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    Okay, so me and some friends at work today were discussing some of our favorite things as children of the 90's, and primarily went over TV, movies, and books. General consensus, of course, is that what we grew up with was far beter than most of the garbage that's on now, sans the movies of course, 'cuz we were nincompoops who didn't know what most movies meant in many cases.

    So, given the "average" orgah is roughly within a standard deviation of 8 or so years, here's the question: Growing up as a kid(that is, 12 and under), what were your first favorite TV shows, book/book series, and movies?

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    TV shows- Rocko's Modern Life, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Loony Tunes(Bugs is always gonna be the champ), and Animaniacs(god I wish we had shows like them still around).

    Movies- Wasn't much of a movies kid, but Lion King will always be King.

    Books- Goosebumps and Animorphs(Introduced me to what war would actually sorta be like, kinda, if it was really fantasy-like).
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    Ahhhh.... goood days the 90's were. There was a war that lasted a day... I vaaaaguely remember hearing about one going on . Summer camps,


    TV-Animaniacs, GI Joe, Rico's Roughnecks (I feel like the only that watched this lol), Road Runner, Loony Toons, Pinky and the Brain, etc... good times TV was back then.

    Movies- Aladdin, The Sandlot, Home Alone, Hook, Gettysburg,

    Books-Goosebumps, child-friendly books that made all those epic books like War and Peace, Dracula, and Robin Hood really easy reads at such a young age (elementary ). And five pages of Harry Potter

    Other than that, GI Joe figurines, playing outside alll the time. Tan and Green soldiers. Street wide and neighborhood-wide supersoaker fights. Great times!
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    TV - With obvious things already mentioned (Helloooooo, nurse!), BBC children's programming circa 1994 - 1999. I just think about it and feel all nostalgic. The Really Wild Show, Blue Peter...it was all so good.

    Movies - Jurassic Park. Watched it when it came out on video at the age of 3. I'd always hide behind the sofa when the T-Rex made its first appearance. Also, comedy films from the 70's and 80's with people like Richard Pryor in seemed to make up a good chunk of my movie-diet.

    Books - i read all sorts. Mostly encyclopedias though. Especially those Dorling-Kindersley books. When other kids got taken to the library, they'd get some sort of picture book. I'd always be racing towards the encyclopedia section and looking at the DK books. Trust me, if you want your kids to be smart and interested in learning, by all means take them to the library, but avoid the kids section. Show them DK books. Full of interesting pictures and bound to spark an interest in the sciences.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_Books

    That's what i'm on about. I've only ever owned a two of their books though, a big brick containing lots of info on different things and another all about dinosaurs. They're all i have to take me back to my childhood ;_;
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar View Post
    Movies - Jurassic Park. Watched it when it came out on video at the age of 3. I'd always hide behind the sofa when the T-Rex made its first appearance.
    Lmao! I'd hide behind the sofa when they went to fix the electricity and the raptors just kept popping up haha...
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    Let me see now...

    Star Trek (TOS) the first time around in 1969 was fab.

    Thunderbirds.

    The Avengers; If I was good I could stay up until 9:00 on a Friday night to watch that. I was in love with Emma Peel.

    Four feather Falls/Super Car/Joe 90.

    That's about it. There wasn't a lot of telly on in the 60s. It didn't start until 3:30 in the afternoon and went off again at midnight.

    We played out a lot.

    Oh I nearly forgot.

    Dr. Who with the original Doctor, William Hartnell.
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    Ah nostalgia!

    TV - DBZ, Towser, football, Mr Bean.

    Movies - Lots of James Bond, old Disney.

    Books - Redwall series, Roald Dahl, Horrible Historys.
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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
    Thunderbirds.
    F.A.B. Thunderbird 2 was my favourite. I recall watching Stingray but remember nothing of it. Captain Scarlet was pretty good too. I loved those Angels.

    Oh and on topic, my kids were grew up through the 90s so I got a small dose of the 90's child entertainment world. I think Goosebumps was my favourite kids TV show.
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    The 90's... that great place and time now lost forever

    I did like alot of kids tv back in mid to late 90's but BP and The RWS were really boring to me...

    TV Rugrats, Keenan and Kel, Neighbors, Home and Away, Are you afraid of the dark, Power rangers, Wrestling, football, and for some god awful reason ricki lake.... was it the hurricanes that football team on a boat ? (they where amazing!!)

    Movies Can't remember too many.... Karate Kid, Blank Cheque and my girl are the first ones to jump into my mind... bond film as well.... may have been golden eye.... some mr bean film as well... don't know the name...

    Books I enjoyed Goosebumps as well as the horrible history series of books, main things i remember reading... Guiness Book of Records!
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    TV: Public TV--Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, The Electric Company, and Sesame Street. Cartoons--Speed Racer, The Banana Splits, Scoobie Doo, Wacky Races (Saturday mornings). Star Trek, The Time Machine, Lost in Space, The Munsters, Ultraman.

    Movies: Charlotte's Web, The Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Chitty Chitty Bang, Bang, The Sound of Music. So many Disney movies I can't remember most of them--Old Yeller, The Incredible Journey, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ... I vaguely remember one about a boy and a falcon living alone in the wilderness which really moved me ... The Other Side of the Mountain?

    EDIT: The wonders of Google: it was "My Side of the Mountain."

