TV favourites from your childhood

[GM]

The first television program I remember was 'Tug boat Annie'
I liked :- Five o'clock club. With Muriel Young , Pussy cat Willum and Bert Weedon.
Crackerjack. With Eamon Andrews.

 

[Ravenbait]

Anyone remember Tales of the Golden Monkey?

Sam

 

[Arch]

The Zero-X episode of Thunderbirds featured in it IIRC.

I skim read that as 'the X rated episode of Thunderbirds'.... My, wouldn't the strings get all tangled?

Alan, yes I remember Babapapa....

 

[TheDoctor]

For X-Rated Thunderbirds-type action you need to watch 'Team America - World Police'.
The sex scene had me in stitches. I've never seen anything so terribly, terribly wrong.

Done by the same models of taste and decorum as South Park.

 

[just jim]

I liked all the Oliver Postgate productions, especially The Clangers. Of course I couldn't name drop him at the time, I just liked the flavour and tempo of them.

 

[Bird Brain]

I liked all the Oliver Postgate productions, especially The Clangers. Of course I couldn't name drop him at the time, I just liked the flavour and tempo of them.

The Clangers were just mad stuff.

 

[col]

Most of whats been mentioned already. what about HR Puffnstuff, the Diddy men on a sunday teatime, and barnaby the bear normally the first thing on at nine saturday mornings after the wildlife series that started with a screeching from somesort of bird?

 

[stephec]

What about The Water Margin and Monkey?

Forgot all about those earlier.

 

[KEEF]

Noggin the Nog

 

[Aperitif]

I'm surprised that Susan Stranks didn't get a sly mention from Dayvo earlier!
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And there was Casey Jones, Sgt Bilko, Harry Worth, Steptoe & Son...I loved Thunderbirds, Whirlybirds, Get Smart, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (I spent so many hours making bits for my Lugers and shiny Colts, carving bits out of the bottom of my shoes ). Tom Tom was a lovely 'official' children's programme, of course Cap'n Pugwash, Tony Hart - the early years - was inspirational for me, with 'Vision On' signing for the deaf. Clever. Criss Cross Quiz and Juke Box Jury were my pop programmes, now and again sneaking a peek at Pans People prancing during Top of the Pops, with Pete Murray, Tony Blackburn, Jimmy Saville, Dave Lee Travis etc...when music was music and pop was pop.

I'll stop now - too many interesting thoughts!

 

[Night Train]

It would take too long to list all the shows guaranteed to invoke nostalgia in me. The Trumptonshire Trilogy, Mr Benn, The Clangers, Bagpuss...

Ludwig, anyone remember him?

anyone remember Barbapapa ?

What about The Water Margin and Monkey?

All of them and Mary, Mungo and Midge too, not forgetting Ivor the Engine.

I was another who grew up on moon landings and the Sky at Night.

 

[slowmotion]

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.

The strange thing about those puppet programmes, looking back now, is how kids didn't care that you could see the strings. They were just "edited out" by a young brain keen to see the story unfold. Ah, innocence.

 

[Hacienda71]

Rhubarb
The Wombles
Ivor The Engine
Ludwig (a bit weird)

 

[slowmotion]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E

I'll stop now - too many interesting thoughts!

Oh no! Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo. I used to watch it round at a friend's house, and sometimes his sister would sit next to me. She was four years older than me. Dreadful, impossible yearnings.

 

[Aperitif]

Oh no! Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo. I used to watch it round at a friend's house, and sometimes his sister would sit next to me. She was four years older than me. Dreadful, impossible yearnings.

THRUSH was always unwelcome when The Man From Uncle was 'visiting' your living room! And 'Our Man Flint' with Lee Coburn comes to mind...here I go again...

Ha ha! Just re-read this. "Lee" Coburn James, of course! 'Lee' J Cobb was in the filum too