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What TV shows did you watch growing up?

Good morning all, I hope your weekend has started off well
Time to reminisce!
I've had many conversations lately with people about TV shows we used to watch as children, and I always enjoy hearing other people's memories because we all come from unique upbringings and loved different things.
When I was a child I watched things like Teletubbies and Tweenies, and then latterly Scooby-Doo and Basil Brush. I have such fond memories of all of them, whether it be the concept of the show or a character I particularly loved.
What did you used to watch when you were growing up? And what do you recall loving about those shows?

Time to reminisce!
I've had many conversations lately with people about TV shows we used to watch as children, and I always enjoy hearing other people's memories because we all come from unique upbringings and loved different things.
When I was a child I watched things like Teletubbies and Tweenies, and then latterly Scooby-Doo and Basil Brush. I have such fond memories of all of them, whether it be the concept of the show or a character I particularly loved.
What did you used to watch when you were growing up? And what do you recall loving about those shows?
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When we first got a telly there was only BBC One and I think Two, I’m sure it used to stop at Ten pm as well.
Doctor Who is a fantastic one, we all have that one actor who played the Doctor who we associate with growing up. For me it was David Tennant. Do you still watch the show now?
Yes my early memories of television were of there just being four channels, seems crazy now looking back considering the vast array of channels and services there are now.
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I used to watch magic roundabout, blue peter, clangers, trumpton . They are all a lot better than the americanised kids programmes out nowadays
The Daleks still scare me a little to this day
Yes I may very well be showing my age there @janer1967
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As an older kid we gained a 5th channel and it was things like Arthur, Hey Arnold, Fairly Odd Parents, Cow & Chicken, Yvon of the Yukon, Art Attack, SMart, Mona the Vampire, Pinky & the Brain, Recess, Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys, Angry Beavers, The Queens Nose, Scooby Doo, Lizzie Mcguire, Raven, Get Your Own Back, The Cramp Twins, Chucklevision, Horrible Histories, The Really Wild Show, Kerching!, **** & Dom, Diggit, Milkshake, Jackie Chan Adventures, Looney Tunes, Keenan & Kel...
Very occasionally I'd get to watch things like Dexter or Jonny Bravo if I went round a rich persons house with Sky!
Looking back, it seems like a lot of TV...I should probably have gone outside now and then!
There's one show that I can remember but can't remember the name and it's irritating me lol...it was a cartoon, around 2004ish, there was a young guy with a blue top and square shoulders, blue cap and a small beige dog - I'm almost certain the dog could turn invisible and/or teleport...anyone remember the name of it?
Was the show you are trying to remember about a guy with a dog, I think called Corniel, who could talk, but they didn’t want anyone else to find out that the dog could talk?
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Also loved Dads Army, never missed Corrie until I got bored with it 5 years ago, as a very very young boy I watched "watch with mother" ...little weeed.
Fireball XLV and another big favourite was "voyage to the bottom of the sea"
I probably also watched Muffin the Mule until it became illegal
Strange really for most of the 1960'e there were only two stations but always something worth watching, now we have 300 and it's all [email protected] !
The saint, Randal and hopkirk deceased, the prisoner, the avengers, thunderbirds. Wow, so many.
(Yes muffin the mule with Muriel somebody, also Bill and Ben the flowerpot men and Lulu the doll bit iffy) oh yes and crackerjack on Friday afternoons at five pm, contestants won cabbages etc and a pencil, simple pleasures, I still like ...pencils.
Sunday night at the palladium. Charlie Drake.
Also, winning cabbages and pencils sounds very random. Very different to the sort of prizes they give away these days and when I was growing up.
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I remember they used to do a mini game where they would get someone to eat a box of chocolates, one of which was filled with fish paste. The aim of the game was to eat X number of chocolates without getting the horrible one.
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I remember the Val Doonican Show😆 and Hawaii Five O “Book him Danno”🤣🤣
Upstairs Downstairs
Willo the Wisp
Grange Hill
It’s a Knockout
The Good Old Days
Play School
Metal Mickey
Shine on Harvey Moon
Some Mothers Do Have Em🤣🤣
**** Emery Show
Much preferred the stuff that was on when my kids were growing up...Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Pingu, bananaman. Loved Ant and Dec on a saturday morning...with Prozac the fairy..lol
Babapapa
Pipkins
Tom and Jerry
Roadrunner
Animal Magic was brilliant 😁
Magic Roundabout
Button Moon
The Wombles
Jimbo Jet
Pigeon Street
Grott Bags
Count Ducula
Button Moon
Fireman Sam
Spot the dog
Postman Pat
Banana Man
Super Ted
Thomas The Tank Engine
Inspector Gadget
Fraggle Rock
Sesame Street
Sooty
The Flumps
Baa Baa
Super Gran
Rodd Hull And Emu
Danger Mouse
The Munsters
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Going Round The Twist
The Biz
Byker Grove
Neighbours
Home and Away
Brookside
Going Live
The Two Ronnies
Gladiators
You Bet
Dame Edna Everage Show
Challenge Aneeka
Stars In Their Eyes
The Generation Game
Take Your Pick
BlockBusters
Countdown
Fifteen To One
Every Second Counts
Going For Gold
Turnabout
Supermarket Sweep
Ready,Steady,Cook
The Crystal Maze
Wheel of Fortune
Time After Time
Bread
Second Thoughts
Des O'connor Show
Rusty Lee
Killroy
The Time,The Place
Montel Jordan
Rickki Lake
Trisha
Vanessa
TFI Friday
Top Of The Pops
The Top 40
These are from when I was little up until I was 18. Man I watched a lot of TV!
