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

Remember it? I have it on video somewhere...

why don't you just switch off your television set and go and do somthing less boring instead

wonderful title

wonderful show

look out a dorris

Are you the Belfast gang?

No! I still have my knee caps!!

Taff, you cant "doris" me - I'm wearing my stripey socks

I'm another one who watched Sky - it was great (the child was a boy - he turned up naked in the first ep and his eyes were like the sky if I recall correctly). Actually I've discussed it here a few times on h2g2 and have always been happy to find people who saw it because at one stage I thought I'd imagined it.

As for Why don't you...? - I made a skirt out of ties a few years ago, after remembering seeing it on that programme yonks ago.

My children hated it when I joined in singing "Why don't you switch off your TV set and go and do somthing less boring instead".

I've had singing lessons you know!

PP

Thundercats was always fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5GfORvH8

buttonmoon

Pole position - is that the one with the boy and girl race team and talking computers in the dashboard - and a sort of A Team morality: 'Ho! the evil property developer is going to take over my farm and he's going to do it by sabotaging our barn dance fundraiser!' Pole Position race team - can you help?

That one?

Not my favourite, but I have a particular memory of it being on in the Great Ormand Street Ward I was staying in when I was about 6.

Blue Peter badge goes to Clive!

I imagine that cartoon would not be nearly as amazing if I saw it now. Just at a certain point of my childhood I loved it. I can't even remember that much about it, just that the most exciting thing that could happen was for that show to come one.

-G

Has to be Jackanory for me (surprised no one else mentioned it yet!)

Particularly good were the 'Little Nose' stories read by Bernard Cribbens.

Am I showing my age?!

oh I used to love Jackanory.

They have just brought it back but it isnt as good as it used to be

Mentioning Jackanory reminded me of The Storyteller! Anyone else?

I'm a storyteller, and my stories must be told...I have many stories, tales for both the young and old...

With a bit in the middle, then,

In Russia I am Ivan, in England I am John...In Germany I'm Johan, In Sweden I am Jan.

And a fox round his feet.

Can't actually remember any of the stories but the titles and music were fabulous!!!

I remember Pole Position ... just about. It blurs into other shows, but I definitely remember that there was a blonde guy in a blue car and a woman in a red car. I think they were married, and they had some kids (without cars).

What about Kick Start?

Dum Dum Dum,
Dumma Dumma Dum Dum da-dum duh...

What a conundrum...

Early childhood? Andy Pandy.

Later, Twizzle.

Then Crackerjack with Peter Glaze and Leathery Trousers!

Not forgetting Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton and Christopher Trace.
Stig of the Dump, Singing tree, Secret Garden, Clangers, Belle and Sebastian, Robinson Crusoe (thanks for the link) White Horses http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6z8GUywyc
Roy Rodgers... Champion the Wonder Horse, Skippy, Flipper!

How many do you want?

The Best? Doctor Who and the Zarbis! Was that

Then there was Anne of Green Gables, The wonderful world of Disney, yje Monkees... Batman, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90! WDYJSWOYTADSE? MCSS. Tiswas. There where so many!!! Wacky Races?

Then we had The Persuaders, The Champions, The Avengers etc...

By jove! Were we spoilt???

I'll stop now, while I reminisce and

'Things are more like they are now than they ever used to be!!!'

And now we get Raven, and suchlike....



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Don't forget Bewitched, Batman, Topcat, Space Family Robinson, Lost in Space.

The programs were legion.

Favourite? Still Doctor who, in all his guises!!!

And yes I'd love to hear of those programmes of yesteryear I've forgotten about like banan Splitz!!!



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