Camberwick Green

I love Camberwick Green and am watching it right now on On Demand. The episode I've just watched was from 1966 so it's a proper old kids show but I love it because of how gentle and fun it is. Camberwick Green is a little village and each episode is 15 minutes long and is based on one character even though most of the others usually come into it. The most famous one is probably Windy Miller and his windmill, he's wicked and in the episode he got drunk on cider and went to sleep. I swear to god he was drinking cider and some of the other characters had to wake him up because he went to sleep instead of working! It made me laff and laff ...  Read the complete review

Camberwick Green is one of my favourite childhood programs. It was first on television in 1966 and is narrated by Brian Cant. It is amazingly to discover that there were only ever thirteen episodes ever recorded. Each episode starts with a music box "This is a box a musical box Wound up and ready to play But this box can hold a secret Can you guess what is in it today?" And up pops the character who is at the centre of the episode. Each Episode gives a glimpse into each characters life in the small town of Camberwick green. The central characters are ***Peter *** ...  Read the complete review

Suffolk born straight actor, Brian Cant was a minor household name in the mid Sixties for a selection of mediocre roles on stage, screen and schools programmes, but turned his hand at prime time children’s programmes for a lighter refreshment, and hence, started a life long love affair with children’s television, so much so, that towards the beginning of the Eighties, he was Mr Children’s T.V. Firstly tripping the light fantastic with the greatly received ‘Play School,’ he immediately caught the eye, or should I say, the ear of Gordon Murray who had a team of clever animators at hand and eagerly wanting to get a new project off the ground. The name of that ...  Read the complete review

One of my all time favourite programs as a child was Camberwick Green. Imagine my delight when I discovered that repeats were being shown early on a Sunday morning on Channel 4. The only thing worthy of rising early on a Sunday for – that and the Clangers! To research required information for my review on this wonderful village, I consulted the Oracle on all things Green and Camberwick-y, namely: http://www.eh.org/evans/trumpgo.htm This site reminded me of the narration at the start of the programme: "Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it ...  Read the complete review

"Here is a box, A musical box. Wound up and ready to play. But this musical box, Has a secret inside. Shall we see who's inside it today?" Camberwick Green was the first (1966) of the three "Tumptonshire" programmes to be screened, preceding "Trumpton" itself and the weedy "Chigley". The beginning of the programme was the most magical of the programmes. A musical box, would gradually unwind (to music) and vomit forth one of the characters, from its hexagonal centre which would open like a Bond film villains' lair. Which character was going to emerge made for a great guessing game. Yes, ...  Read the complete review