TV shows you hated as a child

[Steve4]

I will start

I disliked Blue peter as a child and still do.

Heteronormative you’re right, it is as Apaches - for some reason the song 10 little Indianan stuck in my head, can’t remember if they sung that or not. Anyway, it traumatised me for life. Put a lot of us kids off going anywhere near a farm for a very long time, which was rather inconvenient since we all lived very rurally! 😂

My dad used to let me stay up and watch The Equalizer when I was about 7. The opening credits was enough to scare the shit out of me!

Most Sunday shows in fact

Loved That's Life on Sunday evening. Preceded by A Fine Romance on ITV

Does anyone remember Lizzie Dripping with the scary witch? I remember having nightmares about her. I also remember a rocking chair rocking by itself, that may have been in Armchair Thriller.

I remember Lizzie Dripping. I had the book and it's where I learned the word "Widdershins". She had to walk widdershins around the church to summon the witch didn't she? I still use it occasionally but no-one these days seems to know what it means!

I loved Lizzie Dripping - I still think of it now when I walk past a cemetery.

There was another show on at about the same time called Kizzy about a gypsy girl that I loved too.

Ooh that witch was scary

Rupert the bear, bit of a twat with stupid trousers

Rare occasions off school ( snow !) and no all day children’s programmes
Crown Court and pebble mill at one- yawn

Songs of praise
Horizon
Lassie
Littlest Hobo
Bonanza
The high chaperel
Finger bobs

Yes - Lassie was monotonous, predictable, tedious drivel too.

Pob!

Boring as fuck (literally made me shrivel to death with boredom), it made no sense - and wtf was it with spitting all over the tv screen? Weirdo.

Highway with Harry Seacombe and why don't you.
My big sister used to make me watch swap shop instead of tiswas. I still haven't forgiven her!

Willo The Wisp.
Anyone remember it? Freaked me out.

Noseybonk.

This is a short clip and you'll understand why.

Oh God Noseybonk...I tried to erase the memory years ago along with the hare from Pipkins.

Omg I'd forgotten about Noseybonk. Weird character.

This is Your Life and Through the Keyhole

I NEVER knew who anyone was

bettyboo arghhh the nun with no face! I'm having flashbacks, but I love spooky stuff, so it's almost a nice kind terror 😁 off to find it on YouTube.

b Roomba -
Me too - a lorry drove into her car IIRC? I was scared for ages if a lorry was driving behind us.

That's terrifying, bettyboo, glad I didn't see that as a kid.

Some of the programmes mentioned here I thought were wonderful, especially The Moomins & Dark Towers (Look and Read). I have rewatched as an adult and still love them.

I completely agree re Highway and Songs of Praise though, bloody Harry Seacombe and singing through his nose. Only watched as I was procrastinating over homework.

What (or whom) I couldn't stand was not the programmes but some of the variety and "comic" acts who were around (and some of them still are) in the 80s. The Krankies, The Great Soprendo and all the bloody ventriloquists. Paul fucking Daniels. Can't stand magicians or anything like that, they are all a bunch of creepy fuckers.

Animal Magic - some bloke doing the voices of zoo and wild animals. Horrific.

justdontevenguckongstart
I remember that space boy Programme. Worst of all, we actually watched it in Prinary school so you couldn't even switch off when it got super scary. I had nightmares about that for years.
And the other one about peregrine falcon poachers in the same series.

We encountered the Chuckle Brothers in panto with Craig Revel Horwood a couple of weeks ago. That was a revelation for the kids.

I was that cliched child who hid behind the sofa at the Doctor Who music.

I'm not sure if I remember Noseybonk or just know it through cultural osmosis, but it is terrifying. I can't bring myself to watch that clip now, and I'm 43.

That fucking hare is the stuff of nightmares too. Like a horrific bad taxidermy piece.

I used to quite like the Moomins but the music spooked me and the books are better.

I loved Littlest Hobo and found the theme tune very sad and haunting.

I tried and tried to get into Little House on the Prairie but it always defeated me. It was SO dull!

Loved Bagpuss. Went to an Oliver Postgate exhibition recently and they were showing clips of it and it gave me serious warm and fuzzy nostalgia. I wanted to be Emily.

Yes to most of the shows I hated being Sunday shows, Bagpuss, Ski Sunday, To The Manor Born ( the theme tune of which I associate with having to go to bed with that dreaded knot of anxiety about school tomorrow) There was a really awful show on a Sunday morning about a bear called Barnaby who used to sing a tuneless song in a really awful voice.

And Ivor The Engine was the most depressing show ever and I don't even know why I felt like that about it. Thing is you still watched them as there was so little else on in those days.