Years later and still no repeats...

Nope. Children's Programmes was the name back then.

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/bbcother/images/cbbc/cbbc_ss2_1983_t1421.jpghttp://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/bbcother/images/cbbc/cbbc1_1984_10b.jpg
If TV Ark's dates are right, those images are 1983 and 1984 respectively. Note that both of them say that Willo the Wisp was on at 5.35.
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcother/cbbc.html

Wilderness Edge from Granada, Runaway Bay from YTV, and who can remember StreetWise from Childsplay/TVS?

Though the difference then, of course, is that the news was at 5.40.

The 5.35 slot betwen 1984 and 1987 was an interesting one. For the first year after they moved the news to six, in September 1984, it was very much anything goes so some days you had kids shows running to six, like with Grange Hill and Crackerjack, whereas other days you would have adult shows there like The Good Life and, as we know, Star Trek at 5.10. In September 1985, when the Broom Cupboard began, kids' programmes officially now ended at 5.35, that was when Pip Schofield would say goodbye and the 5.35 programme would be suitable for the whole family (in a similar way to Blockbusters on ITV at 5.15). Often it would be very kid-friendly, including sometimes a cartoon, but it was accepted that official kids' shows made by the kids' department would end at 5.35.

And of course even though the CBBC branding only came in during 1985, that timeslot was clearly kids' shows.

I think there was a quiz show Anglia Rippon?
F.A.X - show about questions Pink
Panther show,
Rolf Harris cartoon time? ( Alot of the time)
Charles in charger and other US sitcoms?
The flintstones as said above.
BBC Scotland also opted out to slot in Catchword,
First class also went out in that slot I believe. http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/First_Class

I remember an episode of that Angela Rippon quiz disappearing, replaced by a BBC Leeds caption of some sort - possibly colour bars or a still of a vt clock - and tone. Took them a while to realise they had opted in error

The Angela Rippon quiz in the Neighbours slot before Neighbours was in it, was I think called Masterteam.

* Except for viewers in Northern Ireland who got Inside Ulster at 5.35 and then Masterteam / Neighbours at 1830

Why did BBC NI switch the local news and programme around?

To avoid clashing with the competition - Six Tonight, which later became UTV Live at Six - ran from 6.00 - 7.00pm. There was, however, an Inside Ulster update at 6.55pm.

The current set-up, with Neighbours at 5.35pm, started when Newsline 6.30 launched in early 1996.

Also in the days before rolling news, the BBC wanted to be the first to report the news, which was often dominated by the Troubles.

Ironically, given that the relaunch was partly designed to bring other stories to the fore, the last edition of Inside Ulster finished at 6pm on 6th February 1996, the exact moment the first IRA ceasefire ended.

The BBC Kids show 'Subzero'
Channel 5's 'Havakazoo'
Cartoon Network's 'Cartoon Cartoons'
Original series of Brum
Tots TV
Early Chucklevision episodes
Allsorts (anyone remember that classic ITV show?)
The Herbs (Kids TV once again)
Rat Trap (hosted by Mary Nightingale catching car thieves breaking into vehicles)
X Cars (BBC1 series covering Greater Manchester Police)
Speed! (Old Sky One show, not all that different to Crimefighters)
Coppers (another old Sky One show which followed police teams around)
Series 1-3 of Street Crime UK (originally aired on Bravo, Sky One and Pick only seem to air Series 4)

Rail Cops which was shown on BBC 1 in 2003, 4 and 5 respectively was only repeated once in 2010 on Watch. Not seen it since!

Shame really as some of my colleagues were featured on it!