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Title: 100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: jucyberry on August 28, 2010, 09:09:44 pm
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??
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: RobTheRover on August 28, 2010, 09:12:47 pm
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.
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: CusworthRovers on August 28, 2010, 09:17:54 pm
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
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: coventryrover on August 28, 2010, 10:43:40 pm
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Battle of the Planets
Jamie and the Magic torch
Sports Billy
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Barmby Rover on August 28, 2010, 10:56:53 pm
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!
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Thinwhiteduke on August 28, 2010, 11:54:35 pm
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.
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Dagenham Rover on August 29, 2010, 12:04:15 am
Barmby Rover wrote:
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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  :)
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: BLIR on August 29, 2010, 08:28:53 am
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?

(http://i39.tinypic.com/befo5x.jpg)
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Al4475 on August 29, 2010, 10:37:52 am
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!
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: nice one rovers on August 30, 2010, 12:46:29 am
The double deckers, and Whydontyoujustswitchoffyourtvandgodosomethinglessboringinstead? for me.
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: jucyberry on August 30, 2010, 07:49:47 am
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..
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Keith Myath on August 30, 2010, 09:12:52 am
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]
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Glyn_Wigley on August 30, 2010, 09:24:08 am
I saw the very first Tiswas in 1974, back when it was on ATV only. I was living in Derbyshire at the time.
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Mike_F on August 30, 2010, 10:56:44 am
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!
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: eastender on August 30, 2010, 08:06:07 pm
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/ :)
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Thinwhiteduke on August 30, 2010, 09:52:01 pm
Forgot all about this little gem....

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc&feature=related[/video]
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: Thinwhiteduke on August 30, 2010, 09:54:11 pm
Mike_F wrote:
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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]
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 30, 2010, 11:12:21 pm
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.
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: CusworthRovers on August 31, 2010, 08:22:27 am
BillyStubbsTears wrote:
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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.
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: GM-MarkB on August 31, 2010, 08:34:17 am
There was only one reason to watch Grange Hill as a kid for me.....

(http://static.preloved.co.uk/uploads/userphotos/10/0226/1828301-614m.jpg)

Apologies to the Laydeees on here...sexist I know but....... :woohoo:
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: eastender on August 31, 2010, 09:48:29 am
GM-MarkB wrote:
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There was only one reason to watch Grange Hill as a kid for me.....

(http://static.preloved.co.uk/uploads/userphotos/10/0226/1828301-614m.jpg)

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



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. :laugh:
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: The Mighty Brian Rowe on August 31, 2010, 10:27:24 am
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.  :woohoo:
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: eastender on August 31, 2010, 10:48:31 am
The Mighty Brian Rowe wrote:
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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.  :woohoo:



I can do better than that TMBR.

Warning mild nudity.

Click the over 18 confirmation button. :)


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/51668/topless_dolphin/
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: German Rover on February 18, 2011, 08:11:18 pm
Quote from: \"GM-MarkB\" post=107896
There was only one reason to watch Grange Hill as a kid for me.....

(http://static.preloved.co.uk/uploads/userphotos/10/0226/1828301-614m.jpg)

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


Ha ha ha i had set that as my new avatar just before clicking on this thread
Title: Re:100 greatest kids shows on E4 now
Post by: River Don on February 21, 2011, 12:18:32 pm
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]