Best and worst TV from your childhood

What the hell was King Rollo about?!

I can’t decide if being so mental makes it the best or the worst…

Best? Probably the cartoons: Dangermouse, Battle of the Planets, He-Man etc.

Worst: Jacaknory. Or Play School. Why don’t you.

And there was Marine Boy. Manga before Manga existed.

Space 1999 – YES!

Black Beauty – NOOOO!

LEGEND! ……..

Best – Kickstart, Dangermouse, Ivor The Engine, Noggin.

Worst – Barnaby the Bear.
Or White Horses.

I really liked Ludwig.

Space 1999 – YES!

AND… U.F.O !

😀

Best, either Captain Pugwash or Fireball XL5.
Worst, Magpie.

I really liked Ludwig.

GTFO…!

AND… U.F.O !

I remember being about seven years old and going out to my Dad’s garage in the garden and finding this…..

My Dad was transporting it to a car show (at Ingliston… I think) and had picked it up from Dave Lee Travis who bought it after the show finished.

Best: Grange Hill, Jossie’s Giants, Terrorhawks, Mysterious Cities of Gold, He Man, Thundercats, the chocolate biscuit factory episode of Bagpuss, A-Team, Dukes of Hazzard, Round the Twist, Saved by the Bell.

Worst: Got to be something like Jackanory (very boring as a kid) or any programme aimed at girls.

Shall we just agree that “best” was “anything by Cosgrove Hall”?

I never really got one with any of the live-action “children’s dramas.” Grange Hill, Press Gang, Children’s Ward, Byker Grove, Jossie’s Giants and all the rest. They bored me to tears, struggling to remember one I actually liked. Oh, unless you count the Look & Read serials like The Boy From Space, that was ace.

The dog-based dramas (Littlest Hobo and Lassie) always made me cry, especially if the dog loyally and heroically fought something to protect its master.

see also Belle & Sebastian, Graham – sniff, sniff, waaah.

Forgot about Joe 90. My son stills loves that series…

Best: Tiswas, Monkey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Rentaghost, The A-Team, Metal Mickey and of course The Muppet Show.
Worst: Anything on after 7pm

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

…holds a special place in my 12 year old heart.

Best – Round the Twist (Australia’s greatest cultural export) followed by Knightmare, Charlie Chalk and Albert the Fifth Musketeer.

Worst – Playschool when it was the puppet on the climbing frame.

I think it was more aimed at people with no real sense of cynicism or darkness. I

You’re avin a bubble, ain’t ya? Burt and Ernie are a gay Jack Lemmon and Walter Mattau.

Big Bird did a special in China (back when no one knew anything about China). He is on his own, lost and meets a little girl, asking her “hey, little girl, do you speak American?”. She replies perfectly “no, but I speak English”. Big Bird pauses, tilts his head to the side, shrugs and then says “okay, I guess that will do” and continues the conversation. Comedy gold!

Best: Jim’ll Fix It
Worst: Jim’ll Fix It.

Actually, the worst was those ballets based on Beatrix Potter they used to show at Christmas.
And Emu.

best – Mr Ben ,Pipkins ,Captain Pugwash , The Wombles , The Water Margin , Monkey , The Young Ones.
worst – Crossroads ,Emmerdale and Little house on the Prairie which my mother would insist we watched.

Best – Bagpuss
Worst – Jackanory
Unsure – Crackajack

Best: Tiswas

Worst: How

Dum-de-dum-dum-dum… HOW!

How could I forget Wacaday!

“The one with the most amount of bruises loses.”

Best; Transformers, Mask, Mysterious Cities of Gold (?!)

Worst; Jackanory, Little house on the prairie, flipper (sunday morning reruns), Gentle Ben, Lassie, Littlest Hobbo or the Waltons

Oh yes

^^^^ oh yes!!!
Best cartoon – Sport Billy. best other TV – Think of a Number with Johnny Ball
At school we were treated to the Animalympics (the full cartoon is on you tube)

Worst- that bloody “Give us a clue” with Una Stubbs grrrrrrrr…..

No body mentioned White Horses, loved it as a kid.

Worst was Pitkins Hartley Hare hated that thing.

Best: The Computer Program, Out of Bounds, Grizzly Adams and Brendon Chase

Worst: Stars on Sunday, Highway, Dad’s Army and Last of the Summer Wine.

HtS: it’s Soo, not Sue.

Can I also put in a mention for Superstars in its heyday (i.e. the Brian Jacks era)

kickstart was also pretty excellent.

Best: Mr Benn, Captain Pugwash, Magic roundabout, Rubarb and Custard

Worst: Rent-a-Ghost

Best – Battlestar Galactica / Battle of the Plannets

Worst – Heidi

Strangest – Secrets of Steel City , an Eastern European dubbed programme that frightened the hell out of me

Did anyone else not realise Heidi (or Silas) were dubbed?

Screen Test – also the best intro music of any programme ever.

The Tomorrow People – just never got it.

Screen Test – also the best intro music of any programme ever.

incorrect- you must have meant “picturebox”! scary and soothing!