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"I remember that!" best old TV shows

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12:32 / 20.09.05

Really? Neat-o. I loved Why Don't You.

Damn, that man is all over my childhood...

12:50 / 20.09.05

Fist of Fun! "I am Rod Hull! Give me greeeen Jelly, I love jelly!" and "Do you want the moon on a stick?" (I still use that one).

This show was my first real shot of weird alterna-comedy, and I love it. Lee and Herring are the shit, anyone disagrees, I'll set the Curious Orange on ya' (okay, that was TMWRNJ, but still...)

13:13 / 20.09.05

Dark Season on UKNova. This utterly kicks the arse of any 1980s Who. It's even got Jacqueline Pearce! The first half is a little ropey, but the last episode is great:

Teacher: "Listen to yourselves, you sound like Nazis!"
Bad Guy: [Disdainful look] "They are Nazis."

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:20 / 20.09.05

Thomas: Oh, *I* get it. Blonde hair, blue eyes...
Jacqueline Pierce: _Perfection_!
Thomas: The master race.

13:28 / 20.09.05

Does anybody remember Sledge Hammer? A hilarious spoof of the Dirty Harry films. I want this on DVD now!

Well, you're in luck. Season 1's been out for about a year now, and season 2 came out a couple of months ago -- I think both regions.

Season One
Season Two

Ah, memories. Silver's choice for greatest TV show of all time.

13:29 / 20.09.05

Sorry to distract from Dark Season but ooh! ooh!

Its not too late (even now) to submit your drawings, paintings etc to the NEW Tony Hart Online Gallery. If your picture never appeared in any of Tony's Galleries on TV and you fancy another go (age no barrier), heres your chance! No bigger than 640x480 please. All entries will be considered and if we get too many we'll just make an even bigger gallery - hows that??? Send them via the link at the bottom of the Gallery page please.

A childhood dream realised!

16:16 / 20.09.05

Tony Hart is awesome. I have the music in my head now. Might get scribbling...

Btw, UKNova sounds awesome, but It's got a closed admissions policy with no apparent way in. Anyone a member / know how to become a member? I wanna watch Dark season too...!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:20 / 20.09.05

WHY WHY WHY is this thread not ALL ABOUT BAKERSFIELD PD???

It's not on DVD. It's not online. And I recently found out that the guy I knew who taped them all when they were on has had a big clean-out and they're no longer there either.

Bakersfield PD was the funniest programme ever. The one that immediately comes to mind is the one where Joe Santos from the Rockford Files comes into the station to report his car being nicked, and the cops all get star-struck. Wade, from his hosiptal bed (having been accidentally shot by Joe Santos, Friend Of Jim Rockford) tries to get him to sort out Gigante's marital problems, and accompany him on a case.

And the one where Gigante is planning on buying a house in the same street that the Nazi redneck cop lives in... and the redneck guy does the whole "I'm not saying YOU'd ruin the neighbourhood... just, y'know, people like you. Like you, for example" with Gigante's ace quiet rage and later ranting.

And Wade's whole tearful speech to the chick he meets in the bar about how he doesn't have anyone he'd take a bullet for...
"You'd take a bullet for your mom, right?"
"Aah, I already took a bullet for her. And Pa weren't aiming straight. Hey, I'd take a bullet for you, baby!" "But then you'd die, and that would be sad."
"I wouldn't have to die. It might just pass straight through me."
"But then I'd die."
"Oh yeah."

Or something. I'm paraphrasing from memory because GOD IS SO CRUEL THAT BAKERSFIELD PD IS UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE. I'd fucking take a bullet for it, I really would.

17:34 / 20.09.05

Does anyone else remember a cartoon called Pirates of Darkwater?

No one I've ever mentioned it to has heard of it, and I thought for years that I'd dreamed the entire thing, but I just found a couple of websites that mention it...

18:07 / 20.09.05

Ahem. UKNova's policy is apparently:

Why can't my friend become a member?

There is a 75,000 users limit. When that number is reached we stop accepting new members. Accounts inactive for more than 42 days are automatically deleted, so keep trying. (There is no reservation or queuing system, don't ask for that.)

Which sounds a bit arbitrary, but it used to be 30,000, so there are probably quite a lot of people who don't use it that often. I wonder how you start a tracker/torrent of something you have? Sounds like a project to me.

18:07 / 20.09.05

I love the first episode where the main character has to battle his way out of the boneship's hull. I can't remember much else but Monkeybirds, Pirates!

21:37 / 20.09.05

Parker Lewis Can't Lose. It sure seemed cool and fun when I was in eighth grade, have no idea if it would hold up now.

