TV Programmes when we were kids

[chuckie egg]

I thought it would only be right to include a 70's/80's nostalgia thread.

What were your favourite programmes as a child?

I remember one called 'Benji' basically a rip off of 'Lassie' but with a cuter dog. I got one that looked just like him when I was five, and yes I did call him Benji!

Other memorable highlights include 'The Care Bears', 'Transformers', 'Bagpuss', 'The Clangers', 'The Moomins' (original version)

Those were the days......

[Frieda]

weeeee! care bears! and transformers, dinoriders, foofur, the A-team, Alf,
snorkels: http://usuarios.lycos.es/srpaquito/miticos/snorkelspeq.gif
he-man: http://usuarios.lycos.es/srpaquito/miticos/he_man.jpg
the smurfs:
http://usuarios.lycos.es/srpaquito/miticos/papapitufo.gif

[chuckie egg]

ALF! He is great, I have a little teddy of him!

I prefered She-Ra to He-Man - he has a bad hair cut doesnt he?! I wanted to She Ra! hehe

[Frieda]

i have a poster somewhere with Alf on it that says "Got cat?"

i always wanted to be she-ra. she was so cool.

[chuckie egg]

I reckon if She-Ra and He-Man were to have a fight, she would win hands down!

[Frieda]

hey moel.. trade for my transformers? or the my little ponies?

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by moel
i still have some of my he-man toys.....not that i still play with them....honest...

I remember that green and yellow tiger thing that he used to ride.

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by Frieda
hey moel.. trade for my transformers? or the my little ponies?

I wasnt into My Little Ponies being somewhat a tomboy. I would rather play with my brothers action man!

[Frieda]

we didn't have action man here in the netherlands until a couple of years ago.. if i'd buy one now, i'd have it gift wrapped :D

[chuckie egg]

Yes... yes I do!

As long as I can be the Autobots, Bumble bee and Optimus Prime kick ass!

moel, what is your avatar? It looks like one of those little green guys from Fraggle Rock!

[Frieda]

i tried to download Transformers - The Movie a couple of weeks ago, but the quality was lousy.

http://www.absoluteanime.com/admin/favtoy-transformers-blurr.jpg

these things are so cool!

[dinzdale]

Well just for the aged like me:
The Clangers
Tinger and Tucker
Magic Roundabout
Motor Mouse and Auto Cat
Wacky Races
Hong Kong Fooey
Bleep and Booster
Runaround
Magpie

...oh there's a lot more where they came from.....

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by moel
ok!...i'll be the DECEPTICONS!

it is...its a doozer

AHA! A doozer!! Thankyou! :D What were those big guys called, that tried to eat the fraggles? And that rubbish heap thing!

My memory is hopeless! :rolleyes:

[Frieda]

Originally posted by moel
how about Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men?
umm.. :confused: post a pic!

one more: heathcliff!
http://www.aowz68.dsl.pipex.com/cartoons/heathcliff/heathcliff.gif

[chuckie egg]

Batfink anyone?

"My wings are like a shieeeeld of steel!"

[dickieC]

For the cutting edge of British cultural imperialism:

TV CREAM (http://tv.cream.org)

Be warned: if you haven't visited this site before, be prepared for a VERY long nostalgia trip. Especially you Brits.

[chuckie egg]

DOH! I can only view the Tv cream site at lunchtime :( I guess I'll just have to wait!

*I am now very scared of Gorgs!*

[Frieda]

moel & DC: you're my heroes: thanks for those links!

[chuckie egg]

DC do you remember Grotbags? I had nightmares about that woman!

[dickieC]

Yes

I even saw her in person once, at an outside broadcast in about 1988 at Blenheim Palace for the ITV Telethon. Her and Jiminy Cricket.

[chuckie egg]

EEK! I always wondered if she actually was really green! haha, even her hands were.

Maybe it was permanant like the tiger face in Phoenix Nights!

[dinzdale]

Crackerjack
Cheggers Plays Pop
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
Super Gran
Rhubarb

[Zyle]

anyone remember knightmare? It scared me but it was so awesome.

[Frieda]

oh yeah! the flintstones! how could i forget!

[Zyle]

postman pat, postman pat, postman pat and his black and white cat, early in the morning, just as day is dawning, he picks up all the letters in his van!

[red]

Oooo! Land of the Lost! I loved that show. The Sleestaks scared me.
Underdog
ElectraWoman and DynaGirl
Wonder Woman
The Bionic Woman
Josie and The *****cats
Superfriends
The Electric Company
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

[Frieda]

ohh zyle! postman pat's called Pieter Post here!

vogels in de bomen
zien hem fluitend komen
brieven, pakjes brengt hij door het land!
:D

[dinzdale]

Mr Ben
Lost in Space
Crystal Tips and Alistair
The Herbs

[dickieC]

It makes me immeasurably happy to think that Postman Pat's theme song translates so readily into other languages.

