Speaking of early morning cartoons, I remember Channel 4 showing Heathcliff before the Channel 4 Daily. I remember on more than one occasion getting in trouble and being sent back to bed because I'd got up to watch it.
Heathcliff gets a mention from Carol Bolt in this closedown from around 1990ish
I remember an ITV comedy called Troubles and Strife, the premise being that a new male vicar joins a parish and the older women of the choir take a shine to him. Plot as thin as it sounds but I was 10 / 11 at the time 😎
Another ITV comedy I remember was Bottle Boys, which I think a few years ago got a repeat on ITV3. It was an attempt to breathe new life into the On the Buses format, but this time, the two sidekicks were milkmen.
The trouble on our High Streets is nothing new, as on ITV in the early 1990s, a one series sitcom, High Street Blues, where traders were faced with a dilemma, of selling up and moving out, or staying put to compete with a new store.
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Does anyone remember Step by Step a summer filler on its?
Speaking of early morning cartoons, I remember Channel 4 showing Heathcliff before the Channel 4 Daily. I remember on more than one occasion getting in trouble and being sent back to bed because I'd got up to watch it.
I used to hate being brought back to bed during a kids show on GMTV. During the morning news or nightscreen is reasonable, but during when kids are supposed to get up. Angry 4/5-year old inside adult here.
Best I could find is this poor quality capture from a phone recording tv. As Andrew said earlier this features the typical 90s family for a US kids comedy
I used to love both the book and tv series when I was young and wish I could find the complete series
Loved Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing as a book (as above, made into an American TV series under the name Fudge). Apparently there were four Fudge books in the series from 1972, 1980, 1990 and 2002 so YMMV on which is your favourite Fudge book, though of course I'd say most of us here were introduced to the second or maybe third book. Think the TV show used elements of the first two books IIRC, or it may have been the second and third?
One that seems to have been completely forgotten is the Kelly Monteith Show.
This was a big show (BBC1 Saturday Night, started on BBC2 as I remember), staring American comedian Kelly Monteith (who most people seem to think is Canadian for some reason) but BBC made. The style was very modern for era, Kelly would step out of a sketch (or the episode narrative) and start doing stand-up to us at home breaking the third wall. Very like "It's Gary Shandling's Show" but long before this.
I always thought this was good as a kid and wondered if it would hold up now and it seems to. But it's hard to tell as it's really hard to find, with only a couple of episodes on youtube. Would love to see them all....
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Loved Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing as a book (as above, made into an American TV series under the name Fudge). Apparently there were four Fudge books in the series from 1972, 1980, 1990 and 2002 so YMMV on which is your favourite Fudge book, though of course I'd say most of us here were introduced to the second or maybe third book. Think the TV show used elements of the first two books IIRC, or it may have been the second and third?
Most people on here won't have forgotten the Demon Headmaster but its last airing on CBBC in any form is the best part of ten years ago now and the thread subtitle does say "classic shows you remember but the public might not". Three series were made including, apparently, a special CBBC Pantomime special version as part of the CBBC Big Bash event in Birmingham that went out on Christmas Day 1997. The first series is/was on DVD.
