TV programmes you watched with your children

[Gemini]

This is inspired by Enfy's thread over on the Book section, about our favourite children's books.

This isn't programmes we watched as children, but that we watched with our children.
Which did you enjoy? (Or hate!)

As I had a 10 year gap between children, I was watching different things with DD3 than with her older sisters.

With the older 2 I enjoyed Blue Peter, Grange Hill, The Demon Headmaster (scary!) Box of Delights. The Samiad, The Queens Nose. Probably lots more but those stick in my mind. I watched a lot of Rainbow too when they were little

By the time DD3 was watching, we had other channel choices such as Nickelodeon, so a lot more American programmes were watched!
We still watched Blue Peter, but as she grew older, a lot of American stuff. Goosebumps, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (I liked that) Tia and Tamara, Hey Arnold (DD3 and I still discuss certain episodes of that )
When DD3 was small, I was very irritated by Barney , the purple dinosaur. We both quite liked Rosie and Jim though

[Nanto2girls]

Blue Peter, Magpie, Robinson Crusoe amongst many others.

I still love the theme music to Robinson Crusoe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE10msGsCn4

[Clover]

Thank you for that Nanto I loved that music too. Ah memories.

[Qwerty]

Rainbow mostly Rosie and Jim, Sheera the warrior 🤨Metal Micky , and one that I can’t remember the title we bought the book and read it endless times something Bay it was a seaside place lots of pigeons and seagulls about and a brother and sister in it

[Plantaholic]

Blue Peter was a favourite, when they were very young we watched Andy Pandy. Of course the Magic Roundabout, we all watched that together before they went to bed.

[Daisy]

An absolute 'must' for us was The Muppets on Sunday evenings. Others included Rainbow, Play School, any film with Lassie in, Magic Roundabout, TisWas (I hated this but watched it to try to discourage the all-too-good imitations of Spit the Dog)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKjPosgpxlw

When they were little we also watched Romper Room, which was probably the worst tv programme ever, but in those days there was very little day-time tv for tired children during the 'witching hour' (when they were tired toddlers and you were trying to get a meal ready for them).

Grange Hill was probably the last programme I always watched with them, and it generated some interesting discussions. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago!

[Gemini]

Oh yes, how could I forget Play School! I liked Tiswas

[Nana]

We watched some of those + Moomins (like a pink rhino figure? Probably got that totally wrong) and they liked the bloke with the big stuffed green baby duck. Sang 'I wish I could fly, way up to the sky but I can't'. My memory's terrible.

[Gemini]

Orville, Nana

[Qwerty]

Finger mouse, fraggle rock, Danger mouse, Clangers,

[Mimi]

Gosh there are so many . The Mr Men were a favourite with our two DS's and when DD stated watching TV Little Miss were new out.
Sooty was always a favourite as was Mr Ben and not forgetting good old Camberwick Green

[Qwerty]

Gosh there are so many . The Mr Men were a favourite with our two DS's and when DD stated watching TV Little Miss were new out.
Sooty was always a favourite as was Mr Ben and not forgetting good old Camberwick Green

remember Mr Benn Mimi 😀

[granma2aj]

We used to watch bagpus stop it and tidy up rainbow play school pingu

[Glammanana]

Mine loved to watch Rainbow.Fraggle Rock,The Muppets (we had a collection of them) Rosie & Jim ( we went on the R&J barge quite a few times singing the song as we went down the canal.