TV programmes that bring memories back

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Bagpuss -an all time favourite. Little people snuggled up on the sofa with me after lunch
(PS stick with it, past the ad)

Yes Chewbacca it was a bit ...ahem! Wasn't it? But as children we had no idea, and to be honest I don't think my grandparents did either!
I loved Juke Box Jury ( do you remember Brummy Janice 'Oi'll give it foive!')
Hughie Green, Michael Miles seemed to be on tv a lot as well.
Whickers World ( what a sophisticated life of travel he led.)
Z cars, Armchair Theatre, Dr Who ( with William Hartnell) early Coronation St
Not to mention old films, I have an everlasting memory of visiting an old great aunt and uncle on Sundays, where the afternoon black and white film( I think) was called Up Periscope.I must have seen it about five times.

I loved Dixon of Dock Green and had a crush on Andy, his son in law. I remember he was shot in the line of duty, I was devastated.
My favourite was Doctor Kildare. All clean cut and American. I wouldn't have minded being ill, if he was looking after me.

Emergency Ward 10: In my teens I had a crush on one of the young doctors - I think he was called Simon. Doctor Finlay's Casebook was required watching! My sister and I sat near Bill Simpson on a train one day but were too shy to approach him. Andrew Cruikshank, as Dr Cameron, was excellent (though not crushworthy!). He came to speak to a society I belonged to at Uni. He spoke eloquently about styles of acting. He didn't think much of 'method' acting.

The Quatermass experiment, we didn't have TV so I used to visit a friend's house to watch it, trouble was I had a long run home in the dark.
Used to watch a pop music programme when I lived in the nurses home, could it have been ready, steady go ?
My aunt used to love Coronation street but in the early days I thought it was terribly dreary, all those cobbles and chats in the snug at the Rovers.

Andrew Cruikshank was a dead ringer for my Scottish grandpa! Same gruff exterior too.

Chewbacca and roses you are misremembering with regard to Captain Pugwash! The double-entendre names were a myth...

www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp

Thank you Ana.

All of the above, and oh how I loved Michel Landon as Little Joe in Bonanza! Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide was all right too.

Does anyone else remember the children's programme Daktari, (sounds like a treatment for athletes foot!) with Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion?

Yes SueDonim I remember Clarence, funny how the childrens programmes stick in our minds.

Does anyone remember Archie Andrews, must have been the only ventriloquist on the radio, can't remember the puppeteer though.

Daktari! Oh yes.

Just remembered I was the only kid in my class who couldn't watch High Chaparral. We didn't have Bbc 2!.

I wish they would bring back What's My Line.
It would help open peoples' minds to the different sorts of jobs that are available. If only from time to time.

I remember when we got our first TV, I must have been about 4, watching ladies do keep fit in black & white with my mum. Then Watch with Mother - I thought Picture Book was boring, liked Andy Pansy and the Woodentops.
Quite a few years later I remember asking my mum what she and dad has been laughing so loudly at the night before and she tried to briefly describe Steptoe & Son.

Archie Andrews sidekick was Peter Brough.

DD and I used to enjoy Boon, especially a young Neil Morrissey as Rocky! It was shot in and around Birmingham and we often spotted places we knew.

shysal, I loved Little Joe and Rowdy Yates too! What about Trampas in the Virginian and Clayt Monroe in The Monroes? Loved all the old wessies.

NonnaW Was that keep fit programme the one with Eileen Fowler?

Claim to fame, I used to work with someone who knew Eileen Fowler.

We always watched the early evening soaps. My mother particularly liked "Compact" which was about a women's magazine, as she used to work on a newspaper before the war and knew the ins and outs of that sort of workplace. When that packed up, it was the "Newcomers" - about a load of Londoners who were re-housed in a fictitious place somewhere in East Anglia - again, we identified a bit with that, as Londoners who had moved out to the sticks.

Daktari was on Mondays. And the Man from UNCLE was the highlight of the week, second only to (dare I say it?) Top of the Pops.

I also loved coming home, even as a sixth former, and watching Magpie (can still sing the theme tune) or Blue Peter - or "At last the 1948 Show" - a special treat!

When my father was away, I could sneak a watch of Monty Python - very important to keep up with the conversations in the classroom the next day!

And even today, at 5.25 on a Saturday, I stillget the urge to watch Dr Who. Maybe I'll order a box set and watch them again, or try and catch up with some of the new versions.

Sorry to go on so, but I've also just remembered the Dick van Dyck and the Mary Tyler Moore show - great family entertainment!

Does anyone else remember Richard Hittleman, doing Yoga on TV. I used to try and follow him and was usually on the floor when the DC came home from school. Those were the days when I could get down and up again off the floor, without embarassing myself.

Take your Pick on Fridays...with the Yes/No minute,Greenacres and my favourite,Mr Edd...I still think if I talk enough btonhorses,they'll answer me!

Chewbacca, it was Andy Stewart who hosted the White Heather Club, and rosesarered, Brummy Janice was on Thank Your Lucky Stars.

My friends didn't have a telly, so came to ours every Friday to watch Dr. Kildare!

I love this thread - two of my favourites were "The Groves" and a few years later "Family at War". Even more recently I loved "Man About the House" - I thought Richard O'Sullivan was gorgeous. Have watched it all again just lately on dvd and still think he was gorgeous. What a shame he is now suffering from ill health

I was going to mention Compact - I loved it. I was probably aged around 13 at the time and it seemed very glamorous.

Didn't Clint Eastwood play Rowdy Yates?