>> "V" was great - I loved "V" -

Yes, although the miniseries were far superior to the very weak 'always preserved the status quo' hour-long TV series that followed. Damn, those miniseries were good, though.

22:02 / 20.09.05

are you guys also talking about 70s nostalgia? Sid and Marty Krofft helped raise me and today I've just stumbled upon what's probably the first website to bring tears to my eyes...

maybe it's stuff for a whole new thread in itself.

00:12 / 21.09.05

it used to be 30,000, so there are probably quite a lot of people who don't use it that often

Hmm, well, they kicked me off just because I was too busy working/having a life to keep my computer on all day and/or use all my bandwidth to seed torrents to get a higher user ratio (meaning I didn't read their messages in time, telling me that they would unless I seeded more). And they ban your IP address once you're off, too, BTW. Not bitter. No, not me...

(On topic) Yes, Tony Hart and Morph were good, but what about the mysterious Mr Bennett? And what was that kids gameshow that he hosted around the same time (took place in a kind of circus/fairground...?)

vanishinghitchhiker

01:43 / 21.09.05

For all the American Gothic fans, it's true that the season didn't finish broadcasting; also, the episodes were not all aired in their original order. After a little digging, I found a site that lists the episode order both as aired and as originally intended. I've been able to find all the episodes for download now and then, though not many people seem to have them, and they're low-quality transfers from tv. Actually now that I think about it, the whole series must've had some sort of secondary run somewhere along the line in order for people to offer them. There's never been a DVD release, though I just looked and apparently it will be released in the US on 25 October 2005, so... Download it while you have an excuse, if you like.

Ahhh, Mathnet. There was also a mystery involving a kid who was a big Springsteen fan (some part of the mystery involved getting a phone number based on the notes played by the buttons), and one involving a gorilla and Yeardley Smith (of Lisa Simpson's voice fame). Actually I just looked that up, and apparently her character's name was Jane Rice-Burroughs. Nice Tarzan reference: ahh, the things we don't pick up as children.

Gridley, thanks for the excellent mention of, umm, acquiring Mysterious Cities of Gold. For so long I couldn't even find anyone who'd heard of it; it would never have occurred to me that it was, umm, acquirable. Didn't have cable myself growing up but I used to catch the show when at my grandmother's for vacations... Got up at 6 a.m. to see it when I had to. I had a terrible crush on one of the kids in it but I can't remember which...

02:32 / 21.09.05

Parker Lewis Can't Lose. It sure seemed cool and fun when I was in eighth grade, have no idea if it would hold up now.

I am forced by something deep inside me to believe that Parker Lewis would in fact hold up today. It seemed so ahead of its time! In my remembered version of it, it was like a cross between Scrubs and Ferris Bueller with just a tinge of They Might Be Giants.

06:25 / 21.09.05

And what was that kids gameshow that he hosted around the same time (took place in a kind of circus/fairground...?)

One more time,
From the top.
A bit more flip,
a little less flop.
Ahh ha, you're really gonna be a star.

And it was pretty bad. Sorry to hear about the UKNova thing.

08:21 / 21.09.05

Parker Lewis Can't Lose. It sure seemed cool and fun when I was in eighth grade, have no idea if it would hold up now.

I am forced by something deep inside me to believe that Parker Lewis would in fact hold up today. It seemed so ahead of its time! In my remembered version of it, it was like a cross between Scrubs and Ferris Bueller with just a tinge of They Might Be Giants.

Oooooh yes! What a great show. I used to be able to play Mikey's song on the guitar. So very sad.

11:03 / 21.09.05

Does anyone remember a cartoon about a buffalo/cow that talked and looked a lot like the character from Bullseye? It used to be shown on Channel 4 I think, mid 90's. This one has been driving me mad trying to remember its name.

12:16 / 21.09.05

that was Rocco's Modern Life, if I remember correctly. Roccoworked in a comic store and his cow-best-buddy was called Heffer. God bless min-90's Nickelodeon, some of the best cartoons ever came out of there!

It's a total bugger about UKNova though....what an elitist site for what is, essentially, a list of links. Never mind, the shows probably are better left in my imagination...

BTW,what era's of Grange Hill were people watching when they were at school. I remember a field trip to Germany as my earliest GH experience - that was a seriously top show.

12:31 / 21.09.05

I've been eying off the boxed sets of Shintaro and Blakes 7. Ah well, maybe after we refinance...
The finer things in life!

19:46 / 21.09.05

"Yes, although the miniseries were far superior to the very weak 'always preserved the status quo' hour-long TV series that followed. Damn, those miniseries were good, though."

I kind of liked the human's selling human's to Alien's plot line of the series - and those things in the sand were nasty. Plus it was one of the first times I remember one of the major-ish characters being killed in a programme, and in a really off-hand, pre-title sequence way.

