Children's Television

[Welshman]

From what I remember of Children's TV, it was all very boring - Muffin the Mule and Crackerjack - all in black and white.

I didn't really start getting interested until I was in my late teens/early 20s, and then ITV's answer to Blue Peter- "Magpie" became my favourite, although I suspect the fascination was not so much the programme content but the hot pants and tight jumpers Susan Stranks used to wear.

 

[Heinz57]

This just has to be done...

Ladies and gentleman, The Bowling Alley Cat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-GIYjOUmj4

 

[SS4]

This just has to be done...

Ladies and gentleman, The Bowling Alley Cat!

http://youtu.be/K-GIYjOUmj4

The classic collection DVDs are on amazon for a few quid each - well worth getting 1-3 at least!

For some reason this one was cut from the dvd though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUuzUMWVujk

 

[Heinz57]

For some reason this one was cut from the dvd though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUuzUMWVujk

Thats a great episode

Hmm, might be worth looking into a few of those DVDs

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Dick and Dom in da bungalow!

Its had me in stitches laughing than, and still does now watching back on it!

 

[Clip]

Why Don't you.. Big back in the day

 

[t_star2001uk]

How about these:

Voyage to the bottom of the sea
pipkins
button moon
he man and the masters of the universe
runaround
why dont you

 

[Clip]

Dont forget

Ulssyes 31

Dungeons and dragons

He Man

Thundercats

 

[507 001]

my favourites were;

Thomas
Fireman Sam
Postman Pat
Playdays (I remember them doing a piece on bombardier building the early electrostars)
Art Attack (who remembers the head?)
tom and jerry
wacky races
addams family
dexters lab
50:50 was another good one
Jungle run?
budgie
havakazoo

I never realised how much telly I used to watch!

 

[t_star2001uk]

Art Attack!!!!!

Should have been Take Hart....

 

[SwindonPkwy]

Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green.
Mary Mungo & Midge.
Mister Benn.
Crystal Tipps and Alistair.
Chorlton and the Wheelies.

Something tells me I am a similar age to EM2. I would add The Clangers to the list. Pixar have so much still to learn!!

 

[t_star2001uk]

Mr Benn was a good one...

How about Jamie and the magic torch...

 

[Harlesden]

Fireball XL5
Supercar
Stingray
Thunderbirds
He-Man
Tom & Jerry
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck

 

[Ivo]

My brother and sister and I all used to love a show called Playbox. However, two of us have an odd story to tell about it relating to dreams. But I've already told this story before; if you do a search for Playbox, the only post to mention the word "playbox" - before this one of course! - was this post from nine months ago. Meanwhile, my sister used to get nightmares from it, apparently. I've never had a nightmare before...!

Fireball XL5
Supercar
Stingray
Thunderbirds

Gerry Anderson would be so proud

 

[trentside]

Did you ever see the Channel 4 version of it called "Travelling Light"? Basically the same concept with Tim Grundy and The Eye travelling the country over the course of a few weeks; with what they'd filmed each week shown in the Friday (IIRC)? That one seems to have disappeared into a black hole.

No, I never saw that. Not even sure I heard about it - oh well!

I must admit I'd forgotten about Art Attack, quite an entertaining programme.

 

[Harlesden]

Gerry Anderson would be so proud

A cheeky albeit amateurish bit of editing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnE_zJdlies

 

[2Dogbox]

Rentaghost. This was excellent. Later on I enjoyed Scooby Doo but always had nightmares about the ghosts on it.

 

[Kernowfem]

Moon dial, Dog tanian and the three muskahounds and the children of green Knowe. They dont make em like that anymore.

 

[Bungle73]

No, I never saw that. Not even sure I heard about it - oh well!

I'm not surprised. They showed the one series, then it seems to have been forgotten about; and I can find no reference to it anywhere!

 

[43021HST]

How about these:

pipkins

I saw Pipkins once and it scared the hell out of me, all the puppets look like they've had a severe accident.

Take a look at this youtube clip, its one of wierdest kids shows Ive ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulGXKULw_pk

 

[EM2]

I saw Pipkins once and it scared the hell out of me, all the puppets look like they've had a severe accident.

Take a look at this youtube clip, its one of wierdest kids shows Ive ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulGXKULw_pk

I didn't mind Pipkins, except for the bit where this huge voice (imagine Brian Blessed in an echo chamber) would say 'It's TIME!' and there would be a load of discordantly chiming clocks. Gave me the willies.