TV programmes from your childhood/youth
 

Post clips if you have them or just talk about them. Or both.
Rentaghost (children's comedy)

HR Pufnstuff (Children's totally trippy whacked-out fantasy - included a talking flute!)

Monkey! (Children's fantasy based on Asian myths)

Children of the Stones (Super-scary children's horror)

i can't believe my parents put me through this

Contemplating the DVD box set apart from the fact that it would probably sit unwatched on my shelf and I can't afford it...

Lmao what is this

I, too suffered through Timmy the Tooth. I have been DYING to see Children of the Stones ever since hearing the opening theme (because I regularly feel the need to listen to 1970s show opening themes on YT for whatever reason)

My long-term memory is terrible so I cannot remember all the others I endured, but, having been raised by the television, I watched lots of X-Files, Fraggle Rock, Wonder Years, Star Trek, terrifying disaster docudramas like Rescue 911, Xena, Ren & Stimpy and Nick at Nite. And also Gargoyles, Gullah Gullah Island, Moomins (I love moominland with all my heart) and TMNT, but only at friends' houses, sadly.

Anyway here's some very formative scenes:


(I am the pigeon man)


(^Me in 20 years, probably)


TO THIS DAY I am afraid of the very top/bottom of escalators and insist upon awkwardly hopping over it.
(But every Rescue 911 episode was absolute gold. And William Shatner hosted it for some reason??)



I can't find my favorite Are You Afraid of the Dark episode on the youtube but it's here in full-- the dollhouse episode :0

...Does anyone remember those MTV (or VH1?) dating shows that were on in the 90s..? I fervently watched them; I believe one was hosted by Jenny McCarthy, and toward the end of each episode, all the female contestants had to pluck out one of their eyelashes, and.. whoever had the longest one won, I think? So, 9-year-old me began to think that this was a common and acceptable courting ritual. And 12-year-old me loved the Tom Green show for its borderline-unwatchable surrealist horror-type humor.

Chris Hardwick was on that dating show co-hosting with Jenny McCarthy I remember him being on it but the name escapes me right now.

I also loved Remote Control which was a game show. I think it was also on MTV. They even made a video game version of it that I had on NES.

I'm not going to post clips because I can't find any good ones, but the first seasons of Batman and Lost in Space.

Most people remember both of those shows as pure camp, but both during their first seasons were dark as all hell.

The pigeon man committed suicide and Arnold didn't want to accept it yo.

Rocko's Modern Life was my **** as a kid.

Surprisingly enough I haven't seen Batman since I was a kid (aside from watching the movie a few years ago), so I can't really comment, but I'm voicing my dubiousness. I do know that it was supposed to be much darker though, but the producer didn't care for comics and so changed the tone to more campy. Clint Eastwood was even supposed to play Two-Face, but that obviously fell through, along with Two-Face even appearing in the show for obvious reasons. ****ing pissed that I was robbed of the greatest Two-Face that never was.

I remember I used to watch the Adam West Batman when I was really really young on daytime tv.

Banana Splits



The Wombles

All of my favorite childhood tv memories involve music, whether from a show, an advert, or a bumper.

*sigh*

Basically everything on Disney Channel between 2004 and 2010.

Ah, Tiny Toons. The ****ing memories.

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I've mentioned my RetroBox server project before but this thread seems a fitting place to share the index as a delightful trip down nostalgia lane.

Ey, Batman: The Animated Series. You need to get Batman Beyond too. Awesome series.

Yeah all of those Nick Game Shows were my jam!

Also loved Sifl and Olly!

Awesome! I was the sockhead back in 2003 who painstakingly ripped the audio from every episode of S&O and constructed the first ever fan made soundtrack of the series. I think that was the very first torrent I ever created.

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black ranger and pals in space

I used to watch Cops with my dad all the time. We caught this **** on prime time.

I'm soviet, so basically this:

I used to love watching that show and waiting to see if the cops were gonna bust in on any naked chicks. This was before I had the internet.

Ali G

Balls of Steel

Brass Eye

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Dick Tracy



Lancelot Link



Columbo



Dr Who

Man like Monkey's avatar reminded me of this:

that episode of blind date with the guy who's really into reptiles is the best blind date episode. the episode with busdriver was kind of fun, too

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Get Smart

I used to love that joke: how do you get 100 people into a Mini? Maxwell Smart and 99! :laughing:

I was a huge fan of Get Smart as a kid. And I think Barbara Feldon may have been my first crush.

Here's a few pieces of Get Smart merch I've acquired over the years.

Soap




Lol, a tad disappointed you don't have a shoe phone.

All the PBS shows - Sesame Street, Zoom, The Electric Company - but Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was by far number one with me. I was so into Mister Rogers as a young child, I'd put on a pink Fair Isle cardigan (with buttons, not a zipper like Fred's) and sneakers along with him as he sang "Won't You Be My Neighbor". And I'd feed my tropical fish when he fed his (with TetraMin flakes).

Found this video of Fred Rogers testifying before the US Senate in '69. Mister Rogers's goodness actually turns me on! :)

His finest moment. Every time I revisit this clip I tear up with joy.

Ja I saw that a few weeks ago. Right up there with Zappa at the PMRC.

:0 BLIND DATE!!!! Didn't they almost always despise each other?
I remember that one and The Fifth Wheel would always play at really odd hours of the night (which I would watch at 4 am along with Just Shoot Me and The Outer Limits because I had raging insomnia in high school) and they were both such riveting and confusing adventures. I think the Fifth Wheel involved a bus..? Some sort of sexual punishment party bus?

OMG I used to watch Blind Date. It would be on around the same time as Cheaters for whatever reason. Cheaters was brilliant. Maury on location basically.

I never even liked that show but Mr. Rogers kicks ass!