TV Shows You Watched As A Kid

George White · 07-03-2015 1:57pm

livEwirE wrote: »

Great guess but I don't think so mate. It was based in the british countryside more in the style of Worzel Gummidge/Black Beauty. Tbh, I vaguely remember it so my description could be completely wrong

Moondial?
The Ghosts of Motley Hall?

rubadub · 08-03-2015 7:41pm

Wichita Lineman wrote: »

I bought series 1 of both 'Magnum PI' and 'McGyver' in gamestop this morning :cool:

There is talk of a McGyver remake, with a female McGyver

Returns in 2012[edit]
Richard Dean Anderson reprised his role as MacGyver in September 2012 in a new series of short movies, created by Mercedes-Benz for the launch of their new MPV Citan in Europe. The series is available on the official website of Citan, from September 18 onwards.[36][37] The episodes were shot in Johannesburg, South Africa, in July 2012.

In the short film series, MacGyver now runs a mobile repair service with his daughter Caitlin. They go to a high-rise building to fix a faulty air conditioning system when a group of terrorists incapacitate all of the occupants with knockout gas and take over the building. Despite his age, MacGyver uses his skills to overcome the knockout gas and follow the terrorists, discovering a military bunker below the basement. After the terrorists load a large crate into a van, MacGyver follows them in his Citan work van to a shipping yard, where the terrorists begin an exchange deal with another party. Inside the crate is a robot soldier, which goes haywire and kills everyone on sight. MacGyver then drives his Citan and runs over the robot before deactivating to save the day.

§Potential new series[edit]
In February 2015, in conjunction with the National Academy of Engineering and several other partners, Lee David Zlotoff announced a crowdsourcing competition, in which contestants would submit ideas for a new MacGyver character to serve as the basis for the pilot of a new series.[38] At the end of the competition in April 2015, five winners are to receive cash prizes and to be "paired with a successful Hollywood TV producer to develop his or her script." The only strict requirement for submissions is that the new character will be a woman.

silverharp wrote: »

Catch the pidgeon

It's actually stop the pigeon, seems most people think its catch, including myself until I saw it myself. I'd say you could clean up betting people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6-LG5VpGk

others
wizbit
No. 73 (you never know what you'll see through that door at 73)

gossipgirl10 · 20-03-2015 6:30am

Ah so many memories it's mad how you forget so many things until someone mentions them and it all comes back

Haven't seen Perfect Strangers mentioned yet

macroman · 16-04-2015 2:08pm

90's baby here.

Tom & Jerry
Looney Tunes
Morbegs (after school)
Hey Arnold
Mr Ben
Rockos Mordern Life
Ren & Stimpy
Live & Kicking on Sat mornings
New Simpsons at 6.30 on a Sunday evening

For some reason I loved the Crystal Maze - bald guy version!

darkdubh · 18-04-2015 9:23am

livEwirE wrote: »

I remember watching a show on Sunday mornings, I think it was on the BBC during the 80s. It was about some english kids who lived/stayed with relatives in a big mansion(kinda looked like downton abbey) - possibly about the kids befriending some ghosts? Not sure exactly, I do remember it being a bit of a creepy show Anyone any ideas please?

It vaguely rings a bell.Were the ghosts children too?

darkdubh · 18-04-2015 9:27am

Bearcats!Saturday mornings on RTE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX_bDkaNE0o

Lobsterlady · 21-04-2015 11:58pm

Man from Atlantis - Patrick Duffy and his webbed hands. I was 8/9 when this came out...I remember trying to swim like him

Ripleys Believe it or Not - 1982 series with Jack Palance, he use to freak me out.

And CHiPs....what a great opening tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYKdayl7BHM

BlaasForRafa · 26-04-2015 4:06pm

I recall watching The Great Egg Race back in the 80's so I went looking for it on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pvf6Xl9hQE

Somehow I had thought it was more interesting than this, it just seems to be men with beards doing stuff.

melbite · 26-04-2015 8:49pm

Skippy the bush kangaroo and later Captain plant (he's my hero!)

Beasty · 26-04-2015 10:56pm

Definitely liked Skippy, as well as Flipper

Captain Scarlett and the Mysterons surpassed Thunderbirds in the Gerry Anderson stakes for me

Always liked the Virginian, and particularly Trampas. Also liked Alias Smith and Jones

And then there was the one and only Noggin the Nog...

