Childrens Programs

[Abbie]

Aww Im in a mood to rememeber my childhood TV :p
For me it just isnt the same anymore
So what are everyones fav Tv shows from when you were a kid?
Does anyone else think thats its not as good anymore, or is it just cos im a bit more grown up now?


For me there was always Blue Peter, I find it sad that I dont watch it anymore :(
Then the chuckle brothers :cheer:
Theres a few cartoons too, I just cant remember, hang on! I always loved Zap! the things with the hands
Theres more I just cant remember :hmm:

[di marco]

kids tv is no where near as good anymore! i used to love zap although the hands sometimes bored me, i liked the bit with the girl who used to make the kids do stupid things. another show i used to love was barney (not the dinosaur!), it was this old english sheepdog who had a mouse living in his fur though no one ever seems to remember it! :(

[Debs]

awww so many old fab programmes i used to love!

count duckula, trap door, fraggle rock, pigeon street, she ra, thundercats.. the list goes on and on

[Abbie]

Anyone remember Chatch the pidgeon, or wacky racers, or whatever that was :p

[di marco]

Anyone remember Chatch the pidgeon, or wacky racers, or whatever that was :p

i loved wacky races, i loved the dog in it (cant remember his name, was it mutley or something?)

[Abbie]

Yeah :cheer: Mutely and dick dastedly????

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

Wackey racers.. :D Heheheheheeee --Tried to imitate Mutley, didn't work out to well!--
Zap!.. Wow really old school, love itt!!

[Chloe O'brien]

Wacky Races with Penelope Pitstop and Dick Dasterly and Muttley was brilliant. My other favourites were Danger Mouse, Tizwas and Rentaghost.

[Layne]

Loved Zap :)

Playdays, Smurfs, Moomins, Poddington Peas :angel:

[Abbie]

Smurfs!!!! :D they were the best I had a album with all there song years ago :p

[Chris_2k11]

Daisy Dare off Zzzap was creepy as

Wizadora, tots tv, Bernards Watch, Rosie & Jim, Sooty and sweep with that Matthew bloke, Old Bear, Budgie the helicopter haha

[DaVeyWaVey]

My favourite ever is probably ChuckleVision. I even went to see them live in Weymouth when I was on holiday as a child!

I also loved Wacky Races! Moomins, Smurfs, Dennis The Menace.. i'm sure some more that I liked will come back to me.

[Chris_2k11]

oh I forgot Queens Nose

[Abbie]

Chris, I can pretty much say I loved all the programs on your list :D :lol:

[DaVeyWaVey]

oh I forgot Queens Nose

Oh yes! How could I forget that - I loved that programme.. also The Demon Headmaster really made me scared as a kid!!

[di marco]

Moomins, Poddington Peas :angel:

the moomins and poddington peas were amazing! i cant believe id forgotten about those!

[di marco]

Daisy Dare off Zzzap was creepy as

daisy dare, thats what i meant in my other post, couldnt remember what she was called!


Bernards Watch

i didnt really like bernards watch, although i always wanted (/still want!) a watch like he had!


Sooty and sweep with that Matthew bloke

sooty was one of the best shows! i went to see the show of sooty and also had all the puppets, it was amazing! sweep was my fave!

[di marco]

also The Demon Headmaster really made me scared as a kid!!

that scared me too "look into my eyes" lol!

[CrazyLea]

What upsets me is the "new and improved" Fireman Sam and Postman Pat! They were my faves as a kid, and they hurt me now... Postman Pat in particular. I still love Fireman Sam, watch it often! Nowhere near as good as it was though! Postman Pat is atrocious!! What they've done to that, I actually can't bear to watch it anymore and I love it!!

Sooty is also a fave of mine!!! I LOVE IT! I got a few vids of it and still watch it!! With Mathew Corbitt though...

Top Cat was another fave!!!! Also the Smurfs... Top Cat, Smurfs and Wacky rAces is what I used to watch before going to school. :crying: I miss them days.

Cartooons are nowhere near as good anymore!!!!

WIMSYS House!!! Anyone remember that?? NO ONE CAN!! :crying: used to be on Ch 5!!!!

