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What were your favorite shows during your childhood

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We all had shows that we watched that were cartoons or somewhat childrens programming. What did all of you watch when you were kids, or at least your favorite shows when you were kids? (And Im talking beyond the toddler years where you watched Sesame Street or Mr Rogers. :D )

I was just clipping channels today and I stumbled across an old show called "Tiny Toon Adventures" by Stephen Spielburg...and I just thought to myself, "My gosh! It must have been 6-8 years since Ive seen this show..." And I watched every afternoon when I got home from school, ten years ago.
I also watched Animaniacs after Tiny Toons retired from the air at the time...

I also really enjoyed The old Batman cartoon series. I always watched that. And before that was the Transformers cartoon. :D Not to mention, when I was quite young, I liked "You Cant Do That On TV" :D Im sure there are more that Im forgetting at this point in time...

EDIT-Let me just make a list of mine so that its cleaner and easier to find what shows I liked..

"Tiny Toon Adventures"
"Animaniacs
"Transformers"
"Batman (Cartoon series)
"You Cant Do That on Television"
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
"Garfield and Friends"
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LOL..I refuse to reply to this thread meaningfully, lest it give away my age for certain...


I loved "The Rifleman" re-runs...still do ;)

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The Muppett Show

Battlestar Gallactica

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - the best

GI Joe - real violence!!!

Thunder Cats - just plain good

Star Trek: Next Generation - was fun to watch, but some episodes got boring
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Battlestar Galactica

Thundar the Barbarian

Herculoids

all replaced at age 12 by Vivid Video :D
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Originally posted by ThorinOakensfield
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - the best
Ahhhhh! I forgot about this one....I looked forward to the repeats every weekday, and the new ones every Saturday morning....now how do I remember what times it was on? :eek: :D

Im going to edit my original list-add the Turtles to the list along with the Garfield cartoon show...I have always liked Garfield whether in comic form or TV form. :cool:
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Transformers
Thundercats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Neighbours
Reruns of Mork and Mindy, the original Batman series, the Lone Ranger
Star Trek in all its forms
Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, etc...
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The Ninja Turtles of course...

Transformers also (the toys were mad cool)...

Power Rangers (hurray for cardboard houses!) although I was actually old enough to start getting cynical about this one after a couple of series IIRC :D

He-Man...

Captain Planet (Earth! Air! Water! Fire!.....Erm...Love!)
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I joke about my age a lot up here, but this is where I *really* date myself. :rolleyes: :D Even my wife, who's five years younger than me, didn't catch the stuff I did as a little kid. I just happened to hit things in the very first years of television's popularity.

Let's see. As a kid of about 3-5, I used to watch:

The brand new Abbott and Costello Show
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Crusader Rabbit (same folks that later did Rocky and Bullwinkle)
Let's Pretend
The Howdy Doody Show

I also vaguely remember the Burns and Allen Show at the time (watched it much more frequently years later) and the Bob Crosby Show (because the latter came on right before Abbott and Costello). :D
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
He-Man: He-Man's motto. "Jeg har kraften!" = "I have the power!" (Or something like that)
Batman
FreakaZoid
Animaniacs

And When I was VERY young.
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Speaking of danish shows, I absolutely loved a show called Emily the Hen, pretty silly actually, as the main character was a chicken-looking tea-warmer (not cartoon)...

Besides that, I adored;
Skeleton Warriors
The Ninja Turtles, even bought several episodes on VHS
Law and Order :p ...kidding!
Sonic the hedgehog
...And Mickey Mouse! :)
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Oh wow! at which age? it changed :D at preschool age:

Andy Pandy
Rupert The Bear
Jackanory (storytime :) )
Bill and Ben
Fingerbobs :D
Muppit Show

a little later:

The Pink Panther
Danger Mouse
Wiley Coyote & Road Runner
The Wacky Races

Not long after (maintaining previous interests to a point :D )

Dr Who
Blake 7
Logan's Run
The Saint
The Professionals
The Incredible Hulk
The Man From Atlantis :D
Saphire and Steele

enough? :D
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Zorro
Black Arrow
Paddington
Blake's 7
The Persuaders
Mannix
The (new) Avengers
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Back in the 70's

...Sesame Street and The Electric Company (where Morgan Freeman would be a regular cast - I remember him as a vampire having a tub bath in a coffin while singing "I love to take a bath in a casket..." :D )

Superfriends

Batman (Adam West and Burt Ward)
Batman (the cartoon by filmation)
Superman (the cartoon by filmation)

Moby **** followed by Mighty Thor

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Knight Rider

The A-Team :D
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Originally posted by mental_nomad
We did not have TV when I was a Kid..just cave drawings and shadow puppets...I liked when they did "Deformed Rabbit



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@Fable ROFL :D Oh what amazes me is that Ive heard of some of those shows. :D
Didnt the creator of Howdy Doody recently die? :( I saw a 5-10 minute memorial on that show, which I never watched, and I still felt bad

@Ysh Heh. :D Pink Panther the cartoon series? If so, I loved that show too...I remember when I watched that in the early morning, but it had a later air time during school hours, and when I was in 1st grade, I felt really sad sometimes cause I knew if I was at home Id be watching it and enjoying it (even if it was reruns) but instead I was at school missing it. :D
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Originally posted by Tybaltus
@Fable ROFL :D Oh what amazes me is that Ive heard of some of those shows. :D
Didnt the creator of Howdy Doody recently die? :( I saw a 5-10 minute memorial on that show, which I never watched, and I still felt bad


Yeah, quite a while back, I think. I still remember when they had an attractive looking woman as one of Buffalo Bob's sidekicks, dressed in generic American Indian garb :rolleyes: , called Princess Winter Fall Summer Spring. She left the show, and I later found out she'd died in an auto accident. Her replacement was a clown called Clarabell, who proved very popular. After the HDS died, he went on to become Captain Kangaroo.

I also remember the enormous number of network problems that occured in those days. There weren't any satellites, so everything was sent via land lines. They were originally built for phones, so they weren't always the best, and there wasn't a day that went by without major networks losing audio, video, or both for minutes at a time. Every local station had their own PLEASE STANDBY sign. One of the most inventive added the phrase, "We'll probably be restoring service momentarily," and show several technicians pouring over a television camera, while one custodian glanced suspiciously at an extension cord disconected from a wall outlet. :D
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Simple

Gi Joe first and foremost.

Then in a very close second it definitly was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (I had a close bond with Rafael's character, I swear)

Conan (The one with the snake people and the weapons made of star metal)

Dark Water (Cool pirate cartoon)

Transformers (I was a bit young so dont remember much)

This one cartoon that was kinda a Transformers deal but it was people in cars that fought and the bad guys cars all had plant parts as additions to thier cars while the good guys just had cars.

And Bobbys World.
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oh... for me...
Future Boy, I think you called it! :eek:
The one with Conan, Lana, the City of Indastria and all the world covered by seas!

that one, absolutely!
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