Great Memories, Good Times (Top Ten Children's Programmes)

Member Name: katyboo123

Product:	Top Ten Children's Programmes
Date:	13/11/09 (104 review reads)
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As I child I favoured reading stories, writing and drawing than watching TV, as an adult this trend continues only now it's making cards (writing reviews) or reading poems and novels. However, again, as both a child and adult, there has always been a little bit of room in my life for TV. When I was a child these were my favourite programmes:

1. Blossom
Before Melissa Joan Hart played Sabrina and Miley Cyrus played Hannah Montana, Mayim Bialik played Blossom in the 91 - 95 TV series of the same name. I used to race home from school to watch it, she was so cool with her floppy hat, best friend Six and her big brother's Joey and Tony. Her Dad, Nick, who's wife left him was a struggling musician and was cool too, he used to let her friends hang at her house and was an all round great Dad. I loved how close they all were. It was great. But when I watched it recently as an adult, well I couldn't think of a more rubbish show on the TV.
2. Greenclaws
Absolutely magical. So Iris would cycle each week to visit Greenclaws (big monster type thing) in his Greenhouse. They would plant a seed from his treasure box (seeds looked like marbles with different images / patterns painted on them). The seed in the pot would go in to the special tree and when it was ready Owlma would twit twoo a clue for them to answer. The plant would come out bearing unusual but fab things like a telephone or money or icecream - it was so magical I used to have a wooden box (looked like the one on the show, I still have it, full of hair clips and bobbles now), and I used to pretend it was Greenclaws seed box. Brilliant
3. Fresh Prince of Bel Air
I am not ashamed to say I still know the rap for this song. Its amazing what I remember when I think of this show (which by the way I would like to add I regularly watch on digital TV - its still as good!). So we were at Earl's Orchard in Richmond, North Yorks on a school trip when we were 10 (it's like a youth hostel near old derelict bell lead mines and a castle and stuff - good times). It was December and we were there for a week. My best friend ever's birthday was whilst we there and I bought her one of them Forever Friend diaries / organisers the 3 fold ones you know? We had a talent contest and me and my other friend did the Fresh Prince rap as our 'turn' - we won! I got hot chocolate on my fluffy white rabbit slippers that night. And then when we got back my Mam, Dad and Nanna were waiting for me, on the Monday I went on the trip my Granddad had died. I was a bit sad but I was most worried about my Nanna. She died of a broken heart the year after. Very sad times. Great show though!
4. Care Bears
My sister and I loved this show. I remember having one VCR and Cheer Bear was going to be on the float for the big parade. It was brilliant. She was my favourite - but she was really vain and ruined everything. She had to get her Care Bear friends to do the Care Bear Stare - It's the Care Bear Countdown... Really happy times sat cross legged with a picnic tea infront of the TV with my little sis.
5. You and Me / Through the Dragons Eye / BBC Stars and Planets
Educational programs used to be top on my list of favourites, and thinking about them gives me the biggest surge of nostalgia. You and Me was about 2 bears on a Market Stall, Cosmo and Dibs I seem to recall, who used to teach you things through selling their wares. Through the Dragons Eye was like the Chronicles of Narnia and I loved drawing Dragons in my work book at school from it. I'm not sure of the Stars and Planets programs name - but the song used to go 'Let's go to the planets, let's go the stars, let's journey to Jupiter, let's journey to Mars, cause a million stars are waiting, a million stars and moreeeeee' or something along those lines. It was fab. I still love Astronomy now and my partner bought me an indoor planetarium for my birthday.
6. Neighbours
Scott and Charlene - wow, I just looked this up and their wedding was aired in the UK on 08/11/88 - I was almost 5, and I honestly can remember it like yesterday. I got Especially for You and Too Many Broken Hearts on vinyl for my birthday as a child, I loved this couple. Still have a soft spot for Kylie now she will always be Charlene to me!
7. Save by the Bell
More fantastic unmissable viewing. Kelly, Zach, Screech, Jessie, Lisa and Ac Slater. A group of kids who used to go to school and get in to various scrapes and situations which they would have to work together to get through - they were in 3 on / off couples and everyone at school had their favourite. Mine was Kelly and Zach, they ultimately got married after the college years!
8. My So Called Life
Only watched the one series, Jared Leto and Claire Danes. Dealth with some hard hitting issues, I guess it was like a Hollyoaks of it's time. But it was unmissable for me, I loved Claire Danes. When she later appeared as Juliet in Baz Lurhmanns adaptation of Romeo and Juliet it was so unfair. I wanted her to be Angela Chase forever. And to me she always will be!
9. Rolf's Cartoon Club
Its Rolf's Cartoon Club, you can join today, What? Yeahhhhhh! Superb artist and all round loveable guy - I was desperate to be able to do that knock on my drawing board that he did.
10. Hartbeat
Aw Tony Hart, what a great guy rest his soul. I didn't realise that he had died earlier this year. He was fantastic, and the character Morph sketches used to captivate me! I learnt all kinds of tricks from him, the classic, drawing a moon and it's reflection on water using black paper and white chalk, smudged with your finger. Awesome!

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