What was the best decade to grow up in?

Got thinking about this today. What would have been the best decade to grow up in TV-wise? Completely ignoring anything else that was happening in the world at that point and purely from the point of view of kids TV shows.

As a child of the 90s, I would wager that that would definitely be up there.
Anamaniacs
Freakazoid
Round the Twist
Fresh Prince of Belair
Keenan and Kel
Hey Arnold
Gargoyles
Art Attack
Hang Time

And much much more that isn't coming to me.

For me, looking back as an adult, it was a time where TV shows weren't afraid to have much more to their content and often dealt with adult themes, never treating children as idiots.

Would anyone agree with me or have a different opinion as to which decade was the best to grow up during?

Gaz

80's all the way ...

He-Man
Thundercats
Ulysses
Centurions
C.O.P.S.
Jayce and the wheeled warriors
Cities of Gold
BananaMan
BraveStarr
Captain Caveman
DangerMouse
Dungeons and Dragon
Knight Rider
A-Team
Manimal
AirWolf

Thats just off the top of my head, the 90's with the exception of Earthworm Jim didnt come close. I wont even go into all that Pokeman sh1te ...

Gaz

Gaz wrote: »

80's all the way ...


Thats just off the top of my head, the 90's with the exception of Earthworm Jim didnt come close. I wont even go into all that Pokeman sh1te ...

Don't be silly, Pokemon never happened. Just a figment of your imagination.

The 80s and 90s were definitely the years for amazing intro songs, regardless of which was better *cough* 90s had Saved by the Bell. *cough*

gidget

80's all the way

As a child growing up in the 80's the sky was the limit with the level of cartoons & tv shows. None of this reality crap the kid's are subjected to these days!

Grange Hill
Bread
The Equilizer
Fraggle Rock
Rolf Harris's Cartoon Time
The Chipmunks
Ducktales
Bosco
& So many more i just wouldn't have the space to list them all.

walshb

Gaz wrote: »

80's all the way ...

He-Man
Thundercats
Ulysses
Centurions
C.O.P.S.
Jayce and the wheeled warriors
Cities of Gold
BananaMan
BraveStarr
Captain Caveman
DangerMouse
Dungeons and Dragon
Knight Rider
A-Team
Manimal
AirWolf

Thats just off the top of my head, the 90's with the exception of Earthworm Jim didnt come close. I wont even go into all that Pokeman sh1te ...

Wow, I can recall and relate to everything on that list. Add in Chips, Automan, Batfink, Grandstand, Street Hawk, Dempsey and Makepeace.

Kylo Ren

Batman TAS - 90's.

Case closed.

roanoke

I was thinking about this recently and I've come to the conclusion that the 80's was the best. Not because the tv was better back then, but simply because it coincideded with the end of "event" tv. With the advent of VCR's you no longer had to "be there" in front of a tv at a specific time to see the shows you liked. Now fast-foward (pun intended) 20 years and with things like youtube and downloads tv has become about as impressive as a html page.

I reckon that's why 80's kids look back fondly on their tv watching. It's because they're the last generation who actually had to put a bit of effort or sacrifice into the experience in order to get the reward.

pickarooney

Keno 92 wrote: »

Batman TAS - 90's.

Case closed.

I don't think being a little bit older watching that did me any harm at all

ednwireland

70 's was outside playing or inside with train set airfix models etc, blue peter was about all i remember watching as kids telly

Go Harvey Go

Deleted User wrote: »

As a child of the 90s, I would wager that that would definitely be up there.
Anamaniacs
Freakazoid
Round the Twist
Fresh Prince of Belair
Keenan and Kel
Hey Arnold
Gargoyles
Art Attack
Hang Time

I'm a child of the 90s, too - and I can add Taz-Mania, Pinky and the Brain, Rugrats, Bernard's Watch, Woof!, Zzzap!, Fun House, Finders Keepers and Byker Grove to that list.

I also remember getting excited about the first Dennis the Menace TV series in 1996, as I was a religious Beano reader at the time - and being slightly disappointed that the likes of Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger and the Bash Street Kids didn't appear in it.

Deleted User wrote: »

The 80s and 90s were definitely the years for amazing intro songs, regardless of which was better *cough* 90s had Saved by the Bell. *cough*

The 90s also had the second Grange Hill theme tune, the one played mainly on the piano - which I still prefer to Alan Hawkshaw's "Chicken Man".

Just a shame that the show's golden age was over by then...

And who can forget the Fun House song? "It's wacky, it's fun, it's cra-a-zy, it's outrageous! Fun House, it's a whole lot of fun, prizes to be won..."