After reading some of the comments,I forgot to add Rentaghost,Basil Brush,Roland Rat,Blue Peter,Rainbow,Tony Hart,Chuckle vision,Art Attack and The Crankies.
Steptoe and son was often funny as was Alf Garnet.
rising damp with Leonard Rossiter was hilarious 😂
Andy Pandy (now banned), The woodentops (also banned), Tales of the Riverbank and Blue Peter a little later ( I actually had a Blue Peter badge, lol!). Then ofc Doctor Who, Fireball XL5 then onto Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90. I get a little confused at times though because of watching so many others sitting with my kids (the girls liked cartoons mostly, a lot Japanese or Korean) and my son was mad about Thomas the Tank Engine.
TK
how about Lassie, Rin tin tin, skippy the bush kangaroo and a dolphin but I don’t remember it’s name, also the adventures of Tarzan and the flying doctor. Great stuff.
"Ivor the engine" was made using paper pictures and moving them a frame at a time and don't forget the dragon that always seemed to appear. Thomas was made using the Dinky Toys and narrated by Ringo Starr in the end but I can't remember who did the early ones.
TK
Follyfoot...sister was mad on horses!
Drove the teachers at school mad with that one!
Whose line is it anyway?
Saturday Night Live...Ben Elton etc
And how could I forget Red Dwarf?
Smoke me a kipper! Lol
Little House on the Prairie.
Bewitched
Tarzan
Opportunity Knocks
Secret Army
The Six Million Dollar Man.
The Bionic Woman
Captain Caveman
Never the Twain
Robin’s Nest
On the Buses
Taxi
Happy Days
Petrocelli
Quincy
I also remember Totally Spies, Arthur, Rugrats, Little Bear and Mona the vampire. Good times.
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I'm an 80's kid and have fond memories of watching Finger Mouse and Words and Pictures as a little one. Can anyone else remember the magic pencil?
As I got a bit older I remember watching The Fun House (It's a whole lotta fun, prizes to be won!) and Mike and Angelo, until Byker Grove came along and I became a more mature, refined viewer
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Not TV related but that wheeled stand has just reminded me of something else that was a primary school regular...the over-head projector! I'll bet there are plenty on here too young to have ever seen one!
Falcon Crest
Dynasty
Highway to Heaven
Mork and Mindy
Fame
You reminded me of this meme
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@OverlyAnxious I remember the OHP!!!
Apparently now Smart boards are common
Every classroom there got a Smart Board around 2007...they were generally just fitted over the top of whiteboards though and half the teachers stuck with the side of the whiteboards and conventional drywipe pens.
Anybody used to watch a show called Jungle Run that was on CITV? Just popped into my head now.
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Does anyone remember Bill and Ben. The flower pot men.😃
Alias Smith and Jones. I loved that 😀
much later I enjoyed Citizen Smith and the Lovers, and the likely lads, and Budgie with bIlly Fury.
I also loved the other shows you mention as well.
Some other oldies I remember
Space 1999
Blakes Seven
Sapphire and Steel
Z Cars
The Professionals
The Sweeney
This is a great thread, thanks for starting it
West Philadelphia born and raised...
Completely agree, most of me and my friends can remember the words to the song, one of my favourites
I was subjected to it every weekend and absolutely hated it! Lots of people hurting themselves or others, plus children and animals leaking from every possible orifice. I never did see the funny side of it!!
Esther Rantzen was in something too, was it that was the week that was? Nationwide was on every night as well, a news program.
Did anyone really understand it?
Oh wow, I didn't know that about Charlie and Tommy so thank you for sharing that. I think Charlie now does a gardening programme with two brothers but I've no idea what it is called? I also have to agree with you about You've Been Framed, I never saw the funny side of it either though fortunately for me it was very rarely on our television. Thank you
The one with Esther Rantzen was That’s Life a consumer programme.
I don’t know if anyone remembers Hickory House which had a cushion in it that ate bananas😁
i don’t remember Goober and the ghost chasers.
im surprised no one remembers Twizzle circa 1958, the books are worth a lot now.
sooty and sweep were quite good too.
You’re welcome😁
I don’t know Twizzle.
I don’t know anyone who remembers it.
Goober and the Ghost Chasers was very similar to Scooby Doo.
There are some clips of Hickory House on YouTube. I remember the banana eating cushion very well 🤣
(what’s afoot Watson? About twelve inches Holmes.)
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What a song!
Did anyone use to watch Art Attack?
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@OverlyAnxious, maybe he was magic?
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