In the 80s and throughout most of the 90s, when kids woke up at an ungodly hour, they could run downstairs, switch on the TV and treat themselves to classic TV shows like Camberwick Green, The Herbs and The Magic Roundabout. Yes, it's fair to say that the writers of these shows were probably stoned when they wrote the stories or at least had no idea how to be PC. But Political Correctness was still in hiding, still biding it's time, it had yet to bite our heads off if we so much as mentioned someone had a different hair colour. Those were happier times. The 60s and early 70s were still in our midst, still watching over us in the form of kids TV and guiding our thought patterns through the marriage psychedelic idealisms and the stiff-upper-lip of Britishness.
Nowadays, we are most likely greeted with the following if we wake up at 6am:
What happened to Brum? Thomas the Tank Engine? Rainbow? You know, TV that may have encouraged drug usage but didn't promote badly dressed f*cktards as role models. At the very worst, it was suggested that we dress in tight lycra and fight evil, or that puppets were going to be our saviours but these programns atleast had some dignity and imagination. It was about fighting the bad guys, standing up for what was moral and true. The only thing that Big Cook Little Cook promotes is how to be the most boring, yet annoying, person in the playground. In the 90s, you wouldn't have dared dance like that for fear of getting your face smacked in, or at least suffering rejection from your peers. Nowadays, kids are taught to accept stupid behaviour, that attention-seeking f*ckwits are people too. Well, they're not. They're irritating and bring everyone else down.
Bring back good old TV. The songs were much better, back then.
BBC - The Herbs
Nowadays, we are most likely greeted with the following if we wake up at 6am:
What happened to Brum? Thomas the Tank Engine? Rainbow? You know, TV that may have encouraged drug usage but didn't promote badly dressed f*cktards as role models. At the very worst, it was suggested that we dress in tight lycra and fight evil, or that puppets were going to be our saviours but these programns atleast had some dignity and imagination. It was about fighting the bad guys, standing up for what was moral and true. The only thing that Big Cook Little Cook promotes is how to be the most boring, yet annoying, person in the playground. In the 90s, you wouldn't have dared dance like that for fear of getting your face smacked in, or at least suffering rejection from your peers. Nowadays, kids are taught to accept stupid behaviour, that attention-seeking f*ckwits are people too. Well, they're not. They're irritating and bring everyone else down.
Bring back good old TV. The songs were much better, back then.
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