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What was your favorite children's television show?

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Tue, 2008-02-05 17:43 - Kerry

One of my most favorite perks to being a stay-at-home with my little ones was the television I would watch with them.  I was "socially allowed" flash-back  to my Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers days again, and not feel as though I was a complete retard moron for getting excited at certain parts of a show I knew I really liked.

It's one-thing to look stupid and fun in front of your kids, it's another to look like a deranged lunatic among strangers.

The problem came when my kids stopped liking PBS shows, and took to Nick-Toons and the Disney Channel, instead.  Today's television is not at all the same, and it got me thinking how sad it is kids don't know how great some old shows really were.  So, I thought, for sentimentality-sake, I'd add a few clips of my favorites, hoping others remember some of these shows, too.  [WARNING:  It's scary how TV shows can really date a person, especially when age suddenly becomes a sensitive sore-spot!]

I found some of my all-time favorites here: 

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Tue, 2008-02-05 20:50 — neophyte

I was a big fan of Mr.

I was a big fan of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.  I loved watching him change his shoes.  For some reason that seemed like the coolest thing a corney white man waring a zipper-sweater could do.

As I got older, I found an even better version of the old classic.

Mr Robinson's Neighborhood

Tue, 2008-02-05 22:20 — Niels

Children's hour

Though most of the people here have no idea of the stuff I am going to post here, I will I add a couple of videos from my childhood. At the time we only had two stations, both public. Every night at 6:45 a five minute show was aired specially dedicated to small children. These 5 minutes were called the "children's hour".

My all time favorite shows of that period is certainly the "Fabeltjeskrant" (the fables news), presented by Mr Owl, who would act as an anchor person in a story demonstrating the noteworthy whereabouts of the animals. The cast consisted of two beavers, the mechanics in animal town, a wolf who owned a bar serving lemonade and beechnuts, a paradise bird bar hag, Mrs Stork, a gossipy and haughty lady. Mrs Ant, always busy cleaning her house, a cigar smoking mole, a raven postman, a tortoise, so slow the beaver brothers  had made him a car to drive in.

The show always started with this song, sung in the somewhat formal and certainly old fashioned language Mr. Owl would use:

Here is an example of the show in two parts, in which the the hare, in his attempt to become the fastest animal in the woods, borrows/steals the roller skates from the tortoise (no Zeno's paradox in hear, just good old morality).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cFNN40iqhs&feature=related

After being caught, the animals discuss in the bar what should be done with the hare, whether he deserves punishment. Eventually goes to the tortoise to bring back the roller skates and makes apologies, after which the tortoise decides to give the roller skates to the hare, because he doesn't use them himself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctScUp5_Omg&feature=related 

At the end of the show, Mr. Owl tells the children to go to their warm and cozy nests, shut their eyes and close their beaks and wishes them a good night

Wed, 2008-02-06 00:06 — tina

Got to be magic roundabout.

Got to be magic roundabout.