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TV shows you hated as a child

173 replies

Steve4 · 10/01/2018 18:13

I will start

I disliked Blue peter as a child and still do.

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blamethecat · 10/01/2018 21:10

daffydill I still remember a nightmare about grotbags from when I was very young. It was a terrible program

onemouseplace · 10/01/2018 21:11

The Littlest Hobo - so boring. Even so, I can still remember the theme tune.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 10/01/2018 21:11

I LOVED Jackanory! Can't believe people found it boring!

I hated Why Don't You? Absolutely dire.

MickHucknallspinkpancakes · 10/01/2018 21:11

Another vote for Rentaghost.

Bloody hated it. It used to give me a headache. Poxy pantomime horse and cross legged Jester.

The Adventure Game on BBC2 with that grumbling plant.

Robot wars - trying to make a battery operated Eubank exciting.

ipswichwitch · 10/01/2018 21:13

Oh my god just. The boy from space used to scare the crap out of me too.
I also had nightmares about ten little Indians, that awful public info programme they put on in schools about a bunch of kids mucking about in a Farm yard, and one by one they all come a cropper in a hideous variety of farming type accidents

cloudyweewee · 10/01/2018 21:13

Tomorrow's World. It used to be on just before Top of the Pops and seemed to drag on for hours and hours.

onemouseplace · 10/01/2018 21:14

Oh - I LOVED The Adventure Game - I still occasionally have dreams that I'm in the end matrix bit.

buggerthebotox · 10/01/2018 21:14

Singing Ringing Tree. I was terrified by itShock

Unevenbeard · 10/01/2018 21:15

Blue Peter as well

lastnamefirstfirstnamelast · 10/01/2018 21:19

Heartbeat
Block busters
Little house on the prairie
The waltons
Strange but true scared me silly too.

Weezol · 10/01/2018 21:19

The Moomins. That was some freaky shit, still can't be doing with it.

SimonBridges · 10/01/2018 21:20

I loved the Adventure Game. It is all of the brilliant.

Anyway. I hated We Are The Champions. I hated it because you could see the presenters vest through his shirt.

justdontevenfuckingstart · 10/01/2018 21:32

The Adventure Game was Amazing, I always wanted one of those plastic card things with a shape in it.

Jojoanna · 10/01/2018 21:35

Tomorrow’s world just before top of the pops and a weird foreign programme Robinson Crusoe

onemouseplace · 10/01/2018 21:36

Ooh - I've been looking up The Adventure Game and they released a DVD of some of the shows earlier this year!

Need2morehands · 10/01/2018 21:37

The clangers they freaked me out and still do.

Littlewoo · 10/01/2018 21:40

Another vote for Tales of the Unexpected, just the theme tune uses to scare me.
Also The Day of the Triffids, hated it as it was terrifying

Snoopyokay · 10/01/2018 21:41

Heartbeat! As soon as I heard the theme tune I had the Sunday night back to school dread!

LittleTinyPig · 10/01/2018 21:41

Emmerdale, or Emmerdale Farm as it was known then. In our family the TV was on almost constantly, from teatime children’s programmes to Neighbours, Home and Away, then the local news but as soon as the music for Emmerdale came on there were shrieks of “turn it off!”. Then it went back on for Eastenders or Corrie and stayed on all evening!

TulipsInAJug · 10/01/2018 21:43

Blue Peter.

Did anyone actually like Blue Peter?

lastnamefirstfirstnamelast · 10/01/2018 21:43

snoopyokay me too! Hence my hatred for it! X

Mrsknackered · 10/01/2018 21:44

ChuckleVision. Hated it. Also Sundays at grandmas were great until we were all silenced and forced to watch Songs of Praise.

MikeUniformMike · 10/01/2018 21:45

The Onedin Line

LightastheBreeze · 10/01/2018 21:48

Crackerjack

lastnamefirstfirstnamelast · 10/01/2018 21:49

Oh and knightmare (citv)