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childrens telly in the 70's and 80's

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Loriycs · 18/07/2008 20:32

does anyone else remember the childrens programme Babapapa? Ive yet to meet anyone else that does, did i imagine this programme?!?!?!?

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:34

yeeeesss i remember it

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meep · 18/07/2008 20:36

me - I even had a book - look at this

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DeeRiguer · 18/07/2008 20:38

barbapappa? yes it was great
and i raise you
white horses?
that dubbed czech thing they trollied out every year? am still trying to forget toon..

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ProfYaffle · 18/07/2008 20:38

Catatonia did a song about Babapapa, can't remember what it was called.

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:39

aww i love that link

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:39

i remember the theme tune to white horses and the lip synch was so out of time. i loved it.

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TurkeyLurkey · 18/07/2008 20:40

I am a 70's child and I remember them!

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wessexgirl · 18/07/2008 20:41

Yes, Barbapapa was great - should have been more popular.

The White Horses song makes me cry .

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marmalady · 18/07/2008 20:41

I loved Bod.

Here comes aunt flo.........

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maidamess · 18/07/2008 20:42

I used to put up with The Moomins, if there was nothing else on.

I loved 'Heidi' I wanted nothing more than to live in The Alps with my Grandfather, and Frauline Rottameyer.

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snooks · 18/07/2008 20:46

Loved bod and guessing which flavour milkshake he would choose...

Does anyone remember Pipkins with Hartley Hare? Hardly anyone I ask does.

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:46

You lot must be as old young as me then

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TurkeyLurkey · 18/07/2008 20:46

I remember Pipkins...and Octavia the Ostrich

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:46

pipkin - did it have octavia in and a pig with a frightenening face like a bath sponge

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snooks · 18/07/2008 20:47

and the tortoise that used to go in the bottom of the cash register then come out at the top??? or something....

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pinkteddy · 18/07/2008 20:50

Yes remember pipkins. What about the herb garden and does anyone remember I think it was called busy lizzie? She had a magic flower on her dress or something??

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TurkeyLurkey · 18/07/2008 20:51

bloody hell I don't remember Hartley HAre being this camp and scruffy!

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ProfYaffle · 18/07/2008 20:51

Pipkins! I used to love that!!

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snooks · 18/07/2008 20:52

our standards were lower in those days turkey...

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snooks · 18/07/2008 20:52

agree he was most certainly gay

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:52

jeez i am surprised old hartley didn;t give me nightmares he looks so creepy

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snooks · 18/07/2008 20:52

in hindsight

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ProfYaffle · 18/07/2008 20:53

Hartley Hare - it's no wonder I turned out the way I did!

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ProfYaffle · 18/07/2008 20:54

I'm not scruffy or gay by the way.

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mummy2aaron · 18/07/2008 20:54

having said that i got jumpy at rentaghost

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