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

Dr Quinn Medicine Woman
some Open University course

i remember watching pipkin and not me but my sister she loved the Sullivan and would fake ear aches so she could watch it. The day the mum left not sure if she died or just left her family I came home from school to witness my mum and sister sobbing their hearts out. Also they both cried every week of little house on the prairie 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Love is very strange, it can come and go
It can happen when you are young or old
When it comes
It comes from nowhere
When it comes
It changes your life

I never got to watch anything on TV if I was home sick. DM was a great believer in the idea that if you were well enough to be sitting up downstairs, you were well enough for school, and she didn't want to encourage malingering.

Anyone remember A Country Practice? I remember watching it ALL the time but can't remember anyone other than Esme Watson. I'm baffled why I can remember both her forename AND surname!

I think her name was Nancy Kominski.

I used to watch the Schools Programmes too.I particularly remember one called 'Going to Work' aimed at school leavers.
I remember Crown Court too,and Take the High Road. Does anyone remember The Cedar Tree?
When I was feeling better,I would dance to the music from the test card 🤣🤣

Was that the GP surgery? My mum used to love all those types of series

Long distance Clara I thick was on pigeon street .. what a gal 🤪

I don't think I was made to watch, but would just watch whatever was on voluntarily!

I watched a lot of The Sullivans again on YouTube a few years ago. It's pretty good.

Young Doctors was amazing, I'd love to see that again. A Country Practice and Sons and Daughters I found quite dull as a kid.

When I was in my teens my mum and I used to sit up watching Prisoner Cell Block H.

We did also watch non-Aussie programmes from time to time 😅. Though DM was also addicted to Neighbours and Home and Away for years after I stopped watching.

I used to get into bed with her after my dad had got up to go for a run on a Saturday morning, put the telly on and subject her to the Wide Awake Club or Going Live.

Sheet, Pillow, Duvet. Bonk and Boob!

Oh yes, all of the above.

I would watch all the schools programmes and even Open University sometimes.

University was apparently beardy men with glasses wearing a lot of brown clothing, in a brown room, writing inexplicable numbers and symbols on a blackboard. Somehow this did not put me off years later.

Just thinking as it's half term, in school holidays I'd plan my day's viewing and would hardly move from the sofa. TV am, Out of This World, Kilroy, This Morning, perhaps a film in the afternoon, a quiz, then straight onto kids TV, switching between BBC and ITV, Knightmare, Blockbusters...tea time. Then back for more later.

What became of Paul coia?
I too hated it with a passion.
I think bod was on about same time.

Rarely allowed off sick but the programmes mentioned here have memories flooding bag !

The galloping prick! He annoyed the shit out of me as a child.

Brilliant! Wasn't the country practice a vets? I remember the wombat clearly 😳

I was born mid-60s so no idea what was on then but there was loads of TV in the 1970s. Schools programmes were on in the morning. No videos then so schools all had to watch live TV.

There was plenty of programming during the afternoon: Yoga with Lynn, Paint with Nancy, Country Kitchen, some interview programme with Mavis Nicholson.

I was off school for 2 weeks with chickenpox in spring 1975 and I was home alone. My mum was a nurse at our local teaching hospital "looking after people who are really ill" so she'd leave home at 7:15 and I would sit on the sofa watching drivel. She popped home at lunch time to smear me in calamine then went back to work.

There was no lying in bed as (a) she wasn't that fussed what I did and (b) our only heating was the 2 bar electric fire in the living room. The bedrooms were arctic.

I wasn’t allowed to watch tv as a child because my parents thought it would rot the brain.
I bought myself one when I was 17.

If you’re in the UK you’re misremembering, Crown Court started in 1972, itv regions had daytime tv from the very early 70s.

test card in the morning when I was small, news and kids programming at lunchtime, I remember them introducing daytime tv like sons and daughters, Sullivans, something in an Australian hospital, my nanna watched them, mum didn’t believe in sick days though! School unless you were actually bed bound which I never was

Fucking Fingerbobs

I used to watch all the ITV Schools programmes on Ch4. Sang to the intent before the show.

Does matter if it was GCSE level or for those started school. Had 7 weeks off sick when I was 10. Then watched the couple of quiz shows lunch time. Crosswits, Turnabout, Chain Letters.

Didnt get Going for Gold.

Watched both transmissions of Neighbours.

Kilroy was awful. Then remember a couple of school programmes that sped up the videos of things being decomposed.

Yoffy has a finger 😁
Apologies if the presenters name isn't spelt correctly.

Oh Crown Court was ace! It’s repeated on Talking Pictures channel sometimes. I think the jury was actually a group of non-actors - members of the public.

They weren't home. I was taken to their work or left alone from age sevenish with them visiting at lunch time.

When I was very ill with mumps my gran came to stay.

Yes!

The afternoon tv slot was full of Australian series. Presumably because they had such low viewing ratings or were very cheap to buy?