Underground Ernie

[version3point1]

Auntie Mable(!)

I miss her, her dog, and her spotted aeroplane.

[Tubeboy]

Yes it was sweet wasnt it, Somewhere in the episode you would know Pippin would pull the tablecloth off a laid table. Yes I know I need to get out more......lemmme outtttt!!!!!!!!!! ;D

[tubeoperator92]

Funny tho, the entertainment provided by kids programmes isnt it???

I've always wondered where Come Outside was filmed. Worked out it must be in the Chiltern Hills around Banbury etc, but am not sure. The dog must have taken ages to train to do the things/tricks it got up to!

[Dave A]

They should have changed it to her, a guard and a polka dotted tube train. Now that would've been a show to be prooud of!! :p ;D

[version3point1]

vbn said:

They should have changed it to her, a guard and a polka dotted tube train. Now that would've been a show to be prooud of!! :p ;D

You might want to put a copyright on that - The Beeb might steal the originality of your idea, if not the idea itself.

prjb said:

He has around £600 (no exagerration) of Brio with remote controls, track sensors, level crossings, bridges and tunnels, you name it - all set over two seperate layouts. He has been on numerous cab rides on the system too, but is not impressed at all. His Brio sits idle for the most part, and when on a cab ride he generally asks 'when are we getting off'.
Kids, you just can't win. ;D

Ahh! That's where the model railway from Ashfield House went to!

[prjb]

When he turns 10 and can handle a proper electric railway they had better watch out! ;D
I remember the original training layout at White City, it had full size frames with all the proper working inter-locking. It was fantastic.

[prjb]

The most bizarre Come Outside episode I ever had to sit through was one where Aunty Mabel finds out 'Where does Poo go?'. They went from her Loo all he way to the sewage works. Very strange! ;D

[Joe S]

Heh.

I remember the one where Pippin went and saved Aunty Mabel from her cupboard which locked behind her, and there was a chippan fire.....

How many of 'em were filmed exactly?? Must've been quite a lot, 'cos I remember watching them I think every week day for a couple of years when I was about 6-7yrs old?

[Dave A]

Its like Chucklevision. Its gone through the ages. Every time you watch you think, "how long has this been around, and how much longer will it be around for". Its something that will never die because of its appeal, and that is something the BBC seem to get right now and then!

But to answer your question - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Outside

Reading this:

40 episodes were produced, though one episode "Crisps" has not been shown in recent years, perhaps due to concerns about healthy eating.

Definately one episodes made when Tony Blair became PM

Chucklevison... They still look the same as they did years ago

[Tomcakes]

Oh dear!

Oh dear oh dear!

To me.... to you..... to me...... to you...... ;D

I can still remember the episode when the dog got caught in the rubbish bin, and the one with the street lamp!

[DavidH]

version3point1 said:

Auntie Mable(!)

I miss her, her dog, and her spotted aeroplane.

'Come Outside' is still repeated with nauseating regularity on cBeebies at weekends.

[DavidH]

I note from tonights TV that the voice of 'Underground Ernie' is being provided by Gary Linneker.

[prjb]

Blimey, he gets around!