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| ALI-G |
What's your childhood TV memories and whyWhat are your childhood memories on TV programmes and why???I Can imagine there will be quite different variations on this perhaps to do with age here is mine 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kIFILEwyiM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluYB9YfzSI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUrTHYVLP8&feature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1c-ZO6Cx4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-E8u2o48ts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfuaUTH9Y4&feature=related 
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| Corgi kid |
Some great shows there Ali. When I was younger I used to go to the pictures every saturday morning to watch The lone Ranger or Cassey Jones. My favourite tv shows are just as exiting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZEDNkZ2L4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxIuIxqo2So&feature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD4mn9CeH4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkD4IHC_5x0&feature=related |
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| keesie25 |
Ali, the first two links in your list I never heard of, the rest I know. Corgi, the first and last one in your list I don't know. I watched the Dukes and Nightrider as well of course, but I have to admit, I did not stay home for those anymore.
Spoken about in a different thread, I seldom watch TV these days, but I remember a lot of childeren's programms from the past. There were a lot of Dutch ones, so it wouldn't be of any use to mention them. The international ones I was keen of were Bonanza, High Chapperall(Ohhh, I loved that Victoria....), Avengers, UNCLE, Virginian, but my absolute favourite, which I always watched with my dad, was Rawhide. Because I now have the complete series (about 40 DVD's...)transferred from video, now and again my dad and I still watch Gil and Rowdy. |
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| Stuart |
TVI was a child of the Gerry Anderson era- Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, etc. Z-Cars, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, Getting sent to bed when Monty Python came on, Murray Walker commentating on rally cross, Dr Who (the original), and on and on. |
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| Andrew |
Re: TV
We must be of an age Stuart - although <<old git mode on>> I did have to help on the farm at milking time and where we were in the northern hills you could not get ITV, so I was restricted to whatever was on BBC1 after 6:00pm. My favourites were Star Trek, The Avengers, Get Smart, The Saint, Bewitched |
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| Steven David |
Too many to choose from but then again mine were North American shows and black & white.
Probably early favourite was 'Bonanaza' with 'Flintstones' as favourite cartoon. Cheers Steve |
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| Mark G |
Brilliant! I love a discussion about kids programmes!!  .
I remember all of Ali's as he probably the same generation as me, although I watched He-Man, my brother was more of a fan than me, and his best mate had all the toys! Used to love Dukes, Knight Rider (because they were shows with CARS!  ) and the A-Team was huge laugh, and my dad still watched it as well even though he called a "load of rubbish" and kept being boring pointing out all the far fetched things that wouldn't work in real life etc!! Yeah, but it was brilliant fun and they always got the baddies!!  He also thought George Peppard was wasted in it!! (Rumour has it that Peppard thought the same thing but he must have been getting paid well!). Always thought KITT had some useful gadgets on it and loved the stunts car chases on The Dukes.
My brother tented to watch trapdoor rather than me. I remember Worzel Gummidge, and me and my brother kept deliberatley falling backwards on the bed pretending to be Worzel falling backwards in the field off his stick! Anyway, here's a few of mine I grew up with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4afjWwb5vQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3xgngDjAko&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hiGhJv2oo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqXZEngVc8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woOLEEu8RLI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzEmPEnYxo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGLKXAJeASs&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8EUrtEhfM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVHKwf5mSc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_C2HJvtRDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfujTF_C6o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eflNFkT-PBk And check out the car!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LiQhMmg4s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ6-RhXTLXU |
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| Guzzi Gadgy |
Got to be Cannonball with Mike Malone. There are some clips on utube but I don't know how to put them on here. TRIBUTE TO CANNONBALL CANNONBALL MIKE MALONE Also Quatermas, very scary then. We only had BBC till the late 50s.
Corgi was the Lone Ranger still on when you were a lad, remember Wagontrain. Ian |
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| Ken R |
God ! we're goin' back now Ian ! I remember Cannonball as well, brilliant programme and probably the first US show I saw on TV, did you also watch Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford as well ? 
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| orinocowomble |
I remember Mum & Dad buying our 1st telly from Rediffusion in Chelmsford. It was an ECKO from memory. the man who came to install it(on a Saturday afternoon!!) forgot to bring a plug with him, so to avoid mass disappointment,he rammed the wires into the wall socket with a screwdriver.(Those were the days!). I still remember the very first programme watched on our very own telly was Bonanza! | ||||
| Andrew |
We had an old tin that everyone had to put their sixpences in and that's how we saved up for our first telly. Dad bought it second hand at a house sale. Don't remember the make but you changed channels by turning a tuning dial like you do on a radio.
The house sale was interesting for one small fact. The house was Grizedale Hall which during the war had been a prisoner of war camp holding German prisoners, it was famous for having the only escape from a POW camp in Britain, made into a film called 'The One That Got Away'. We were shown it endlessly at school because it was filmed locally and showed this German guy escaping across part of our cross-country run route. |
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| Guzzi Gadgy |
Yes Ken Highway Patrol was a must as was the later Z Cars
Orinocowomble we used matchsticks to hold the wires in when we had no plugs,and not just at home 
Andrew that film is still shown, I think he ended up in Canada 
Ian |
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| GroupB |
Theres only 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrM0E9pag8E |
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| Duncan |
Ali, Dave and Mark...we are clearly from the same vintage! 
