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Childhood T.V. favourites

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  1. Septem

    Septem Active Member

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    Practically everything mentioned on here. I seem to be the only person I know who remembers a show in the 70s called The Ghost Busters. Had a gorilla driving around in a car. I used to love it
     
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    blue peter had everything covered with gaffer tape, to stop advertising but you knew it was an empty box of kellog's frigging corn flakes ! pitkin's, the banana splits, the double deckers, steptoe and son the greatest sitcom ever, mrs Slocombes pussy 'are you being served' ah bring back those days.
     
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  3. Draig

    Draig Well-Known Member

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    Loads of my favourites already gone but here's a few more (apologies if I have duplicated any given already)
    The Ghost and Mrs Muir
    H.R. Puffinstuff
    Flash Gordon
    Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
    Fireball XL 5
    Stingray
    Catweazle
    Hattytown
    Joe 90
    Alias Smith and Jones
    How!
    The Munsters
    Wacky Races
    Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines (Catch the Pigeon)
    The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
    Thunderbirds (Are Go!)
    The Flashing Blade
    The Three Musketeers
    Play School
    Playaway
    Fingerbobs
    The Monkeys
    Terrahawks (loved Sgt Major Zero)
    Jackanory
    Michael Bentine's Pottytime
    Basil Brush
    Skippy
    Dangermouse
    Ivor the Engine
    Sesame Street (the second thing I ever saw on colour TV - after the real live Harlem Globetrotters)
    Noggin the Nog
    Tommorow People
    Sam (basically When the Boat Comes In but in a pit village)
    Tales of the Riverbank
    We Are The Champions
    Superstars
    Sportstown
    Animal Magic
    Junior Showtime
    Pogel's Wood
    The Herbs
    Hector's House
    Chorlton and the Wheelies
    The Comedians
    It's a Knockout
    Candid Camera
    In Loving Memory
    Upstairs Downstairs
    David Nixon's Magic Box
    Opportunity Knocks
    New Faces
    Ask The Family
    Tomorrow's World
    The Great Egg Race
    Out of Town (with Jack Hargreaves - him off How)
    And perhaps the most Interesting show ever seen on TV - James Burke's Connections
     
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  4. Nathan Brazil

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    Do you mean Adam Adamant?
     
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  5. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan Forum Moderator

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    Danger mouse,
    Where danger mouse was talking about the astronomer Caprnicus and Penfold giggling saying 'copper nickers'
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  7. Nathan Brazil

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    Never heard of this one!

    Anyway I'll now say Adam Adamant. Can just remember it.
    I think.

    And Paulus the Wood Gnome.
     
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  8. John Wick

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    watched that in school. Dark Towers aswell.
     
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  9. John Wick

    John Wick Well-Known Member

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    The Dinosaurs on a Sunday night. "Honey.... I'm home".
     
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  10. Bizarreknives

    Bizarreknives Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Day of the Triffids. That terrified me as a kid.
    There was also a series about dogs from France that caught rabies then it spread around humans in the UK, can't remember what it was called but that was terrifying as well.
     
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    Don't know if anyone's mentioned Zoo Time and Animal Story with Desmond Morris.
    Also Vision On and Take Hart with Tony Hart.
     
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    My Friend Flipper
    Gilligan's Island
     
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    Rentaghost
     
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  14. Draig

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    The Mad Death?

     
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    cumbrianmackem Well-Known Member

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    Wasn't it Johnnie Morris who did Zoo Time etc?
     
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    Brass- superb!
    “ lady Godiva’s going to ride horse down street. Which side shall we stand to watch?”
    “ Does it make any difference?”
    “ Does if she’s riding side saddle”
     
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  17. SpikeyBob

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    He was the presenter on Animal Magic which came from Bristol Zoo. Also he narrated Tales of the Riverbank.
     
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    Horse in the house
     
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    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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    Bill and Ben
    How
    Why don’t you
    Bagpuss
    Chorlton and the wheelies
    Magic roundabout
    Button moon
    Jamie and his magic torch
    Finger mouse
    Rent a ghost
    Sport billy
    Roadrunner
    Bugs bunny
    To name but a few I could go on forever
     
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  20. Gil T Azell

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    Oxygen thieves is a far nicer description.
     
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