To think we need more programmes like The Littlest Hobo

[Theteenandme]

Dont you think that bringing back The Littlest Hobo, Happy Days and The Wonder Years etc (but only in their original ways, no modern interpretations) would help heal the world? Just some wholesome, family escapism (even if you you cry a bit when the dog keeps moving on).

“Down in the willows, where the wind blows free”

Off to Google 😁

I can't hear the theme tune to The Littlest Hobo without getting a lump in my throat at the 'maybe tomorrow' line. It happened when I was a kid and even more so now. All those people offering to give that dog a home....and he just kept moving on trying to find his own home 😭

Worse than that - Heidi!!!....

Yes 100%. I have the first season of the Littlest Hobo on DVD and love watching it with the kids

For some reason Ive just thought of Old Jack's Boat and the episode where he talks about his dead wife. 😭😭😭

Kids will never know the electric anticipation of waking up on the first day of the summer holidays and wondering whether it’s Heidi, Silas or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to look forward to.

Mine too. I was so excited to find it on dvd when my children were little. I managed 5 minutes

Oh Christ, I forgot about that!!! 😫😫

He was my first crush 😆🥰

The life and times of Grizzly Adams. The actual best theme tune ever. I loved that.
I also loved Highway to Heaven. I am not sure either of these were children's TV as such, but back then you just watched what was on.

I loved Littlest Hobo and shows like Gentle Ben. Children's TV shows today are too 'busy' and everything is so bright and day-glo. I miss the simple days.

This OJB episode is the best children’s TV in modern history I think.

I loved the Littlest Hobo theme tune. Obvs. But found the programme a bit boring and was always anxious about where he was going next and who was going to look after him. Same for Lassie. Gentle Ben, I didn’t find remotely appealing as a narrative.

The Waltons and Little House, I watched them and like them for amusing retro appeal but they also equalled boring Sundays.

The Wonder Years, Rentaghost and Why Don’t You I have very happy watching memories of.

Flipper?

They should do Littlest Hobo, Lassie, Flipper and Gentle Ben movies, they could be part of a Hero Animal Movie Universe and have occasional movies where they team up to take on a common enemy.

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo could be part of the universe as well.

Yes!

I lived these. Fitted to find out the lead in tales of the gold monkey was an abuser.

And Monkey- fab series.

And skippy

I'm with you on that I hated that schmaltzy style programme's as a kid.

Highway to heaven..oh god pass the sick bucket 🤮
Heidi
Lassie
Also utter crap.

BJ and the bear

It was a beautiful episode but heartbreaking.

You say that but I was taken to see the Littlest Hobo film for my 6th birthday in 1963. My mum took a group of my friends with us. It just about finished us off. We didn't stop crying for days. Be careful what you wish for!

Definitely....I've got boxsets of The Littlest Hobo, The Red Hand Gang, Lassie on dvds..
Children today are deprived.

The Littlest Hobo was something we only watched during the holidays if it was raining and we'd exhausted every other possible avenue of entertainment 😆

I loved Heidi (Katya Pollet version) though - I have it now on DVD. The first time I watched it as an adult (having last seen it in 1979) I got a bit tearful when the 'beautiful alps' music came on over a shot of the mountains. It's so wonderfully faithful to the book, or at least to English translations of it.

Absolutely loved Heidi. Everything about it!