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Childrens TV shows from the late 80s and 90s - nostalgia thread
IzzyS
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I've been reminiscing about the TV shows I used to watch as a child mainly in the 1990s but probably also some 80s shows (I was born in 1983) as they used to repeat alot, I think.
Someone suggested I should post a thread about it here, so here we are lol I hope its ok to post this as a general topic since im sure its a topic thats been brought up before? if not then I apologise. Anyway, anyone remember the following (off the top of my head, also thanks to the CITV Old Skool Weekend for reminding me of some of these!):-
* Button Moon
* Puddle Lane
* Fun House
* Knightmare
* Charlie Chalk
* Penny Crayon
* Mike and Angelo
* Watts World
* The Demon Headmaster
* Parallel 9
* Gimme 5
* Live & Kicking/Going Live!
* Fully Booked
* Bodger & Badger
* Raggydolls
* Dogtanian
* Poddington Peas
* Maid Marion
* Bitsa
* Brum
* Byker Grove
* Top Banana
* John Barrowmans Movie Game Show
Thats not to mention Animals of Farthing Wood which has had its own discussion in the GD forum and many other American and other foreign kids shows. Oh and anyone remember Edd the Duck and Gordon the Gopher - and Roland the Rat?! I guess they don't count as shows as such though lol
I remember being gutted when CITV dropped the on screen presenter, if I remember right they said there'd be another one but in the end they didn't get one and links between programmes ended up done via voice over 
not the same(!) lol.
There was also that CBBC show about inventions that never made it big, that always featured inventions from a Japanese company - Shamdogu company ltd or something? that wasn't on Bitsa, was it? I forget
there was also a game show where basically everyone got gunged and it was hosted by a guy with a double barelled name, something like Mark Benson someone? that was pretty hyper but I don't remember the name of it...
Someone suggested I should post a thread about it here, so here we are lol I hope its ok to post this as a general topic since im sure its a topic thats been brought up before? if not then I apologise. Anyway, anyone remember the following (off the top of my head, also thanks to the CITV Old Skool Weekend for reminding me of some of these!):-
* Button Moon
* Puddle Lane
* Fun House
* Knightmare
* Charlie Chalk
* Penny Crayon
* Mike and Angelo
* Watts World
* The Demon Headmaster
* Parallel 9
* Gimme 5
* Live & Kicking/Going Live!
* Fully Booked
* Bodger & Badger
* Raggydolls
* Dogtanian
* Poddington Peas
* Maid Marion
* Bitsa
* Brum
* Byker Grove
* Top Banana
* John Barrowmans Movie Game Show
Thats not to mention Animals of Farthing Wood which has had its own discussion in the GD forum and many other American and other foreign kids shows. Oh and anyone remember Edd the Duck and Gordon the Gopher - and Roland the Rat?! I guess they don't count as shows as such though lol
I remember being gutted when CITV dropped the on screen presenter, if I remember right they said there'd be another one but in the end they didn't get one and links between programmes ended up done via voice over not the same(!) lol.There was also that CBBC show about inventions that never made it big, that always featured inventions from a Japanese company - Shamdogu company ltd or something? that wasn't on Bitsa, was it? I forget
there was also a game show where basically everyone got gunged and it was hosted by a guy with a double barelled name, something like Mark Benson someone? that was pretty hyper but I don't remember the name of it... 0
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Loved most of them particularly Maid Marian, Raggy Dolls and Dogtanian. Another one I loved that barely anyone remembers was Visionairies.
I also loved Palace Hill.
The programme I think you mean is get Your Own Back presented by Dave Benson Phillips.
I was born in the 90s but can't remember when I started watching it. Still, loved that show.
(think alphabet soup and an elevator)
Was that the thing with Lynda Baron in a plane.
Oops - thanks, I edited the OP.
Thats it, thanks
There was also a CBBC show about sports and exercise called Activ8 and a documentary series called something like limelight?
Super gran
Dreamcatcher
he-man
She-ra
thundercats
Woof
Bananaman
Superted
Clarissa Explains It All was quite good. I didn't mention American shows since this forum is for UK shows, otherwise I'd mention Rude Dog and the Dweebs, Ghostbusters, Ghost Writer, Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff etc etc
used to love this, " have you ever, ever felt like this"
Thats it - Thanks
Rugrats
SMTV Live
Johnny Bravo
Angry Beavers
Dextor's Labratory
Power Rangers
Bernands Watch
The Queens Nose
The Deamon Headmaster
Dennis the Mennis
Arther
Get your own back
Art Attack
It's a knockout
Grange Hill
First Class
Box Clever
Chish N Fips
Batfink
Gran
Bod
Bertha
PC Pinkerton
Playschool
Playbus
Bananaman
Dogtanan and 3 marketeers
Littlest Hobo
Daktari
Tugs
Pigeon Street
Young Krypton Factor
Diff'rent Strokes
Degrassi Junior High
Automan
Beat The Teacher, with Bruno Brookes
CHiPS
Happy Days Cartoon
SMTV: Live and CDUK
Art Attack
Morph
Harry and the Wrinklies
Bernard's Watch
Get Your Own Back
My Parents Are Aliens
STARStreet
S Club 7's TV shows
Penny Crayon
Zzzap!
Digimon
Postman Pat
Charlie Chalk
Noddy
Pingu
Fireman Sam
Rupert the Bear
Rosie and Jim
Thomas the Tank Engine
Spot
Playbus
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Tots TV
Nellie the Elephant
Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Come Outside
The Old Bear Stories
Dream Street
The schools programmes (if that counts)
I was born in 1990.
grange hill
and Pat Sharp's very very long hair
Tony Hart and his art
Round the Twist- Which was Australian and a family lived in a lighthouse
The Moomins- The Swedish version
Moomins- The Japanese Anime version.
That train show has me baffled.......just cannot remember it.....
and I have googled
Any clues?
Those with the hologram chests, they were Knights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_fLZLdvwI4
So many brilliant tv shows and cartoons from the 80's and early 90's......
I couldn't even begin to recall them all...
Another cartoon which was great but also quite dark
Ulysses 31 (Did they ever get back to Earth?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8
And Mysterious Cities of Gold - never did know if they found them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5Y_ogiyi0
Dogtanian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR9J2ITspyU
I loved Jamie and the Magic Torch
I wanted that dog when I was a boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZAFOkQ9v7Y
and for some reason remember
The Moomins being on at around noon when I went home for my dinner when I was about 7 or 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWIBL2gy-zg
My youngest daughter used to like Come Outside. Lynda Baron's character had a little dog called Pip, or Pippin. It used to amuse me and my husband how she always found some convenient place to land the plane, no matter where she was going. It must have been more recent than 80s or 90s when we saw it though - youngest daughter is only ten.
Youngest son used to like Rosie and Jim ('Rosie!', 'Jim!'), which I don't think has got a mention yet. He was born in 1989, so I suppose that one was early nineties.
Sometime in the early eighties (before my kids came along but well after I was old enough to know better
Thanks, yeah my niece loved Come Outside, so every time she stayed over she had it on the telly. And I used to love Cockleshell Bay as well:D
Here you go, you were almost right!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8:15_from_Manchester
Thats it - I couldn't remember the right time lol