What did you grow up on?

[PatrickRsGhost]

My mom and I loved Ren & Stimpy. Until I pawned it for some gas money, I had the complete first and second season on DVD. Oh, it was just as good as I remembered it. It was even better with the episodes they put on that were uncut, or never aired on Nickelodeon. Mainly, the episode with Cousin Sven.

[Force42]

Old school Sesame Street
Magic Schoolbus
Classic Arthur (I recently discovered that they're now doing it in CG...soooo wrong)
Winnie the Pooh
Old Disney cartoons
Looney Toons
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Zoom
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Captain Planet
MacGyver
MASH
X-Files
Stargate SG-1

[Matthias]

I think the progression was sort of like this:
1) Looney Tunes.
2) Ninja Turtles
3) Power Rangers
4) Gargoyles.

Care Bears and Underdog were in there somewhere, too. Between Looney Tunes and Ninja Turtles, I think. There were others, but those were the big ones. Especially Gargoyles (dammit, Disney, where is the rest of the DVD collection?).

[Midnight]

sesame street..
Mr.rogers. i remeber taking anaesthesia (i think.. i think i spelled that right! whoo!) and falling asleep to the one on pretzels. Then waking up with a flaring pain in my abdomen due to my stomach having like 30 internal stiches. ahhh herniatic surgery. is herniatic correct? it had to do with hernias.
then we segue into pinky and the brain,
hey arnold! (man that show was tight.. i was talking with friends the other day and truly remembered how tight it was),
rocko's modern life,
oh man did someone say gargoyles? that show was too scary for me, and it ended right about when i would've watched it.
G Gundam for sure. 4:30 every damn day on cartoon network.
star trek a little bit (my dad would always say "i've seen it" so i'd end up changing it cause he'd tell me the end).
doug for sure--quailman was a G!
i ended up watching sailor moon more often than i'd've liked to because my sister was hella into it and i wanted to watch what she watched, or some weird 7-year-old thing.
bill nye was also awesome. learned about all sorts of stuff. i had a beastly memory for it too.
batman, YES. Man. i actually had NIGHTMARES and like, CRIED in a batman animated movie cause the joker turned robin into a minijoker. Like, cried. And was seeing robin-joker's creepy face all over the place. In retrospect, i was an oddball little kid.
MST3K, definitely. the brain (or was it the head?) that wouldn't die was amazing.
going back again, carebears, yes. Lol. I can't believe i watched that, cause now i will walk around and say 'carebearstare' and completely forget that i watched that show.
Keenan and Kel. made me addicted to orange soda.

[Kabann]

You kids are lucky to have had TV growing up. When I was a kid our entertainment was watching the unlucky kids having to fight to the death in the pit. The winner got to eat that night.

Oh, that and Eight is Enough.

[Zohar]

What I read:

The winner got to eat that kid that night.

[Kabann]

What I read:

The winner got to eat that kid that night.

Ooh, ooh, can I change mine? That's funnier.

[The Sleeping Tyrant]

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles (badass!)

Totally forgot about these two.

Although, I went back and watched some of the old Roughnecks episodes a few months ago, and they definitely do not stand the test of time. Lots of reused scenes was among the qualms I had.

[marshlight]

Although, I went back and watched some of the old Roughnecks episodes a few months ago, and they definitely do not stand the test of time. Lots of reused scenes was among the qualms I had.

That's true. I got caught up into it a little before the show was taken off the air, and had started buying DVDs to replace my carefully cataloged tapes, talked about it on the main forum (now defunct) - that's how dedicated I was. But watching the DVDs later in life was never as enjoyable as that first year or so. I'm not sure why I liked it so much before, but something must have hit right.

[Jazhara7]

I grew up on Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Ghostbusters (the Filmation ones. Only later did "The Real Ghostbusters" come into the equation), He-Man (and to a much lesser degree, She-Ra. Seriously, I only saw the movie "Secret of the Sword" which was really the first episodes cut together, I think. He-Man I actually watched the series, but I can't remember watching the She-Ra series apart from that movie.), the German "Monty Python's Flying Circus" episodes (they made some specially for German television), the Smurfs. Oh, and very important are "Ulysses 31" and "Captain Future" - both cartoons set in space. "Ulysses 31" was by the same guys who made "Mysterious Cities of Gold", and is basically the story of the Odyssee in space in the 31st century, while "Captain Future" is based on the Science Fiction stories by Edmond Hamilton, and was turned into cartoon format by Toei Animation (as a side note, when I first saw "Interstella 5555" by Daft Punk and with the animation by Toei Animation, I had a feeling of Nostalgia, as the animation in that one is extremely similar to the style of "Captain Future"). Boy I loved those.


