Fave and most detested programs when you were a kid ....

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Night Train

Maker of Things
Hated:
Come Dancing
The Wheel Tappers and Shunters Social Club
Any soap series
Any childrens game show
Any childrens show with lots of shouty kids and people in furry costumes running about and shouting a lot


Liked:
The Waltons (because they had a pick up truck and cut 'lumber')
Watching the Moon landings
 

buggi

Bird Saviour
Location
Solihull
i loved Sapphire and Steel. Can someone tell me what the hell it was about because i don't think i ever really knew :smile:
 

TheDoctor

Noble and true, with a heart of steel
Moderator
Location
The TerrorVortex
I remember watching one of the moon landings. I don't know which one, although I suspect it wasn't the first one. I'd have only been three for Apollo 11.

Sapphire and Steel? They cleared up incursions into our own time by hostiles living at the beginning of time.
Or possibly the end.
Actually, I haven't the foggiest.
 

TheDoctor

Noble and true, with a heart of steel
Moderator
Location
The TerrorVortex
Wikipedia is your friend!!

The programme centres on a pair of interdimensional operatives, the eponymous Sapphire and Steel. Very little is revealed about their purposes or backgrounds in the course of the series but they appear to be engaged in guarding the order, if not the integrity, of Time. They are two of several elements that assume human form and are sent to investigate strange events; others include Lead (Val Pringle) who takes the aspect of a jovial, friendly giant, or Silver, a technician who can melt metals in his hands.

In the series, it is explained that Time is like a corridor that surrounds everything, but there are weak spots where Time – implied to be a potentially malignant force – can break into the present and take things. There are also creatures from the beginnings and ends of time that roam the corridor looking for the same weak spots to break through.

These breaks are most often triggered by the presence of an anachronism, for example a nursery rhyme, a doctored photograph that mixes period and contemporary elements, or a house decorated to replicate a 1930s setting. Investigators will assess the situation and then, if intervention is warranted, Operators are assigned to deal with the problem by a mysterious unseen authority, to be assisted by Specialists if necessary.

 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Yes, I'm old...

Best

The Lone Ranger
Danger Man
SuperCar
The Saint
Tom and Jerry
The Flintstones etc..,

I think there was another one in which some hero with a terminal disease wandered about doing good in the time he had left. I may have that wrong. What was that?

Worst

Anything with a presenter in front of over-excited kids.

Bah Humbug...mutter, mutter...
 

Yellow Fang

Legendary Member
Location
Reading
Loved:

Bagpuss
The Clangers
Wacky Races
Robinson Crusoe
Tarzan
Blake's Seven
Dr Who
Six Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman
The Goodies


Hated:

Play School
Blue Peter
Heidi
The A Team
Why Don't You
Aubrey
Ludwig
Morph
Animal Magic
 

Mad Doug Biker

I prefer animals to most people.
Location
Craggy Island

WOOT! :ohmy:

I LOVED that when I was 4 or 5 and even drew a picture and sent it in to go on the revolving washing line along with all the others!!:blush: It was a major highlight of my Sunday morning/afternoon, me, that slightly backwards Brain Damaged kid ...... :blush:

Alternatively, I remember talking to some school friends about it and none of them could really remember it. They suggested that it might just have been a drug induced hallucination, which, coming to think about it now, might just have been likely!
They used to sell Smarties after Sunday School, and I am only now starting to figure out what they actually must have been! :laugh:

As an update, I remember seeing it years later and thinking

'This is sh*t'

but in an affectionate way, and I still watched it anyway.
Incidentally, Pob made more sense to me than what was said at Church, which says a lot!

Just about any Hannah Barbera Cartoon

I would agree with you, but I remember seeing all the Wyle E. Coyote cartoons back to back many years later, and actually, they were total genius, especially the earlier (non HB I admit) ones.

I have always liked the idea of Cartoon characters who don't speak as the animation has to be a lot better to explain things more, it had to be more visually expressive. For this very reason, I always liked Pluto over any of the other Disney characters, but there were never enough cartoons of him unfortunately.

John Craven's News Round

As a kid I liked it as it told me what was happening in uncomplicated kid's terms, and it made a damn sight more sense to me than, say, The BBC News At Six.

Jamie And The Magic Torch

MAN, YOU HAVE NO TASTE, NOW GOT OUT TO THE COAL CELLAR AND STAY THERE!! :biggrin:

Hell, it even had one of the coolest themetunes about at the time!!:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KeMMow_Itqw

Almost as cool as THIS!:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-CIt2VvPJ8o

And:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nZq4FfOLRDo

And:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=PrM0E9pag8E

And ALMOST as cheesy as this, but notice how catchy they all are!!:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=1Dkmt5Hd3yo

and:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=uSPUK4Q-QwI

and:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=6nqN_7eGItM

and

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

And all in the days before we kids knew what Gay meant! :biggrin:

I loved them all!

I was very respectful of the one eyed baby sitter.

....Am I the only one here who has a dirty mind on hearing that?? did you ever tell your parents?? :biggrin:


ANNYWAY, what did I hate:

Almost anything on ITV - I never liked idea of adverts disrupting my crucial after School viewing, and found it all a bit uncouth. That said, I did like WOOF though.
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Doing a list would take me too long and cause me to question my very soul, so I'll just say I HATED BAGPUSS. Evil b@st@rd.
Pogles Wood was THE BUSINESS. Mary Mungo and Midge contains the secrets to eternal life.
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I seem to remember hating "The good old days" which was a sort of mock victorian variety show. The compare seemed to take forever introducing the acts with stupid long words and then on comes Danny La Rue to sing a boring song.
 
Marine Boy Question.

If you go on Youtube you get this as the theme


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY



Now I distinctly remember the theme being Telstar by the Tornados. As a kid every day after the show we would sing or hum the theme and play "Marine Boy" in playtime.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Bi6Hay-J4


I dont know or remember the above theme at all. What do you remember the theme to be?

Could the TV company put on their own theme? It was all originally from Japan so had to have an English translation anyway.
 
Loved

Willow the Wisp
Thundercats
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Lost in Space, Rawhide, Land of Giants and Planet of the Apes (re runs)
The Really Wild Show (first schoolboy crush - Michaela Strachan in Khaki :thumbsup: )


Willow the Wisp is sweet!

(it was Will o' the wisp as in Will of the wisp)

Michaela Strachan - well i still fancy her! and she still can be found wandering around with wild animals in her Khaki shorts.
 
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