To think kids TV is shite now?

I think the stuff my son watches is good, some peppa (which has also made him love peppa books) and Duggee, Something Special, Teletubbies etc. It’s the repetitiveness that drives me nuts.

My friend’s kid learnt his timetables from Numberblocks rather school.

When mine were little, there were lots of Cbeebies shows we all enjoyed,ost already mentioned, but morning TV belonged to channel 5 milkshake - Thomas the Tank Engine, Bottletop Bill (and his best friend Corky) - loved the animation style of that one. And Bear in the Big Blue House (the songs were wonderful). But they also loved the more gentle repeats/DVDs of older shows. Rosie and Jim was a big favourite of my eldest. He's 23 and has still kept his Rosie and Jim dolls we spotted in a canal shop. DD 17 loved Come Outside. When I was little, the Clangers, Mr Benn and Bagpuss were my favourites.

Bring back Christopher Lillicrap!

We've moved onto CBBC now and I'm enjoying watching the dramas with my DC. Programmes such The Demon Headmaster 2, Silverpoint and Dodger are intelligent and entertaining. But what have they done to Blue Peter? It's mostly a mass (mess?) of hyper kids and over excited presenters, noise and short attention span snippets. The drama shows available more than make up for it though.

You want Maddie on "Do You Know". My favourites were how toothpaste gets made and the ice rink/bouncy castle episodes. Half the episode would be how something works and the other half was how something gets made.

My kids are older now and I miss Octonauts, Duggee, the Go Jetters.... thankfully even the 12yo will still tolerate Horrible Histories.

You can't beat Magic Roundabout! Stoner rabbit and manic depressive dog, good wholesome fun for children!

My parents had a video of it when they became grandparents and mostly all the kids in my family loved it but my DD was absolutely terrified of the dolls! She said their eyes scared her.

When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s , we only had 4 channels. No sky for us until the late 90s in my house.
I remember watching BBC 1 and ITV after school, BBC 1 used to show dramas for kids, usually a series of 6 episodes.

Weekends were good too in the mornings.

Looking back , I think the tv shows for kids were better 30 years ago than they are now.

Most people have hundreds of tv channels now, plus demand tv where kids can watch what they want whenever they want .

Oh god were those their names! I always heard “Teeny Tot and Tiny”. And apparently a nameless one

I loathed that bloody show, and was more than willing to believe the names were inane as well.

Hard disagree! Moon & Me, Kiri and Lou, Tiny Wonders, Twirlywoos, Patchwork Pals. Hey Duggee, Bluey, Octonauts. Numberblocks and Alphablocks. Lots of really good stuff that isn't Cocomelon or Blippi.

We did enjoy introducing her to the original Mr Men and the Wombles, though.

Show me, Show me?

What's the one with Chris Jarvis and Poi? (Don't know if I'm spelling her name right). It's the only thing DH would watch with DD for ages. Always outside, just them mucking about with some soft toys and dressing up.

Tilly, Tom and Tiny…

But also, I loathe waffle

I think every generation thinks their own was better somehow.

It was all on TVAM in the school holidays, and we all watched it. There was no CBeebies/CBBC split then, everyone just watched everything as there was so little children’s TV on.

Also Saturday morning kids' TV, round the bend was a fever dream presented by a crocodile from a sewer and ghost train hosted by Nobby the sheep?! Showing cartoons like count duckula, pinky and the brain, Zzapp, even stuff like wizadora and rainbow for younger kids was mental.

YABVVVU Bluey is the best show ever made. Makes up for absolutely everything else.

Peppa is banned here, it's dire, ditto cocomelon and Bing.
There's other stuff that's fine though, Bluey, let's go for a walk, my world kitchen, even octonauts had taught me a fair amount and the Mariana trench.
My bar might be low though, I grew up in the era of button moon, fun house, knightmare and bodger and badger. None of which had any educational content, were definitely over stimulating and could be quite frightening

But the former are aimed at a very different age to the latter.

Oh come on OP, remember Fun House, Best The Teacher, Timmy Mallet etc.

Compare those with Our Family, Maddie Moate, Let’s Go For A Walk, etc.

Also have you watched Bing? Nothing happens. He goes to the shop with Flop, or goes to the park and feeds the ducks, and the ducks are a bit scarier than he’d imagined. Normal toddler stuff. That is why toddlers love it.

I will grant you Baby Jake and Cocomelon seem to be some sort of incomprehensible fever dream.

Je suis un tot...

I'm a tot...

@Giveupnow yes let me dig it out - I did an assignment on it in my MA in childhood! I’ll PM it over x

@Littlesunshinemoon do you happen to have any links to the research? I’ve been trying and trying to find some actual data as I’m really interested in this but there isn’t anything I can seem to find apart from random internet blogs / articles with no actual backing. The frame speed is actually the same across pretty much all cartoons universally - so it’s interesting to know how people define “fast paced” and less stimulating etc.