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Which children's TV Series did you remember from your childhood?

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Moln · 17/01/2016 19:42

I came across a book I bought as a child The December Rose. I loved the series. Around that time I recall it was quite standard for the BBC to produce a brilliant series for children.

Ones I can recall (though not sure if they were all bbc) are:

December Rose (obviously!)
Moondial
Box of Delights
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrode

There were more I'm sure can anyone remember other ones (obviously different ages will have different memories!). More impressively can anyone recall what day they were broadcast on?

Moondial was weekday, during children's tv hours I think, and Box of Delights on Sunday evening?

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fredericofoofoo · 22/01/2016 23:03

I remember most of the late 60's and 70's ones mentioned, but has anyone mentioned Rainbow and a Handful of Songs?

We've got a handful of songs to sing you
Can't stop the voice when it longs to bring you
New songs and ........ songs and songs to fill you
With happiness, no more, no less

80sMum · 22/01/2016 23:10

My favourites were:
Champion the Wonder Horse
Flipper
Robinson Crusoe
Daktari
The Flashing Blade
Belle and Sebastian
The White Horses

Terribleknitter · 22/01/2016 23:20

Look and read
Dark tower
Belle and Sebastian
Ulysses 31
Green Knowe
The Lion the witch and the wardrobe
One that was German I think - a cartoon Storyteller who sang the theme tune and had a live action story.
Heidi
Trumpton/Camberwick Green
Rainbow
Pigeon Street
A Ralph Mctell one - something about a river?
The Album.
Bagpuss (made me cry regularly Blush)

Pipestheghost · 22/01/2016 23:24

The Clangers (recently revived) my dc's love them Grin
I also loved Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd, black and white classics Smile

Miz10 · 22/01/2016 23:34

Raggy dolls
Button moon

Davros · 22/01/2016 23:38

Get On Board with the Double Deckers!
Was "Why Don't You?" the one with Flintlock and Pauline Quirke and Lynda Robson?
What about Junior Showtime? We used to take the piss out of that unmercillesly. Glyn Poole, omfg!

morningtoncrescent62 · 23/01/2016 21:22

Oh god, Junior Showtime, I've been repressing that memory very hard! Didn't Bonnie Langford appear on that, aged about 6?

Pauline Quirke and Lynda Robson (but mostly PQ) presented a magazine-type programme in the mid-70s, 'Pauline's Quirke's' (admission - I just had to google the title of that, I'd forgotten what it was called). I was one of the schoolchildren surveyed for an item she ran on girls not being allowed to wear trousers as part of their school uniform. Pauline was the show's hostess, and Lynda and I think some others appeared regularly on it.

Frederico, I remember Handful of Songs. In fact, I can sing along with you:

For ever, wherever we may roam to,
And any shore that we may be blown to,
We know that we're gonna feel at home to,
La bella musica. (At least that's what I always thought the last line was.

Was the third line 'new songs and blues songs'? So gentle compared to children's shows nowadays, or even the ones I watched with my DDs in the 90s. Speaking of which, we watched one, probably very early 90s, from Australia, about a family who'd arrived from space. The teenage girl was called Estrella, and the younger girl was Skye, the family organiser. I think it might have been on over the summer holidays.

RomanMum · 24/01/2016 09:41

Yes it was new songs and blue songs.

Children of the stones. Read the book, then saw the series as an adult. Hmm.

Also does anyone remember Captain Zep, space detective..? DH thinks I made it up. That tune is now in my head.

morningtoncrescent62 · 24/01/2016 16:53

'Fraid I can't help with Captain Zep. Children of the Stones absolutely creeped me out when I first saw it. I can't remember the story now, but I do remember finding it terrifying.

My haunting theme tune of the day is Midnight is a Place. I loved that, even though the girl playing the eight-year-old lead looked at least 13. I think it was quite common then to have young actors who were quite a bit older than the part they were playing.

228agreenend · 24/01/2016 22:49

Izzy noho
Trumpton
Camberwick green
Fred Bassett
Heidi
Phoenix and the carpet
Lassie
Little house on the prairie

fussychica · 25/01/2016 17:52

Crackerjack with Eamon Andrews, Leslie Crowther and the awful Peter Glaze
Watch with Mother
Top of the Form
Tales ftom Europe
Ivor the Engine
Captain Pugwash
And an Australian programme called the Dreamtime or something similar, I've looked it up but to no avail. Is there is anyone out there who knows what it was really called? It was on in the mid 60s so probably notGrin

Costacoffeeplease · 25/01/2016 17:56

Have I missed it, or has no-one mentioned jackanory?

JellyTotCat · 25/01/2016 17:58

The Diddakoi, Lizzie Dripping, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Enchanted Castle, The Singing Ringing Tree, Heidi, The Children of Fire Mountain, A Czechoslovakian series i can't remember the name of but remember the music

fussychica · 25/01/2016 18:09

Well this thread made me do some more research and I think I've found it, though the name means absolutely nothing to me and no images around but it appears to be Wandjina Magic - mean anything to anyone else? Broadcast in 67 which would be about right. Thought it might be another programme called the Magic Boomerang but that doesnt sound right.

SerenityReynolds · 25/01/2016 18:14

Dogtanian
Baker Grove
Hartbeat
Going Live
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Knightmare
Fun House - I really wanted to go on that!

There was one I used to love about a girl who travelled to a different place each week on a quest to find a set of magic spoons or somesuch (I swear it was a thing, but reading that makes me sound loony!). Can't remember the name of it for the life of me though.

SerenityReynolds · 25/01/2016 18:15

Oops! Byker Grove Blush

heavenlypink · 29/01/2016 21:39

Has Jamie and the Magic Torch been mentioned?

He had a big dog (think it talked) possibly an Old English sheepdog

I'm sitting here singing the theme tune/song

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