favourite 80s/90s Kids programme

Nalz

whats your favourite programme as a kid in the 80s or early 90s?

anyone remember puddle lane? used to be on BBC.

J.R.HARTLEY

Trilla wrote:

whats your favourite programme as a kid in the 80s or early 90s?

anyone remember puddle lane? used to be on BBC.

the name is familiar but i can't recall anything. one of my favourites as a kid was Anything Goes with angus mcnally and the gang. irish kids tv started a downward slide soon after this and dempseys den which was the last great program for kids (once zig and zag left it went to the dogs)

sweetie

Button moon, Fantastic max, Box of Delights are three I fondly remember.
...and muppet babies!

Ruu_Old

Join us in the All Things Retro forum! There are so many I just couldn't chose. I don't remember puddle lane though.

J.R.HARTLEY

sweetie wrote:

Button moon, Fantastic max, Box of Delights are three I fondly remember.
...and muppet babies!

i got my 2 year old niece the button moon, flumps, rainbow and bagpuss dvds and she prefers them to her barney dvds. gas isn't it.

Nalz

http://www.thechestnut.com/puddle.htm

will this bring back any memories? feel free mods to move this to all things retro

J.R.HARTLEY

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J.R.HARTLEY

Trilla wrote:

http://www.thechestnut.com/puddle.htm

will this bring back any memories? feel free mods to move this to all things retro

yes those photos are very familiar alright, barely remember it though

tabatha

bagpuss was always my favourite along with the muppet show here are some others

tj hooker
knight rider
dukes of hazzard
automan
dallas
knots landing
dynasty
mrs pepperpot

dont know if any of you remember much about the adds but here is a link to a site with some you can watch. remember the one of the kids playing frisbie and it gets caught in the pylon or the green cross code man, well they are all on here!

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/

J.R.HARTLEY

no way, did you spot the darth vader green cross code ads, what a blast from the past

The_g-man

One of the great shows from that era that I can't find a name for: Two kids, boy and girl out exploring find a cave with an old man trapped under a rock. He claims to be a wizard and that there is a witch in the passages beyond searching for his source of power. The kids have to get there before her, can't remember why. There was an entire world down there, and the witch would always disguise herself, but the kids could recognize her by her eyes . Abundant with the wacky old video effects you would find in shows like T-Bag , the name escapes me. Any help would be appreciated.

tabatha

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

no way, did you spot the darth vader green cross code ads, what a blast from the past

i know, i turned back to a 8 year old when i seen that one. i could remember them all. i remember being freaked out by the frisbie add as a kid!

Wertz

The_g-man wrote:

One of the great shows from that era that I can't find a name for: Two kids, boy and girl out exploring find a cave with an old man trapped under a rock. He claims to be a wizard and that there is a witch in the passages beyond searching for his source of power. The kids have to get there before her, can't remember why. There was an entire world down there, and the witch would always disguise herself, but the kids could recognize her by her eyes . Abundant with the wacky old video effects you would find in shows like T-Bag , the name escapes me. Any help would be appreciated.

Into The Labyrinth!


Favourite of mine, from maybe 15 yrs back, a Canadian show called Odyssey about a young boy in a coma....the show plays out both in the real world and inside the little guy's mind whilst he's comatosed, and the two blend together...he has to find his way out of the coma by finding a lighthouse.
Thought provoking stuff.

Loads of other favourites, Ulysses31, Starfleet (anyone who remembers this sci-fi puppet show from ITV in ~'83?), Pressgang, early Byker Grove, some show about bike couriers in London, and a sh*tload of other stuff that I can't recall...

The_g-man

Wertz, thank you so much!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Labyrinth_(TV_series)

Wertz

Ah, I forgot the "Into" bit....knew it didn't sound just right. OP edited.

Oh the horror

Just remembered another one (it's funny how, when trying to recall stuff, other stuff comes out as well) that I'd love to know the name of: it was on BBC1 in the run up to christams for 2 successive years (85-86 maybe)...very Harry Potter-ish meets A Company of Wolves (if you've not seen this movie, watch it immeadiately) and some Narnia thrown in as well....there's was something about foxes in it I think...I have fleeting memories of watching it at about 5pm when I got in from school and it was shown over the holidays too. Used spook the hell out of me for some reason.
Anyone know this? I've googled for every set of terms I can think of and nada...

cerbeus

That wouldn't happen to be the BBC's Box Of Delights?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/box/

Wertz

Ah nice one....f*ck me that intro theme brings back some memories....it just reminds me of that magical christmas feeling that you simply don't get anymore...

[edit]...and it's out on DVD. Early christmas present to myself I think

sweetie

Yeah, I mentioned it above. Bought the vhs version on ebay and have loaned it to so many people who remember it. Quality effects for the time.

Other faves are the Chocky series (like the 4400 for kids) and Tripods which is fairly cheap on sendit at the mo. Think bbc did them both. Does anyone remember that ITV show with all the geeks guidong a mate through loads of puzzles and mazes, Dungeon master or something?

...and what was the name of the show with T-bag?

Wertz

Chocky! What a show. That was the thing about the buried alien probe in New Zealand right? I think I might have had the book at some stage. I think ITV had it though.

Dungeon Master was great...except you felt like killing the dimwits they let on to it...virtual reality eh? Whatever happened to that?

T bags was in the Rod Hull and Emu show, no?

The_g-man

http://www.tv.com/knightmare/show/26824/summary.html?q=knightmare&tag=search_results;title;0
http://www.tv.com/t-bag/show/28393/summary.html?q=Tbag&tag=search_results;title;0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LcRDPYML0M

Nalz

The_g-man wrote:

knightmare

Christ, remember that!

ixoy

Trilla wrote:

Christ, remember that!

Challenge TV actually showed that again. Not sure if they're still at it - good old Treguard.

D-I-S-M-I-S-S...

sweetie

Wertz wrote:

Chocky! What a show. That was the thing about the buried alien probe in New Zealand right? I think I might have had the book at some stage. I think ITV had it though.

No, it was based on a book by John Wyndham. He also wrote 'Day of the triffids' which is currently being shown on Sci-fi on fridays. It's about a kid who develops an imaginary friend who is really a being from another planet.
Very creepy it was to my pre-teen self. There were at least three series done; the original Chocky, Chocky's children and Chocky's challenge.

J.R.HARTLEY

anyone remember terrahawks, a crappy 80s version of the thunderbirds, the bad robots in it were the spits of shells petrol pump readouts,i made da go to esso.
or how about catweezel

Wertz

sweetie wrote:

No, it was based on a book by John Wyndham. He also wrote 'Day of the triffids' which is currently being shown on Sci-fi on fridays. It's about a kid who develops an imaginary friend who is really a being from another planet.
Very creepy it was to my pre-teen self. There were at least three series done; the original Chocky, Chocky's children and Chocky's challenge.

Ah I know now what I'm confusing it with....a show called Children of the Dog Star.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Dog_Star

I remember Chocky now too after reading the wiki on it.

Terrahawks was great too....those silver ball things with Windsor Davies as the leader lol. Some great ships....I remember seeing the model toys from it in Hamleys when I was a kid...The puppets were downright awful though, not a patch on the older Anderson stuff.

ichristie

does any1 remember a programme.its like the wombles but at the start the intro is somthing walkin toward a gate and then the programme starts and it does be about a woolen doll thingy on a skateboard with red shorts on and on one episode he dresses up as a girl and goes on a picnic and overflows a washing machine.i dont think they talk its like a narrator is talkin for them.please if you could help me out.