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"I remember that!" best old TV shows

 
  

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Goodness Gracious Meme
01:06 / 16.09.05
Nick Neat. Tina Tidy (wtf do I remember this stuff?)

AFAIC remember, Neat and Tidy was *glorious* and I thank you for reminding me of it, Meem
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
04:05 / 16.09.05
Strange. I just found out today that Fraggle Rock was filmed in Toronto, by Torontonians. ANd apparently episodes were written by...well...apparently Michael Andanche (however you pronounce the name of the guy who wrote "The English Patient") wrote a few episodes. I could be wrong on that guy...but so my TAs claim.
 
 
Seth
08:17 / 16.09.05
From memory:

The arrows turn, the swords repel
Let nothing pierce this mortal shell!

A whim, a though, and more is sought
Awake my mind, thy will be wrought!

Oh mist filled peaks, dark, dank, unclear
Touch all before me with frost-fingered fear!

Three suns align, pour forth their light
And fill the archer's bow with might!

Whispered secrets of a shattered age
I summon you, renew this sage!


And the best one by far:

By nature's hand, by craft, by art
What once was one now fly apart!


Have I missed any?
 
 
Lord Morgue
09:03 / 16.09.05
Am I the only one in the world who remembers "Fatty and George"?
And there was this thing called Operation Adam 88, or something like that, about a team of time-travelling spies from the future, sent to kidnap the genius who had created the Theory of Circularity, to stop their continents from colliding, and instead of the math whiz-kid, they got the old bum who inspired the theory by telling the kid that all good things, like boobs, are round, but he ended up fixing their problem anyway because the infallible supercomputer that predicted the cataclysm was malfunctioning because it was on a tilt, and the old pervert went and propped it up because his pencil kept rolling off it, and what kind of super-advanced society can't build a lousy spirit level, they were as retarded as the Flipside of Dominic Hyde, who fucked his own great-great grandmother, so he was inbred in infinite regression or something...
American Gothic was fucking boss. Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Brenda Bakke, all this and Sam Raimi! Bruce Campbell guest-starred one episode, they even had one show shot in the cabin from Evil Dead. "There's someone at the door!"
 
 
Warewullf
09:12 / 16.09.05
Suprisingly (being that it actually was in Irish, wasn't it?) I liked and understood quite a bit of it.
I was quietly obssesed with Flaherty's Garden and the Mala Men off of Bosco myself.


No, I think it was in english. Don't remeber Flaherty's Garden but god, how I did hate Bosco! And mala! Hah!! Ever try calling it "plasticine" to someover the age of 25? "What? Oh, you mean mala..."
 
 
Shrug
11:06 / 16.09.05
Very true then there's the M-a-r-l-a brigade, of course, who although completely correct in their pronunciation always just recieved wary looks of mistrust or a very condescending "What are you talking about?" at my primary school.
Never took to Bosco either I'm afraid thought he was UAFASACH.
Gets coat
 
 
gridley
12:03 / 16.09.05
I really miss two European-Japanese cartoons that Nickelodeon used to play here in America.

The first was Mysterious Cities of Gold, which took place place in Central and South America in the early 1500s. A Spanish orphan named Esteban was claimed by a mysterious navigator who took him on a mission to the New World. Also on the ship was Zia, young Inca girl, who the Spanish had kidnapped from her homeland. Eventually, they escaped and met up with another kid, Tao, the last of an advanced pre-columbian culture. They had all these amazing adventures involving Aztec and Inca culture, eventually culiminating in finding out the Olmec indians were aliens from space.

The other was Belle and Sebastian, based on a novel by Cécile Aubry, was about a boy in the Pyrenees who travelled around Europe with his big white dog, trying to find the mother that abandoned him years ago.

Both of these shows were so far beyond any other cartoons on at that time in terms of quality and pure charm. I'd love to get my hands on them again.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
14:44 / 16.09.05
Excellent! 'The Mysterious Cities of Gold'! Didn't that have a really catchy/annoying theme tune?..... Damn, what was it again?

Another program I especially liked as a youngster was 'Manimal'. I bet if I saw it now, the acting, writing, and effects (etc) would seem crap, but at the time I thought it was the coolest program ever and I was really gutted that they only did one series.
 
 
Squirmelia
14:57 / 16.09.05
Ah, Belle and Sebastian. I had forgotten entirely what that was called, but I do remember liking it when I was a child, so thanks for naming that one.
 
