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What did you like to watch growing up?

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Rachie

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Me I live in London UK and have done so all my life. I was born in 1973.
In my very early childhood I didn't enjoy much on the television and that was all we had available then to watch things on.

I loved Annie as well. The film came out and I wanted Daddy Warbucks to be my dad and wish I could be Annie. I think I watched the film numerous times in succession.

Heidi was a tv show also and I loved watching it after school. A book came out as well which I bought.

I loved watching the Red Hang Gang as well.

As a family we used to watch Knight Rider, Highway to Heaven, the A Team, Dynasty, Dallas, The Cosby show and Eastenders together as well.

I used to particularly like the Cosby Show and A Different world.

As a teenager I would like to watch after school Grange Hill and remember about Zamo and his drug taking.

In this forum I think growing up can extend to the age of 25.
Around 17 I liked Out of this World. It was about a girl Evie Ethel Garland. I also liked The Secret World of Alex Mack etc.
 
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As a child I wasn't very childish, I had no interest in most of the shows on TV that everyone else wanted to watch but I did like watching news and current affairs programs. The only kids shows I really took any notice of were Catweazle, Dr Who, and Professor Julius Sumner Miller, he had a regular segment in our afternoon cartoon shows.

 
Heidi, do you mean the series from 1978, about the girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss alps? I loved that show.

I watched a lot of Swedish series when I was a kid. Pippi Longstocking, Life on Seacrow Island, Emil of Lönneberga. Astrid Lindgren's stories were popular back then. The Swedes made good tv.

In my early teens I discovered an American series called "Married... With Children". It was the greatest thing I had ever seen. 🙂 I still love that series, it's so good.
 
We had Dr Who in the UK as well, I never got into that though.

Forest Cat, yes it was that Heidi that you are referring to that I loved as a child. I was in Switzerland and it brought such memories back as an adult.
 
Rachie said:
As a teenager I would like to watch after school Grange Hill and remember about Zammo and his drug taking.
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Huge Grange Hill fan here! I have all the box sets of series 1-10. But I didn't watch it growing up, it's just my mum got me into it only a few years ago.

I was born in 1990, England. When I was really little (under 8) I loved watching PlayDays, Thomas the Tank Engine, and Watch With Mother. Then when I was 8 I was introduced to South Park and stopped watching preschool shows lol. Yes, my parents let us watch it.
But also I got into Disney movies by then and I always loved Winnie the Pooh.

When I was a teenager I didn't watch any TV any more. I just collected box sets of the Simpsons and South Park, and watched movies on DVD, the same movies I like now.
 
I probably spent more time playing with the toys associated with the TV shows than I did actually watching them, so anything that had cool toys:

Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet
Stingray
Postman Pat
Thomas the Tank Engine
Power Rangers
 
I'm a child of the early 80's so I grew up on a lot of the old school cartoons, He-Man, Sheera, Carebears, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Bug's Bunny and the crew. Then for sitcoms I can remember watching a lot of Who's The Boss, and Three's Company, and that sort of thing. Heck I remember being, I think 12, and finally getting cable TV. A glorious 20 channels with a cable box and, get this, remote control.

Kids today with everything streaming on a tablet will never know the joys of 3 channels and having to get up and turn the knob on the TV that was so big it needed it's own enclosure the size of a small Dresser.
 
One that was also really important to me growing up was The Lion the witch and the wardrobe. I am surprised that i forgot this.

I have two younger brothers as well so a lot that has been listed so far I know of them as well.
One's that they liked that I have not seen listed yet is Transformers and Get a long gang. I liked that as well i must admit.
 
I'm...kind of sad to talk about this kind of stuff. I've been wanting to be an animator forever now, and animation is my Special Interest. hmmm... let's see....animes such as Sonic X, Pokemon, Yugioh!, Dragon Ball Z and Digimon. The Simpsons, Osmosis Jones,
Babe the sheep pig, Disney movies of course, the works of Don Bluth.

