Children's shows

It was the best! I remember I had a red count Duckula lunchbox, and it had him on the front eating a big sandwich.

I want it back!

 

We used to sing that on road trips until my parents wanted to kill us.

 

Perfect way to torture parents, teachers, and camp counsellors.

 

No there's worse: John Jacob Jingleheimmer Smith.

I loved Elmo's Song.

 

I watched Reading Rainbow and Princess Guinivere and the Jewel Riders. Also spent a lot of time with Carmen Sandiego. Lambchop was a favourite. And Nickelodeon's "Rugrats." Gosh, I really miss Rugrats.

 

siiiigh!

so, i guess i'm the only one here who grew up sans tv, but blessed with radio, which made you have to 'imagine' everything from just hearing what went on...

it's a shame everyone got so hooked on seeing everything, that their imaginations didn't have the chance to grow as much as ours did, since we had to use them more...

 

I've listened to a couple of radio plays before.

 

I always listen to sport on the radio. The commentators are so much more talented describing then those fools on TV.

I listened to the sooty show on the radio (online) last night as well!

Oh, and as a kid i always stayed up to midnight to listen to the ABC quizshow for an hour or getting busted by mum. Great times.

Actually, aat crrent, i listen to about 20hours of radio a week - TV = maybe an hour ot two a week.

 

Besides, what about serials at the movie theatre. Other than where you watched them, how are they so different than some TV shows?

 

*Begins searching Ebay* I ain't sharing. lol

I still torture people with that song and I can do it with an expression that truly makes you think I have no clue that I'm being annoying. I have mastered that ... and the ability to walk down busy Manhattan streets at Christmas time pretending to be blind.

 

I don't think growing up with television automatically means our imaginations haven't grown as much as yours...

I miss all the old super hero shows. They were so much better than superhero cartoons now...

 

Most Tv shows are pretty darn brainless these days though, even for television.

 

In fact, I read an interview with a writer who had very few books as a kid, but he did watch a lot of television, and he believes it's the reason he is such a visual writer.

 

I know. I love the old shows.

 

Yeah, some older shows were pretty darn. Like back when Walt Disney was still alive:
Zorro!

 

Teletubbies!! Teletubbies, Barney, Spongebob. I actually wish for nostalgia's sake that I could watch the first 2 again. Nowadays it's all educational and annoying. Yo Gabba Gabba, the bilingual shows like Dora and Ni-Hao Kailan. The only show that kicks @$$ is SuperWhy.

 

Monkey Magic (Best. Show. Ever.)
Samurai Pizza Cats
Hong Kong Phooey
Captain Caveman
Buck Rogers in the 21st Century *sigh* >_>
The Incredible Hulk
Wonder Woman
Dr. Who
And...I seem to recall thinking a show called The Kenny Everett Show was hilarious

 

Oh yes! How could I forget that one! I Zorro!

 

The Addams Family is hilarious

 

based on the cartoons by Charles Addams

 

We didn't have TV at home until 1974 but I watched it whenever I could!
Off the top of my head:

White Horses (loved the theme song)
Skippy (always wanted to go to Australia)
Lost in Space
The Flashing Blade (another fantastic intro: great music and amazing filming of rider galloping, check it out on youtube)

and I second Zorro!

and Jacques Cousteau's documentaries from his boat the Calypso

They were all so exciting or set in interesting places, so I guess it was my sense of adventure that I developed from them.

 

I remember this old show with this lemur and two guys, and at the end of each episode the lemur would press a button on a row of snack machines and apples and nuts and stuff would come out.

 

^Zaboomafoo?

 

And Guy Williams was a cutie back then.

 

I love how cog is so desperate to let people know that he understands who created the Addams family

that's TWO threads you've done this in now cog!