A Conversation for Talking Point: Children's Television
5 minute favourites.
Uncle Ghengis Started conversation Mar 14, 2007
I always enjoyed those 5-minute programs:
Magic Roundabout
Rhubarb
Noggin the Nog
Ifor the Engine
The Clangers
Willo-the-Wisp
although there were some bad ones too...
Hectors House
Crystal Tips & Alistair
5 minute favourites.
Natalie Posted Mar 14, 2007
Oh wow! Willo the Wisp was so dark! Roobarb and Custard was so anarchic! Ivor the Engine was so...soporific! Did anything actually happen in it? Was Paddington one of those programmes too? Oh! Barbapapa!
5 minute favourites.
Teasswill Posted Mar 15, 2007
Magic Roundabout & Noggin the Nog, hurrah!
I actually bought a DVD of Noggin the Nog fairly recently 
5 minute favourites.
Uncle Ghengis Posted Mar 16, 2007
I saw an episode of the new Aardman "Shaun the Sheep" series the other day. Brilliant!!! Definitely up there with some of the old classic children's shorts.
5 minute favourites.
Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! Posted Mar 19, 2007
Oh, Shaun the Sheep is brilliant 
. It keeps that typically British humour that Aardman is good at, and like Wallace and Gromit, it usually pays to have half an eye watching the background, too. Me and my husband love it, and have so far taped pretty much every episode.
It's wasted on kids, if you ask me 
.
5 minute favourites.
Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted Mar 20, 2007
D'ya know, I thought I was the only one who remembered Barbapapa!!
Seem to recall loving it, but on seeing snippets of it I've managed to find on the internet, it was... well... dreadful!
5 minute favourites.
invisibleknight Posted Mar 20, 2007
I own the complete Will O the wisp on dvd.
and complete bagpuss.
And trapdoor
and Mr ben
Anyone else a HUGE Chorlton & The Wheelies fan?
Yep, shaun the sheep is pretty cool.
I have one on top of my pc monitor, i won him in a grabby machine @ alton towers once.
5 minute favourites.
Natalie Posted Mar 20, 2007
Chorlton - one of the best theme tunes of all time! 
5 minute favourites.
Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted Apr 27, 2007
Forgot about this thread...
Yes - Chorlton!!
Got the DVD for Christmas!
When my PC shuts down, instead of playing the Windows bing bongly thing, it plays Chorlton saying "Bye Bye, Littl' old lady!"
Sadly, when the computer starts, instead of the other Windows bingly bong, it has a clip of Eddie, from the TV series of H2G2, saying the "Hi there, this is Eddie, your shipboard computer....(etc etc)"
Drives the missus mad!
All together now....
"Jump in we'll take you for a spin and show you round the Wheelie World...."
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5 minute favourites.
- 1: Uncle Ghengis (Mar 14, 2007)
- 2: Natalie (Mar 14, 2007)
- 3: Teasswill (Mar 15, 2007)
- 4: Uncle Ghengis (Mar 16, 2007)
- 5: Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! (Mar 19, 2007)
- 6: Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break (Mar 20, 2007)
- 7: invisibleknight (Mar 20, 2007)
- 8: Natalie (Mar 20, 2007)
- 9: Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break (Apr 27, 2007)
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