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

Kilroy or Tricia

Was the kids show with puppets - Me and You? I loved that when I was little!

I nearly mentioned Houseparty in my post! I was very small when my mum used to bore me with it and would annoy her by repeating 'This is NOT a party, mummy!' Outrageous 😄.

I was a bad mum as if my kids were off ill they had to spend the day in bed or on the sofa & could only watch tv when it was the usual school home time. My theory was if they wanted to be home but weren't ill and just bunking off, it might put them off from doing it again.
But it did mean I didn't get to watch tv either..

Pipkins! I was bloody terrified of Hartley Hare.

Showing my age here, no daytime TV, nothing until about 5pm!

my dm did that, i remember, i saw through her Boring Day ploy.
as a teenager i got more time off, tonsilitis, and more freedom but the no day time tv has been instilled in me for life!

You tube Hartley being naughty with a glove puppet.
It's been edited from original to look naughty.😁

Anyone else remember The Shillingbury Tales? Around 1980 I'd think... can't remember if it was drama or comedy, but I think one episode involved a safari supper!

Shine on Harvey Moon

The whole concept of being made to watch TV on sick days is strange to me.

I don't remember any sick days at all during school, though maybe there were one or two and I've forgotten. I'd have had to be actually dead before being allowed to stay home from school!

I had to watch BBC Schools on BBC2. Various “educational” programmes. Although I remember the fallout from one when I was about seven years old and it was a programme about the human body. A few years earlier I’d asked my mum what my vagina was and she told me it was my “wee wee hole”. This programme put me right, and I was absolutely fuming with my mum.

Some baffling Australian soap with a wombat, which google informs me was called A Country Practice. The wombat on the sofa is the only thing whatsoever I can remember about this programme

… and being young I assumed wombats on the sofa were sort of normal for Australians

I think that Crown Court used to run one case over three days. I used to find that if I saw the first episode I stayed ill until I had seen the conclusion whether I really was or not.

Too ill to go to school? Then it was confined to bed for us with just books and colouring pencils. Too ill to go to school as a teen or young adult? Could loll downstairs (no TV!) but the worst consequence was....too ill to go to school? Then no going out at the weekend just in case! We were rarely that poorly 😊 (this was late 50s early 60s).

I didn't watch TV with them. I was given some Lucosade and left to get on with it. Or rather they didn't watch TV with me.

The Sullivans (all I can remember is that is was Australian) and Sons and Daughters ( I remember the theme to that one).

I loved Going for Gold though!

You must be my sister…

This is a nostalgiafest thread. I took have vivid memories of being off school in the 70s and watching all these. I used to 'throw a sickie' to stay home to watch. My kids tried it, they had the 'bed if you are ill' treatment as I knew exactly what they were doing! 😅

Sons and daughters! Still an earworm.

When I was sick, TV was, and still is, an easy thing to do. Couldn't do much reading, colouring/puzzle books as that was too hard work. Either to think as head was 'woolly', heavy or had no strength to hold a book, pen.

That isn't true - in the 70s , there was schools broadcast stuff and news in the morning, some childrens stuff mid morning and then again after the news at lunchtime, and then more kids stuff from 4pm onward. There were a lot of intervals/shut downs between programs, but there was certainly programming from 9.30am onward.

I remember some intervals but I am an 80s child so I don't think there were long shut downs during the day by that point. I can recall You and Me, Sullivans, Sons and Daughters, The Waltons, Bagpuss, The Clangers, Magic Roundabout... Cockleshell Bay, Rainbow - loads, a surprising amount given it always seemed that Mother wanted the TV off!

Tears and sadness, and happiness…

Why do I remember that?!

Funnily enough I was thinking about this the other day as I was a little cow and used to make my mom bring the TV upstairs. I have felt really guilty

Can't remember what I used to watch, there wasn't that much choice in those days, probably the Singing Ringing Tree or some other dire kids programme