Rugrats
Playdays
Round the twist
Sabrina the teenage witch
Original Fireman Sam
The Adventures of spot
The really wild show
Where's Wally
Original Postman Pat
Banana Splits
Lift Off with Ayshea
Timeslip
Tightrope
Ace of wands
Supersonic!
Pardon My Genie
Clapperboard ( should be on these days as every film at the cinema seems to be for kids/teens these days!)
Loads that have already been mentioned, especially The Banana Splits and the Double Deckers. But also Kizzy - loved that! And Lizzie Dripping and the Witch. Remakes please!
wish they would put animaniacs on again i loved that show!
This was in my childrens time - but I love the song that says "It's a great big universe and we're all really puny, we're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney" - you tube it
All my faves here.apart from Wooden Tops ( never could get into that.My heart used to sink when I was waiting for Watch With Mother to start and that came on.I probably used to lol.)
I loved "Kizzy" so much that years later I called my cat Kizzy.My family could never understand where I got the name from.
Children's programmes that I used to watch as a child include the following -
Doctor Who
Stranger on the Shore,
Stranger in the City
Badger's Bend,
The Master,
Oliver Twist,
Paul of Tarsus,
The master of Ballantrae,
The River Flows East,
Paradise Walk,
Kidnapped/Catriona,
The Old Curiosity shop,
Tuesday Rendevouz
Tich and Quakers,
Mikki the Martian,
The saga of Noggin,
Cyrus the Seahorse,
Prudence Kitten,
Picture Book,
Andy Pandy,
The Flowerpot Men,
Rag, Tag and Bobtail,
The Woodentops
Orlando,
The Treasure Seekers,
The Lone ranger,
Torchy
Twizzle
Noddy
Four feather Falls,
Supercar,
Fireball XL5
Space Patrol
The Magic Roundabout,
Herge's Adventures of Tin Tin
Hector's House
Tom Tom
Blue Peter
How
Freewheelers
Batman
Lost in Space
Land of the Giants,
David Copperfield
Martin Cuzzlewit,
Lenny the Lion,
Rubovia Castle,
Sooty,
Captain Pugwash,
Lassie
Daktari
Flipper
Pinky and Perky
Bric-a-Brac
Chockablock
Pigeon Street
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
Chigley
Cockleshell Bay
The Sooty Show
Tickle on the Tum
Rentaghost
Fingermouse
Blue Peter
He-Man and the Masters of The Universe
Then, when I was older:
The Real Ghostbusters
Round the Bend
Tricky Business
The Satellite Show
Uncle Jack and Operation Green
Scooby-Doo
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Dizzy Heights
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Spacevets
Grange Hill
Clarissa Explains It All
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
One BBC pre-school show I used to watch was What's Inside, presented by Floella Benjamin. It was first shown in 1987, a few months before Play School finished (so many lunchtime BBC series featured Play School presenters).
No-one seems to remember What's Inside well, I can't remember much about the studio scenes other than Floella was with a lot of kids aged around five or six, but I do remember the stories in the programme, that began with a girl's voice saying "What's inside"? " A letter. Written by Grandpa".
The stories were about two girls who wrote to their Grandpa in India - and some weeks their Grandpa would be writing to them. The stories were told in pictures with Saeed Jaffrey narrating as the Grandpa character.
Anyone remember the kids pop shows...they had alsorts on for kids back then...Lift Off with Ayshea ( what happened to her?) where all the pop stars of the day performed. There was another with Roy North (of Basil brush fame)called Get it Together where he sang some of the hits in the charts...pretty painful to watch!
No ones mentioned Round the Bend? That was funny as F***!
I mentioned Round the Bend. I agree, it was hilarious! I used to love Doc Croc and the sewer rats, especially Vince Vermin, not to mention Lou Brusch!
I found the puppets in the series funnier than the cartoon spoofs. I used to love the John Potato's Newround slot and in one episode, his face was literally re-arranged by killer teddy bears who wore Mafia-style sunglasses! There was also short-sighted sports presenter David Colemole who always read the wrong results from the screen and Doc Croc would end up hitting him over the head, or on one occiasion, shooting him!
A few random memories:
'Children Of The Stones' - a seven part tale of the supernatural, (starring Gareth Thomas and Iain Cuthbertson, and filmed in Avebury) which was on ITV in 1976 or so. I snapped this up on DVD several years ago, and it was every bit as good as I remembered it, if not better.
'Touch And Go' - a one-off serial which was on BBC1 (early evenings) around 1978 or 79? I don't remember much about it, except that it was quite good.
