Popular Nostalgia

One of the things we most remember of our childhood, since the advent of television. Children’s T.V. holds many happy memories for many people. Reminisce with us.

RETURN OF THE CATS A 1980s favourite is set to become this year’s Christmas ‘must-have’ as retailer demand outstrips supply of the new Thundercats action figures and vehicles. The retro cartoon – with celebrity fans including Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and Paulo Nutini – has been updated and recently released on British TV screens. The [...]

THE most AMAZING children’s programme. Following info care of Wikipedia. The Herbs was a television series for young children made for the BBC by Graham Clutterbuck’s FilmFair company. It was written by Michael Bond (creator of Paddington Bear), directed by Ivor Wood using 3D stop motion model animation and first transmitted from 12 February 1968 [...]

Aaah its 6.30 its the late 90′s its channel 2….its time for Heartbreak High. dont remember much other than Drazick was a Badass and they played a lot of pool. This post was submitted by Adam Walker.

He-Man was another of my favourite cartoon TV shows when I was growing up. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, as a TV show really had it all. A main character with muscles and a big sword. Check. An enemy with a skull for a head (Skeletor). Check. At the end of the show, [...]

SuperTed (just realised it is all one word, not two!) was one of my favourite cartoons on TV as a youngest growing up in the 1980s. I don’t really remember why, but I do remember the slightly effeminate character Spotty (I think his full name was the Spotty man, but Super Ted just used to [...]

Thundercats has near legendary status in my mind, as it was perhaps my favourite TV show growing up, and certainly the best cartoon. I remember getting a lion-o jumper for my birthday one year and wearing it probably every day for a month. I also remember those two kids on flying surf-boards, who, when you [...]

Danny, Champion of the World, was both a book by Roald Dahl, and a movie. Both of which I loved as a child, involving the perennial class war between a boy and his father, and the local lord of the manor. Danny and his dad play a great trick on the local rich folk by [...]

Don’t you open that Trap Door. There’s something down there. This was on children’s TV when I was growing up, and I can remember only the intro, which is in the video above, and the fact that there was a talking skull. The start bit went like this: Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, [...]

Fun House with Pat Sharp ran for an amazing decade, despite not really having much more to it than a few messy games, a really slow grand prix in go karts that seemed to have been turned right down to minimum, and an end bit with lots of great prizes like a trip to bognor [...]

Before Transformers became a silly overblown movie with Corvettes in it, it was an altogether more pleasant cartoon and toy combo which involved robots who would transform from useful objects, like lorries, into more cool objects, like Optimus Prime ( a big destructive robot overlord guy). I loved Transformers, for they truly were Robots in [...]

The Toxic Crusaders was a short cartoon that I remember airing on UK TV during my childhood – I can just remember thinking “oh great, another cartoon” while the show started, then the theme tune featured the line “we’re hideously deformed” (or similar) and I was hooked. The toxic crusaders tried to ride the tidal [...]

I remember the cartoon M.A.S.K as one of my childhood favourites – I used to love everything about this cartoon, particularly the fact that they fought crime, all the time. I even got a M.A.S.K paper plate and cup set for my fifth birthday party (postponed because I had chicken pox I believe) so I [...]

I remember watching this thing when I was a child. I am not altogether sure that I enjoyed it, but TV was a pretty straightforward game back in 1991, you had your basic 4 channels in Britain, and only one of them showed children’s TV without adverts, so it was this or art attack. Come [...]

I remember Albert fondly as one of those cartoons in the mid 1990s that were Okay to watch even though I was probably a little bit too old to still be watching cartoons: it had the occassional big word and grown-up reference in it! Albert was a small man, but was crucial to the Napoleonic [...]

Henry’s Cat was frankly one of my favourite cartoons growing up because the story was just like my little life. Enjoy the intro video above – its taken from our all-new YouTube Channel, which you can discover for yourself right here: http://www.youtube.com/PopularNostalgia