Adult programmes you used to watch as a kid

[Sugar Ape]

What programmes did your parents/grandparents watch that remind you of being a kid?

 

I hated going to my nans of a Sunday and being forced to watch Little house on the Prairie. Fucking hated that programme.

 

Another one is The Golden Girls. That was some depressing shit right there.

 

Used to love London’s burning though. Quality Sunday night television. Sledgehammer was the best show though as a kid. Absolute quality.

 

 

[Sugar Ape]

Obvious shoutout to Brookside as well. I used to view Barry Grant like Arnie. Thought he was nails.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Band of gold

[Sugar Ape]

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Band of gold

 

How old where you when that aired? Think I’d nearly left school. 

[Elite]

2 minutes ago, Paulie Dangerously said:

Band of gold

First thing that came to mind. Sunday night TV and school Monday morning was always depressing as fuck.

 

Thinking back, you couldn't have picked a more depressing schedule.

 

Antiques Roadshow

Songs of Praise

Last of the summer wine

Band of Gold

 

Grim.

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

The Waltons. Don't think anything ever happened they'd just go to the shop and pay off what they owe week by week for whatever the fuck it was theyd bought. You own a mountain you cunts stop buying grocery store shit on tick.

[sir roger]

Had an auntie who was less strict about what we could watch on tv and while staying with my cousin in the school holidays we were allowed to watch  a film called 'Sardonicus' in the Appointment with Fear series which used to be on Monday nights at 10.30pm after the news. It was proper creepy & unbeknown to us my uncle had sneaked in the back of the living room after coming home from the pub and got on the floor and wriggled under the couch we were sat on. He waited for a scary bit and then grabbed the back of our legs and let out a scream. Have never shit myself so much in my whole life.

[lifetime fan]

Saturday afternoon westerns, Joe and I would be complete twats until Grampher would put on grandstand on the understanding we’d shut the fuck up. 

 

Dave Allen on a Sunday evening, first time I ever started to feel grown up. 

[Vincent Vega]

[Captain Turdseye]

Not a show as such but I had the South Park movie on VHS and knew it pretty much word for word when I started at secondary school. It also clashed with Eminem breaking out and becoming big. They were great days for learning new swear words. 

[manwiththestick]

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[Vincent Vega]

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[Josef Svejk]

 

Always on at my grandparents'...

[Trumo]

Folks used to let me watch Miami Vice when it was on. One show I absolutely fucking hated was Darling Buds Of May. A black mark in David Jason's career and a needless reminder that the next day was a school day.

[Mook]

Howard's End

Heartbeat

Highway to Heaven

Last of the Summer Wine

The Clothes Show

 

One night when I wasn't well I came downstairs and my parents were watching The Equaliser though, that was fucking brilliant & is still a really vivid memory.

[Tony Moanero]

3-2-1

 

The Benny Hill Show

[Tony Moanero]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

First thing that came to mind. Sunday night TV and school Monday morning was always depressing as fuck.

 

Thinking back, you couldn't have picked a more depressing schedule.

 

Antiques Roadshow

Songs of Praise

Last of the summer wine

Band of Gold

 

Grim.

 

Antiques Roadshow is ace.

[Bjornebye]

Band Of Gold

Cracker

999

Crimewatch

Debbie Does Dallas 

[The Golden Eel]

When I was staying at my dad's, my granny used to let me sit up late and I remember watching Sledgehammer and Beauty and the Beast on ITV. At my other granny's, I remember watching murder mystery-type shows like Bergerac, Miss Marple, etc. 

[lifetime fan]

Didn’t watch it with parents but I can remember wanking myself silly watching Lipstick on your Collar upstairs on my 14” portable telly. 

[The Golden Eel]

There's actually one quite vivid memory I have of watching a show at my granny's that, to this day, I still don't know what it was. It was some schoolgirl - teens - and she was having these weird visions of creepy things like spiders, etc and losing the plot. Can picture parts of it but I've never had a clue what it was. Might have been a film even. 

 

Lazarus and Dingwall - does anybody remember that? I remember watching that as a kid and finding it funny. IIRC, it was an Airplane!-style comedy show with those two guys who turned up in the Young Ones in short skits - "Police IQ Shocker", the two guys trying to get into the house party, etc. Pretty sure I've never heard anyone else mention it in my whole life. 

 

[No2]

Dallas, Eastenders, Bread, Terry Wogan, Bullseye.

[Section_31]

V 

 

Jane Badler was my first proper crush. 

[Captain Howdy]

Boney

Spy Force

The Prisoner