BBC drops a Clanger?

From the old news department (last week):

Souped-up Clangers to return to TV
Forty years after their debut, the whistling pink woolly mice are poised to return in a technically improved version
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/oct/15/clangers-remake-bbc

NO!
They can’t do that!!!
They will try and update it, make them from something that is not wool, not knitted, add additional characters and just, you know, ruin it.

I showed my kids The Clangers from YouTube and they loved it – even the sixteen year old. It was innocent fun from years ago and (like The Magic Roundabout, which they also loved) something which really does not need to be updated.

Other things from my youth that my kids thoroughly enjoyed were Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss, Batman (the 1960’s live action one), Captain Pugwash, Mr Benn, Willo the Wisp and Ludwig, Sir Prancealot, Roobarb, even Postman Pat (not with the older ones though). Thomas the Tank Engine was dismissed as being childish, and they um’d and ah’d over Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (so we never went back). None of them were all that interested in Stingray, Joe 90, or Thunderbirds (“you can see the strings!”).

What do you remember watching from your youth, and what would you like to see updated/remade for your kids, grand kids, great grand kids, etc?