Jamie and the Magic Torch is one of those much-loved programmes that everyone remembers for one thing and one thing only – its title sequence. No? Explain one plot from the show without resorting to Wikipedia or Google.
It was based around the young boy of the title and his torch. When shone on the floor, the torch opened up a hole into a fun dimension called Cuckoo Land, in which his dog Wordsworth who came with him was able to talk. As befitting the time, the title sequence is something of a rock opera and tinged with just a hint of LSD. Enjoy, with the volume cranked all the way up to 11.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
