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

[Arch]

Does anyone else remember a programme about different types of transport called Stop Go?

I cannae find it on Youtube!

Also, Knock A Block

I remember Stop Go. I want to think it was Derek Griffiths who voiced it, but I may be confusing it with Heads and Tails.

Do you mean Chock a Block? Derek Griffiths or Fred Harris were the Chock a Blokes, I can't remember who the girl was, she was a Play School presenter too...

I liked most stuff to be honest, I liked some more than others. The only things I remember really disliking were the Banana Splits, the Double Deckers, and anything where a precocious gang of kids solved mysteries. Grange Hill wasn't a favourite, I couldn't cope with the anarchy. And The Changes actually frightened me enough that I turned it off.

 

[graham56]

Liked,

4 Feather Falls
Supercar
Space Patrol-UK version
Fireball XL5
Whirlybirds
Highway Patrol
Rawhide, Bronco,Wagon Train,Maverick,Cheyenne et al
Get Smart
Noggin the Nog
Deputy Dawg
The Jetsons
Tin Tin
Mr Magoo


Hated
Pinky & Perky
Junior Showtime
Singing Ringing Tree
Whack-O
Billy Bunter
Skippy

 

[Aperitif]

If it was Get Smart, then it was an automatic pass for 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' Ilya and Napoleon with the amazing gadgets!

 

[vernon]

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!)

We certainly did sing the Beverley Hillbillies but the lyrics were modified to a somewhat crude version that is unsuitable to be reproduced here.

 

[Over The Hill]

How was great (apart from when Jack Hargreves used to go on too long).

Mike Yarwood was fun and all the kids at school copied his impressions.

Dave Alan were great. There were some really good (and as a kid a bit sexy) sketches on there as well as his sit down stand up. .

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Bad cartoons, and by this I mean mainly the British ones that everyone pretends to remember as really great,

As kids we loved them, that's hardly pretending!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I remember Stop Go. I want to think it was Derek Griffiths who voiced it, but I may be confusing it with Heads and Tails.

You know more than I do! was it a kids programme? or was it an educational programme? it seemed more of that ilk.
Remember I must have been about 3 at the time

Do you mean Chock a Block? Derek Griffiths or Fred Harris were the Chock a Blokes, I can't remember who the girl was, she was a Play School presenter too...

I can't remember, all I really remember about it was that the presenter came in at the beginning on a little car, which I thought was well cool!

I liked most stuff to be honest, I liked some more than others.

Same here.

The only things I remember really disliking were the Banana Splits, the Double Deckers, and anything where a precocious gang of kids solved mysteries. Grange Hill wasn't a favourite, I couldn't cope with the anarchy. And The Changes actually frightened me enough that I turned it off.

Things used to frighten me as a young kid too, including (gasp!) Danger Mouse and beleive it or not, Newsreader Moira Stewart it was her apperance you see.

As I have said, I used to like Newsround as it was a damn sight easier to understand than the normal adult news. It could be all a bit goody goody two shoes though at times, I admit.

Also I liked:

Gentle Ben
The Littlest Hobo

and

Thomas The Tank (Ivor was just a bit before my time).

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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.

My mum still has a clay panda holding a ball I made at school and somewhere, although I haven't seen it for a few years, there's a Snoopy on a hardboard kennel I made in woodwork.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

As kids we loved them, that's hardly pretending!

I'm sure that's true for you, but I think they look better in retrospect because they just remind us of being young. I can'tactually remember many kids I knew liking them that much. We much preferred things like Wacky Races and Battle of the Planets (US and Japanese respectively).

Oh, and I forgot about The Man From Uncle. That, and Mission Impossible, were simply brilliant.

 

[User169]

I'm sure that's true for you, but I think they look better in retrospect because they just remind us of being young. I can'tactually remember many kids I knew liking them that much. We much preferred things like Wacky Races and Battle of the Planets (US and Japanese respectively).

Oh, and I forgot about The Man From Uncle. That, and Mission Impossible, were simply brilliant.

That was good, although I think they had to tone down the original JP version for the US. I think I read there's a movie being made?

 

[Fab Foodie]

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau used to be great. The would sail around in tropical seas in skinny trunks with blatant disregard for the dangers of UV radiation, scuba diving, occasionally spearing sharks and chain-smoking gauloises. Cool or what? It usually used to be on Sunday evenings, just before the Clangers.

I Happen to have one of his books 'Oasis in Space' from when I was a kid in the bookshelf by my desk.
A kind of legend really, he inspired my love of science and for years I wanted to be a Marine Biologist.
I actually work with marine life today ... mostly frozen LOL!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Pink Panther Show was good too, think I could still 'sing' along to the theme tune too.

And...

Yippee yi-o ki-a riding around your way, here comes Quick Draw McGraw
The high falutinest, fastest shootinest cowboy you ever saw, that’s Quick Draw McGraw

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'm sure that's true for you, but I think they look better in retrospect because they just remind us of being young. I can'tactually remember many kids I knew liking them that much. We much preferred things like Wacky Races and Battle of the Planets (US and Japanese respectively).

Oh, and I forgot about The Man From Uncle. That, and Mission Impossible, were simply brilliant.

I must admit that I grew up in the '80s, so these things were only on occasionally or when I was very very young .... or the more contemptory UK things like SuperTed and so on . The thing is though, being a kid, it didn't really matter much, becuase they were just one of many things on to watch, and there wasn't any issue with it, heck, yes, we also watched things like Wacky Races too, but it was all just a small part of a larger picture, there was no hate for them.

Also, with the more ..... how can I put it? patronising things like Blue Peter, you just took what you needed to from it and either ignored or had a moan about the rest, which really did go up it's own ar*e. Simple!
Newsround might have been the same, but it was eminently more useful.

Well, I thought anyway - I had a big Sister who just hated anything like that and I was made to feel like an idiot just becuase it was more easier to understand than the normal adult news .....which she never watched anyway. Gowd I feckin' hated her, the amount of moaning about things she did, everything always became so toxic with her! Everything was always crap and she sucked the life out of things
It only made me more determined to watch them!!

The reason why I am saying this is because from your post, it sounds like you would have been similar to my sister, gowd I would have hated ya and yer pessimistic views!!

I am probably wrong though.

 

[Arch]

Pink Panther Show was good too, think I could still 'sing' along to the theme tune too.

There are lots of funny animals in all the world, like rhinocerouses, tigers, cats and mink. There are lots of funny animals in all the world, but have you ever seen a panther that is pink? Think! A panther that is positively pink? Well here he is, the Pink Panther, the Pink panther, isn't he a panther ever so pink. You'll see that he's a groovy cat, he's a gentleman, a scholar, he's an acrobat, well here he is the Pink Panther, the rinky dink Panther and it's as plain as your nose, that he's the one and only, truly original, Panther pink from head to toe, yeah, he's the one and only, truly original Panther Pink Panther from head to toe!

From memory....

The end theme changed 'you'll see' to 'you've seen', I think.

I think Stop Go was a kids TV, but educational for the littlies. I remember a sequence of a tractor driving across a beach, over a poem being read, later satirised by my sister and I as "go, tractor go! fast into the sea, Go tractor go! all your wheels drop off from rust".

Chock a Block did have the little car, and Chock a Block itself was a sort of machine like an abacus with blocks that span round to show pictures, which were the impetus for songs and stories.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well well, now I know that I didn't just imagine it after all, AND, I now know what it was actually about, thanks Arch!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chock-A-Block

All I can find for Stop Go is an Australian Kid's Gameshow thingimybobber.