Author Topic: Madge Bishop (Read 10921 times)

smurfboy · « **Reply #60 on:** February 03, 2006, 03:53:29 pm »

Do you remember Cone Zone? A bit like Spatz, but in an ice cream parlour instead of a burger bar.

chocolate chick · « **Reply #61 on:** February 03, 2006, 03:53:59 pm »

No....I will search that one as well

smurfboy · « **Reply #62 on:** February 03, 2006, 04:00:46 pm »

It wasn't as good as Spatz. I thought you might remember it as it was on when I was about 15, so you would have been aout the right age for it.

oldspice · « **Reply #63 on:** February 03, 2006, 06:17:19 pm »

I used to like watching Grange Hill with my children because it always had something interesting to debate.

goldencup · « **Reply #64 on:** February 03, 2006, 07:00:25 pm »

I did too Oldspice. Remember Fat Roland and of course the big drugs thing with Zammo?

oldspice · « **Reply #65 on:** February 03, 2006, 08:26:40 pm »

Yes. And that crazy teacher with the wig. Can't remember his name.

smurfboy · « **Reply #66 on:** February 03, 2006, 08:34:44 pm »

Mr Bronson.

goldencup · « **Reply #67 on:** February 03, 2006, 09:14:50 pm »

Quite a few of the EastEnders cast started out on Grange Hill - Letitia Dean, Susan Tully, Todd Carty and I think there were more.

smurfboy · « **Reply #68 on:** February 03, 2006, 09:19:27 pm »

It's like a prep school for Eastenders!

Lynne Slater, Billy Mitchell, Juley Smith...

goldencup · « **Reply #69 on:** February 03, 2006, 09:20:53 pm »

They must have all been in it after I stopped watching! I suppose they already had the right accent.

StrollingMinstrel · « **Reply #70 on:** February 04, 2006, 12:54:21 am »

My kids used to love Tots TV. Although slightly odd set up... two guys, a french girl and a donkey living together!?!

oldspice · « **Reply #71 on:** February 04, 2006, 08:35:47 am »

That's no so unusual around here.

When my children were small I became very concerned about the lack of strong female characters in tiny tots TV. We had Thomas the Tank Engine, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder....I could go on.

Even where females were represented, their characters were passive rather than active; serving in the shop, making lunch and even worse, in the case of Thomas the Tank Engine, the female engines were lazy, over-made-up floozies (Daisy and Clarabelle) who never ran on time.

How can a modern mum bringing up a daughter cope with such negative stereotyping?

smurfboy · « **Reply #72 on:** February 04, 2006, 03:56:39 pm »

I wouldn't worry about it - as long as she knows how to cook and make herself look pretty, she can bag a rich man and won't have to think.

goldencup · « **Reply #73 on:** February 04, 2006, 04:03:46 pm »

oldspice · « **Reply #74 on:** February 04, 2006, 04:42:41 pm »

I hope nobody took my post serously. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek.

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Author Topic: Madge Bishop (Read 10921 times)