A stellar lineup of A-list of celebrities found their fame on our TV screens in the 90s and 00s, from the likes of Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana to Selena Gomez as Alex Russo in Wizards of Waverley Place. But whilst these shows still remain firmly in our minds, there’s a list of childhood series you’ve probably forgotten about, despite their impact on your life.
It was during this era that kids TV was at an all-time high, and Millennial and Gen-Z children had so much to choose from. Whether it was CBBC that had you hooked or you were a Disney Channel kid, these shows were all an after-school hit before the days of streaming services.
Following the lives of three Children, Mel, Josh, and Lucy Barker, alongside their new foster parents Brian and Sophie Johnson, My Parents Are Aliens is a British TV show set in the home of a morphed form of a spaceship. The children quickly discover that the Johnsons are in fact aliens from the planet Valux, and crash-landed here on Earth when their Brian accidentally tampered with the controls of their spaceship. Not to mention, they have the unusual ability to morph into other people.
Initially airing on CITV in 1999, the show went on to have eight successful seasons before it ended in 2006. Parents Brian and Sophie are played by Tony Gardner, who starred in The Thick of It and Fresh Meat, and Coronation Street star Carla Mendonça.
Genie in the House was a British sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon UK in 2006 and went on to have four seasons. The show followed the lives of two teenage daughters, Emma and Sophie, who discover a mysterious golden lamp hiding in the loft of their new home.
