Random programmes you remember?

[Wishfulmakeupping]

After watching worst tv of the 90's on five I was having a quick google of worse tv ever and one show universally panned was one I loved- called 'out of this world' 80's sitcom about a girl whose half alien and another one me and my sister remember but no one else about a ghost haunting a family that had moved into her house after she'd choked on a chicken bone.
What ransoms do you remember?

Come Back Lucy
Horse In The House
Follyfoot
Flambards

And the ones I used to watch with the DC in the 90's, I can't remember the names now but they were mostly Australian

One with a group of kids and a haunted showboat

Another with a group of kids, I think set in the future, but one girl was an Alien

One with a very snobby girl who could summon a genie

And one about a boy who manages to bring an Egyptian Mummy back to life

Sorry, their names have totally slipped my mind

Noggin The Nog

There's a Viking In My Bed
The Belfry Witches

Children's Ward
Star Fleet
The Cuckoo Sister (about a girl who was taken from a pram as a baby, reunited with her sister when she was a teenager. Shown on BBC One in the mid eighties)
White Peake Farm (about a family that lived on a farm. Also shown in the mid eighties.

This thread has taken me right back!! :)

Probably showing my age a bit now, but kids tv would have to include Bagpuss, Pigeon Street, Bric-a-Brac, Button Moon, Ivor the Engine, Pob, Playschool, The Magic Roundabout.

The Brittas Empire was fab! I remember there used to be various dramatisations of children's stories on at the weekends e.g. Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Five Children and It (I think?!), The Secret Garden, The Borrowers. They used to be on either a Saturday or Sunday afternoon/early evening - it was a family 'ritual' to have tea by the fire (open fire in the living room, toasting muffins and crumpets on the fire) and a sweet from the sweetie tin for pudding.

A drama about a group of children convinced a neighbour was an alien because he stayed at home with the curtains closed and his car had no engine (it was a VW Beetle so the engine was in the boot or something). Transpired - after I think the children broke into his house - that he was an albino. No idea what it was called.

Does anyone remember Why Don't You? Utterly shite C4 kids programme about things to do and make, like eggy bread etc

One cartoon I remember but can't for the life of me remember it's name was about animals and two bad guys on a ship dumping toxic waste into a river. Would have been on around the time of The Racoons, The Riddlers, Fraggle Rock era

Oh and Badger Girl which we watched at school.

I remember Why Don't You! I used to get the fact pack things too......!

The Racoons! And Fraggle Rock - I loved that! And there was that one with Dinosaurs - the baby one always said 'I'm the baby, gotta love me'. Harry and the Hendersons was another one

Wow, this is a right ol' meander down memory lane....

Loads of good stuff on this thread, some of mine already mentioned

I loved;
Time slip
Z cars
Softly softly
Jason King
The Saint
The Prisoner ( on TV this week)
Secret Army
Follyfoot
Land of the giants
Mission Impossible
UFO

Might have been mentioned already as I've only skimmed the thread but you can buy a few old series on download now from the BBC. This includes The Enchanted Castle and The Adventure Game.

The one that everyone says I made up, but I always knew I hadn't, I was never able to prove it though til Google was invented,

Seven Little Australians

I used to love that!

The 1980's version of The Borgia

My wife next door
Nationwide
How
Out of town

I loved the Brittas Empire - brilliant and so funny.

What was the one about 2 sisters who set up a dress making business in the 1920s? Cant remember title brilliant plot though.

There was a great program about I think a witch and some ghosts. The only bit I can remember was they'd keep saying "there's somebody at the door"

Also who remembers Wizbit - I think it was something to do with Paul Daniels and featured a dancing cone shaped creature. Title song went "hup up this a way hup hup that a way" or somethng like that

Loved Rentaghost too

Dogtanian and the three muskahounds

And something about a family of Loch Ness monsters - great cartoon

Who remembers when they did Adrian Mole as a series?

Children now don't know what they're missing.... anyway back to reality need to start VAT return :(

lists - it was House of Elliott, or House of Idiot in the French and Saunders take-off!
Loved Potty Time - there was a bit in it with performing budgies that was my favourite (it was the 70s)!!
Loved Flambards as a young teen, very romantic...

I used to watch a show called 'Round The Twist' 3 Australian kids and their dad lived in a lighthouse. Can't remember anymore about it but I loved it!

Come back Mrs Noah with Mollie Sudgen

"The ancient legend of the Dreamtime people
Tells of a Magic Boomerang:
When this boomerang was thrown

All Time Would Stand Still..."

"The Magic Boomarang" - sort of Bernard's Watch in Australia. And probs not v politically correct...but I loved it.

OllyBjolly Dream On was made by the three people who went on to create Friends. I was always puzzled at the end of Friends as to why I found that production company logo so familiar.

Some of the humour is quite similar. The joke of the ex-wife's new husband, Richard, who you never see, who is absolutely perfect in every way, for instance, is one that crops up quite a lot in Friends: the ex's new squeeze with whom you can never successfully compete is a recurring theme.

I loved it and remember it fondly. There was a LOT of sex in it though so it was on quite late at night, possibly why not many people saw it.

Loved the Brittas Empire! Do you remember the episode after he dies and goes up to heaven (it looks likes he's on his way down, but the good deed he died for outweighs the bad)? A few days later we see St P escorting him back to the Pearly Gates as he's getting a second chance at life, apparently for being so good, but in reality due to the organisation he's put in place (all the to the Gate's Gordan's reminding Peter of all the activities he's got planned).

So then you're around the grave and there's suddenly knocking coming from the coffinn. Hilarious!

Plus loved So Haunt Me, May to December and Mulberry Days. Have the last on DVD but would love to get the rest.

The Brittas Empire was inspired.

The one nobody ever remembers was a sitcom I remember watching as a small child - it was called The Front Line I think, set in Brixton with one brother (Malcolm) in the police force and the other (Sheldon) in a band. I can still sing the theme tune (by Eddy Grant I think!) but nobody has the slightest recollection of it!

The ghost and Mrs Muir
Twizzle
The Tomorrow People
Sons and Daughters

Yes, yes to loads of these.

Also, Coma, Triangle, Day of the triffids, life and loves of a she devil.

The Brittas Empire was truly good. Liked that along with The Sullivans and Battlestar Gallactica (a highlight of Thursday evenings). I also can recall the Front Line.

Anyone else remember "Luv"?.

Anne of Green Gables...
Sooty and Sweep=only adding this because I had a crush on Matthew Corbett>cringe!
Littlest hobo
Lots on here I used to like

Engie Benjie engine man

Haha Dogtanian-LOVED THIS
Had a brief(very brief) period of having the theme as my ringtone