TV Shows We Used to Watch as Youngsters and maybe still watch as adults

I’m sure that was Alas Smith and Jones!

The Young Ones

That was a hell,of a show😆

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Michael Bentines potty time.

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Cheers still makes me laugh

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Not ‘alas’, this was a western from the early '70s. Even I was very young then :rofl:

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The Double Deckers. Blimey that’s a blast from the past!

Vision On
Champion the Wonder Horse
Flash Gordon
Why don’t you?

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I meant the Comedy one with Mel Smith :rofl::rofl:

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May be a bit left field but…

Series of documentaries broadcast daytimes as test transmissions for setting up new fangled colour TVs in late 60s and early 70s

Kariba Dam
Montecarlo Rally
Liverpool Catholic Cathedral design/construction
Colour TV (how it works)
Expo (not sure what year) from Belgium or ?
maybe one or two others

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Gosh I remember Kariba Dam, soon after watching it I found my self staring agog at it !

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It gets you thinking :thinking:

The Protectors
Jason King
Columbo
Ironside
The Invaders
The Champions

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Anybody remember Kung Fu with David Carradine? And Monkey??

Currently introducing my grandson to Thomas the Tank Engine. (The originals that is, not the cartoon monstrosity they’ve turned it into now.)

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I was offered a seat on a school day trip in 1957 to see Kariba Dam while it was being built, “winter” time when it was not quite so flaming hot.
The plane from Salisbury to Kariba was in a tubby little CAA Viking. Our return trip was in a more comfortable Dakota.
We were lucky; a few months later my Dad mentioned in an off-hand way that our Viking had recently crashed.
CAA stopped using the last Viking and used Viscounts thereafter, only slightly better.

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Boris the Bold..

CHiPs

Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet
Stingray
The A Team
Airwolf
Knight Rider
Street Hawk
The Dukes of Hazzard

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My favourite was the Banana Splits. Now that show really messed with my head :joy:. The other that I don’t think has been mentioned here was Catch Candy. Anyone remember that?

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Anyone remember The Water Margin?

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Of the Liangshan Po? :blush:

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Posters already mentioned many I used to enjoy watching :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

The Monkeys [Davy Jones et al]

The Partridge Family [loved David Cassidy because I saw a picture of him with a horse :roll_eyes: ]

My Friend Flicka

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo [who’s stuck down the mine Skip??]

Daktari [Clarence the cross eyed lion]

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Absolutely!

We used to have some old annuals (Beano, Dandy and others) and I remember asking my Mother why Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones looked so different in the photo (actually the one you’ve posted) of Alias Smith and Jones to how they were on TV :smiley:

It is interesting how itv’s itvx streaming platform is showing the originals of old childrens programmes again, for example the original Bernard Cribbins’ voiced Wombles, Cosgrove Halls’ Count Duckula, the original (as narrated by Kenneth Williams) Will O’ The Wisp etc. etc. etc.

At least even if it is now a monstrosity they ackowledged their roots (or should that be routes :wink: ) by uploading the original pilot episode on their YouTube channel…

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Drat…………..forgot ‘Black Beauty’ [theme tune in my head right now….ear worm]

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