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Author:  Johnny's Fan [ October 15th, 2011, 11:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Childhood TV
What shows do you remember from your childhood? Which were your favourite? Which did you simply watch for something to do? :P Would you watch any of them today?

I used to really love watching the X-Men series which were shown on Saturday mornings either with a Batman cartoon or another super hero cartoon. X-Men were my favourite though, but they stopped showing them not long after I started watching, otherwise I guess I could have turned into a comic geek. :teehee:

I was never a big fan of Thunderbirds but I used to watch it if there was nothing else on. I can't remember who it was I quite liked, I think he was blonde. How tastes change. :P I used to really love Captain Scarlet, he was probably my first TV crush, sad I know. :lol: I remember really enjoying Stingray as well although I hated the character Marina. I never knew what Troy Tempest saw in her. :P Annoying blonde.

Sooty and Noddy were two very special programmes for me when I was young. I had tons of shows taped and everytime I was off from school, unwell I would sit in bed and watch them all day, while my mum looked after me. As I got older I stopped watching Noddy, but if I still had my Sooty tapes I would watch them today. Sooty rules! :punk:

Two of my guilty pleasures, in as much as even though I made sure I was around the TV when they were on, I wouldn't admit that I watched them was Power Rangers and Sweet Valley High. I think Power Rangers was less of a guilty pleasure than Sweet Valley High, as it was kinda cool and was a bit like X-Men.. but not. :p They kept changing the characters though and it became really crap. :teehee: I have no idea why I kept watching Sweet Valley High, considering American high schools scare me. I even remember the theme tune! :-o

Kenan and Kel was one of the best shows of the 90's. Easily. I have loads of them taped and I found some I haven't seen before on youtube. K&K was just a perfect show for everyone. There were no lines meant for adults or things aimed soley at kids. It's just good family fun that makes you feel better. I loved Saturday mornings because it meant K&K was going to be on. Everyone in my family watched it. Here's an interesting fact: one of storylines that actually ran into two episodes was where Kenan's dad wanted to move the family as he had taken the job as a ranger in Pumice, Montana and when I first came across our own MontanaBohemian I could not get the very odd locals from Montana out of my head.... which led to initially some very strange imaging when we spoke to one another. I'M SORRY MONTY! :notworthy:

Something which actually is being repeated all the time but I just never do get to see it, is the original Batman series. Oh, how I loved that show. Not for Batman and Robin because they are boring and dull drips. :P The Joker, the Riddler and all the others... gah, you don't get such deliciously evil and craaaaazy villains on TV anymore.

The Munsters is a series that I have thankfully found again. I treated myself to the boxset this year based on the memory that I liked it as a kid, and I started watching them the other week and I'm so depressed because I have 5 episodes left and then that's it. :-( It's even better than I remember. :D

I came around too late to see many episodes of Sesame Street but both my brothers learned about numbers and the alphabet from this. I always loved the Count and I guess had I been able to watch him for many years, like my brothers, I would have liked maths more. I do watch bits on youtube (cookie monster FTW) as SS is still as great as it ever was.

Other stuff I loved to watch included: Sabrina the Teenage Witch (I shouldn't have liked it but I did), Dad's Army, Land of the Giants (didn't like it much but always seemed to be on when I was in the room[/b], The Queen's Nose, Art Attack, Blue Peter and loads more I have forgotten. Hopefully I'll be reminded of some more here. :P

EDIT: Ooh, ooh I've just thought of another one. Mork and Mindy. :D I thought it was very funny, the bits I saw of it as usually my mum would come in and turn it off. But I remember liking it. It's weird all these old shows being repeated in the 90's and yet now they don't really repeat a ton of old stuff like Thunderbirds etc.
Author:  Arabella Baggins [ October 15th, 2011, 11:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Oh my goodness! Love this thread idea!

I was born in 1993, so I remember a lot of the 'classic' 90s TV that aired on Nickelodeon. My absolute favorite show growing up was Rugrats. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the show is about a group of babies and various adventures they get into, and is really funny. I actually was able to watch an episode last night (the network is doing this awesome thing where you vote on your favorite 90s shows and they play them starting at 10 at night), and I got so much more of the humor than I did as a kid, which seems to always be the case. The parents on this show are absolutely hilarious.

Another show I adored was The Wild Thornberrys. This came along when I was about six, I want to say, and Tim Curry was one of the voice actors for the characters. He did the voice of Nigel Thornberry, a man who hosts a nature show and brings his family all over the world to shoot the program. The protagonist of the show is Nigel's 12-year-old daugher Eliza, who. thanks to a shaman she met in Africa, can now talk to animals. She has a pet chimpanzee that she calls Darwin who sort of acts as her conscience--she's adventurous and Darwin always wants to stay home where it's safe. The other characters on the show are Eliza's mom, Marianne, Eliza's sister Debbie, and a little boy they found in Borneo and unofficially adopted named Donnie. The show was great, really educational and appealed to my animal-loving side as a child. I was so sad when this got cancelled.

