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

Stingray and Battle of the Planets are my two favourite kids programmes from being a child. Also loved Tomorrow's World.
 
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.
 
Robin Hood, William Tell, The Lone Ranger, Lancelot, Wagon Train, Dr Who, any Dickens' serial. . . . I'm trying to remember other black and white favourites before Star Trek. . . They'll come back to me . . .
 
nosher8355 said:
How could you forget as a young teenager, @Mike D, Star Trek?

Yes I loved the puppet series of Supercar, fireball xl5, Thunderbirds, Stingray!
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HI @nosher8355

I didn't :) Just took me a few years to get into it. .... and yes, you know I'm a big fan of everything ST ....

But when I was a boy, the shows I nominated were the ones I loved. Should have added "The Rifleman"

Mike :)
 
Mike D said:
HI @nosher8355

I didn't :) Just took me a few years to get into it. .... and yes, you know I'm a big fan of everything ST ....

But when I was a boy, the shows I nominated were the ones I loved. Should have added "The Rifleman"

Mike :)
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Did you like Skippy?
 
Hi @Pipp

By that time, I was way too old for it. :) At that stage, "Lost in Space" was my favourite :)
 
Mike D said:
Hi @Pipp

By that time, I was way too old for it. :) At that stage, "Lost in Space" was my favourite :)
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I liked lost in space too.
I have a confession that will probably bring ridicule. I was too old for Skippy too. I pretended to be keeping my little sister happy by sitting with her to watch it.

Edit, why was I worried about ridicule? In an earlier post @Mike D admitted he liked Little House on the Prairie! :hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:
 
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Gilligan's Island, Bewitched. Crackerjack.
 
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.
 
Pipp said:
I liked lost in space too.
I have a confession that will probably bring ridicule. I was too old for Skippy too. I pretended to be keeping my little sister happy by sitting with her to watch it.

Edit, why was I worried about ridicule? In an earlier post @Mike D admitted he liked Little House on the Prairie! :hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:
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Just for Melissa Sue Anderson Pipp :) Had a real crush on her ..... seriously though, it was a great show. Never missed an episode.
 
Mike D said:
Hi @Pipp

By that time, I was way too old for it. :) At that stage, "Lost in Space" was my favourite :)
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Yeah, Lost in Space, I enjoyed that series at the time! And 'Time Tunnel'.

They really look shockingly bad now!

'Lost in space' my missus said that of me once!:oops:;)
 
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"?
 
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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Yes the sub would hit turbulence or something and the crew would lurch from side to side in unison. Classic.
 
Pipp said:
Yes the sub would hit turbulence or something and the crew would lurch from side to side in unison. Classic.
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The sub was called Seaview and Richard Basehart was one of the stars - loved it.
 
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