Just watching this countdown on channel 5 of the greatest kid's tv shows. I can bet any money that Jim'l fix it won't be in the list, which is a travesty. Another stalinist revision of history.

And my god doesn't Mick Robertson from Magpie look really old now, and Jenny Hanley looks as if she has had lots of work done.

The 70's had really interesting Kid's tv presenters with personality like John Noakes, Mick Robertson, or Jimmy Saville. After that we just got dullards like Phillip Schofield and Andy Peters.

Andi - please Robbie, which says it all really, doesn't it?

I always thought of "Jim'll fix it" as a family show rather than being for children so I don't think it should be included anyway.
Mind you, I don't remember anyone rushing home to see Mary Mungo and Midge.

Haven't seen tonight's show.....all I know is revisionist programmes NEVER catch the mood of the era. I was always BBC TV as a kid, but DVD is a great invention and certain companies provide my missing link of kids tv drama from ITV that I never saw 1st time round......modern kids TV Drama has zero edge to it, no reason to appeal to a young audience as fresh and exciting......it's nowadays about repeating success and milking the same furrow until dry.

Cynical, old codger talk, but in my revisionist version it's true