Noticed much the same thing with the US lists. Which was interesting.
Whoever complied the lists was using some odd criteria of their won no doubt. They have for example missed out Blue Peter and Newsround, which I would call the epitome of children's TV from that era.
I didn't watch that much, was outside most of the time -- since I lived in rural Pennsylvania and was busy wandering about the creeks and woods and playing with frogs and toads during the summers. Saw most of it during the winter months and on Sat's.
Yes, the same here, we only watched a little. A lot of the shows mentioned were on early in the afternoons before we got home or on Saturday mornings when we never watched because we were playing outside. We really only saw the second half of the children's TV slot on weekdays and the early evening shows at the weekend - things like Doctor Who, Emu, Basil Brush.
Most children's TV was home made, with the very occasional serial imported - I remember a few Australian and New Zealand ones and a handful of American shows (Batman, Little House on the Prairie, The Red Hand Gang, and later the Muppets) so the main imports were the cartoons. But of course we had loads of films from America so we had a good sense of your culture from those.
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Date: 2017-07-27 02:09 pm (UTC)Whoever complied the lists was using some odd criteria of their won no doubt. They have for example missed out Blue Peter and Newsround, which I would call the epitome of children's TV from that era.
Yes, the same here, we only watched a little. A lot of the shows mentioned were on early in the afternoons before we got home or on Saturday mornings when we never watched because we were playing outside. We really only saw the second half of the children's TV slot on weekdays and the early evening shows at the weekend - things like Doctor Who, Emu, Basil Brush.
Most children's TV was home made, with the very occasional serial imported - I remember a few Australian and New Zealand ones and a handful of American shows (Batman, Little House on the Prairie, The Red Hand Gang, and later the Muppets) so the main imports were the cartoons. But of course we had loads of films from America so we had a good sense of your culture from those.