The TV Shows of Our Childhood
Cartoon Network/Disney By Jacob Hando, Emily Dennis, Katie Evans, Louise Chase and Morgan McMillan on
The television we watch as kids will always be formative. Edge writers have come together to catalogue the shows that shaped them, from Disney Channel to Cartoon Network.
Ben 10
Take an everyday item of clothing (a watch), turn it into a shapeshifting device for ten different alien skins and watch kids go berserk over it. That is the nature of
Ben 10, Cartoon Network’s triumphant first series between 2005-2008. This was the show I dashed home from school for: to see Grandpa Max and his Rustbucket, Kevin Levin and Vilgax, Four Arms and Diamondhead. With a highly memorable theme song and a host of terrific creature designs that generated fabulous merchandise, this show of a ten-year-old saving the galaxy is still a joy to return to. The episodes were undeniably formulaic, but the novelty comes from seeing which creature Ben w