Favourite Childhood TV and Films
 

I noticed a lot of people got into talking about their favourite shows as kids on other threads. So I thought why not create a new thread solely for this purpose.

Does anyone remember Bravestarr? I used to love this cartoon as a kid. It really was essential viewing for me.

What are your favourite childhood TV shows or films and why?

Well TV......

STIG OF THE DUMP
RED HAND GANG
CAPTAIN PUGWASH
ADRIAN MOLE
GRANGE HILL
HONG KONG PHOOEY
TISWAS

Films.....
KELLYS HEROES
THE GREEN BERETS
STAR WARS

Oooh kiddy programmes! Oooh yeah!

Of the top of my head I remember watching programmes like Hey Arnold, Doug, Real Monsters, Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids, Kennan And Kel :pound: erm...oh The Rugrats

and MR. BLOOBY!!!!!! I luv Mr. Blooby. Anyone remember Noel's House Party with Mr. Blooby? I used to watch the Blooby VHS almost every single blooby day! I can even remember some of the sketches on it. And of course the Mr. Blooby song.

Blooby blooby blooby!

I think you mean Mr Blobby :lol:

Oh.

Whoops.

I'm an idiot. What can I say, I'm tired, I probably spelt it like that as a kid, I'm rubbish, I'm [enter excuse here]. :laugh:

I say bring back the Blobby!

Btw - Is it wrong to still watch Spongebob? :pound:

Ooooh so many, in no particular order:-

Battle of the Planets
Space 1999
Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker era)
Blake's 7 (best Sci-Fi show, period) :thumb:
Planet of the Apes TV series
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Incredible Hulk (Lou Ferrigno ruled!) :coolblue:
Children of the Stones
Chocky
Joe 90
Tales of the Unexpected
Hammer House of Horror (awesome!):rockon:

Movies:-

Star Wars: ANH, ESB, RotJ
Sinbad & the Eye of the Tiger
Clash of the Titans (not the cack remake) :frusty:
Battle Beyond the Stars
Alien (especially the chestburster scene) :eek:
Jaws (especially the scene when the head that drops out the bottom of the boat) :behindsofa:

Nothingnwrong with SB im 43 and time to time i watch it
Aparently its more cult with adults than with chidren
i know quite a few over 25s who watch

i remember brave star, he had an awesome gun, and his horse had a shot gun.
thats right his HORSE had a SHOTGUN.

This was on around the same time as Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and Galaxy Rangers, 80s cartoons ruled, none of this In the night garden crap they have for kids these days. the only thing we 80s kids had that was educational was Stop, Look and listen and a bit of rainbow at lunch times.

Kids don't know what they missed these days...

About In the night garden? has anyone seen this, if you haven't you should really check it out and see if you can understand what the hell is going on...

Yeah his horse was like a talking half robot half horse with a gun. I actually had the toys too, god knows what happened to them, bootsale most probably. I've read online that they made a feature length animated film of Bravestarr and it's meant to be brilliant. Might have to find it and have a walk down memory lane again.

Never heard of In The Night Garden, bit too modern for me I think ;)

I used to watch a cartoon called Ulysses 31. Anyone remember this? I even remember the theme tune, I'm singing it now :blush:
It was always on about 6am so me and my brother used to get up really early and sneak downstairs to watch it before we went to school. Oh the easy days of life

I remember it very well me & my brother used to watch it too. It was based on the ancient Greek poem The Odyssey which was attributed to the Greek poet Homer, but was set far in the future, in space which I thought was a brilliant concept! :thumb:

I believe it was a co-French/Japanese production and was readily available on DVD in the UK (my brother bought the boxset) but I believe it's now deleted & sells in excess of £50 from certain marketplace traders.

I really like Ulysses 31 :D

My childhood favourites were:

The Real Ghostbusters
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Thundercats
He-Man
The Visionaries
Defenders of the Earth
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Knightmare!
Art Attack/finders keepers (neil buchanan)
Timmy Mallet
Funhouse with the legendary Pat Sharp
and of course WWF wrestling!!

I was also addicted to Home and Away & Shortland Street (anyone remember that!?) when I was a kid, which is wierd cause soap operas bore the crap out of me now!)
I used to hate CBBC (especially Blue Peter) with a passion and love CITV :p

Used to love The Lone Ranger & Rawhide & Lost in Space ("Never fear, Smith is here!" :p) & Planet of the Ape re-runs on sundays as a kid.

Ahh happy memories

ps. Unfortunately I was too young for Magnum PI and Quincy ME but I have since made up for lost time :D

i remember shortland street, it was set in an australian hospital right...i wasn't a big fan of CITV but enjoyed art attack and Woof, CBBC was the coolest in the early to mid 90s withc shows such as Bodger and badger, MUD (with a young Russell Brand), Pirates of darkwater, peter pan and the pirates and maid marion and her merry men...oh the memories

New Zealand Hospital! Oh no not CBBC!! Which side was Sooty & sweep on ? That was a good one :p

sooty was on ITV with Matthew Corbit, when they introduced little cousin Scampy the show went down hill....CBBC used to get the australian kids shows like Round the twist and The girl from tomorrow (i think that's what its called) but itv had the tomorrow people.

i was close with shortland street i remembered it was in a hospital, i used to watch Flying Doctors alot as kid on bbc 1 on a sunday night...

Oh yeah, Round the Twist, now that was some ****ed up stuff. Another weird classic is Eerie Indiana. I keep meaning to buy the boxset but when I go shopping I forget all about it. Might have a look online now actually.

funny you mention Eerie indiana, im halfway through watching it at the moment, it must have been at least 10 years since i'd seen it and i remember every episode so far. Joe Dante Directed the pilot and some other episodes as well as being creative consultant and the great dick miller who never ages showed up in one. Absolute classic show, shame it got cancelled after 19 episodes...

