Nablopomo 2023 - Day 3
Nov. 5th, 2023 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dizzojayDay 3 - What show from your childhood would you love to bring back?
I'm probably looking through rose-tinted spectacles, but I'm sure that the kids' programes from when I was a kid were better than the ones over recent years.
I was fortunate enough to spend my childhood with classics like Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, the Clangers, Rainbow, Playschool, Rentaghost, Mr Benn, Will 'o' the Wisp, the Wombles, Jackanory, the Magic Roundabout, Trumpton, and Fingerbobs to name but a few.
I used to love the Wombles, and I believe a reboot is currently in the making, but for me there are no wombles without the lovely Bernard Cribbins, so that's a nope from me.
I think there was a certain fun and simplistic charm to a lot of these shows that you couldn't get away with now. Take Fingerbobs for instance; it basically involved a bloke sitting at a desk with sheets of paper and pair of scissors making finger puppet animals. He then told a story with the puppets acting it out. Kids today are used to so much more high tech productions - the poor guy would be laughed off the screen!
Today with modern technology and modern attitudes, I think a lot of the simplicity and innocence of thse programmes would be lost, so if I'm honest, I'm not sure if I'd like to see any of them remade, I think I'd rather remember then as they were.
I'm probably looking through rose-tinted spectacles, but I'm sure that the kids' programes from when I was a kid were better than the ones over recent years.
I was fortunate enough to spend my childhood with classics like Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, the Clangers, Rainbow, Playschool, Rentaghost, Mr Benn, Will 'o' the Wisp, the Wombles, Jackanory, the Magic Roundabout, Trumpton, and Fingerbobs to name but a few.
I used to love the Wombles, and I believe a reboot is currently in the making, but for me there are no wombles without the lovely Bernard Cribbins, so that's a nope from me.
I think there was a certain fun and simplistic charm to a lot of these shows that you couldn't get away with now. Take Fingerbobs for instance; it basically involved a bloke sitting at a desk with sheets of paper and pair of scissors making finger puppet animals. He then told a story with the puppets acting it out. Kids today are used to so much more high tech productions - the poor guy would be laughed off the screen!
Today with modern technology and modern attitudes, I think a lot of the simplicity and innocence of thse programmes would be lost, so if I'm honest, I'm not sure if I'd like to see any of them remade, I think I'd rather remember then as they were.
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Date: 2023-11-13 10:34 pm (UTC)I think you are probably correct.