Children's TV

LilWoodyToodelly · 2018-09-13T20:54:01.288Z

I wasn’t allowed to watch Power Rangers.

NoahVale · 2018-09-13T20:55:28.110Z

gonad · 2018-09-13T21:00:44.802Z

The episode when the teenagers are graffiting an old sea turtle and Arnold gets upset and frees it from the aquarium

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gonad · 2018-09-13T21:03:05.657Z

Or when he finds out Oskar can’t read and he teaches him or when the stoop kid bully is too afraid to leave his stoop and Arnold helps him and he becomes nice

It was so far ahead of its time

MarsBonfire · 2018-09-13T21:15:19.497Z

I have taken selfies outside Mr Benn’s house (it’s in Putney).

urbanfox · 2018-09-13T21:25:51.792Z

Move it, football head!

richie · 2018-09-14T07:09:57.662Z

Wow, Ron Pickering’s had his catchphrase on DiS twice this week now!

richie · 2018-09-14T07:13:31.078Z

I just found CBBC programmes were much better. Knightmare and Behind the Bike Sheds are practically the only CITV programmes I remember watching. Didn’t like anything Cosgrove-Hall did.

Used to be a massive clash between me and my younger brother over the TV. He wanted to watch He-Man on ITV and I wanted to watch Fonz and the Happy Days Gang on BBC1. Question of who got home from school first, really. Anyway, I know which of those two TV shows has stood the test of time…

richie · 2018-09-14T07:16:27.805Z

…and one of the reasons I hated Cosgrove-Hall was because they made this horrible teapot witch who scared me out of my wits…

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anon29812515 · 2018-09-14T07:16:43.451Z

Can’t believe so many of you pencil necks didn’t like He-Man.

You guys are morally bankrupt.

richie · 2018-09-14T07:30:08.005Z

He-Man had nothing on this:

anon29812515 · 2018-09-14T08:02:14.321Z

Yeah He-Man wasn’t a 30 year old man trying to score High School chicks.

richie · 2018-09-14T08:48:10.035Z

To be fair, Henry Winkler was 35 by this point.

colinzealuk · 2018-09-14T09:04:30.306Z

Geordie Racer was definitely part of the schools TV stuff. Think we also had quite a bit of Ghost Writer at school as well.

anon67149139 · 2018-10-12T09:08:58.195Z

Just like the film

RoverHendrix · 2018-10-12T14:38:27.212Z

Didn’t it have Danny John-Jules in it as well?

RoverHendrix · 2018-10-12T14:45:01.415Z

I loved Geordie Racer! I seem to remember our teacher bringing in a load of stotties to try and teach us about Geordie culture. We also had the blocky BBC-micro computer game

Bamnan · 2018-10-12T15:53:11.314Z

I think you might be right

richie · 2018-10-15T07:54:04.757Z

Yeah, he was Barrington the Rastafarian merry man. Totally forgot he was in it!

marckee · 2018-10-15T08:32:15.690Z

shinymcshine:

and something about a folly - at the time I had no idea what a folly was.

That was probably Dark Towers, one of the Look And Read programmes (others were Geordie Racer, Fairground, Badger Girl, The Boy From Space etc)

en.wikipedia.org

Dark Towers

Dark Towers is a 1981 educational production by the BBC in the Look and Read series. The series remains highly popular in primary schools to this day. Parts of the film were shot at Sutton Court, Somerset. The show involves two main characters; Tracy and Edward. They go about their mission to stop a group, led by Miss Hawk, from stealing the treasures of Dark Towers. Part One (Dark Towers in Danger!): A loner named Tracey Brown and her dog Towser venture into a garden where Tracey meets Lord...