Worst TV programmes your parents used to make you watch on sick days

[MyPithyCat]

What TV programme as favourites of your parents did they make you watch off sick

All the James Bond films he loved. For mum it was that st Thomas’ hospital program 🤣

You?

Going for Gold

The sullivans!

The Sullivans. Can’t remember anything about it other than it was Australian and had a sepia tone for the opening credits!

Just came to say this!

Going for gold!
And Kilroy
just remembered Sons and Daughters too.

Pebble mill. Hated it.

Showing my age here but Kick Start. Hated that so much!

In the 80s there was a lunchtime show which was just a woman doing an oil painting everyday and you just watched her paint? I feel like it was called “painting with Nancy” or something. I actually used to be quite transfixed by it.

OMG I loved Kick Start. Epic theme music as well.

I stayed with my nan and we watched old black and white films or whatever terrible soap opera was on. Sons and Daughters, Doctors, Falcon Crest ring a bell.
Repeats of Dallas were a bit better - I watched Bobby Ewing come back from the dead when I was off sick from school once!.

@Downplayit I loved kick start. I thought the kids were the epitome of cool!

nothing at all,
dm very strong believer in no day time tv
as a child i am that old there was nothing until magic roundabout
unless there were programmes for schools, but i wouldnt know

Oh yes the Sullivans - I had forgotten that existed!

As I child I always wanted to know why it was called “Pebble Mill”. Where were the pebbles? where was the mill? The title promised so much yet it delivered so little.

Paint along with Nancy! I remember it.

Crown Court always seemed to be on at lunchtime when I was off school.

Take the high road, sons & daughters

Yes also to sons and daughters!

The Sullivans, Crown Court, Take the High Road

Crown Court - a mock up trial with actors playing the parts of barristers, jury and judge. There was a different case every episode. It must have been on in the afternoon. I'd lie on the sofa with my bottle of Lucozade (which was the known cure for all ailments) and a plate of Party Rings. Happy days!

I’d have been sent to my grans to be subjected to Richard and Judy, Prisoner Cell Block H (taped since it was on at 3 in the morning and no sane person watched it) and the Flying Doctors

Nothing. It was straight to bed with curtains closed. No tv, no reading, nothing. My mum had a strange idea that if you were well enough to lie on the sofa staring blankly at the tv in an attempt to distract yourself from nausea etc, then you were well enough for school.

We are obviously all of a certain age here 😁

Sons and daughters- can still sing the theme. Take the high road was dull too and pebble bloody mill. I used to love it when you could watch the schools programming especially how we used to live- it was my favourite. There was also a weird kids show with puppets at a market. Can't remember what it was called but I absolutely hated it