    Books: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Where the Wild Things Are, the Taran Wanderer series (Chronicles of Prydain, Gurgie! Cauldron-born!), The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

    Whoa ... talk about dredging up some serious back-there memories. Good thread.
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    So, given the "average" orgah is roughly within a standard deviation of 8 or so years, here's the question: Growing up as a kid(that is, 12 and under), what were your first favorite TV shows, book/book series, and movies?
    When I was 12 and under: we got a TV when I was 8. "Popeye The Sailor" was popular after school. 3 channels broadcast about 14 hours per day. Mostly Westerns & Crime-dramas. I guess Wanted: Dead or Alive was my favorite, with a squeeky-young Steve McQueen.

    Movies were more of the same: Westerns and Crime-Dramas, with a few War movies and comedies thrown in once in awhile. The Absent-Minded Professor sticks out for me.

    Books: I liked biographies (or "life-stories" as I called them then). Jim Thorpe, some guy who competed in the Tour de France, Babe Ruth, that kinda thing. Plus Mom monthly got Reader's Digest Condensed Books, which I'd read cover-to-cover. Though crude, it was my intro to bigger/better books; "To Kill a Mockingbird" was one I distinctly remember reading in RDCB first, then running to the library to get the real thing.

    The family waited until I moved out at 18 to get a color TV. Man, that was a whole new world.
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    Reading this thread makes me miss Calvin & Hobbes.

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    Movies: Never watched too many of them. The Lion King gets special mention because it was the first movie I ever saw in theaters. The re-release of Star Wars in 1997-98, even though I now know that Han shot first. Hercules and George of the Jungle.

    TV shows: How in God's name has Legends of the Hidden Temple not been mentioned yet! Silver Snakes FTW!!! Also, Power Rangers, Looney Tunes, and the original set of What A Cartoon and Cartoon Cartoon series (Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, etc)... nothing after the turn of the century.

    Books: As Kek mentioned, Calvin & Hobbes.
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    TV shows: How in God's name has Legends of the Hidden Temple not been mentioned yet! Silver Snakes FTW!!!
    Doh! How'd I forget? Purple Barracudas FTW!!!
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    TV- Johnny Quest, Loony Tunes, Rugrats, Baseball (I loved baseball and followed Baltimore when I lived in Northern Virginia)

    Books- Animorphs and Goosebumps (I use to trade my snack for Goosebumps books in elementary school)

    Movies- Predator, Bond... Probably some more that have been forgotten.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae View Post
    Reading this thread makes me miss Calvin & Hobbes.
    Heh. I don't even need to read this thread to miss it; I always do regardless....
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    TV: A-team, McGyver, He-man, GIJoe, transformers, thundercats, the freggles
    but also Dommel, Ovide and his friends, Alfred Jodocus Kwak, Boes, babar and of course David the gnome

    Books: I didn't read a lot of books when I was young. I did read the adventures of young Indiana Jones.

    Movies: Most Disney animations like Bambi, Dumbo, the little mermaid, ...
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    D'oh! How I forget MacGyver? Richard Dean Anderson was my hero.
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    Quote Originally Posted by makaikhaan View Post
    Okay, so me and some friends at work today were discussing some of our favorite things as children of the 90's, and primarily went over TV, movies, and books. General consensus, of course, is that what we grew up with was far beter than most of the garbage that's on now, sans the movies of course, 'cuz we were nincompoops who didn't know what most movies meant in many cases.

    So, given the "average" orgah is roughly within a standard deviation of 8 or so years, here's the question: Growing up as a kid(that is, 12 and under), what were your first favorite TV shows, book/book series, and movies?

    Personally:

    TV shows- Rocko's Modern Life, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Loony Tunes(Bugs is always gonna be the champ), and Animaniacs(god I wish we had shows like them still around).

    Movies- Wasn't much of a movies kid, but Lion King will always be King.

    Books- Goosebumps and Animorphs(Introduced me to what war would actually sorta be like, kinda, if it was really fantasy-like).


    I used to love Goosebumps and Animorphs, more so Goosebumps. I'm actually watching Goosebumps now .

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    I had another memory. (it's an age thing! )

    I used to love reading the William Brown books when I was a nipper. Very, very funny. Much more so than the TV series in the 70s.

    I also used to read all the popular kids comics of the period (the 60s) like the Dandy, Beano but espiecially the Eagle and Look and Learn.

    I loved Dan Dare and The Trigan Empire. (BTW when Blair has first elected, the Times did a spoof of Dan Dare, called Dan Blair, pilot for the foreseable future...)

    Because the telly was virtually non-existant in the 60s we used to go to the 'flicks' a lot.

    A real treat was being taken by my dad to see films like Zulu, the Battle of the Bulge, Patton, lust for glory, the Battle of Britain and other pacifist fare.

    The other thing was the sweets. most of them discontinued. Can you imagine getting four chews for a penny these days? In fact can you buy anything for a penny these days?

    Ooops, they did away with pennies in 1970, now we have pence. The olden days when you could buy summat for three shillings and six ha'penny.
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    I had another memory. (it's an age thing! )

    I used to love reading the William Brown books when I was a nipper. Very, very funny. Much more so than the TV series in the 70s.
    My dad read those too me when I was little, since he grew up reading them.
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    In fact can you buy anything for a penny these days?

    Back in childhood you could get penny chews, though im going back at least 13 years here, so i would expect it would be at least 2-4 pence for the same chew today...
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