 
Mike Modular
14:57 / 16.09.05
Ah, yes, Manimal - I remember playing that at school, pretending to turn into a panther (Which, let's face it, is teh cool). You're probably right about it being shit if you saw it now. And I'd imagine the same would go for Automan...
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
15:49 / 16.09.05
Nice one, Mike! 'Automan'! I've been trying to remember what that was called since this thread was started. All I could clearly remember was the Tron-like suit and that little satellite-helper thingy that used to float around him like a pet techno-bird. Ahh... I'd love to see 'Automan' and 'Manimal' again...and 'Street Hawk'!
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
15:52 / 16.09.05
that little satellite-helper thingy that used to float around him like a pet techno-bird.

Named 'cursor', I seem to recall.

Shame I can never remember my sodding bank card PIN, but hardly surprising given the investment in utterly useless shit my brain seems to feel is so important to have available for immediate recall.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
16:08 / 16.09.05
Of course: "Cursor"!

Sheesh! This thread has triggered all manner of forgotten TV memories and made me realise how much of my youth I sadly wasted staring at the evil goggle-box. e.g. I just remembered 'Tales of the Golden Monkey', and another glossy American detective drama series (I forget the title) starring a male-model/detective protagonist, with Bonnie Tyler's 'I Need a Hero' as the theme tune. I really should have read more books....
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
16:14 / 16.09.05
Oh yeah! That Bonnie Tyler series! What was that called??

Dempsey & Makepeace was, of course, another fine show. Featuring Glynis Barber, and the bloke who now plays Jerry Springer in the musical.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
16:32 / 16.09.05
Hmmm...Glynis Barber.....

Please, someone make the memories stop: old and classic TV programs are spilling out my mind like milk from a battered carton. e.g.
'The Greatest American Hero', 'Sapphire & Steel' (apparently a new audio series came out last year, which is news to me!), 'The New Schmoo',...
 
 
gridley
16:39 / 16.09.05
Excellent! 'The Mysterious Cities of Gold'! Didn't that have a really catchy/annoying theme tune?..... Damn, what was it again?

Children of the Sun, see your time has just begun,
Searching for your way through Adventures every day.
 
 
Quantum
18:33 / 16.09.05
fun fact- the BBC, despite Flip Schofield getting all the kids in the country to sing along to the theme ('Aaaaaah, ah ah ah ah, someday we will find...) NEVER ACTUALLY SHOWED the episode where they find the city. One day they were nearly there, then Wimbledon was on, then they had a giant golden flying eagle plane and city sized lasers etc.

Psychologically damaged a generation. Took me a decade to find out *how* I could have missed the key episode, turns out they thought nobody would notice if they skipped it- probably fit the scheduling better or summat. Bastards.

However, on the bright side, I'm having a T-Shirt printed with the logo on the front and the lyrics on the back, I'll be the happiest boy in town.
 
 
■
19:52 / 16.09.05
Turns out they thought nobody would notice if they skipped it
And they were almost right. I certainly wasn't paying enough attention to care. Everyone I've told the anecdote to really didn't care. I think they may well have been right, as nuclear holocausts at four in the afternoon wouldn't have gone down well. Even if they did have Gordon the Gopher beforehand.
 
 
Mike Modular
19:58 / 16.09.05
That Bonnie Tyler show was Cover Up
 
 
Tryphena Absent
20:13 / 16.09.05
Erm... "Sharky and George crimebusters of the sea" and also Captain Planet and also She-Ra.

Ooh, ooh does anyone remember Round the Bend?

And The Girl from Tomorrow.

And can anyone enlighten me- a girl with Margaret Thatcher hair in a blue pinafore and a toilet cubicle that was some kind of doorway/portal? I've been trying to remember which show this was from for about 10 years and I wondered if it was Round the Bend but I seriously can't remember. It was definitely on ITV because it was too weird for CBBC.
 
 
Sniv
21:48 / 16.09.05
Wow, this thread has really opened up the floodgates of freaky memories. How about ? I got the Mario 3 series on DVD recently too, it had Milli Vanilli in it, which blew my mind.

Or the MC Hammer cartoon? It was on Channel 4 on Saturday Mornings, really early. Or Argh! real monsters! I have a furry Ickis too (but that's another story... haha).

The Tick animated series! That was awesome. Not to mention watching the Batman Animated series as an impressionable 9 year old and becoming a hardcore comics nut. Man, kids TV was awesome when my generation was young.

(btw, I'm new here, hi!)
 
 
Shrug
22:21 / 16.09.05
Bertha I used to bunk off school all the time to watch this.

Labyrinth
I wish there were more episodic fantasy/sci-fi based shows like this still.

