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?

@Italianna - the plant was an aspidistra called Uncle, and there was a bloke that talked backwards - 'doogy rev '

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@PrivateSpidey I’m glad someone else has mentioned Box of Delights. Whenever this topic comes up in discussion in real life no one ever remembers it. I remember it was on in the run up to Christmas and completely mesmerised me!

Muppet Babies! Saturday mornings...

Rentaghost

Seaview

Grange Hill

Neighbours and Home & Away

All the above plus
Lassie
The Littlest Hobo

Loved so many already mentioned, my family circumstances meant I basically spent my childhood watching television 😬 So I get super nostalgic about some of these shows.

A little bit more out there now but I also loved RAMONA! Early morning Sunday, Channel 4 I think (or was that Transworld Sport?! 🤔)

And Mr Majeeka!!

Dramarama! I also like Jackanory some of the stories were very good.

@burntthepasta my 6 year old loves watching rugrats - loads of episodes on prime 😁

The Pink Windmill with Grotbags

Moon dial was my favourite. As an adult I got to take part in an 18th century re-enactment at Belton House where it was filmed. I had DS1 with me too and took a great photo of him and his friend in costume on the "moon dial". Swishing about that garden in a long dress and cloak was like living a childhood fantasy and I loved it.

You are so right @Anasnake !!

I loved Maggie. A Scottish girl who lived in a tower block and dreamed of going to University. Her dad and Uncle were plumbers. She had a posh boyfriend called James.

I have an omnibus of all the books, but would LOVE to watch it again

Seashell80 that's amazing, thank you so much!

And glad I'm not the only one to remember Cities of Gold, before I came on here I was convinced I was nuts.

@Grumpbum123 Potsworth and Company

H R Puffenstuff
Lizzie Dripping
Cartoon, Hong Kong Fuey
Hectors House
Captain Pugwash
Inigo Pipkins
Rent a Ghost
Double Deckers

How could you think for a second that Cities of Gold wasn't real?

Aaaah aaah aah someday we will find the cities of gold

@Anasnake yes, you've nailed it, thank you so much!!!

Sorry for late reply, but currently on episode 7, at last I'll find out how it ends

Not going to say how many years I spent searching second hand bookshops for a similar book

So many i'd forgot here! It just gives you so a warm fuzzy feeling!! Definitely better TV when we were kids!!!
To the pp who said Desmond's .......yes please, I was madly in love with Lee!!! Few more I've remembered:
No 73 - I'm sure Sandy Toksvig was on it?
Art attack
Punky Brewster
Different Strokes so wanted to be adopted by Mr Drummond!!
Wait til your father gets home
Metal Mickey

@Schoolchoicesucks literally no one else remembered it! It was one of my favourites, but I got blank faces all around if I mentioned it

Cuckoo sister, yes, and the book.

Wacky Races, Penelope Pitstop etc.

Willow the Wisp.

Knight rider.

Suddenly my weirdness makes sense...

Metal Micky
Horse in the house
Black beauty
The A team

Aah, Moondial was epic!! The teatime drama for kids was fantastic...Cuckoo Sister, Children of Greene Knowe. My mum bought me the dvd and it is just as lovely and nostalgic. DS and I watched it at Christmas. Lovely.

Box of Delights was great...until the finale. Such a letdown. But YouTube the theme tune and I defy anyone not to be instantly transported back to 5:10pm in 1985!

Adventure Game was bonkers! Gronda, gronda..

But nothing will EVER surpass the brilliance of Robin of Sherwood. I kissed the Michael Praed poster by my bed every night.

Noddy.
Postman Pat
Sooty
Rainbow
Play school
Button moon.