 Ten
programmes you watched on telly as a kid but aren't on any more...
1. Rentaghost
2. Magpie
3. Tiswas
4. Thundercats
5. Crackerjack
6. Battle of the Planets
7. Swap Shop
8. Playschool
9. Fingerbobs
10. Bod
Add
to the list...
Duncan
McCallum added this...
Marine
Boy. The cartoon.
Nick
Brown added this...
Barbapappa
Julie
added these...
I
remember the flumps
my favourite was dr snuggles
the smurfs
Michael
Crofts added these...
robinson
crusoe, every school holiday
tom's secret garden
captain scarlett
chopper squad
chips
the clangers
rentaghost
grange hill
Tom
added these...
william
tell robin hood combat rawhide the munsters mr ed mr piper mr pastry
circus boy steptoe and son the magic boomerang
Simon
Parsons added these...
wooden
tops
mary mungo and midge
barba pappa
the monkeys
rhubarb and custard
gigantor
great ape
the hair bear bunch
the double deckers
marine boy
sting ray
the banana bunch
izzy noho
paddington bear
the clangers
jackanory
tomorrows people
Valerie
added these...
Billy
Bean and his funny machine
Prudence Kitten
Little Grey Rabbit
Hopalong Cassidy
The Virginian
What about Journey into space? - but that was radio wasn't it!
Oh Yes, I nearly forgot Worzel Gummidge!
Neil
Sharples added these...
How about these
Fireball XL5, with zoonie the space monkey
Captain Scarlet
Thunderbirds
Stingray, anything can happen in the next half hour
4 Feather falls
The Invaders, with their freaky little fingers
F.Troop
Branded, born of a cowards scorn
Time tunnel, brilliant
Tomorrow people, jaunt
The flashing blade, dubbed from French to English lmao
Chorlton and the wheelies
The Lone ranger, what's the closest thing to silver? the lone rangers
bum. Rifleman. So many more happy memories, long hot summers, jumpers
for goalposts, olde English spangles, corona bottles full of water
and liquorice sticks.
Sharon
added these...
How about Skippy, Crossroads (with my Mum), The Champions –
I loved Craig Sterling and Starsky and Hutch.
Sandra
added these...
Take Hart. Animal Magic. Sapphire and Steel. Logan's Run.The hair
bear bunch.
Kirsty
added these...
poddington peas (the best)
crystal tips and alyister
play days
rosie and jim
my little pony
topsy and tim
spot
paddington bear
Katherine
Smith added these...
Crystal Tips and Alistair
Hickory House
Mary Mungo and Midge
Rainbow
Play School
Play Away
Why don't you
Pipkins
Jackie
added these...
Twizzle
Torchy the Battery Boy
Sarah and Hoppity
Catweazle
The Herbs
Rachel
Lawrenson added these...
the raggy dolls
poddington peas
shoe people
Angus
Brade added these...
Tomorrow People
Time Slip
Anne
Dunwell added this...
The Dinah Saur Show anyone?
Abby
Lund added these...
Children of green knowe
Moondial
Happy families
Ulysees
Cities of gold
Johnny Briggs
Simon and the witch
Geordie Racer
Byker Grove
Laura
from Darwen added these...
Fun House (with Pat Sharp and his mullet)
Finders Keepers
Rude Dog and the dweebs
Knightmare
Poddington Peas
and
not forgetting the KRYPTON FACTOR - what a fantastic show, they
really should bring that one back! Someone at Â鶹Éç Lancs should have
a word with Gordon Burns....
Rachel
Simpson added this...
I remember Gruey and The Kids of DeGrassi Street but no one else
seems to!
Peter
added this...
Coudn't afford a telly when I was a kid.
Lynn
from Preston added this...
I remember space 1999, and for Steve and Mike in Blackpool I remember
all of your list, but The Lightening Tree was in fact Follyfoot!
Shaun from Preston added these...
Droopy D
Bernards Watch
Anne
in Newark added these...
Can anyone remember Cloppa Castle, Hickory House with Humphrey the
Cushion, Lizzie Dripping who had a witch for a best friend. Arabian
SIZE OF AN ELEPHANT Nights on Banana Splits, The Latchkey Kids,
Going Out, Hold Tight
Steve
and Mike in Blackpool added these...
How,
How 2
Terrahawks,
The original Mr Ben
Tony Hart
Candlewick green (Pugh, Hugh, Barley, Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and
Grubbe)
Gordon the Gopher
Grotbags
Will o'the wisp
Tripods (saturday evening)
Mr Ed (the talking horse)
Softly, Softly
Z-cars
The Gentle Touch (was allowed to stay up late)
care bears
Gummi Bears
Black Beauty
The Lightning Tree
John
Ward added these...
How About Torchy the battery boy?
Supercar, Space Patrol, Highway Patrol (if you were allowed to stay
up 'till 7.30), Wells Fargo, Casey Jones (the engine driver), Cannonball,
The Huckleberry Hound Show, Gunlaw, 77 Sunset Strip, The Beachcombers
(from Canada), Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, Rat Patrol (or how the
Americans won the desert war in long range patrol Jeeps), Whiplash
(Australian stagecoach drama) The Flying Doctor (the original with
Richard Glendenning), Felix The Cat cartoons, Branded (with Chuck
Connors), Wyatt Earp, Sea Hunt and not forgetting The Littlest Hobo.
Geraldine
van Veen-Brown added these...
I can fully agree with the list Jean Douglas
added, but as a small child i can remember:
Watch with Mother:
Monday - Picture Book
Tuesday - Andy Pandy
Wednesday - The Flower Pot men
Thursday - Rag, Tag & Bobtail
Friday - The Wooden Tops
Tracy
Johnston added these...
fingerbobs
the muppets
playaway, with Brian Cant
playschool, the proper one!
