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GENERAL DISCUSSIONS! => Anything Goes! => Topic started by: Michael Alexander on November 01, 2007, 01:52:28 PM

Title: The Chalkman!
Post by: Michael Alexander on November 01, 2007, 01:52:28 PM
This is a general board so, In the 80's on TV there was always this chalk man , that always walked along a line on thechalkboard, the SABC put it on between programs, he always said "La-La!" and the program always finished with the letters FIN.

What was the name of this show?

???
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on November 01, 2007, 02:04:37 PM
Don't know, but he was quite a caracter!  His laugh was so infectious and those faces he pulled.  And then at times he could carry on like a fishwife, moan about the line being to short or long, cry that the tears would splat all over the place. 

Petition to the SABC -  Bring back the Chalkman - we miss him dearly (now that Mike has remembered about him again)
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Michael Alexander on November 01, 2007, 03:52:25 PM
I want to try download it from some of the filesharing sites, but need a name to work with......he was always spitting when he waved his fist in the air...   :D
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Charmain Meier (Heusdens) on November 02, 2007, 03:45:48 PM
Mike

There is another show, Dinner for One, which was screened for the first time during December 1987.  This was hilarious, the guy having dinner with Miss Sophie, getting drunker by the minute. If you can get this show from someone, boy o boy, you will have the tears running down everyone's face watching it with you.  The show is in black and white.

Charmain
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Charmain Meier (Heusdens) on November 02, 2007, 03:51:14 PM
Mike

I just spoke to my sister in Koffiefontein.  She says she thinks the name of the chalkman was Morph??

Charmain
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on November 02, 2007, 05:09:56 PM
Dinner for One Video

For those that have a fast connection

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XtkDUlx4_-Y

Georg
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: barb (Fry) on November 02, 2007, 07:35:23 PM
ah yes, i think you are right Charmaine.  Morph..... the master will let us know in time.

Georg, will check out the youtube link later, just to let you know that its a show rerun every christmas season in the UK
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Barbara Eia (Brownless) on November 02, 2007, 10:53:44 PM
Morph was the plastersine man with the artist ,can't remember his name.
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Debbie MacDonald (Wallace on November 02, 2007, 11:46:18 PM
I think it was Tony Hart Barb. 
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Michael Alexander on November 03, 2007, 09:51:45 AM
That is indeed correct, Tony Hart did Morph....... WHo remembers Barbara Woodhouse?

:)
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Debbie MacDonald (Wallace on November 03, 2007, 03:38:49 PM
Was that her that trained dogs
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Barbara Eia (Brownless) on November 03, 2007, 05:31:05 PM
Hi

yes barbara woodhouse was the dog lady
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Debbie MacDonald (Wallace on November 03, 2007, 10:18:57 PM
Hi Barb

She was pretty scary if I remember correctly wasn't she always shouting SIT!!
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: barb (Fry) on November 03, 2007, 11:08:16 PM
yes and .........
                        walkies !!!

a lot of tugging at the collar with the lead.
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Charmain Meier (Heusdens) on November 04, 2007, 06:06:20 AM
Mike

There was also another show called "Rooi en Blou". It was two balls of clay, red and blue, with which different shapes were made.  Remember that one?

Charmain
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: Michael Alexander on November 04, 2007, 06:27:33 AM
More Charmaine. Yes I do, I had forgotten about them, big and small....
;D
Title: Re: The Chalkman!
Post by: darryl weidemann on November 05, 2007, 09:43:39 AM
theres a car advert on tv now which does that little french chalk dude as well