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''Vision On'' was a British children's Television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1977 . It was designed to appeal to Deaf as well as hearing viewers. Conceived by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling , it replaced a monthly series called ''For The Deaf'', and was intended to reflect changes in the education of deaf children, placing an emphasis upon communication and interaction rather than image-based storytelling alone. The main presenter was Pat Keysell , who had combined an acting career with teaching deaf children. Keysell was usually the only presenter to address the audience directly. She was later joined by Tony Hart , who encouraged viewers to send in their paintings to the ''Vision On'' gallery, which showed viewers' paintings in sequence in the middle of the programme (a feature which survives in the current children's BBC programme '' SMart '', complete with the same background music). Other presenters at various times included Ben Benison , and Sylvester McCoy , both of whom specialized in mime in the series, and Wilf Makepeace Lunn , who appeared as an eccentric inventor of equally eccentric machines. David Cleveland appeared in filmed sequences as 'the Prof'. The title ''Vision On'' was a reference to the illuminated sign above the recording studio at the BBC, which showed when the cameras were live. The title animation in later series showed the words 'Vision On' in script joining up with their mirror image to form an animated character. The series ended in 1977 when it was thought that its mode of addressing deaf children had in its own way become outdated. By this time, Ceefax (the method for decoding and displaying dialogue on television and enabling the use of Closed Caption ed subtitling) had became more easily available, and so deaf children could enjoy a wider range of children's television. Tony Hart took the gallery concept to his spin-off art series '' Take Hart '' and ''Hart Beat'', while ''Vision On'''s last producer, Clive Doig , took its visual style on to his later series '' Jigsaw '' and '' Eureka ''. Many episodes of ''Vision On'' featured short animations produced by the Aardman Animations team, who went on to animate the Claymation character Morph in ''Take Hart''. In Canada, ''Vision On'' was broadcast on TVOntario . REFERENCES ''Radio Times'', 1964–1977 EXTERNAL LINKS
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