Ouch! What a lot of raves from the grave: Grange Hill; Tucker Jenkins; Jackanory. I'd forgotten about the lot of them. Almost a mention of Amy Turtle too!
Thanks for dragging me screaming down Memory Lane.
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| Author: | Tanza [ Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
SO BORED, I HAD TO ENJOY MYSELF Mum...slumped in her chair asleep Watching Crossroads through eyelids Too boring, but nothing else on Meg Mortimer is still alive How can she just fall asleep like that? The television is on...I hate that What a waste of time evenings are Boring television and sleeping parents Hungry and insanely bored to death My daily telly time ended too soon Jackanory is bookmarked until tomorrow Play School is a simple distant memory Blue Peter set sail without me again Dougal is tucked up in bed with Florence Even John Craven has deserted me To go and be Spock on Star Trek probably It's hometime again at Grange Hill Trisha and Tucker bunked off anyway I wonder what they'll be when they grow up A policeman or someone from the East End maybe Only one telly with only one thing on it Nothing to watch but what they want Coronation Street on later...old and boring Never-endingly wasting my life away At least the Secret Seven are having fun As they grow up into the Famous Five Enid Blyton has a lot to answer for Making me wish I was them Mum stirs and thinks about dinner I look at her and then the telly What a waste of my life when nothing's on She turns if off...even more boring now Just sitting indoors with nothing to do Makes me want to get out and run a long way So bored I get my bike and push it out Outside where we're all bored the same Riding up and down, we laugh childishly at it all Fishing nets are waved like flags to attract us Even dirty ponds are more exciting than home We swipe the shallows for tadpoles and sticklebacks Daylight darkens to tell us the time has come Forgetting I was hungry makes me late Food happens, like it always does...eventually And talking doesn't stop as the fresh tablecloth is stained More nothingness to endure...forever it seems Playing cards with Dad is the only thing to save me From slipping into a coma and hoping it lasts until morning More of their telly encroaches on my precious time Bruce Forsythe never shuts up...like Paul Daniels Tommy Cooper's hardly on at all...just serious things I hate the news...it gets in the way of everything Why can't they just put Morcambe and Wise on every night? We all sit round talking rubbish about each other's days I know what they've been doing...they just go to work I've had to sit at school bored out of my head all day Waiting to come home for two hours of telly and then this Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price can't help themselves Always there on BBC2, trying to peep round my cushion Dad lets me stay up late and shit myself At the scariest films ever made A house full of people with only one telly to share No chance of getting another one...ever Radio Rentals cons my Dad out of his wages As does everyone he pays bills too...apparently |
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| Author: | Redvilst [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
Ouch! What a lot of raves from the grave: Grange Hill; Tucker Jenkins; Jackanory. I'd forgotten about the lot of them. Almost a mention of Amy Turtle too! Thanks for dragging me screaming down Memory Lane. |
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| Author: | WaylandCybersmith [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
How about these? Forget Paul Daniels, what about David Nixon? Ace of Wands with Tarot and Sam Orlando TimeSlip Freewheelers Tomorrow People (Let's jaunt!) Criss Cross Quiz Young Scientist of the Year The Movie Quiz Ask the Family Catweazle Even younger Fireball XL5 Space Patrol Supercar Torchy Four Feather Falls Sarah and Hoppity Or, for older people, Compact Bonanza The Virginian Alias Smith & Jones More recent The Champions Department S The Saint (with Roger Moore) Persuaders Jonathan King Face the Music |
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| Author: | WaylandCybersmith [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
Oops! Of course, I meant Jason King! And, I forgot a rather curious series called Tightrope. |
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| Author: | Redvilst [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
Arrrrgh, Master Cybersmith. Memory overload imminent. I remember every last one of them.  Appeared as an extra once in an episode of The Tomorrow People.But now for my revenge: Fred Barker & Ollie Beak!  Oh and let's not forget Lenny the Lion. ... On second thoughts, let's.
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| Author: | WaylandCybersmith [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
Ah, Wally Whyton. My mother was a playground attendant with his wife. |
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| Author: | WaylandCybersmith [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
Right. Let's go down under. Of course, you remember Skippy, but what about Tinga and Tucka? Magic Boomerang? Woobinda? |
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| Author: | GlosnikPrawdy [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
I was an Animal Magic fan myself. I can add a few programmes to your list, like Follyfoot, The White Horses, Belle and Sebastian, and, of course Heidi. |
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| Author: | Gwenllian [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
Oh Torchy, Torchy the battery boy. Thought I was the only one who remembered that!! what about Twizzle if we're going back that far,and does anyone remember the Silver Sword ? |
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| Author: | Redvilst [ Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So Bored, I Had to Enjoy Myself! |
GlosnikPrawdy wrote: ..... Belle and Sebastian, and, of course Heidi. The boy with the worst dubbed voice ever. Yup, remember that but wish I didn't. Gwenllian wrote: Oh Torchy, Torchy the battery boy. Thought I was the only one who remembered that!! what about Twizzle if we're going back that far,and does anyone remember the Silver Sword ? And these too. Space Patrol anyone? [Edit: Ah, I see Space Patrol is already listed.] |
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