80's Kids TV Programmes

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Forgive me if there is already a thread on this - I can't find one. If there is - feel free to ignore this one!!

I love thinking back to the good old TV childrens programmes of the 80's and most of the time my frienRAB have no idea what I'm on about. Wonder if there are any fans on here?

Bertha - The Toy Making Machine; (no one seems to remember this one, bar me!)
Raggy Dolls;
Rent-a-Ghost;
Button Moon;
Fingermouse;
Trap Door;
Knightmare;
Mike & Angelo (although I think that may have been 90's);

Any more for anymore?!
 
I seem to recall a variant of Knightmare, but I've never found anything on the internet about it. Perhaps I imagined it. Can anyone else remember it? Here's what I think I can recall of it:

Similar premise to Knightmare, in that a team of 2-3 teenagers guided another teenager through a succession of locations and challenges. The difference was that the locations were real, rather the product of a Commodore Amiga, hence the adventurer did not need to wear a mask.

However, the locations weren't very sophisticated. It was mainly corridors with lots of doors. Each door had a sign on it, and they had to choose which door to go through.

I think it was made by TSW in Plymouth, and it became clear after watching it for a while that the aforementioned corridors were actually backstage at a theatre. At one point, the camera panned past an (ignored) open door, and you could see into the stalls!

It was horrendously cheap and generally appalling, and probably didn't last long.

ETA: I might have known that searching again after posting the above would reveal the answer!

Treasures of the Mindlord

So it would seem that the theatre location was deliberate, somehow. Perhaps I only saw the one episode and assumed that they always filmed there.
 
I remember Bertha so you're not the only one! Used to watch it when I was very young.

I also remember watching Knightmare - brilliant show no idea why they don't do something like that nowadays. I think I read somewhere one of the only reasons it was axed was because ITV considered it too old for their target audience, yet it still got high viewing figures right until the end.

Woof! was another good show, started in the late 80's and ran through to the mid 90s.

Pity ITV and BBC don't repeat some of these shows, I'm sure kiRAB of today would enjoy as much as we did.
 
Well Knightmare was my absolute favourite, so much so that I joined the forum at this website: http://www.knightmare.com/ - I've been a member there since 2002! I don't post there much now, it's very quiet and that's not surprising really as the show isn't being repeated on TV at the moment. You can always watch it on Youtube though...every single episode is there ;)

I wish there was a TV channel for classic kid's shows...
 
Does anyone else remember Let's Pretend - used to be on around lunchtimes (just after Pebble Mill if I recall correctly). Almost worth bunking off school for!

Noone else I know seems to remember it.
 
Rentaghost and Grange Hill were my absolute favourite programmes.

Also, I liked Jamie and his Magic Torch - I always wanted to find a hole in a tree trunk and slide down it. It never happened. :(

Others I liked:
The Flumps
Camberwick Green, and fellow spin-oRAB Chigley and Trumpton
Batfink
Dangermouse
Tiswas
Runaround
Crackerjack

TV Cream is a great little nostalgic visit back for TV, music and games
 
I remember it aswell. I think it occupied the Midday slot on a weekday on ITV. It was basically the cast play acting and imagining they were in different locations etc.
 
Yep, I remember the puppet thing at the start, like a beaded caterpiller on sticks, brown I think?

Can't seem to find any videos on YouTube:mad:
 
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