Childhood.. Memories

Dear Blog..

Today.'s post is all about WOOF!

Did I ever mentioned the fact I loved tv back in the good old (and young) days? There was this post not so long ago,.. about Der kleine Vampire.. one of the greatest kidsshow on earth! Now the next one has arrived.
A few years ago.. i googled this show .. i remembered it too, from the 'olden' days.. I didn't had a clue what is was all about, I only remembered it was about a boy, who turned into a dog! The opening credits included a song on the harmonica, which I adored at the time.. (can't play it though) and then this harmonica reminded me of another 'disney' movie I much much adore.. 'Escape to Witch Mountain'.. in one of the scenes the boy Tony, could make the dolls come alive.. just with the song on his harmonica.. love love love.. :D.. but i'm going off track here.. now i'm sticking to the 'woof'.. maybe the next post could be about ETWM :D
But moving on.. I still like the whole idea of shapeshifting.. (I still do actually..) and then this brings me .. to the 'animorphs'.. (a series of my childhoodbooks about shapeshifting).. wow.. it really IS ages ago.. that I once was a small girl..

Here's the opening credits of WOOF.. (love it! And just the way I remembered it exactly)


Some more information about this series.. (I think I once saw this on the BBC channels.. it never came on the Dutch or the Belgian channels :))

What wikipedia says:

Woof! is a British children's television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who shapeshifts into a dog. It was based on the book byAllan Ahlberg. It was directed by David Cobham. It was written by Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss.
The show was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Liza Goddard as teacher Mrs Jessop. Edward Fidoe played Eric Banks, the boy who turned into a dog (played by Pippin) of the same name. It also starred Thomas Aldwinckle as Eric's friend Roy Ackerman and later Sarah Smart as his tomboy best friend Rachel Hobbs. Filming was interrupted for a while when Smart broke her leg. 

The show generally featured weekly escapades to do with the dog power. Late in Eric's run of episodes, a start at a plot arc was developed, with Eric discovering the transition is caused by adrenaline, and meeting up with an adult (played by Anthony Head) who has the same affliction.From Series Six which began airing in 1993, the episodes featured the adventures of Rex Thomas (played by Adam Roper) and his best friend Michael Tully (Monty Allan). Rex inherits Eric's "condition", and later becomes Mrs Jessop's stepson after she marries his father, Ken (Owen Brenman). Lionel Jeffries also guest-starred as Rex's Grandfather.Leslie Grantham appeared in some of the later episodes as Mr Garrett, a ruthless dog warden from the local dog pound. Stephen Fry appeared in one episode, as a cartoonist whose work is disrupted by Grandad and Rex.The ninth and final series, consisting of seven episodes, aired in 1997. It featured Jim Walters (Sebastian Mahjouri), accompanied by his cousin Brian Barford (Jack Allen) and next door neighbour Carrie Howard (Faye Jackson). By the time the show ended, Liza Goddard was the only original cast member to feature through all nine series.There have been 4 dogs used over the years. Pippin was the first, and she also starred in Children's BBC programme Come Outside, and a number of educational schools films. She was the offspring of one of the dogs who played Benji. Tich was the second dog to play Eric. Punch, a small white dog, played Rex the Dog. Tinka appeared as Jim the dog in the final series. Pippin was owned and trained by Ann Head.^{[citation needed]}Early series were filmed around the suburb of Moseley in Birmingham. Later in the series, production moved to Nottingham and much location filming took place in and around West Bridgford, a suburb just south of Nottingham, Keyworth (a large village, 7 miles south of Nottingham) and various other Nottinghamshire towns. The show was broadcast in Australia at 6:50am on weekdays on 7TWO from April 2010.

• Series 1: 4 episodes - 18 February 1989 - 11 March 1989
• Series 2: 7 episodes - 23 November 1989 - 11 January 1990
• Series 3: 8 episodes - 20 February 1991 - 17 April 1991
• Series 4: 7 episodes - 10 January 1992 - 21 February 1992
• Series 5: 6 episodes - 7 October 1992 - 11 November 1992
• Series 6: 10 episodes - 13 October 1993 - 15 December 1993
• Series 7: 10 episodes - 12 October 1994 - 14 December 1994
• Series 8: 10 episodes - 5 October 1995 - 14 December 1995
• Series 9: 7 episodes - 8 January 1997 - 19 February 1997

This show ran for a whopping 9 seasons!! From the beginning of 1989 (I was only 4 back then) till the end in 1997 (was already 12.. an near teenager!)

Each series had a different amount of episodes.. from 4 episode in series one to 10 episodes in series 8 and then 'only' 7 episode in the final series 9!

Woof on the IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143078/
Opening credits found on : www.youtube.com
All credits and info from one of the best websites in the world: www.wikipedia.org.

This post is a tribute to Woof! :) 

So.. this my childhood memories ;)

Xx Sara

PS: This is one scene from the Escape to Witch Mountain.. playing the harmonica.. :)