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

I’m surprised no-one’s mentioned Fred Trueman’s Indoor League, featuring such sports as shove ha’penny, bar billiards and table skittles. I like how Fred is so proud that they use a Yorkshire board for the darts, a board that has no trebles unlike those namby-pamby southern softy boards.

Same here, if I was sick from school I was tucked up in bed, no watching telly and stuff like that.

Farmhouse kitchen! My mum loved that! Although once I was at secondary she was out at work all day so I was left to my own devices. I do remember Jack Shepherd in something - Billy Budd? when I was off college once though.

I am watching Take the High road on STV player! They release 5 episodes every Friday, my day off. Its my guilty pleasure!

I am watching it 5 episodes at a time on STV player. They release another 5 every Friday.
Getting towards the end now. Not so much "Dougals Tup". We have had 2 lots of AIDS scares, man going with prostitutes, lesbian snog, abortion, female breast cancer, male breast cancer, murder, teen pregnancy, domestic violence. Currently on steroid abuse to win the Ben Darroch Hill Race!

Yoffy lifts a finger, and a mouse is there
Puts his hands together and a seagull takes the air
Yoffy lifts a finger and a scampi darts about
Yoffy bends another, and a tortoise head peeps out

Many, many years later, I was looking after SD unexpectedly and tried to find something to do, so we made puppets, as I had some coloured paper (we used pink and blue for particular documents) in my work bag and an old Pritt stick lurking in the crap drawer, along with a few Sharpies and the consistently unused sewing box.

I have no idea how I did it, as I didn't think I had that much of a memory of them, but we made a perfect Fingermouse complete with whiskers and a set of Scampi, all of which went home with her on her fingers probably for her mum to chuck away

That's fantastic,it's funny how these things stay with us.
Thank you for all the words from the intro.😁👍

Give us a clue - always with Lionel Blair and Liza Goddard

(and all the Aussie melodramas mentioned by PPs, lovely memories)

Funny how something so simple as give us a clue was essential viewing .I remember we all got really involved whilst watching.❤️👍
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I bloody loved Crown Court, made me want to be a barrister.

I also used to watch all the schools programming and was haunted by one I saw, would have been mid 70s, which showed a horrible old man in a cigarette warehouse forcing a teen truant to smoke loads of them. It really upset me at the time (guess I was about 7/8). Still shuddering at the memory.

I’m a milenial (born 93) and I actually enjoyed all the daytime TV when I was a kid.

Changing Rooms, A place in the Sun, Come Dine With Me, Jeremy Kyle Show (although as an adult I now realise how awful and exploitative it was).

Crown Fucking Court.

70s telly had zero idea….

I loved Flying Doctors

Does anyone remember a programme called Houseparty, on every afternoon. Whilst the title suggests unknown tantalisation it was actually a load of women doing housewifey stuff like cooking and sewing. Also Crossroads where the sets wobbled. Opportunity Knocks was another.

Anyone remember The Cedar Tree used to be on daytime TV lunchtimes child of the 70s here!

Yes I mentioned it upthread. It seemed to be on all the time and it was sooo boring. All I can remember were two sisters who just moaned all the time and the posho dad going up and downstairs in a stately home that was clearly made of plywood.

Sons and daughters

Young Doctors
Hart to Hart
Quincy
Sons and Daughters

All the classics!

Ah, yes, and that!

And Take The High Road.

It's all coming back now!

I hated that dour programme with a passion.

My mum was at work so I generally watched sleeping beauty and the little mermaid on VHS!

@MyPithyCat what is your answer to your question?
A quick search shows that you’ve posted a lot of threads asking a question and then don’t bother to supply your own answer.

Living in Leicestershire as a kid, meant we broke up end June/early July due to the Leicester Fortnight, where factories closed for two weeks. This were the days before kids channels. The four TV channels didn't put any children's programmes after 9am, until the 3rd week of July.

Used to tape stuff to watch during the day, otherwise it was bloody Wimbledon which still is bloody annoying.