TV programmes that bring memories back

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.

Archie Andrews sidekick was Peter Brough.

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.

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.

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!.

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.

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

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.

Thank you Ana.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwhohWhrEE

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

Phillip Harben's cookery programmes and who could forget Fanny and Johnny Craddock, and Barry Bucknall teaching us how to do DIY. My dad used to say "that's really interesting - I could do that" but never picked up a saw in his life! "On Safari" with Armand and Michaela Denis. My favourite Was "Diving Tim Adventure" with Hans and Lotte Hass.

All of the above but my favourite was Man About The House.
Also Juke Box Jury and Ready Steady Go when I was a teenager.

There were several useful afternoon programmes too, I learned quite a lot about sewing, baking and general woodwork, and of course the keep fit. I think these were more interesting than some that are on now-a-days, although we rarely watch in the afternoon

Oh my word! Now you've all jogged my memory, I remember nearly all of the programmes you've mentioned. Thanks Swanny, Bill Simpson was the name I'd been searching for. Captain Pugwash! How could I have forgotten, thanks Roses! I seem to recall that some of the things Capt P said were supposed to have "double meanings", or be slightly suggestive. I have to admit that, as a child, I had absolutely no idea what was wrong with Master Bates, his assistant!

I remember most of these also Doomwatch an early scifi series.
My children loved Rainbow with Zippy and Bungle. That reminds me then of Muffin the Mule, Flowerpot Men, Andy Pandy.
I have been watching reruns of The Royal, the nurses uniform is exactly the same as I wore.

gettingonabit I would like to see a rerun of I Claudius. Wasn't it excellent? And so many who are now household names in the cast - John Hurt, Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Christopher Biggins.

Does anyone remember "Animal, Vegetable or Mineral" with Sir Mortimer Wheeler. They gave you a clue at the start "And the next object is mineral, with vegetable connections"! And Johnny Morris's animal programme? He used to give them voices. I used to like Emergency Ward 10 and then Dr Kildare, and Adrian Hill's art programmes on children's TV and Tony Hart too.

Clifford Mitchelmore.

I remember my mother watching Emergency Ward 10 and Peyton Place. For me it was Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and the Woodentops. Later, I remember Blue Peter, Belle and Sebastian and omg -The Singing Ringing Tree.

We used to gather round the telly to watch Thunderbirds and Tinker and Taylor on a Saturday. Later, it was the Banana Splits.

Black and White Minstrels, Billy Cotton and Morecambe and Wise for my parents. We didn't really "do" ITV so I had to go into my aunt's to watch On the Buses while my mother worked a late shift.

I always remember a prog called Joker's Wild which came on after my piano lesson. It had Barry Cryer on it.

Does anyone remember I Claudius? I loved that. My friend group thought we were very intellectual watching that!

Bouquet of Barbed Wire was on at around the same time, with creepy Frank Finlay as the besotted father. Ugh. Much more close to the bone than the more recent version.