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[ishikiri]

Sabrina the teenage witch
Clarissa explains all
Teenage mutant hero turtles
Street sharks (I only found this on wiki today after trying to remember the name for months)
Biker mice from Mars

Its odd I look through argos now and it has loads of the toys I used to own and love from cartoons as a kid that have gone back into production again. I could easily drop £100 and regress back a decade.

There was also a show I used to watch made by nickelodeon about some monsters. One was stripey. Damnit I'm gonna have to fin out what that was now.

Edit: It was "Aah! Real monsters"

I've been through the program lists on wiki and filled out mine a . . . little.

Spoiler:

From CBBC:

Ace Lightning
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Adventures of Superman (TV series)
Albert the Fifth Musketeer
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Animorphs
Aquila
Arthur
Atlantis High
The Banana Splits
Bananaman
Batfink
The Batman
Belfry Witches
Big Cook, Little Cook - watched before school in my teens!
Bill and Ben
Blue Peter
Bob the Builder
Bodger and Badger
The Borrowers
Brum - really scared the shit outta me.
Bump
Bump in the Night
Byker Grove, (1989 to 2006)
Cats eyes
Cavegirl
ChuckleVision
Clarissa Explains It All
The Cramp Twins
DangerMouse
The Demon Headmaster (ended)
Dennis the Menace (UK version)
Desperados
Dinosapien
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Droopy, Master Detective
Eureka TV (ended)
Even Stevens
The Fairly Odd Parents
Fireman Sam
The Flintstones
Free Willy
Funnybones
Get Your Own Back
The Ghost Hunter
Godzilla: The Series
Going Live (1987 to 1993)
Goosebumps
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Jackie Chan Adventures
Kenan & Kel
Kerching!
LazyTown
Live & Kicking (1993 to 2001)
Lizzie McGuire
Look and Read
Looney Tunes
The Magic Key
The Magic Roundabout
The Marvel Action Hour
The Mask: The Animated Series
Mighty Max
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
Moomin
Monster Café
The Mummy: The Animated Series
Newsround
The New Woody Woodpecker Show
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
Noddy (multiple varients)
Oakie Doke
Ocean Odyssey
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
Pig Heart Boy
The Pink Panther Show
Pingu
Popeye
Postman Pat
Prince of Atlantis
The Queen's Nose
The Really Wild Show
Record Breakers
Round the Twist
Rugrats (Now on ITV)
Rule The School
Scooby-Doo
Secret Life of Toys
Shaun the Sheep
Short Change
SMart
Smurfs
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Spot the Dog
Stig of the Dump
Stingray
Stitch Up!
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Story Makers
Stuart Little: The Animated Series
Stupid!
Sub Zero
Taz-Mania
Teletubbies
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
There's A Viking In My Bed
Thunderbirds
To Me, To You!
Tom and Jerry
Top Cat
Tweenies
Viva S Club
Wacky Races
Watt on Earth
Watch My Chops
The Wild House
William's Wish Wellingtons
Xchange (2002 to 2006)
X-Men
X-Perimental

From Nickelodeon:
Rugrats
The Ren and Stimpy Show
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Hey Arnold!
The Angry Beavers
The Wild Thornberrys
CatDog
As Told by Ginger

From Cartoon network:
Dexter's Laboratory
Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
I Am Weasel
The Powerpuff Girls

I could easily triple that if I went through the full lists on nick and CN. But i can't be bothered.

[Popidge]

GO GO POWER RANGERS! YOU MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERRRRRRS!

Ah... memories..

Any Brits remember SM:TV live on Saturday mornings? That was a huge staple of my youth. It was the only reason for getting up at 9:25 on a saturday morning. (unlike my current reason now, which is Work.. what a progression)

Also, when CN was gaining popularity in the UK. Their "What-a-toon!" sections were personal favourites, with such greats as Dexter's Laboratory, Cow + Chicken and Two Stupid Dogs.

[steewi]

The Goodies
Red Dwarf
Keeping Up Appearances
The Brittas Empire
Towards/Beyond 2000
Fawlty Towers

To this day, I have never seen an episode of Transformers.

Edit: How could I have forgotten MacGuyver. I loved that show!

[Dr. Canadian Ninja]

I was raised on three shows and I am slightly surprised I saw none of them mentioned yet.

Wheel of Fortune.
Jeopardy.
The Price is Right.

[PatrickRsGhost]

Wheel of Fortune.
Jeopardy.
The Price is Right.

My parents used to watch Jeopardy every night. My great-grandparents loved The Price Is Right. I think just about everybody's grandparents and/or great-grandparents (if you were lucky enough to have them) loved The Price Is Right. Mainly, it was Bob Barker they liked.

My grandmother in Alabama loved Wheel. That was the only time I ever watched it, if I stayed with my grandparents in Alabama.

