Born in the 80s kids tv noastalgia chat

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I'm 36 and have such fond memories of great things shows from after school like art attack, how, fun house, byker grove! What happened to it all and live n kicking and smtv live on Saturdays!

I feel like now there are that many options people aren't watching the same thing so how do kids share their tv experiences? We only had 5 channels back then but it kind of felt like everyone was watching the same shows now fo kids just watch loads of stuff over differnt platforms? I have a young daughter and feel so sad she'll never watch fun house or the many amazing 90s shows there were for kids when I was young, or am I missing the boat, where is all the fun at for them nowadays??

I'm 36 too and I remember when Channel 5 started - a whole extra channel. I was a bit obsessed with Sunset Beach for a while.

I also loved Buffy on Thursdays, and taping episodes of something on several videos and labelling them carefully.

There was also The Animals of Farthing Wood - some very gory scenes now when I think back!

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The original Demon Headmaster and Rentaghost are on Brit Box along with a load of other classic kids TV.

Back to the Future are DS1s favourite films he's 16. He also loves Grease so 'modern' dc do still enjoy the old stuff.

I was singing the theme tune from 'The Biz' a few days ago! Out of nowhere, it was in my head and wouldn't go away!

My youngest DS hasn't been well the last couple of days. We spent today curled up on the sofa watching Fresh Prince of Belair from the start today. He loved it!
It's 30yrs old now! 🤯

Now I have the theme tune to Trapdoor stuck in my head! 😆 Knightmare was also great.
There was another show, had little different clips of things being made maybe? One in particular was a pair of hands wearing white gloves in a black background and they would make things. Does anyone remember this?

Ah I loved so many shows back then
Round the twist
Muppet babies
Wizbit
Duckula
I could go on and on

@ChickenGotLegs

Now I have the theme tune to Trapdoor stuck in my head! 😆 Knightmare was also great. There was another show, had little different clips of things being made maybe? One in particular was a pair of hands wearing white gloves in a black background and they would make things. Does anyone remember this?

Zzzap!

Take Hart
Rainbow
Ragdolly Anna
Wackaday

I'm lucky, I had a double dose of great kid's TV. My own in the 70s and early 80s. Them I had my son fairly young in late 80s so saw all the 90s stuff too.
My favourites 1st time
Black Beauty
Clangers
Mr Ben
Fingerbobs
Swapshop
How
Tiswas
Why don't you
Grange Hill

2nd time round
Cities of Gold (with Andi Peters singalong)
Eyrie Indiana
Round the Twist
Grange Hill
Knightmare
Taz
Pinky and the Brain
Ren and Stimpy

I read a couple of years ago that Blue Peter was getting literally zero viewers. I used to love it!

My brother used to watch Thundercats on a Saturday morning but it used to scare me so I used to just potter with my dolls. I loved Take Art though.

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Sorry forgot to add how2, think that's what it was called, I'm sure it had carol vorderman in it. Was a science type programme that explained how things worked and interesting experiments.

"And that's 'How' for now!"

I loved Blue Peter.

I hated Blue Peter when I was a child.

Fantastic replies! It really was the best! I think the fact that you had to watch what was there on the so few channels made it better and the fact as someone mentioned above that you had to wait made it better that it all just wasn't instantaneous! A lot to be said for that. And as someone else mentioned I wonder if my child will look back to her stage of life and view it as fondly as I do myself. I just feels like there is that much spread out no one is looking forward on the whole to the same stuff as everyone's doing their own thing largely, that's how it appears and not sure this is as sociable as it once was!

@orangejuicer I can't recall this but I'm gonna play your link later to see if I can remember it? 😃

@MrsPeacockInTheLibrary Yes totally!! We used to sit for ours taping and retaling it gave you something to do I loved it! Maybe things seem differnt when you're younger but I just don't know if it's quite the same for kids now I reallly don't x x

@AhCheeses Brillint!! Is that on you tube you got the re runs??

@ChickenGotLegs yes!!! I vaguely remember this! Love this thread so glad I started it! Wouldn't it fantastic if someone created a 80-90s only tv kids Channel show and an 80-90s drama channel show! Reruns of brook side, sunset beach, buffy, the classic home and away and neighbours! God tv back then really was king!!!

