Your favourite kids programmes

[Joe]

As the holidays are here it has given me the opportunity to watch my favourite programme with my son - Bear in the Big Blue House. I think he is lovely and his sniffing at the screen in the beginning really cute. Im sure my son enjoys it too. Whats your favourite kids programme??

I've heard Bear in the Big Blue house is really good but unfortunately my daughter and I are never up early enough to watch it (lazy I know) but we do make a point of watching Lizzie's Library. We both love it. As for programmes I loved as a child, my faves were Button Moon and Morph.

Favourites in our house - apart from the Tweenies (goes without saying) are Arthur and the Rugrats. Both have quite different perspectives on life, but both are quite accurate.
I love watching the opening sequence to the Bear in the Big Blue House - his dancing makes me laugh every time.
Unfortunately, Barney is very popular with my youngest (2 yrs) - I would cheefully strangle him and his oh-so-sickly-sweet bunch of friends!

My dd loved Brum in the Easter holidays - does anyone know if it's likely to be scheduled this summer too?

p.s. hear hear about Barney and his appalling friends!!! Sadly it does get both daughters enthusiastically involved so I guess it must be good.

My son's favourites are Brum (when it was shown earlier in the year), Bob The Builder and Rosie and Jim. As these are about all he watches, it's a shame when they don't run for all that long. I do buy the odd video of these, but they are expensive to keep buying all the time.

My almost-4-year old loves Thunderbirds, which I loved when I was young (I scored serious brownie points with him for knowing all the names of the pilots and which Thunderbird they piloted!). The other programme he is mad about at the moment is Walking with Dinosaurs (we've got all the episodes on video) - not a childrens programme at all, and terribly bloodthirsty, but that doesn't seem to bother him. His 20-month-old sister is now asking to "watch saurus" too, although Bob the Builder seems to be her real favourite.

Bear in the Big Blue house walks it over Barnie and his saccharine friends. God knows where they got those children from, but it wasn't the real world. I have banned the latter from our home as it really does make me feel quite ill. Love Bear though - very funny and well put together.

My dd (19 months) loves: Brum, Come Outside, Thomas the Tank Engine and (yuk) Noddy. All these are on blissful BBC Choice. Teletubbies are quite popular, and unfortunately the Tweenies are becoming more so, especially the dancing parts. She loves all Bob the builder merchandise (did anyone read that mumsnet fact about 60 million quid spent on Bob merchandise???) but doesn't like the show, unsurprisingly as it is utterly dull.

As a child, I loved Vision on, Hectors House, and does anyone remember Catweazle? Just in case you think all this telly must be doing us all no good at all, my mum swears that Sesame Street taught me the alphabet by the age of 2.

How could I have forgotten Maisy???

Wendy in Bob the Builder to me seems to the metaphor for the modern woman. Not only does she have to sort out all the men's stuff-ups, she also has to make the sandwiches!. She never seems to take any of the credit either and when she isn't there, it all falls to pieces....

Will Bob and Wendy ever get together though? She so obviously loves him - she's always polishing the photo of him on her desk.

Bexi, I am sure Wendy will become Mrs Bob one day - the sexual frisson between them is too much to bear!

PLAYDAYS is the favourite in our house. BBC have taken it off air for the holidays. Crisis!

Playdays was always our favourite too for years, I used to record loads, one after the other, for crisis times!! It comes off the air when you least expect it.

love bear and the big blue house, I turn it on for the kids, 1 and 3 then when I finally surface the kids have disappeared and I'm the only one watching. my kids love Hi 5 and The wiggles- aussie shows, lots of music and dancing. Thankfully I brought some videos with me when I came back from the southern hemisphere and my in-laws send me the latest releases. Otherwise we don't watch tv much. ask me after an irish winter.

We love Blues Clues and Little Bill on Nick Junior. A big fav on Cartoon Network is Johnny Bravo.

Come Outside - with Pippin & Auntie Mabel is my 4 year olds favourite - he watches them over & over again...

Mel when is Blues Clues and Little Bill on? We glimpsed the end once and have tried to catch it again is it back on C4? Thanks in advance.

Soory Riv, been away on my hols. Blues Clues is usually on about 6pm weekdays on Nick Junior. Haven't caught it on Channel 4. I'm sure it's also on in the mornings, but we never catch the daytime programmes.

The Clangers! Oliver postgate is fab. We ended up videoing it every Sunday morning when it was on Channel 4 and it was as good as we remembered.

I asked for a small whistling Clanger for my Christmas and it's one of dd's favourite toys- great to chew and she loves the noise it makes. Needless to say nephews and nieces had to be bought them after they came to visit. Also have a soup dragon but dd is beginning to take an interest in that too. As compensation have a Clangers mobile phone holder now which I keep well hidden in my briefcase-sadly it doesn't whistle.

My son loves Postman Pat (old vidoes) but compared to Bob, he seems so-o-o dull. same thing each week, some irresponsible Londoner leaves the gate open and the sheep escape. Why do the kids like it?

My vote for Bob at co.!!

It's all been downhill on TV since they stopped showing the Woodentops - and now I'm showing my age! I just loved the Spotty Dog in it.

chairmum, we have a very tall (and now, obviously, very old) friend who used to go to fancy dress parties in our youth as "the biggest spotty dog in the world"!