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Favourite tv programmes when you were young.....

DeejayR said:
TV is a bit modern for me. I grew up with the wireless on all day for my mum -- Housewives' Choice, Music While You Work, Mrs Dale's Diary, Workers' Playtime with Wilfred Pickles and Mabel. Apart from Listen with Mother there wasn't anything for kids. But there was a sci-fi series called Journey into Space and Radio Luxembourg had Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future (from Eagle comic) sponsored by Horlicks, which I belted home from Argonauts (Sea Scouts) on my bike to hear.
I think my gran got a tv when I was 15 and the only progs I recall were Amos 'n' Andy and at some point the sci-fi drama Quatermass, which we had to visit a friend's house to watch for some reason. The Goons' version was better.
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Family Favourites on a Sunday lunchtime
 
Captain scarlet, thunderbirds, startrek tom and Jerry loads of cartoons top cat flintstones
 
Oh another in the summer holidays there used to huckleberry Finn and tom sawer
 
Topmansmithy said:
Just thinking back to when I was young and what TV programmes I used to enjoy watching -
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What were your favourites?
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Overall, someone or other has listed all my favourites - nearly. But I'm going to give American '60s sitcoms a shout-out: The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Mary Tyler Moore Show (I love the everyday masculinity of the male characters), Jeannie, Get Smart, Beverley Hillbillies. It's great that so many of those are on Youtube.
 
Mike D said:
Yep, forgot about Time Tunnel ... it was good :) As soon as you said that, I thought of "Land of the Giants"

Remember "Voyage to the bottom of the sea"?
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Do you know what Mike, oh yeah, really loved it, Kowolski!, as soon as I read your post, how could I forget The man from U.N.C.L.E.
I even became an agent! Had my own badge and number!
Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuriyakin!
Always liked David McCallum, still watch him in NCIS!
Hated them baddies!
Was it Thrush?
 
We didn't have a tv when I was a kid, you were very posh if you had one, we got one for the Queens coronation and only then because my brother was in the Royal Navy and was 'chosen' to line the coronation route. Sounds daft now but we missed most of the Queen's coach journey as we were all busy looking at the sailors seeing if we could spot him. My kids (and me) loved skippy, little house on the prarie, pippylongstocking and as toddlers they loved Watch with Mother, there favourite was On The River Bank and Mary Mungo & Midge, The Herbs,Trumpton & Pogles Wood & Camberwick Green. I loved those days @ 1.30 a child each side of me, a cup of tea and 15 mins of peace & quiet
 
lizdeluz said:
Och aye, Janet, or Dr Finlay's Casebook, can't remember there being any diabetics, this series probably predated diabetes. Dr. Kildare: OMG, a thing about doctors apparently! All Creatures Great and Small, vets now. I had a friend who could do a fantastic impression of the dog in Wooden Tops.
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Oh god yes, The Wooden Tops & The Flower Pot Men I used to love Dr Finlays Casebook and Dixon Of Dock Green.
 
Double Deckers. Does anyone remember a series called Badger's Bend? It was around in 1963
 
nosher8355 said:
Do you know what Mike, oh yeah, really loved it, Kowolski!, as soon as I read your post, how could I forget The man from U.N.C.L.E.
I even became an agent! Had my own badge and number!
Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuriyakin!
Always liked David McCallum, still watch him in NCIS!
Hated them baddies!
Was it Thrush?
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Another great show and he has aged very well given the passage of time :)
 
nosher8355 said:
Do you know what Mike, oh yeah, really loved it, Kowolski!, as soon as I read your post, how could I forget The man from U.N.C.L.E.
I even became an agent! Had my own badge and number!
Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuriyakin!
Always liked David McCallum, still watch him in NCIS!
Hated them baddies!
Was it Thrush?
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and their boss was Mr Waverley - they entered through some launderette door i think.
United Network Command for Law Enforcement! (UNCLE)
 
Mike D said:
Still got the badge @nosher8355 ?
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Alas, no!

It was thrown out by mistake, when my ever cleaning mother decided to throw out my stuff, when I left home, not realising, what she was throwing out.
There was other really valuable to me items, that went the same way, at the same time, certificates, landmarks, sports programmes school stuff and a few books I wanted.

Ho hum!
 
nosher8355 said:
Alas, no!

It was thrown out by mistake, when my ever cleaning mother decided to throw out my stuff, when I left home, not realising, what she was throwing out.
There was other really valuable to me items, that went the same way, at the same time, certificates, landmarks, sports programmes school stuff and a few books I wanted.

Ho hum!
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Us Mums are real good at doing things like this ;)
 
nosher8355 said:
Alas, no!

It was thrown out by mistake, when my ever cleaning mother decided to throw out my stuff, when I left home, not realising, what she was throwing out.
There was other really valuable to me items, that went the same way, at the same time, certificates, landmarks, sports programmes school stuff and a few books I wanted.

Ho hum!
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Poor you. That's why I didn't/don't clean my "kids" rooms, I'd never hear the end of it if I threw out something they wanted!
 
The Double Deckers
Blue Peter
Magpie
Follyfoot Farm
Dr Who ( so scary then ):nailbiting:
Top of the Pops
Generation Game

smartlady said:
Really weird "European" series "The Singing Ringing Tree"?

Smartie xx
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Remember that too, with the dwarf and the conceited, spoilt and smug girl, loved that it was weird. but fascinating.
 
Not an old kids tv but there was a very good series BBC I think called Shoebox Zoo and Ric Mayal voiced one of the animals. It was a sort of supernatural/spooky theme
 
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