Im probably a bit younger than all th rest of you, so dont know many of the older prog's but when i was a kid i loved button moon and the raggy dolls.

"we're off to button moon to follow mr spoon...."

What was your favourites?

I've been watching a few of the old classics on one of the sky channels and they've been showing Mr Benn and Bagpuss, brilliant.

Edited to say also used to love Why Don't You in the holidays, a program about switching the tv off and going to do something less boring instead, see I've not forgotten it. But you had to watch the TV to find out what to do:wacko: And apparently, I was watching a program about it, most of the letters and stuff was totally made up.

Edited to say also used to love Why Don't You in the holidays, a program about switching the tv off and going to do something less boring instead, see I've not forgotten it. But you had to watch the TV to find out what to do:wacko: And apparently, I was watching a program about it, most of the letters and stuff was totally made up.
.sitting at home, watching TV turn it off no good to me, so why don't you..............

shock horror about the letters :excl: thats a disgrace!

I also loved Mr Benn and rentaghost

Oh bob rentaghost, that was brilliant

The Herbs was wonderfull!...'I'm a rather fat feathery owl called Sage!'

Also the Pogles of Pogle's Wood, Take Hart, Mr Ben, loved that too.

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The Banana Splits and Hectors House and Rhubarb and custard and Calimero "It's an injustice" Whacky Races and the old Roadrunner cartoon.

The Magic Roundabout - pure genius!

The Banana Splits and Hectors House and Rhubarb and custard and Calimero "It's an injustice" Whacky Races and the old Roadrunner cartoon.
I'm thinking you must be about my age Tonee! i remember the banana splits very fondly - what a ground breaking show that must have been - we just didn't realise it at the time.

Hectors House has bad vibes in our house since me, max and my brother each had a soap on a rope, I was Zarzar, Max was Kiki and brother was Hector and brother decapitated zarsar and kiki!! oh the horror!

I was Zarzar, Max was Kiki and brother was Hector and brother decapitated zarsar and kiki!! oh the horror!

Poor Zarsar and Kiki but Hector did rule. Approaching the 4th decade so maybe we are of the same generation!

The Clangers :wub: I loved them - even tried to make blue string soup once with spaghetti and food colouring but my mum wasn't very impressed :sad:

Play School (in the days of Humpty, hamble, Big Ted, Little Ted, Jermima and Floella Benjamin!)
Rainbow (when Bungle was fluffy and had Rod Jane and Freddy for company)
Mr Ben
The Magic Roundabout (ahhh all those drug addictions on one small show)
Chorlton and the Wheelies (I still have no idea what this was all about)
Captain Pugwash (seaman Stains...Master Bates...Roger!)
Rhubarb and Custard (love that theme music)
Bagpuss (it was the 'we can mend it' mice)
Button Moon (it's amazing what you can do with a bottle and a couple of spoons)
Finger Mouse (the original with the German guy...dodgey beard)
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All much loved classics to me as a wee one!

How the tv channel ever got away with Captain Pugwash is beyond me. It's hilarious!

Hectors House has bad vibes in our house since me, max and my brother each had a soap on a rope, I was Zarzar, Max was Kiki and brother was Hector and brother decapitated zarsar and kiki!! oh the horror![/QUOTE]


Dol, I came across a DVD of Hectors House today. How weird is that?

Mr personal favourite was Mr Benn (I LOVED that programme - I couldn't wait to see what he'd turn into when he went into the dressing room each day).

I also liked Trumpton quite a lot.

As an older child i really liked Sapphire & Steel and Blake's 7.

I loved The Herbs.....Dill the Dog....and the little Chives....

Pogles Wood was another favourite, and The Clangers....

Does anyone remember waiting and waiting for Play Away on a Saturday afternoon - it was World of Sport ALL Day on Saturdays, we used to sit and wait for Play Away, while watching the Wrestling :unsure:

Chorlton & The Wheelies, Jamie and his Magic Torch, Rod Hull & Emu's Pink Windmill Show (I loved it! - actually have a huge poster of Grotbags staring down at me from my ceiling....), Tiswas, The Saturday Show, Swap Shop, Why Don't You...?, Murphy's Mob, Stig of the Dump, Worzel Gummidge, Grange Hill, A Handful of Songs..., CHiPs........the list is endless.....

I absolutely adored The Flumps when I was but a wee one. Also loved Willo the Wisp, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Trumpton and who can forget Play School "It's the round window" :). Loved Grange Hill with Zammo, Jackie and Roland Fab!


Take Care

And who could forget Windy Miller. He who would have had his head sliced off by the windmill sails were it not for his impeccable timing.

Reading through the thread brings back lots of childhood memories.

Bagpuss was voted the nation's favourite children's programme with good reason. It was a warm and comforting series. A saggy old cloth cat with a heart of gold, mice that weren't vermin but rodents on a mission to fix whatever object Emily had found that week. And Professor Yaffle the wise old woodpecker overseeing it all. The same basic plot repeated week after week, but it worked.

Why don't the beeb cater for children that come home at lunchtime anymore?

My favourite has to be Noddy!! We didn't have a TV when I was growing up as my parent chucked it out, so I remember Noddy from when I was really small, now my son watches it on Channel 5 every morning.

And who could forget Windy Miller. He who would have had his head sliced off by the windmill sails were it not for his impeccable timing.

Reading through the thread brings back lots of childhood memories.

Bagpuss was voted the nation's favourite children's programme with good reason. It was a warm and comforting series. A saggy old cloth cat with a heart of gold, mice that weren't vermin but rodents on a mission to fix whatever object Emily had found that week. And Professor Yaffle the wise old woodpecker overseeing it all. The same basic plot repeated week after week, but it worked.

Why don't the beeb cater for children that come home at lunchtime anymore?

I loved Windy Miller, and we all know the firemen - Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb. Oh, they just don't make kids programmes like they used to. I loved the mice from Bagpuss - *we will fix it, we will fix it, we will fix it like new, new, new, fabulous stuff!!

I used to come home at lunchtimes, and we used to watch Pipkins with Hartely Hare, the tortoise and the monkey whose names I have forgotten, Topoff or something and their neighbour was Audrey from Corrie!!! Hectors House, Rainbow and there was another one, can't remember the name but the song went something like:
*Sally & Jake and their mother & father,
Sly the cat, di-di-do, di-di-do
They all lived in the village of ......?
where's theres lots & lots of things to do

Father's always busy, Mother is too
La-la-la-la

And Saturday mornings consisted of getting up, turning on the TV, waiting at least 20 minutes for it to heat up and then you got endless music, Charlie is my Darling being one of them, but can't remember the rest although the tunes are embedded in my brains forever!! Eventually we would be thrilled when Champion the Wonder Horse and Zorrr came on our screens.

Ahh, those were the day!!! :)

I used to cry at the end of every episode of Champion the Wonder Horse :blush:

I use to love Champion the Wonder Horse, I don't remember crying though!