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

The Sullivans and sons and daughters.

And crossroads lol

There was no day time TV when I was a kid, programmes didn't start till about 4 pm. I would have magazines to read if I was up to it, or books. Don't recall Mum watching any TV till the evenings, she was always so busy!

If I was poorly enough to be off school, I was expected to be in bed, preferably asleep, whilst waiting for a house call from the doctor.

Only three instances come to mind. One was a nasal haemorrhage which resulted in a stay in one of the big London hospitals, the second was a severe kidney infection (nearly a whole week off for that) and the third was bronchitis. Mother was reluctant to call the doc for the bronchitis, but I narrowly escaped hospital for that one.

Unless we were half dead, we went to school.

Just watched that Paul Shane clip @Bladderpool . A very unique version i'd say 😂

Paint along with Nancy! I’d forgotten this until you mentioned it.

The Onedin Line, my mum fancied the leading man, yes, I am very very old 😬

Pebble Mill! So dull 🤣

If I remember rightly, the evil blonde fetched up in either Flying Doctors or A Country Practice as well. Can't tell the difference, other than one had a wombat in the title sequence and the other didn't.

I didn't mind The Sullivans at all for some reason and Crown Court was a very rare thing to catch as I think it might have clashed with something else she thought was more appropriate - although all of these got abandoned if there was a chance of seeing Bagpuss, Fingermouse, Bod or Mr Benn again.

Oh, and there is a very vague memory of watching Michael Bentine's Potty Time when I was very, very small, with a battlefield model complete with miniature explosions in the sand. Although this could be a literal fever dream.

I remember watching Take the High Road one afternoon whilst eating Chewits. There was a scene where an older lady (I bet she’d have only been about 40) was walking across a field and stood in a cow pat. The camera zoomed right in on her foot. It made me feel sick and has put me off Chewits for life.

There was no daytime telly when I was a little girl.

Even in the 1970s, when I was a teenager, TV didn't start broadcasting till 4pm.

I was a small child in the 70s and there was definitely daytime TV - my mum always watched the lunchtime news and Pebble Mill in the afternoon!

A Sharp Intake of Breath...alleged "comedy" starring a before he was famous David Jason. Also Pebble Mill (or Pebble Mill At One as it was called then).

I was stuck with the news!

Doctors and Heartbeat always came on when I was off sick

A lot of the Sons and Daughters cast ended up in either Neighbours or Home and Away over the years!

I was a good kid who never faked sickness so I would be allowed to play video games all day when I was ill. I have some sensory issues and being ill would trigger a lot of them so having something engaging as a distraction was a big help.

I remember one evening celebrating finally finishing a game I'd been trying to beat for months and months after a day off school, and promptly puking all over the living room after turning it off as it was no longer distracting me from the nausea.

I think it was the original sonic the hedgehog game but it might have been sonic 2.

Eldorado!

Pebble Mill, which seems to be a popular answer here!

And even earlier, The Galloping Gourmet. So so boring to a small child.

I was just coming on to say this! As soon as I read the thread title the theme tune popped into my head 😂

Pigeon St on BBC2 at about 1:30pm then we’d have to be dead fast switching to BBC1 to catch the lunchtime edition of Neighbours. If I was at school my mum would watch the lunchtime news so watching Pigeon St was a treat!

Yes this!

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

The original version, I was plagued by tonsilitis as a child and missed a lot of school, I remember this being on all the time.

I used to love Going for Gold. Let’s face it, intellectually it was pretty well pitched for an eight year old.

My parents would never ‘make’ me watch TV! Anyway there was only horse racing on during the day as far as I remember.

Straight to bed. Was allowed to read. But mostly slept. Recurrent tonsillitis pretty poorly