So everyone what do your kids seem to love now and on what platforms? I only have a 2yo but I haven't got a clue where it's all at now for when she starts getting a bit older!! Any tips would be much appreciated for what they love to do/watch - gosh really miss tv from the 80/90s it was such a golden era wasnt it! I read they took a lot of it all off due to the rise in cable tv channel demand being a new thing but slowly became the 5 only channels demise. I get we have a lot more now but it's just so spread out. Like we may not be all having this chat as many fond memories are similar so it's given us all a central topic to talk to one another aboit as there was more limited content but due to that it was also really good!

We needs a 80-90s retro channel! It would have

Round the twist
Animals of farthing wood
Grange hill
Goosebumps
The queens nose
Fun house!!!
Saved by the bell
Sabrina the teenage witch
Keenan abs kel
Sister sister
Fresh Prince of bel air!!

Why oh why has no one thought of this already?!!! WE NEED THIS CHANNEL!!!

This makes me feel so nostalgic! Mine are probably different in the US.

I remember watching the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Major Dad at night. Also the Nanny later on, I loved that show! Oh and Blossom.

We watched some cartoons right after school, like Darkwing Duck and the one with the bear who flew a plane? I can’t remember what that one was called. Also the Cosby Show was on then. I loved that one; it’s such a shame that the “star” turned out to be the monster he was and tarnished the work the other actors put in.

My parents (mostly my mom 😂) like Designing Women and Murphy Brown, so I watched those occasionally, and my parents both loved Cheers. I was supposed to be asleep when it was airing, but I used to listen through the crack in my door and dance to the theme song. I can still hear the voice in my head “Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience.”

On Saturday mornings we watched Garfield and Friends, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, PeeWee Herman...sometimes we’d watch Muppet Babies, but we didn’t really WANT to, we were just bored and it was on.

I think that’s the thing that makes me feel sad...I have movie nights with my kids, but nothing like a family show where we all just sit down and watch because it’s the only thing that’s on! Watching the same show was the only time my brother and I got along for years, because if we started fighting my mom or dad would come turn it off, and it wasn’t like we had tablets or phones or even like we knew when the show would be having a re-run! If you missed it, you missed it forever.

Oh there was so much good TV.

I was distraught by the animals of farthing wood. I sobbed when the hedgehog got run over but kept watching it.

What was that program with the raccoons in on a Saturday morning it had a great theme tune?

I also loved the borrowers.

On Friday night when we were teenagers there was great TV. I loved Friends but can’t remember what was on before and after.

They put some vintage episodes of Fireman Sam on I player and the DC (3) have watched them all so there is an appetite from kids for vintage TV.

I hear you op.

As a child I would watch CBBC or whatever it was called then. The Queens nose, animals of Farthing Wood, Knightmare, Byker Grove, Raggy Dolls, Chuckle vision, then it would be Neighbours and Home and Away.

As a young child it would be Playdays, Rosie and Jim and Sesame Street, Thundercats, Superted.

Later on we got Nickelodeon so would watch Keenan and Kel, Sabrina, Sister Sister, Alex Mac, Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Saturday mornings were usually something like Going Live, then the evenings would be Gladiators, Blind Date, Stars in their eyes. We might go the the video shop to rent a film.

Sundays were Birds of a feather, One foot in the Grave, The Borrowers and usually some board games.

I was allowed to watch lots of adult tv like Brookside, casualty, 999 which was major drama.

Agree about corner shops, we had lovely independent shops selling cakes, fresh bread, penny sweets, magazines and toys. They are all gone now replaced by chain supermarkets.

I was thinking this about my dc the other day. They only really want to watch YouTube. It does make me a bit sad. I think CBBC is still an excellent channel but with so much else out there it's hard to compete.

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How come nobody has mentioned Press Gang? Greatest kids TV show of all time.

Would have sold my soul to be Lynda Day.

Oh I forgot about Rescue 911 and Unsolved Mysteries! I loved those.

It’s funny, what holds up and what doesn’t. I showed my kids the original Escape to Witch Mountain movie on Disney + and they loved it as much as I did when I was a child...they couldn’t believe it came out before I was born! They also like the same Looney Tunes shows I remember when I was young. They like the newer ones too, but the old ones they love just as much.