What Children's TV Shows do you Remember?
Growing up in the 50's and early 60's, I remember the following (all these were on Philly TV stations):
Bertie the Bunyip
Ding Dong School (with Miss Francis)
Willie the Worm (no smart derriere comments, please!)
Kookla, Fran & Ollie
Pete's Gang (with Pete Boyle)
Chief Halftown
Popeye Theatre (with Sally Starr)
Romper Room
Gene London
Pixanne
What shows do you remember from growing up?
Josse and the Pussycats
Jabber Jaws
Archie and Friends
Yeah, Java, we aren't crazy!!!
Laurean,
You talk about spoofs...Channel 6 here (after Chief Halftown) used to do Courageous Cat which was kinda a spoof/poor man's version of Mighty Mouse...was definately fun and seeing a few episodes on YouTube has brought back memories of the show and the groans of my mom and dad when I wanted to watch it at 6 am. 
Oh the memories. Alas, I'm getting old 
I thought I was the only one that remembered The Mighty Heroes... Diaper Man, Strong Man, Wind Man, Rope Man, and Cuckoo Man
It was a spoof of the other superhero cartoons, made back in the late 60s.
[quote=Laurean]I love this thread!
Hong Kong Phooey
Grape Ape
Speed Buggy
Mighty Mouse
Diaper Man
Aw man I LOVED Reboot when I was in college "cutting edge" CGI (for its time) was a great show!
Aw man I LOVED Reboot when I was in college "cutting edge" CGI (for its time) was a great show!
The Banana Splits
Marine Boy
Tom and Jerry
Gigantor
Clutch Cargo
Wee Willie Weber
Jerry Blabitt Show
The Six Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman (had a BIG crush on Lindsay Wagner!)
Julia (Dianne Carroll)
Sanford and Son
Battle of the Planets (G-Force)
Marcus Welby M.D
Reboot
Yogi Bear
Woody Woodpecker
Flipper
Get Smart
The Flintstones
Casper
Fat Albert
Hong Kong Phooie
Dennis the Menace-Before the Dairy Queen commercials
Now you got me thinking...I remember Laff-A-Lympics...remember Yuck but don't remember the bullet head This is gonna stump me. grrr
Capt Caveman...I loved that show too. Didn't he do some time on laff a lympics? anyone remember the show with the superhero whose sidekick was Yuck the dog? He always wore a doghouse on his head? At times, he'd take it off and scare the bad guys? Total cheese, but it was funny.
There was a show on hanna barbara hour...sci-fi cartoon. Dinosaurs but they were different. The one was like Schmooo..it could shape of almost anything. Another shot bullets from it's head. Johnny Quest-like but not.
Maybe I was one of the few that watched Captain Caveman?
I liked alot of the cartoons already mention too, and a few other shows I liked were:
Batman
The Green Hornet
American Bandstand
And I still like Scooby Doo which means I also liked comic strip Marmaduke (possibly why I have my 3rd Great Dane)I'll have to find a pic of her to post.
Oh my gosh do you remember Sigmon the Sea Monster or HR Puffin Stuff? I know they were a little okay a lot before my time but I had older siblings and my mother liked to buy VHS tapes of those stupid things agghhh...I will never subject my children to those
Saturday mornings in Reading we only really got the Philly stations...
Generally started the morning with Captain Noah and his Amazing Ark (and it's funny I was just reading Philadelphia Style Magazine and he gave his guitar to some charity organization YES he's still alive 
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (if one was up at 630am)
Clay you are SOOO right w/ Starblazers. I remember 81-83 and we dropped everything to go over to my friend Dave LaGrange's place to watch Starblazers every afternoon on old Channel 48. Show still holds up!!!
Smurfs of course
Space Ghost (before the coast to coast)
Laff-a-lympics
Superfriends OH Washington, DC YEAH
Thundercats
He-Man
She-Ra
loved Johnny Quest as well
I mean, alot of the others have been mentioned.
H.R. Puffenstuff was amazing.
Today's cartoons are a bit weird. The one's we had were pretty simple outside of a few Superheroes. Here were my favorites and a few others:
Superfriends
Tom & Jerry
Scooby-Doo
Smurfs
Looney Toons
The Jetsons
Fat Albert
Voltron
Thundercats
He-Man
Captain Kangaroo
Underdog (and Tennessee Tuxedo)
Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Great Space Coaster
The New Zoo Review
Electric Company
Sigmund the Sea Monster
Land of the Lost
The Pink Panther (Remember the Aardvark and the Ant. The Aardvark sounded just like Jackie Mason)
Quickdraw McGraw
George of the Jungle
Penelope Pitstop
Tom Slick
Johnny Quest
And I cannot forget SPEEDRACER with Chim-Chim!
Does anyone remember Schoolhouse Rock? These two were my favorites:
Conjuction Junction
I'm Just a Bill
I love this thread!
