What did you watch growing up?

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"Who loves orange soda?!"

Remembers those U.S. police dramas from the late 1960s through much of the 1970s? Always loved the action -scenes. A few of the several shows remembered: Dragnet, Adam-12, Ironside, and The Rockford Files.

For the light drama, the C.H.I.P.S series was enjoyable!

Lots of 90s Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows. I watched Disney, too, but the Disney Channel didn't really get popular until I was about 10 or 11.

Doug, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Angry Beavers, All That, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Kenan and Kel, Wild & Crazy Kids, Space Cases, Dexter's Lab, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures and Looney Tunes, the Jetsons and the Flintsones, Tom & Jerry, Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon, the first version of the Power Rangers.

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Since people have mentioned it already, I watched Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends when I was a little older, too, because I though that was such a good show.

Is it true ? Mmm- hmm!

Anybody remember the NBC series, James at 15 (later James at 16)(LINK)? I thought the characters of James and friends were awesome. Looking back to this day, these were really awesome kids!

(LINK) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_at_15

I remember the fundies were in an uproar over the fact that his character had sex with somebody. at the time I thought the bible-thumping brigades really woulda had their undies in a knot if he'd had gay sex, but that was too advanced for amuuurican prime time tv back then.

"The X-Files"

Not much at all. My parents considered watching television a vice. I vaguely remember someone important and prestigious, at some time, said,

This could easily be their motto.

I remember as a toddler, peeking over the top of my crib, through a crack in the door ajar, a grainy monochrome image on the family television set, early 1960s, displaying some kind of sports program, I paid more attention to the NAPA auto parts commercial afterwards, to this day I remember seeing that trapezoidal NAPA symbol at the end of the commercial, then the sports program to follow.

I barely recall as a toddler watching some show with a boy, a girl, and Santa Clause. They were speaking in a language I couldn't understand. Then again, I have a memory, probably from that same time, of my mother speaking nonsensically to me. I guess I was at an age when language hadn't kicked in yet.

that reminds me of when I was somewhere between 4 and 5, I picked up one of my older sister's school textbooks, I think it was 3rd grade level, and it was all a mass of unrecognizable, mysterious symbols to my little kid brain, and for some reason I became fascinated with just one little word, it only had 4 letters to me but it might as well have been the earthly representative of universal secrets, and I pointed to it and asked my sister, "what's that word?" and she said, matter-of-factly, "just." that was the first word I learned to read.

^ interesting. i wish i knew what my first word was, spoken or read. i seem to remember pretty much nothing of value before those days.

you're kidding.

i'm pretty sure my first word was "hot." [being bathed]

I was told by my parents that my first words was, "kitty," because we had cats.

Further programmes:

• 999
• Antiques Roadshow
• A Touch of Frost
• Bottom
• Brookside
• Carrot's Commercial Breakdown
• Coronation Street
• Cracker
• Crimewatch
• Dispatches
• Get Stuffed
• GM:TV
• Hale & Pace
• Heartbeat
• Hospital!
• News at Ten
• Panorama
• Prisoner: Cell Block H
• QED
• Sons & Daughters
• Spitting Image
• The Big Breakfast
• The Thin Blue Line
• Thief Takers
• World in Action

Xena, The Tribe, Buffy, Charmed and Dark Angel. I don't know if its was just me being drawn to strong/pretty female characters or if that's the kind of shows they had on in the 90's/ early 2000's.