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The Children's Channel
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Looking back at TV schedules from The Children's Channel, a cable/satellite TV station than ran from 1984 to 1998 in Europe.
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Another day where everything is hidden behind wraparounds, but somehow that makes me even more excited about what I could have watched.

The Children's Channel on the 16th of May, 1990.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Stories Without Words, Huva, Cartoon Classics, Roustabout, Jack in the Box, Cartoon Time, Drama and How Things Work.
May 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Friends are there...

The Children's Channel on the 15th of May 1996
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Byker Grove, Halfway across the Galaxy and Turn Left, The new Pink Panther Show. Garfield and Friends, Eek the Cat, Creepy Crawlers, Casper and Friends, Dinobabies, Barney and Friends, Tiny TCC, Sesame Street and California Dreams.
May 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Everything hidden in wraparound shows, shame because I reckon there are some absolute bangers in there!

The Children's Channel on the 14th of May, 1991
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Stories without Words, Cartoon Capers, The Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show, Jack in the Box and Lunch Box.
May 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Robinson Sucroe, or as it's called today thanks to the tax, Robinson Aspartamoe.

The Children's Channel on the 13th of May 1997.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel. With road to Avonlea, Dennis the Menace, Batman, Art Attack, Flash Gordon, Bobby's world, Creepy Crawlers, Robinson Sucroe, Danger Mouse, Gravedale High, Oscar's Orchestra, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, By Way of the Stars, The New Adventures of Black Beauty, The Girl From Tomorrow and The Big Dish.
May 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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In a distant land, in a farawy place, the planet of New Texas lies deep in space.

The Children's Channel on the 12th of May 1988.
Newspaper tv listing for the Children's Channel. Confirming its availability on Dublin 9 and Waterford 9. Including Jack in the Box, Roustabout, Brave Starr, Telecat, Freewheelers, My Little Pony and Friend, Out of Limits, Stories without Words, Enchanted Pencil, Le Piaf, dorothy, Plastinots, Bunny with Chequered Ears, Open House, Magic Corner, Sing A Song, Edward and Friends, Make Music Fun, Ploom, Storytime, Teddy Drop Ear, Dr Snuggles, Captain Bagwash, Moschops, Pippa the Hen, and Jeremy.
May 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Contact, is the secret, is the moment, when everything happens.
Contact, is the motion, is the reason, when everything happens Contact!

The Children's Channel on the 9th of May 1993.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, including Best of Jack in the Box, Commander Crumbcake, The Greatest Tune on Earth, Cartoon Classics, RatKan II, Cartoon Classics, Marvel Hour, Okavango, 3-2-1...Contact, The Barklays, Chicken Minute, Round the Bend, Ralph S. Mouse and TCC.
May 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard The Pink Panther open his mouth and speak!

The Children's Channel on the 8th of May, 2025.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with California Dreams, Byker Grove, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, The New Pink Panther Show, Garfield and Friends, Eek the Car, Creepy Crawlers, Casper and Friends, Dinobabies, Barney and Friends, Tiny TCC and Sesame Street.
May 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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G'day and let's all learn about science with Rob and Deane!

The Children's Channel on the 7th of May 1992.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, noting that it is available on Dublin 9 and Waterford cable networks. With Cartoon Time, Rumplestiltskin, Curiosity Show, Kaboodle, Black Beauty, Drama Hour: Animal Talk, The Children's Channel Express, He-Man, You Can't Do That on Television, My Little Pony and Friends.
May 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Hey hey, Blinky Bill!

The Children's Channel on the 6th of May 1994.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with RatKan II, It's Droibee Time, Barney and Friends and Blinky Bill.
May 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Getting small, smaller, smallest!

The Children's Channel on the 2nd of May, 1989.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Cartoon Time, Stories Without Words, HUVA, Mask, Cuckoo!, Black Arrow, Roustabout, Around the World with Willy Fog, Cable Cook, Telecat, The Matics, CurioCity, Jack in the Box, Cockleshell Bay, Rub a Dub Dub, The Flumps, Edward and Friends, Animal Families, Sylvanian Families, Magic Corner, Under the Umbrella Tree, My Little Pony and Friends, The Bluffers, The Enchanted Pencil, Le Piad, On Sooty, and The Spite and the Owl.
May 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I'm strong to the finish, 'cos I eats me spinach!

The Children's Channel on the 1st of May, 1987
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Roustabout, Johnny the Pea, Black Beauty, Spider Woman, Popeye, Jack in the Box, Rub a Dub dub, White Beard, Sally and Jake, Pinwheel, Storytime, Dr. Snuggles, Teddy Drop Ear, Victor & Maria, Bunny with Chequered Ears, Orm & Cheep, Moschops, Open House and Voltron.
May 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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If you insist.
May 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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More people should have watched The Smoggies back then. (This is as political as I get on here)

The Children's Channel on the 30th of April, 1992.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Stories Without Words, Non-Stop Cartoon Capers, The Smoggies, Jack in the Box, Rosie and Jim, The Little Green Man, Lunchbox, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, Good Sports.
April 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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With Nick, Cartoon Network and Sky One still providing competition the variety in content was less at this period in TCCs life, however that is still a solid line-up 13 year old me would have enjoyed.

