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Al Bundy

20-04-2020, 10:30

ROBCamra

20-04-2020, 13:30

You were never too old for Tiswas, especially when Sally James got her T-shirt wet.:whistle:

Pangolin

20-04-2020, 15:06

Bill & Ben
Pogle's Wood
Tales of the Riverbank

Tris39

20-04-2020, 16:06

Trumpton
Camberwick Green
Chigley
The Banana Splits
Chorlton And The Wheelie's
Bert And Ernie
Oscar The Grouch
Captain Pugwash
The Clangers
Pixie And Dixie
Snagglepuss
Dick Dastardly.

So was Tiswas, Ivor The Engine and apart from that feckin singing doll, Bagpuss.

All great. Also...

The Monkees
Mary, Mungo and Midge
Crystal Tipps and Alistair
Scooby-Do
Magic Roundabout

You were never too old for Tiswas, especially when Sally James got her T-shirt wet.:whistle:

:cool:

Aqualung

20-04-2020, 16:25

I can remember Bill & Ben and Andy Pandy but was too young to express what a load of old shite it was! I don't recall Muffin The Mule so not guilty your honour!
I can also vaguely remember Sooty and some pervy geezer called Mr Pastry.
Over the years I've enjoyed Magic Roundabout, The Clangers, Rainbow (No I didn't think it was something to do with the rock band!) and Teletubbies.

Mobyduck

20-04-2020, 17:04

The Herbs
Hectors House
The Wooden Tops

Tris39

20-04-2020, 17:09

The Herbs

Yup. I too was quite a fan of The Herbs, though later in life! :whistle:

Delboy20

20-04-2020, 17:13

the Flumps
Mr Benn
Rhubarb and Custard
Pink Panther
Top Cat
Tom And Jerry

oldboots

20-04-2020, 17:28

I wouldn't argue with most of the nominations, I might just add Noggin The Nog, The Muppet Show, both Wacky Races and Dastardly & Muttley. I enjoyed watching Rosie & Jim when my son was growing up.

You were never too old for Tiswas, especially when Sally James got her T-shirt wet.:whistle:

or indeed watching Jenny Handley in Magpie or Janet Ellis in Blue Peter.

Mobyduck

20-04-2020, 17:36

I might just add Noggin The Nog,

Cheers, I had been trying to remember the name of that one.

oldboots

20-04-2020, 17:42

Cheers, I had been trying to remember the name of that one.

You could just say anything by Oliver Postgate (Small Films)

Tris39

20-04-2020, 18:07

...or indeed watching Jenny Handley in Magpie or Janet Ellis in Blue Peter.

:evilgrin:

Bucking Fastard

20-04-2020, 20:23

I enjoyed watching Rosie & Jim when my son was growing up.

I didn't enjoy it when young children on the towpath would point at my boat and ask if Rosie and Jim were onboard.:mad:

Lady Grey

22-04-2020, 12:52

Children of the stones a television drama with the wonderful Freddie Jones
The Wooden Tops not really a great kids show, but it is the first one I can remember watching
The Secret garden
Rainbow
Inigo Pipkin/The Pipkins
Tiswas - obviously!
Camberwick green/Trumpton/Chigley
Grange Hill
Bagpuss
The magic Roundabout - groovy man!
Mr Benn

Tris39

22-04-2020, 17:15

Mobyduck

22-04-2020, 18:06

Always enjoyed the Flashing Blade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifacFrr1iUk) when I was 9 or 10.

ETA

22-04-2020, 20:18

Always enjoyed the Flashing Blade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifacFrr1iUk) when I was 9 or 10.

And Desert Crusader

Quinno

22-04-2020, 20:50

Time for a voice from the younger *cough* generation

Jossey's Giants
Bad Boyes
Grange Hill (series 8-13, but the last one was out of habit, as the best characters like Imelda and Gonch had gone prior)
The Box of Delights
Moondial
Transformers
Tom & Jerry
Top of the Pops
Neighbours (I was an early adopter, as I watched the first episodes that were initially only shown early in the day as I was off school sick for a week or two when it first started!)
The Monkees (it was on during school holidays, and my mum had a couple of the original LPs)
Pretty much any of the mega-long animated euro-sagas like Dogtanian, Willy Fog and Ulysees
Willo the Wisp
Roobarb & Custard
Danger Mouse
Knightmare (pretty much the only thing on ITV that was allowed on without mooing and grunting from my mother)
Tripods

From a teenage PoV - My So Called Life.

There's a good few years between me and my sister, so by dint of having to put up with her watching kids TV I also quite enjoyed the Queen's Nose, and the first Romana D'Annunzio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKgbzLVO2cc) year of Blue Peter (then she reappeared with some sort of butch dyke haircut!)

or indeed watching [...] Janet Ellis in Blue Peter.

My confession here is that she was the first female of the species to light up the part of my young brain that girls had quite a different dimension than simply being smelly, annoying or a source of japes when pulling their ponytails. I was really gutted when she decided to quit Blue Peter and had a general hatred of Yvette Fielding as her successor (not helped by the fact that Fielding was actually piss poor)

Lady Grey

22-04-2020, 21:50

1977's Children of the Stones was far too frightening for children's TV! It also featured a pre-Blakes 7 Gareth Thomas.
You are quite right.

oldboots

23-04-2020, 09:08

Time for a voice from the younger *cough* generation

You may well cough, some of us saw your boyish picture on Twitter earlier, complete with (incorrect) date of birth.

Tris39

23-04-2020, 16:57

Time for a voice from the younger *cough* generation

Jossey's Giants
Bad Boyes
Grange Hill (series 8-13, but the last one was out of habit, as the best characters like Imelda and Gonch had gone prior)
The Box of Delights
Moondial
Transformers
Tom & Jerry
Top of the Pops
Neighbours (I was an early adopter, as I watched the first episodes that were initially only shown early in the day as I was off school sick for a week or two when it first started!)
The Monkees (it was on during school holidays, and my mum had a couple of the original LPs)
Pretty much any of the mega-long animated euro-sagas like Dogtanian, Willy Fog and Ulysees
Willo the Wisp
Roobarb & Custard
Danger Mouse
Knightmare (pretty much the only thing on ITV that was allowed on without mooing and grunting from my mother)
Tripods

From a teenage PoV - My So Called Life.

There's a good few years between me and my sister, so by dint of having to put up with her watching kids TV I also quite enjoyed the Queen's Nose, and the first Romana D'Annunzio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKgbzLVO2cc) year of Blue Peter (then she reappeared with some sort of butch dyke haircut!)

My confession here is that she was the first female of the species to light up the part of my young brain that girls had quite a different dimension than simply being smelly, annoying or a source of japes when pulling their ponytails. I was really gutted when she decided to quit Blue Peter and had a general hatred of Yvette Fielding as her successor (not helped by the fact that Fielding was actually piss poor)

I think she was actually sacked for getting pregnant and the appearance of a pregnant woman on a children's TV programme wasn't considered on. It's murder on the dance floor...

Sarah Greene her predecessor though...

oldboots

23-04-2020, 18:21

I think she was actually sacked for getting pregnant and the appearance of a pregnant woman on a children's TV programme wasn't considered on. It's murder on the dance floor...

Sarah Greene her predecessor though...

I believe you are correct, did the bump become Sophie Ellis Bexter? I could make a tasteless comment but won’t.

Quinno

24-04-2020, 13:55

I think she was actually sacked for getting pregnant

Janet says that wasn't the case;

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/scared-and-angry-but-we-still-love-life-and-each-other-former-blue-peter-star-janet-ellis-on-her-husbands-battle-with-cancer-and-support-of-their-loving-family/

“I left Blue Peter in July, 1987, and Jack was born in August,” she says.

“I was so heavily pregnant, the idea that they were shocked, well, they had a funny way of showing it. In the programme, there was absolutely nothing but support.

“Obviously, Jack forced my hand somewhat, but it wasn’t a question of being sacked. It would have been hard to stay.

“Sophie was four when I started and eight when I left. You go off filming. I was away for weeks at a time. Doing that again with a newborn would have been horrific, so I pre-empted that and said, ‘I don’t want to have another contract, thank you’.

london calling

25-04-2020, 19:32

Cant remember there being many childrens programmes when I was young
the wooden tops stands out
the Lone Ranger was my favourite

Bucking Fastard

25-04-2020, 19:42

For me it was all about Watch with Mother,which is what I did.

