your favourite childhood tv show

meowCat

Hello there,

this morning I got up unusually early (for a job interview) and while having my porridge I flicked through the programs on telly.

To my surprise there was She Ra the princess of power on, and I just had to laugh. I used to love that show when I was a child and hadn't come across it for ages. I just thought it's all so droll and really cute and so on. I think I had a smile on my face for the rest of the day (interview went well btw).

So, I was wondering what your favourite show was when you were a child and what you think of them now....and if it's still broadcasted.

RuggieBear

and there was me thinking we had an all things retro forum...

casanova_kid

Saved by the bell- Kelly kebowski, Ac Slater, screech and zach, heroes all.

Terry

changed over the years. he-man was one, thundercats, transformers, the original batman (used to watch that and then my friend would call over and we would piss ourselves laughing about it. all the KA-POW stuff). oh yeah, puff the magic dragon. didn't get the reference when i was 5.

_Turismo4

Fox Kids show all the oldies from when I was a kid, loved watching Thundercat’s, Transformers, Ulysses 31, Visionaries, centurions, but recently I turned the channel to see Ulysses on Fox and it brought back a lot of memories, had a good laugh.

V9

Transformers by a mile

Pighead

Suzy and the Sex Goblins was a favourite of Pigheads. Every Saturday morning at 9.25 you'd find me jumping out of bed to catch the latest installment of the once great kids programme.

county

timmy mallett,how could you forget him
http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/

Jack Bauer

Captain Planet, Thomas the Tank Engine..and how could anyone forget the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!...(april, what a fox:D )

ANTO D10 DUB

julep wrote:

changed over the years. he-man was one, thundercats, transformers, the original batman (used to watch that and then my friend would call over and we would piss ourselves laughing about it. all the KA-POW stuff). oh yeah, puff the magic dragon. didn't get the reference when i was 5.

man i'm having flashback's , anyone rememder Battle of the planet's ?

ZiabR

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, watched them every morning before school. Thunder cats and Heman

CoolGuy2006

Mask
bravestar
Dungeons and dragons
Cops (cartoon)
he-Man

On another note, does anyone remember that Children Fantasy/horror series that used to on years ago.
I dont know if it was set in Australia or New Zealand. Anyway, there where these two kids, girl and a boy and a old man. The two kids had stones that glowed.

There was also a island that had a big house on it. There were these bad guys that lived there, they would walk under the water and come ashore. They wore dark suits. Also there were these Jellyfish type swamp things on the island aswell

Im probably remembering it all wrong, does anyone know what this was called

Jumpy

CoolGuy2006 wrote:

Mask
bravestar
Dungeons and dragons
Cops (cartoon)
he-Man

On another note, does anyone remember that Children Fantasy/horror series that used to on years ago.
I dont know if it was set in Australia or New Zealand. Anyway, there where these two kids, girl and a boy and a old man. The two kids had stones that glowed.

There was also a island that had a big house on it. There were these bad guys that lived there, they would walk under the water and come ashore. They wore dark suits. Also there were these Jellyfish type swamp things on the island aswell

Im probably remembering it all wrong, does anyone know what this was called

It wasnt Chocky was it?

Kinetic^

V!alli wrote:

Transformers by a mile

Yeah same here but M.A.S.K. was a very very close seconed, got a few episodes of it off the interweb recently, its class.

CoolGuy2006

Jumpy wrote:

It wasnt Chocky was it?

Nah, i looked that up on google just there. That aint it, thanks anyay

CoolGuy2006

gickna wrote:

The A team
Mc Guyver
Dukes of Hazzard
Chips

well the A-Team, thats just a given, Airwolf too.

Its amazing how bad Chips was, and how camp. I used to watch it myslef but jaysis, talk about no content whatsoever.

The opening credits had more of a storyline

zoro

Dempsey's Den - With Zig + Zag

sprint316

CoolGuy2006 wrote:

Mask
bravestar
Dungeons and dragons
Cops (cartoon)
he-Man

On another note, does anyone remember that Children Fantasy/horror series that used to on years ago.
I dont know if it was set in Australia or New Zealand. Anyway, there where these two kids, girl and a boy and a old man. The two kids had stones that glowed.

There was also a island that had a big house on it. There were these bad guys that lived there, they would walk under the water and come ashore. They wore dark suits. Also there were these Jellyfish type swamp things on the island aswell

Im probably remembering it all wrong, does anyone know what this was called

THant show was called Under The Mountain and it was quality!

nadir

Jayce and the wheeled warriors.
Gigantor and there was some other Japanese anime that I cna never remember the name of. (Not Voltron)

sprint316

does anyone remember Street Hawk?

CoolGuy2006

sprint316 wrote:

THant show was called Under The Mountain and it was quality!

Thats it mate, thanks. The amount of times ive been trying to describe this to people down the pub and they are sitting there with blank faces with open jaws.

"Two teenage twin siblings, Rachel and Theo, on a summer vacation in Aukland visiting their aunt and uncle, meet a certain Mr. Jones, a mysterious man who helped find them when they got lost in the woods eight years earlier. Mr. Jones turns out to be an alien fighter from a distant planet who wants their help in fighting an alien giant slug family of eight members led by a certain Mr. Wilberforce who have arrived on Earth with plans for world domination"

****ing classic

thelordofcheese

Jack Bauer wrote:

Captain Planet, Thomas the Tank Engine..and how could anyone forget the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!...(april, what a fox:D )

Useless trivia of the day:

Uncle Phil from the fresh prince of bel air, also done the voice of shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

mise_me_fein_V2

My favs were:

He-man

Thundercats - I remember writing a story in High Infants stating that Wednesday was my favourite day of the week because Thundercats was on that day.

