Favourite old children’s shows

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I’m pregnant and feeling nostalgic for the children’s tv shows of my childhood! My absolute favourite was Old Bear Stories (from the Jane Hissey books), and I’ve just seen it’s all on YouTube so I can’t wait to show them to my baby!

What were your favourites, and do you think they beat out the Pepper Pigs of today?

Does anyone remember Do Not Adjust Your Set sometime in the late 1960s? I loved this programme but nobody else I've mentioned it to seems to have of it. It was kind of Monty Pythonesque, but for kids. I think Eric Idle was in it.

Also late 1960s was H.R. Pufnstuf, starring Jack Wild. That was on Saturday mornings and I think it was on either before or after Catweazle.

Does anyone remember this thing...scared me so much

Tiswas

I remember him, spirit. He was on a schools English programme wasn’t he?

That's it Tiswas good remembering I only remember the nose on it lol

The paul Daniel's one, was it called wizzbet? Trap door, round the twist, Jace and the wheeled warriors, jem

No, I don’t think he was on Tiswas

He’s ‘Noseybonk’ from Jigsaw

Come Outside with Pippin and Auntie Mabel (currently watching these on YouTube with my toddler)
Art Attack
The Queens Nose
Bernard's Watch
The weird magazine programme on CITV where each square did something fun and quirky... loved it.

The weird magazine programme was Zzzappp! Just found it on YouTube!

@titnomatani I loved that programme.

I loved how 2. I think that's what it was called. Fred, Carol and I can't remember the other presenters name.

Pob
Pingu
How 2 (let's say how for now!)
Hey Arnold
Bananaman
Dungeons and Dragons

@sestras- I've just found old episodes on YouTube! Looks like I'll be going down the YouTube nostalgic rabbit hole tonight!

Bag Puss
Finger mouse
Pigeon street
Mr Ben
Trumpton
Postman Pat
Chorlton and the wheelies
Button moon
Ulysse
Moomins (delighted when I found a shop dedicated to them in Helsinki)
Sesame Street 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 twelllllllllllve. Then a Spanish lesson.

Tom and Jerry
Rosie and Jim

@Shmithecat2 and @Tottie I loved Degrassi Junior high and the Kids of Degrassi st. I think there has been a modern series.

Also remember Moondial.

Press Gang was a favourite. Rewatched it about ten years ago. Still good.

Mr Ben when I was really little. The Flumps.

Always freaked out by Worzel Gummage but watched it anyway.

The Waltons.

Oh, and Take Hart.

Button moon

The red hand gang. It was American and on in the school summer holidays. I ADORED it

Me too! I recall one with a dumb waiter in it and they took turns going up and down in it.

I loved so many of the shows mentioned in here!

Pogles Wood
Mary Mungo & Midge
Bagpuss
Lizzy Dripping
Pipkins (It’s time...!)
Ivor the Engine
Magic Roundabout
Why Don’t You?
The Tomorrow People (which I seem to remember scared me as a child...was it actually scary?)

There are also 2 other programs that I cannot recall the name of but can describe...the first was about a girl who time traveled back to Victorian era whenever she looked in a mirror. She made friends with a Victorian child called Alice who was so desperate to keep her as a friend that she hid all the reflective surfaces in the house. Again, I remember this as creepy/scary.

The second program was much more lighthearted & fun. The only thing I remember was that it involved an illustration of a panda & bamboo shoots swirling around the screen. I only remember that weird detail & the fact that I loved it 🤔

Grotbags!
The Littlest Hobo.
Round The Twist.

@strugglingwithdeciding we have been to button moon, we have followed mr spoon, button moooon, button moooooon. Then a close up of a fairy liquid bottle landing on button moon.

The Littlest Hobo I was singing the theme of this for my children just the other day.

Oh, i was sticking to mostly childrens shows. I loved the Degrassi series even though i was probably too young when i started watching them and a lot of it went over my head.

We had Heartbreak High here, spent many hours at school daydreaming about Callan Mulvey (Drazic)

The littlest Hobo
Fraggle Rock
Danger Mouse
He man
Dungeons and Dragons
Banana Man
Fun House
When i show my boys old clips from you tube they just think im weird!