I still watch the classic cartoons like Loony Tonns and Toma nd Jerry though :D i love cartoons!

[di marco]

What upsets me is the "new and improved" Fireman Sam and Postman Pat! They were my faves as a kid, and they hurt me now... Postman Pat in particular. I still love Fireman Sam, watch it often! Nowhere near as good as it was though! Postman Pat is atrocious!! What they've done to that, I actually can't bear to watch it anymore and I love it!!

ive not see the new versions, might have to watch and see what theyre like! i never really liked fireman sam that much, postman pat was ok. i still remember the songs to both of them lol!


Cartooons are nowhere near as good anymore!!!!

i agree. even when i was about 13 the cartoons were still quite good, now theyre really rubbish! :(


WIMSYS House!!! Anyone remember that?? NO ONE CAN!! :crying: used to be on Ch 5!!!!

cant remember it lol! whats it about? i never really watched ch5


I still watch the classic cartoons like Loony Tonns and Toma nd Jerry though :D i love cartoons!

tom and jerry is amazing, itll never get boring!

[Perdita]

I quite like Pinkie and the Brain :lol:

[di marco]

I quite like Pinkie and the Brain :lol:

i could never get into that! its not that i didnt like it, just that it never seemed to interest me no matter how hard i tried to watch it!

[Perdita]

What, a lab rat dominating the world does not interest you? :eek: :lol:

[di marco]

What, a lab rat dominating the world does not interest you? :eek: :lol:

i know! everyone else loved it, but no matter how many times me and my sis tried to watch it, we just ended up turning over! the idea behind the programme is genius though lol!

[Abbie]

Loved tom and gerry :p we have a video of some of their shows :p

Also loved fireman sam and postman pat, again we had videos :p
Havent seen the new ones

[Abbie]

I quite like Pinkie and the Brain :lol:

:eek: I loved that one too! :thumbsup:

[Hollie-x]

For me there was always Blue Peter, I find it sad that I dont watch it anymore :(
Then the chuckle brothers :cheer:
Theres a few cartoons too, I just cant remember, hang on! I always loved Zap! the things with the handsTheres more I just cant remember :hmm:


ahh i loved that! I used to get home from school and get changed and then watch it on CITV at about 4 o'clock :D

Saturday morning cartoons and programmes were best. I loved SMTV:live + live & kicking :D

[Layne]

Just reading everyone else's point - especially Chris's! And i remember them all :)

How amazing was our tv when we were young :)

SMTVlive was ace :D - Challenge ant, and when Cat did that birmingham accent :lol:

Brum, Rosie and Jim to name a couple more :p

[Abbie]

SMTVlive was ace :D - Challenge ant, and when Cat did that birmingham accent :lol:


those were the best!
they need to bring back good childrens TV on a saturday morning

[Hollie-x]

SMTVlive was ace :D - Challenge ant, and when Cat did that birmingham accent :lol:


those were the best!
they need to bring back good childrens TV on a saturday morning

Wonky Donkeyyy :D

YouTube - SM:TV - Wonkey Donkey

[di marco]

Saturday morning cartoons and programmes were best. I loved SMTV:live + live & kicking :D


SMTVlive was ace :D - Challenge ant, and when Cat did that birmingham accent :lol:

smtv was amazing. i did like live and kicking as well but smtv was so much better, it went downhill after ant, dec and cat left though. its a shame they dont do any saturday morning shows like that anymore

[di marco]

found this video on youtube, its got so many good old kids programmes on it :)

YouTube - 90's kid's programmes

[Bryan]

as a baby it was Rainbow or "bow bow" as i used to call it. apparantly my mom couldn't take me out of the house until i watched it or i'd scream the house down.

as a kid it was all about the rug rats :cool:

[Chris_2k11]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

[Bryan]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

loved get your own back with Dave Benson Phillips! Never understood though why the parents/teachers would agree to go on the show to be humiliated and gunged!?

