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

[4F]

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.

Agreed, I hated that programme with a vengance. My parents never used to miss an episode

Favs
Clangers
Rhubarb and Custard
Mr Ben
Banana Splits
The Double Deckers
Starsky and Hutch
Six million dollar man
The Goodies
Grange Hill (first series with Tucker et al)
Monkey (Still don't know why I liked this)

Hates
The Good Old Days
Blue Peter
Anything with Tony Hart

 

[Fnaar]

Here's one out of the ordinary... I might have mentioned it on here before... I first saw it at a friend's house, must have been about 1973 or 4 (?).
It was on BBC2*, and coincided with the news, so I never got to see it at home, as my dad usually watched the news.
Anyway, it totally captivated me... it was French (but had English version)... it was THE SHADOKS

*I thought so, but The Internet tells me it was on ITV

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[threebikesmcginty]

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.

[cartoon pedant mode]They were never anything other than Chuck Jones/WB cartoons[/cartoon pedant mode]

[weirdo cartoon nerd mode]Years ago I went to the Guardian/BFI Chuck Jones interview on the Southbank and saw the great man himself and they screened a load of WB cartoons too. [/weirdo cartoon nerd mode]

Can we have a bit less of the let's slag off Hanna Barbera please. I agree they aren't the quality of 30s to 50s WB but there was still some good stuff, Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear for starters and wonderfully voiced by Daws Butler. And don't forget it was the genius of H and B that gave us Tom and Jerry. So nah!

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Can we have a bit less of the let's slag off Hanna Barbera please. I agree they aren't the quality of 30s to 50s WB but there was still some good stuff, Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear for starters and wonderfully voiced by Daws Butler. And don't forget it was the genius of H and B that gave us Tom and Jerry. So nah!

I agree some of it is decent but I am referring to the following that I really remember and disliked even at a young age:

Hong Kong Phooey
CB Bears
Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo & Scrappy Doo
The New Schmoo
Jana Of The Jungle
The Fonz And The happy Day Gang
Jabberjaw
Inch, High Private Eye
Goober And The Ghost Chasers
Help, It's The Hair Bear Bunch

Just to name a few as their cartoons seemed to be everywhere and they made lots and lots of them, and the sh1t ones vastly outweighed the good stuff IMHO.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Liked:

Potty Time
The Clangers
Scooby Doo
Wacky Races
Monkey
The Water Margin
Battle of the Planets
Doctor Who (with Tom Baker)
Blake's 7
We Are The Champions
Take Hart
Jackanory
The Invaders
The Changes
The Tomorrow People
The Tripods
The Kids of Degrassi Steet
Storm Boy
Children of Fire Mountain
Tomorrow's World
any widllife things

And a lots of other live action things, whose names I can't remember that were shown by ITV on I think early Saturday evenings... they tended to be adventure series with a certain amount of weirdness in them... I also had a certain fondness for things like Heidi, Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables - not the kind of thing you could admit to other boys! But they were probably quite influential in determining my sense of what an 'ideal life' was in the longer term.

I hated:

Dull, worthy 'educational' kid's programs: Blue f*cking Peter, Rainbow, Magpie, Newsround etc.
Bad cartoons, and by this I mean mainly the British ones that everyone pretends to remember as really great, like Mr Ben, Rhubarb and Custard and so on. I remember them being unmitigated tedium.

 

[Aperitif]

Rainbow - fantastic fun!
Sooty - good ole Sweep, Soo and Cousin Scamp - "Izzy wizzy, let's get busy!"

In fairness, not my childhood, but being with my son when he was growing was interesting. Even Rod, Jane and Freddy did their bit for entertainment.

My childhood? Hmmm... William Tell, Bonanza, Whirlybirds - a helicopter series, I Love Lucy was always on, with her shouting loud and clear. Phil Silvers in that army series...doh. . . . . Sgt Bilko! Don't have much memory of children's telly - Flowerpot Men and 'Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed'.

My favourite programme was 'Vision On' with Tony Hart - inspiring and intruiging. Always gave me a longing for his patience and skill.

There wasn't much I 'disliked' really. Maybe the ritual family gathering in the front room to watch a war film on Sunday afternoon (when I might rather be outside 'playing war'), or the evening, when Jess Yates or Harry Seccombe were doing religious stuff. Also, the bit when the stage used to start whirling around at the Sunday Night at the London Palladium, although I did like Beat the clock and all the showbizzy stuff.