Hong Kong Phooey
Grape Ape
Speed Buggy
Mighty Mouse
Diaper Man
Witchie Poo was played by the gal who is Alice on the Brady Bunch
How about The Carol Burnett show?
On Zoom, remember the weird thing they did with their arms?
On New Zoo Review - Freddy the Frog?
Remember when Max Headroom was cutting edge?
Were my absolute favorite. . .
H.R. Pufnstuf
Sigmund the Seamonster
Land of the Lost
Far our Space Nuts
Dr. Shrinker
Electrawoman and Dynagirl - Electrawoman was Deidre Hall
The Buggaloos, with Martha Rae, she was hilarious
The Lost Saucer - Jim Neighbors and Ruth Buzzi
Lidsville - Butch Patrick
Awesome Shows!!
I loved that show, and wanted to be her soo bad. Lynda Carter was my hero, and she was so pretty too.
I loved Wonder Woman...the real show and cartoon. I even had wonder woman underoos and a WW bday party Any otheg girls out there run around with foil bracelets?
Or if you prefer, YOU'RE DA MAN. G-force...that's it. Thank you. You have confirmed that, yet again, there's another thing that I did not imagine!! People act like I'm not right when it comes to that show, but someone besides me does remember. :) I loved that show...came on after the original spiderman (which was reruns from the 60's) and spidey was on at 3:30. I'd run home from elementary school which was across the street. That is literally. Thanks.
if its the one i am thinking of, the group of kids were called G-Force but that was not the name of the cartoon. It was an air plane the split into 5 seperated vechials.. 2 smailer planes, 1 tank, 1 motorbike, and i think a sub...
Oh yea "Battle of the Planets" was the name of the cartoon now that i started typing about them....
That should help you...
PeeWee's Playhouse. Our favorite show at Trailway's. Jenni, Krista, Sabrina, and I watched it just about every Saturday morning. It was the 80's what can I say?
Roger, I loved Land of the Lost. Does anyone remember Kroft Superstars? I think that was the name anyway.
Meredith
These shows...almost all of them I remember too well. FTR...Land of the Lost, Sigmund the Seamonster, H R Puffenstuff, and Wonder buggy were all part of the Croft Superstars hour. There's another one that was on there too. It was like Lost in Space but not. The Justice league on Cartoon Network is a take off of the whole Superfriends thing that Jack was talking about. Saturdays at 8 on ABC..I can't believe that I remember that. Shazaam and Isis were an hour later on Saturdays. I can't believe that the original Spider-Man wasn't mentioned. I'm talking about the first cartoon not the 80's one. That was a revamp with Firestar and Ice Man. Here's one that I can never remember the name of....The story is about a group of teens who were a super group. They were poweer ranger-ish, but they were way before then. I think this show actually was the inspiration for shows like Voltron, which also is similar but after this show. The five kids would get to the spaceship, and with a flip of the switch it turned into the fiery Phoenix. I couldn't have been but second grade. Nobody but me remembers this show though.
I remember a few:
Captain Kangaroo (National)
Captain Noah (Philly)
Mister Rogers
HR Puff-n-Stuff
Land of the Lost
I'll try to remember more, but I'm getting
The other day a co-worker of mine asked me what got me started with computers. Well I started describing this show from the early '80s. It involved a kid from the 1980 with a home built computer who somehow taps into the space time continuum and contacts a girl living on a space station in 2010. In any event she remembered the show too.
I embarked on a quest to find out what the show was called. It took me about 15 minutes (which is a long time for me) and I found it. It was called "StarStuff" and it was only shown in the Philly area on WCAU. Anyway it was kind of cool reconnecting with that show, and what started me off on my eventual career path.
StarBlazers is the shiznit.
Transformers (I'm jacked about the movie)
GI Joe
Ultraman (There was another one with a robot family and the kid was a hybrid?)
Speed Racer (Racer X was the man!)
Captain Noah
Davey and Goliath (clay-mation christian morals show)
ThunderCats (They're making a movie)
Thundar the Barbarian
Smurfs
Creature Double Feature on channel 48
Journey Beneath the Sea? (Richard Basehart was the star)
Shazam
Land of the Lost (Sleestaks)
Space 1999 (I had a toy Eagle)
Salvage One (Junk yard guy builds a space ship and goes to the moon, too cool.)
Does anyone remember "The Great Space Coaster"? A character named Gary Gnu doing the Gnews sticks out in my mind.
I really liked the Adamms Family - a lot of sight gags, etc. One scene I remember well: Morticia had invited someone over for tea. As they finished their cuppa, Morticia asked, "Do you mind if I smoke?" And when the other woman gave assent, Morticia folded her arms and smoke began to billow up all around her! I still laugh when I think of that.
Another show I remember (going way back now) is Jerold McBoingBoing. A lot of it was a bit over my head, but Jerold could only say 'boing' - that was the extent of his vocabulary.
The Great American Hero was such a great show.
