Maverick ? Amos and Andy Wagon Train King of the Rocket Men My childhood memories of TV seem to have started late in life
The Flashing Blade The Singing Ringing Tree White Horses always seemed to be on, but was crap Follyfoot, but only bacause the theme tune (The Lightening Tree) was by a group including the landlord of The Hope in my home village/town of Sedgefield.
The Singing Ringing Tree, was that a foreign thing that was on in the holidays? Can vaguely remember some prince or whatever changed into a bear or something by some weird spell. God what crap I used to watch at times
dr who, the cybermen scared the feck outta little me. a little bit older and the monkees tv show (older sisters loved it so i had to watch) and basically the only kids tv we had back then that we all watched waiting for our tea before being turned out of the room when the news came on and we all looked forward to saturday morning and early afternoon telly (plenty sport and sometimes the only way to get news of your team) while sundays was sitting down and watching the movie (always seemed to be john wayne, burt lancaster, jimmy stewart, fred and ginger etc) and catweazel, worzel gummidge, muppets etc...great days!!
Dark Towers Chocky Kids miss out on a tv education these days, it always used to be the old Buster Crabbe sci-fi stuff on during the holidays, old episodes of Star Trek, great stuff.
The Sweeney Z Cars Dixon of Dock Green Evening all More and Mindy na noo na noo Tarzan 2 Ronnies Having listed these few and reading many others on the thread I wasn’t one for watching the tele. Always seemed to be out getting into mischief or playing footy riding around on our bikes. Out from morning till night time during school holidays.
Me and my mates used to play football on Brinky (Brinkburn School in 'Sheels) school field every day after school, no matter how muddy/wet/cold it was, and we only used to have a bath on Sunday nights ready for school the next day . . . . those were the days, when we must have been filthy
There was some foreign (Nordic I think) cartoon about a bear too which was often shown in the holidays. I can't remember the name of that one. Cinema rather than TV, but we used to get taken to Billingham Forum to watch the matinees where they showed those Children's Film Foundation ones. I can remember going there for them, but can't recall any of the films.
I remember going to the pictures at Bishop every Saturday morning for the kids stuff. The three stooges Curly Larry and Mo then laurel and hardy, Champion the wonder horse great days.
Had a good think and remembered the following Bagpuss Pipkins Fingerbobs The Wombles Camberwick Green Trumpton Magic Roundabout Runaround Crackerjack Battle of the Planets Thundercats Swap Shop TISWAS Banana Splits - they had some great cartoons in them. Loved Arabian Nights Happy Days And if by magic..... I remembered Mr Benn
Only until age 12, when we moved to Harton Moor, which was a brand new council estate and we had a real bath . . . . I wouldn't want to live there now, though a few of my mates still do
good point actually... i seem to remember fitting plenty of that kind of thing into my life as well as all the telly...only once went to saturday matinee down houghton flea pit and got chased off the houghton lads. seemed to be a lot of american stuff around then that was pretty good, all changed when the soaps were 'imported', dull-arse, disentry, feckwit crest etc.