Does anyone remember As Told By Ginger? The main character of this show was older and the show got canceled pretty quickly, but I did love what I saw. I would love to watch it again now that I'm older and have gone through middle school, as that's what the show mainly focused on.

I also loved some live-action nature shows starring Chris and Martin Kratt, Kratt's Kreatures and Zaboomafoo. These featured real animals, not just animated ones, and wasn't scripted.

Little Bear, Arthur, and Wishbone are the perfect children's shows in my mind. Particularly Wishbone, it was such a clever concept and a perfect way to introduce children to great literature at such an early age.

Those are all I can think of at the moment, unless of course you count two shows that are in no way appropriate for children, but I watched them anyway: Mad About You and Seinfeld. yes, my parents (namely my dad) let me watch Seinfeld at age three. Don't ask why--my parents have never really much believed in censoring television or film based on someone's age. or maybe my dad just got sick of watching my shows and wanted to watch something that interested him, because at that time we only had one television in the house. In any case, I loved Seinfeld! I'm convinced it helped me develop my keen sense of sarcasm--when I was five and in kindergarten, my mother actually got a phone call from my teacher requesting that I stop being so sarcastic in class!
Author:  Johnny's Fan [ October 16th, 2011, 12:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
I used to watch Rugrats as well! And I certainly remember The Wild Thornberry's being on TV although it was something I never fancied. Arthur was something I would tolerate until a better show started and I also remember Hey Arnold! which I absolutely hated.

My parents used to let me watch things like Coronation Street with them and I also saw a lot of PG films when I was very young, simply because I never understood what was happening so it was safe. That soon changed. :P
Author:  Arabella Baggins [ October 16th, 2011, 12:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Oh, Hey Arnold! I will never forget that Christmas episode of Hey Arnold that had Arnold and his friend going all over town running errands so they could help one of his neighbors find his daugher, who he had not seen in 20 years because he let an American soldier take her out of Vietnam during the war. I always thought it was a touching episode, even though as a kid I never got the significance.

Rugrats was just a great show all around. Funny with enough sight-gags and bodily humor and malapropisms for kids, but with clever writing for the parents that always got stuck watching too. And every so often, you'd get an episode that was touching and felt very real and was educational (I'm mainly thinking of the Passover and Hannakuh episodes here). I never much cared for the films, though. The second one was okay, but I hated the first.
Author:  Taurquende [ October 16th, 2011, 12:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Oh Lord, I used to watch an absurd amount of TV when I was a kid. It was really terrible. :P All of it was cartoons, too, because I wasn't interested in "real person shows."

I wasn't crazy about Nickelodeon, so I didn't like Hey Arnold! or Rugrats very much. I remember enjoying The Wildthornberrys though, because I also loved animals. But mostly I watched Cartoon Network, and I especially liked the Powderpuff Girls and Dexter's Laboratory. (It's kind of embarrassing, but I remember my celebration of the new millennium was the premiere of a Dexter's Laboratory made-for-TV movie. :teehee:) I actually watched a lot of Warner Bros shorts, too, and Tom and Jerry. I didn't really prefer them back then, but they were on all the time so I saw a lot of them, and I actually like them now. :P Their afternoon line-up was a block of shows they collectively called "Toonami," I remember... I think it was hosted by a robot named Tom. It was mostly stuff like Dragonball Z--- space shows and so on, and I didn't really enjoy them too much, but I watched them anyway because, like I said, I watched way too much TV!

My favorite was Pokemon, though. It was probably my first obsession. :P
Author:  Erkenhelm [ October 16th, 2011, 1:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Pinky?"
"I think so Brain, but how are we going to fit an elephant in a tiny cage?"

Those two lines are for some reason etched in my brain lol. Gotta love the silly answers from Pinky :p I loved Pinky and the Brain
Author:  Johnny's Fan [ October 16th, 2011, 1:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
The Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Braaaain. I rememeber watching that as well.

Oh I loved cartoons. Tom and Jerry were my favourite. Every now and then I find myself watching them. The animation, the beautiful animation and of course Tom and Jerry. I have so many happy memories of watching those two beat hell out of each other, but when the chips were down, come together to beat a common enemy. :happy: There Christmas episodes have some of the most beautiful Christmas imagery I've ever seen.
Author:  ErulissëEnethNîn [ October 16th, 2011, 2:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Growing up in Sweden in the '80s, you didn't really have an abundance of children's entertainment as there were only two TV channels, haha. You had five minutes of Tom & Jerry every Monday - and that was all the cartoon you got for the week. There was a 30 minute children's show every evening, called Björnes Magasin, but they mostly showed like stop action type animations with puppets or clay and whatnot. Björne was great though, it was a guy in a bear costume and he had guests over in his little warehouse and they did fun and weird things together.


My favorite segment on Björne was something called Skymningssagor and it was basically bedtime stories read out loud. It was so calming and peaceful.


