accountantpete
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Branded (starring Chuck Connors)
Branded (starring Chuck Connors)
TV favourites from your childhood
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Bird Brain
New Member
Definitely.
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
Most of Gerry and Silvia Andersons. Though I don't really remember "Twizzle" or "Torchy the Battery Boy". "Four Feather Falls" is the first though really got hooked with "Supercar" and Fireball XL5". Watched a couple of episodes on youtube to bring back memories and saw how they progressed with "Stingray" then "Thunderbirds" and "Captain Scarlet". The CGI "Captain Scarlet" is awful compared to the puppets.
I was an avid reader of TV Century 21 (TV21) and got to know about "Star Trek" before it came to British TV.
Too young for the original "Eagle" comic but I remember a version coming out in the early 60's.
I was an avid reader of TV Century 21 (TV21) and got to know about "Star Trek" before it came to British TV.
Too young for the original "Eagle" comic but I remember a version coming out in the early 60's.
SquareDaff
Über Member
- Location
- Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Chortlon and the Wheelies ("Hello Little Old lady")
and
Jamie and his Magic Torch
With lunchtime viewing like that no wonder I turned out the way I did!!!
and
Jamie and his Magic Torch
With lunchtime viewing like that no wonder I turned out the way I did!!!
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Ravenbait - Mr Benn has two ns in his name. 
Stephec - well done for getting his name correct!
Stephec - well done for getting his name correct!
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
I remember some lunchtime trade test transmissions on BBC2. One was John Piper and the stained glass windows of Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral. Another was of an Australian Landtrain. I remember from this the driver and his mate taking the labels off their canned food to make anything they made more interesting.
Mark Grant
Acting Captain of The St Annes Jombulance.
- Location
- Hanworth, Middx.
Pogles wood.
The Herbs? Parsley the lion, Dill the dog etc.
The Herbs? Parsley the lion, Dill the dog etc.
Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
Mr Benn was my favourite.
Hector's House
Also Fingerbobs. I think that was the programme's name? A classic example of how to make a TV show for under a fiver!
Postman Pat was a bit after my time but I quite liked the Viz version of his song for their Postman Plod character.
To the tune of Postman Pat it went soemthing like
Postman Plod Postman Plod
What a f*ck*ng miserable sod
At lunchtime he gets plastered
What a f*ck*ng bastard
He really is a f*ck*ing miserable c***
If you sing that version when watching Postman Pat with small children, it makes them cry! Ahem, apparently.
Hector's House
Also Fingerbobs. I think that was the programme's name? A classic example of how to make a TV show for under a fiver!
Postman Pat was a bit after my time but I quite liked the Viz version of his song for their Postman Plod character.
To the tune of Postman Pat it went soemthing like
Postman Plod Postman Plod
What a f*ck*ng miserable sod
At lunchtime he gets plastered
What a f*ck*ng bastard
He really is a f*ck*ing miserable c***
If you sing that version when watching Postman Pat with small children, it makes them cry! Ahem, apparently.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
I was born in 1984 but have tastes from before then:
The avengers (steed and Mrs Peel)
Dukes of hazard (the film was complete crap)
Ivor the engine
clangers
bagpus
thomas the tank engine
post man pat
trumpton
camberwick green
kettle ship pirates (or was that a book?)
dangermouse
ducktails
chip n' dale rescue rangers
count duckula
Tugs,
can't remember any more at the moment.
The avengers (steed and Mrs Peel)
Dukes of hazard (the film was complete crap)
Ivor the engine
clangers
bagpus
thomas the tank engine
post man pat
trumpton
camberwick green
kettle ship pirates (or was that a book?)
dangermouse
ducktails
chip n' dale rescue rangers
count duckula
Tugs,
can't remember any more at the moment.
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
The BBC2 Colour Trade Test Transmissions were a thing of their time. Remember Evoluon about the Eindhoven science museum? Or the one about electrical safety where the technician went off to the dentists and nearly got electrocuted when he came back and touched a coil that hadn't had its charge dumped?
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
+1. Monday nights at 8pm if I recall correctly? Big John, Buck, Manolito, Blue Boy and Victoria (or 'Vic-toyyya', as Buck pronounced it). Ahh - where have the years gone?
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
The fundamental problem with Captain Scarlet was that you knew he couldn't die. Thus, even as a youngster, I went off it pretty quickly once I realised he could take any risk without fear of popping his puppet clogs.
The one I really couldn't stand was Joe 90!
+1 on TV Century 21 too - I even had the annual for Christmas. The Zero-X episode of Thunderbirds featured in it IIRC.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Catweazle
Timeslip
Alias Smith & Jones
The Virginian
Z- Cars
Dixon of Dock Green
The Ringing Singing Tree (?)
The Magic Boomerang
Daktari
Tarzan
Charlie the Torch Boy
Twizzle
Timeslip
Alias Smith & Jones
The Virginian
Z- Cars
Dixon of Dock Green
The Ringing Singing Tree (?)
The Magic Boomerang
Daktari
Tarzan
Charlie the Torch Boy
Twizzle
Bird Brain
New Member
The Time Tunnel
The Persuaders
The Persuaders