Scarlett
Cameron added this...
I don't know about in the UK but here in Australia we
used to have MacGyver
Brian
Sandercock added these...
Murder Bag
The Lone Ranger
Tonight
The Brains Trust
National Anthem at Midnight and a white spot dissapearing on the
screen.
My real favourite was before we had telly, listening to Journey
into space on the radio
Aaron Lecheminant
added these...
he-man, pigeon street, gideon, battle of the planets, defenders
of the earth, around the world with willy fogg, ulysees 31, byker
grove
Barbara
added these...
Buccaneer
Ivanhoe
The Army Game
John
Clayton added this...
The Singing Ringing Tree
David Northey added these...
No 73
Jamie and his magic Torch
Tiswas
Dangermouse
Get Fresh (with the alien puppet full of snot!)
Alf
Louisa
Grady added these...
Crystal Tips andAlistair (remember Crystal with her big big hair?)
Monkey - with a girl dressed up as a boy with a shaved head and
her helpers leading her along on a horse.
Steven Martindale
added these...
What about Champion the Wonder horse?, Orlando, Timeslip,
Junior Showtime and The Champions!
Oli Lucas and Steve Gale added these...
Banana Man
SuperTed
Babar The Elephant
WizBit
Bodger and Badger
Rupert the Bear
Morph - (The Plasticine Dude)
Centurians
TerraHawks
The Gummi Bears
Ed the Horse
Baw Baw Bears
TaleSpin
The Racoons
Transformers
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
Toxic Crusaders
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Deputy Dawg
Dogtanian
Dungeons and Dragons
Bertha
Flash Gordon
Puddle Lane
Pidgeon Street
The Riddlers
Captain Caveman
Jean
Douglas added these...
Robin Hood (Richard Green)
William Tell
Roy Rogers
Branded (Chuck Connors)
Wagon Train
Rawhide
Bronco Lane
Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker Ohhhh he was the man my hero)
Laramie OSS (officers of the secret service)
Ghost Squad
No Hiding Place
Dixon of Dock Green
Gary
Miller added these...
Barbapapa
Marine Boy
Pogle's Wood
I remember all these very fondly, especially Pogle's wood.... everybody
loves Tog!
Sarah
Milling added these...
Flumps
Sooty and Sweep Show
Renta Ghost
Banana Splits
The incredible Hulk!
Fraggle Rock
Darren
Knight added these...
The Herbs (think thatÂ’s what it was called) with Parsley the
Lion and Dill the dog
And
UFO (even the Dads watched that one for the short skirts worn on
Moon Base)
Tonita
Ivison added these...
Picture Box
Playboard puppet theatre (with Mole & Hedge)
Reading with Lenny
Patrick
Tierney added these...
Thunderbirds.
The Invaders (not the scary bits)
The Monkeys
The Time Tunnel
Tomorrow's World
Skuffy
added these...
BUTTONMOON! Great kids programme, and that one with the toys, there
was one toy witha hexagon face, kind of like one of them accordian
things? please help its been bugging me!
And also don't forget Trapdoor!
John
from Chorley added these...
johnny briggs
jamie and his magic torch
wacky races
cities of gold
Steve
Woodrow added these...
Captain Scarlett,
Hectors House,
Joe 90,
Please Sir,
F Troop,
Andy Pandy,
The Woodentops
Sue
Martin added these...
Josie & the Pussycats
Trumpton
Rhubarb & Custard
The Tomorrow People
Space 1999
Get It Together
Judy
added these...
What about, Rag Tag and Bobtail, Nogin the Nog, My Friend Flicka,
Rin Tin Tin and Champion The Wonder Horse. I think I may be showing
my age!!
Robert
Thomas added this...
The Mister Men
Laura
Gibson added these...
Pie in the sky
Rainbow (who could forget?!)
The Worst Witch
The Chronicles of Narnia
Playbus
Ralph
Jones added these...
Follyfoot
Tales of the Riverbank
Zoo Time
Animal Magic
Ivor the Engine
Captaiin Pugwash
Rachel in Lancaster added these...
Tickle on the tum, Moschops the dinosaur & Chorlton & the
wheelies.
Daniel
Herbert from Blackburn added these...
Dr Who (watched from behind the settee)
The Clangers
Mary, Mungo & Midge
and a programme with Hartley the Hare, I can't remember the title.
(That'll be Pipkins! - Ed)
Dave
added these...
Magic Roundabout
Captain Pugwash
Ivor the Engine
The Clangers
Fireball XL5
Stingray
Wacky Races
Stop the Pigeon
Dan
from Pittsburgh added these...
Hogan's Heros
McHale's Navy
Gilligan's Island
Beverly Hillbillies
Greenacres
Paul
Halsey added these...
The Wombles
Michael Bentines Potty Time
PlayAway
Janet
added these...
Four Feather Falls
Singing Ringing Tree
Jacqui
McGuire added this...
How about Runaround with Mike Reid 'g...g...g...go!!
Suzie
from Preston added these...
Supergran
The Moomins
The Flumps
Woof
Bric-a-Brac
Button Moon
Smurfs
Lets Pretend
You and Me
Dangermouse
Ray
Grimstone added these...
The Kids from 47a
Screen Test
J.
Mattson added these...
Who remembers The Wooden Tops, Andy Pandy & Looby-Loo and Jackanory?
Kelly-Lee
Russel added these...
Mary Mungo and Midge
Hickory House
Pipkins
Flowerpot Men
Ian
Leach added these...
Fingermouse, Mr Benn and Pigeon Street
Dave
McAreavey added these...
Bagpuss
Banana Splits
Why Don't You?
Alan
Barlow added this...
the double deckers
Russ
Slaughter added this...
Muffin the mule
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