Just before the ITV strike of 1979, they showed Part 1 of a two-part (or multi-part, at any rate) story of...?? I had it in my mind that it was The Incredible Hulk, but browsing through an episode guide now, I can't find a synopsis which fits what I remember: Someone is being brainwashed into thinking that their name is something else, and is being given a hypnotic instruction to kill someone. That's about all I can recall: Some guy with his head in an apparatus, while someone repeats to him "My name is ----
" and/or "Kill ---
". Anyway, it all comes to a cliffhanger at the end, and I couldn't wait to see next week's episode. However, ITV was off the air for the next few months and when it returned, they never did pick it up again.
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Playdays
Round the twist
Sabrina the teenage witch
Original Fireman Sam
The Adventures of spot
The really wild show
Where's Wally
Original Postman Pat
Byker Grove
Noddy original series
Teletubbies
Kipper the dog
Art attack
Sooty and sweep
Rugrats
Lift Off with Ayshea
Timeslip
Tightrope
Ace of wands
Supersonic!
Pardon My Genie
Clapperboard ( should be on these days as every film at the cinema seems to be for kids/teens these days!)
This was in my childrens time - but I love the song that says "It's a great big universe and we're all really puny, we're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney" - you tube it
I've just mentioned Kizzy - loved it!!
Doctor Who
Stranger on the Shore,
Stranger in the City
Badger's Bend,
The Master,
Oliver Twist,
Paul of Tarsus,
The master of Ballantrae,
The River Flows East,
Paradise Walk,
Kidnapped/Catriona,
The Old Curiosity shop,
Tuesday Rendevouz
Tich and Quakers,
Mikki the Martian,
The saga of Noggin,
Cyrus the Seahorse,
Prudence Kitten,
Picture Book,
Andy Pandy,
The Flowerpot Men,
Rag, Tag and Bobtail,
The Woodentops
Orlando,
The Treasure Seekers,
The Lone ranger,
Torchy
Twizzle
Noddy
Four feather Falls,
Supercar,
Fireball XL5
Space Patrol
The Magic Roundabout,
Herge's Adventures of Tin Tin
Hector's House
Tom Tom
Blue Peter
How
Freewheelers
Batman
Lost in Space
Land of the Giants,
David Copperfield
Martin Cuzzlewit,
Lenny the Lion,
Rubovia Castle,
Sooty,
Captain Pugwash,
Lassie
Daktari
Flipper
Pinky and Perky
Chockablock
Pigeon Street
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
Chigley
Cockleshell Bay
The Sooty Show
Tickle on the Tum
Rentaghost
Fingermouse
Blue Peter
He-Man and the Masters of The Universe
Then, when I was older:
The Real Ghostbusters
Round the Bend
Tricky Business
The Satellite Show
Uncle Jack and Operation Green
Scooby-Doo
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Dizzy Heights
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Spacevets
Grange Hill
Clarissa Explains It All
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
One BBC pre-school show I used to watch was What's Inside, presented by Floella Benjamin. It was first shown in 1987, a few months before Play School finished (so many lunchtime BBC series featured Play School presenters).
No-one seems to remember What's Inside well, I can't remember much about the studio scenes other than Floella was with a lot of kids aged around five or six, but I do remember the stories in the programme, that began with a girl's voice saying "What's inside"? " A letter. Written by Grandpa".
The stories were about two girls who wrote to their Grandpa in India - and some weeks their Grandpa would be writing to them. The stories were told in pictures with Saeed Jaffrey narrating as the Grandpa character.
It'll Never Work had the best theme tune ever. :cool:
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I mentioned Round the Bend. I agree, it was hilarious! I used to love Doc Croc and the sewer rats, especially Vince Vermin, not to mention Lou Brusch!
I found the puppets in the series funnier than the cartoon spoofs. I used to love the John Potato's Newround slot and in one episode, his face was literally re-arranged by killer teddy bears who wore Mafia-style sunglasses! There was also short-sighted sports presenter David Colemole who always read the wrong results from the screen and Doc Croc would end up hitting him over the head, or on one occiasion, shooting him!
'Children Of The Stones' - a seven part tale of the supernatural, (starring Gareth Thomas and Iain Cuthbertson, and filmed in Avebury) which was on ITV in 1976 or so. I snapped this up on DVD several years ago, and it was every bit as good as I remembered it, if not better.
'Touch And Go' - a one-off serial which was on BBC1 (early evenings) around 1978 or 79? I don't remember much about it, except that it was quite good.
Just before the ITV strike of 1979, they showed Part 1 of a two-part (or multi-part, at any rate) story of...?? I had it in my mind that it was The Incredible Hulk, but browsing through an episode guide now, I can't find a synopsis which fits what I remember: Someone is being brainwashed into thinking that their name is something else, and is being given a hypnotic instruction to kill someone. That's about all I can recall: Some guy with his head in an apparatus, while someone repeats to him "My name is ----
" and/or "Kill ---
". Anyway, it all comes to a cliffhanger at the end, and I couldn't wait to see next week's episode. However, ITV was off the air for the next few months and when it returned, they never did pick it up again.