Children's BBC in the 1980s

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Im not sure if it was itv or cbbc but we loved grim tales with Rick mayel. No one else remembers it when I mention it. Dad was a huge Rick mayel fan so that’s probably why we watched it. It was so funny. Basically different versions of stories. I still remember them now. We had a few taped from
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Libbylulu said:
Anyone remember a series called Kizzie. It may have been late 70’s though. About a young Romany traveler who lived with her grandmother in an old caravan?
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Yes my friends were all playing it in the school playground and I had to persuade my mum to let me watch. Television had to be educational eg Blue Peter 😄. Got the book for my birthday though and loved it. Can see the front cover now Kizzie with her traditional gypsy caravan. Would be around '79.
 
petitspois said:
I remember all of these? maybe not BBC but remember Record Breakers when Norris McWhirter always used to get dragged out when someone was about to attempt a world record? so random
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Record Breakers was on the BBC, I was a massive fan of the show, when I think of the show I think of DOMINO'S, not sure if that was in the 70's or 80's but one program was devoted to this domino topple with various size domino's.

Blue Peter was okay in the 70's but I wasn't so keen in the 80's because of the new faces, Simon Groom was okay but I didn't like Sarah Greene or that very dodgy Peter Duncan. Back in the 80's there was a rumour Peter was in a "gay blue movie", I discovered that he was in fact a child actor who appeared in the ITV show "The Tomorrow People" from the 70's. He also made an appearance in the 80's film "Flash Gordon". Keith Chegwin was also a child actor who also appeared in the Tomorrow People.

Grange Hill spilled over from the 70's into the 80's and I enjoyed that a lot, even after I left school I still managed to watch it because I was doing shift work for a while.

Crackerjack was another show that spilled over into the 80's, I wasn't watching in the 80's but I did in the 70's.
 
Anasnake said:
Play school when I was little, also Play Away with Brian Cant. School TV was Dark Towers and The Boy From Space. Dogtanian or Mysterious cities of Gold after school. Monkey Magic BBC 2 Friday teatime. Had to do watch Saturday Superstore as my mum hated Tiswas.
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You must be around my age. I was born in 1978

Anasnake said:
I loved Heidi ! With grandpa and Peter the goat herder
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The theme tune makes me extremely nostalgic. Takes me back to being about 5 at my grandmother's house having tea. I recently found it on YouTube and wow, it brought a few tears to my eyes. Thank God for youtube Haha
 
Anasnake said:
Play school when I was little, also Play Away with Brian Cant. School TV was Dark Towers and The Boy From Space. Dogtanian or Mysterious cities of Gold after school. Monkey Magic BBC 2 Friday teatime. Had to do watch Saturday Superstore as my mum hated Tiswas.
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Monkey was compulsive viewing, I managed to watch the show from start to finish on the original run. I even saw a re-run on Sky.
Sadly to expensive to buy on DVD, if this show is ever streamed I will be in heaven.
 
Fishyrod42 said:
You must be around my age. I was born in 1978


The theme tune makes me extremely nostalgic. Takes me back to being about 5 at my grandmother's house having tea. I recently found it on YouTube and wow, it brought a few tears to my eyes. Thank God for youtube Haha
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Born 1973 !
 
Tide'sout said:
Yes my friends were all playing it in the school playground and I had to persuade my mum to let me watch. Television had to be educational eg Blue Peter 😄. Got the book for my birthday though and loved it. Can see the front cover now Kizzie with her traditional gypsy caravan. Would be around '79.
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I think I read the book of that
 
emm said:
not sure if it was BBC but anyone else watch Children's Ward? it was aimed at children but was actually quite harrowing at times from what I remember, I remember one particular storyline of a group of siblings whose parents had abandoned them, one had apenditicis so was admitted, her siblings came with her (some how) and they kept faking being sick to be able to stay on the ward instead of go home
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it had quite a lot of decent actors who were kids, who then stayed in acting as adults , Childrens ward always appears on those "before they were famous" shows because actors now were all kids back then, even when i left school in the late 80's and in work i used to still watch all the kids programs into the 90's, it felt like my old life had ended when it all moved to CITV and they started putting"adult" programs on, although i prefer to watch the chase these days :D

Fishyrod42 said:
I recall Seaview. I think it was repeated several times on CBBC. It was the first time I saw Yvette Fielding, then a couple of years later she popped up on Blue Peter in 1987. I remember Number 73, but I was more a BBC kid so Saturday Superstore was my go to.
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yes , i remember Yvette Fielding , i couldnt tell you what seaview was about , i didnt even know its name but i will always remember her from that before she was famous on Blue Peter, i think she had a personality back then that made you remember who she was, i remember when she appeared on Blue Peter , i think i told everyone i knew about how i remembered her from before :D
 
The red hand gang in the school hols

some of mine might be more 70s than 80s and not BBC (born 1971)

Portland Bill
Cockleshell bay
vicky the viking
Pipkins
Bod
Flumps
Paddington
lizzie dripping
Black beauty

i think there was a french one where they looked like big jellies called barbapapa

and when we were at school, they would wheel the TV in and make us watch 'How we used to live'
 
Fishyrod42 said:
Anyone remember Grange Hill in the 80s? Characters like Gripper Stebson, Suzanne Ross , Zammo McGuire, Fay Lucas, Annette Firman, Roland Browning etc
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A boy from my school was in Grange Hill. I use to go to a club in London and Zammo use to go there every week. That was in the late 90's :ROFLMAO: He loved the attention..

Anasnake said:
I loved Heidi ! With grandpa and Peter the goat herder
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I loved Heidi!
 
265 said:
Monkey was compulsive viewing, I managed to watch the show from start to finish on the original run. I even saw a re-run on Sky.
Sadly to expensive to buy on DVD, if this show is ever streamed I will be in heaven.
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I loved monkey !
 
Libbylulu said:
Anyone remember a series called Kizzie. It may have been late 70’s though. About a young Romany traveler who lived with her grandmother in an old caravan?
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Quattro formaggi said:
I think I read the book of that
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It is a book - it's called The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden. We had it read out in class to us at school. I also remember the TV series which was called Kissy.

~vix~83~ said:
Im not sure if it was itv or cbbc but we loved grim tales with Rick mayel. No one else remembers it when I mention it. Dad was a huge Rick mayel fan so that’s probably why we watched it. It was so funny. Basically different versions of stories. I still remember them now. We had a few taped from
The tv.
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I loved Grimm Tales. It was on ITV. I thought it was hilarious.

I mentioned it randomly at work years ago and one of the girls in the office was also a huge fan and brought me in all the episodes on VHS. It still made me laugh.

I think most of the episodes, if not all, are on YouTube.
 
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