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

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Retropear · 17/11/2013 16:09

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.

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retiredgoth2 · 18/11/2013 22:21

My kids love watching the things that I enjoyed with me.

We have ploughed our way through the whole of the Time Tunnel (a sixties precursor to Quantum Leap) on iTunes (24 episodes for a tenner. Result). It was on permanent rerun in the 70s when I watched it- I'm not THAT old....

Children of the Stones next I think...

daisychain01 · 18/11/2013 22:23

Does anyone remember the series Marianne Dreams? It scared the doodahs out of me! But it was addictive - about a liitle girl who was ill in bed and everything she drew, she would dream about. V v spooky...

daisychain01 · 18/11/2013 22:24

I really liked Little House on the Prairie. Was devastated that Michael Landon died of cancer. He was achingly handsome.

GeorginaWorsley · 18/11/2013 22:26

I remember 'changes' and still hate pylons!
I was born in late 60s so loved the 1970s serials like
Carrie's war
Pheonix and carpet
Pollyanna
Little house on the prairie
The Walton's
I know lots of these not on a Sunday though.
My mum loved The Onedin line and Duchess of duke street,Lillie,upstairs downstairs etc

clarinetV2 · 18/11/2013 22:26

Time Tunnel was the programme that gave me my taste for time travel shows. I suppose I must have been watching a repeat - mid-70s I think. Other time travel highlights were Come Back Lucy and the film The Amazing Mr Blunden as well as (of course) Quantum Leap, which came later. I always wished they would make a TV series of Charlotte Sometimes which was my favourite time travel book. Oooh, and I've just remembered the Tomorrow People.

I have a video of Children of the Stones but no functioning video player any more. Must get the DVD sometime.

GeorginaWorsley · 18/11/2013 22:27

Yes to Marianne Dreams as well
Must have been early 70s though,I was only small.

GeorginaWorsley · 18/11/2013 22:29

I loved Amazing mr Blunden too,especially Diana Dors' character!!
And yes,Charlotte Sometimes is brilliant book

clarinetV2 · 18/11/2013 22:31

GeorginaWorsley, I'm imagining you must be an Upstairs Downstairs fan, no? It was one of the first 'grown-up' programmes I think I genuinely enjoyed.

Anyone remember the serialisation of the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie? Not the film, but the 70s serialisation with Geraldine McEwan. I don't think it was aimed at children, but I remember loving it.

retiredgoth2 · 18/11/2013 22:37

Ah yes. The Tomorrow People. Another for the list...

Charlotte Sometimes? I'd thought that was a Cure song....

Ghostsgowoooh · 18/11/2013 23:04

I used to help out down my local riding stables all day every sunday aged about ten or 11. Mum used to pick up, straight home and in the bath, eat my tea and snuggle up on the sofa to watch Narnia or other stuff. Highlight of my week.

florencedombey · 18/11/2013 23:32

Just coming on to say that I have fond memories of Dombey and Son. (It was a daughter after all...)

feelingood · 18/11/2013 23:39

the muppets - one had to be bathed and downstairs sitting nicely

CointreauVersial · 18/11/2013 23:46

What Katy Did!

Princesspond · 19/11/2013 00:08

goth Charlotte sometimes was a cure song based on the book. I bought the book recently.

Loving this thread the Phoenix and the carpet and remember loving the ghosts of Motley hall but don't remember much about it.

But most of all can't believe the number of people who had a crush on Benedict Taylor, he was my first crush and I've never met a person in real life who even remembered him! I had a crappy cutting from the newspaper about the size of a stamp which I gazed at longingly and kept in my jewellery box Smile

FreudiansSlipper · 19/11/2013 00:22

Still love The Muppets. Have DVD box set of first series ds loves it one of the best tv shows ever. I do not know why they do not make another series, probably down to Miss Piggy's busy schedule and demands

Loved Dick Turpin, Carrie's War and Bonanza which we watched Sunday afternoon

winklewoman · 19/11/2013 08:16

Owl Service, love the book too. CointreauVersial, yes, What Katy Did , but that is going back a bit, do you also remember "Seven Little Australians" ?. They changed the ending for tea-time TV so the 14 year old heroine would survive being crushed by a tree as she saved her baby step brother. The book with the proper sad ending makes me cry lots.

Gatekeeper · 19/11/2013 09:41

Marianne Dreams was made into "Escape into night" on telly back in early seventies. Watched a clip of Youtube yesterday and it's no wonder i had nightmares! Evil (huge) stones with glowing eyes moving closer and closer to the house and when marianne puts on the radio she hears them saying " we are coming to get youuuuu"..eeek

Gatekeeper · 19/11/2013 09:43

"Wickinsss...this time you've gone too far"

that was for GeorginaWorsley Grin

lainiekazan · 19/11/2013 09:46

Seven Little Australians - that's a coincidence. Yesterday dd was looking for something to read and I got out my much yellowed copy. (Sadly she wasn't tempted.) It has the picture on the front from the tv show. I thought, was it Judy?, did die - I can remember them singing Abide With Me after she was crushed.

lainiekazan · 19/11/2013 09:48

Now, this is going back to when I was quite little, but does anyone remember Man Dog? I remember really enjoying it. It was on during the week in children's drama slot. I had to miss an episode when my mother was looking after another child for the afternoon and this girl wanted to watch "the other side".

winklewoman · 19/11/2013 11:32

Iainiekazan, Abide With Me does ring a bell, but weren't they singing it while they waited for the tree to be hauled off? I might have got this completely muddled , but I remember reading the book after watching the serial, and being horrified by Judy's fate. Have you read the sequel, The Family at Misrule? I am very fond of that, too.

SorrelForbes · 19/11/2013 11:37

Princesspond Did you buy the version of Charlotte Sometimes with the original ending? Hope so Wink.

I've always thought it would make a great TV serial.

slickrick · 19/11/2013 11:43

How would you compare what we watched as children to what children of today are watching?

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 19/11/2013 12:26

Does anyone remember the series Marianne Dreams? I was just about to post this, I remember getting the book from the library too. not sunday eve's and not really kids stuff I don't think, but family programmes we loved that I would hate now... morcombe and wise, Dads army, steptoe and son, liver birds, Dick emery and some odd programme my Brother watched called rowan and Martins laugh in. Oh and the series Roots I never missed it. Bought the DVD a few years ago but can't watch it as the language used in it etc is just awful. Anyone else remember programmes that now you cannot believe you enjoyed... times really have changed.

SooticaTheWitchesCat · 19/11/2013 12:30

I loved Seven Little Austalians. Judy did die in the tv programme, I remember it, I never read the book until recently.

I also love Tom's midnight garden, Black Beauty and Come Back Lucy