To really miss those early Sunday evening children's BBC serials we used to watch.

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Such as The Phoenix and the Carpet etc.

We'd all watch them together with toast round the fire.

Wonder why they don't do them now.

Great thread. What a nostalgia trip. Love The Phoenix & the Carpet, Lizzy Dripping etc.

I have a picture somewhere of me and my sister standing on the 'moondial' at Belton house. We badgered our parents about going there so much that we took about a two hour detour on the way home from our holiday. I loved it so much!

They just re-ran the Borrowers on Gold - once a week on a Sunday evening. I was so very happy

we used to do Sunday leftovers for tea as well - i.e cold meat/salads/ then watch telly. Anyone remember Johnny Briggs? it was during the week after school more than weekends but I did like that programme!
Flambards, Black Beauty, Follyfoot, Carrie's War, Children of the New forest...great stuff.

Ooh, does anyone else remember The Prince and the Pauper? Elidor? Earthfasts?

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Yes! Now to find it on DVD. Perfect for dark winter nights!

There's Katie Morag on CBeebies - not quite in the same league I grant you but still....DD (8) has decided she's not too old to watch it! There's also Yonderland on Sky 1 straight afterwards....

I remember "Robinson Crusoe" and "David Copperfield". Also "Ballet Shoes". We'd watch them on Sunday evenings and sometimes be allowed to have tea on a tray on our laps whilst watching - usually jacket potatoes with cheese. It seemed really decadent!
A few years ago my DSs used to curl up on the sofa with us on a Saturday evening and watch "Merlin", I know it's not a classic serial as such but we all loved it as a family. Now, they would rather die than watch tv with us.....

I have vivid memories of going sledging and rushing home in time for A Little Princess.

I loved moondial - belton house (the orangery particularly) was one of my grandfathers long running jobs so we went there often. I remember they had an exhibition of the costumes for a while after.

catmint I still have the "Tripods" books from my childhood, I loved the books but don't remember the series. Sadly my DSs have never read them, despite my encouragement.
I do remember a series which frightened the life out of me, don't think it was Sunday evenings more weekday afternoon before "Newsround", called "Changes" or something similar where people were turned mad by electricity. For years after I was scared when going under pylons....

I remember The Snow Spider.
I think it's because I am Welsh and the setting was in Wales.

Moondial was very good.

I remember they did charlottes web too

I think the autumn evenings really make one crave this kind of thing.

I'm reading The Phoenix and the Carpet to the dds at bedtime right now, fantastic nostalgia trip.

Follyfoot
and Kizzy were favourites of mine.

Ok whose going to admit to remembering Catweasel?

I loved Catweasel!

Who's!!

oh totally agree op. can smell washed hair and toast.

YANBU

I loved the Borrowers.

Also Gulliver's Travels (but I'm not sure if that was BBC?)

thebody so true about washed hair and toast we used to watch it after our bath while eating our usual supper of hot buttered toast.
Uhh I'm yearning for the comfort of childhood and Sunday nights now.

I remember Catweasel! And most of the others mentioned so far. Winter Sunday evenings, in front of a real coal fire. I also remember something called The Children of Flaxton (?) Caxton(?) Hall.

Thanks to this thread I told DH about the old Sunday routine and he's agreed to carry it on with our own family

The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris...anyone remember this?

We always had a cup of tea and Mr Kipling's Coffee Cake (which he doesn't make anymore). Sometimes I was allowed milky coffee instead of tea.

I remember most of these - I LOVED that time on a Sunday when I was all tired and warm and snug!

We were watching katie morag thinking the same - its a cold dark sunday winter evening and we wanted to curl up together. We don't really know what films are out which I guess is the alternative.