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To think we need more programmes like The Littlest Hobo

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Theteenandme · 02/08/2025 11:22

Dont you think that bringing back The Littlest Hobo, Happy Days and The Wonder Years etc (but only in their original ways, no modern interpretations) would help heal the world? Just some wholesome, family escapism (even if you you cry a bit when the dog keeps moving on).

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Theteenandme · 02/08/2025 17:14

For some reason Ive just thought of Old Jack's Boat and the episode where he talks about his dead wife. 😭😭😭

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crumpetswithcheeze · 02/08/2025 17:03

Yes 100%. I have the first season of the Littlest Hobo on DVD and love watching it with the kids

Murfmeister · 02/08/2025 16:58

AnnaMagnani · 02/08/2025 11:42

No because I hated the Littlest Hobo. It always meant the school holidays and that there was no Blue Peter or any of the other programmes I liked, just shit like the Littlest Hobo or even worse Gentle Ben. Not proper TV like Rentaghost.

Worse than that - Heidi!!!....

Missymarple · 02/08/2025 16:56

I can't hear the theme tune to The Littlest Hobo without getting a lump in my throat at the 'maybe tomorrow' line. It happened when I was a kid and even more so now. All those people offering to give that dog a home....and he just kept moving on trying to find his own home 😭

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2025 16:53

Kellywiththelegs · 02/08/2025 16:48

Yes! What a tune!

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“Down in the willows, where the wind blows free”

Off to Google 😁

Kellywiththelegs · 02/08/2025 16:49

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and Lassie! Them were the days!

Kellywiththelegs · 02/08/2025 16:48

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2025 16:47

And Follyfoot Farm, I think it was? The Lightning Tree.

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Yes! What a tune!

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2025 16:47

Kellywiththelegs · 02/08/2025 16:46

I loved the theme tune to Champion the Wonder Horse!

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And Follyfoot Farm, I think it was? The Lightning Tree.

Kellywiththelegs · 02/08/2025 16:46

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 02/08/2025 13:38

Does anyone else remember Champion the Wonder Horse?

I loved The Littlest Hobo.

I loved the theme tune to Champion the Wonder Horse!

Dontlletmedownbruce · 02/08/2025 16:42

@Member984815 yes and yes! Thanks. I could have just googled the Michael Gandon one but had forgotten Grizzly Adams altogether. I loved Highway to Heaven, it was probably shit but I loved it, I remember the opening sequence with the sun shining above the clouds.

Sometimes I get so nostalgic that I almost ache with it.

Member984815 · 02/08/2025 16:38

Dontlletmedownbruce · 02/08/2025 16:36

There was a TV show about a guy with a beard who lived with a bear in a cave or something? Any recollection?. Also a TV show with Michael Landon where he was an angel who looked human and it was Heaven or something about Heaven. Both late 80s

Highway to heaven was the michael landon thing , was the bearded man one grizzly Adams?

Dontlletmedownbruce · 02/08/2025 16:36

There was a TV show about a guy with a beard who lived with a bear in a cave or something? Any recollection?. Also a TV show with Michael Landon where he was an angel who looked human and it was Heaven or something about Heaven. Both late 80s

Dontlletmedownbruce · 02/08/2025 16:34

I think what we really need is good quality title sequences and theme tunes. I could still sing the Littlest Hobo and the Dogtanian theme tunes. (Dogtanian and the muskehounds had the best theme tune ever). Only yesterday someone mentioned Dolphins and I was thinking about the Flipper theme tune. I heard recently there was a new Captain Planet remake and ive gotten the theme tune stuck in my head since. There is something about music in childhood that stays with you.

Anyone else record the MacGyver theme tune onto a tape and then use it as backing track to outdoor games? 😂Preferably with static and a whisper telling your sister to shut up at the start?

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2025 16:32

HelpMeGetThrough · 02/08/2025 16:23

If you want to be reminded of 70s and 80s summer holidays…. Why Don’t You?

Thanks a lot, mate. Got a bloody ear worm now 😁

HelpMeGetThrough · 02/08/2025 16:23

If you want to be reminded of 70s and 80s summer holidays…. Why Don’t You?

HelpMeGetThrough · 02/08/2025 16:16

Littlest Hobo was a shocker. God I’d forgotten about Gentle Ben, double shocking!!!

Happy Days was just shite.

MasterBeth · 02/08/2025 16:16

Iamtarticus · 02/08/2025 16:07

What about The Storyteller? 😂

I'm guessing you mean Storybook International?

Member984815 · 02/08/2025 16:13

Theteenandme · 02/08/2025 12:41

The Waltons were on before church. "Goodnight Jonboy" meant "time for church" so bad associations here! 🤣

Little House always made me feel uncomfortable for some reason. It always felt "off".

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We used to watch it Sunday after mass 😆 🤣

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2025 16:13

Just not The singing, Ringing Tree …. Good grief, what were they on? Terrifying.

Meem321 · 02/08/2025 16:09

Hunter's Gold

Iamtarticus · 02/08/2025 16:07

What about The Storyteller? 😂

PestoHoliday · 02/08/2025 16:07

I drove past them filming it once. 5 identical dogs waiting in the back of a pickup truck while the set up the cameras.

MaryBerrysFannyHammock · 02/08/2025 16:05

Dr Quinn, medicine woman
Quantum leap

MaryBerrysFannyHammock · 02/08/2025 16:04

Little house on the prairie. Carefree sundays

AnnaMagnani · 02/08/2025 15:56

Lonelycrab · 02/08/2025 14:05

Gentle Ben that was a classic.

Although dogtantian and the three muskehounds was probably my fave.

Almost all of Dogtanian is on Youtube.

DH and I had some happy evenings rewatching it.

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