what do people think of kids tv today?

[Trog]

Tailspin was epic! Used to watch it (as an adult!) when it featured in the Mickey Mouse Club on Sunday mornings. I'm amazed that they didn't do more!

[Richard1978]

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I remember some 1980s cartoons (Inspector Gadget, MASK etc) used to have a minute or so after the end of an episode so do some "safety in the home" message, at least they didn't compromise the main story that way, which some cartoons the era went a bit overboard with.

[darren]

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oh no i wont be watching that if its that p.c.
i dont mind if it has a moral to the story but not dripping in it as u say they are jay

i just feel if every generation of kids from the seventies till now watched every kids show and hadnt seen them before stuff from the turn of the millennium would be the least popular.

at the end of the he man she ra ep it would say what the moral of the story was just take a few seconds to explain it.

[Jay Mc]

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Ive seen a lot of modern kids shows and they just dont hold my attention and id watch any kids show if i liked it no matter if it was an oldie not.

Modern stuff has no real charm.

Old stuff quite often had a moral to the story such as he man and she ra.
Modern stuff aint like that.

You should watch the stuff that is put out by the Disney channel - it is so P C and dripping in life lessons and morals you could drown in it

Also having read back through this entire thread most people seem to be missing the point of kids TV in that it is aimed at the KIDS OF TODAY and if they don't like it it gets binned in a hurry. The fact that we all think our programs were better (and they were ) is irrelevant the programs of today will be the classics of 30 years from now and our kids will be arguing with each other about whether there programs were better than the modern ones

As for the quality of the programming, volume alone dictates that the quality will fall and there will be more misses than hits but I have three kids and have watched lots of Kids TV with them and there have been some very good programmes made

and the best part of this thread is that at one point I thought every one was going to make a circle and start chanting " Fight fight fight "

[Richard1978]

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The best one I've seen in recent times is Avatar: The Last Airbender.

It's quite epic in parts, even seeing it as an adult. Originally I just saw the odd episode on CITV but kept hearing about it online.

On a hunch I bought the first series on DVD & really enjoyed it, & collected up the other 2 series.

More recently I've started to get into the followup series The Legend Of Korra, which at times is even more epic & deeper.

[darren]

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Ive seen a lot of modern kids shows and they just dont hold my attention and id watch any kids show if i liked it no matter if it was an oldie not.

Modern stuff has no real charm.

Old stuff quite often had a moral to the story such as he man and she ra.
Modern stuff aint like that.

oldies best shows todays stuff no where near the same

[Richard1978]

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I've not seen many recently, but in the last 10-15 years I've seen many children's programmes I would have liked when I was younger.

[xmark1234]

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Oldies best shows todays stuff no where near the same

[darren]

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In a way it is hard to compare im not being biased but i think say if 2 generations of older people say people from there mid thirties upwards both watched kids shows from the 2.000's and shows from the eighties theyd prefer the eighties ones.

And this is saying they had never seen either of these decades shows before they did the above for the first time

it's hard to compare the children's tv i watched as a child to the children's tv of today. I still like some of the stuff i watched as a kid but purely for nostalgic reasons. I tolerate the programmes that are on today because i have a 3 year old that likes some of them. The programmes today don't seem as good but that's watching through an adults eyes.

[branny]

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It's hard to compare the children's tv I watched as a child to the children's tv of today. I still like some of the stuff I watched as a kid but purely for nostalgic reasons. I tolerate the programmes that are on today because I have a 3 year old that likes some of them. The programmes today don't seem as good but that's watching through an adults eyes.

[80sChav]

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especially if your in acatia road.

Thought that that wasSuper Ted's Address Darren, no? You seen my thread about Ties in this catergory ... wonderd what you thought?

[darren]

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I'll keep my eyes peeled for bananaman

especially if your in acatia road.

[stud1al]

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I'll keep my eyes peeled for bananaman

[darren]

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True Darren mate we all (well not all) but a lot of us feel the same. My Grandma used to say this to me about Xmas but i'd just say "I just devour (for want at the moment of trying to think of a better word as i'm worn-out) buying thing's for people to see their faces, though i'm no longer a kid"
on from half 4 to 5.

om no longer a kid either but bu how i act and what i watch i still am.
is this the same with you.

think ill go bananaman.
http://youtu.be/lbPxRAeClJA

i bet banana sales went up after seeing how a banana affected eric.

i eat them a lot still hoping ill become as eric does after eating a banana.

[80sChav]

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True Darren mate we all (well not all) but a lot of us feel the same. My Grandma used to say this to me about Xmas but i'd just say "I just devour (for want at the moment of trying to think of a better word as i'm worn-out) buying thing's for people to see their faces, though i'm no longer a kid"
on from half 4 to 5.