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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on October 11, 2010, 08:11:58 pm
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We were out for tea with Dan's parents, his brother and s-i-l and their two boys yesterday and we got talking about old TV shows that we loved ( much to the curiosity of their teenage sons).
Favourites were The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie. I also loved a show called "The Munroes" about a family of children in the American West - they had a Pyrenean Mountain Dog called Snow (I think that was my favourite bit) - but I think I must be the only person who watched it!! "The White Horses" and "Belle and Sebastian" during the school holidays - took me years to work out why the words didn't match their mouths ;D plus cowboys - "The Virginian" (James Drury was my first crush ;D), "High Chapparal", "Bonanza"
What were yours?
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I remember having to sit through panaroma and this is your life and not liking the silence but, my favorate TV changed with age, first I loved The wooden tops, then, tales of the river bank, Black Beauty, Campion the wonder horse, Fury, Wagon Train, then as I moved past my girlie horsey stage, top of the pops and the man from uncle!!!!! When I had small children I loved WOrzal gummage, No.73, the word and The young ones...now.................... ??? ??? ???
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Worzel Gummidge :farmer:
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I remember all of those Rosemary - especially Belle and Sebastian. I was of course, very young at the time ::)!!
My favourite during the school hols was definitely Banana Splits (loved Arabian Nights, the cartoon which came on halfway through it). Also remember Robinson Crusoe, I can still hear the theme tune which I think is some reasonably well known classical piece. Happy days!
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The really old popeye and was there something called "cabin in the clearing?"
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I remember all of those Rosemary - especially Belle and Sebastian. I was of course, very young at the time ::)!!
My favourite during the school hols was definitely Banana Splits (loved Arabian Nights, the cartoon which came on halfway through it). Also remember Robinson Crusoe, I can still hear the theme tune which I think is some reasonably well known classical piece. Happy days!
Roezan Kobaar.................size of an elephant...............whoosh! ;D
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i remember most of those..... loved white horses and been humming the tune and smiling (my hubby now calling in the men with white coats) I loved little house on the prairie..... used to make me cry (still does).....
i also loved the littlest hobo................
la la laaaa, la la la laaaa banana split loved it......
although all these memories MUST be from my mums tummy........ i'm not old enough surely..... :wave: ;)
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Rin Tin Tin,Fury,Champion,Lassie...yes I go back that far! ;D
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Tizwaz
What a riot it was & had the added bonus of Sally James :P, Lenny Henry when he was funny & Spit the Dog :D :D
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Used to love a programme called Moschops but not many people remember it!
The Muppet Show on a Sunday at tea time was a firm favourite in our house, accompanied by shop bough French Fancies and Viennese Whirls (which are now much smaller than I remember them....but I digress.... ::))
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Bill and Ben, Andy Pandy, The Woodentops, The Herbs, The Magic Roundabout, Trumpton, Chigley, Camberwick Green, Along The Riverbank, Mr Ben, Bagpuss, The Clangers, Play School, Play Away, Jackanory, Noggin The Nog, Ivor The Engine, Animal Magic, The Golden Shot with Hughie Green, Banana Splits, The Double Deckers and the original Tom and Jerry cartoons.
TV's been rubbish since, I can't stand BB, soaps or X factor and things like not to mention Jeremy Kyle and shows of that nature, "Retard TV" I call it.
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Rin Tin Tin,Fury,Champion,Lassie...yes I go back that far! ;D
seems you've got the same great taste in TV as me & must be as young as me too! :-\
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Wacky Races, Hair Bear Bunch, Stop the Pigeon
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Ooh, I'd forgotten about the Banana Splits. The Double Deckers - remember them? I liked "The Champions" too - just as well since I married one ;D
The Golden Shot with Hughie Green - was it not Bob Monkhouse - and Ann Aston and Bernie the Bolt?
When I was about five or six, on a Sunday, my Mum used to wash my hair for school and then dry it during "The Forsyte Saga".
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The Fosyte Saga, wasn't that with Susan Hampshire? I've not long finished reading the book.
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The Fosyte Saga, wasn't that with Susan Hampshire? I've not long finished reading the book.
Yes, and Eric Porter played Soames and Nyree Dawn Porter, his wife. I think Susan Hampshire played Fleur, his daughter? It was remade not that long ago, I think.
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What about Mary mungo and midge, mr Ben, the herbs and rubarb and custard.. Nah nah nah Nahhh...nah nah Nah nahhh na na nah nah wup wup.. Something like that!
Saturday night generation game with Brucie and the two Ronnies or if you want to go a bit further back val doonican!! They were proper tv programmes!! Oh and don't forget morecambe and wise ... Bring me sunshine....:-))
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OMG! The Double Deckers, yes I loved them, and Noggin the Nog and Jackanory - if this all excitement continues I'll not sleep tonight!!
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I liked Jack Hargreaves http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8#q=jack+hargreaves&hl=en&site=webhp&prmd=ivo&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=bdC0TPfaMNSRjAe2-MG_Aw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CC4QqwQwAQ&fp=cd6a0ce0765499ee Used to watch on my day off,settling down with a Vesta Paella in front of the telly ;D
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Oh, Vesta. There's another blast from the past. We used to have a Vesta curry on a Friday night - we thought we were the very latest thing. Never had the paella though.
You can get Jack Hargreaves "Out of Town" on DVD now.
I loved Noggin the Nog too. It was quite dark as I remember - all those ravens, was it? Wonder if it is still available.
Is it not amazing how much you can dredge up from the depths of your memory?
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Get thyself on youtube and watch them all now. I think I've wasted a couple of hours doing just that...........youtube is great
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Yes, we've got Out of Town on DVD.
This is maybe as old as some of the shows you have mentioned- but All Creatures Great and Small. The OH bought it on DVD the other day, and we have been watching them again.
When I was a child I loved Dallas, used to watch Dynasty as well. Lots of the other shows you have mentioned- Little house on the Prairie, The Waltons, Black Beauty.
Beth
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I loved ACGAS - I have the books and have read them loads of times. In fact, everything I know about livestock comes from those books ;D
Loved Dallas too - who shot JR? and the dreadful dream sequence.
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I never watched the Dallas dream sequence I'd lost interest by then,once they've all climbed into bed with each other the third time round and they've run out of murders and accidents it all gets much of a muchness!I stopped watching Emmerdale(when it was a farm)after that ridiculous plane crash (actually it was when a herd of goats were driven into a barn and in full shot of the camera was a pile of rhubbarb...never saw the goats again or mention,I wonder why ::) )
Stopped watching Eastenders when Dirty Den was shot!
Loved Noggin the Nog...think it followed on after Out of town...and You Tube is great,I can watch Fury and Champion all over again :)...and pleanty of stuff with Mules on it ;D
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one of the programs i remember on a sunday night after bath time just before bed time i used to watch the wonder years but i remember the waltons and the little house on the prairy also