[Abbie]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

I loved those ones :D

I also watched the Worst witch on CITV

[Chris_2k11]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

I loved those ones :D

I also watched the Worst witch on CITVNancy off hollyoaks used to be on that

[Kirsty :]]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

I loved those ones :D

I also watched the Worst witch on CITVNancy off hollyoaks used to be on that

:eek: Awww I loved them!!
Yeahhh she was the worst witchs' best friend!
And not long ago I found out that they did the filming for that at Castell Coch "the fairytale castle" near me :D

Aww I loved kids programs when I was little!

Urmm Wacky Races, The Flinstones, Hong Kong Phooey, Playdays!, Wizadora Also Alphabet Castle.. anyone remember that? Gobble-di-gook, gobble-di-gook!
Tots Tv was a big fave! Oohhh and Sesame Street! How can I forget that!
Then when I wa sliek 9 it was always Nickelodeon- Kenan and Kel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister Sister awwwwwww :D:D I want to be a kid again when telly was actually decent!!

[Abbie]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

I loved those ones :D

I also watched the Worst witch on CITVNancy off hollyoaks used to be on that

:eek: I knew I saw her somewhere esle! who did she play?

[Kirsty :]]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

I loved those ones :D

I also watched the Worst witch on CITVNancy off hollyoaks used to be on that

:eek: I knew I saw her somewhere esle! who did she play?

Maud Moonshine, Mildred Hubbles' best friend... good old Wikipedia :D

[Abbie]

oh my god of course!!!
wow she was young then! and so was I :p

[Hollie-x]

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not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

I loved those ones :D

I also watched the Worst witch on CITVNancy off hollyoaks used to be on that

:eek: Awww I loved them!!
Yeahhh she was the worst witchs' best friend!
And not long ago I found out that they did the filming for that at Castell Coch "the fairytale castle" near me :D

Aww I loved kids programs when I was little!

Urmm Wacky Races, The Flinstones, Hong Kong Phooey, Playdays!, Wizadora Also Alphabet Castle.. anyone remember that? Gobble-di-gook, gobble-di-gook!
Tots Tv was a big fave! Oohhh and Sesame Street! How can I forget that!
Then when I was like 9 it was always Nickelodeon- Kenan and Kel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister Sister awwwwwww :D:D I want to be a kid again when telly was actually decent!!

OMG I loved all of those! I used be obsessed with Nickeloden, Yolly was my fave (: but it's rubbish now 'cos they don't even have presenters (n)
I knew all the Sabrina The Teenage Witch episodes off by heart I watched them that much!

[Abbie]

OMG I loved all of those! I used be obsessed with Nickeloden, Yolly was my fave (: but it's rubbish now 'cos they don't even have presenters (n)
I knew all the Sabrina The Teenage Witch episodes off by heart I watched them that much!

I loved Nickeloden, I also watched all the Sabrina the teenage witch epsiodes, and pretty much knew all the lines :lol:
I also loved it when they showed saved by the bell :p

[Kirsty :]]

OMG I loved all of those! I used be obsessed with Nickeloden, Yolly was my fave (: but it's rubbish now 'cos they don't even have presenters (n)
I knew all the Sabrina The Teenage Witch episodes off by heart I watched them that much!

I loved Nickeloden, I also watched all the Sabrina the teenage witch epsiodes, and pretty much knew all the lines :lol:
I also loved it when they showed saved by the bell :p

:eek: How could I forget Saved by the Bell!! Screech! :D
The Amanda Show! Awww I loved that!! My Nan would always always make me turn it over because she couldn't stand it but I loved it :lol:

[Perdita]

Anybody remember Mooncat? Was that the one with the pink elephant Mrs Pinkerton-Trunk? Because I have a large pink elephant toy called Mrs P-T and I am sure I named her after this programme.

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

Hong Kong Phooey! I LOVED that show :lol: Probably still do if I saw it :rotfl:

[di marco]

not really a little kids show but does anyone remember 50/50 and Get your own back?

loved get your own back with Dave Benson Phillips! Never understood though why the parents/teachers would agree to go on the show to be humiliated and gunged!?

i loved both those shows! and i always wondered as well why the adults would go on there!

