Guys,

Wanted to go down memory lane. The older guys on sajha must have good memories of when Nepal Television first came to Nepal. I remember that only one of my relatives had a TV at first. And it was such a big deal. At first there was only news and a few hours of television programming.

I was wondering what are the shows you remember?

My memories are of Rama Singh and Durgha nath Sharma telling the news. I still remember the tune when the news started.

The cartoon Barba-papa - this chewing gum looking character with his family...Barba-mama, barba-joe, barba-this and barba-that. Whole family could change shape on command. I think this was one of the first cartoons on NTV. Us kids were highly entertained. Clickety-click Barba click!

On Saturday afternoons, my friends and I would sit down to watch the afternoon show.

Remember Variety Variety -- it was like 'America's got talent.' It was like a circus with people with all kinds of talents.

And I remember foreign shows like--The Professionals (that was my favorite. My cousin and I used to run around with fake guns and pretend that we were the professionals.) Dempsey and Makepiece. The A team. Faulty towers.
Knight Rider...and that show with the super-motorcycle. I forget that name.

And then there were Nepali shows like...damn I don't remember but I remember the character played by Ramesh Budhathoki -- Deepak Thapa. In that character Ramesh Budhathoki used to do this thing with his forefinger that he would rub it under his nose. Wow, that really caught on in Kathmandu during that time. All the kids were doing that. The funny thing was that apparantly whenever any kid saw Budhathoki, they would do that to him and after a while it started to get annoying to him. LOL.

And I remember all the advertisements that used to be made in India. You could tell because they were Indian actors in the commercial but the words would be Nepali. Some of it would sound so odd. Like that Maggi commercial, "Mummy bhok lage chha." (as opposed to 'Mummy, bhok lagyo')

Bhim Tuladhar and his ROUND sunglasses;; COBWEB.. bishwaghatana

first memories.........................waiting for ntv to start its programme and just watching those screen with rainbow colour and a countdown clock in it......remember???

you guys remember Tuborg commercial during world cup :)

taaraantaaaran... sherpa sabun...taaraantaaraan.. jumps into kayak.

AT MY FARM HOUSE( PURKHYAULI GHAR) THERE WAS NO CABLE... NEPAL TV MATRA THYO...NTV MATRA THYO... KRISHI KARYAKRAM KO....... MUSIC IS THE ONE I REMEMBER........ AND MUMIN....

does anyone else remember a show called  'chature ko dau pech' or something similar. I can't even remember if this show was a new one or an old one.

Tadha ko basti

Chakraview

Dr. Who

Ye ba, yee ba, sahar bata dai ko chitthi aacha, jhattta aaunus jhattaa...

"Baa, 2 saya bhanya hoina..teha ta 2 hajar lekhya raicha,

khoi ka ka

ani acchaar ma pani 2 hajar lekhya cha

pakha pakha ma milai halchu ni..(or something like that)" :P

 

Bishwo ghatana

@babalkhate! that program was i guess "Prativa ko Dabali". ....
flash memories are of...
bhakunde bhoot of Maha
tadha ko basti & chakrabue were really good "natak"
Sunday pop ta sait nai hairnu parthyo......
automan, flash, night rider, manimal were awesome....
and then hanuman sir from twakka tukkaa hilarious episodes

finally.."prasaran rokina gayeko ma chyame prathi chau" hehehe.......

Do any one of you remember a nepali sci-fi telefilm?
Some UFO lands on Kathmandu and creates chaos. People gets annoyed with all sorts of things going around them like they could not even turn off any of their appliances. It was like some sort of energy was powering every devices. One guy even broke his radio and even broken pieces out of it kept on producing annoying music. The show was hilarious and crappy..but was a good start at least I would say a good vision to educate people about UFO, ETs and Space. But heck.. nobody followed.. and NTV only produced crappy tv serials portraying garib nepali janatas and social issues. Looks like they never wanted to move forward.

I used to watch Doctor Who, bishwa ghatna, gitanjali, Saturday 2PM hindi movie, etc. The like the ad about Surya cigarette about a guy in foreign land remembering about Nepal, Himalayas, Gorkha durbar etc. I think it was in English language. And yes, during the world cup about Surya cigarette "Ghama ko pailo kiran le - asha ko jyoti jagaunu cha" with man carrying two children in kharpan. About foreign ads, San Miguel black and white ad was seductive. I think, people later could not compete with Indian ads, and we have now more of indian ads than nepali ads. Most of them are really annoying.

How about hindi movie @ 2 ....help mom to wash clothes so that she would let me watch tv all saturday!

@khairey! i hear u. i have watched that show. A boy can do lot of kinda magic tricks by scratching the stone looking thing found from UFO incident. At the end part, the boy destroys it throwing from the cliff or somewhere..anyways, anyone remembers Santosh Panta's " Mit Baa"

remember the people missing announcements right before the 8 pm news." gahu goro barna ko" was like a requirement.

@sab_nepali_kosathi I remember that tele film ! pach pach pach saya lol

My most remembering part is saturday movies ! we used to cover our windows becoz our light directly falls on it and stay whole family to watch movie !! saturday was favourite day but now i hate f**king saturday !!

Atom, I think you're right. Pratibha ko Dabali. Damn dude, you have a good memory. How did you remember that?

LOL. Dipayal ko adhiktam taptram....Yeah I remember that. I think Dipayal was always top on the list. I used to tune out once I heard Dipyal's adhiktam taptram.

Oh, I just remembered the name of the super-motorcycle show--Streethawk . There was that nerdy looking guy in that show.

Madan Krishna and Hari Bansa did a few really good shows. But somehow in my mind all their skits kind of run into one other.
Ramesh Budhathoki did quite a few that were good.

I remember Sunday Pop hosted by Bhusan Dhahal 

@ Khaire and Automic त्यो टेलिचलचित्रको नाम "गती" हो, अनि त्यस्मा त्यो बच्चाले उस्को बाउलाई आमा र आमालाई बाउ मा परिवर्तन गरिदिन्थियो । स्कुलमा पनि मिसले 3 लेख्दा उस्ले 8 बनाएर मिसलाई हैरान गर्ने है :D सारै रमाईलो थियो त्यो दिनहरु जब नेपाल टिवि को प्रशारण भएको थियो ।

@ बबाल ब्रो त्यो टेलिचलचित्रको नाम "चक्रब्यू" हो, कृष्ण मल्ल, रमेश बुढाथोकि,

टाढाको बस्ती टेलिचलचित्रमा रमेश बुढाथोकि काजी बा अनि अशोक शर्मा दिपक थापा .....
"धिक्टान्ग, धिक्टान्ग, टिन्ग डिन्ग टिन्ग टिडिन्ग" अशोक शर्मा बन्चरो लिएर आउँदा बज्ने :P

@babalkhate! myan! cause I (a little kid with my frens- tire lai lathhi lay gudaudai) went to mangalbazar my hometown to watch that show breaking the crowds lmao.

Devi and there was other one.. i can't remember.. Someone remind me.. was sponsored by Unicef or something like women empowerment awareness show..

"Ujeli" hola ho.

The most memorable images of the NTV back in the days were the cartoon that used to come right before the Baal Karyakram (Kids Show). Remember the cartoon that showed toons wearing all kinds of Neplease dresses representing different casts and visiting around kathmandu and dancing. I still remember the music of that cartoon. And I also remember the program in that baal karyakram about how to draw. Actually this program inspired me to be an artist. Because of this program i end up taking part in various art competition in my school days.