Favorite Children's Programs of All Time

[Ian]

My favorite show of all (not a kids) was Twilight Zone!

Ooooh me too! I know it's not a kid's show, but I had to comment anyway. The highlight of my year every year is the Twilight Zone New Year's Eve Marathon on Sci Fi. CLASSIC show!

[QTPie68]

Sid and Marty Kroft shows were the best - Nuts from Outer Space was my fav (I love Bob Denver).

Also, this may have been a Seattle show, but Boomerang, hosted by Marni Nixon (who, by the way, did the singing for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and many other dubbed singing in musicals).

[murphy1]

Ooooh me too! I know it's not a kid's show, but I had to comment anyway. The highlight of my year every year is the Twilight Zone New Year's Eve Marathon on Sci Fi. CLASSIC show!

My oldest dd loves it now, too, we watched a bunch of episodes on Hulu over Christmas break. Way ahead of it's time!

[citizensnoopy]

My favorites were:

Ducktales (I have seasons 1-3 on DVD, haha)
David the Gnome
Eureka's Castle
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Goof Troop
Fluppy Dogs
Doug
Rugrats

I guess I'm a child of the '90s.

[alphamommy]

I was little too old for Sesame Street, and for whatever reason my DD11 never got into it. I think it's a great show!

My personal favorites are: Scooby-Doo (first season or two), Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show, The Electric Company, Kimba the White Lion, The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, and The Flintstones.

I also watched Captain Kangaroo, but I never liked it that much. It was a matter of that being the only kid thing on at that time of morning.

[ftwildernesskid]

I remember when I was 6 or 7 they used to show reruns of the original Mickey Mouse Club right after school. I loved it, and of course, Annette was my favorite! I also watched the New Mickey Mouse Club, but didn't like it nearly as much.

Also:
Battle of the Planets
Scooby Doo
Sesamie Street
Electric Company

[Zawadi]

Tom and Jerry (Those produced by Fred Quimby)
Wacky Races
Bugs Bunny
Thunderbirds
Dangermouse
Scooby Doo

[Ilovemesomedisneymom]

For my kids, especially my 24 year old, it is Disney Afternoon. Matter of fact for this past Christmas he got the DVDs for Rescue Rangers and Duck Tails.

[Mousefever]

This show is not actually from my era, but when I babysat I always enjoyed watching Wishbone with the kids.

One of the things I remember from Saturday morning cartoons were the educational shorts in between shows. School House Rock was the main thing, but I also remember some sort of cartoon cowboy figure that would "hanker for a hunka cheese!" And I remember that Aquaman from The Super Friends taught me how to cry something out of my eye by pulling my lower eyelid above the upper one.

ABC Afterschool Specials.

Amy

[Ian]

My oldest dd loves it now, too, we watched a bunch of episodes on Hulu over Christmas break. Way ahead of it's time!

Yeah my oldest DD likes it, too. Her favorite episode is Nightmare at 20,000 feet. She loves that cheesy gremlin guy!

I remember when I was 6 or 7 they used to show reruns of the original Mickey Mouse Club right after school.

Yeah same here ... in fact, I didn't even really understand they were reruns at the time. I just kinda thought it was a show like any other show, but it was really my earliest exposure to Disney. I loved Guest Star Day.

Today is Tuesday, you know what that means? We're gonna have a special guest!

I also really loved Spin and Marty. I have the Triple R Song on MP3 and listen to it like two or three times a month it brings back such good memories. I used to have this Disney 45rpm record when I was real young that had that song on it and it was my favorite!

One of the things I remember from Saturday morning cartoons were the educational shorts in between shows. School House Rock was the main thing, but I also remember some sort of cartoon cowboy figure that would "hanker for a hunka cheese!"

Huh, yeah I totally remember that cheese guy, but I actually thought he was a local Philly commercial. I didn't realize that was national.

FYI that's available on YouTube if you want to check it out. And Schoolhouse Rocks has a DVD set you can get ... we have it and my kids actually think it's really cool.

[DisneyDog]

I also loved Captain Noah. Send your pictures...I can sing a rainbow. Good times

I loved Sesame Street, which was born the same year as me.

My favorite show, which wasn't really children's programming, and was running in reruns of reruns by the time I got into it, was The Monkees. Used to watch it every day on channel 48.

Other than that, Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show and Josie and the Pussycats were my favorite.

[Diznee4Me]

I watched about 90% of the shows mentioned with Captain Kangaroo, Scooby, Superfriends and Land of the Lost at the top.

But I can't believe that I actually have a show to add that I did not see on anyone's post.

Ark II: Three young scientists travel around the country in the 25th century after the world has been ravaged by pollution. In their hi-tech RV (called Ark II), they study the land and help out those in need.


I remember Robby the Robot guest starred in an episode, there was a chhimpanzee as part of the crew, and the lady - Ruth - was hot, even to this eight year old!

[Kathy Jetson]

I love all the old Saturday tv shows. In case anyones interseted I just bought H.R.Pufnstuf the complete series on dvd at Wal-mart for $19.99.