favourite childrens show ever ?

unless the simpsons and doctor who count then i stumped for top spot , who would be in contantion for your top 10 ?

grange hill from the eighties
sarah jane adventures
adventure game
blue peter
tiswas

Byker Grove!

Stoppit & Tidyup.

Button Moon
Trap Door
Count Duckula
Danger Mouse
Bagpuss

The faves from my childhood are:

The Trap Door
Chortle and the Wheelies
Bananaman
Rainbow
Danger Mouse
Battle of the Planets
Jamie and the Magic Torch (just for the theme tune, it's one of the best ever)
Wilo The Wisp
Grange Hill (early '80s era)

These days the only kids programmes worth viewing are Horrible Histories and Shaun The Sheep.

Cari wrote:The faves from my childhood are:

The Trap Door
Chortle and the Wheelies
Bananaman
Rainbow
Danger Mouse
Battle of the Planets
Jamie and the Magic Torch (just for the theme tune, it's one of the best ever)
Wilo The Wisp
Grange Hill (early '80s era)

These days the only kids programmes worth viewing are Horrible Histories and Shaun The Sheep.

Cripes! A few classics from my childhood there. I was a big fan of Bananaman, Dangermouse and Battle of the Planets.

Would include Masters of the Universe (He-Man), Thundercats, MASK, Transformers, Inspector Gadget and Terrahawks (remember them?).

Sharky and George!

brum
fun house

Mighty morphin power rangers, was class when I was younger.

Clarke James wrote:Sharky and George!

Do you remember the theme tune for this? It has now got stuck in my head

Ghostbusters
Knightmare

And...Funhouse, it's a whole lotta fun, prizes to be won.
It's a real WhaACKY SHoow, where anything can ggOOO.

All the best kids TV is really aimed at adults anyway:
Duckula
Danger Mouse
Hong Kong Phooey
The Simpsons (well, that's really just a comedy soap opera, it just happens that all the characters are predominantly yellow drawings)

Dyrewolf - yeah I remember them. A lad who lived across the street from me had a huge collection of the He-Man toys.

I used to really enjoy Tony Hart's programmes as well. I know he had one called Hart Beat.

Old-time:
Tiswas (especially before Sally James joined)
Rhubarb and Custard
Dangermouse
Trap Door
Hong Kong Phooey
Banana Splits
Tommorow People

Modern (I've got kids, honest ):
Spongebob Squarepants
Chowder
Flapjack

Dogtanian & the 3 Muskerhounds
Tintin
He-Man
Mask
Spiderman & His Amazing Friends.

Thundercats
Transformers
MASK
He-Man
Visionaires
The Centurions
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
X-men

Mr Ben
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Dungeons and Dragons
Fraggle Rock
Vicky the Viking
Superted.

Grange Hill (zammo era)
Ninja Turtles
Cities of Gold
Moomins -brilliant theme tune
The Racoons- brilliant credits theme tune!
Really wild show
Neighbours
Viky the Viking
Sport Billy
Thundercats
Dogtanian
Willy fog
Battle of the planets
Transformers
Star fleet
Jossies Giants
Ullysess
That quiz show with students where one of the games was the old 100m dash arcade game...??

Breadvan wrote:
That quiz show with students where one of the games was the old 100m dash arcade game...??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Class_(game_show)

It took me 20 minutes to find it!

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/First_Class

Hobo. Good work fella!

Blockbusters was good too - even had its own dance thing.

The Adventure Game was the weirdest "gameshow" for kids. Kind of an embryonic Crystal Maze with less budget.

Breadvan - I'm glad you brought up Jossies Giants. Great theme tune. I also remember Murphy's Mob. Also liked Press Gang. They did great kids dramas when I was younger.

Johnny Briggs was good and had a cracking theme tune.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Johnny Briggs was good and had a cracking theme tune.

