AIBU to think Blue Peter is NOT the best kids tv programme of all time?

[FairfaxAikman]

According to a panel of experts it is.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/09/blue-peter-named-best-childrens-tv-show-in-poll-of-experts

I always thought it was gentle, sentimental clap trap that your parents wanted you to watch to keep you a child forever.

Personally I think the top title should have gone to Maid Marian and her Merry Men or Thunderbirds.

What's your top tv show?

agedknees you mean Children of the Stones? That was well scary! I got hold of it on video a few years back. Gareth Thomas was in it, shortly before he did Blakes 7.

The best friend from the second cast of Woof! went to my school.

I'd happily watch Maid Marrian again. I snigger every time I see signs for Worksop on the motorway and think about ragged people singing about mud

Moondial and Tom's Midnight Garden were among my favourite dramas.

Also loved Knightmare. I remember bouncing up and down shrieking instructions when the figure came on and started falling apart to a skeleton.

Children's Ward and Press Gang were great dramas.

I got the theme song from the Racoons in my head earlier. That deserves a mention purely for its contribution to music

Blue Peter does deserve it for longevity. I'd also nominate Newsround as nothing else has done the same role.

It was Fun House. That is all.

Blue Peter was boring. Yawn.
I was all about The Muppets, Fraggle Rock and Crackerjack!

I've remembered another -Johnny Morris's Animal Magic. Fab programme.
Loved Jackanory too.
John Carven's Newsround was great when it started - tried watching it when my dc were young and was really disappointed how it had been dumbed down.

My favourites were Press Gang, Knightmare and the Box of Delights.

However, my Blue Peter era presenter was Caron Keating. She was so cool and I looked up to her so much, I was very, very sad when she died.

Woof! was awesome. And The Box of Delights (how hasn't it aged well?! Alright it's not the cgi you'd see now, but it's still charming...). The Demon Headmaster was also epic.

I also loved Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Salem is god.

I'm inexplicably incapable of using parsley in the kitchen without singing the theme music to Parsley the Lion too...

Raven. Get Your Own Back. Tracy Beaker. Bodger and Badger. Chucklevision. The Queen's Nose. Arthur. I remember watching all of them after school at my nana's house. With the exception of Horrible Histories, kids TV is rubbish nowadays

Wow. I loved so many of these programmes but had forgotten all about them.

Favourites were ...

Bagpuss.
Knightmare
Press Gang
Also an American show called Degrassi Junior High
Going Live

I also loved Blue Peter!

Rainbow, Crackerjack and Runaround!

All of these!

Also loved Trap Door (don't you open that trap door...cos there's something down there...)

Oh- and Willy Fogg.

God no!!!

Dogtanian and the three muskehounds
Dungeons and dragons
Scooby doo
Pink panther (cartoon not film!)
Trap door - BERRRRK!!!
Wacky races
Penelope piratio
dramarama
Hartbeat - esp morph

All infinitely superior to blue peter!

Does anyone remember some early-90s 'yoof' programmes on BBC2? I think they were under a strand called Def II or something. There was one called Reportage with Aminatta Forna which I utterly loved.

It was shite. Something you sat through to get to the good stuff.

Maid Marian was amazing. My dSis & I still quote it to each other and we're pushing 40.

Round the Twist was incredible.

Horrible Histories is the bomb.

BP can't touch them.

I liked the Wild House - the family could have been on Mumsnet. Mum would use a megaphone around the house, or wear a sign round her neck saying "NO ONE IS TO MENTION NITS TO GRANNY". And the younger girl (I've forgotten her name) said drily "after the nits, mum insisted on putting everything in the wash, so the drab grey school uniform is a slightly paler shade of drab grey."

Also Incredible Games - a bit like a children's version of the Crystal Maze.

Press Gang was my all time favourite, in fact when I had my gall bladder taken out a few years ago I bought the DVD's of it and loved it just as much. I must go home and get my daughter to watch it as well.

I don't really remember watching BP, although I probably did as there was so little on TV, I can't believe I escaped. It obviously didn't make much of an impression though.

The Tomorrow People.

Closely followed by sawp Shop and TISWAS.

Although I have been known to watch Horrible Histories even when DS isn't in.

Yy Horrible Histories is amazing. Also love Fit and 4 O’clock Club. Actually funny.

Funhouse
Knightmare
Children's Ward
The Queen's Nose

Blue Peter was like watching paint dry.

Yes to Knightmare! I showed teenage DS that on youtube recently, and he was amazed!

I enjoyed Blue peter but it was like looking in on a completely different world - as the child of a skint single parent, living in an ex mining village up north, even when I was little I was very aware I wasn’t their target audience.

Loved Animals of Farthing Wood, Grange Hill (Chrissy, Justine, Tegs era)and the Poddington Pea's. Never enjoyed Blue Peter.

Yep BP was boring. I loved Dogtanian and Rentaghost. I still love Box of Delights and watch it with the dc every year in the run-up to Christmas whether they want to or not.