Kids TV box

lets discuss and post videos of our favourite kids tv shows. inspired by evening yonder, watching the kids tv episode of season 5 screenwipe. then my wife showing me her favorite US PBS shows on youtube such as 'where in the world is carmen sandiego?', 'bill nye the science guy' and 'lambchop' (specifically the song that never ends).

my memory of childhood is weak so I'm not sure if i was really a child when i watched shows such as 'rudedog and the dweebs' or if i was a teenager with no friends.

shows i remember fondly:

mr ben

bagpus

why don't you?

going live

chuckle brothers

playhouse(?)

dangermouse

(videos to follow)

i really loved saturday morning tv as a kid. i'd wake up at 6 to watch the cartoons then watch going live or whatever it was on BBC before that also switching over to ITV. until about lunchtime when they all changed to sports channels and i went out or napped.

new kids tv is enjoyable too. we got a channel called qubo and it shows 'theodore the friendly tugboat' which seems pretty old but great tv with great theme song

post some of your favorites and videos if you can be bothered.

One of my best mates is a huge fan and collector of late 80s/early 90s kids TV, his DVD collection is startlingly huge and I watch quite a bit of it. My own favourite was PC Pinkerton, a friendly policeman with a moustache. For my fifth (I think) birthday, my parents made me a PC Pinkerton card which was actually read out by Andy Crane (I think) on the CBBC Broom Closet. We used to have it on VHS somewhere. I also loved Sesame Street and other American stuff as I was growing up, I'm pretty sure I learned my alphabet from Sesame Street because my first instinct is always to pronounce "Z" in the American way.

I can just about remember Going Live before it became Live and Kicking, and Phillip Scofield's eerily black hair.

I also have very fond memories of a "Watch With Mother" VHS of quality BBC programming from the 50s and 60s, like Bill and Ben, Rag Tag and Bobtail and the Woodentops. I think my mum was mainly into that for her own nostalgia!

I also used to love Playdays. My favourite stop was always the Why Bird stop!

Bertha was very IDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYdg_2BY00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFR0brxrxjI

broom cupboard yeah. with gorden the gopher or maybe that duck thing.

don't remember pc pinkerton though

  On 8/26/2009 at 5:49 PM, Iain C said:

I also used to love Playdays. My favourite stop was always the Why Bird stop!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pXnprQvSA

how old are you iain? i remember this but it seems late for me. guessing your early-mid 20s

bertha i loved!! mostly for the theme

PC Pinkerton seems kind of obscure these days. He definitely existed though. He had a pet cat which pleased me no end as a child, I was really into cats.

As a "creative" (destructive) child I really liked Bitsa

And no discussion of early 90s kids TV is complete without mentioning Tony Robinson's superlative Maid Marian and her Merry Men, my pal's vote for best kid's series of the 90s and possibly ever. It's still very funny today IMHO. We were lucky enough to meet Marian completely by chance in the pub where my friend works, he was completely awstruck and could barely speak.

  On 8/26/2009 at 5:54 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 8/26/2009 at 5:49 PM, Iain C said:

I also used to love Playdays. My favourite stop was always the Why Bird stop!

 

 

how old are you iain? i remember this but it seems late for me. guessing your early-mid 20s

 

bertha i loved!! mostly for the theme

I'm turning 24 in October.

edit: I also "met" Tony Robinson at the Barbican a couple of years ago but didn't say anything because my mouth was full of expensive Barbican flapjack

maid marian was great with the cat from red dwarf in too and baldrick

i always liked art attack but that seems qute late for me too.

and another show which though it was a comic book where the camera would go "into" the panel. was really silly slapstick

i was way too old to enjoy these really

That was Zap, I never liked it much (or anything from ITV to be honest) but it was probably the most accessible kid's TV show for deaf kids, and I think it was actually made with them in mind.

in my memory sesame street was really the only imported kids show back then.

kids shows are so cheap importing is pointless. plus maybe we don't want UK kids learning to talk like americans. there may even be a law. i call my mum "mom" which is due to imported teenage shows i guess. on of my favourite being 'my so called life' which is probably aimed at girls.

