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Favourite characters from your childhood

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MammieBear · 13/02/2018 15:21

As the title says really, looking for film, telly and of course books boys characters and girls.

Can't wait to see who comes out top!

Tankyou

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SpikeGilesSandwich · 17/02/2018 22:11

Dogtanian or Count Duckula for a boy but definitely Marmalade for a girl Grin

aRespectableBureaudeChange · 17/02/2018 14:27

Pebbles and Betty - Flintstones

iklboo · 17/02/2018 14:25

Erm....Bogwoppit. Not really suitable for a baby name Grin

aRespectableBureaudeChange · 17/02/2018 14:24

Yes loved Barnaby Bear and Rupert. Also Midge (Mary and Mungo).
Another bear: Boo Boo - (Yogi Bear)

aRespectableBureaudeChange · 17/02/2018 14:17

Heidi - book
Bunty -comic
Lark - book Lark's Castle
Morgan le Fay -book Arthurian legend

FoofFighter · 17/02/2018 14:16

Hector's House
Sooty Show
Barnaby Bear

LorelaiVictoriaGilmore · 17/02/2018 14:05

Very surprised that Sabrina has come up twice on this thread. We've just named dd Sabrina. I wasn't 100% sure but 12 days in, I am really loving her name!

Threeandabit · 17/02/2018 09:53

Amber Brown from the Paula Danziger books
Angela from the Sheila Lavelle books
Wendy from Peter Pan

17caterpillars1mouse · 17/02/2018 07:16

Oh and Matilda and her friend Lavender

Madeline

Sarah from a little princess

17caterpillars1mouse · 17/02/2018 07:13

Corey Matthews and Shawn Hunter from Boy Meets World

Sabrina the teenage

Zack Morris from saved by the bell

Angelina from Rugrats

Callamia · 15/02/2018 22:51

Yes, yes about Petrova.
And Janek from the Silver Sword.

I liked Claudine from St Clare’s, and Darrell from Mallory Towers.

Cassie124 · 15/02/2018 22:44

I believe Ruey was short for Ruhannah. They also had Loveday, Samaris and Valencia; lots of inspiration for unusual name choices.

missyB1 · 15/02/2018 21:45

Definitely Hamble in play School!

Simone, Frieda, Robin and Margot from the Chalet School.

Darrell and Felicity from Mallory Towers.

Crystal Tips from Crystal Tips and Alistair Smile

IfyouseeRitaMoreno · 15/02/2018 21:37

Josephine from Little Women.

TroysMammy · 15/02/2018 21:33

GottaGetThisDone there was no Poppy in Play School. The ugly doll was called Hamble.

For me, Hong Kong Phooey and Spot
Bagpuss
Ivor the Engine
Dick Dastardly and Mutley
Champion the Wonder Horse
Milly Molly Mandy
Ramona Quimby
The Flumps, Posy, Pootle and Perkin.
The Famous Five
Mallory Towers
St Clares

crocodarl · 15/02/2018 21:24

Ramona Quimby
Honeysuckle Weeks! I'd forgotten her. I loved her in Goggle Eyes.
Pennington from the K.M.Peyton books

MichaelBendfaster · 14/02/2018 12:30

Oh, and Pippi as in Longstocking.

How I wanted to be her!

ErrantBakedBean · 14/02/2018 09:21

I loved the idea of a girl being called Joey in the Chalet School (this was pre Dawson's Creek...)

I think those books had more fabulous names too. Theodora, Lavender and was it Ruhilda nn Ruey or something like that?

deptfordgirl · 14/02/2018 07:30

I loved the sweet valley high series so Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and remember the bitchy friend was called Lila.

soundsystem · 14/02/2018 02:32

Nia from the Snow Spider trilogy

bridgetreilly · 14/02/2018 02:27

Betsy-Mae
Paddington
Anne

And yes to Marmalade Atkins!!!

Buntysoven · 13/02/2018 22:20

Arriety from The Borrowers (Hmm now there's a thought!) And Horace Rumpole. Wanted to be him when I was 8. Very strange child!

TossDaily · 13/02/2018 22:09

Pebbles out of The Flintstones.
Marmalade Atkins.

TossDaily · 13/02/2018 22:08

Petrova out of Ballet Shoes.
Heidi.
Coco out of Fame.

CoolCarrie · 13/02/2018 22:04

Milly Molly Mandy
Bagpuss and the mice on the mouse organ
Petra and Shepherd from Blue Peter.
Mary, Mungo and Midge
Ivor The Engine
Noggin The Nog
The Clangers
Catweazel and Carrot “talking bone,eletricky, the sun in a bottle”
The Magic Roundabout

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