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The series ended in 1977 when it was thought that its mode of addressing deaf children had in its own way become outdated.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 captioned subtitling) had became more easily available, and so deaf children could enjoy a wider range of children's television.

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introduced to Call of Duty 4. had a vision of myself spending many hours on the couch absorbed in shooting things. maybe no buying a tv yet.
jackalpie (Rachel Lilley) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:45:46 -0000
introduced to Call of Duty 4. had a vision of myself spending many hours on the couch absorbed in shooting things. maybe no buying a tv yet.
In Revelation, the apostle John’s vision of heaven also included animals, showing Christ and the armies of heaven "riding on white horses."
sirhcyoung (Little (Lil') Wayne ) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:32:35 -0000
In Revelation, the apostle John’s vision of heaven also included animals, showing Christ and the armies of heaven "riding on white horses."
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@andrewnathan no problem :] just sleep on it then it can come like a vision :]
Emawee123 (Emily Demarest ) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:21:10 -0000
@andrewnathan no problem :] just sleep on it then it can come like a vision :]
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