You and Me

YOU AND ME
Made by: ?
Shown on: BBC
Years shown: 1970s-1980s
Theme tune: “You and me, me and you, lots and lots for us to do/Lots and lots for us to see…”

Far inferior to Words & Pictures, You and Me had done itself a disfavour after only two minutes into the show, thanks to the infuriating ‘hello’ sequence, where the presenters greeted absolutely everybody who could conceivably be watching: boys, girls, mums and dads (both unemployed of course, judging by the time of day), childminders, grannies, granddads, uncles, aunts, the neighbour’s cat, the man who sells dishcloths door to door - you get the picture. The programme was supposed to be educational, but I can mainly remember it for Cosmo and Dibs, the two puppet creatures who sat behind a wall in what looked like a rubbish dump or the communal area of a run-down inner-city council estate. They had the collective intelligence of an amoeba, but their learning process was supposed to enable us at home to extend our knowledge. Strangely, the only other strong memory is of an animated kangaroo, who would bound off at the end of the programme, with someone adding, “toodle-oo from the kangaroo!” I’m still waiting for the educational benefits to kick in. Even more bizarrely, Oasis ripped off the You and Me theme lyrics in their song She’s Electric, from the What’s the Story, Morning Glory album. Talk about desperate.

SQUARE EYES RATING: 3/10

(Thanks to www.tvradiobits.co.uk for the borrowed pic)