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My Favourite Childhood TV – Part 2 – Game Shows

Welcome to the second part of my nostalgic look back at TV shows I enjoyed during my childhood. In the previous post I looked at my favourite programmes involving animation and puppetry, and thank you to those who have already enjoyed reading it. There have been great suggestions for other shows I could have mentioned, including Pingu, Noggin The Nog, The Shoe People, Bodger & Badger, Dappledown Farm and Babar. So do go and check that post out to see what you remember.

For this post, meanwhile, I want to explore my top 40 game shows, again covering the period of my life up to the age of 18. I enjoyed keeping my brain busy as a child, often with my nose buried in puzzle books, especially when travelling, so I enjoyed word games and quizzes. But I also adored the many game shows for children where they got to play silly and messy games, and I often wished I could be on them. As I was rather a shy, quiet, well-behaved child (yes, I was a good boy most of the time, honest!), it was a great form of escapism and excitement.

Of course, this is just a summary look at the programmes I enjoyed, so I haven’t gone into detail about the history of each show, how the formats were sold between countries, all of the revivals that have taken place, any DVD releases that a few of the shows have had, and so on. And I haven’t listed any programmes that I already have in my DVD & Blu-ray Collection either. The occasional mention of such details will come up here and there, but ultimately you can find out more about the shows at the Wikipedia articles, websites and videos I’ve linked to below, and you can do further searching online if you wish.

So I hope you find this second part interesting, and it brings back more fond memories for you like it has for me.

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Nightmares At The Theatre

Over the past couple of months I’ve seen a couple of theatre shows which are in complete contrast to each other – one a dramatic play (A Monster Calls), the other an interactive comedy (Knightmare Live). Yet both feature monsters and scary situations in their own way. So as I’ve only had the chance to write about them now, I thought I’d put them together in one post, because they’re so different.

So I hope you like reading about them. They’ve both finished their runs at their respective venues, but they may well appear elsewhere. So I recommend keeping an eye out for them, as I did enjoy them both. And if this post does entertain you, please consider sponsoring my upcoming charity abseil – that will be a bit scary for me, but I’m very excited about it too!

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My Favourite Computer Games – Part 1

One of the programmes I’m enjoying on TV at the moment is Dara Ó Briain’s Go 8 Bit, a comedy game show where celebrities compete against each other on a variety of video games, both old and new. It’s great fun, and it’s got me thinking about some of the games I used to enjoy playing when I was younger. So I thought I’d spend a few posts writing about them, to happily wallow in nostalgia for a bit. Feel free to comment if you enjoyed any of the same games as me, or want to talk about any of the titles you loved, in case it reminds me of others that I’ve forgotten.

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