Favorite but obscure Tele programmme from when you were young....

[Chicken Run]

logans run, and the litlest hobo

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Beaten me too it. Uafasach

 

[Rougvie]

Anyone remember a mid-eighties Childrens ITV serial, based around a small english villiage about witchcraft and midsummer.

It had stuff like gargoyles heads coming to life in the village church, and other EQUALLY scary things.

Cant for the life of me remember what is was called.

 

[McShane79]

city of gold

Classic!!! Loved that.
When I was a proper nipper, I always liked Jamie and the Magic Torch. Saw a bit of it again on a "100 Greatest..." programme, and it looked well mental!

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

Re: favourite Tele programmes

Tales of The Gold Monkey

An Indiana Jones type adventure with a cigar chomping Airplane pilot going round the South Seas for some reason, mainly bagging stranded American women from baddies.

And I am sure there was a pet monkey involved (as if the title didn't give me enough of a clue).

The bloke ended up in the first Star Trek movie, the monkey ended up in Friends, and I must get round to seeing if its on DVD!

I am still getting Mr Benn flashbacks from watching Eastenders!

What a programme, also loved The Adventure Game, Manimal and that schools programme with Dark Towers and The Boy From Space on. My absolute favourite though, was Day of the Triffids, which I now own

 

[Shegull]

BOSCO

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no please nooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Shegull]

The Woodentops.

Brilliant

Andy Pandy and the original Bill and Ben

 

[dougdeep]

Brilliant

Andy Pandy and the original Bill and Ben

You're showing your age.

 

[Cian]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no please nooooooooooooooooooooo

The words of a mother who was forced to sit watching the Network Two clock for HOURS before Bosco came on, I take it

 

[jonny.rainbow]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no please nooooooooooooooooooooo

oh .yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Nosy bonk - that guy in a suit with a mask with a giant nose on it..................actually what am I saying nosy bonk always use to freak the shit out of me.

The great Jigsaw!

And scare yourself shitless with the great man himself!!

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/extrastorage/jigsaw/noseybonk.rm

I still remember the music!

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/extrastorage/jigsaw/a hippo called hubert.rm


And the title sequence :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/titles/jigsaw.shtml

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Also - Make it Count with Fred Harris and his giant calculator. It was aimed an innumerate adults but was ideal for me as a young kid as well - probably why I was so good with maths. Fred Harris kicks ass!

Also - Fun House with Pat Sharp - I wasn't that young but the music is outstanding sax work!

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Cheggers plays Pop, Beat The Teacher, Grange Hill, Willy Fogg - I could go on for hours. Press Gang, Jossy's Giants.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

The Magic Boomerang
Leave it to Beaver

 

[Gordon the Gopher]

'Land of the Giants' and the original 'Lost in Space'.

 

[Bigtomfu]

Telebugs-

Ulysese- if thats how you spell it,

And that weird cartoon that was always on C4 very early am with machines that grew from seeds and plants grew out of them.

Anyone know what it was called?

 

[Easy 10]

I used to like The Little World of Don Camillo. Its so obscure, I'm not even sure if I just dreamed it or not.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Damn you all for this thread. Not only am I continuously dancing around in my chair to the Mr Noseybonk music, I am in negotiations to buy the complete series of Big Deal and to trade The Adventure Game episodes. I should be studying, dammit!

 

[Tom Bombadil]

The original and best

 

[Gwylan]

When I was really young I loved Noggin the Nog.

When I was bit older, my favourite was a mystery series called Ace of Wands with a magician as a detective. It's long-forgotten now but I can still remember the theme music and his pet owl Ozymandias.

And there's Catweazle of course: he was my early style guru.