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Growing up in the 70's meant watching a lot of imported east european childrens programmes on the beeb. there was the Singing Ringing tree with scary dwarves, The Mole which was possibly Polish and something quite bizarre called Ludwig which was an animated series about a machine that played Beethoven to his animal chums.

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  • Anonymous user
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    The Singing Ringing Tree scared the pants off me , and even now gives me the creeps , the photos at the top really really send shivers down my spine Paul H
  • Anonymous user
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    The one with the tree & the prince/bear was "The Singing, Ringing Tree" (Brilliantly spoofed in "The Fast Show") I think the Flashing Blade was either French or Italian & I agree about the theme tune.
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember a couple of dubbed programmes that used to be on (on a Saturday morning I think?). One was something about a girl, a tree with a nut on it and a prince who'd been turned into a big bear or something by a witches curse (??) and the other was called 'The Flashing Blade' which was a kind of Eastern European take on the Three Musketeers but with an absolutely CORKING theme tune which (sadly) I can still sing to this day! lol
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember these. A lot of them were narrated by Gabriel Woolf (why has that name stuck in my memory?). They were told in reported speech: "He asked her if she wanted to go to the cinema with him. She replied that she did" which was a strange way of doing it and made for a rather stilted style of storytelling.

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