its been 25 years since i moved to highschool and stopped watching cartoons. i also moved to the middle of nowhere and life has been hell since. so i make this list to mark the moment! makes me want to cry. ok i might not have watched all of them but i do remember them. for some reason i dont think i liked transformers that much?

Cartoons and stuff i watched in 80s and early 90s

Frank Grillo, Sean Gunn, Alan Tudyk, Indira Varma, David Harbour, and Zoë Chao in Creature Commandos (2024)

Matthew Lillard, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin, and Frank Welker in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)

FROM THE UNFORGETTABLE to the pretty much forgotten; this was the golden age of kids TV - creative, warm, natural, intelligent, playful.  

   All hail to the lovely worlds of Oliver Postgate, Tony Hart, Derek Griffiths, Johnny Morris, Floella Benjamin, Brian Cant, Johnny Ball etc etc

  This list also includes some older programs that were broadcast during the 1980s - plus a few 1990s shows that had 1980s spirit. I also include a selection of more adult-orientated programs that were memorable and/or beloved by us kids at that time. 

Some notable shows not featured on IMDb: 

Let's Pretend (1982-89) Orm and Cheep (1983-85)  Mop and Smiff (1985)  Data Run (1983-84) Watch (1967-2009) = How can this legend of edu-tainment not be on here? : Louise Hall-Taylor, James Earl Adair and Raewyn Blade were its classic 80s-era presenters. They released an LP of songs which included the memorable 'Moses Suite'. 'Watch' later evolved into 'ZigZag'  (author's trivia: the 'ancient Greece Olympic games' episode of ZigZag was filmed at my north London primary school in the mid 1980s) 

*p.s. The list is best read chronologically: 



Regularly updated. Thanks for viewing. x

UK KIDS TV : What we watched in the 1980s

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