Oddly enough, I don’t remember watching a vast amount of children’s TV as a child, though I have indelible memories of various shows that fit within such a remit on teatime BBC1 or CITV. As a boy, I was obsessed with American TV imports such as the Star Trek series or The X-Files etc… and they form my chief memories of growing up TV watching.
That being said, kids TV imprinted on me during growing up primarily in the 1990s as it did millions of others in the days of limited satellite TV, four terrestrial channels and before the internet went mainstream. The Dreams We Had as Children: Children’s ITV and Me will tug at the nostalgic memories of anyone who grew up in the 80s, 90s or indeed 00s, formative decades where this sub-genre of TV took flight.
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