Does it keep the bit where he sings pom-pom-tiddly-pom? And aren't all those hills rather confusing for Dutch children? :D

[moel]

Reading Rainbow

[Frieda]

we have hills in the southeast! not much of an elevation, but at least that part of the country is above sea level! :D

our postman pat doesn't tiddly pom, he just poms.. without the tiddly. and he whistles!

[dinzdale]

...but is his cat called "Jess" or "Yess" ?

[dickieC]

Haha

A pom without a tiddle is like a fish without a bicycle.... erm...

[Frieda]

http://www.begheyn.nl/pinkelotje/images/pieterpost/postwagen.jpg

[Zyle]

Originally posted by dinzdale
...but is his cat called "Jess" or "Yess" ?
Jess

[Zyle]

http://www.kxtv.com/images/Community/thomas-the-tank-266.jpg

:D:D:D:D:D

[Deviate]

Smurfs, Snorks, Thomas the Tank were all for weener kids.

Seseme Street. not the Britney Spears crap they have now now, but the funk-soul version of the late seventies.

Punky Brewster
the A Team
what about that Pro-Wrestling cartoon?
Space Ghost
Ghostbusters
All American Hero
what was that one with the girl who was a robot that lived in the suburbs with a nice, wholesome family?
Mr. Belvedere
Charles in Charge
3 - 2 - 1 Contact!
Mr. Wizard
You Can't Do That on Television
Rainbow Bright
Care Bears
Go-Bots (the wussy Transformers)

-st.

[moel]

Hulk hogans rockin' wrestling

oh, and astro-boy was cool

[dinzdale]

Marine Boy - YES!

[noxxville]

Great Space Coaster
Banana Splits
Transformers
Battlestar Galactica
The really old Popeyes (B&W, he mumbles alot)
Voltron

Funny story actually, when I was a wee lad, my uncle gave me a waterbed. Just a little one, but I thought I was the Shiznit. We moved and, while my mom was out, I thought I'd be procative and fill it up. Well it was taking forever so I figured I'd catch some transformers while I was waiting. Well the damn transformers were so engrossing that I completely forgot about the waterbed and went back into my room to find it balloning up about a foot and a half above the frame. I absolutely freaked. I was sure it was going to explode leading to my untimely death, if not by the shear force of the explosion then by my mother's vengeful hand.

It didn't explode, and my mom actually thought it was rather funny.

[dinzdale]

Fleagle , Bingo, Drooper and Snork....tra-la-la, la-la-la-la..etc...

[noxxville]

god I loved that show....

Oh and I watched Romper Room.....and my GF was on the Bozo the Clown Show. Won a prize and everything!

[rmr]

Oooooh Bozo!!! I loved Bozo, I went to the show, but I didn't get chosen for the "grand prize game".

Courtship of Eddy's Father (didn't like it, but it was on)
Tom and Jerry (really loved the ones that would show things like "home of the future" and crap like that"
Woody Woodpecker
Facts of Life
Little House On the Prairie
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
Three's Company
Banana Splits
The repeats of the Monkees (I didn't understand that Davey Jones in fact got older)
Zoom

and Peg you'll like this one.....
Degrassi Jr. High....would never miss it.

[moel]

Degrassi Jr. High was the coolest show of all time.....

[noxxville]

I soooooo watched three's company. And a lot of MASH. Actually, if we include the shows that my gradfather watched with me...

MASH
Quincy
Barney Miller
Starskey & Hutch
CHiPs
Buck Rodgers
and whatever Bay Area Team was playing baseball on that day.

[Deviate]

gumby.

-st.

[moel]

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

[Deviate]

Fat Albert just came out on DVD. i think i'm going to have to buy the set.

speaking of video collections:
Pee-Wee's Playhouse

-st.

[Deviate]

Cowboy Curtis - Lawrence Fishburne
Mail Lady Reba - S. Epatha Merkerson
Captain Carl - Phil Hartman

great talent. what a show. i own the whole set.

-st.

[priceyfatprude]

Small Wonder

The name of the show where the little girl was the Robot is Small Wonder.

Our Girl Scout Troop went to the Bozo Show. They gave all the kids a big box of Willy Wonka candy & the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory book (harcover!) on the way out the door. My best friend had gone back to get autographs & missed out on the candy--she got a Monopoly game instead. I had to share my candy w/her. I remember the Scout Leader grabbed her by the arm, but got some of her hair too & said, "WHERE WERE YOU, YOUNG LADY?". My friend's mom wasn't too happy about that.

I lived for Three's Company--can't wait to buy it on DVD. Also, I remember Love Boat/Fantasy Island. Another favorite was Eight is Enough.

Underdog
Wonder Woman, the TV show
Captain Caaaaaaaavemaaaaaaaan
Plastic Man
School House Rock

[Frieda]

growing pains & buck rogers.. how could i forget those!

beedeebeedeebeedee

[dickieC]

There is one children's programme, and that is Bagpuss. No arguments.

