tv when growing up good or bad?

[redbrez]

what TV programmes did you like has a kid ?and would they be good if you watched them now? start with a few i used to watch but would they be watchable now?

blake 7 , was it good? (i cant remember)

logans run, the film was good at the time,think it would be shite now though?

its a knockout, can remember laughing my tits of at this but was it mainly due to the commentators?

tom and Jerry,all time classic cartoon would never date surely?

superstars can always remember Brian jacks ?

can remember a title of a programme what my brother watched but cant remember anything about it apart from a interesting title sapphire and steel was this any good?

men from uncle ( is this the correct title?) enjoyed this and bet it would still be good now.

anyone else add any? and would any of these be made into re runs,and what happened to all the western films on TV?

[MrFrost]

In terms of kids programmes, i'd watch Ghostbusters, He-Man, Thundercats etc.
You never get kids programme's like that now!

[BLIR]

Pretty much everything from that era looks really dated now, but if you enjoyed it at the time then that's all that matters.

You must be a bit older than me, I can remember some of those (and have obviously seen bits of them since) but my memories come from a little later.

I remember clearly watching programs like the A-Team, Baywatch (ahem) etc but these look terrible now. Plot lines were always thinner than Posh Spice but it didn't matter back then

[nightporter]

Dukes of Hazzard, Happy Days, Mork an Mindy, Starskey an Hutch, Kickstart...........................................

Now?   TV IS SHIT!!

[not on facebook]

its a knockout this is classic them penguins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2bTwSfWtsE

you will have tears rolling down yer face

[Nudga]

Transformers cartoon for me. It was on The CartoonNetwork so I put it on for my kids telling them that it was awesome but unfortunately is was really bad and the kids hated it. Loved Thundercats, I hope they do a film of this like they did with Transformers.

[jucyberry]

T.V back when it was worth the fee....

Has to be the Two Ronnies, the sublime Phantom rasberry blower of old london town....wonderful.

Dick Emery, got an old dear comes in the shop, sounds just like Mandy...lol

loved it's a knockout on a friday night..

Superstars, always a favorite in our house.

Best thing about Xmas was getting to watch a big film, no video's or dvd's then, so if you wern't lucky enough to go to the pictures you actually got to watch a blockbuster....

Kids tv had to be The Banana Splits, or the Double deckers....almost forgot, the flashing blade......

[Filo]

Hair bear bunch

Scooby Doo

High Chaperal

Alias Smith and Jones

[BLIR]

jucyberry wrote:

Has to be the Two Ronnies, the sublime Phantom rasberry blower of old london town....wonderful.

I think I'm the only person in the country that thinks Ronnie Corbett is shite? Not even remotely funny!

Best thing about Xmas was getting to watch a big film, no video's or dvd's then, so if you wern't lucky enough to go to the pictures you actually got to watch a blockbuster....

....and getting the TV Times a fortnight beforehand and planning your Xmas viewing well in advance  

[MrFrost]

I bought the DVD of the Real Ghostbusters cartoon to try and re-visit my youth. I've not watched it yet as the little girl has robbed it and she absolutely loves it!
Miles better than all the shite that's on these days!

[jucyberry]

On his own, yup, I was never as keen, but with Ronnie Barker, brilliant. I don't like his monologues, but the fella loves them.

I didn't mind the High Chaperal, Can't remember overly much about it, other than the actor playing Blue had stunning blue eyes...

my cousin had a poster of Ben Murphy in a victorian bath tub on her bedroom wall, but I liked Pete Duel, he was lovely.

[Ian H]

Danger Mouse ...... I got the box set - my daughter loves it and stole it from me!

It's true about Corbett (he was ordinary on his own or in \"Sorry\") but funny with Barker - but then Wise never really amused me on his own.

I was lucky enough to see Morecambe & Wise live - brilliant.

Referring to another thread: I also saw the stage performance at the Gaumont starring Claire from Grange Hill (Paula Ann Bland) & Nigel Pavaro? (Terry Duckworth) and when the young lady in question peeled her red dress over her head to reveal skimpy pants and nothing else there was a real atmosphere in the place ..  