I loved Rocco's modern life!

Also, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, one of the only good things that was shown on SKy in the early days. Was it ever shown terrestrial?

20:26 / 21.09.05

The fact that I have never heard of it leads me to suspect it wasn't (I spent way too much time watching TV as a teenager).

11:07 / 22.09.05

Thanks for the reply Kaizer John, but it wasn't that. Your thinkin of Rocco's friend, Heffer. That cartoon was pretty messed up too. The one I am thinking about was definitely american, the cow/bull lived on a farm and wore clothes.

Pirates of the dark water was great!! Anyone remember a short lived King Arthur cartoon, where they all had wicked cool armour?

16:51 / 22.09.05

King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, perhaps? Where they're all football players from the 20th century, summoned by Merlin to defend Camelot?

23:03 / 22.09.05

anyone else old enough to have seen mighty mouse?

i also remember a bbc [?] show called 'catweasel'... anyone?

...and marine boy, of course! one of the first anime we saw in australia. oxygen chewing gum, fantastic, and of course we all went to swimming with our sticks of gum and held our breath as long as we could, fighting bad guys...

08:17 / 23.09.05

Thinking about my cow/bull character more I think he could have been an Ox, and maybe dressed as a cowboy. I can be less specific if I try

11:17 / 23.09.05

Ollie the Ox? And his mate was a turtle?

17:45 / 23.09.05

I could sing you the mighty mouse theme right now Astro, 'Here he comes to save the day...' and I not only remember Catweasle but have the book. Aaah, like a weird cousin to Stig of the Dump.

21:00 / 23.09.05

Major spoilers for some nineties BBC kids fantasy drama so be warned although you probably already seen it or never ever will so it won't matter a fuck.

I posted this in The Miracle Man thread already but:

There was an old tv series on the BBC where a God was changed into a mortal child (only an enviroment like dank eighties/nineties Britain would train him successfully enough to defeat his Voldermort analogue or something) his mother sent his brothers and sisters there too (still retaining their full God-status and as adults) to guide him surreptiously along the way to triumph as his powers re-emerged with new found terrestrial survival traits and moral stamina intact.

Actually I think this was some sort of punishment/rehibilitation for the God maybe. Out of the brother and sister Gods I remember a heavily built punk rock women and a John Dee like character possibly called Hathaway.
Also the God was found by his mortal parents wrapped in swaddlings on their doorstep. Later they have a biological child which they name Monday I think. They even say something like (reg the young god) "When we found you things were wonderful and then we had Monday and things were awful" (the mother crys I believe).
Oh and at the series end Monday says something like how she can't wait until she recieves her own powers and everyone pulls comedic OFFS faces.

So anyway what was it called anyone else watch and enjoy it?

paranoidwriter waves hello

21:02 / 23.09.05

'Mighty Mouse' was cool, but (IMHO) 'Dangermouse' was better.

Can anybody help me identify the following cartoon? It's difficult to describe in words, but here goes:

It was basically a simple horizontal white line continually spanning the width of the TV screen (with a red background, I think), which used wobble, buckle, undulate, and kink (etc) to form the outline shapes of the protagonist and other various subjects/objects. I have a feeling it was made in France, and my memory tells me it was not only very clever, but also very funny.

23:40 / 23.09.05

Yeah, I remember the one. No idea what it was called.

01:56 / 24.09.05

Shrug.... it could have been goosebumps, but unless somebody can definately link the episode to the series, I have no idea.

Okay... anyone remember this cartoon?

A little blue, ball-shaped man who only wore shoes. I think he lived in a cupboard in sombody's kitchen. His name was Muren Bru....something......maybe? I was irrationaly disconcerted by this when I was wee. I remember feeling, in more abstract terms, that watching this cartoon was like being in the same room as a hairy man in a dirty trenchcoat.

02:17 / 24.09.05

Oh, and Shrug, you're thinking of Archer's Goon.

There were about seven of them. Archer controlled banks. Erskine controlled the sewers. Shine was the punk one, controlling crime. Hathaway was the one who controlled the past, and was found in a museum. The hero was from the future, and lived in a building that wasn't built yet. There was another one who controlled the police.

All were bastards, except the hero, who used to be a bastard, but had mistakenly reincarnated himself as a child a number of times until he was adopted by the right parents and turned out all nice and stuff. They were all stuck in the one English town until the hero came into his powers properly, and they were very pissed at him for fucking about and taking so long.

Based on a novel by a famous author (Diana Wynn Jones possibly?). Great program. Great book.

02:18 / 24.09.05

And I think the sister was called Awful, not Monday.

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