Senior Moments - log them here
162 watchers
Dec 2018
7:36am, 12 Dec 2018
32,870 posts
|
Diogenes
I was very promiscuous in my viewing, yet I have never seen an episode of Batfink, or heard of it until the wings of steel catchphrase came into common parlance. I always assumed it was post my childhood
|
Dec 2018
7:56am, 12 Dec 2018
11,294 posts
|
Rosehip
I have never heard of Batfink either.
|
Dec 2018
7:58am, 12 Dec 2018
21,421 posts
|
Sushi.
Batfink seems to have passed me by too. Though it sounds like it would have been on mums ‘disapproved’ list. Most things were |
Dec 2018
8:42am, 12 Dec 2018
16,019 posts
|
Carpathius
I've never heard of Batfink either.
|
Dec 2018
9:00am, 12 Dec 2018
42,109 posts
|
Bintmcskint
It was sometimes on in a double bill with Rocky and Bullwinkle, I think |
Dec 2018
9:05am, 12 Dec 2018
9,721 posts
|
Garfield
Never heard of Batfink either...but I did grow up on another continent.
|
Dec 2018
9:09am, 12 Dec 2018
37,327 posts
|
McGoohan
So is it supposed to be inspired by Batman or something?
|
Dec 2018
9:17am, 12 Dec 2018
645 posts
|
um
Never heard of it either - altjough like AR, maybe we're just too young. As per Wiki ... ... from 1967 onwards was shown at least once every year on UK terrestrial television until 1983, initially on the BBC network where it was allocated an early evening slot just before the BBC News, and latterly as part of Children's ITV; it subsequently reappeared in 1986 on the ITV Saturday morning magazine show Get Fresh. In the early 1990s it was repeated again as part of TV-am's Wide Awake Club/Wacaday series; after Wacaday finished in 1992, Batfink was consigned to the vaults in the UK for the next twelve years. It was introduced to a new audience in 2004 when it was included in a number of episodes of the BBC's Saturday morning show Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, and since April 2006 has been enjoying an extended, if somewhat irregular, repeat run on CBBC. Batfink was made quickly and cheaply by re-using stock sequences. Although most serial animations do this to some extent, Batfink did it more than most. Commonly repeated scenes include the intro to the initial briefings by the Chief (the TV screen hotline buzzing into life), Batfink and Karate getting into the Battillac, the Battillac going round mountain bends, the Battillac going over a bridge, Batfink's radar and others. Sometimes the repeated scenes would be cut short so that sections could be re-used to fit the storyline more closely. |
Dec 2018
12:01pm, 12 Dec 2018
4,323 posts
|
minardi
Nope, don't know Batfink at all. Reading um's paragraph brought back memories of being allowed to watch Magic Roundabout before going to bed and that was on before the early evening news.
|
Dec 2018
12:05pm, 12 Dec 2018
3,022 posts
|
RRR-CAZmas
Thanks for the 6 minutes of Batfink Bint 
|
Related Threads
-
You know you're getting older when....
Aug 2023
-
The Retirement Thread
Apr 2024
-
60 plus - still stormin' (and/or struggling)
Apr 2024
-
Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
Apr 2024
-
Over 50's club
Apr 2024
-
Menopause and running
Apr 2024
-
What do/would you miss about your job?
Feb 2024
-
Runner since kindergarten depression found at 5th grade
Feb 2024
-
One of those day's when you realise you are getting old
Nov 2023
-
The Sandwich Generation - Aged Ps and children to care for?
Jun 2023
