Children's programmes you watched that you think it's a shame your children don't get to watch

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Children's TV just doesn't seem to be as good (possible that this is because I'm not a child anymore but I mostly think it's because it simply isn't!)

I was thinking through this today the BBC seemed to have loads of children's dramas on that were just amazing and I can't think of any today. I for one loved (to name a few) Box of Delights, Moondial and The December Rose.

Programmes I think it a shame they don't do anymore would include Gruey, Jim'll Fix It, Really Wild Show and Why Don't You.

(In reality my question in the subject is just a long winded way of asking what programmes you likes as a child)

Yeah it was about a girl who had a coin, when she rubbed the queens nose erm something happened.

I also like one about a girl,maybe it was called the madhouse, she had a very large forehead .

My parents are aliens too, gawd it's all coming back.

My DCs loved Tots TV

I loved:
Jackanory
Rhubarb and Custard
The Clangers
John Craven's Newsround (the Vietnam war for children very informative though and a good idea)
Crackerjack
Magic Roundabout
Blue Peter

And series like
The Diddakoi/ Kizzy
Sam and the River
Carrie's War

I remember a lot of Quentin Blake cartoons/ drawings -- was that Jackanory?

I remember the White horse and Waylands smithy thing! It was an Edwardian setting and one of the girls was blind IIRC.

There were a few Euro things around which I liked. Belle and Sebastian anyone? And Robinson Crusoe, and (my fave) White Horses.

Best of all was Arthur of the Britons with Oliver Tobias. I had a picture of him stuck onto my desk lid at school.

rosie and jim was very cute for weenies.

blackletterday - was it the one with 2 sisters and the older one got an italina mural painted in her room?

grange hill [had the dvd box set for my 40th]
rentaghost
why don't you
take hart
little house on the prairie
heidi
ballet shoes
bagpuss
the way we used to live

Sesame Street

Rings a bell sungirl, the older girl had a blonde bob. Can't remember what the rubbing was in aid of though.

Omnilap I remember the white horse/Wayland Smithy thing - wish I could remember the name, seemed to have a lot of hares' bones in it to.
Singing Ringing Tree
Mary Mungo & Midge
Barbar the Elephant
Hectors House
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Jamie and his Magic Torch
Double Deckers (isn't one of them in Aswad now and Brains is in Spooks)
Follyfoot
Vision On
Ludvig
Little Blue (took his fathers fountain pen and broke it in two)

Oh loving all of these!

Agree they should bring back the childrens TV series on Sunday evenings. It was always a lovely time for me, bringing the weekend to a close curling up with my mum on the sofa.

Think the one where they lived on a barge was 'Thursday's child' - adaptation of a Noel Streatfield book (same author as ballet shoes). And the Kizzy one is 'the diddakoi' - adaptation of a book by rumer godden.

I think the big difference today is that popular children's fiction is either being produced with a big budget (harry potter, artemis fowl etc), or is done on a limited budget on children's telly (tracey beaker), and there is less focus on putting together versions of stand-alone children's novels - perhaps the budgets just aren't there? Plus the courage to educate rather than just entertain I think has lapsed.

Perhaps if we make enough pressure, they will issue these on DVD? My daughter (aged 3) is loving the clangers right now.

Cockleshell Bay
Raggydolls
Five children and it
and there was one about a dress maker who had made a little fabric doll, can't remember the name of it, but it was very calming!
Rainbow
The shoe people
Will Cwac Cwac- my all time favourite!

I also liked the BBC school series, such as Geordie Racer.

Ace Of Wands was great- fab theme tune as well

Tightrope also excellent and around the same time
Lizzie Dripping
Children of the Stones
Kizzy
Thursday's child- this was the one about children on a barge. I remember her staining her skin with walnuts to try and pass herself off as a barge urchin!

Was also a one called the strange affair of Adelaid Harris starring Freddie Jones and his gouty leg which he refered to as "Boot"

Much later on but I loved Book of Delights

I loved Pipkins , Hartley hare and Pig were great.
Showing my age now, I was also keen on Champion the wonder horse on a saturday morning.

Screen Test with Michael Rodd
Hickory House
Picture Box
Handful of Songs
Barnaby the bear
Rupert the bear
Kids from 47a

Magic times!!

This is fabulous. I don't remember some of those. I used to like
The Tomorrow People - I can only remember one story where their outfits became their skin - frightened me!
Jamie and the Magic Torch (and Wordsworth)
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Pipkins
Mary Mungo and Midge
Mr Benn
Heidi (which was repeated so many times)
and all those 5 minute cartoons before the news but after Blue Peter - Paddington Bear, Willo the Wisp, Roobarb ...

prettypurpledaisy I've never "met" anyone else who loved Marine Boy too. It was my absolute favourite. I didn't know there was a dvd so will be getting that. Woohoo!

I loathed Jackanory - some overemoting tosser like Michael Palin reading a story. Boring stuff which parents preferred as opposed to the children.

Grange Hill I loved, especially Mr Bronson with his bow tie, and Mrs McLuskey.

Anything with Tony Hart, god rest his soul.

No. 73. I have always loved Sandi Toksvig.

Anything with Brian Cant, he was so lovely, I used to fantasise that he was my dad.

I loved the Flumps, camberwick green, dappledown farm and the BBC version of a Little Princess

Oh and I still enjoy my Portland Bill video! Started a life long obsession with lighthouse as did fraggle rock!

You can find some Marine Boy on Youtube as well Belle.

cupofteaplease, the dressmaker programme was my all-time fave, Ragdolly Anna.

ooh ..thought of somemore

Owl Service
Torchy the battery Boy
Sara Hoppity
Animal Magic
Paulus the woodgnome
Deputy Dawg
Bleep and Booster
Astronut
Hair Bear Bunch
The Lost Island
Fantastic journey
H.R Pufnstuf