Can anyone remember a series on Television about 35 years ago called the "Singing Ringing Tree" I can remember running in from school and hiding behind the couch to watch it! I have never heard anyone else remembering it and maybe I made it up with my overactive imagination!!!!
2006-10-22 02:34:08 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I am of that certain age and no you didn't make it up! It really was the stuff of nightmares!
This question has come up on Y!A before so it just shows what sort of an impact it had on us as kids!
I've recently watched it again - it's on DVD now!
It's in colour! Now I'm not too sure if they have added the colour or if it was just I was watching it on a Black & White TV but I remember seeing it in Black & White!
Get the DVD out and lay to rest some of the ghosts. There is also a fantastic piece on the DVD Extras of the orginial princess, now all very much grown up, telling all about the background to the story.
Brilliant!
2006-10-22 10:01:50 · answer #1 · answered by Jay Jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 27 years old and I have never heard of it. But I have seen tons of shows that was on before my time because of Nick and TvLand. I love the old reruns. Why did you have to hide behind the couch to watch it? Was it a scary show?
2006-10-22 02:39:40 · answer #2 · answered by Daft One 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Singing Ringing Tree (German: Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) was a children's television programme made by East German studio DEFA in 1957. It was a story in the style of the Brothers Grimm, directed by Francesco Stefani.
The programme was broadcast by the BBC in the 1960s and 70s as part of Tales from Europe, with an English-language voice-over track (not dubbed, however, the original soundtrack was simply faded up and down).
The cast included Christel Bodelstein as the Princess, Eckart Dux who played the Prince and the bear, Charles Hans Vogt as the King and Richard Kruger as the dwarf.
One reviewer (Roger Thomas at amazon.com) has summed it up thus:
Imagine a fairy tale conceived by Wagner and directed by Fritz Lang, with nods in the direction of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and German expressionism, and you'd be close.
A Radio Times readers' poll in 2004 voted this programme the 20th spookiest TV show ever.
(Being from the US, I saw it once, when I was in England in 1970)
2006-10-22 02:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Wow, that does not ring any bells. Why did you hide behind the couch to watch it? It could be a local program and not something nation-wide.
2006-10-22 02:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by MadforMAC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow that's pretty wild and the animated parts via the links that people posted here look like they were made today.
They were ahead of their time I guess..Yeah you are not losing it like I thought when I read your question..judging by the links provided by the people who aswered this question..
Yeah the acid rock generation put out some pretty good stuff I guess back then.
2006-10-22 03:29:14 · answer #5 · answered by Dfirefox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. I am not 35 years old yet but maybe I will remember it when I get that age. Thank you.
2006-10-22 02:36:36 · answer #6 · answered by Isis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes i have vague memories of it,strange programme,i am 54 by the way,also remember torcy the battery boy and fireball XL5
2006-10-22 02:52:04 · answer #7 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 52 Ullswater, so I probably qualify to answer this...........but no, I don't remember it, sorry. Sounds good though........maybe you did dream it up. Can you remember the script?
Do YOU remember Torchy The Battery Boy?
2006-10-22 02:38:18 · answer #8 · answered by lou b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was very peculiar.
There was an "homage" to it in the BBC comedy "The Fast Show". I'm sure its left its mark on many of our age (late 40s).
2006-10-22 03:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I remember that, it was quite bizarre..Did you ever see The Fast Show do a spoof of it?
2006-10-22 02:39:21 · answer #10 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