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Charlie's Climbing Tree
''Charlie's Climbing Tree'' (Swedish: ''Kalles klätterträd'', translated as ''Kalle's climbing tree'' in English) is a Swedish animated television series from 1975 until 1976. Created by Olof Landström and Peter Cohen, produced by POJ-filmproduktion. The show's theme music is performed by Jojje Wadenius and narration done by Toivo Pawlo. The programme was recorded in a total of twelve sections of about eight minutes, and the first broadcast on Sveriges Television on 25 December 1975. The programme is one of the best known Swedish children's programmes of the 1970s, partly because of the theme song. It was dubbed into an English-language adaptation and aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and Nickelodeon in the United States during the early to mid-1980s as part of Pinwheel in the USA. Graeme Garden provided the narration. See also * Den vita stenen *Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter *Julkalendern * Pojken med guldbyxorna *Trazan & Banarne ''Trazan & Banarne'' was a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cohen (director)
Peter Cohen (born 23 March 1946) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... film director, writer, editor and producer. His works include the documentaries '' The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz'' (1982), '' The Architecture of Doom'' (1989) and '' Homo Sapiens 1900'' (1998). References External links * * Swedish film directors 1946 births 20th-century Swedish people Living people {{Sweden-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Garden
David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter, best known as a member of The Goodies and a regular panellist on ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue''. Early life and education Garden was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and raised in Preston, Lancashire, England, only son (with a daughter) of (1910-1982), an eminent orthopaedic surgeon who created the Garden classification of hip fractures, and his wife Janet Ann (née McHardy). R. S. Garden's parents, John and Elizabeth, farmed at Macduff, Banff and Buchan, Aberdeenshire. Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and served as its president in 1964, while also performing in the 1964 Footlights revue, ''Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of'' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Garden qualified in medicine at King's College London, but has never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Animated Television Series
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Swedish Animated Television Series
Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language * Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity ** A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden ** Culture of Sweden * Swedish cuisine See also * * Swedish Church (other) * Swedish Institute (other) * Swedish invasion (other) * Swedish Open (other) Swedish Open is a tennis tournament. Swedish Open may also refer to: *Swedish Open (badminton) * Swedish Open (table tennis) *Swedish Open (squash) *Swedish Open (darts) The Swedish Open is a darts tournament established in 1969, held in Malmà ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trazan & Banarne
''Trazan & Banarne'' was a Swedish children's television series which was broadcast from 1976 to 1982 on Sveriges Television. For its first season from 1976 to 1977, it was part of the ''Jullovsmorgon'' series. The title characters were played by Lasse Åberg (Trazan Apansson) and Klasse Möllberg (Banarne), and they recorded many songs together with the band Electric Banana Band. The TV series also broadcast TV series such as ''Lucky Luke''. Plot The friends Trazan Apansson and Banarne live in a tree house in the jungle with a trampoline. Trazan is a person based on Tarzan and Banarne is a monkey. Generally they have bananas as food. They often tell stories to each other and discuss figures such as the Phantom. They also sing songs by Povel Ramel, Lennart Hellsing and Hans Alfredson. Trazan plays banjo and Banarne plays guitar. They are also visited a few times by the stunt man Johan Thorén. They also go on trips to Toy Museum Stockholm. Olyckan In 1980 the TV series was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pojken Med Guldbyxorna
''Pojken med guldbyxorna'' (''"The Boy with the Golden Trousers"'') is a 1975 Swedish TV series, based on a 1967 novel by Max Lundgren, that became very popular in Sweden and has since been shown numerous times on Swedish television. The version now broadcast on TV4 Guld TV4 Guld is a Swedish television channel devoted to "classic" programmes such as older television dramas. The channel launched on November 3, simultaneously with its sister channel TV4 Komedi, on satellite from Canal Digital and cable from Com He ... consists of episodes cut into 30 minutes each. The plot revolves around a boy who discovers that he is able to pull an infinite number of banknotes from the pockets of his jeans. According to thSwedish Film Database the plot goes as follows: We follow the boy Mats and his adventures with his father after Mats one day finds a pair of trousers in the attic that bring them unimaginable riches. Mats just needs to slip his hand into his pocket and then he can pull out s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julkalendern
