To ask what shite tv you used to watch

[botswanabanana]

back in the days when there were only 4 channels to choose from and kids' tv was from 4-6 on weeknights and on Saturday morning.
Eg. Bonanza reruns, Snooker championships..... the very bottom of the barrel was horse racing for me!

Fucking Wimbledon instead of kids programming for two weeks. I still hate tennis because of that!

All creatures great and small on a Sunday afternoon once Eastenders omnibus was over

Can remember feeling really down after Saturday morning TV for kids finished as there was nothing else on and my house was often an unhappy one 😢

Eurotrash and brookside

My sister and I watched bay watch for the story line

But quantum leap, eerie Indiana and the upper hand were not shite

Step by step, my two dads, pugwall And the other summer holiday stuff was though!

The Littlest Hobo, Knightrider, Highway to Heaven, Incredible Hulk, The A Team - all basically the same plot every week!

I loved to watch Come Dancing with Mum on a Saturday night, early to mid seventies, I'd have been 8, 9 or 10.

SeaQuest DSV was excellent.

Rent a Ghost
Tales of the Unexpected
Pebble Mill

Dh said he liked 'chips' and 'starsky and hutch! '
'Summertime special' was a low on bbc 1 ( 1970s) !
Bergerac and The Rockford Files were ok.

California Dreams, Pugwalls Summer, Hang Time!
Always remember the episode of Hang Time that Teddy started smoking and within half an episode he was hooked and skipping basketball practice to secretly smoke before his friends stepped in to convince him to quit, so bloody cheesey!

@chergar Eerie Indiana and Quantum Leap were amazing tv shows, Definitely not shite

Dallas I was only about 8 and looking back (having re watched it) it was not appropriate, namely Ray the ranch hand shagging an under age Lucy who later turned out to be his neice 🤢. I had a crush on JR

Eurotrash! That was funny. I loved Friday nights with a late night snack of cheese on toast and that on tv!
Petrochelli , did he ever finish building that house?

My mum loved Harry Hagman as JR.
A complete rotter , but oddly like able!!
The 'Who shot J R ' story was huge.

Dads Army- those little white arrows going across Europe used to scare me half to death (I was only little!)
The Wheeltappers & Shunters Club
The Good Old Days

I tried to watch eerie Indiana recently and it was hard going, don't rewatch as a grown up, it ruins the magic.

Does anyone remember before neighbours started there would be Grange Hill/blue peter on bbc at 5 then either Rolf Harris or the flintstones afterwards but on a Friday it would be a Children’s film that was shown? Not a blockbuster or anything but a made for tv type film by the children's film foundation. The one I clearly remember was Mr Popper's problem about a professor and children who are a sugar cube and shrunk

I remember on Friday nights if I didn't go out it would be the American sitcoms they always used to show on C4 - Cheers, Roseanne, Cybill, Golden Girls, Friends, Scrubs. Before that, Brookside, then Eurotrash, the Girly Show, the Word. I loved TFI Friday, sometimes I would watch it twice - at 6pm and the repeat at 11pm. Men Behaving Badly was on BBC 1 on a Thursday and Saturdays were Stars in their Eyes, You Bet and Man O Man, a dating show where they got pushed in the pool. Sunday mornings was Hollyoaks omnibus, Video Diaries on BBC2 then Eastenders omnibus.

I watched a lot of TV.

Most of these ,in those days we only had 1 TV so mostly what my parents were watching tbh ,I did like Jim,I'll fix it I think I wrote in thankfully was,nt picked!

Also Sons and Daughters and The Flying doctors at my Grans house in the holidays. Going for Gold when I was off school
Poorly (which was never as my mum actually had to see sick in the toilet bowl before I was allowed off)

Monkey, Soap, golden girls, dynasty, shocking dubbed cartoons, The Smurf’s, bullseye. Basically anything my parents watched- they were not strict about that kind of thing.

Men behaving badly is on Prime now. Including a series I don't remember with Harry Enfield instead of Neil Morrissey

When I was off sick from school there was never anything interesting,
So I used to watch Playbus and that range of "schools" programmes they put on Channel 4 for teachers to record and show us. I was such a nerd

Oh eurotrash reminds me of a show called Carnal Knowledge, does anyone remember that?

Saturday afternoons watching sunset beach

The Brittas empire that was another one we watched

Alias Smith and Jones - with Ben Murphy and Pete Duel
The waltons
The Double Deckers
Crossroads

Knight rider, CHIPs, The A-Team

My memories of 'Tales From Europe' (I think it was called) and particularly, 'The Singing Ringing Tree', are terrifying. At the same time, I loved them. That thing of not wanting to be frightened as a child, whilst also finding something thrilling in being scared.