What did you watch as a child?

[trekkiedane]

We'll reveal a lot about our ages on this one...

Indeed!

Star Trek* -and then role playing down in the 'wilderness' by the creek - with our home made LEGO phasers and tricorders. Aahhh those were the good days! Didn't watch much else, there wasn't much else to watch if I wanted!

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*) First run (but they did speak German )

 

[Cornholio]

TAS, Tom & Jerry, and the Pink Panther.

Gigantor: Best theme song ever. I really wanted my own robot. Godfather of The Iron Giant.

I never saw the cartoon, but I do like the Helmet version of the theme song!

yeah, yeah, the Helmet version is really cool. everything on that Saturday Morning CD is pretty cool.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

In my childhood, Jean Chalopin was king:

Hilarious comedy!

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Intriguing space opera!

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Epic fantasy-sci-fi!

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Cuddly anthropomorphic creatures!

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Dystopian futuristic hip-hop!

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[J.T.B.]

My favorite animated shows were Speed Racer, Star Trek and various programs that showed old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies. My favorite live-action shows were Emergency and reruns of Batman and The Lone Ranger.

--Justin

 

[DeVario]

Animated programs included Transformers, Voltron, G.I. Joe, Popeye, Robotech, Hulk Hogan Rock n Wrestling, Woody Woodpecker and Pac-Man.
As for live action, it was mostly sitcoms: Mork & Mindy, What's Happening, Good Times, One Day At a Time, Small Wonder, The Facts of Life, etc.

 

[Data Holmes]

I watched so much tv as a kid that I don't think I could really narrow it down.

I can remember watching tv as far back as 2-3 years old.

Live action: TOS reruns (started watching around 2), MacGyver, A-team, Airwolf, Knightrider, Miami vice, Hillstreet blues, TNG, The Shogun mini, North and South mini...

Cartoons: GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, All the old warner brothers cartoons, Any cartoon that was on sat mornings (what happened to that grand tradition)...

And a thousand or five other shows that aired or were rerunning from late 84 on.

 

[Kelthaz]

1) Star Trek: TOS
2) Duck Tales

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3) Power Rangers

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[clint g]

The ones I remember the best are
Power Rangers
Pokemon
Dragon Ball Z
Voltron
X-Men
Batman: TAS
SWAT Kats

I also vaguely remember watching
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
GI Joe
Captain Planet
Robotech
Thundercats
Ghostbusters (the cartoon)

 

[Paulcpick]

stuff I remember watching when I was a kid was
GI Joe
Monster Truck and Truck and Tractor Pulling and Mud Racing shows(Challenge of Power, Tuff Tracks, Power Tracks, Motor Madness ect)
Transformers
Captain Planet
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines

 

[Yeoman Randi]

OMG! So much. Way to much to list. I've always been a tv junkie, loving both cartoons and live action.

Some of the cartoons: Gigantor, Speed Racer, Flintstones, Jetsons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, Thunderbirds (puppetry), Davey and Goliath (also puppetry) to name a few!

Live action: Star Trek, Superman, Batman, Dark Shadows, Patty Duke, The Avengers, The Brady Bunch, Car 54 Where are You?, Gilligan's Island, Gidget, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Occasional Wife, Love on a Rooftop, It's About Time, Time Tunnel, Beverly Hillbillies, Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Dating Game, Family Affair, Mr. Ed, The Man from Uncle, Honey West, Lost in Space, Diver Dan, Sonny Fox, That Girl....... i could go on and on!

 

[DeafPoet]

There were a bunch, but probably my favourites were The Real Ghostbusters, Silverhawks and Transformers.

 

[Amaris]

The Top Three cartoons?

1) Thundercats - I even owned a little Sword of Omens light up miniature sword.

2) Silver Hawks - Partly metal, partly real, Sil-ver-hawks.

3) Ducktales - I used to love this cartoon. My favorite character is still Launchpad McQuack.

 

[Rek]

Pokemon
Dragon Ball Z

Hah! Another pokemon watcher. lol When I was in grade 3 or something, it was the biggest hit on the playground. We spent all lunch trading and playing the card game.

I also remember Dragon Ball Z. Great show but when I was little, even I had to make fun of the eps of them just screaming.

