What were your TV favourites when you were growing up?

[Cerbonny]

Feeling nostalgic I decided to write a list of my favourite TV programmes from my childhood. I'm sure I've missed loads of the ones I used to watch. But here's what I remember, in case anyone's interested. 😊

In no particular order.

Champion the Wonder Horse
Flipper
Casey Jones
Daktari
Blue Peter
Crackerjack
Vision On
Ask the Family
Top of the Pops
Top of the Form
Jukebox Jury
Robinson Crusoe
The Flashing Blade
The White Horses
Belle and Sébastien
Follyfoot
The Little House on the Prairie
Top Cat
Scooby Doo

Ooh yes, I loved the Man from Uncle! Used to think David Mcallum was lovely! 👍

I remember watching Belle and Sebastian when I was 7 because I remember speaking to my mum about it when I went to visit my new born sister in hospital.

So were you 15 you watched it or did I watch a repeat?

I was born 1959 so we share a lot of likes. I loved children's TV. My very favourite was White Horses. I have the theme saved on my Spotify Favourites. I was gutted when on a cruise that stopped in Slovenia that I didn't realise I could have done a trip to see the horses.

As a teenager I loved Budgie. I wanted to be Adam Faith's girlfriend.

Thundercats 😁
He-Man and She-Ra
Dungeons and Dragons
Tom and Jerry
The Flinstones
The Jetsons
Gummi Bears
The Littles
Raggy Dolls
Grange Hill
Byker Grove
Art Attack
The Racoons
Top Cat
Looney Toons
The Chart Show
TOTP
The Waltons
The Worst Witch
Danger Mouse
SuperGran
Mr Magika (sp?)
Press Gang
Beverly Hills 90210
Neighbours and Home and Away

Andy Pandy
The Wooden Tops
Lost in space
Wacky races
Black Beauty
Thunderbirds
Stingray
But my absolute favourite was The Double Deckers.

Oh gosh, I loved Alias Smith and Jones. I was so upset when Pete Duel died. I had convinced myself that I would go to America and meet him and he would marry me as soon as I was old enough! Oh dear! 🤣

I still think of him every year on his birthday. He would have been 86 now.

Rainbow
Playschool
Playaway
The Flumps
Bagpuss
Mr Benn
Ifor the Engine
Willow the Wisp
The Muppets
Captain Caveman
Wacky Races
Fame (I was too young to understand much of it, but I loved the song and all the dancing)
Rentaghost
No. 73
Grange Hill

Bewitched!

Nightmare

The Pink Windmill (Emu & Grotbags)

Rentaghost

Allo Allo

The Crystal Maze

Goodnight Sweetheart

Magpie
Vision on
Picture box

I forgot Heidi!

And does anyone remember the slightly odd things that used to come out at Christmas? Like The Box of Delights?

@ThunderThunderThunderThunderCats I'm guessing you're probably of my children's generation, born in the 1970s or early 80s? A lot of your list were my kids' favourites.

I forgot about Grotbags! We had the loveliest lollipop lady by our school and all the kids used to affectionately call her Grotbags as she was a similar build and had curly hair in the same sort of style, but of course, being kids, we were convinced that we were being so subtle about it. One day she came in wearing the costume under her white coat, stripy tights and a bright green wig; we all loved it so much, she crossed so many delighted kids that day.

Fraggle Rock
Rainbow brite
She rah
The raccoons
Captain planet
Super Ted
Sharkey and Gerorge
T bag
As I got older, Heartbreak High

Ooh yes, I watched the Box of Delights with DS when he was little. Well, to tell you the truth, I was watching it and he was not the slightest bit interested and was just playing with his Lego! 😂

This thread has brought back a memory id forgotten about until now🙊

My first rude dream ever was Nicholas Ball in Hazell

I loved Porridge, Rising Damp and the Liver Birds

I loved the 7 Up documentaries and believe another is coming up soon.

Serious programmes were the Naked Civil Servant, and I Claudious, which was brutal for its time

Byker Grove. I was a member of the fan club and used to get the Grove Gossip newsletter and everything. Knightmare, me and my mates applied to go on SO many times 😱

What a lovely thread! Going dewey-eyed over all the 1970s stuff! Love all those suggestions… Daktari! Loved Clarence!

The RC theme was great, but surely the best one was Flashing Blade!

Apart from the kids shows, DB and I loved Tales of the Unexpected, Starsky and Hutch, The Goodies, Petrocelli, The Water Margin, Monkey, The Incredible Hulk and the Six Million Dollar Man

Does anyone remember Captain Beaky and Hissing Sid?

No, I watched it when it was first shown, in 1967. I was 9 then.

Starsky and Hutch
dave Allen
Sapphire and Steel
the tomorrow people
Dr Who with John Pertwee
The Waltons

Batman with Adam West - so cheesy but so good!

Biff,BAng.Pow.

Grange Hill
Captain Caveman
Top Cat
Hong Kong Phooey
Tales of the Gold Monkey
The Red Hand Gang
Children of Fire Mountain
Triangle

Let's hear that theme song for the Flashing Blade one more time!

Love so many of these. Did anyone else used to love a bit of this...?