Forgotten childrens programmes

[NovRainbow5]

Childrens tv just isn’t the same nowadays. As a child I loved:
The raggy dolls
Barney- the dog not the dinosaur
Gran
Kissyfur
Jungle run
The tribe

What Programmes did you love?

Was You and Me the one with Cosmo and Dibbs? I loved them!

Fun House
Room Raiders
The Riddlers
Mike and Angelo

Tottie the dolls wish
Cities of Gold
Puddle lane
She ra
Gnomes Christmas special

Tom's Midnight Garden
Box of Delights
Cities of Gold
Thundercats
Bertha
Pigeon Street
Ulysses 31
Once Upon A Time....Life

We weren't allowed to watch ITV as a child 😆 (too common) so missed out on the Raggy Dolls, Show People etc. only ever saw them at friend's houses!
Adding to my earlier list, Family Ness, Jimbo, Henry's Cat, Pigeon Street, The Raccoons, Bananaman, Superted.
There were so many good cartoons, I think they all came out of Europe. Dogtanian, Willy Fogg, Cities of Gold. No one else seems to remember Pole Position though - was about siblings who raced cars and saved the world!
Loved the Sunday dramas - Moondial, Snow Spider, Narnia, Five Children and It etc. Rally good quality family viewing.
I did watch Press Gang and Grange Hill with my older sister and can remember something called Gruey (?) about a boy and his friends.

The Really Wild Show was great, used to watch the live show that came to the County Show.

Earthfasts was a creepy one with Paul Nicholls ♥️

Some great schools programming - Through the Dragons Eye, Geordie Racer etc.

Saturday morning TV - No. 73 with a very young Sandi Toksvig. And Saturday Superstore on BBC1 with Mike Read and Sarah Greene. They had an agony uncle called Phillip Hodson who i had a crush on. Not because of his looks but he was so calm and soothing.

Pigeon Street was great especially Long Distance Clara.

@prettygirlincrimsonrose
Phew, not just me 😁 I've even got a picture of the headmaster in my head but don't know the actors name so can't look it up 😩

I've woken up thinking of even more favourites. I love to reminisce over all this. Had to laugh at one of the comments about ITV being too common; we were gently encouraged by our parents not to watch the ITV kids stuff as the considered it to be "pure rubbish" and encouraged bad behaviour! BBC was much more "appropriate"'and with better morals!

Some more from me:
Byker Grove
A Likely Lad
Silas
Wide Awake (?Club)
Dennis
Return of the Antelope
Peanuts/Charlie Brown

OH favourites:
Batfink
Thunder cats
Brave star
Blockbusters
Fraggle Rock
Morph
Duckula
Inspector Gadget

Also a few that we probably shouldn't mention anymore but:
Jim'll Fix It
Rolf's Cartoon Club

I'm way too invested in this thread...must get up and start the day...

There was a drama called Barriers on ITV on Sunday afternoons about a teenager whose parents died leaving him an orphan and he then found out he'd been adopted.

I think most of these posters are a similar age to me There was some quality kid telly back in the old days. Does make me sad that ds is only 12 but more into tiktok and YouTube than programmes. Dd is going through a Disney churn them out by numbers phase (although I can happily watch that KC Cooper one).

@ninnynonny
Is anyone old enough to remember Robinson Crusoe? Every holiday - with a very handsome blonde Robinson!

Yes me! And I only have memories of watching it in the summer holidays... so was it only broadcast then?

There was something so exciting about the limited children’s TV in my day. You only really had that window after school during the week, then I used to get up early on the weekend to get stuck into the Sat and Sun morning shows. Does anyone remember Number 73?

Then the holidays! Why Don’t You?! It was so exciting.

24/7 streamed kids TV just can’t be as exciting.

I also used to like
Daktari,
Flipper
Skippy
Land of the Giants

And Batman, the one with Adam West

Loved so many of these!

What was the one called with a sandman/creature thing (late 80s, early 90s)?

Does anyone remember the guy who drove round in a pink caravan thing ?! Maybe I dreamt it.

@Pasdelacasa yes I loved number 73! With Sandi toksvig, Kim goody, Neil Buchanan

@copernicium Five Children and It

Ah yes it is! That's sent me down a Google black hole now!

I vividly remember something about a man who used to live in a tiny cube again I might have dreamt it!! It would have been mid 70's early 80's maybe an educational programme ?

Do kids still have ‘educational programmes’ made for schools?

I loved it when the big telly trolley got rolled out and we got to watch Dark Towers, The Boy From Space and whatever the weird show was with ‘Wordy’.

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude it was very odd, but as a young kid I was fascinated. Watched a couple of clips on YouTube last night and it was so terrible! Nobody I talk to ever remembers it

Was wordy the one with the 'magic 'e'?

Kids today will never suffer the utter grimness of a rainy Saturday in January, when kids' telly stopped and fucking Grandstand used to come on.

But then, we had family telly at tea time: the a team, mcgyver. ...

@Rubysocold

Was wordy the one with the 'magic 'e'?

Kids today will never suffer the utter grimness of a rainy Saturday in January, when kids' telly stopped and fucking Grandstand used to come on.

But then, we had family telly at tea time: the a team, mcgyver. ...

Yes I think it was! Wordy was a strange little…thing (?!) that showed us how to form letters.

Grandstand