Best ever kids shows growing up.

[fossyant]

Thomas the Tank Engine isn't what it was. All gone CGI and PC - no 'fat controller' now ! Oh and a new silly tune. The old one was great with all the models.

 

[MichaelW2]

Let me see...

The Double Deckers (gave us Aswad)
The Banana Splits Good old LSD-fuelled shenanigans. I still want to drive a banana buggy!!
Any Gerry Anderson show but especially Thunderbirds. Got dead serious when Virgil's eyebrows met.
The Tomorrow People. Even today, I think 'jaunt me in Tim' whenever I meet people called Tim.
Robinson Crusoe. Imported B&W 'filler serial' that went on for about 500 episodes during those long, long hot summer holidays
The Wombles. Just hearing the theme reduces me to being about 7.
Swap Shop. The legendary Tiswas wasn't available in Tyne Tees land until the late 70's, so Swap Shop was for me.

I am sure there was a French b/w "scripted reality" docudrama about pygmies in the Congo. They built a snazzy suspension bridge out of Tarzan vines.

 

[Drago]

Thomas the Tank Engine isn't what it was. All gone CGI and PC - no 'fat controller' now ! Oh and a new silly tune. The old one was great with all the models.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DpzJfWm5ZZI

 

[MichaelW2]

John Craven's Newround. Blue Peter wasnt geeky enough for me.

 

[BoldonLad]

We did not have a TV, until I was 11, (1958), so, I never watched any of the "kindergarten" stuff.

Only ones I remember are Blue Peter and Crackerjack, so, I suppose they must have been my favourites

 

[fossyant]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCNUDwHW1k&feature=emb_rel_end

 

[Dave7]

Did Jim fix it for you?

I wrote to Jim and asked him if I could meet Stewart Hall.
Fortunately he never replied

 

[SheilaH]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0A3IZyIIWs

 

[captain nemo1701]

I wrote to Jim and asked him if I could meet Stewart Hall.
Fortunately he never replied

Today, that would be classed as a 'near miss'.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Timeslip.

Fabulous show but does anyone here over 50 still find it hard to pass by a concrete post/wire mesh fence without thinking of time travel.

 

[Chris S]

Blue Peter - I used to perv at Valerie Singleton.

never understood that to be honest - takes all tastes - I was a nice blue peter boy but did have a bit of a thing about the Magpie woman - Jenny Hanley?

She was a yummy mummy in the days before yummy mummies existed

 

[stephec]

My second list -

Mr Benn
The Flumps
The Wombles
The Tomorrow People
Joe 90
UFO, was that really a kids show?

And definitely not a kids show, but I loved watching it when I was a kid, The Professionals.

 

[Oldhippy]

CGI revamps are rubbish. Just no!

 

[Chromatic]

Let me see...


Robinson Crusoe. Imported B&W 'filler serial' that went on for about 500 episodes during those long, long hot summer holidays

+1, great theme tune too.

 

[Chromatic]

UFO, was that really a kids show?

UFO was ace.
They've been broadcasting episodes on Forces TV (channel 181 on sky), I've just checked and there's one on tonight at 11PM.