Speaking of game shows, does anyone remember "Double Dare" (any version)? Did you know Marc Summers has/had OCD? I also remember the game show "Finders Keepers," where kids had to search through a cluttered room in the house for various objects, and search pictures for hidden objects. I almost always found the stuff before they did.

[aleflamedyud]

Finally a thread that makes me feel young!

Ninja Turtles (the original, not this animesque crap)
Power Rangers (once again, the originals)
Spider-Man (one of the best kids' cartoons ever)
Rugrats
Angry Beaver
Catdog
Digimon (unknown to me at the time, it was actually more popular worldwide than its rival Pokemon. Mostly because on Digimon things *actually died*. Never let anyone tell you kids don't love violence.)
Animaniacs (apparently, like much Warner work of elder days, actually had many Old People jokes I never caught)
South Park (I first saw "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" in 4th grade. At the time I didn't recognize the obvious joke in the title due to being Jewish and American)

Moving to later ages...
Law & Order
South Park (again)
The Simpsons
Dexter's Laboratory
Ed, Edd, and Eddy

[cypherspace]

There was a great show on as well that I can't remember... It was something about a trap door with monsters. Could have been called Trap Door actually.

Don't you open that TRAP DOOR! (Cos there's something down there....)

I loved that show. Probably still have a jigsaw puzzle of it somewhere.

Other cartoons - Transformers, Thundercats, He-Man, Visionaries, Captain Planet, Pole Position, Dangermouse, Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes.

Stuff that's not cartoons - Fingermouse, Hartbeat, Dr. Who (with Sylvester McCoy), Saturday Superstore, Going Live!, The Big Breakfast, The Generation Game, Big Break... I get the feeling that if I went through my parents' old video collection, I'd find a lot more that I can't remember now. But I remember Saturday nights on TV actually not being filled with total shit.

Edit: Oh fuck! KNIGHTMARE! The best kids show that has ever been made!

[JoyDivision]

OK well I used to get up early to watch repeats of Trumpton/Camberwick Green...

I also love Pinky and the Brain, The Wild Thornberries and The Poddington Peas.

There were so many great shows, unfortuately the newer Dr Who arrived too late for me to say I grew up on it.

[cathrl]

I'm sufficiently old that my earliest one is a kids radio program. Any other Brits old enough to remember "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin"? The show was Listen with Mother.

Once I graduated to TV ( ) Playschool (I shrieked out loud with delight when I realised that the new tinies show Tikkabilla is Playschool under another name), Jackanory, Grange Hill (Tucker Jenkins yay!), Thunderbirds: 2086, and my enduring love, Battle of the Planets. I wasn't supposed to watch the latter two (they were American sci-fi cartoons, which was three reasons for my father to disapprove) so had to have the sound turned right down and switch off quick if he came in, which led to some interesting misconceptions about canon that persist in my fanfic to this day.

And Superstars. I'm told I cried when David Hemery didn't win. Not quite sure when this would have been, but probably early seventies. My dad was a pretty good sprinter and all round athletics nut, and I grew up able to chant most of the then current world records and holders for just about all track and field events.

[tin]

There was a great show on as well that I can't remember... It was something about a trap door with monsters. Could have been called Trap Door actually.

My old media studies tutor in college was an animator on that! He seemed quite bitter he wasn't animating anymore...

All i can see really say is... Inspector Gadget. It's the only show I remember actively getting excited about watching.

My mum practically forced us to watch Sesame Street as she loved how postive and multi-racial it was, but I adored the show anyways, so it was all good.

The Raggy Dolls, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Captain Planet, Dreamstone, The Demon Headmaster were all great. Me and my sis were quite into Kenan and Kel and Sabrina the Teenage Witch too.

Edit: Oh fuck! KNIGHTMARE! The best kids show that has ever been made!

HELL YES. I would be so shit scared when you could see evil Goblins in the distance.

[cypherspace]

The Demon Headmaster

Filmed just down the road from me. Some of my friends were in it since they went to that school.

[tin]

Filmed just down the road from me. Some of my friends were in it since they went to that school.

How incredibly nifty! The only thing ever filmed near me in my hometown, was the BBC daytime soap, Doctors

[Robin S]

Programmes of which I have some memories, in no particular order: Playdays, Rosie and Jim, Tots TV, Brum, Come Outside, Sesame Street, Sooty & Co., Wizadora, The Animals of Farthing Wood, Bump, The Shoe People, The Poddington Peas, Funnybones, Woof!, The Raggy Dolls, The Clangers, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Bananas in Pyjamas, Art Attack, Jackanory, Blue Peter, Postman Pat, The Magic Roundabout, Look and Read, Get Your Own Back, Numbertime, Spot the Dog and Pingu. Also various, mostly educational, children's programmes whose names I can't remember, which I've posted about in this thread.