The cable or other station out of philly, didn't come until later,
I do remember nearly all of those listed so far. But there is one i remember but the name i don't think i have quite right. Came on same time slot as Ultraman but every other day. About a kid who found a watch the controlled a giant robot. But other then that, i can't put my finger on it... his name was Johnnie something any help would be apprecated.
Rocky and Bullwinkel (show) with professer peabody.. and didley do right..,
Josie and the Pussycats
Speed buggy (and speed racer)
and one that i never watched was mr. rodgers neighborhood.
getting newer now.
ScoobyDoo. (the old ones)
Jaber Jaw ( a shark the talked...)
rin tin tin
Adams faimly
the monsters
Superheroes (from superman to wonder woman)Each with there own show, then group together in the league of something or other.
HeeHaw, (1st tv show i everwatched in the milt, don't know if it was live then or already in reruns)
The Greatest American Hero (rather newer but less known, 6-7 grade)
game shows
let's make a deal
jokers wild,
name that tune
understand when MHS first got tv, the kids watched what the houseparents watched, now the houseparents have their own tv..
Captin and Tenell Show
The Osmunds (Donny and ?)
To sum up my list for now, i remeber every sunday night was a walt disney and nation geoghapic special ( or was the mutal of omaha)
and then the Star Spangled Banner (at the first and last thing on everystation) this was back when TV boadcast actually signed off each night...
What about Sinbad the Sailor and Salty too...
And what about the Flinstones and the Jetsons?
The Banana Splits were our Saturday morning cartoons along with H R Puff N Stuff.
Underdog and Mighty Mouse were also popular cartoons.
It's time to play the music...it's time to light the light..it's time to get things start on the Muppet Show tonight!
Kermie is still my fav
DeJuan, I think it was Aquaman! We can't forget "Underdog"! They've actually made a movie out of that now.
And btw, I remember Dark Shadows as well.
Linda - just to let you know they have 21 Jump Street on (I think it's the FX channel)
Tree88
You see, it's now on DVD, and for Christmas, B-days, Father's Day, someone, mainly us or my sister always gets another season for my husband so it gets played in the truck almost incessantly. In the bedroom while we are cleaning, folding laundry or doing mindless stuff like that, etc.........yes, I remember it!!!!!! 
feed it Tree and it will never die. ;-)
This is as close to country as I can handle.
I bought their "greatsest hits" on an outing to the Park City mall wile at MHS :)
..then there was
Courageus Cat and Minute Mouse
Mighty Mouse
Ultraman
StarBlazers
Speed Racer (nobody said that yet??)
Aquaboy...er Marine Boy..sumthin like that
I do remmember Dark Shadows too
along the lines of Dr. Who
Thanks for the correction Clint. What would I do without you? :) It was The Monkee's! I forgot about that.
I've been sitting her singing two different songs thanks to this thread. The first being "it's the new zoo review, coming out to you" and "hey, hey we're the monkee's, people say we monkey around. but we're too busy singing, to put anybody down"
UGH!
Does anyone remember Fraggle Rock? Okay, now I've got another song in my head! DARNIT!!! :)
Tree88
I remember the Monkees, I love them. I don't remember a show called The Monkeys.
I'll always be a Daydream Believer.
I used to love that show! Does anyone remember "The Kroft Superstars?" They had the Land of the lost with the sleazestacks, etc. And any cartoon by Hanna Barbera was great! Yogi the Bear! Oh, and you can't forget "The Monkeys."
I remember Johnny Quest too! I loved that show!
Tree88
A classic.................Haji, Bandit (the dog), Dr. Quest, Rex Bannon????
Bob Newton '78
There was Puff the Magic Dragon too
Who lived by the sea???? I loved that show too.
New Zoo Review
Banana Split
Electric Company
Captain Kangaroo (Red and yellow and pink and green...purple and orange and blue....I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow toooooooo)
Mighty Mouse
Under Dog
Woody Woodpecker
Johnny Quest
Speed Racer
Transformers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Sesame Street
123 Contact
Reading Rainbow
ack! get me away from the TV
What would make you think that we would make any comments other than helpful and constructive comments? We would never do anything but.
I too grew up in Philly area and remember the following shows:
Gene London
Wee Willie Webber (Channel 17)
Kookla, Fran & Ollie
Chief Halftown
Sally Starr
Romper Room
Does anyone remember Dark Shadows............Not exactly a kid show but remember watching after school in elementary & junior high
Bob Newton '78
The Steelers are the best
everone teases you about being old they are just jelous cause thay cant remember as much as you.
i remember watching the magic flute all the time. thats why my mind is so creative today
I remember that one! It was Freddie the magic flute, I think. And WitchiePoo also. Can't remember the name of the sea monster, though.
The Steelers are the best
but wasnt one called hr puff en stuff the one with the magic flute, and the sea monsters? i cant remember anyone else remember those?
Romper Room, we also liked electric company, Captain Kangaroo, different strokes, silver spoons, Knight Rider, and My all time favorite....21 Jump Street!
Pink Panther with no words
Mr.Magoo