80s kids TV you loved!

[MadameFoner]

Reminded on the YouTube thread about an old TV programme I loved as a kid / preteen James The Cat! Got me all nostalgic thinking of others, does anyone remember these?! My faves:

Sea view - with a young Yvette Feilding about a girl who's mam and dad owned a B&B! I was so jealous of her!!
Johnny Briggs! - very relatable as very Northern!
Grange Hill - obvs!
Chocky - but it did scare the shit out of me!
Run around with Mike Reid!
Why don't you? - So desperate to be on it!
The Flumps - was too old but iirc it was on early afternoon so will have been off school sick!! Particularly loved the girl on skates!
Huxley Pig - again too old but loved the theme tune
Cockle shell bay - too cute!
Penny Crayon
Finger mouse - or was it bobs? - the man scared me slightly - v.v. Hairy!!

What were yours?

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery was it Dark Towers ?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=K5YNfKUlXhI

@frankiesknuckle the show with Minty (short for Araminta) was Moondial, based on the book by Helen Cresswell. Both were fab.

@MillicentMargaretAmanda That's it! Off I go into a YouTube wormhole 😁

Silas - a German language dubbed in to English series about a boy and his gorgeous black horse. Loved it.

The Tripods - brilliant but v unsettling

Chocky - weird and v unsettling (see Tripods )

Who Sir? Me Sir? - comp v posh school triathlon drama. Was ace (also lovely horses)

Horse of The Year Show - presented by the late, great Raymond Brookes-Ward.

I like horses........

Can i include Kids from Fame, Airwolf, C.H.i.P.S and The A Team?

Onceuponamidnightbeery fraggle rock is on Amazon prime and they have finally released The children of Green Knowe on DVD! No more dodgy YouTube for these two!

@ShellieEllie yes! Watch was ace. For some completely random reason I can still sing word for word several of the songs featured yet I can’t remember what we had for tea last night

Oh and i think it was Mr Ben? He went into a changing room which transported him into a story?

Bagpuss!

I grew up in a different country, but loved
Fraggle Rock
The Raccoons
The Muppet Show
Thunderbirds
He-man
Charlie Brown
The Smurfs
Flinstones

No cartoons but my 7yr old self also loved...
ALF
The Cosby Show
Cheers
The Wonder Years
Family Ties
The Golden Girls - loved this!
My Two Dads

Rentaghost was brilliant

Grangehill of course
Why don’t you - weird kids tv programme telling you to turn off the telly and ‘do something more interesting instead’. Had a young Anthony mcpartlin as I remember

Live and kicking
The queens nose

The Cookoo Sister
Black Beaty
Gummy Bears
Sheh’ra and He-man
Cities of Gold
Dogtanian

Also Zzzap!

Button Moon and Pigeon Street :)

Oh and Jem. Loved this

I was going to mention moondial - it is available in full now on DVD (around three hours long), I purchased it recently, if I remember correctly it's the heavily edited version on YouTube. I don't know if they've is still available.

I was shocked to find the book is now classed as a children's classic having remembered it when it first came out.

I want to add "cities of gold" and the BBC versions of the chronicles of narnia!

Hong Kong Phooey!
Although that might have been late 70s?

Break in the Sun (something about a barge and a runaway girl I think)
Heidi
Swap Shop

Also rosie and Jim and rugrats

The wonder years.

Dramarama and Murphy's Mob.

Hong Kong fuey
Hair bear bunch
Top cat
Supergran

What was the one where they were in space - all had capes and helmets and stood in a pyramid before flying off to save the world? Loved that one

Cheggers Plays Pop
Take Hart
Roobarb and Custard
The Clangers
Screen Test
Little House on the Prairie

Loads of the above, fistbump to the PP mentioning The Children of Green Knowe, fantastic programme and fantastic book as well.

My other favourites were Moonfleet and The Box of Delights, another two amazing books.

I've got the Box of Delights on dvd and usually watch it at Christmas - the special effects were amazing at the time, I remember thinking it was completely believable... and tbf even now it's pretty impressive considering what technology/budgets must have been like for 80s kids tv.

I've got the Jossy's Giants theme tune going round in my head now...

What was the one where they were in space - all had capes and helmets and stood in a pyramid before flying off to save the world? Loved that one

Battle of the Planets?