Those were fascinating. There was also the one in the physics lab where they’d set up a high voltage experiment and the scientist wondered if it had been properly discharged before he dismantled it. It hadn’t, so flash bang!
I seem to remember a pottery one too.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned this one :
Still say “….the dog” whenever anyone mentions Dill
Starsky and hutch
Two from the wife
Little House on the Prairie
The Waltons
Our local Ritz video shop had the VHS tapes, was something I always liked to have my parents rent out.
I still have my copy of the Parsley the Lion book:
and I still enjoy reading it from time to time, especially Dill as a mechanic fixing Parsleys’ car 
Dill is a Dog. He lives in the Herb Garden. He is Kind, Modest, Generous to a fault. (Dills’ entry for Who’s Who before some corrections take place).
Drugs certainly did the job back then 
Fingerbobs
Clopper Castle
Mary, Mungo and Midge
Pipkins
Magpie
Finger bobs!!! Wow loved
Perhaps he was “The Prof” (David Cleveland) doing something daft (again) in “VisionOn”?
Often it was in stop-motion with the Film Club 16mm camera shooting on donated “short ends” (left-overs from a full reel of reversal film).
As also was Tony Hart’s brilliant little “Morph.”
Almost the whole of VisionOn was produced on a gossamer-thin shoestring budget with several enthusiastic and talented amateurs giving their time and effort for free, while learning the skills.
Life on earth
The world at war
Blake’s 7
The tomorrow people
Ain’t half hot mum
Faulty towers
The young ones
Hart to hart
The fall guy
The A team
Knight Rider
M.A.S.H
The Onedin Line
The six million dollar man
Dempsey and makepeace
The Bill
On the buses
Edit… Champion the wonder horse
The World at War was unbelievable. I’ve still got all episodes on my Virgin box 
Just remembered a couple more, The flashing blade and the changes (freaked me out). Not sure if already mentioned above.
‘Felt adolescent guilt about fancying the girl….’
You think that’s a concern………I used to fancy Troy Tempest from Stingray and he was a puppet 
Mind your Language
'Till Death Us Do Part
And, IMHO the best American cop show,
Hill Street Blues.
Pretty much anything from Oliver Postgate.
Pogles wood
Noggin the Nog
Ivor the engine
Bagpuss
The clangers…
I drove to Barnstaple a few years ago to visit an Oliver Postgate exhibition. I have stood on the presence of the metal chicken et al.
Mustn’t forget
Mr. Ed the talking horse
Animal Magic with Johnny Morris
Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Magnum
When I was a kid, we used to sing to someone ‘shown up, tra la la la’, ‘shown up, tra la la la’, in the same theme tune way, if a mate did something silly/foolish etc
I always wondered where it came from. I thought it could have been from some football crowd chant, but evidently this is where it comes from. Discover something everyday!
Captain Pugwash..
Miami Vice,
Magnum PI
Dynasty
Dallas
Tomorrows World ( is that considered a TV show ? )
The Fall Guy
The Rockford Files
Columbo
Streets of San Francisco