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Favourite Childrens Show

By rico, in General Chat

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lildave3

lildave3

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I miss being a kid, these shows were awesome. That's why I like it when the niece comes round, I can pretend it's on for her and then catch a bit of Scooby Doo action.

BoneDog

BoneDog

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I was just thinking about the Titanic and I remembered this great series.

Godzilla and Godzooky.

Godzilla............and Godzoooooooooooookyyyyy. I loved Godzooky, oh how the little fella used to make me laugh.

BoneDog

BoneDog

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Oh yes The Muppets were great. I only have vague memories of it - like Miss Piggy doing the 'ahhhhhh yaaaaaaaa' thing, Animal on the drums and those two blokes sitting together.

Fraggle Rock was class aswell, the dog used to crack me up. I bought the dvd not long ago for my niece and she loves it so it's still gorritt !

BoneDog

BoneDog

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Captain Caveman had those Teen Angels in the palm of his hand. They were all over him rubbing his hair and calling him Cavey-Wavey!

Hero.

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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Kinda strange, but this article pretty summed up the view I posted:-

My link

Whatever happened to children's TV?

Where's telly for the pre-teens gone? MSN TV columnist Jack Kibble-White is feeling the loss.

When my generation was young, all we needed to entertain ourselves was the simple pleasure of pretending Captain Pugwash featured pirates with rude names.

Or we'd imagine that our toys, and other objects, would come alive when we weren't around, as in Bagpuss.

But what of today's youth; how are they filling their time? Which series fuels their urban myths?

Reaching for the remote, I discovered that kids' programmes today are a load of rubbish.

A diet of mediocre American cartoons followed by mediocre American sitcoms is hardly the stuff to capture the imagination of our nation's youth.

Where's it all gone wrong?

There seems to be a particular dearth of programming for those pre-teens too old to still be classed toddlers, but

"dramas for 12-year-olds have all but been wiped off our screens in the last few years"

too young to have outgrown Hollyoaks, or T4.

TV programmes, specifically dramas for 12-year-olds, have all but been wiped off our screens in the last few years.

In 2006, ITV closed down its entire children's production arm, due to a massive shortfall in advertising revenue. This meant the end for popular kids' series such as My Parents Are Aliens and the total demise of ITV's traditional afternoon schedule of children's programming.

Were some poor kid to switch on expecting the perky face of Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan, they would have got the shock of their life when they were instead greeted by the shining mahogany and rictus Wallace-from-Wallace-and-Gromit grin of daytime horror David Dickinson.

Over at the BBC things weren't much better with 2006 marking the transmission of the final series of Byker Grove. Having begun way back in 1989, this pint-size Tyneside kids' soap opera had garnered much respect throughout the TV industry for its sensitive portrayal of controversial issues.

But still it was axed.

Flippin' 'eck! Grange Hill axed

"by the time it left our screens, Grange Hill was long past its best"

Then in 2008, the seemingly unthinkable happened.

A nation of 30-somethings proclaimed "flippin' 'eck!" as the Beeb announced they were closing the gates on Grange Hill, that most perennial of kids' drama institutions.

Here was a series that taught a generation everything they had needed to know about secondary school education, such as: fat kids preparing to eat a toffee bar should prepare for it to be swiped from under their noses by the school's resident 'nut job' and, of course, you should "just say 'no'" to horrible charity records.

It's true that by the time it left our screens, Grange Hill was long past its best. However, the idea that British kids would no longer be subjected to a hurtling sausage on a fork seemed too much to bear.

Children's habits change

But the sad thing to note is that pre-teens had long since abandoned children's drama anyway. For them, it was

"But the sad thing to note is that pre-teens had long since abandoned children's drama anyway"

the sophisticated allure of supposedly adult programmes such as EastEnders (which in a poll conducted by The Telegraph in 2004 was shown to be the favourite programme of pre-teens) and Hollyoaks.

Still, with the honourable exception of The Sarah Jane Adventures, television no longer acknowledges the existence of the 8-to-14 age group.

The tots have hours and hours of CBeebies, Milkshake and CBBC with which to torment their parents, and for the teenagers there's Skins and pretty much the entire output of BBC Three and E4.

But there's nothing for those kids in between, nothing designed specifically to capture their imagination in the way that Grange Hill once captured ours. So, what are they meant to do with their summer holiday mornings? Who knows if they'll ever learn to amuse themselves with some cardboard and a box of pins...

The views in this column are those of the author alone and not of MSN or Microsoft

MPH

MPH

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a slightly surreal tv show that had me captivated....

and who can forget metal Mickey?

" he's alot of fun, he weighs half a ton" brilliant lyrics there..

You kids today with your modern tv don't have a clue....

sdb

sdb

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gotta love a bit of nostalgia.

original Grange Hill theme tune is siick. i remember hearing it mixed with Country Grammar about 10 years ago. Amazing. Anyone else heard it/got it??!

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