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - On a wet day the whole school stayed in the main hall to watch the first episode of the Turtles. Great memories.

Others, that weren't all that great, but I watched anyway were:

Count Duckula
Trapdoor - dont dare open that trapdoor.....coz there's something down there

Fun House - with Pat Sharpe.

If you don't live near the border you might not have got some of those shows before sky and cable.

CoolGuy2006

"Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - On a wet day the whole school stayed in the main hall to watch the first episode of the Turtles. Great memories."

Sounds good mate

mise_me_fein_V2

thelordofcheese wrote:

Useless trivia of the day:

Uncle Phil from the fresh prince of bel air, also done the voice of shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

This is not useless. Will def start a good conversation tomorrow around a drunk table.

Tobias Greeshman

thelordofcheese wrote:

Useless trivia of the day:

Uncle Phil from the fresh prince of bel air, also done the voice of shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

pffftt! I didn't know this, hmmmm interesting.

Thundercats, Knightrider, Streethawk, Bravestar, Sharky and George (the intro to the show was class).

What was that show with the rich millionaire duck and his three nephews, (I think they were called huey, luey and duey).

thelordofcheese

silas wrote:

What was that show with the rich millionaire duck and his three nephews, (I think they were called huey, luey and duey).

Ducktales, i think.

The millionaire duck was called Scrooge McDuck, they lived in duckberg [notice a pattern] and all of his business success stemmed from his 'lucky dime'. the first dime he had ever earned.
Was also fond of going swimming in his money filled vault.

dirtyharry1971

gargoyles, The Batman Cartoon, Animaniacs (gotta love the goodfeathers) and for a bit of old school Thundercats

sprint316

that show was called duck tales

mise_me_fein_V2

Duck Tales...........actually this was a brilliant programme.

The music was class.

The aul Duck was Scottish.

I bought the game for the Nintendo(just the normal nintendo), well my mother did for my birthday after I saw it on Gamesmaster and it cost £50 at the time, which was a fortune. This was a brilliant show.

Ducktales! Woo Hoo.......... Tales of daring new bad and good luck tales

Tobias Greeshman

Haha!!! yeah that was it, the start of it was him diving into him money in the vault. Excellent show!

sprint316

can u remember button moon and cockleshell bay?

LundiMardi

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Thunder thunder thunder THUNDERCATS!
Different Strokes
Animaniacs
Tazmanian Devil thing
The Mask cartoon
Baywatch
A-Team
Airwolf
California Dreams
Saved by the Bell
Trapdoor
Count Duckular

so so many

besty

Cops
Saved by the Bell
Thundercats
Simon and the Land of Chalk Drawings
The Smoggies
Denver the Dinosaur

The dinosaur one where the goodies wore greeen helmets and the baddies wore red ones.

Terry

sprint316 wrote:

can u remember button moon and cockleshell bay?

we'll follow mr. spoon. now that's an oldie.

CoolGuy2006

"Dipladoes" or whatever they are called. Little dinosaur alines that had a big spaceship

Di Di, Di Di Di Di, Di Di Di Dipladoes

cournioni

Beavis and Butthead, the A-Team, Nightrider and the Dukes of Hazzard.

chakotha

G-Force - Battle of the Planets
Sesame Street
Flash Gordon
Anything Goes (Mister Ed, Little Rascals, Tom Grattan's War)
Six Million Dollar Man
Man from Atlantis
Get Smart
Incredible Hulk
Hanna-Barbara Cartoons

GeorgeBailey

sprint316 wrote:

does anyone remember Street Hawk?

Yes.

Skyuser

I loved that australian program where they could time travel and there was these suits they could wear, where they slide there arms together and throw a ball of fire.
What was the name of it again??

V1llianous

I loved:

Airwolf
Street Hawk (actually have a few novels from this) - pity there are no DVDs etc. Edit: just found this site http://streethawk.tvheaven.com/ some episodes up there - class !
Transformers
and Jamie and the Magic Torch - picked up a couple of DVDs of this a few months ago to pass on to the next generation.

bealbocht

I'm showing my age but.. they had tv in the 70s too

Mr Ben... great stuff...
Trumpton & Camblewick Green.. (Pugh, Pugh Barny, McGrew, Cutbert , Dibble Grubbs, not to forget Windy Miller.. )
Ivor the Engine and Rhurbarb & Custard ( apparently remade now.. havent seen the new one... If they have changed the music I'm not even interested)

Bagpuss.. Emily loved him you know..

Inch High Private Eye
and Hong Kong Fooey


or does anybody remember a dog that could go invisible , except for his collar, and used to say "ridicilililickus..". vage memories of that lad..

and Rainbow.. it sucked to high hell , dumb ass program.

and while it was mostly naff, Playschool did have the the
"whats through the round/square/triangle window, that was generally good

Terry

i was devestated when playschool went off the air.

Innervision

Anyone else remember Widget the world watcher? Little pink alien dude? Please tell me I'm not imagining this...

Terry

nope. but that post reminded me of wizzbit. he grew about three feet high.

Kojak

Innervision wrote:

Anyone else remember Widget the world watcher? Little pink alien dude? Please tell me I'm not imagining this...

I think I do - didn't he talk to animals.

sprint316

i kinda remember widget the world watcher, i think he did talk to animals too!
wizzbit was great, only bad thing was Paul Daniels - is he still married to Debbie Magee i think her name is?

what about Rude Dog and the Dweebs?

muppetkiller

THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO and the original Battlestar Galactica
Oh and the Fall Guy

Kablamo!

does anyone remember johnsons room?
with the toys that came to life, and the accordion and the really sad hot water bottle...?

LundiMardi

let us not all forget Inspector Gadget and Dogtanion! (how is that spelled?!!)

Kojak

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were class when I was growing up.

Also the Waltons.