Shrek 1 and 2, Jimmy Neutron, Tmnt 2003, ALF, Arthur, Star Wars and
Pixar movies.
 
Anything produced by Irwin Allen:

"Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea"
"Lost In Space"
"The Time Tunnel"
"Land Of The Giants"

And everything Star Trek. And all those 50s sci-fi movies as well as 30s and 40s horror movies.

Crushing so many years later to discover that "The Time Tunnel" did not return not because of ratings, but because of budget cuts imposed on the most expensive tv show of its time.

Lots of superhero cartoons too, both on Saturday morning and weekday afternoons. As for "Jonny Quest", it was in a class by itself. An animated feature on Friday nights, 7:30pm. 1964 :cool:


I had to go over to a friend's house to watch in color back then...lol.
 
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Subtitled anime that I rented on VHS. Bubblegum Crisis, AD Police Files, Devil Hunter Yohko, New Cutie Honey, The Venus Wars, Project A-Ko, Gall Force, Genocyber, Cyber City Oedo 808, Ninja Scroll, Evangelion, F3, Dragon Pink, Twin Dolls, Armitage III, Giant Robo, Devilman, Macross Plus, yes, I still am an otaku today.
 
My TV shows are all from the early days of kids TV: Jonny Quest, Lost in Space, Bozo the Clown, and a British show about kids who had a hang-out that was a London double-decker bus parked (or abandoned) in an empty lot between two townhouses. It wasn't aired for long in New England. Emil and the Detectives, also short-lived, and he Discovery Channel. These were the days before cable TV. The selection was minimal, but anything is good when you only have 3 network channels available. There were lots of sit-coms on TV for kids after school. Saturday morning was always cartoons; Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, etc. Advertising introduced you to new toys and games. Advertising taught me about the wonders of a superball. I had to get one. I ended up losing it in a patch of honeysuckle.
 
MacGyver (original version) and science videos were probably what I watched the most.
 
A big mix of live action and animated shows on Nickelodeon throughout the 90s, Dexter’s Lab, Animaniacs, Pokémon/Digimon, Sailor Moon, original Power Rangers, Full House, Recess, Wishbone. I liked to watch nature shows, too, like Croc Hunter.
 
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This thread has brought back good memories for me and for most I hope to those times have brought back good memories.

There is one person who I am thinking of...what was that..
I had to look it up. It was Gary Coleman in A Different strokes. That was an import to the UK. I used to watch that as well.
 
Rainbow Brite
Punky Brewster
Jem and the Holograms
The Littles
Dungeons and Dragons
He Man
She Ra
GI Joe
Transformers
Get Along Gang
Berenstain Bears
Care Bears
Winnie The Pooh
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Looney Tunes
Yogi Bear
Woody Woodpecker
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Jetsons
Flintstones
Cosby Show
Family Ties
Five Mile Creek
Knight Rider
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
1960s Batman
Thundercats
Voltron
Droids
Ewoks
Tom and Jerry
Rose Petal
Lady Lovely Locks
Barbie and the Rockers
Inspector Gadget
Scooby Doo
Reading Rainbow
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
 
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Too much to list, but here are some from the top of my head:
TV series: ALF, Dinosaurs, Mr. Bean, Planet Of The Apes
Cartoons: Dexter's Laboratory, Beavis & Butt-Head, Ren & Stimpy, Tom & Jerry, Johnny Bravo, Flintstones, Turtles
Movies: Short Circuit 2, Dark Crystal NeverEnding Story, Jurassic Park 1, Gremlins 1 & 2, Star Wars, Ewoks

I still rewatch most of this stuff on a regular basis :)
 
Angular Chap said:
I probably spent more time playing with the toys associated with the TV shows than I did actually watching them, so anything that had cool toys:

Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet
Stingray
Postman Pat
Thomas the Tank Engine
Power Rangers
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What about Joe90?
 
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