TV Programmes You Watched As A Child...

[Lockhouse]

The neighbour's had a colour telly so we used to go next door every Sunday afternoon at 13:00 and watch Thunderbirds (1969 or thereabouts).

I used to really like Gerry Anderson stuff - it was by far and away the best kid's TV.

When I used to get in from school, kid's TV used to start around 16:45 (only three channels and only two of them had children's TV). I used to watch Magpie (much better than Blue Peter), Timeslip was a series I remember watching as well.

[SorenLorensen]

Terrahawks!

[BoredBloke]

When I was really little there was

Mary Mungo and Midge - For some reason I used to really like it when they went into the lift?!?

Fingermouse - when anything went wrong (and I did it) I'd blame it on finger. Quite possibly the cheapset crappyiest telly for kids. Two cardboard tubes!

Camblewick Green and Trumpton. Even at a very young age I could see that Windy Miller was asking for trouble the way the blades passed right in front of his door.

Tales from Willow Bank (I think that was the name). Who puts a hamster on a boat. It used to look dead scared.

I used to hate Sesamie Street and all the thunderbirds type stuff. I hated Thunderbirds because you could see the strings, but seeing the guy and his arms on fingermouse didn't bother me.

The Bionic Man - I ended up in hospital after seeing him jump off a not very big pile of logs. I figured that's what lots of money can do. Lets see what I'm worth and with that I took a run up and tried to jump the stairs at home. I even made the NNNNnnnnn noise as I cleared the first few. I made hugely different noises from then on.

The Wombles - I had a toy Womble Orinoco.

Rainbow and Pipkins. I think I liked pipkins more because it was just odd. A brummie tortoise who played with the till and used to travel to it in a tea towl lift. Hartley and Octavia and Pig. It's time..................for a story

Ivor the Engine Shhher-Ti-cup Shhher-Ti-cup

Play school and Playaway with Brian Cant

When I got a bit older......

Blue Peter - I could never understand how they make kidney machines from the ring pulls from coke cans. Was never into Magpie. Because of Blue Peter the name "Joey" because common accross every playground. I don't think Magpie could ever say that.

Monkey - there was a spate of kids getting hurt with kung fu chops and badly lipsyncing ' Ahhh Pigsy' But it was rubbish

Grange Hill the proper one with Tucker and Benny. You Benny!

Why don't you - a bunch of kids showing you just how rubbish it was outside unless you could get your mum or dad to drive you to all these odd activites that seemed to be done by posher kids than me

The clock that used to count in the schools and colleges programmes

schools and colleges programmes - which were really bad but the only thing to watch when you were off school, sick with your sellophane wrapped Lucozade

Champoin the Wonder Horse - was sh1t. It was a horse and wasn't wonderful. In the same way that Lassie was rubbish...and Heidi and he bloody grandad

The Great Egg Race and the Adventure Game - you simply would not get TV like that now

Superstars (or whatever it was called) where everybody knew who Brain Jacks was and alughed when Keegan fell off his bike

That sports program that was on where they had obsticles outside and in a pool and was presented by the now dead guy who commentated on the athletics - can't remember the name but hated the show.

Wacky Races - Did dick dastardly ever win one. We used to bet at school who would win

Play School - only because it was on at the start of all the other shows. I used to bet which window it was with my sister. I even had a system for it. I remember that I got it right every night for about 2 weeks and she stopped betting.

Knight Rider, Street Hawk and Airwolf - Airwolf was a bully. It was a high tech helicopter that used to fight with Bi-planes or a crap helicopter with a gun strapped to it. And Stringfellow Hawk used to squint all the time. Plus, which tight sod would call their kid Stringfellow as a first name. Mr and Mrs Hawk that's who, the tight gets. and waht are the odds that little hawk grows up to fly helicopters. Also, how Micheal Knight used to meet up with some single parent with an annoying kid and she was usually fit.

The a-team until I realised nobody ever, ever gets shot - that this crack commando squad couldn't shoot for tulip. It was only Murdoch that made the show.

Worzel Gummage - I liked it at first but then found out that he usually had his annoying thick as pig tulip 'ed on and Aunt Sally was a real pain. You knew Worzel was never going to get to use his carrot on her.


That's it for now!

[Lockhouse]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Ah yes I forgot Irwin Allen - Lost in Space was a particular favourite - much better than Land Of The Giants.

[wobbegong]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Ah yes, and "Time Tunnel".

Anyone mentioned "Rent a Ghost" yet?

[Spacecadet]

Anyone mentioned "Rent a Ghost" yet?

Yup

I don't think The Tomorrow People have been mentioned though

[Churchill]

Yup

I don't think The Tomorrow People have been mentioned though

Yes it has.

The Littlest Hobo - If only for the cute dog and theme song.

Gentle Ben!

[darmstadt]

Didn't get to really see TV until I was 11 or so due to living in countries that either didn't have TV and if they did then they we didn't have one. When we got back to the UK we were only allowed to watch BBC due to it being more educational than the commercial channels although that didn't stop mother watching Crossroads religiously.

[TinTrump]

Bod. Strawberry milkshake.
Hair Bear Bunch.

Very good list from TonyEnglish. Yeah, the lift was always the hightlight of Mary, Mungo and Midge.

Hector's House. French puppets; a cat, lion and dog, if I recall.

[gingerjedi]

Channel 4 red triangle films.