HAZEL “A PROBLEM MAN HAD NOT FORESEEN AS YET” O’CONNOR and JESSE “MARRRRCCUUUSSSSSSS!” BIRDSALL hang out down eponymous local discotheque jiving embarrassingly to the likes of Streets Ahead, Fun Boy Three and Bananarama. Hazel wishes she were a proper musician and runs away from home. Marcus smiles enigmatically and offers to buy her another shandy bass.
Billy
March 18, 2013 at 2:58 am
I sometimes think I am the only person who recalls this show, despite being rather young at the time. I watched it for Hazel and the enigmatic and slightly disturbing narrator.
Mostly I remember an episode of a guy running from Police. And the fact that the musical numbers never sat quite comfortably with the show itself? Odd given the premise.
Never repeated – well, not in Scotland at any rate.
Ursy
August 22, 2013 at 8:04 pm
I am trying to think of a kids TV show that I used to watch in the early 80s. It featured Hazel O Connor and a scary looking man( like a clown)! – Is it THIS show? – Jangles? I thought it was called Jingles but could be wrong?
Paul Taylor
August 23, 2013 at 10:36 pm
That is indeed the show. It opened with Hazel alone in a spotlight singing “Runaway”…
You hate yourself so you hate everybody else
People can make you feel small
Small is a size when age just won’t rise fast enough
So you wait for the day to be up get away
Run run as fast as you can
Over and Over and Over the hill far away
Runaway
Then the scary clown man appears:
I am the music
The bringer of sensation…
I don’t remember what else he said, but I haven’t seen it in 31 years and it doesn’t seem to be on YouTube!!!
Markyboy70
August 29, 2013 at 1:03 pm
I seem to remember the somewhat scary narrator and the deliberately bleak black and white sets. A forgotten gem from the post 1981 riots.
Applemask
May 25, 2018 at 8:20 pm
It is on YouTube now, and it’s odder than the Cream entry makes it seem. Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mldRE7Lk5Ug