BlaasForRafa · 28-04-2015 3:48am

I got the soundtrack CD to Ulysses 31 from amazon last week, the show was a cut above for a cartoon of it's time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_DvWhyQz8

The Princess Bride · 01-05-2015 2:02am

Out of the blue, today, I remembered Me and My Chimp, I used to watch it and wish I had a monkey living with me.
Rather stupidly googled it and saw it was ridiculed by many.
Funny how the memory works.I thought it was rather good.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_the_Chimp

chakotha · 01-05-2015 4:46pm

I remember that from my rugrat days!

And the Brady Bunch from around that time I think.

TenLeftFingers · 01-05-2015 10:53pm

I don't remember the name but in the nineties there was a show where this spaceship type thing flew around the skies over America. When someone was in need of help, one of the guys on the ship would sit in a seat and his face would be changed to look exactly like theirs. He would replace them and try to figure out who's trying to kill him/them usually. It was pretty damn cool at the time.

josephineperry · 04-05-2015 9:54am

Mork and Mindy
The little house on the prairie
The Jeffersons
The Dukes of Hazzard

Sam Kade · 04-05-2015 10:02am

steveone wrote: »

hah I see we had the same babysitter !

Why Don't You
Kick Start
Tales of the Golden Monkey
Swap Shop
Anything Goes
Game for a Laugh
You've been Framed
The Powers of Matthew Starr
the Proper Late Late Show
The Professionals
Mannix
Champion The Wonderhorse
Wonderwoman
Armchair Thriller
Tales of the Unexpected
Mork and Mindy
The Big Valley
Lost in Space

The Virginian
The High Chaparral
Dusty's Trail
Cannon
The men from Shilo (follow on from the Virginian that was scraped after a few episodes)
Ellery Queen
Get Smart
Rich man Poor man
Roots

Filmer Paradise · 11-05-2015 12:18am

Sam Kade wrote: »

The Virginian
The High Chaparral
Dusty's Trail
Cannon
The men from Shilo (follow on from the Virginian that was scraped after a few episodes)
Ellery Queen
Get Smart
Rich man Poor man
Roots

Watched the same sort of stuff too. Only one channel back then so most people of a certain age watched the same stuff.

The auld lad watched Cannon, Hawaii 50 & the like. I was too young to get what was going on really, but loved the whole idea of America & the good roads that they had.

Roots stands out as one of the best miniseries of the time. I was only about 11 or 12 then, but I connected with it totally. oblivious to the whole race thing, but saw some sort of 'rightness' about it.

I think kids now won't have those type of moments cos there's kids programmes on tap 24/7 & from diffrent providers.

Back in the '70s thru to the '90s TV was a sort of benchmark as to where your memories were at.

Everybody saw the same things.

Odyssey 2005 · 11-05-2015 6:24pm

Remember a programme called Vegas. Yer man used drive his car into his house. Dan Tannah I think was his name,played by Robert Ulrich

irishgeo · 13-05-2015 10:09pm

anyone remember the littlest hobo and of course pinky and the brain.

I got to the chance to use the infamous line out of that at work a while back.

My workmate asked me what i was doing that evening.

I said the same i do every evening try to take over the world.

George White · 14-05-2015 9:37pm

TenLeftFingers wrote: »

I don't remember the name but in the nineties there was a show where this spaceship type thing flew around the skies over America. When someone was in need of help, one of the guys on the ship would sit in a seat and his face would be changed to look exactly like theirs. He would replace them and try to figure out who's trying to kill him/them usually. It was pretty damn cool at the time.

Quantum Leap, though that was a time travel teleportation situation!
Hard Time on Planet Earth?

SoupyNorman · 22-05-2015 4:17pm

M.A.S.K
Pole Position
Gravedale High
Ulysses 31
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Round The Twist
PUGwall
Tomorrows World
Knightmare
Gamesmaster
C.O.P.S
Voltron
Once upon a time... Life
Transformers

Dark Phoenix · 10-06-2015 10:27am

a wierd show my mum watched called 'highway to heaven'. Always remember one episode in the future where they had no water and he turned on a tap and oil came out. That freaked me out.

