TV programmes I loved
The Double Deckers - oh the bliss of living in a bus with no parents - I can still sing the theme tune
Mr Benn - wish I could have adventures like that!
Tales of the Riverbank - bit boring but loved the theme music - Fur Elise by Beethoven I think
Grange Hill - not great but our Mum banned it as "unsuitable" so we went to tea at friend's houses the nights it was on in order to view such highly subversive stuff!
Rentaghost - so silly but it those days it was that or the test card, none of this 24 hours cartoons and entire cahnnels devoted to kids tv.
Dangermouse - started my lifelong love affair with David Jason
Byker Grove - the ONLY reason that I married a Geordie - I had already learned the language
Why Don't You - interesting to hear other kids accents - we could never understand the Northern Irish lot!
Pipkins - Hartley Hare - what a poseur!!!
Crystal Tips and Alastair - only cos I've always been scared haing a perm would make my hair go like hers!
Mary, Mungo & Midge, Ludwig, Roobarb, Captain Pugwash, Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Crackerjack, Lizzie Dripping, oh I'm off on one now you know - I'm supposed to be going to bed but feel a web trawl coming on.....
Chorlton and the Wheelies, Chigley, Swap Shop (the very earliest eBay and just for kids
) Wombles, the Woodentops, Dogtanian,.....
"Come on board, come on board, come on board with the Double Deckers"...................................................
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