The version of Pinky & Perky I remember from childhood saw all sorts of creatures lip-synching to what I now know were contemporary songs of the era - they had no human guests, nor was there any dialogue, other than at the very end - I think they had a deal with Petula Clark’s record label, as her singing voice featured a lot - most of the songs were unfamiliar to me at the time, having parents whose music appreciation never ventured much beyond Perry Como, Jim Reeves and Slim Whitman - there was a duck character and a female pig who sang normally - the only actual dialogue was at the end - they always (in the Thames era) closed the show with Pinky & Perky’s version of what I now know to be Thank You Very Much by The Scaffold - at the end, they would sing “Thank you very, very very ...”. Then one of them would say, “Who’s going to say it?”. “Oh, let me!”. “No! I want to!”. “Oh, all right! Let’s do it together! Ready!”. (In unison) “MUCH!” Then a drum roll and the Thames endcap! Wouldn’t have worked in any other time period - imagine a kids’ programme with puppets lip-synching to Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy or almost anything by Eminem!
I love thr way Jan and Vlasta kept the puppets reacting throughout.
really great ! thank you so much !
The version of Pinky & Perky I remember from childhood saw all sorts of creatures lip-synching to what I now know were contemporary songs of the era - they had no human guests, nor was there any dialogue, other than at the very end - I think they had a deal with Petula Clark’s record label, as her singing voice featured a lot - most of the songs were unfamiliar to me at the time, having parents whose music appreciation never ventured much beyond Perry Como, Jim Reeves and Slim Whitman - there was a duck character and a female pig who sang normally - the only actual dialogue was at the end - they always (in the Thames era) closed the show with Pinky & Perky’s version of what I now know to be Thank You Very Much by The Scaffold - at the end, they would sing “Thank you very, very very ...”.
Then one of them would say, “Who’s going to say it?”.
“Oh, let me!”.
“No! I want to!”.
“Oh, all right! Let’s do it together! Ready!”.
(In unison) “MUCH!”
Then a drum roll and the Thames endcap!
Wouldn’t have worked in any other time period - imagine a kids’ programme with puppets lip-synching to Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy or almost anything by Eminem!
Childrens tv superstars
Truly
RIP, Vlasta.
They are gorgeous pigs