The Children's Channel on the 29th of April, 1995
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, Molly, Round the Twist, Babysitter's Club, Blast, Creepy Crawlers, The Bots Master, Skeleton Warriors, Battletech, Swan's Crossing, Ready or Not, California Dreams, The Tick and Heartbreak High,
April 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Still not sure if Adventure is a tv programme or a genre of a slot to be filled later. I do remember a programme with Christopher Reeve that it might have been, but this slot is scheduled way more than that would have been.

The Children's Channel on the 28th of April, 1990.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel with Cuckoo Omnibus, Huva, The New Steve and Danny Show, Wizbit, Mask, TCC Club, Curiosity, Stories without Words , Drama, Adventure.
April 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Ah that wonderful rebranding excercise, Jack in the Box was too 80s so lets hear it for (five to five on a friday evening) "Pre-school Block"

The Children's Channel on the 25th of April, 1995.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Sesame Street, Pre-school Block, Madeline, Barney and Friends, Dinobabies, Sonic the Hedgehog, California Dreams and Degrassi Junior High.
April 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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This iteration of Dennis the Menace deserves to be remembered. Puppets on front of a comic strip background, the first time I saw these characters not on paper.

The Children's Channel on the 24th of April, 1991.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, featuring Shazam, Non-Stop Cartoon Capers, The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show, Jack in the Box, Edward and Friends, Little Zoo, Three Kitten House, Little Miss Sunshine, Noddy, Broomsticks Cottage, Picture Pages, Jamie and the Magic Torch, The Pondles, Chou Chou, Non Stop Cartoon Capers, Drama : Into the Labyrinth - Part 9, Cartoon Time.
April 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Ahhh!

The Children's Channel on the 22nd of April, 1993
Newspaper tv listing for The Chilren's channel, with Jack in the box, RatKan II, Stories Without Words, Say Ahhh!, Secret Valley, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Bobobobs and TCC.
April 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Fog, I'm the one who made the bed and I know we'll be exactly right on time!

The Children's Channel on the 11th of April 1989.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Cartoon Time, Stories Without Words, HUVA, Diplodo, Cuckoo!, Freewheelers, Roustabout, Around the World with Willy Fog, Cable Cook, Telecat, The Matics, CurioCity, Jack in the Box, Cockleshell Bay, Rub a Dub Dub, Musicians of Bremen, Dual Dua, Shoe People, Animal Families, Get Along Gang, Magic Corner, Under the Umbrella Tree, My Little Pony and Friends, Spartakus, Stories Without Words, The Enchanted Pencil, Le Piaf, Peter's Adventures, & Marcelko and Boniface.
April 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Everybody shout!

The Children's Channel on the 7th of April, 1988.
Newspaper tv listing for the Children's Channel. Notes that it is available on Dublin 9 and Waterford 9. With Jack in the Box, Pinwheel, Roustabout, Groovy Ghoulies, Telecat, Worzel Gummidge, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Spacewatch, Brave Starr, Saturdee, Stories Without Words, Enchanted Pencil, Le Piaf, Two's Company, Plastinots, Bojan, Nursery Rhymes, Adventures of Rexy, The Four Musicians, Storytime, Victor and Maria, Dr. Snuggles, Bill the Minder, Portland Bill and Vic the Viking.
April 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Where the truth lies.

The Children's Channel on the 2nd of April, 1995.
Newspaper tv listing for the Children's Channel, with Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, Runaway Bay, Beakman's World, Amazing Live Sea Monkeys, Gigantor, He-man, The Bots Master, Bad Level 10!, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Eek the Cat, Pugwall's Summer, Swan's Crossing, Degrassi Junior High, Ready or Not and California Dreams.
April 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Rumour has it they've signed Michael Valiant for the second Red Bull seat if Yuki doesn't immediately get up to speed.

The Children's Channel on the 1st of April, 1992.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Stories Without Words, Non-Stop Cartoon Capers, The Barklays, Michael Valiant, Widget, Roobarb, Jack in the Box, Noddy, Two Friends and their Dog, Johnson and Friends, Ivor the Engine, What-a-Mess, Pinny's House, Colin Kerrigan, Captain Pugwash, Emma and Grandpa, Stories without Words, Non-Stop Cartoon Capers, Lunchbox, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, Stig of the Dump, Henry's Cat, Dungeons & Dragons, Fifteen and The Guys Next Door.
April 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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The soil he did crawl!

The Children's Channel on the 31st of March, 1996.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, with Cybernet, Sweet Valley High, Heartbreak High, Madison, Blast, The Tick, Eek the Cat, Earthworm Jim, and Garfield and Friends.
March 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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No idea what The BNut is? (Could be a typo for The Big Dish based on what was on other days at this time).

The Children's Channel on the 27th March, 1998.
Newspaper tv listing for The Children's Channel, including Videoplus codes. First Entry appears to be a typo, smudged writing that looks like The BNut. Rest of programmes include Spirou, Dennis the Menace, Ocean Odyssey, Spellbinder II, Road to Avonlea, AJ's Tim Travellers, Flash Gordon, Iznogoud, The New Adventures of Gigantor, Spirou, and Oscar's Orchestra.
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Princess, the place is under siege!

The Children's Channel on the 26th of March, 1993.
Newspaper tv listing for the Children's Channel, with Stories Without Words, Non-Stop Cartoon Capers, Kissy Fur, T-Rex, Captain N-The Game Master, Manu, Jack in the Box, Clowning Around, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, CDQ, Mr. Rossi, Costa, Spiff and Hercules and TCC.
March 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM