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    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    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 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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    I think she was actually sacked for getting pregnant
    Janet says that wasn't the case;

    https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/scared...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’.

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

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

    Bill & Ben and little Weed
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    Double Deckers. 'Scooper' went on to play Harry Pearce, head honcho in Spooks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    Double Deckers. '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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    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, at left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    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, at left.
    Didn't know that.
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    Also good back in the late '60s was Catweazel.

    20-odd years later, Geoffrey Bayldon went on to do the voice interventions on Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard. Later still, he was the nutty professor character on bonkers game show, Fort Boyard.
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