Recollection - Schools TV

I've decided it is possible to find absolutely anything on YouTube. I have even managed to find the old TV schools programmes I was forced to watch as a primary school kid back in the early 80's. A lot of them were made by ATV before it became Central. Programmes like Stop Look Listen, Seeing & Doing, History Around You, Watch, Picture Box, to name just a few. They are all there, beatifully converted from old analogue videocassette to digital - preserved forever for all to enjoy. Oh how innocent and basic things were back then. I recall sitting cross legged in front of the school TV high on its mobile stand. There would be a first generation JVC video recorder in a steel case beneath it. Built like a tank with chunky jutting out buttons - then a wonder of technology, now a collectors item. Oh how I would enjoy our 15 minute escapes from classroom routine. Sometimes, if we were lucky, it would be 30 minues and on the last day of term we would all be squashed into the TV room for a Disney film. I also remember equipment was painted with LBB in bright yellow. I had no idea what it meant back then but now know it was to show it was owned by the county council and a deterrent against theft. The countdown clock was the most memorable thing about schools TV, normally white on a blue background. Nowadays it can be found online and even downloaded as a screensaver! I have them all. The countdown clock and schools TV will be imprinted in my memory for years to come. Little did I know back then how significant it would be...