss, The Clangers and Frankenstein's Cat. Happy days.

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Aardman, were great at stop motion, my favourite was Wallace and Gromit :)

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If you like Aardman then check out A Town Called Panic. Hilarious

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Morph. Was he the plasticine one who was on the art programme with Tony Hart (think I have the right person)? If so, I loved that myself and watched every episode. I don't think they make children's TV like they used to. I still find myself enjoying watching Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry.

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VisionOn first

edit actually looking it was after when Tony went solo. Fond memories of both

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Yes that was the one Mark and l must admit like many others that l was a big fan of Tony Harts art programme and sadly TV companies don't make them like they used to.

l get up early in the morning as l am not the best sleeper and l have been catching that old cartoon Topcat lately and that brings back many memories of when l was younger.:D

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Did you know Top Cat was originally called boss cat in the UK cuz the bbc did not want to endorse a cat food

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l learn something every day tiz.:D

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Here you go Den: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Cat-Comp...ywords=top+cat

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A bargain in my book MG but the biggest shame is there were only 30 episodes.

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I got the first letter addressed to the new place this morning it was a hospital one but even so it's all feeling very real now that we're nearly all moved in. I may post a couple of pictures when we're done.

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Nice for you Dill, I bought Ink cartridges for my Epson printer, Not Cheap.

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I refill my Epson 680 ones with kits from Trago Mills (Jet tech) for £3.95 (Colour) and a chip resetter.

The price of pukka Epson carts is truely criminal.