[jucyberry]

Ian H wrote:

Referring to another thread: I also saw the stage performance at the Gaumont starring Claire from Grange Hill (Paula Ann Bland) & Nigel Pavaro? (Terry Duckworth) and when the young lady in question peeled her red dress over her head to reveal skimpy pants and nothing else there was a real atmosphere in the place ..  

A stirring in the air would you say?  

[donnievic]

Used too love Blake 7 although if wasput on again it would look very out dated.
 Always watch Auf Weidersein Pet and Only Fools And Horses when they are on.
 Would like to see Grange Hill and Tuckers Luck and Prisoner Cell Blockl H repeated from the start

[GM-MarkB]

ITV 4 is the place to be....

The Sweeney
Minder (with Terry, not nephew Ray)
The Professionals
Auf Wiedersein Pet
Randall & Hopkirk
The Saint
UFO
Space 1999

.....ahh happy days  

[Filo]

Ian H wrote:

Danger Mouse ...... I got the box set - my daughter loves it and stole it from me!

It's true about Corbett (he was ordinary on his own or in \"Sorry\") but funny with Barker - but then Wise never really amused me on his own.

I was lucky enough to see Morecambe & Wise live - brilliant.

Referring to another thread: I also saw the stage performance at the Gaumont starring Claire from Grange Hill (Paula Ann Bland) & Nigel Pavaro? (Terry Duckworth) and when the young lady in question peeled her red dress over her head to reveal skimpy pants and nothing else there was a real atmosphere in the place ..  

[BillyStubbsTears]

redbrez wrote:

what TV programmes did you like has a kid ?and would they be good if you watched them now? start with a few i used to watch but would they be watchable now?

blake 7 , was it good? (i cant remember)

logans run, the film was good at the time,think it would be shite now though?

its a knockout, can remember laughing my tits of at this but was it mainly due to the commentators?

tom and Jerry,all time classic cartoon would never date surely?

superstars can always remember Brian jacks ?

can remember a title of a programme what my brother watched but cant remember anything about it apart from a interesting title sapphire and steel was this any good?

men from uncle ( is this the correct title?) enjoyed this and bet it would still be good now.

anyone else add any? and would any of these be made into re runs,and what happened to all the western films on TV?

Eeeh Superstars.

Even as a 12 year old, I can remember thinking, \"Prime time telly should be about more than watching a golf player doing squat thrusts and Kevin Keegan forgetting to take his salt tablets and passing out.\"

Had I realised that 30 years later, the No1 telly programme would be 24/7 coverage of a dozen social inadequates stuck in a house sleeping, cooking, sunbathing, speaking in monosyllabic grunts and scratching their fcuking genitals, I'd have been a lot less severe on David Vine.

EDIT: Mind, Blake's 7 were mint. They were like a bad pre-cursor to all the shite New Romatic bands.



That said, I used to get a reight semi on over that Servalan. I reckon it must have been being taught by severely cropped nuns that did it.

Blake's 7 was the end of an era. The old British approach to Sci-Fi where imagination mattered. The old Doctor Who programmes from the 60s and 70s wmust have cost 10 bob each to make, but they drew you in. they were brilliantly crafted works of psychological suspension and you ignored the fact that you could see the little wooden rods that were propping up the arms of the monsters.

Blake's 7 was the last of that line. The sort of programme that could have been performed in a theatre - where performance and script mattered. Star Wars had already happened, then Battlestar Galatica and Tron came along and quickly the American Behemoth swept all that subtlty away with CGI and big f**king explosions and zero craft. No psychology. No shades of grey. Just Us against Them. One Strong Man taking on the Evil Empire and blowing the f**k out of it. It's shite int it?

[Filo]

redbrez wrote:

its a knockout, can remember laughing my tits of at this but was it mainly due to the commentators?

I liked the international version \"Jeux Sans Frontières\"

[Snods Shinpad 2]

Swap Shop.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvI4p6ncqk[/video]

Used to spend the whole week waiting for Saturdays so I could watch this.

They had a section of the programme where they would show drawings that kids had sent in.  When Rovers were going for promotion in the 82/83 season I sent Noel and Cheggers a beautifully sketched tribute to wish Rovers good luck in the away game at York, who were top of the table.

The buggers never showed it.   .

Bloke my little heart it did, seeing as I must have used at least three crayons and five minutes of my valuable time on it.

If I remember rightly Rovers lost 1-0 and that git Edmonds has never been forgiven.