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Programmes, films, series etc you hated as a child...
Utopian Girl
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Mine were - Black beauty, Lassie, a programme that had the theme ' on white horses let me ride away...
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Sesame Street.
Fawlty Towers as Basil annoyed rather than amused me.
Flasing Blade
Heidi and Huckleberry Finn as they seemed to go on forever.
Duty Free
Last of the Summer Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BqNtB1YgE&feature=kp
Version of "The white horses" by Morwenna Banks as her "little girl" character - it is really funny at 1.20 where she explains "she does know what a horsey is - it is like a cow but without a milk bag underneath"
All those awful Eastern European dubbed "childrens" shows which were scary as hell.
"The Singing Ringing Tree" was particularly dreadful.
I also hated "The Tomorrow people" original ITV series as the lead actor was such a smug condescending prig.
And there was "Brainchild" hosted by John Craven on BBC - where they always had 3 kids from comprehensives/ grammar schools - and one REALLY posh kid (presumably from a Public School)
Every week it was blatantly rigged so the posh kid got more questions and won.
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Many more series that I liked back in the day, but can't be bothered with now. That needs a separate topic, though.
Duty Free was mentioned...... I actually like that series! Always liked it.
Never liked Blue Peter much.
oh and Songs of Praise , jeezus ! church and Sunday was bad enough , but then that rubbish - bloody hell !!!
and Dad's Army , not so much the show but that theme song , I HATED it , same with Coronation Street - that theme music - how does anyone listen to it , it sounds like a dying elephant whose hung-over from too much stout .
Couldn't stand it as it was the same thing every week. Keith Barron would try to have an illicit meeting with the blonde. They would both try to get their partners out of the way but the plan woudn't work and it would usually end in farce where one or both of the partners would walk in on them. It never seemed to be off TV in the mid 80s.
I preferred Magpie to Blue Peter.
I didn't like Ask The Family.
I liked Last of the Summer Wine but it was never the same after Bill Owen died.
Never liked Cannon & Ball. Bernard Manning called them the only double act with 2 straight men as the so-called funny man wasn't funny.:D
Never liked Tommy Cooper. He used to do rubbish magic tricks that didn't work and I'd think 'What's funny about that?'.
It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum
Any westerns
Any gangster films
I was thinking of Ever Decreasing Circles! I thought it was boring and really unfunny as a child, but since seeing it as an adult I love it!
I used to watch Worzel Gummidge and I sort of liked it but I didn't, if you see what mean! I think I found it a bit creepy when he changed his head
Full of posh twits obsessed with cricket, one character with OCD and a husband and wife who dressed in the same clothes.
vibrations on my neck......
Now its the other way round so either adverts have gone downhill, or i had a really dull childhood!
'Why Don't You Switch Off Your Television Set' - prompted you to do just that.
I never liked stuff like 'The Magic Roundabout', or 'The Clangers', because I deemed them to be 'childish'. Of course, I'm now old enough to properly appreciate them!
'Coronation Street', yes, that's a given. Dreary, depressing rubbish, and that position hasn't changed in 40-odd years...
I also used to hate the Superman series (the one that had Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane) and I know this is probably a bit of a controversial one but I couldn't stand The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. :eek: It still annoys me when people sing the theme tune today. :mad:
TV wise I never liked "round the twist" that much and I found the queen's nose boring.
Cloppa Castle
HATED those shows.
Blue Peter.
Especially when they moved it around the regions -
From Wikipedia...
The 1972 pilot for Why Don't You was filmed in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire with a team of children from Valley Road Primary School. From its inception in 1973, the gang's studio had been based in Bristol, and it resembled a dusty basement. However, from 1980, the show also featured gangs from other parts of the United Kingdom, and these shows were made by the respective BBC regional centre, although all were broadcast nationwide.[2] The first "alternative" gangs came from a barn in Scotland and a church hall in Belfast, followed by a seaside café in Cardiff. As the 1980s continued, all four studio settings were abandoned and the gang became based in other UK locations, such as Liverpool.
When it left Bristol and went to Glasgow and Belfast - I could not understand what some of the kids were saying as they had such strong local accents (they did not use stage school kids who had been "trained")
That's another sitcom I didn't see what was so funny about, some old git moaning all the time
Captain Pugwash - remember that anyone? Wouldn't be allowed these days.