I don't dislike anything now - just don't bother with telly... haven't got one.

 

[Bodhbh]

Very quickly off the top of my head:

Favs
Tizwas
Rentaghost
Dr Who
Buck Rodgers

Hated
Black Beauty
The Waltons
Huckleberrry Finn
Anything else along that line, never understood what any of it was about or what the point was.

 

[Aperitif]

and Gunsmoke, with hobbling Dennis weaver - all of those! The one on BBC2 who was dressed in black, High Chapparal? Bonanza was brilliant and there was another with Pete Duel and Ben Murphy? I was going to say 'Alas' - but it was Alias Smith & Jones - comedy western sort of thing.

 

[Aperitif]

Reading the Waltons immediately reminded me of a proper programme "The Beverley Hillbillies"- come on, you must have all sung along to that theme tune (those of you wot watched it first time around!)

 

[User169]

My art teacher at school hated Tony Hart. He said he was shoot and "wouldn't know what art was if it shat in his face". He got fired before the end of the year though for biting Milly Jenkins.

 

[Cubist]

My art teacher at school hated Tony Hart. He said he was shoot and "wouldn't know what art was if it shat in his face". He got fired before the end of the year though for biting Milly Jenkins.

Amazing. One two line post and we all know him! Brilliant! Were all art teachers mad? I remember three of them, one was a jazz drumming "head" with a big droopy 'tache, who had a really mean temper. He once stuffed Ian Kennedy's head into a slip bucket 'cos he squashed Mike Batts' thumb pot. The next one was a mullet wearing stoner who got fired for smoking in the classroom, and the third was a twenty stone screaming queen. We really took to him, because he dressed and talked in a totally outrageous fashion. Brilliant.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Amazing. One two line post and we all know him! Brilliant! Were all art teachers mad? I remember three of them, one was a jazz drumming "head" with a big droopy 'tache, who had a really mean temper. He once stuffed Ian Kennedy's head into a slip bucket 'cos he squashed Mike Batts' thumb pot. The next one was a mullet wearing stoner who got fired for smoking in the classroom, and the third was a twenty stone screaming queen. We really took to him, because he dressed and talked in a totally outrageous fashion. Brilliant.

I think it's mandatory. Of my art teachers, one was a very correct kind of woman who clearly thought she was too good to be teaching us because she was friends with Elizabeth Frink, the sculptor who did the big goggled bronze heads. Later, I had two blokes who were both anarchists - one of the green variety, who was both absent-minded and into hang-gliding - not, as you can imagine a safe combination - and the other a more old-school anarchist who smoked a lot, swore, was generally miserable and taught us drawing brilliantly.

 

[Fnaar]

I got chucked out of art for a term, for karate chopping some pencils in half. I had to do metalwork instead, and made a candle holder, which I still have, 36 yrs later.

 

[Aperitif]

I really admired my art teachers.
Malcolm Poynter was the most 'extreme' but he was a cool customer saying "call me Malcolm" in a School where rigidity and 'Sir' was the key. He is here. Encouraged me to cartoon style - his were brilliant at the time I was influenced. "Captain Harrow" rests in the memory of many old boys I'll bet.

Altogether different was the Head of Art A.N.Anderson. He really believed in me, kept his personal work 'out of sight' but was a very good illustrator and figurative worker. (To my untrained junior eye) (still is )

And, like FM, I had a third influence: Michael Melville Bewer Swain - enlisted me in magazine production for the School and Science magazines. Not a clue what to do - but he was really helpful. 'MMBS' - as he always signed himself, lived in Much Hadham... because he was/is? a Henry Moore afficionado.
Two years ago, on my way to a CycleChat ride in Newport, I made a 'pilgrimage' through that place and passed a bit of time thanking him.

"I don't know much about art teachers, but I know what I like..."

 

[Paulus]

At my school we had a pottery teacher called Bob Poll, c1970, he was a great hippy type bloke from Stoke who hated us really, and wanted to live on an island and grow real vegetables from real shoot. He used to take us out of the pottery shed and sit us under the large oak trees and talk to us about the sky, the trees and tell us how great they were. He was a bit of a hero to some of us, I hope he got to his island.

My fave progs were,
The magic roundabout
Joe 90
space patrol
space 1999
magpie, Sue Stranks and her tight tee shirts,
Banana bunch
Tiswas.
Ivor the engine/trumpton/camberwick green/Chigley
Noggin the nog

My worst
Newsround
swap shop
Blue peter