[di marco]

;622476']Alphabet Castle.. anyone remember that? Gobble-di-gook, gobble-di-gook!

i remember that, i loved gobble-di-gook!

[Hollie-x]

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OMG I loved all of those! I used be obsessed with Nickeloden, Yolly was my fave (: but it's rubbish now 'cos they don't even have presenters (n)
I knew all the Sabrina The Teenage Witch episodes off by heart I watched them that much!

I loved Nickeloden, I also watched all the Sabrina the teenage witch epsiodes, and pretty much knew all the lines :lol:
I also loved it when they showed saved by the bell :p

:eek: How could I forget Saved by the Bell!! Screech! :D
The Amanda Show! Awww I loved that!! My Nan would always always make me turn it over because she couldn't stand it but I loved it :lol:

I still have all the Sabrina magazines as well lmao. I was reading them last night ;) :L And i have some books too. How sad.

Ahhh the Amanda show. That was soooo cheesy. My mum was the same, she turned it over. And Kenan & Kel too, she said I wasn't allowed to watch it for some reason but I still did.

[Siobhan]

I hated the amanda show " Amanda please" it was so stupid.. Loved Sabrina.. I love the new shows on nick now too Drake and josh, Icarly, H20.. not so much unfabulous but love Ned..

[Perdita]

FORMER Play School presenter Floella Benjamin has slammed the state of children’s television.
Floella, 59, said today’s kids were being exposed to “more and more cheap imports” and “dross” and had no alternative but to watch soaps and other shows designed for adults.

The star, involved in kids’ TV for 30 years, rapped politicians for letting commercial broadcasters cut children’s output.

She told a conference in London that children are watching programmes “totally unsuited to them on many levels”.

She added: “I would like to ban all televisions in children’s bedrooms.”

[Siobhan]

Floella Benjamin! now there is a blast from the past.. I agree with her on the tv in kids rooms

[Hollie-x]

Floella Benjamin! now there is a blast from the past.. I agree with her on the tv in kids rooms

Aaaaah!! I remember her! I have a video somewhere of her programme, can't remember what it's called though:hmm: loved it! :D

[pookie1968uk]

Floella Benjamin! now there is a blast from the past.. I agree with her on the tv in kids rooms

Aaaaah!! I remember her! I have a video somewhere of her programme, can't remember what it's called though:hmm: loved it! :D


she used to do play away and playschool among other programmes, maybe it was one of those?

[Hollie-x]

Floella Benjamin! now there is a blast from the past.. I agree with her on the tv in kids rooms

Aaaaah!! I remember her! I have a video somewhere of her programme, can't remember what it's called though:hmm: loved it! :D


she used to do play away and playschool among other programmes, maybe it was one of those?

Hullabaloo!!! I remember! I have no idea why that just came to me!

[sindydoll]

paddington and rupert :wub:

[Abbie]

I loved rupert the bear!
I had teddy bear of him, but his leg came off :(

[Pinkbanana]

I loved rupert the bear!
(

Could never stand Rupert the bear....he was overly smug if you ask me...

[Kirsty :]]

Come Outside!!!! :D:D
Was watching it earlier.. with my sister haha

[Abbie]

I loved rupert the bear!
(

Could never stand Rupert the bear....he was overly smug if you ask me...

:lol: how come?

[Perdita]

He was more serious and than the other bears at the time. :)

[Perdita]

Bagpuss creator Oliver Postgate has passed away, aged 83.

Postgate's other TV work included Noggin The Nog, Ivor The Engine and The Clangers.

He died at a nursing home in Broadstairs, Kent on Monday.

His shows were created by his own company Smallfilms, which he developed with puppeteer Peter Firmin. The duo began the company in a disused cowshed in Kent.

Postgate famously narrated all his Smallfilms programmes

Bagpuss, which ran for 13 episodes from 1974, is regularly voted one of Britain's best-loved children's television shows, and earlier this year its rights were sold to media company Coolabi for £400,000.

Postgate stopped working in 1987, complaining that TV commissioners were not interested in his brand of children's entertainment anymore.


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[Hollie-x]

Bagpuss creator Oliver Postgate has passed away, aged 83.

