I was a child of the 1980’s. I loved bubble skirts, fluoro socks and New Kids on the Block. I used to fluff up my fringe (like Effie) and watch Molly Ringwald movies.

Today, I’m sharing my Fave Fave childhood television shows, and as you can imagine, they’re from the 1980’s.

In no particular order, they include:

Punky Brewster




Punky Brewster is an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) being raised by her foster parent (George Gaynes).

Punky wore mismatched shoes and socks and had attitude. I thought she was the coolest.

Alf




Alf (whose real name was Gordon Shumway) was a friendly extra-terrestrial nicknamed ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form), who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.

Alf was naughty and cheeky and had funny ways to getting solutions to his daily dilemma’s.


Fraggle Rock




Singing and dancing Muppets – what’s not to love?


The Brady Bunch




A classic. I used to watch this show every afternoon, after school. I didn’t like Marcia and loved Cindy. I was uninterested in the boys. They were boring. I wondered why my mother didn’t name me Cindy. In all fairness, I was about 6 years old at the time.

Remember the kazoo episode? And George Glass? And I remember nagging my mum to buy me a Kitty Carry All doll – because Cindy had one.

I scored a Baby Alive instead ;-)


Degrassi Junior High




Blast from the past, right?

Degrassi Junior High aired on the ABC here in Australia. It was super dramatic with all the kids have so many issues to deal with. Much more interesting than anything that was going on in my life.

I went to an all girl Catholic high school where hair spray, gel and hair teasing was against the rules – so of course Spike was my favourite.