My absoluite favourite was Space 1999. That was cool beyond words.
These are some other faves in no particular order.
Batman
Spiderman
Bionic man (6 million dollar man?)
The A team
Knight Rider
The Red Hand Gang (was that a film or a series?)
The Incredible Hulk
Womder Woman
Scooby Doo (the pre-Scrappy years)
Various Hanna-Barbara cartoons flintstones, huckleberry hound, touche turtle, that picnic basket filching bear and boo-boo (forgot!)
Starssky and Hutch
Solo One
Chips
Chopper Squad
Buck rogers
UK only (probably)
Mr Ben
Trumpton
Rhubarb and Custard
Rainbow
Grange Hill
Bagpuss
Blake’s Seven
Dr. Who (Tom Baker only)
Playschool
King Rollo
You and Me
Jamie and the magic torch
Tiswas
Swap Shop
Kenny Everett (not for kids really but we still watched it)
Mr. Men
The famous five
Battle of the Planets
Animal magic
Tony Hart and morph
What have I missed out?
Programmes I never cared much for:
Ivor the Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine
Jackanory
Blue Peter
John Craven’s Newsround
Andy Pandy
The smerfs
Ludwig
OMG Rainbow! Did you ever see that video doing the rounds on the Web, the “do you want to play with my twanger” Rainbow clip? Classic… I didn’t remember it being so innuendo-laden
THE TRAPDOOR
Stig of the Dump
Chocky’s Children
The Muppet Show
Ulysses
Transformers (not gobots)
Dogtanian(sp) and the Three Muskahounds (hated the theme tune tho)
My fave would have to be Tiswas - Lenny Henry as, er, Aljenon Spencer Churchill Disraeli Gladstone Razzamatazz and that guy who would sing ‘Mule Train’ while beating himself over the head with a metal tray. And the cage, of course.
I went to a nightclub once in the early nineties that ran video recordings of Tiswas on all their TV screens. People just stood around waiting for the phantom flan flinger. Classic! This is what they want!
Ahhhh, TV - well, I was a child throughout virtually all of the 70s and 80s so as far as I’m concerned anything I watched is fair game. In those days it was harder to divide ‘children’s’ from ‘adult’s’ programming anyway. All of these shows bring a sappy nostalgic smile to my face:
Thunderbirds - 6am every weekday - a generation of kids had literally NOTHING else to watch Sesame Street - when Grover was still around, dammit, and Elmo wasn’t Play School - some of the stars of Australian musical theatre worked this show, but I didn’t learn that till much later Romper Room - damn you Miss Helena and your magic mirror Magic Roundabout Curiosity Show - watch me put this egg into this milk bottle! Hey Hey It’s Saturday - I’m sorry, Australians, but you watched it too, don’t deny it. A unique evening variety show presented by a former children’s TV host and his fluffy pink ostrich sidekick… and one of the longest running Australian TV programs in history Skippy - what is it Skip? A helicopter with two passengers has crash-landed in the scrub three kilometres to the south-east?
Sigmund the Sea Monster
Banana Splits (na na NA na na na na…) Bewitched
Goodies
Muppet Show
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (be-deep be-deep) Six Million Dollar Man
Incredible Hulk
Man From Atlantis
Wonder Woman Dr Who (the Baker years) Batman (live action) Get Smart
Quark (does anyone know this show?) Star Trek (technically 60s but they repeated it enough) MASH
Sha-zaam
Great Grape Ape
Rocky and Bullwinkle (esp. Fractured Fairy Tales) Hong Kong Phooey
Groovy Ghoulies
Looney Tunes (esp. Wabbit Season, Duck Season, Road Runner and Duck Dodgers) Justice League America
Benny Hill Show (wholesome viewing for the whole family…) Paul Hogan Show
[quote]Best children’s show ever - Press Gang[/quote]I agree with this, wouldn’t have seemed like a children’s show if it wasn’t for the time it was on. Launched the the career of Julia Sawalha, who I started fancying back then.[quote]Incredible Hulk[/quote]Insterestingly the biggest audience was adult women, then adult men, then children.[quote]Thunderbirds - 6am every weekday - a generation of kids had literally NOTHING else to watch[/quote]I’ve got every episode on DVD, and Captain Scarlet (which was much superior). Saw a trailer for the Jonathan Frakes movie, happy to see the Thunderbirds look the same.
Any European remembers Signor Rossi, La Linea, Biene Maya, Wicky und die starken Maenner? Gosh, I’ve watched these lately again and it was sooooo funny…
Unfortunately you lot shipped it our way too. And it scarred me for life; you know that TV stuff they play on the buses here? I swear to god one of the guys in one of the TV shows they advertise on that is like the Chinese version of Molly Meldrum.
And the Goodies-created cartoon, BANANAMAN (“When he eats a banana, he is Bananaman!”)
And I have to admit, when I was but a lad Sailor Moon had a certain fascination…
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