AIBU to think Cbeebies should either stop showing or recommission Come Outside?

[DanceInTheDark]

According to It's Wiki page it ran from 1993 to 1997 originally.

Everything is just so .... old looking!

I was 5 when it started and remember it the first time

I also used to like Playdays with the whybird stop which was similar things - learning how crisps were made etc.

Talking of non-pc children's telly/books in the 90s, my mum bought DS a Postman Pat book for Christmas from a charity shop called Postman Pat Gets Fat. The storyline is that Pat goes around eating lots of cakes all week, on Sunday he can't do up his suit and his wife laughs at him and calls him Postman Fat. Then he decides he is "slimming" which basically involves refusing every food item he is offered, and the doctor comes along and congratulates him. At the end he can fit into his suit again and his wife says "That's better". Wouldn't be allowed now

Leave it as it is! It's one of the few kids shows I love!

The Whybird should never come back! That voice

DD1 & DD2 (4 & 23 months) love come outside - I have been recording them as I am worried that they will take it off air & DD2 would be distraught.

My personal favourite is the bread episode; the song & the dancing pictures of bread will stay with me forever.

auntie mabel ROCKS! love that programme, i love the fact that it looks old and is not like modern stuff trying to be 'cool', bloody GREAT stuff, love seeing how factory's work inside. lovely lovely stuff, happy memories from early motherhood

My dd (3) loves it too. Spent most of an expensive long distance christmas phone call to her grandpa telling him all about glass recycling! I was interested to see how they make wellies too, and a shot of freeman hardy willis shoeshop made me feel very nostalgic!

anything but The Whybird...I can still remember the voice

JamieLeeCurtis, if it helps I don't have children and really have no business being here at all but this site is fun I am sure you are very young at heart.

Sorry Pixie, but you are mistaken. Pippin is not dead. Pippin is on holiday on a farm, with lots of fields to run in and lots of sticks to chase, with lots of other dogs. You should be ashamed, spreading such vicious rumours!

Auntie Mabel is on DP's 'list'

I watched Come Outside years ago with my sister who is now 17.I did think it was called Pippin though so not a true fan. She adored it. Then watched them all over again with DD (4). It was the only thing she would watch. She loved 'Pippi'. My fave is the sewage episode :)
If recommisioned they would probably have some cgi thing.
On Nick classics there is an episode of Camberwick Green where Windy Miller passes out on strong homebrew cider. His windmill stops. Nobody thinks anything of it. They all pitch in and give him a hand

I LOVE Come Outside! We actually have a "Pippin" dog. We can't walk him where there are going to be kids, it takes too long!

I frequent an aviation based website and they have had many a discussion about Auntie Mabel and her aircraft. Bear in mind that these are mostly grown men, entrusted to fly us.

Come Outside gets to stay the same forever.

How many did they make?

I only ask as whenever I catch it, it's always the one where the water goes off and the man fixes the pipes in the street.

DD (10mo) loves it. I find the music quite soothing too.

Hero - to shoot or to shag?

Wool
teapot
moving house

TOOTHPASTE!

Jenny, I suspect the latter.

He does seem to like it when I wear pastel acrylic knitwear and a pinny..

It's one of the only programs on CBeebies that doesn't drive me mad. Not full of annoying music, not too OTT cheery and DS (2) stops what he's doing to concentrate on it and follow the story. He loves it.

The pencil one is my fave . Agree the chip pan one is the stuff of nightmares!

Yes YABU and no they shouldn't touch it. We love it.

Suppose you'd have to consider whether Linda Baron would be up for another series... it's nearly 14 years since she hung up Auntie Mabel's flying goggles.

My DS's liked the one about sewage but maybe that's a boy thing...?! They are both quite scatalogical and poo is apparently still one of the funniest words ever.

If it was filmed from 1993-1997 do you think that Pippin is dead?

My very dodgy claim to fame is - my sister's ex-boyfriend has Auntie Mable as his godmother. How cool is that?!?