Here We Go Looby Loo

Andy Pandy is a British children's television series that aired on BBC Television in 1950. Originally live, a series of 26 filmed programmes was shown until 1970, when a new series of 13 episodes was made. This series was based upon a comic strip of the same name (made in the style of children's magazines Robin and Pippin).

The series was followed by a revival with 26 episodes (52 segments) in 2002. In total, 92 episodes were produced. 

 The original version of Andy Pandy premiered on BBC TV in 1950, on either 11 July or 20 June, as part of the For the Children strand (later Watch with Mother) narrated by Maria Bird who also narrated the black & white 1950s original broadcasts of Flower Pot Men, The Woodentops and Bizzy Lizzie. Initially it was broadcast live, but it was realised that if the programmes were filmed, they could be repeated. 26 fifteen-minute episodes were filmed on 16 mm around 1952 and repeated continuously until 1969. In 1970, 13 new episodes were made in colour with Vera McKechnie as narrator.

A marionette who lived in a picnic basket, Andy was later joined by Teddy, a teddy bear, and Looby Loo, a rag doll, who came to life when Andy and Teddy were not around. Looby Loo sang "Here we go Looby Loo". All three lived in the same picnic basket. Each episode ended with a variation on the song: "Time to go home / Time to go home / Andy is waving goodbye."

It is said that the character's design was based on Paul Atterbury, the then young son of puppeteer Audrey Atterbury. A comic-strip version was published in Robin. 

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Lyrics:

Here we go looby loo. Here we go looby light.

Here we go looby loo all on a Saturday night.

I put my right hand in, I put my right hand out.

I give my hand a shake, shake, shake and turn myself about.

Here we go looby loo. Here we go looby light.

Here we go looby loo all on a Saturday night.

I put my left hand in, I put my left hand out.

I give my hand a shake, shake, shake and turn myself about.

Here we go looby loo. Here we go looby light.

Here we go looby loo all on a Saturday night.

I put my right foot in, I put my right foot out.

I give my foot a shake, shake, shake and turn myself about.

Here we go looby loo. Here we go looby light.

Here we go looby loo all on a Saturday night.

I put my left foot in, I put my left foot out.

I give my foot a shake, shake, shake and turn myself about.

Here we go looby loo. Here we go looby light.

Here we go looby loo all on a Saturday night.

We put our whole self in, We put our whole self out.

We give ourselves a shake, shake, shake and turn myself about.

Here we go looby loo. Here we go looby light.

Here we go looby loo all on a Saturday night.