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249:". Apart from a compilation of highlights, only two complete episodes remain in the BBC's archives, both from the second series. These episodes were Season 2 episode 5 (3 January 1970) and Season 2 episode 13 (28 February 1970), the latter being the final edition, and episode 5 being the first episode to be broadcast in the 1970s. Both series’ were made in black and white. The second series omitted the pinball machine links, which were replaced by pop-art captions heavy on exclamation marks and question marks, linked with a similar electronically treated voice; "All for fun - fun for all - it's Zokko!" The main title theme was music by 506: 449: 191:
poster in background, and a rotating carousel packed with brass instruments), studio variety acts ('Sensational feats on the slack wire by Babu'/'Anna-Lou and Maria: a feather and fur fantasy'/'The Breathtaking Eddy Limbo'/'The High Jacks'/'Rope-spinning by Robin and Toni Templar'), film clips (e.g.
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programme for children that ran for 26 episodes of 22 min duration between 1968 and 1970. It was devised by newcomer
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spoof/snake charmer/imported stunt films 'Speed Ride' (rollercoaster/racing car stunts), magic (
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called 'Mr Zokko!' with a gaping skull shaped head (designed by Mike Ellis, the father of
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This article about a children's television show originating in the United Kingdom is a
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and was ground-breaking in being the first children's "television comic".
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The programme is now regarded as "the first televised children's
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and was released as a single, under the name Zokko's Band.
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Anthony Jackson
Molly Cox
BBC
BBC television
Paul Ciani
Molly Cox
Disney
Fantasia
Felix the Cat
Ted Lewis
Malcom Draper
World War I
I'll Make a Man of You
Kitchener
Tarzan
Ali Bongo
Leslie Caswell
Georgie Fame
Alan Price
Harpers Bizarre
Randy Newman
Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
pinball machine
Blue Peter
Janet Ellis
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
comic
Brian Fahey
"10 top Saturday morning children's TV shows you loved to watch when you were a kid"
Birmingham Mail

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