KIDS’ MISCELLANY in the slot before NEWS AT ONE. An old man (Trimble) lives in an attic flat with a robot in the corner and a puppet goldfish in a bowl (Glug). He’s dressed not unlike Peter Cushing in the DR WHO films: fingerless gloves, horn-rimmed spectacles, dusy old burgundy jacket etc. The theme tune is a raucous affair sounding like it’s being played on an analogue monophonic synth constructed in someone’s bedroom, a la ROOBARB. The accompanying title sequence is a montage of colourfully animated images (including a butterfly and two kids on a see-saw) featuring the clown-like Trimble on a bike, which blend from one to the other.
Lee James Turnock
May 5, 2010 at 4:43 pm
The theme tune popped up in computerised form on the mid-eighties Spectrum 48k game ‘Jack the Nipper’.
malcolm harris
August 21, 2010 at 6:21 am
The robot was called ‘TRONK’. I seem to remember the fish, glug, had it’s tank broken in one episode and it fell on the floor screaming, “Mr Trimble, I’m dying!”
Littleplomker
December 4, 2010 at 4:56 pm
i was in it. Filmed at my school 1973/74.
Graham Pearson
February 28, 2020 at 9:01 pm
Trimble had many young adult companions I seem to recall including Jim, Peter, Paul and Wendy.
@gmailJames Meehan
October 3, 2013 at 6:19 am
Trimble was played by a very nice chap called Tony Boden.
chel
November 3, 2015 at 12:43 am
There was a piano player called Percy..he used to scare my little brother
Ozwald
March 23, 2016 at 9:04 pm
I continually try to get people to accept that Mr Trimble existed. I am always told that I am hallucinating.
Its good to know that we are now talking to the hand.
I plan to create a Mr Trimble appreciation society.
Ozwald
March 23, 2016 at 9:06 pm
I also remember the parrot squawk.
David Dwyer
June 9, 2016 at 1:22 am
I remember it quite well. He had a magic telescope that worked a bit like the windows in Play School, ie whatever he had just been talking about could immediately be seen through the telescope. And there was a long-running story that lasted several episodes about the contents of a mysterious parcel that turned out to be a camel saddle. I really do think that I am the only person in the world who remembers THAT.
Dionne
July 9, 2016 at 9:09 pm
I’m so glad I’m not going bonkers,none of my friends believed me