TV favourites from your childhood

[beanzontoast]

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.

Hands up all those who borrowed dad's silver tyre inflation gauge, flipped up the 'antenna' and spoke into it the immortal words: "Open channel B".

 

[mr_hippo]

My memory goes back to the days of the 'TV truce' when BBC shut down between 6 &7 in the evening - no ITV in those days! The 'famous' short interval films when live programmes finished slightly earlier than expected; who can ever forget the cat playing with a ball of wool or the potter's wheel?
I remember TV parties where neightbours who were rich enough to have a TV used to invite us less well-off neighbours over to watch certain programmes e.g. the Coronation and FA Cup Finals.
Three programmes that I do remember were:-
Quatermass and The Pit - being allowed to stop up and watch it but I watched most of it from behind the sofa.
The Silver Sword - a Sunday evening serial based on the novel of the same name by Ian Serraillier
The Riddle of the Red Wolf - again a Sunday evening drama - can't remember much about it apart from the fact it scared me!

Watching Wagon Train at my mate Alan's house, I was about 11 at the time, and having Spam butties made with proper Spam (in the blue and yellow can) and real butter. That was the first time I tasted butter - we only had the cheapest Co-op Red Seal margarine although my mum did upgrade it to Silver Seal years later.

Other programmes from those daYs:-
Muffin the Mule
Billy Bean & his funny machine
Four Feather Falls
Amos & Andy
Champion the Wonder Hiorse
My Friend Flicka
The Cisco Kid
Whirlybirds

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[Headgardener]

Ah! The memories come flooding back. Just as an aside the ring tone on my mobile phone is the Captain Pugwash theme .

 

[Fnaar]

I remember and love most of the shows mentioned for peeps of my age (born early 1960s) but I hated Baby Woodentop for some reason, and similarly Bagpuss made me feel uncharacteristically violent

But an unusual one perhaps was the Shadoks (see pic). It was a French cartoon I first saw round a friends house on BBC2... can't remember year, but early 1970s. I only saw it a few times, as I think it coincided with the news on BBC1, but I was enthralled. Some episodes on YouTube.

 

[Archie_tect]

Ah, those re-runs in the school holidays of "The Singing Ringing Tree". Could anyone explain what it was all about? - used to freak me out.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

3BM Likes - oo la la, gonna check them out when I get home

I remember and love most of the shows mentioned for peeps of my age (born early 1960s) but I hated Baby Woodentop for some reason, and similarly Bagpuss made me feel uncharacteristically violent

But an unusual one perhaps was the Shadoks (see pic). It was a French cartoon I first saw round a friends house on BBC2... can't remember year, but early 1970s. I only saw it a few times, as I think it coincided with the news on BBC1, but I was enthralled. Some episodes on YouTube.

 

[Fnaar]

3BM Likes - oo la la, gonna check them out when I get home

Loads of French ones on youtube...English version ones take a bit more searching, methinks:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d3wCPYCGJ0

 

[beanzontoast]

Ah, those re-runs in the school holidays of "The Singing Ringing Tree". Could anyone explain what it was all about? - used to freak me out.

Me too. Definitely a visual where the mind made up its own story.

In the same re-run vein, there was the dubbed version of Robinson Crusoe too. I must have watched it 4 summers in a row!

 

[Over The Hill]

Talking of French TV programmes, what was the programme that was based around the French red arrows.

It was badly dubbed into English and I would guess c 1970 and was real action not cartoon.

Funny as I remember not much happend each week (much like most French cinema) but it had the same stock shots of jets whizzing past. Probably off to save the world or a cat in a tree or something.

 

[XmisterIS]

My all-time faves have to be Tony Hart (Morph, in particular) and Rolf Harris' Cartoon Time.

I found this episode of Morph on YouTube and it still makes me laugh!

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSMRPKM1evk[/media]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Loads of French ones on youtube...English version ones take a bit more searching, methinks:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3d3wCPYCGJ0

Nice site here - 10 episodes online - great stuff!!

http://www.ina.fr/fictions-et-anima.../les-shadoks.20090331.CPF86651821.non.fr.html

 

[ufkacbln]

Anything on ITV...

Tiswas, Magpie etc.

For some reason the girls were more "fun" in the ITV programmes......

Would you ever see Valerie Singleton dressed like this?

 

[TheDoctor]

Ah - Ludwig!
Just what the heck was that all about?

 

[KEEF]

Twizel and Torchy the battery boy

 

[KEEF]

Just remembered The Voodoo Factor I was scared you no what by this