[Zyle]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38410000/jpg/_38410701_ted150.jpg
This was my favourite i think. I might think of something i liked better in a while, but i LOVED superted. My mum knitted me a teddy of him, it was so good but we put it in the loft when i got older and it rotted. I was so gutted, still am.


http://www.durham21.co.uk/images/2001-2002/epiphany/944/bananaman.jpg
Bananaman was really pretty ace too.

hah! I just noticed that this pic is hosted by my uni student website. Awesome. :p

[Frieda]

bananaman! of course!

a couple of years ago there was a cartoon on tv here called The Tick.. it always reminded me of bananaman. the tick's really funny by the way. and eek the cat & the terrible thunder lizards! :D

[Frieda]

and annabelle.. --OH EEK!--

i love the terrible thunder lizards looking for the humans, Scooter and Bill.. i remember that episode with the dentist chair.. heheh..

when does the hurting stop?? :D

edited to add:

remember the mom from eek's house learning Spangalese while vaccuuming? :D

check this out! (http://members.tripod.com/eekstravaganza/spangeleze/spangalese.htm)

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by Zyle
anyone remember knightmare? It scared me but it was so awesome.

I DO!

It scared me also!! haha

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by dickieC
There is one children's programme, and that is Bagpuss. No arguments.

I have Bagpuss on video! :p I never get tired of watching it!

[Zyle]

thundercats are on the move, thundercats are loose!
http://www.scifidimensions.com/Sep02/thundercats.jpg

[Frieda]

yes! thunder.. thunder THUNDER THUNDERCATSSSSSSS

[amanda]

I can't believe you guys missed some of these:

Bugs Bunny.
Bullwinkle.
the Muppet Show.

I lived for Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
"Mele-leka-high, meke hienie-ho!"

Square One
The Price is Right
Different Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard
Happy Days
The Cosby Show
Frugal Gourmet
Julia Child

[Deviate]

omg! DANGER MOUSE! that was one of my favourite cartoons ever. and the TICK was INCREDIBLE. can't believe i can't find them on syndication anywhere.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

-st.

[red]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nycwriters
Zoom!

Box 3-5-O
Boston Mass
O-2-1-3-4
SEND IT TO ZOOM!

[Zyle]

Originally posted by Deviate
omg! DANGER MOUSE! that was one of my favourite cartoons ever.


YES! DANGER MOUSE!
http://pantransit.reptiles.org/images/1996-07-28/danger-mouse.jpg

[chuckie egg]

I love Penfold!

[zenbabe]

http://zenmedia.org/Pics/random%20stuff/heckjeck.gif

[rmr]

Gigglesnort Hotel, every Sunday morning
http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs4/giggle1.gif

[Red Princess]

i must not have watched enough tv, i have never heard of half these shows, the ones that i have heard of i don't remember watching much, i probably had my nose in a book

[rmr]

ugh, you were one of those. kidding.

If I wasn't in front of the tv, I was out running around causing trouble. i also learned a very important lesson quite young and that was when you're the baby in the family you never get blamed for anything....the older jerks take the fall. Mom and Dad never suspected a thing, any money missing....not me. Something broken....not me and my worst act, my best friend and I discovered Dad's condoms (yes, I'm still damaged by it) took them all and went to the park for a water balloon fight....brother had a good talking to for that, he was old enough for my father to believe he might actually be using them.

I was a very naughty girl!!!

[dinzdale]

You still are...

[Red Princess]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rmr
[B]ugh, you were one of those. kidding.

yeah, one of those... still am.

[rmr]

i've been trying to turn into one of those my whole life......a friend, who will remain nameless, and i went to a party recently....the whole way there we were going over how we would behave. We were going to be fabulous, we were going to mingle, while we mingled we were going to be utterly charming, we would not allow ourselves to be overserved. We would not only take part in intellectual conversation, we would intiate it. We would discuss books we have read and places we had traveled to....we would be no less than the shining stars of the party.....five gin and tonics later i was in the kitchen showing everyone how I could touch my toes and he was doing vulgar, vile things behind me. We had failed again.

[Red Princess]

but did you have fun?

[rmr]

of course, in my little world i always have fun. i don't know why, but after few drinks I feel the need to prove that I am still limber. I'll spare you the "splits" story.

[Red Princess]

ha ha ha , at least you had fun, that is exactly the kind of distraction i could use right now. at parties i always end up in the geek corner where people come to ask computer questions because they are having too much fun to learn how to fix their own computers

[rmr]

well trust me on this one.....you want to get peoples attention and a party...just start bending over. Also, my warm-ups seem to go over more than the dances themselves.

[Red Princess]

bend over? is that all? do you have to have a reason for it, like you dropped something or how does that work exactly?

[rmr]

you don't need any reason, if you're looking for negative attention you're sure to get it. promise

[Red Princess]

back in the olden days when i used to hang out with bikers i used to get a lot of attention for taking my shirt off, now i remember, hmmmmm there was a reason i stopped doing that....