100 greatest kids shows on E4 now

[jucyberry]

So, what was you all time favorite kids program? and hands up how many of a certain age spent their toddler years running round the living room stiff legged like the most enormous spotty dog you ever saw?

I loved Scooby Doo, untill Scrappy doo appeared anyway..

And the biggest question of all.......


Were you Magpie or Blue Peter?

Swap Shop or Tizwaz??

[RobTheRover]

I turned to Tiswas after I got turned down for an Action Man Training Tower on swapshop.  Also Tiswas had a TIE fighter getting blown up in the credits.

But the best kids programme ever was...... MarineBoy.  Japanese anime \"boy fights underwater monsters\" action, with oxygen-giving chewing gum.  Awesome when you are 5 years old.

Edit : just found the first episode on Google video... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1389807280031794325#

Edit #2:  Battle of the Planets came a close 2nd for the same reasons.

[CusworthRovers]

Marine Boy was top banana. I nearly drowned at Thorne baths thinking I was him, with my mates performing the roles of Splasher the Dolphin and Bolton Piper.

Tiswas....as I was getting older and found that my sparra was not just for pissing out of.

Blue Peter.....Sarah Greene had the same effect



..........as did Crystal Tips off Crystal Tips and Alistair

[coventryrover]

Chorlton and the Wheelies
Battle of the Planets
Jamie and the Magic torch
Sports Billy

[Barmby Rover]

My formative years were spent drawing Fireball XL5, the nearest thing we had to Science Fiction in the mid sixties. The best programmes.... The Tomorrow People, Jackanory(depending on who was reading), The Magic Roundabout ( with surreal commentary by Eric Thompson)

Magpie, and definitely Tiswas, but by then I was in my early twenties and watching to see Sally James in the bubble baths!

[Thinwhiteduke]

My Top three are as follows:

Jamie and the Magic Torch....
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMMow_Itqw&feature=related[/video]

Ulysses 31....

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8[/video]

Thundercats....

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_cpV00c4IE[/video]

God. They dont make intros like they used to anymore.

[Dagenham Rover]

Barmby Rover wrote:

My formative years were spent drawing Fireball XL5, the nearest thing we had to Science Fiction in the mid sixties. The best programmes.... The Tomorrow People, Jackanory(depending on who was reading), The Magic Roundabout ( with surreal commentary by Eric Thompson)

Magpie, and definitely Tiswas, but by then I was in my early twenties and watching to see Sally James in the bubble baths!

Exactly me, except it was Blue Peter  with Valerie    
The Tomorrow people  ooohh them silver suits  

[BLIR]

I'd get a good twitch watching the twins on funhouse:

[video]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1LvL3u9vk[/video]

Poor quality video - but I'm sure some people will remember these 2?

[Al4475]

TWD:

Excellent choices there mucker!
My number 1 = Jamie and The Magic Torch
My number 2 = Battle of The Plants
My number 3 = Ulysses 31

Interesting thread this in the way that you can picture all our poster's ages by their choices!

[nice one rovers]

The double deckers, and Whydontyoujustswitchoffyourtvandgodosomethinglessboringinstead? for me.

[jucyberry]

loved the Double Deckers, think I was about the same age as Tiger at the time...
The Banana Splits..The Arabian Nights were my fave..

[Keith Myath]

Jayce and the wheeled warriors started it all for me.

[video]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb2zg9_jayce-and-the-wheeled-warriors-intr_shortfilms[/video]

[Glyn_Wigley]

I saw the very first Tiswas in 1974, back when it was on ATV only. I was living in Derbyshire at the time.

[Mike_F]

Another vote for Thundercats here. Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!

I also enjoyed Grange Hill during the Gonch/Teggs/Krissy years. Especially Krissy!

[eastender]

Ministry Of Mayhem... Not the greatest show but definitely up there in the greatest moments, with the classic Holly Willoughby boob. (pardon the pun)



Warning mild nudity.



http://www.metacafe.com/watch/202432/holly_willoughby_nip_slip/

[Thinwhiteduke]

Forgot all about this little gem....

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc&feature=related[/video]

[Thinwhiteduke]

Mike_F wrote:

I also enjoyed Grange Hill during the Gonch/Teggs/Krissy years. Especially Krissy!

Just for you Mike...

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFyCml9Upqg[/video]

[BillyStubbsTears]

Aye. And THAT wouldn't be allowed today.

Nor would the scene of Cathy Hargreaves singing about it being \"so frustrating when you're really into mating and there ain't no loving man around.\" I suffered dehydration as a 14 year old that evening...

In our current lather about kiddy-fiddlers, we've deprived a whole generation of healthy teenagers this sort of indoor exercise incentive.

But ni mind eh? They can always go on line and see some 17 year old Ukrainian waif being degraded.

[CusworthRovers]

BillyStubbsTears wrote:

Aye. And THAT wouldn't be allowed today.

Nor would the scene of Cathy Hargreaves singing about it being \"so frustrating when you're really into mating and there ain't no loving man around.\" I suffered dehydration as a 14 year old that evening...

In our current lather about kiddy-fiddlers, we've deprived a whole generation of healthy teenagers this sort of indoor exercise incentive.

But ni mind eh? They can always go on line and see some 17 year old Ukrainian waif being degraded.

Link please.

[GM-MarkB]

There was only one reason to watch Grange Hill as a kid for me.....



Apologies to the Laydeees on here...sexist I know but.......

[eastender]

GM-MarkB wrote:

There was only one reason to watch Grange Hill as a kid for me.....



Apologies to the Laydeees on here...sexist I know but.......

Ah Paula ann Bland, fine choice,i remember me and Mrs E going to see her and Nigel Pivaro (Terry Duckworth) at the Gaumont/Odeon in the late 80's in some comedy play.

The place was packed,the main reason being they both got there kit off,and take it from me GM-MarkB the twins looked mighty fine.

[The Mighty Brian Rowe]

Ah the Gaumont.... I was there too, remember telling my mum I'd gone to see the latest installment of the Death Wish franchise. I had a right crush on Paula in them days :-)

BTW, any chance of scaniing the inside pages as well.  

[eastender]

The Mighty Brian Rowe wrote:

Ah the Gaumont.... I was there too, remember telling my mum I'd gone to see the latest installment of the Death Wish franchise. I had a right crush on Paula in them days :-)

BTW, any chance of scaniing the inside pages as well.  

I can do better than that TMBR.

Warning mild nudity.

Click the over 18 confirmation button.


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/51668/topless_dolphin/

[German Rover]

There was only one reason to watch Grange Hill as a kid for me.....



Apologies to the Laydeees on here...sexist I know but.......

Ha ha ha i had set that as my new avatar just before clicking on this thread

[River Don]

As a child growing up in the 80s I always found a lot of kids TV very disturbing.

This for instance was bad enough but then a mate of mine told me that what was in the Picture Box, lying on the purple velvet cushion was a human tongue.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IF-0XNKlhk[/video]