Postgate's other TV work included Noggin The Nog, Ivor The Engine and The Clangers.

He died at a nursing home in Broadstairs, Kent on Monday.

His shows were created by his own company Smallfilms, which he developed with puppeteer Peter Firmin. The duo began the company in a disused cowshed in Kent.

Postgate famously narrated all his Smallfilms programmes

Bagpuss, which ran for 13 episodes from 1974, is regularly voted one of Britain's best-loved children's television shows, and earlier this year its rights were sold to media company Coolabi for £400,000.

Postgate stopped working in 1987, complaining that TV commissioners were not interested in his brand of children's entertainment anymore.


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aww how sad. i love bagpuss! my mum does too, and the clangers :lol: how anoyying are they. I was watching rainbow earlier again on Nick Jr :D - my brother had it on lmao.

[Perdita]

Russell T. Davies has criticised the decline in children's television on British screens.

The Doctor Who writer was speaking at a BAFTA event on Tuesday, during which he also attacked the demonisation of young people, Licensing.biz reports.

Davies said: "Children's TV has all but disappeared from ITV, literally vanished from the schedules, and it's not coming back any time soon. We need to embrace what the BBC has.

"Something massive needs to be done - children's programming needs more money and it needs to urgently.

"Nothing is more important than our children. It is not nostalgic to remember something that was brilliant. It is remembering something that you loved."

He went on to comment on the success of the relaunched Doctor Who and suggested that lottery money could be used to support children's television.

I don't watch kids tv as my little boy is over 21 :D so can't comment, but do you, who do watch it (with or without kids) agree?

[Abigail]

Well... don't judge me for still watching kids tv at 19 :p

ITV don't show any kids programs now. Gone are the days of Little Bear, Fun House, Art Attack and all the other favourites from the 90s.

The BBC have a few good programs. I like Tracey Beaker and Big Cook Little Cook. The modern day programs aren't a patch on the golden oldies like Saved By The Bell, Pingu, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, El Nombre et al.

On Milkshake, I watched that New Zealand explorer drama with Thadius and his photographer girlfriend who were lost in the jungle (can't remember the name) and Snobs. Even those aren't on anymore.

I don't think new programs need to be made, just show all the 90s classics and I for one will be happy :D:D

[StarsOfCCTV]

Who needs a childrens tv presenter cooing at the tv when you have pingu!

It is dire nowadays compared to what it used to be like.

[Chloe O'brien]

My youth was spent lazying on the couch on a Saturday morning watching Tiswas,while my mother yelled at me to go to the shops. Now they want to discourage children from spending too much time watching tv that is why childrens programmes are limited on terrestrial televsision. You can watch programmes on Disney, nickelodeon or other cable channels but the programmes now are just rubbish.

[Siobhan]

Who needs a childrens tv presenter cooing at the tv when you have pingu!

It is dire nowadays compared to what it used to be like.

my son sits laughing his ass off at Pingu... he finds the voice hilarious... it makes me laugh just watching him.. What happened to Little robots? it is not on anymore :(

[di marco]

i couldnt believe when they stopped childrens tv on itv. i know theyre trying to encourage kids to watch less tv and theres kids digital channels etc but if you dont have digital then theres only bbc really which you can watch. kids shows have definitely declined in quality too

[Chloe O'brien]

Who needs a childrens tv presenter cooing at the tv when you have pingu!

It is dire nowadays compared to what it used to be like.

my son sits laughing his ass off at Pingu... he finds the voice hilarious... it makes me laugh just watching him.. What happened to Little robots? it is not on anymore :(


I love Pingu specially when he yells at his little brother. Marley has a pingu video and one of my favourite episode was when Pingu' brother hid his ball and he was really sad because he couldn't find it. He didn't eat his tea and got off the table and said he was going to bed bless. :rotfl:

[Abigail]

Kath, how did you know he said he was going to bed? :lol:

[Chloe O'brien]

Kath, how did you know he said he was going to bed? :lol:

He had a blanket in his fin and whoever does the voices made it sound like he said I'm going to bed