What was your favorite tv show as a kid and how did it affect your life?

Mine, oddly enough, was Gilligan's Island

Go figure

i never watched gilligans island myself

my favourite was the godzilla cartoon and the mysterious cities of gold cartoon.

another one i forgot was gullivers travels, the cartoon

When I was a little kid, Batman.

Scooby Doo and Basil Brush... BOOM BOOM !!!!!

The Tomorrow People.

I still dream of someone inventing a "jaunting belt" so I don't have to go through the boredom of flying.

Transformers.

And it affected my life in the way that I want to be a transformer.

Banana Splits

Tra la la tra lalala.......One banana two bananas three bananas four, four bananas make a bunch and so do many more

Parkinson, 60 Minutes, National Geographic, ABC News....

Oh, and I forgot to mention that we didn't own a TV until I was 12 years old, because my father believed it was evil and made for idle people, and the only place I could watch one was at my grandparents house where the above was the only acceptable viewing material.

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Now I enjoy Tom & Jerry, Simpson, Doraemon....

La la la, la la la la, la la la, one banana two bananas, three bananas four..... something about the trap door (wasn't it???)

Anyway this still entices me after all those years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBrKv6oOVbs...=PL&index=6

Scooby Doo and Basil Brush... BOOM BOOM !!!!!

I loved Scooby Doo as well, but I liked Scooby best

This question assumes that one had a TV as a kid.

As I grew up through WWII that was not an issue - radio, with ITMA as the best, Workers Playtime taking up the rest.

Best fun was watching aircraft fly over - on the way to bombing the evil Bosche.

After the war my father was a joint founder of a radio/TV manufacturing firm, so we were the first (by many years) in our street to have a TV - all old-fashioned valves and in black and white.

As my father was always trying to find better and cheaper ways of producing sets, ours never had a cabinet - was usually laid on it's side on the table while he fiddled. And there was only BBC to watch (one channel).

So I stuck with the radio and never missed Dick Barton - Special Agent (with Jock and Snowy, his trusty sidekicks) until the Beeb ran out of ideas and put on some weary programme called "The Archers". Dead boring - it'll never last.

But favourite TV - must be te early predecessor to TOTP - Six-Five Special.

And Soundman - did your father ever watch Thai TV? That would have sent him mental - it does me!!

we didn't have a TV when i was a kid. when my parents could afford their first one i was 17, had a steady girlfriend and some experience screwing* my biology teacher

*to be honest. it was more like her screwing me than the other way round but definitely more interesting than any TV show and it affected my life (albeit for a few years only) listening to surprised outcries from various young tchermann ladies such as "vhat?! ziss iss also how vee kann do it?"

Star Trek because of all the strange characters to be found there.

we didn't have a TV when i was a kid. when my parents could afford their first one i was 17, had a steady girlfriend and some experience screwing* my biology teacher

*to be honest. it was more like her screwing me than the other way round but definitely more interesting than any TV show and it affected my life (albeit for a few years only) listening to surprised outcries from various young tchermann ladies such as "vhat?! ziss iss also how vee kann do it?"

Classic, humor is forbidden in the Phuket Forum, so it's refreshing to see this fly here.

OP does my avatar give it away?

Moonbase Alpha, Star Trek.

The Nature of Monkey was Irrepressible!

an i still love it!

edit: Oops..Monkey / Monkey Magic for those who may not know.

yeh monkey magic was the best non-cartoon show that i can remember. i liked the music and the intro with the egg and the lightning on the mountain and his various magic powers

Another fan!

I was absolutely glued to the screen when Monkey Magic came on. My brother also. After each episode my brother and I would have a debate about whether Tripitaka was a girl or a boy. But brilliant show. Monkey was fantastic, fish was always so pathetic haha, and as for pervy pigsy..need i say more...?

Tripitaka was meant to be a monk not a nun but im pretty sure played by a female . i think she was from India coming to asia to spread Buddhism.... that was the whole job of monkey i think, to protect the missionary monk tripitaka

edit/ clearly played by a female

Some great memories being kindled here. Flipper and Skippy were 2 of my favourites.

I'm also with Humph as I remember not having a TV. 'Journey into space' was a must be heard radio show.

Yeah! Monkey was brilliant! In a similar(ish) vein, I also used to love a show called The Water Margin. Anyone remember that? Also: Starsky & Hutch, The Sweeney, The Professionals, The New Avengers, Porridge, Rising Damp, Star Trek, Space 1999 (I think that's what one poster has already referred to as 'Moonbase Alpha'), Grange Hill, The Tube (ground-breaking live music show on Channel 4 in the UK), Dallas, Dynasty. Amazingly, I share something in common with Naam: I was also screwing one of my teachers (my French teacher, but this was at A-Level and I was 17 and she was 22, and a kind of temporary exchange teacher from Paris, so it wasn't like anything gross).

The water margin was fab, I never missed it. I think I was a bit too old for Monkey.

The Twilight Zone...

edit/ clearly played by a female

Yes, woman playing the part of a man. I read some time back its because they wanted the boy priest to look delicate, in need of protection. Very beautiful woman I think.

I often wonder if our English dubbed version was near word for word translated, or, if it was made more (or less!) comical!

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I also liked Zorro a bit, certainly wasnt my favorite though. Liked Bagpuss too, and Rhubarb & Custard. Also, of course, Kung <deleted>..but feels sort of odd mentioning that one at this time.

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Twilight Zone used to scare the hel_l out of me!

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Oh..and i watched Tizwas and Wonder Woman almost religiously! ..oh and Grange Hill (dam_n the memories flooding back now..cant stop!)...another edit: Jim'll Fix it!

Oh..and i watched Tizwas and Wonder Woman almost religiously!

Most of us horny teenagers watched Wonder Woman too eek ut probably for totally different reasons than you

Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Flowerpot Men(not too keen cos Flowerpot sounds like my surname ) Fireball XL5,Stingray, The Pingwings

I think I must have had a wood & cardboard fetish

Oh, the mammories

Dave

Jeez, I'd forgotten about the Banana Splits!!

What about the clangers, and what was that one with Ted and Jemima?

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO !!!

Top Cat was way cool, too.

Gilligan's Island ("Sorry Skipper"), Hogan's Heroes ("I zzeee notin"), Get Smart ("Would you believe...") are also classics.

Magic Roundabout, obviously not knowing that it was concocted by druggies.

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