vikingsail

Well the Oscars are a yawnnnnnn this year. So prompted by something I read earlier I started looking up my favourite childhood shows on youtube. So many to choose from but I select:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDc9Vo-h_U

I think I like Mr. Benn because he did so many things. Thanks YTube

Whats yours?

Pulaski

The Clangers - funny, touching, ..... and utterly weird!

Karrie72

How old are you? If you don't mind me asking...I'm 40 and Mr Benn was one of my favorites and along with Bagpuss, Playschool, that clay guy after the amazing art show...can't remember what it was called but it was mesmerizing. Of course Grange Hill... My Mum banned it even though I went to a comprehensive and was fully versed in all those behaviors etc.

windsong

Robin Hood, Robin Hood

Riding through the glen . . .

curleytops

Dr. Who

brissybee

Banana Splilts was my favourite. (Probs made in US but shown in UK)

Also liked Follyfoot, Catweazel, Wombles, Magic Roundabout, Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben (at various stages ).

Now I'm showing my age.

passthevalium

Showing my age, but it has to be "Watch With Mother" especially Bill and Ben The Flowerpot Men

cappuccino

H R Puffinstuff

aries

I'm showing my age even more . . . there was no TV when I was a child

However life wasn't at all boring, though in the early days running for shelter when air-raid sirens sounded wasn't the best. Even got shot at by a Low flying German plane, so didn't need a box for drama.

curleytops

Oh yes I liked Andy Pandy when I was little and also Fireball XL5

lf1

It's Friday. It's 5 to 5 and it's CRACKERJACK
Blue Peter

Beaverstate

Good old days eh? Didn't have air raid sirens but remember ducking for cover under my desk...wouldn't want a nuke to get me. Looney tunes always

sallysimmons

Definitely Blue Peter and I even got a Blue Peter badge once, for a drawing I did of Noel Edmonds

Englishmum

Blue Peter for me too (especially when the presenters were Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves (I liked his German Shepherd dog, Petra) and of course John Noakes and his boisterous Welsh sheepdog 'Shep' ("Get down, Shep!") lol!

I also liked Jackanory and Crackerjack....as I got older I even enjoyed 'Tomorrow's World' with Raymond Baxter.

Can anyone remember watching TV as part of a school lesson? We used to watch some programmes from a series called 'Picturebox' (I think that's what it was called, there used to be an antique-looking metal and glass container like a jewellery box which would be spinning at the beginning of the programme. I can still recall the face of the presenter but I don't know his name. (Now I want to try and look it up lol!)

Aha - found it!

Englishmum

In the school holidays they always seemed to transmit a Yugoslavian TV series called "White Horses" - which was badly dubbed lol! I was mad on ponies so always liked to watch anything to do with them, such as 'Black Beauty' and 'Follyfoot'.

Can anyone remember 'Skippy' (the bush kangaroo). I had a surreal evening about a year ago when I was in the US and flicking through the channels and came across an episode of 'Skippy' - and really enjoyed it

Also we used to watch 'Daktari' (set somewhere in Africa) with Clarence the cross-eyed lion.

My siblings and I also used to go to the cinema on a Saturday morning where they showed the British movies from the 'Children's Film Foundation', although some of them were quite old. I loved the film about the children who found a man in a barn (I think he was on the run from the police, he may have been under suspicion of murder?) and they thought he was Jesus! I think it was 'Whistle Down the Wind'

I also loved 'The Railway Children' (original version), 'Oliver!' and the BBC TV production of 'The Secret Garden'. Oddly enough my daughter also loves these films, my son not so much.

Just found this list of the top 50 films for children of all time:

http://www.filmsite.org/100kidsfilms2.html