h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I couldn't honestly say, Phil. I think it was on Channel4.

I don't know either, I was just guessing. I don't own a TV so I really shouldn't get into discussions about it

You don't own a TV, Phil? Wow! May I come live at your house?

Actually...I liked PBS way back when I was a kid. There was a show called "Zoom" that was sort of a "Mickey Mouse Club" for kids with brain cells. I wanted so much to be on that show. "Mr. Rogers" is too quiet for my taste. PBS was one of a handful of stations I didn't lock out of the cable box when my kids were growing up. And it is still a good bet for when someone beats me to the computer and I have to make do with other electronic forms of entertainment.

Brilliant no no flipping comments cause there are no adverts. Great choice of channel shame about the programming.

One reason I don't have a TV is that the room I live in isn't big enough to have a TV as well as a computer, stereo, books, cds...

That's the best interior design concept I've heard in eons. All living spaces should be so rich with books and such that there is no room for TV. And to think they are making cars with TVs built in. How silly.

How convenient! I wake up in a hotel room, my laptop telling me it's about a quarter past two in the afternoon, my alarm clock telling me it's not far past 6am, and the tour takes us to PBS!

*switches on TV, finds PBS*

There's a big yellow bird. It's scaring me!

So does PBS get no government funding at all now, or just not enough?

I see you signed up for the full multi-media experience instead of the standard tour - was that in another forum?

I think it may just be oxygen deprivation up on the chandelier actually... Whatever it is, it's pretty convincing!

Ok, I'm really going to be showing my age now but does anyone remeber wathcing the kids classic 'Button Moon'? In a recent vote it was unamiously (spelling?) choesen as our favourite childhood TV memmory.

The name certainly rings a bell, but I can't remember any details.

In depth discussion about children's television? I think this is where I came in.

Poor Phil I have never quite been in a room that small. Although my current video collection does kind of take over the room

DD I wouldn't say the room is small (but it is) more that I've other priorities for the avaliable space I think I'm going to need to get another box for my CDs to go in as the pile looks like it's about that size again...

"We've been to button moon. We followed Mr Spoon..."

Bod, Bagpuss, The Flumps and Chorlton and The Wheelies. Now you can't beat a good bit of kids TV and they were good!

The first major discussion I got involved in on h2g2 was about kids' TV... funny how these things go in circles, innit?

Don't worry I one had a stack of ST:TNG videos which reached to the ceiling.

At least a few hundred CD's doesn't go that high... perhaps it does, I've not actually tried

It always caused me a problem if I wanted to see Encounter at Farpoint as the whole pile kind off wobbled.

Button Moon!!! I used to watch that on a dinnertime when I was a kid. Wasn't the spaceship made out of a tin of beans and a funnel or something??? On the subject of kids TV, I remembered all the words to the Dangermouse theme during an exam the other day. Did nowt for my concentration though.

Being Canadian, I don't recognize any of the names of the British Kids shows (Dangermouse, Button Moon, etc.). Did you get Friendly Giant or Kaptain Kangaroo in UK?