 

[Lord Garth]

Limiting myself to 12 and younger (favorites at the time are bolded):

ALF
Back to the Future (cartoon)
Batman (1960s)
Benson
Bewitched
Bionic Six
The Brady Bunch
Bozo
Charles in Charge
Count Duckula
Clarissa Explains It All
Dennis the Menace (1980s)
Dino Riders
Dinosaurs
Double Dare
The Facts of Life
Family Matters
The Flinstones
G.I. Joe
Good Times
Growing Pains
Herman's Head
Hey Dude
Hi, Honey I'm Home!
I Dream of Jeannie
In Living Color
The Jetsons
Looney Tunes
Married With Children
Mighty Mouse
Mr. Ed
The Monkees
Night Court
Perfect Strangers
The Real Ghostbusters
Roc
Silverhawks
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Teddy Ruxpin
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Three's Company
Thundercats
Tom & Jerry
Transformers
Webster
Welcome Back, Kotter
What's Happening!
Who's the Boss?
You Can't Do That On Television

That's all that's coming to mind right now. It's been two decades...

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

The Simpsons, Batman: The Animated Series, and Transformers.

 

[Skywalker]

Transformers
Gargoyles
DuckTales
Gummi Bears
TaleSpin
Darkwing Duck
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ReBoot
Thundercats
Voltron
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
SWAT Kats
Batman: The Animated Series
X-Men: The Animated Series

And tons of other cartoons that I can't quite recall at this particular moment. Ah, nostalgia...

 

[thestrangequark]

I didn't watch a lot of TV as a kid -- we had one only about half the time I was growing up. There are a few shows that really stick in my mind, though:

As a very young child my favorites were Belle and Sebastian, Paddington Bear, and Danger Mouse (and when I was very little I thought Danger Mouse lived in a police call box -- an American police call box looks a lot like a British post box to a four year old, plus, it seemed logical to me that he'd live there because he could get the scoop on what sort of nefarious activity was going down. I remember my grandmother taking me on walks around the city and having to keep a tight hold on me when we neared those call boxes because I wanted to press the button and talk to Danger Mouse through the speaker grille!) I watched TNG, of course, and Doctor Who -- mostly Tom Baker era reruns on PBS and CBC (we used to get that in Seattle). As for cartoons I also really enjoyed Tale Spin.

I loved Cosmos from an early age and one of my first memories is watching that with my dad. I did watch a lot of documentaries as a kid.

Oh, and 21 Jump Street! How could I forget!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

^^ We never had Cosmos, but I do remember a UK astronomy show called Space Watch, which captured my imagination way back then.

I also remember "Belle and Sebastian" way before the other Belle and Sebastian were cool.

 

[thestrangequark]

^^ We never had Cosmos, but I do remember a UK astronomy show called Space Watch, which captured my imagination way back then.

I also remember "Belle and Sebastian" way before the other Belle and Sebastian were cool.

The funny thing about Belle and Sebastian is that while I knew it was one of my favorite cartoons as a child, and it indeed informed a lot of my play (I pretended my stuffed polar bear was a Great White Pyrenees and took it on adventures in the "mountains"), I really had only the vaguest of memories of the show as an adult. I certainly couldn't remember what it was called, and when I described the cartoon to other people no one seemed to have heard of it. It wasn't until many years later, when I was reading about the band and their namesake, that I even remembered the show at all.

Oh, and I loved David the Gnome too.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

^^ We never had Cosmos, but I do remember a UK astronomy show called Space Watch, which captured my imagination way back then.

I also remember "Belle and Sebastian" way before the other Belle and Sebastian were cool.

The funny thing about Belle and Sebastian is that while I knew it was one of my favorite cartoons as a child, and it indeed informed a lot of my play (I pretended my stuffed polar bear was a Great White Pyrenees and took it on adventures in the "mountains"), I really had only the vaguest of memories of the show as an adult. I certainly couldn't remember what it was called, and when I described the cartoon to other people no one seemed to have heard of it. It wasn't until many years later, when I was reading about the band and their namesake, that I even remembered the show at all.

Funnily enough, I was never a fan of the "other" Belle and Sebastian, but I remembered the animated show very well, mostly for the epic scope of the storyline.

Speaking of French fiction, I also remembered (vaguely) an animated series based on Le Petit Prince a very long time ago. I remember liking it a lot.

Oh, and this French show also had a big impact on me for other obvious reasons (and not just because it gave Channel 4 an excuse to show early morning animated nudity ):

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Oh, and I loved David the Gnome too.

I remember that, but I didn't really get into it much, although I did like much of the mythology of that show.