Childhood TV and films.

[Matt J]

Saw 'The Keep' on tele the other night. Remember watchin it as a teenager thinking it was a cracking horror, can't believe how bad it is watching it now..so eighties.

[i_am_win]

Clopps Castle - absolutely first class then and now (maybe I just haven't grown up )

You mean Clopper Castle? Very cool puppet show, would make some great cartoony miniatures from the designs on that show!!

[kev1964]

SJ, you must be as old as me, Garrason gaurrillas and combat, classics. What about michael bentines potty time. Also carn,t forget sally james, what a woman.

kev

[Techno]

Was Michael Bentine's 'Potty time', the one where there was occasionally  a tiny 'snow covered' mountain.....And little footprints appeared to be walking up it, as if made by a minute invisible man.
What about the 'Telegoons' ? 
Cheers - Phil.

[kev1964]

Thats the one Techno, not heard of the telegoons though, maybe before my time  or when my kids were watching their programmes.

[mollinary]

TV Programmes:  The Woodentops;  Telegoons;  Dr Who (William Hartnell, scary!); William Tell; RICHARD, THE LIONHEART!!!!!!!!;  and The Last of the Mohicans.

Films:  El CID; The Warlord; The Last Valley; Carry on up the Khyber; Waterloo.


Mollinary

[kev1964]

Yeah, last of the mohicans, forgot about that, early Dr who,s always scary.
Good films, the good bad and ugly trio, cross of iron, zulu and barbarella.

[Chad]

TV:
Original Dr Who & Onwards
Star Trek from day 1
Blake's Seven
The Lone Ranger
The Cisco Kid
Wagon Train
Rawhide
Space 1999

Films:
The Vikings
Zulu
Ice Pirates - nervous Robots wetting their gears!
Alien
Aliens
All the Dollar films
The Wild Bunch
The Seven Samurai
El Cid

Chad

[Chad]

PS

Did not have a TV until my early teens in the early 60s so my 'childhood' and tv was a bit late.

Chad

aka the old fart

[Orcs]

Marine boy
Banana Splits
Pogles wood
Pipkins
Dr Who (Jon Pertwee) I was sacred of the Sea Devils.
Will 'O' the wisp

Alias Smith and Jones (Western)
Kung Fu (with Grasshopper)
Bonanza
Six Million Dollar Man
Starsky and Hutch
Star Trek
Dukes of Hazzard - Ahh! memories of  Daisy Duke bent over the General Lee - Lovely Bum!!  I think that started with my obsession with that part of the female anatomy 

[Luddite]

What HAS stood the test of time?

Well...pretty much everything Oliver Postgate did.  He was the master of kids TV.
For me, the big two of his were:

The Clangers - may absolute first love as a kid.  Never missed The Clangers.
Bagpuss - still and absolute treat to watch on a quiet evening now.

Slightly later in my childhood, i absolutely loved Monkey, and also The Water Margin (although i had no idea what was going on there).  I guess its from these two that my enduring affection for 'the East' comes, and why i'm now such a fan of the Studio Ghibli movies.  My wife spent a lot of her childhood in Hong Kong and its through her childhood love such as My Neighbour Totoro that she introduced by to these gems.

[Steve J]

Born in 1963 for Kev1964, which I imagine makes me a year older given your nom de forum or what ever you call it!

Yep the Clangers and Bagpuss absolutely fantastic, as was Michael Bentines 'Potty time' . I loved the Wooden Tops as a kid and one of my earliest tv memories .

What about Mr Benn or Crystal Tips and Alistair; the former a classic the latter less so.

Mary, Mungo and Midge anyone?

Hong Kong Fooey - brilliant.

Inch High Private Eye.

Captain Pugwash - just awesome, even though Master Bates and Seaman Staines were never in the show .

Blue Peter - I always looked forward to seeing how they made stuff for Action Man etc. The joys of making your own stuff rather than buying it off the shelf these days.

I'm glad somene else remembers the film The Last Valley. Only ever seen it once, back in the early 80's but thought it was brilliant.

[Techno]

What HAS stood the test of time?

Well...pretty much everything Oliver Postgate did.  He was the master of kids TV.
For me, the big two of his were:

The Clangers - may absolute first love as a kid.  Never missed The Clangers.
Bagpuss - still and absolute treat to watch on a quiet evening now.

Oliver Postgate was genius.....And yes, I'd agree...I'm sure those would stand the test of time.

Steve....Yup.....Captain Pugwash...That'd still be great fun !

Personally couldn't stand Crystal Tips etc ( ...Though I could still enjoy a lot of programs that were really for viewers a fair old bit younger than myself, around this time !)

Which brings me to.....Has anyone mentioned the Magic Roundabout yet ?

Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

How could we forget the Magic Roundabout . IIRC we just dubbed the French original by making the stories up based upon the action, rather than reading the original French script.

What about Hectors House?

The Herbs - this was sublime for me .

[Hertsblue]

Quatermass and the Pit - scared me rigid, especially the bit where the driller falls to the ground and it ripples under him.

A for Andromeda - spoilt rather by the change of actress halfway through (even though it was the delectable Susan Hampshire).

Harry Worth (until his manerisms started to grate).


And the ones that stood the test of time:

The Goons - Still laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Round the Horne - Camp as a boy-scout jamboree, but Barry Took and Marty Feldman's scripts are still witty and funny today.

I've just realised that the last two were radio programmes. Well, we didn't get a "telly" until fairly late on.