There was one crazy show called Ika I Rutan that I loved, but at the same time was slightly afraid of. Because it was just so... weird. Haha. The intro was fantastic though:


Another great series was Fem Myror Är Fler Än Fyra Elefanter (literally Five Ants Are More Than Four Elephants), a '70s show that through singing and funny skits taught kids the alphabet, counting and other things.
Here's the song for the letter O:



Then when the '90s came, we got more and more shows and my favorites were The Raggy Dolls, Dr Snuggles, Barbapapa, DuckTales, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers etc. We also got an influx of the Australian Sci-Fi/Fantasy children's series, like: The Girl From Tomorrow, Ocean Girl, Halfway Across The Galaxy And Turn Left and Mirror Mirror as well as the Canadian Are You Afraid Of The Dark and The Odyssey. I watched them all religiously.

I also loved the sitcoms of the time like Clarissa Explains It All, Saved By The Bell, Blossom, Alf, Full House etc.
Author:  Johnny's Fan [ October 16th, 2011, 3:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
I remember when there were just 4 channels in the UK. :P Two of which showed kids TV starting about 3pm.

I remember Ducktales and Chip and Dale as well! I had a bit of a love hate relationship with The Moomins. Sometimes it was OK and other times it creeped me out. Can still remember the theme song though. :teehee: I loved The Poddington Peas as well. Down at the bottom of the garden, among the birds and the bees, live a lot of little people, they're called the Poddington Peas!

I should try and find some of these things on youtube. :p
Author:  Arabella Baggins [ October 16th, 2011, 3:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Oooh, does anyone remember Bananas in Pajamas? That was another favorite of mine, I wanted to wear my Bananas in Pajamas sweatshirt everywhere when I was about three.
Author:  Johnny's Fan [ October 16th, 2011, 4:12 pm ]
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Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs, bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears

I think I can honestly say that kids TV was soooo much better when I was growing up than it is now. :P With the exception of the Teletubbies which was just a minor blip for kids TV in the '90's. ;)
Author:  ErulissëEnethNîn [ October 16th, 2011, 5:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Ohhh The Moomins! I LOVED The Moomins and still do. If we're talking about the Japanese Anime series that is?
Author:  Erkenhelm [ October 16th, 2011, 11:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Arabella Baggins wrote:
Oooh, does anyone remember Bananas in Pajamas? That was another favorite of mine, I wanted to wear my Bananas in Pajamas sweatshirt everywhere when I was about three.


I got a stuffed animal of one of the Bananas for Christmas one year, and I freaked out lol :p loved that show too.
Author:  Tinker Bell [ October 17th, 2011, 12:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Oh my gosh, Bananas in Pajamas! I had a stuffed Banana, and when you squeezed his hand it played the theme song! :lol: This is a fantastic thread idea! Let me see, I watched the X Men cartoon, Spider Man, Batman, then the Batman/Superman adventures (just for Batman though, my first crush), Iron Man! And I'll stop with those shows because I'm afraid my nerd is showing. Umm...lets see Wishbone! Gotta love Wishbone! Kratts Creatures, Zaboomafoo, Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs (anyone remember that show?), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, Scooby Doo. Then shows like Giligans Island, The Munsters, Addams Family, and still one of my all time favorite shows, M*A*S*H. I was so crushing on Hawkeye Pierce, then I found out he was old and my poor little 10 year old heart was broken. And Goosebumps, anyone remember Goosebumps? Or what about Darkwing Duck?
Author:  Erkenhelm [ October 17th, 2011, 12:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Lithôniel wrote:
Oh my gosh, Bananas in Pajamas! I had a stuffed Banana, and when you squeezed his hand it played the theme song!


That's the one I had!

Lithôniel wrote:
Animaniacs (anyone remember that show?)


Ya I remember that show. I use to watch it all the time, then all the cartoons I watched switched networks or something and I never saw them again :( I have never had cable or satellite or anything, just a simple antenna on my roof that got about 6 channels back then (I get a few more now, with the digital switch and everything) so I guess they went to a channel you had to pay for.
Author:  Tinker Bell [ October 17th, 2011, 1:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Childhood TV
Yeah, I hate it when your favorite cartoons just disappear. I used to have just the basic 6 local channels too, it wasnt all that bad having just those, but having satellite isnt bad either! Now my other hometown, its really out in the boondocks, just had a population jump up to about 1,000 people, we used to have 1 tv channel. And that was on a good day. Sometimes we had to keep rotating the antenna around using this box that was on a table in the living room otherwise you would lose the signal during your show. :lol: We'd be watching the news and the picture would start to get fuzzy and someone would have to turn the knob on the box while another person turned the tv up so we could hear it over the loud grinding sound of the rotation box. If it was really cloudy or stormy, forget it, you're not gonna pick up anything to watch. We finally got satellite tv down there too, and it works most of the time.

oh, and another show I used to watch, admittedly I was actually in Jr High when i watched this, but I absolutely love Clifford the Big Red Dog, and they made a Clifford cartoon. I was flipping through the channels one day and I saw it, and I had to watch it, age be darned!
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