With Channel 4 having yet another 100 Greatest..... shows I thought we should see what everybodys all time favourite kids tv show was.
I'll start you off.
My favourite is Live and Kicking especially between 1993 and 1999 (after then it just got rubbish, dropping Steve and Emma was the best decision the Beeb have made).
Knightmare aaaaand:
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men!!
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SittingOvation
Pigeon Street and Bertha.
The former aws ahead of it's time in terms of equal representation of different people. There were characters of all races and ages. And even a female HGV driver! ('Long Distance Clara' - a slightly dodgy name that).
Politically correct long before the term was widely coined!
PS More recently, I was very fond of Zzzzap! (sp?) I prefered it after Tricky Dicky was replaced by Daisy Dares. I don't like Minnie the Mini Wizard who's now replaced Smart Arty (except that she's played by Sophie Aldred of Dr Who fame - Sylvester McCoy's companion, 'Ace', so I'm willing to not be too harsh)
(Edited by SittingOvation at 9:57 pm on Aug. 22, 2001)
Thomas the tank engine and Rosie and Jim!!!
The best shows on TV, they were!
PS - Anyone remember TCC (The Children's Channel) on Sky Analogue! That channel rocked!
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lebbon
Where do i start i have loads of memorys of my tv years when i was a child.
I used to really like Count Duckula ( i was so glad that it was on sky one in the mornings a few weeks), Alvin and the chipmunks, Fun house, Art Attack, Thomas the tank engine theres loads more and mainly the ones that were on the top 100 short list.
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tomhourigan
There's still an old poster (fading away) at our local railway station for TCC.
Blue Peter has to be my favourite children's television programme of all time. I started watching when I was two years old (1979) and watched every episode until about 1995. Yes, I am a badgewinner and I got in free to loads of places! I won the blue badge, silver badge and the green badge. I have lost count of the bring-and-buy sales I took part in, the appeals I helped with and all the rest of it. I still watch occasional episodes today when The Weakest Link isn't on and it's matured well over the years. Blue Peter, I salute you!
Go on, call me a posh git! You know you want to!
(Edited by Katherine at 12:48 am on Aug. 23, 2001)
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RW
Best programmes of my childhood? I could probablt come up with about 100!
Bagpuss, Bod, Trumpton, Camberwick Green, Fingerbobs, Gideon, Jigsaw, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Willo the Wisp, Magic Roundabout, Paddington, Ivor the Engine...
Then there's the Johnny Ball series like Think Again and Think of a Number. And if I'm allowed to include schools programmes there's Look and Read, Words and Pictures and The Capricorn Game.
I can also remember Blue Peter from 1979, but only very vaguely, when Simon Groom helped Mike Oldfield to record the new BP theme tune. I don't think I've watched it since the John Leslie/Yvette Fielding era circa 1989.
