Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2007 September 17

= September 17 =

Chat
where do I find someone and how do I chat with other people about topics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyle panko (talk • contribs) 14:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Topics have a discussion page here . Other than that I am not quite sure what your question is. Lanfear&#39;s Bane 15:55, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * For one, you can stop making edits like these.--Sethacus 16:16, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Are you looking for a chat room? See also WP:CHAT.--Shantavira|feed me 18:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

UK kids' educational TV show circa 1990
When I was a kid there was an educational tv show that we used to watch at school sometimes. It was set in a library. There was a female librarian and lots of kids about my age and (here's what will nail it) a little blue floating man who I'm sure was called Fred. There was some attempt to help viewers learn how to spell with the help of a "magic pen" where you had to follow its movements.

Now all the research I've done trying to find this comes up with a tv show called Words and Pictures with a male presenter and a puppet called Charlie. It's not that because I distinctly remember being amazed by the little blue man(I was about 6 at the time).

Please can anyone find out what this was and, if possible, post a link to a picture so I can put to rest the vague worry that I hallucinated an entire tv series.

Thanks in advance for any helpful hints and childhood reminiscences!212.240.35.42 16:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I remember something like this in the '70s - Look and Read springs to mind. DuncanHill 16:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Or Words and Pictures, according to this DuncanHill 16:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know. Maybe it was an incarnation of this. I do remember watching the Geordie Racer story about homing pigeons but no luck on the blue man called Fred. Thanks for the links Duncan. 212.240.35.42 11:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I was thinking Words and Pictures too, but Wordie was orange with letters stuck all over him... Lanfear&#39;s Bane 09:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)