Programmes you watched as a kid that are never repeated nowadays

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Programmes you watched as a kid that are never repeated nowadays

160 posts & 115 voices | Started 5 months ago by shotsaway | Latest reply from crashtestmonkey

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shotsaway - Member

They seem to repeat all sorts of programmes nowadays. So I was thinking about the TV programmes that I watched as a kid, that I would probably watch today (from a sentimentality point of view), if they were repeated. Although I suspect that as I loved them as a kid, that they would probably be rubbish anyway!

In the late 70's and early 80's, I remember watching and loving the following

1) CHiPs
2) 240-Robert (From memory, this was made by the same people that made CHiPs)
3) Captain Caveman (This programme was very similar to Scooby Doo)

So what programmes would you watch from a sentimentality point of view, if they were repeated today?

Posted 5 months ago #
cu dubh - Member

The Water Margin. Badly dubbed Chinese martial artsy thing with a wee morality tail thrown in. Yet to find anybody else who ever saw it which is probably one of the reasons its never repeated, if nobody apart from me watched it in the first place.

Posted 5 months ago #
ton - Member

catweasel

Posted 5 months ago #
scud - Member

Manimal, Airwolf, Blue Thunder and Chelmsford 1,2,3,...

For some reason no-one i know of the same age remembers Chelmsford 1,2,3, did i imagine it?

Posted 5 months ago #
Jamie - Member

Knightmare.

We were promised a remake goddamit! If anything would have benefited from a kick up the arse in the CGI dept, it was that programme.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImIIrzOBxNk

Posted 5 months ago #
t_i_m - Member

Chips was bobbins
I remember the Water Margin and Chelmford 123, although never watched much of either.

Personally, it doesn't get better than The Mysterious Cities of Gold. Brought and watched it on DVD a few years ago. Still awesome.

Posted 5 months ago #
rocketman - Member

Love Thy Neighbour. Can you imagine that on TV now?

Posted 5 months ago #
kinda666 - Member

I remember the Water Margin too, think there was also another badly dubbed chinese martial arts type series too that was very similar!
The Adventure Game was one of my favourites!

Posted 5 months ago #
Ecky-Thump - Member

"think there was also another badly dubbed chinese martial arts type series too that was very similar!"

Monkey ?

Posted 5 months ago #
tomo71 - Member

Murphys mob, the milk race on channel 4 ( I think, it was a series of city races) and kick start

Posted 5 months ago #
bazzer - Member

I remember and loved The Water Margin and Monkey

Posted 5 months ago #
big_n_daft - Member

The Flumps

Posted 5 months ago #
IHN - Member

I seem to be the only person that remembers Silas, one of the dubbed German school holiday programs. There was a kid called Silas who stole a horse (I think) and he had a mate who had a crutch.

I didn't really like it, but I'm getting to the point where I think that I imagined it...

Oh, and they should bring back Watch.

Posted 5 months ago #
clubber - Member

BATTLE OF THE PLANETS!

I loved it as a kid. It's ok though, I have it on DVD now and my son watches it

(I remember Silas BTW - thought it was a bit crap at the time though)

Posted 5 months ago #
kinda666 - Member

Yup thats the one!

Posted 5 months ago #
jamiep - Member

I used to love The Water Margin. I think that and Monkey were on one after the other, although that could just be my rose-coloured remembering

Posted 5 months ago #
kinda666 - Member

Jossy's giants! Written by Sid Waddell

Posted 5 months ago #
DaveRambo - Member

I remember waiting eagerly, or is that impatiently, for every new episode of Blakes 7.

and going back a bit further, Mary, Mungo and Midge

Posted 5 months ago #
Zulu-Eleven - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYMlV7kSZU

Posted 5 months ago #
foxyrider - Member

Chorlton and the wheelies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYMlV7kSZU

Posted 5 months ago #
foxyrider - Member

Moschops

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ85bhPpmf0

Posted 5 months ago #
foxyrider - Member

Charlie Chalk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKO19Volskw

Posted 5 months ago #
Nick - Member

It ain't half hot mum

Posted 5 months ago #
MartynS - Member

starfleet...

chorlton and the wheelies was great, Jamie and the magic torch was a fav as well

Posted 5 months ago #
ski - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFoj-gFP2M

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3DcChXNyYQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzVjsu9XvM

Posted 5 months ago #
Coleman - Member

Noggin the Nog (rather dark) and Supercar.
Nobody I know seems to recall Supercar so perhaps a figment of my imagination!

Posted 5 months ago #
rocketman - Member

Supercar was most excellent it is one of my earliest TV memories. Forerunner to Fireball which was off the scale in terms of action & excitement

Posted 5 months ago #
TimP - Member

Button Moon.

and Manimal used to give me nightmares from when he did his transformation thing, but very few other people seem to have heard of it, let alone seen it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ-mzYRl3s

Posted 5 months ago #
Zulu-Eleven - Member

My favourite ever episode of the greatest, nicest, loveliest, most feel good programme ever made.

Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3GbYu6C1A

Posted 5 months ago #
richmars - Member

+1 Water Margin.
Also Banana Splits.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD4mn9CeH4

Posted 5 months ago #
PJM1974 - Member

Ha. Chorlton & The Wheelies was ace.

I remember Chelmsford 123 too, it was the creation of Jimmy Mulville and Rory McGrath before they fell out.

Anyone remember The Tripods? That was ace too, even if there were a lot of episodes without an actual tripod featuring at any point.

Posted 5 months ago #
failedengineer - Member

Supercar and Fireball XL5 were fab - does anyone remember the first Gerry Anderson puppet show, though - 4 Feather Falls!

Posted 5 months ago #
IanW - Member

Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, Why dont you? It aint half hot mum and Some mothers do have em.

Posted 5 months ago #
Nobby - Member

Love Thy Neighbour. Can you imagine that on TV now?

+1. Only When I Laugh & Mind your Language.

The Tomorrow People as well

Posted 5 months ago #
rocketman - Member

Mind your Language
lol - how times change

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