Remember this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsqKQptTdQ or perhaps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9iP3-SJsM and another after school favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfif5DiGMYc |
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| Stuart |
TV showsHiram HolidayThe Monkees Tales of Mystery and Imagination Dixon of Doc Green Softly Softly Doomwatch The Outer Limits |
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| Old Tom |
For me it's 'The Buccaneers', 'Ivanhoe', 'The Lone Ranger', 'Cisco Kid' and 'Robin Hood'. When you are 7 years old, heroes is what you want! 
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| Mark G |
Duncan - yep brilliant memories!!
I'd forgotten about BJ Mackase, used to watch that as well! As for Dungeons and dragons, it was good but I don't remember ever seeing a final episode where the kids finally got home to planet earth, and I thought that was so sad.......... .gif) Dungeon master could have easily got them home but he kept giving them riddles every week!! The so and so!!  
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| Gaz |
I think our first colour TV was from Redifusion too.
Yep, me too, I remember watching most of them as well. Here's a few you might remember from Saturday mornings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACaNwtY3UU There was also The Bananna Splits. I seem to remember this being on every morning during the six weeks school holidays? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvI4p6ncqk&feature=related with Why Don't You? I can't find anything on You Tube for Why Don't You? though? Then in the afternoon, off out on my Raleigh Chopper. .gif)
Anyway, here is some more I can remember, in no order of age. Oh, and I seem to remember it was allways sunny during the six weeks holidays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICfzqE7d9xg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN9GW_KO-XA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKhMP2r4XGk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOd0DJ_iaAQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h517xaNwFh0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF...&playnext_from=PL&index=1 So many more, I could go on for ages.
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| orinocowomble |
Dare we mention Blue Peter?? | ||||
| Stuart |
Blue Peter
I was hoping we could keep my crush on Valerie Singleton a secret I made so many things from old shoe boxes its not funny. John Noakes & Shep (I was sad to read that the dogs were "hired" from keepers and when Noakes & Shep left the show that he wasn't allowed to keep the dog.
Who was the female presenter in the early 70s along with Noakes. As a young male with growing hormones I always wondered why she didn't wear a vest as it looked awfully cold in the studio...if you catch my drift
But.. Blue Peter had a superb model railway layout and I remember them showing a Scalextric Monte Carlo Rally complete with cardboard mountains and the track winding through them. |
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| Corgi kid |
The presenter you were lusting after was called kesley Judd. Most of my class mates felt the same about her to. She was really pretty and had a Purdey style haircut.
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| Andrew |
Somebody move that cat | ||||
| Mark G |
This is funny actually as there's a similar discussion going on, on the Sweeney forum as well...........
I remember Pipkins, I sometimes wanted to throttle that Hartley Hare though!!! The other characters were called Topov the monkey and Pig the er........ Pig! And all the "stop motion" programmes Trumpton etc. The Double Deckers was good as I liked kids programmes where there was a gang of kids just doing things with no adults around!! I posted a link to a Blue Peter opening title earlier, I remember the days of John Noakes, Peter Purvess and Lesley Judd, some ingenious creations made aswell, (often with "one created earlier"........... and made with "Sticky Back Plastic") although it was later Blue Peter female presenters I found er....... interesting! |
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| ALI-G |
I would have loved to say jump on my Raleigh chopper bike Gaz I was not old enough to have one when they came out my parents said I am not having won in the 80s instead I had a rally striker
Just found these and I must admit it brought back memories to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfNRMmJlxo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lav92tfPNBg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDeoO-j3G0&feature=related and of course I cannot forget this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlTlL53KGRs 
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| MISTER C |
Coming home from school.........knowing something called ITV was on that night  in our case it was Tyne Tees Television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmQFygrwgeo&feature=related |
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| Mark G |
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| bulldog_68 |
Here are just a few of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HofoK_QQxGc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsqKQptTdQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gWh5urAQKA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzEmPEnYxo You can kind of know where my mind was back then and even now.
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| Stuart |
Judd
So you watched them, I mean her too, Andrew
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| Mr.Blunden |
Ok, really showing my age now, but who remembers these from the 1970's ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnfZVk7sdk8 ... opening credits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDuZz1GxFBg&feature=related ... end credits and also ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgyxhe849k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6z8GUywyc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQnrY5V-rY And finally, anyone remember this, and what were they on ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o022ZhkhBY&NR=1
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| Steven David |
Of Mr B's selection, only Skippy made it to Canada.
I guess it took the North Atlantic route to the UK by stopping in Canada. Probably scared off by Polar Bears or moose!!! Certainly of course, previously mentioned was "On the Buses" and "Are You Being Served". Very Best I'm sure had to be "Monty Python" and who could forget, "Up Pompeii"...Great Stuff Cheers Steve |
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| Duncan |
I do remember Follyfoot but only just.
Heres a good spooky one from the 80's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8 at school we read The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and it had a huge impact on me. I then read, nearly non-stop, every John Wyndham book I could find, The Midwich Cuckoos, Day of the Triffids, Web, Chocky (of course!) and Consider Her Ways & Others being ones I can still remember...fantastic books - give them a go if you get a chance. |
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