Quote: Chappers @ August 28 2009, 6:18 PM BSTBanana splits was great with cartoons included.
Now we're talking, that was great. It's coming out on DVD soon, so we can all find out if it really was that good after all. Snorky was my favourite. Also Drooper.
Quote: Bad dog @ August 29 2009, 1:44 PM BSTNow we're talking, that was great. It's coming out on DVD soon, so we can all find out if it really was that good after all. Snorky was my favourite. Also Drooper.
The Big Breakfast used to re-run the Banana Splits and it wasn't as I'd rememembered it. 
It was very boring. The theme tune was still good.
Oh no! Do you like The Dickies' version of the theme?
All through the 70s there seemed to be a lot of stuff for kids to watch. For younger viewers all the old Andy Pandy, Flowerpot Men stuff was still being repeated at lunchtimes, along with Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Mr Benn, Tales from the Riverbank.
In the afternoons, I always felt ITV was better than BBC, when it came to children's programmes, and never watched BBC, who started at 4.00 with Jackanory - who wanted to watch someone reading you a story? So I watched the cartoons on ITV instead. I don't think I ever saw Blue Peter, even once. ITV had Magpie, and lots of good quality dramas for kids: Timeslip, Sky, Ace of Wands, the Tomorrow People, the Feathered Serpent. Some of these were so good they like more adult than the adult shows being made today and shown in the evenings. Anyone remember the Kids From 47a? Pauline's Quirkes?
I watched all the cartoons, too, and my favourite was Wait 'til Your Father Gets Home. I was always scared of the witches in Paulus the Wood gnome, and also in Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table. All great stuff. I wonder if anyone else remembers any of these?
Quote: Bad dog @ August 29 2009, 2:07 PM BSTAll great stuff. I wonder if anyone else remembers any of these?
Nope, just you and Harry Patch. So just you now. Only joking of course, when I was a wee one, I remember becoming enthralled with Grange Hill - back when it was Tucker, Gripper, Rowland, etc.
As for the Banana Splits, it doesn't age too well. Though I remember when I first saw it, I hated the Sour Grapes, the evil girls from next door. When I saw it again, my opinion of teenage girls in purple stockings had changed somewhat. 
I never saw Grange Hill either, perhaps I was the wrong age for it when it started. I'm sure that started in the 80s, though I could be wrong.
Thanks to our good pals at Network, many of these old series are now available. I'm going to dig out my Follyfoot DVDs over the weekend. I'm sure some people here will remember that.
Quote: Bad dog @ August 29 2009, 2:40 PM BSTI'm going to dig out my Follyfoot DVDs over the weekend. I'm sure some people here will remember that.
Had a cool theme tune as I recall.
If we are talking drama, I recently bought Children of the Stones and The Owl Service. Do they do scary shit like that for kids anymore?
Quote: Timbo @ August 29 2009, 3:09 PM BSTHad a cool theme tune as I recall.
If we are talking drama, I recently bought Children of the Stones and The Owl Service. Do they do scary shit like that for kids anymore?
Yes, classic theme tune.
Those are both excellent shows, especially The Owl Service. I don't think they make much for kids now, and certainly not anything of that quality. I guess you have to make your way over to CITV and CBBC to find out what's going on. The Sarah Jane Adventures is probably the best they can manage now.
If you're into quality children's shows, try Timeslip, an old favourite of mine. It has good performances and quality scripts. Two children go through a time barrier and find themselves in the future, where man's tinkering with science is destroying the world, and where they find their future selves, now grown up.
I recall being scared by The Enchanted Castle which had statues that came alive and people made up of mops and brooms who were called The Ugly Wuglies.
Quote: Kenneth @ August 29 2009, 8:51 AM BSTThey really started living when I introduced them to The Goodies, which was subsequently banned by their American mother on the grounds of being "age inappropriate".
Kill her. Kill her in the face.
Just cough really loudly when he says the N word.
What, 'nationalisation'?
Yep!
Quote: Aaron @ August 29 2009, 4:06 PM BSTWhat, 'nationalisation'?
As in you don't know what it means? Because I'm pretty sure the word can be spelled either way "nationalisation" or "Nationalization".
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