Bill & Ben and little Weed ;)

Tris39

26-04-2020, 17:54

Double Deckers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0hPgm_CBwM). 'Scooper' went on to play Harry Pearce, head honcho in Spooks.

Mobyduck

26-04-2020, 18:25

Double Deckers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0hPgm_CBwM). 'Scooper' went on to play Harry Pearce, head honcho in Spooks.

And Brinsley Forde (MBE) who played Spring, went on greater things as a founder member of Aswad. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswad)

Tris39

27-04-2020, 16:07

The Herbs...

Gordon Rollings was the story teller on The Herbs. 20-odd years later he appeared as the flat cap-wearing Yorkshireman in the John Smith's adverts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9BSr-4kiM), at left.

Mobyduck

27-04-2020, 16:14

Tris39

27-04-2020, 16:37

oldboots

27-04-2020, 17:58

Gordon Rollings was the story teller on The Herbs. 20-odd years later he appeared as the flat cap-wearing Yorkshireman in the John Smith's adverts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9BSr-4kiM), at left.

On a brewery trip to Courage Worton Grange,Reading, after a perfunctory tour we adjourned to the lavish hospitality suite and were treated to every John Smiths advert plus all the ChasNDave Rabbit Rabbit ones on a loop. At least the beer was free.

oldboots

27-04-2020, 17:59

Also good back in the late '60s was Catweazel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBfgfBrwrI).

I have been known to talk about "electrickery" quite often and even the "Telling Bone", #sad

Real Ale Ray

28-04-2020, 12:03

Also good back in the late '60s was Catweazel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBfgfBrwrI).

20-odd years later, Geoffrey Bayldon went on to do the voice interventions on Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxzsUWBwz8). Later still, he was the nutty professor character on bonkers game show, Fort Boyard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssBqE189ezU).

Mrs Ale here, Catweazel was a favourite of mine, but the absolute best was Worzel Gummidge with the brilliant Jon Pertwee, ah what a programme. And of course Geoffrey Bayldon played the Crowman in that too.

Tris39

28-04-2020, 15:06

I have been known to talk about "electrickery" quite often and even the "Telling Bone", #sad

Yes! I still use those words.

Mrs Ale here, Catweazel was a favourite of mine, but the absolute best was Worzel Gummidge with the brilliant Jon Pertwee, ah what a programme. And of course Geoffrey Bayldon played the Crowman in that too.

And now there's a remake (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10516874/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).

Tris39

29-04-2020, 17:21

Mrs Ale here, Catweazel was a favourite of mine, but the absolute best was Worzel Gummidge with the brilliant Jon Pertwee, ah what a programme. And of course Geoffrey Bayldon played the Crowman in that too.

...and 'Q' in the original Casino Royale. Worzel Gummidge Down Under (filmed in New Zealand) was to kick start the career of the man behind the special effects, Peter Jackson.

Real Ale Ray

01-05-2020, 08:32

Yes! I still use those words.

And now there's a remake (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10516874/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).

Mrs Ale here - absolutely hated the remake of Worzel, switched off after about 15 mins...

Tris39

12-05-2020, 16:44

This was quite good too! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CpdoPX8Y28).

Delboy20

12-05-2020, 18:55

Mrs Ale here, Catweazel was a favourite of mine, but the absolute best was Worzel Gummidge with the brilliant Jon Pertwee, ah what a programme. And of course Geoffrey Bayldon played the Crowman in that too.

I can just about remember going to the theatre on a coach from junior school to see Worzel Gummidge with Jon Pertwee. Not sure which theatre to be honest

hondo

20-05-2020, 12:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dum1WJXJMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE3ULzR_AMg

Tris39

30-05-2020, 17:18

I can just about remember going to the theatre on a coach from junior school to see Worzel Gummidge with Jon Pertwee. Not sure which theatre to be honest

Perhaps he hypnotised you with his glowing blue crystal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dum1WJXJMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE3ULzR_AMg

Indeed. These were good too:

Batman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK4H-LkrQjQ)
Spiderman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUtziaZlDeE)
The Wombles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCvqAZo5kQ)