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

blue peter
jackanory
the clangers
crackerjack
The didikoi
phoenix and the carpet
wombles
stig of the dump
the magic roundabout
nearly forgot, Mr Benn

Oh yes! As a child I used to take Batman very seriously! 😂

As a teenager I loved it all over again when I realised it was meant to be funny! I loved the way that Batman always had exactly the right thing for every occasion concealed in his utility belt! 😂 🤣

Rentaghost
Also used to watch the horrifying Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu! Used to get him mixed up with Ming the Merciless!

when i was older, Starsky & Hutch, all Creatures Great and Small, Onedin Line, Poldark, Upstairs Downstairs, Tales of the Unexpected, Dave Allen
and then londons burning,

Flipper
Daktari
Robinson Crusoe
White horses
Belle and Sebastian
Top cat
little house on the prairie
Red Hand Gang
Littlest Hobo
Lassie
Black beauty
Grange Hill
Blakes Seven
Starsky and Hutch
The Professionals
Dukes of Hazzard
...so many...nostalgia overload!

She-Ra, Jem!, Silas, The Care Bears

Oh..Famous Five..(late 70s version)

Noone mentioned Swap Shop?? Used to love Saturday mornings.

i was never allowed to watch TV in the morning

I loved most of your original list, butt also the children's dramas:
Lizzie Dripping
Thursdays Child
Kizzy
Ballet Shoes
A Traveller in Time
The Swish of the Curtain
The Prince and the Pauper

How many kids now will be able to look back fondly on their childhood viewing in 50+ years. We had a golden age of childrens tv.

Sabrina the teenage witch
marykate and Ashley
the queens nose
Tracey beaker

mr bean
Kevin and Perry movie

trying to think of more, I used to watch all the soaps, casualty on a sat night. Pop idol, pop stars, big brother but would probs have been teenage years for those ones

Nobody has mentioned Animal Magic with Johnnie Morris. I loved that.
Tinga and Tucker
Blue Peter
Skippy
Sooty and Sweep
Crossroads

Oooh I forgot…. WORZEL GUMMAGE with John Pertwee and Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally.

I had it on VHS. It was the only VHS I owned, and I watched it so much I wore the tape out 😭

You're so right! I hadn't thought about that, but yes, we were all watching the same (with somewhat limited choices) programmes and used to talk about with our friends at school the next day.
Children today don't have that connection and in the future they won't have the same opportunity for nostalgia as we currently have.

I was born in 1969

Bagpuss
Barnaby The Bear
Mary, Mungo And Midge
The Double Deckers
Grange Hill
The Famous Five (1970s)
Pipkins
Rainbow
Worzel Gummidge
Lizzie Dripping
Carrie’s War (1970s)
Happy Days
Tiswas
Little House On The Prairie
The Waltons
Heidi
On The Buses
Man About The House
George and Mildred
Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
Different Strokes
Top Of The Pops
Sorry!
Two Ronnies
Open All Hours
Are You Being Served
The Liver Birds

Pigeon street 🥰 Long Distance Lara was my favourite 😂
I’m not ashamed to say….i watch it on YouTube sometimes when I’m grumpy coz it cheers me up 😁

I also loved - The Wonder Years, Byker Grove, Grange Hill and Raggydolls.

I didn’t understand the A Team but pretended to enjoy it as my brother loved it and I thought I was cool 😎

Dr Finlay's Casebook

I watched A LOT of TV as a kid and as @Cobrakainerd said, many fond memories and shared experience with friends old & new who grew up around the same time.
I have so many “favourites” it’s hard to narrow down, many have been mentioned already but might have a few others to add. My favourites were always the BBC teatime dramas, I’m sad for my kids that they don’t really have anything like those. Also partial to some badly dubbed cartoons or European dramas 😂
Saturday mornings were spent glued to the TV with tea + toast.
We also watched a lot of TV together as a family.
I’ll post my list below as lost my last one and can’t face another long rewrite.

The phoenix , Anne of Green Gables.

Pre-school:
Mr Benn
Chocabloc
Pigeon Street
Trumpton
Cockleshell Bay
Portland Bill
You & Me
Rainbow
Playschool

Primary school:
Simon & the Witch
Chucklevision
The Flintstones
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Thundercats
Dungeons & Dragons
Why Don’t You
Record Breakers
Newsround
Silas
Heidi
Black Beauty
Return of the Antelope
Moondial
Toms Midnight Garden
Children of Greenknowe
Box of Delights
Sunday afternoon Narnia adaptations
Fraggle Rock
The Storyteller
Grange Hill
Byker Grove

Weekends:
Wackaday
Raccoons
Kissyfur
Going Live
8.15 from Manchester
Ramona
Pugwall

Tweens/teen years:
My So Called Life
The Wonder Years
TFI Friday
Beverley Hills 90210
Sweet Valley High

Family TV:
All Creatures Great & Small
You Bet
Big Break
Generation Game
Gladiators
Neighbours
Coronation Street (the Jack & Vera days before it got all violent & ridiculous)
Hi De Hi
You Rang m’Lord
Some Mothers Do Av ‘Em
Ever Decreasing Circles
Heartbeat
Tomorrows World
Top Gear

Ooh, just remembered another big favourite…The Really Wild Show with Terry Nutkins, Michaela Strachen and Chris ?Packham.

Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. What a theme tune! Loads already mentioned too.

I had a hell of a a lot, I know as an infant I was obsessed with spot the dog and play school.

byker grove
grange hill
the queens nose
the worst witch
kenan and kel
bernards watch
my parents are aliens
are you afraid of the dark
ER (from about 11)
rugrats
hey arnold
loved loved eastenders
heartbeat on a Sunday night
childrens ward
smtv
funhouse
jungle run
raven
fort boyard
birds of a feather
goodness gracious me
top of the pops
Abfab
the monkees
sweet valley high
the wild house
Sabrina the teenage witch
boy meets world
home improvement
sister sister