Also macguyver (the fire ants urgh)

Wichita Lineman · 01-07-2015 3:39pm

I've a fair few already mentioned but I reckon there are one or two not mentioned by anyone else yet as well.
Alf
Alias Smith & Jones
Anything Goes
Batman
BJ & The Bear
Black Beauty
Bonanza
Bracken
Cannon
Catweazle
Charlies Angels
Cheers
CHiPs
Dallas
Different Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard
Dynasty
Fame
Family Ties
Flipper
Gemini Man
Get Smart
Halls Pictorial Weekly
Hawaii Five O
Highway to Heaven
I Love Lucy
Knightrider
Kojak
Little House on the Prairie
Lovejoy
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Man From Atlantis
MASH
Miami Vice
Minder
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
My Favourite Martian
Nurse
Petrocelli
Remington Steele
Salvage
Shoestring
Silver Spoons
Skippy
Sports Stadium
Stingray
The A-Team
The Cosby Show
The Fall Guy
The Greatest American Hero
The Incredible Hulk
The Monkees
The New Avengers
The Riordans
The Rockford Files
The Scarecrow & Mrs King
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Streets of San Francisco
The Sullivan's
The Time Tunnel
The Virginian
The Walton's
The Wonder Years
Trapper John MD
WKRP in Cincinnati

Odyssey 2005 · 01-07-2015 8:27pm

^^^^^ jesus did you ever go out ☺☺
Many good memories there

Second Toughest in_the Freshers · 04-07-2015 4:50pm

couple from the early/ mid 90's
The girl from tomorrow
The Dreamstone (cartoon)

Murder One
Savannah

Son Of A Vidic · 05-07-2015 1:04pm

Wichita Lineman wrote: »

I've a fair few already mentioned but I reckon there are one or two not mentioned by anyone else yet as well.
Alf
Alias Smith & Jones
Anything Goes
Batman
BJ & The Bear
Black Beauty
Bonanza
Bracken
Cannon
Catweazle
Charlies Angels
Cheers
CHiPs
Dallas
Different Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard
Dynasty
Fame
Family Ties
Flipper
Gemini Man
Get Smart
Halls Pictorial Weekly
Hawaii Five O
Highway to Heaven
I Love Lucy
Knightrider
Kojak
Little House on the Prairie
Lovejoy
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Man From Atlantis
MASH
Miami Vice
Minder
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
My Favourite Martian
Nurse
Petrocelli
Remington Steele
Salvage
Shoestring
Silver Spoons
Skippy
Sports Stadium
Stingray
The A-Team
The Cosby Show
The Fall Guy
The Greatest American Hero
The Incredible Hulk
The Monkees
The New Avengers
The Riordans
The Rockford Files
The Scarecrow & Mrs King
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Streets of San Francisco
The Sullivan's
The Time Tunnel
The Virginian
The Walton's
The Wonder Years
Trapper John MD
WKRP in Cincinnati

Wow Wichita, that's a great list. So many memories there of more carefree times.

The Reel Deal · 16-07-2015 7:10pm

Wichita Lineman wrote: »

I've a fair few already mentioned but I reckon there are one or two not mentioned by anyone else yet as well.
Alf
Alias Smith & Jones
Anything Goes
Batman
BJ & The Bear
Black Beauty
Bonanza
Bracken
Cannon
Catweazle
Charlies Angels
Cheers
CHiPs
Dallas
Different Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard
Dynasty
Fame
Family Ties
Flipper
Gemini Man
Get Smart
Halls Pictorial Weekly
Hawaii Five O
Highway to Heaven
I Love Lucy
Knightrider
Kojak
Little House on the Prairie
Lovejoy
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Man From Atlantis
MASH
Miami Vice
Minder
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
My Favourite Martian
Nurse
Petrocelli
Remington Steele
Salvage
Shoestring
Silver Spoons
Skippy
Sports Stadium
Stingray
The A-Team
The Cosby Show
The Fall Guy
The Greatest American Hero
The Incredible Hulk
The Monkees
The New Avengers
The Riordans
The Rockford Files
The Scarecrow & Mrs King
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Streets of San Francisco
The Sullivan's
The Time Tunnel
The Virginian
The Walton's
The Wonder Years
Trapper John MD
WKRP in Cincinnati

Looking at that list really bring back memories.

I loved Mork & Mindy, The greatest american hero & The A-team.

If you had a colour tv in the mid 80's you were very lucky !

Son Of A Vidic · 24-07-2015 10:44pm

The Reel Deal wrote: »

..I loved Mork & Mindy..

That just made me realise, it's nearly a year since we lost the genius of Robin Williams.:(

gabria · 25-07-2015 12:07am

we may hark to the past but as they say, ob la dee ob la dah....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umMBlwPauvg

Summer wind · 26-07-2015 10:31pm

My friends and I always loved Battlestar Galactica. When I was 13/14 years old I always loved Friday's cos that's when Matlock was on:)

TV Shows You Watched As A Kid

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