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

Oh gosh I came on to say Pebble Mill…terrible programme!! 🤣

Oh an Young doctors…I still can’t walk through double swing doors without picturing the opening sequence to it.

Goodness is forgotten so many of these titles until I read this thread! Definitely remember sons and daughters, sullivans and pebble mill!

Pebble Mill had some classic moments though, Paul Shane murdering You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling is comedy gold. Also didn’t they stuff up a “live” performance of Owen Paul’s Favourite Waste Of Time?

The best part of being an ill in the early 70s was the daytime dramas. I regarded Crown Court (shown at 1:30 pm) as the quality opening act for the real headliner, the peerless General Hospital at 2 pm. It was also possible to catch some daytime shows aimed at pre-schoolers such as Michael Bentine’s Potty Time, which was a kind of Monty Python for little ones and which I thought was hilarious. No VCRs in those days so being ill was the only chance we had of watching this stuff.

Sons and Daughters came on in the afternoon. TvAm before with Anne Diamond and that fella.

That’s firmly in the ear worm now you sod!!!

My mum loved General Hospital, but I remember even she lost patience with a storyline where Gill Gascoigne played another character in a red wig and a bad accent. She seemed to take it as a personal attack on her intelligence.

Many of these, Sullivan (I hated it, and they had a gate with a funny sunshine type pattern on it).
sons and Daughters … so weird, the same nothingness every episode
prisoner cell block H
Young Doctors, possibly Flying Doctors …. were we getting BOGOFF deals on Oz programmes?!

Oh my word. I had totally forgotten You and Me existed until now, yet it’s all come flooding back and now I can’t get the theme song out of my head.
Flying doctors, yes! amazing! The littlest hobo. The Sullivans. We didn’t know we were alive 😂

Oh god, I remember watching schools TV, a show about early medical doctors. Someone did a blood transfusion from a goat. Being unwell already I fainted. Dad never noticed as he was shut in his study working. Was probably 7 or 8!

I wasn't made to watch anything but there were a few I remember vividly.

Going for Gold, a European quiz with Henry Kelly. Really cheesy but I loved it.

The Flying Doctors and Sons and Daughters. Both unwatchable shite.

Sesame street. I pretended not to like it but I did really.

Watching neighbours twice a day was the highlight!

Lucky ladders!

Also of course Going for Gold "You're playing catch up"

“Sons and daughters smiles and happiness and something something” still remember that theme tune

“Sons and daughters / smiles and happiness / love and laughter everywhere”

who wrote this drivel?!

Hans Zimmer wrote the theme tune for Going For Gold!

My least favourite was when I was off sick and the Schools programme was maths or science-based, instead of How We Used To Live.

Or when dad was around (worked shifts) so he watched the snooker or the cricket and I missed all the good stuff.

I wasn’t keen on the Kiwi/Aussie soaps like Shortland Street, Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters.

I loved Paint Along With Nancy; Farmhouse Kitchen; Kilroy; The Time, The Place; The Sullivans; The Cedar Tree and Heads and Tails.

We never had the tv on during the day apart from Watch with Mother at lunchtime.

When I was off ill it was always Vanessa I remember. That awful talk show with that horrible Vanessa Feltz😒

Same here. To sick to go to school then too sick to watch TV. Schools programs or not at all. The TV was never on in the daytime anyway and I still can’t bring myself to do it. I can’t put it on until after 5pm. Read or radio before that.

They are showing all of Crown Court on Talking Pictures TV at the moment.

Gill Gascoigne! The Gentle Touch was one of my favourite programmes.

Pet Rescue!

I remember watching How We Used to Live at school in primary. I really liked it.

Yes this! I am staggered at everyone watching tv - I didn’t think it was a thing!

Crown Court
General Hospital
House Party