Reliving our childhoods is spectacular fun. Especially if you watched a lot of television as a child. Those of us of a certain age will have fond memories of lots of stop motion animated classics. They just don't make them like they used to. Mainstream television used to be very oriented to the child. BBC 1 played children's shows in the afternoon. BBC 2, when it wasn't bombarding us with Pages From Ceefax, broadcasted educational, but enjoyable children's shows around lunchtime and then there was CITV on ITV regions all around the country. Children's television has been shunted off to satellite digital channels that specialise solely in kid's programmes. With this article, I am taking you back to a more innocent age, a happier age of half remembered programmes from your youth. Lots of fun for viewers in their 30s in particular. If you remember any more shows from this period, please share them below!
10. Gran
Made in 1982, the popular Gran was repeated in 1986 and 1992. It had a short DVD release in 2005 but has been wiped. Narrated by Patricia Hayes, this stop motion animation featured the antics of the titular Gran and her beloved grandson Jim. Gran is no boring little old lady. She is quite eccentric and enjoys a motley of fun activities every episode - hang gliding, growing runner beans up a dinosaur's skeleton, knitting a giant scarf to wrap around the house to keep it warm. And she wears her perpetual pink slippers all the while! Gran was an enjoyable little cartoon that will appeal to fans of similar stop motion classics like Fireman Sam and Postman Pat. Gentle nostalgia.