Alive and Kicking: Series 2 (1980)
Series 2 (1980) of the ITV Schools series Alive and Kicking was broadcast in the 1980s, covering PSHE for primary school pupils.
The second series of Alive and Kicking shows children's experiences in different everyday situations at school and with their families, with the children themselves narrating to explain what they did and how it made them feel.
Some of the same children re-appear in different episodes as different things happen to them, including Michael, Mark, Harjit, Wayne and Natalie, some of whom are a little older than the target audience of 6-7 year-olds.
The first episode, on Feelings, in which Michael invites some but not all of the children in his school class on a birthday outing to Drayton Manor Park, forms the basis for the whole series and introduces topics which are explored again in more detail in the later episodes.
This second series completely replaced the first series of Alive and Kicking from three years earlier, but it was not itself replaced. The third series, added another three years later, provided complementary programmes adding to the topic of each of these episodes and shown alongside them.
Titles & Theme Music
There is film of children playing in a school playground and singing Hokey Cokey. The title appears in white text over the children's games, followed by the episode title as the film continues.
Episode List
# | Title | Broadcast |
---|---|---|
1. | Feelings | 22 Apr 1980 |
2. | Growing | 29 Apr 1980 |
3. | Moving | 6 May 1980 |
4. | Looking After Young (1980) | 13 May 1980 |
5. | Keeping Safe | 20 May 1980 |
6. | Homes and Families | 3 Jun 1980 |
7. | His and Hers? | 10 Jun 1980 |
8. | Waste? | 17 Jun 1980 |
The episode Homes and Families has the simpler on-screen title of just Families, but it was consistently billed in the TV Times magazine and identified in teacher's notes by the full title of Homes and Families.
Likewise the episodes His and Hers? and Waste? are listed as such in the TV Times and teacher's notes, with a question mark at the end, but this was not used for the on-screen episode titles.
Re-ordering
The order of the episodes was changed from 1982, so that Moving became the first episode, followed by Growing and Looking After Young, then Feelings fourth. The remaining episodes did not change. This new order reflects the order in which the complementary series 3 episodes were added from 1983.
Broadcasts
Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
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1979-80 | Summer 1980 | Tuesday, 11:39am | Friday, 10:10am | ITV | Tue not HTV West; Fri not Grampian, Scottish & Borders | |||
1980-81 | Summer 1981 | Wednesday, 10:10am | Friday, 9:58am | ITV | ||||
1981-82 | Spring 1982 | Tuesday, 9:35am | Friday, 11:05am | ITV | ||||
1982-83 | Spring & Summer 1983 | Tuesday, 10:04am | Friday, 10:15am | ITV | Mixed with series 3 episodes | |||
1983-84 | Spring & Summer 1984 | Wednesday, 9:47am | Thursday, 10:11am | ITV | Mixed with series 3 episodes | |||
1984-85 | Spring & Summer 1985 | Tuesday, 9:59am | Thursday, 11:14am | ITV | Mixed with series 3 episodes |
Credits
Researcher | Nigel Duckers |
Advisers | Kathleen Dodd Susan Humphries |
Director | Rob Harding |
Producer | Graham Sellors |
Resources
There were teacher's notes available for each year.
The 1981 notes cover shown here has a photo of Harjit, one of the children from the series, eating an ice cream, and is captioned inside "Alive and Licking?"
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