What Danes consider healthy children’s television

Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by david-given on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:06AM (#12276281)

Well, you can't go wrong with Oliver Postgate, who I now notice made nearly half of the programs in my (completely randomly selected) list...

Also I appear to have remembered a fairly small selection of the 'children's television on drugs' genre. See also: Banamaman, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Roobarb and Custard, Captain Pugwash...

While talking about children's television: it's not British, and it's slightly later, but any person of any age who doesn't like Fraggle Rock has no soul.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by abritinthebay on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:49PM (#12277040)

Fraggle Rock actually is British, kind of.

It was co-produced by a British television company (TVS), and had specifically filmed inserts that replaced the Inventor with a Lighthouse owner (the sequences were arguably better too, certainly less rambling and more focused).

But even if you ignore the inserts (others were filmed worldwide) it's still partially British

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by petepete on Friday August 12, 2016 @02:36PM (#12277799)

Charlie Brooker's tribute to Oliver Postgate

https://youtu.be/uAftt3UnzoI

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by stevekemp on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:26PM (#12276882)

You've given me a nostalgia-trip.

In return I give you: The Wombles!

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by rahimnathwani on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:30PM (#12279963)

I used to think the theme tune went 'The wombles of Wimbledon: common are we' but actually it's 'The Wombles of _Wimbledon Common_ are we'. I had never heard of Wimbledon Common, although it's only 4 miles from where I was born.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by stevekemp on Saturday August 13, 2016 @09:41PM (#12283933)

I find that strangely adorable, thanks for sharing.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by DanBC on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:21AM (#12276393)

I have no idea if it was British, but Ludwig (the cartoon about a musical mechanical egg) was great.

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