Oh dear.All you younglings.:blush:

Nobody else remember Stig of the Dump or how about The Red Hand Gang?

Antmumford don't know if you know or not but the 2 Seasons of BLACKSTARR are availible on DVD.


Pedromonkey,Yeah iliked EERIE INDIANA as well I think one of the major reasons iit didn't do so well and got cancelled was was when it originally aired they moved it all different day and different times.

Did you see the second series EERIE INDIANA :The Other Dimension?

the one that got cancelled after 8 episodes in 1995?...no never did...

Omri Katz who played Marshal Teller in the original series is now a hair dresser. random or what?

Loved Monkey and Diff'rent Strokes growing up and still love them now. Cartoon wise, loved GI Joe, M.A.S.K. Thundercats, TMNT, Transformers, Ewoks and Droids.

Thinking back, maybe I watched too much television as a child. Might explain why I'm not right in the head. :lol:

on a regular basis:
Thundercats
G.I. Joe
Scooby Doo
He-Man
Danger Mouse
Transformers
Beetlejuice
The Real Ghostbusters
M.A.S.K.
Dingbat and the Creeps
Smurfs
Dungeons & Dragons
Captain Cavemen
Robotech
The Frankenstones
Defenders of the Earth
Inspector Gadget
Schoolhouse Rock
Voltron
Jem and the Holograms
Silverhawks
Visionaries
and I also remember the short-lived Robocop cartoon

and today, I'll watch Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy when given the chance.

Found these

Top 20 cartoon themes 11-20

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Top 20 Cartoon themes 1-10

regular television:

The Addams Family
The Munsters
A-Team
The Little Rascals
The Three Stooges
Knightrider
Battlestar Galactica
Married with Children
Greatest American Hero
Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Crypt
21 Jump Street
Twilight Zone
Star Trek
The Young Ones
Alien Nation
The Wonder Years
Gimme A Break
Monsters
Small Wonder


as for films:
pretty much everything horror/cult related -- I was a strange child -- and many received repeat viewings, especially Garbage Pail Kids Movie.

I'm sure there are plenty others but can't think of them all.

here's a strange bit of info for all of you, The Theme from Thundercats was written by Inside the Actors studio host James Lipton...

while talking about The muppets the other day i just found these, there's no muppet show but they're still making me laugh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXKUb...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7p...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAtBk...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8nf...eature=related

and this one is kermit and Vincent Price....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQALLGsn-Fk

these are the two greatest 80s movie songs, both from rocky 4....

no easy way out - montage no.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IuueKw1m98

Hearts on Fire - montage no.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPbLzu83Ato

Montage 2 uses training montage by vince Dicola...

Thanks eNoize for putting those vids up. You've just reminded me of so many others I'd forgotten about.

TV
Star Trek
The Avengers (mostly Diana Rigg) in color/ The New Avengers


Movies
Invaders From Mars
Barbarella
The Brain (Le Cerveau)
Casino Royale

SMALL WONDER Pffftttt......
It actualy came out on DVD recently.

Do you remember SILVER SPOONS:laugh:

TV, The worlds cheapest Babysitter:laugh:

A couple of films that stood out were -
"The Amazing Mr Blunden" (superlative kids ghost story with a top cast) and "Escape from the Dark" (top notch tearjerker about pit ponies).

On TV I used to like "Pitkins", "Robbie's Robots", "Michael Bentine's Potty Time", "The Double Deckers", "Banana Splits", "Fingermouse", "Robinson Crusoe", "The Flashing Blade".


That's late childhood TV as opposed to teenage years TV.

Absolutely agree. Blunden was a superb film and this, together with The Railway Children, proves what a splendid director Lionel Jeffries was (we'll ignore Wombling Free).

Very true. a shame really, but true.

And I forgot all about Silver Spoons. Yes, I watched that also. I also remembering watching
Dark Shadows
Captain Kangaroo
Carol Burnett Show
Reading Rainbow
The Monkees

I really aught to be embarrassed of myself. I watched too much television. I can't believe I made into adulthood.

I dont have a particular favourite memory of any childhood tv/film viewing but I remember vividly The singing ringing tree,I`m sure it was split into 3 or 4 episodes on BBC way back in the day,very surreal and quite frightening in a fairytale kinda way.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052199/

Saturday mornings for me comprised of the Mr Men, Robinson Crusoe (interspersed on occasions with The Flashing Blade), the Double Deckers and the legend that was Tiswas.

CBBC has recently resurrected Swapshop in a new kind of way with some dude called barney and basil brush...Boom Boom!!!

i only know so much about current TV shows because i only have six freeview channels on my telly and two of them are CBBC an CBBies, Although CBBC soes have Dick and Dom, the most insane and quite franky ****ed up hilarious kids show on TV...utter madness....

Can't be worse than the original Multi-Coloured Swap Shop with that odious Noel Edmonds and his talking chimp Keith Chegwin. :ack:

Magpie was another after-school favourite on ITV.

I'm rather annoyed and upset that nobody has mentioned Round the Bend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq9UoMj6l0U


Also Trapdoor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dapSswWTQ

Some favourite youngling films included;

RESTLESS NATIVES
GREGORY'S GIRL
THAT SINKING FEELING
WAR GAMES
BLUE THUNDER
THE GREEN BERETS

I first saw this doubled with Chariots Of Fire, and found Gregory far superior. Great fun (and a very risque 'A'/PG indeed) and still a terrific film today.

Talking of All Things Scots, Comfort And Joy and (especially) Local Hero were also excellent films.

I remember Restless Natives had a great Big Country soundtrack.I'm also a big fan of Gregory's Girl, hilarious film and as for Claire Grogan, phwooar! :D