''Swedish Television's Christmas calendar'' ( sv, Sveriges Televisions julkalender) or ''Swedish Television's Advent calendar'' ( sv, Sveriges Televisions adventskalender) is a Christmas calendar TV series mainly for children, broadcast by Sveriges Television (Sweden's Television) since 1960 and has developed into an essential part of contemporary Swedish Christmas tradition. Every series consists of 24 episodes (with a few exceptions), broadcast daily 1–24 December. The theme for most series have some connection to Christmas. Prior to 1971, it was called ''Adventskalendern''. Sveriges Radio also has a tradition of broadcasting a similar series on the radio each year and prior to 1973, it was always the same series on the radio and on TV (with a few differences in adaptation, depending on the medium), but since then, it has been a different series on the radio and on TV. In the beginning, the series began on Advent Sunday, but nowadays, it always starts on 1 December; i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fem Myror är Fler än Fyra Elefanter
''Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter'' (''Five ants are more than four elephants'') is a 1973–75 Swedish TV-series for children, hosted by Magnus Härenstam, Brasse Brännström and Eva Remaeus. The TV-series included songs and sketches with education about letters, numbers, positions (right, left, under, above, etc.), etc. Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter was broadcast first on 19 November 1973 on TV2 by Sveriges Television and it was also broadcast as ''Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar'' . Fem myror is available for purchase on VHS and DVD and there are also PC games. The animated number segments by Owe Gustafson were later exported to the American television series '' Sesame Street''. About the TV-series Besides entertaining children, Magnus ("''a pedant''"), Brasse ("''a slob''") and Eva ("''a proper person''") wanted to make children interested in letters and numbers and every program (running time, ca 30 min) had 1 letter and 1 number as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Vita Stenen
''Den vita stenen'' ("The White Stone") is a 1964 Swedish children's book written by Gunnel Linde. In 1965, Linde received the Nils Holgersson Plaque for this book. In 1973, a TV version of the story was produced. Plot The book takes place in a village in the Swedish countryside during the 1930s. Fia and her mother Mrs Pettersson, a piano teacher, live in the big house of the village's "häradshövding" (a countryside local judge/lawspeaker), where the bad-tempered housekeeper Malin lives. People say bad things about Mrs Pettersson because she is useless and lazy as she just plays piano. Fia always gets teased by her school mates because she has a useless mother who is a piano teacher in their school. One summer day, a boy called Hampus comes to the village together with his stepparents, his uncle who is a poor shoemaker and his wife, and their 6 children. The shoemaker's wife and her children think Hampus is stupid as he "always makes trouble and makes them move house" as they h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinwheel (TV Series)
Pinwheel may refer to: * Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy * Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits * Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess * Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon * ''Pinwheel'' (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984 * Pinwheel calculator (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine * ''Tabernaemontana divaricata'', also known as pinwheel flower * Pinwheel tilings, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations * Catherine wheel (firework), a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel * ''Coenocharopa elegans'', also known as the elegant pinwheel snail, a land snail found in Queensland, Australia * "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book ''Babel'' * Pinwheel USY, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest * Wartenberg wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jojje Wadenius
Georg "Jojje" Wadenius (born 4 May 1945) is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was particularly active during the 1970s and 1980s as a studio and session guitarist and bassist, as well as for a series of albums of children's songs in Sweden. Biography Wadenius was born in Stockholm, Sweden, where he attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School. After appearing on a number of Swedish hit records and being founder-member of two Swedish supergroups of the early 1970s, Made in Sweden (1966–1972 and 1976) and (1971–1972), he relocated to the United States to become lead guitarist of the US group Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1972 to 1975. In 1979, he joined The Saturday Night Live Band on television. He stayed on until 1985 and has since worked for many important artists as a session player and/or touring musician, among them Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Dr. John, David Sanborn, James Brown, Marianne Faithfull, Kent, Paul Simon, Joe Thomas, Dionne Warwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television television channel, channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its List of assets owned by Paramount Global#Kids & Family Entertainment, networks division's Kids and Family Group. Its programming is primarily aimed at children aged 2–17, along with a broader family audience through its block programming, program blocks. The channel began life as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977 as part of QUBE, an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio. The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1, 1979, with ''Pinwheel'' as its inaugural program. The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984. Throughout history, Nickelodeon has introduced several sister channels and programming blocks. Nick Jr. (TV programming block), Nick Jr. is a pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