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:03 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

in my memory sesame street was really the only imported kids show back then.

 

kids shows are so cheap importing is pointless. plus maybe we don't want UK kids learning to talk like americans. there may even be a law. i call my mum "mom" which is due to imported teenage shows i guess. on of my favourite being 'my so called life' which is probably aimed at girls.

I think Sesame Street was the only real daily American show (I believe it was on Channel 4 in the mornings or early afternoons?), but Saturday morning was where you saw things like Rude Dog and other US cartoons.

Both BBC and ITV have stopped producing new shows aimed at kids older than 12 in the past few years, I don't have the exact details to hand but it's a tragedy. There'll never be another Maid Marian or similar, with sophisticated (sort of) humour and jokes adults can laugh at. It just doesn't happen any more.

We also had Sky TV by the mid-90s so watched a lot of Nickelodeon imports... Are You Afraid of the Dark and The Adventures of Pete and Pete were my favourites there. Especially Pete and Pete. Cartoons were great too - Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life and of course Doug.

I just watched Newsround - I'm not sure if it has been dumbed down or if I've just got older. It's a solid concept though. Probably weaned me onto "big boy's news". Juliet Morris was my era. <3

fucking THUNDERBIRDS

this is a bit like that other nostalgia thread.

when i want to feel young, i simply google for filth with the safe search set to "strict".

it puts the thrill back into the chase. after a few hours of trawling thru filtered results,

any old flesh coloured thumbnail will do the trick...

just like being 13 again and stroking one out to the littlewoods catalogue.

man, that lawnmower section can be a real toughy!

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:08 PM, Iain C said:

 

but Saturday morning was where you saw things like Rude Dog and other US cartoons.

 

i think rudedog was english made. the US accents are so bad it must be impressions

yo dudes... get rude!

Apparently not...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240873/

The animation on Rude Dog was the most outstandingly crappy aspect I reckon

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:27 PM, Iain C said:

Apparently not...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240873/

 

The animation on Rude Dog was the most outstandingly crappy aspect I reckon

HUH

well there you go.

i made a thread about that show a few months ago, people seemed to hate having their memories ruined by reality.

they'll love this thread

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:21 PM, Plum said:

this is a bit like that other nostalgia thread.

 

when i want to feel young, i simply google for filth with the safe search set to "strict".

it puts the thrill back into the chase. after a few hours of trawling thru filtered results,

any old flesh coloured thumbnail will do the trick...

just like being 13 again and stroking one out to the littlewoods catalogue.

man, that lawnmower section can be a real toughy!

nah this is about more innocent times, before we knew what that thing could really do.

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:21 PM, ezkerraldean said:

fucking THUNDERBIRDS

yeah thunderbirds was great but its been revived to death. kinda sullying it a wee bit. just like this thread is sullying everything we mention.

I never liked Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlett or any of that old puppet stuff. I found it boring as hell.

i realise now how much TV i used to watch. as already said above i watched 6am-noon saturday morning. then i'd watch airwolf,a-team, you-bet etc from about 4pm to maybe 7pm.

so saturday was basically tv day.

6 hour in the morning and 3-4 in the evening

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:51 PM, Iain C said:

I never liked Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlett or any of that old puppet stuff. I found it boring as hell.

lol i was thinkign of thudercats.

same thing with birds though

  On 8/26/2009 at 6:21 PM, Plum said:

just like being 13 again and stroking one out to the littlewoods catalogue.

man, that lawnmower section can be a real toughy!

the garden furniture section however

if you are really lucky there might be side breast with nipple possibility through frosted glass in the shower fittings section

Fuck Going Live, I can remember Saturday Superstore. Not very much, I only really watched it for the cartoons. Mike Reid was rubbish.

When I was 16 or thereabouts I went through a stage of getting really stoned and watching Playdays (yeah, so wacky, I agree). One episode I remember had Why Bird shout not only "Oooh! I've made the wizard's pipe bubble!" but also "Rosie! I've got an e!". It was very special.

How about the old Look and Read programmes for schools? Geordie Racer, Through the Dragon's Eye, Earth Warp.... and of course their accompanying BBC Micro games!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFDd4dOO_F8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKlFlS897kU