I second that. Great series, although nothing really happened, the theme tune was class. Also liked the fact that Johnny's dog was named after a porn mag (Razzle)

Captain Planet
The Racoons
Bucky O'Hare
Superted
Thundercats
Animals of Farthing Wood (this was amazing)

and what was that one, it was more of a quiz show, where children had to do loads of different tasks and where at the end the kid was on a giant chess board, facing a figure that looked a bit like Darth Vader? Can't for the life of me remember what it's called.

That was Knightmare, Dreamer.

Kissyfur was quite good - not as good as the Racoons though!

luckless_pedestrian wrote:That was Knightmare, Dreamer.

ah yes that's the one! thank you!

Pokemon
Tenchi Muyo
Most Japanese anime

The Racoons
The Moomins
Dexter's Lab
Cow & Chicken
Spongebob Squarepants
Hey Arnold!
Kenan & Kel
3 Friends & Jerry
Ed, Edd n Eddy
MASK
Scooby Doo
Hong Kong Phooey
Top Cat
Two Stupid Dogs

Ren and Stimpy.

Just for the theme tunes:

Poll Position
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
80 Days Around The World with Willy Fogg
Ulysses 31
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Henry's Cat

The Adventure Game
Pipkins
Thundercats
Why Dont You
Chocky's children

Pugwall. Admit it, the Orange Organics were the best band ever.

I think it says a lot about me as an old curmudgeon that my favourite show when I was a kid was Tomorrows World.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were brilliant.

Anyone remember:

Round The Twist?
Pole Position?
Bad Boys?
The Movie Game?

Loved those programmes. Also loved Mysterious Cities of Gold, Around The World with Willy Fog, Art Attack!, Mask, Thundercats, He-Man, TMNT.

My top 5

Knightmare
He Man
She-ra
Saved by the Bell
Something I cant remember the name of but the theme tune asked if you'd like to swing on a star or rather go to earth, about aliens obviously lol, anyone help with that?

Midnight - I think that was 3rd Rock from The Sun? A US sitcom about aliens who were transported to Earth and resemble humans, but were mixed up in amusing ways. For instance one male alien had the human body of a stunning woman.

Could have been but i think it was older than that. Remember watching it at my grannies when i was off school ill about 6 or 7.

Rod Hull n Emu was an old favourite too, and T-Bag lol.

Actually it was Out Of This World - a TV series from 1987.

Thank you wiki!

greybeard wrote:I think it says a lot about me as an old curmudgeon that my favourite show when I was a kid was Tomorrows World.

Remember that being on just before Question of Sport in the Bill Beaumont n Ian Botham days.

Cheers Cari, why didn't I think to do that? lol

Cant actually remember much about the program but am convinced that tune will still be popping into my head when I'm old n grey.

Early Grange Hill was excellent - great characters and storylines. I started secondary school around the same time GH began, so I could relate to a lot of it. Some of the acting was pretty bad though, from what I can remember.

The (original) Magic Roundabout, Captain Pugwash and Willo The Wisp always made me laugh. Roobarb & Custard was great (hard to get that theme music out of your head once you recall it!) Ivor The Engine makes me feel all warm and cosy when I hear it now. Barbapapa and Ludwig were just weird.

Grange Hill was great when Tucker and Benny were in it , i even liked Tuckers Luck .

Actually some really good British actors cut their teeth on Grange Hill. Unfortunately they usually ended up on The Bill and Eastenders and it was downhill from there. I remember Tucker's Luck because my sister fancied Todd Carty

Double - Thank you for mentioning Barbapapa and Ludwig! No one seems to remember them except me. I loved them - weird European cartoons...

Remember Wizbit? Paul Daniels created him and sang/rapped the theme tune. What was that all about?!

I remember Wizbit Lucky...I can still recall the theme tune as well...do you remember Rod Hull's Pink Windmill thingy as well?

Cari wrote:I remember Wizbit Lucky...I can still recall the theme tune as well...do you remember Rod Hull's Pink Windmill thingy as well?

Grotbags !

There's somebody at the door....there's somebody at the door....