The Snow Spider Fucking Rock! This was what I was talking about earlier. Must see if available on DVD.

Knightmare How I wanted to play this. Did anyone ever beat the dungeon?

Maid Marian and her Merry Men Irreverent comedic subversion of the Robin Hood mythos where everyone looked a bit grubby.

Press Gang I thought they were the epitomy of cool. Nascent crush on Dexter Fletcher. Oh dear.
 
 
Benny the Ball
05:24 / 17.09.05
I went through a bad session on non-sleep during the nineties, and would spend most mornings watching cartoons on channel 4 - so love Sharky and George, Earthworm Jim and shows like that - I loved the Bill and Ted series (that was on ITV - some wideawake club show presented by Chris Evans) but couldn't stand the Back to the Future show. Going back further - Dramarama was great, one episode I remember very clearly was about a ghost of a WWII child in a school telling some modern kids about doodlebugs, they realise he was a ghost near the end, just as you hear the whine of a bomb above, then it stops, ready to fall on them - creepy. Loved Chorlton and the Wheelies too.

I can still remember bits of so many theme tunes from back then (Visonaires, MASK, TMNT).
 
 
Quantum
09:34 / 17.09.05
Defenders of the Earth (Defenders! Bah-dam!)- The Phantom, Flash Gordon? Zatanna's Dad? Memory fails me except the theme tune as in so many of these cases...
 
 
Cherielabombe
10:59 / 17.09.05
Oooh, I loved Pete and Pete too!! Used to watch it back in my college days...
 
 
Warewullf
11:27 / 17.09.05
The Snow Spider!! God, yes! I forgot about that....

Loved Press Gang and little known Australian or New Zealand mini-series called Emeralds about a girl who looked like a boy who finds some stolen emeralds. Wacky hijinks ensue. I loved it and it had an ace themesong.

Oh! Children of the Dog Star! LOVED this! Read the book of it again a couple of years ago. Bad ending but nostalgiatastic.
 
 
Benny the Ball
13:50 / 17.09.05
Master of magic spells and illusions, the enemies crumble in fear and con-fu-sion - DEFENDERS....
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
14:11 / 17.09.05
I cannot believe that no-one has mentioned the Marmalade Atkins trilogy, Educating Marmalad, Marmalade at Work and Marmalade Atkins in Space

Pure joy - bizarre/anarchic, about the 'naughtiest girl in the world', starring the much-missed Charlotte Coleman.

The kind of thing I had to switch over when my parents came into the room.
 
 
Lord Morgue
14:34 / 17.09.05
Ed-ucat-ing Marmalade-a
was the worst mistake I ever made
ding dong wollop poop!
ding dong wollop poop!

Ah, James Valentine and the Afternoon Show! Probably the least condecending children's show host in history.

Hey, anyone else watch Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future? I had the intro memorised and used to quote it endlessly- Earth! 2147- the legacy of the Machine Wars, where man fought machine, and machines won. Biodreads! Monstrous creations that hunt down human survivors and digitise them! Volcania! Fortress and stronghold of Lord Dread, feared ruler of this new order. But from the ashes of the Metal Wars arose a new breed of warrior (cue posing. Every television set in Australia save mine switches channels) born and trained to bring down Lord Dread and his biodread empire! They were soldiers of the future- mankind's last hope." Generally more watchable than the average Voyager episode, posing not seen outside of Tank Vixens, all this and Sven Ole Thorsen! Not to mention the epileptic-fit-inducing coloured strobe effect that let you shoot at the badguys with the official gun. While they shot back, whee!
 
 
Mike Modular
15:45 / 17.09.05
Master of magic spells and illusions, the enemies crumble in fear and con-fu-sion - MANDRAKE!

Easily the epitome of OTT 80's cartoon theme tunes. Closely followed by the perfection of Thundercats - which, IMHO, is the greatest TV opening titles sequence ever (See the giant Mumm-Ra roar!). 2nd best is UFO (explosions, spaceships, close-ups of ladies' bottoms in futuristic skirts, "1980"...)
 
 
Loomis
16:45 / 17.09.05
I can't believe no one's mentioned The Fall Guy. Greatest show ever, with the greatest theme.

Well I'm not the kind to kiss and tell ...
 
 
Benny the Ball
16:45 / 17.09.05
"V" was great - I loved "V" - I used to turn my television on late at night and watch it when my parents thought I was sleeping, and then fall asleep at school the next day - when they found out they told me that they'd tape it, but I just got up earlier and watched it before school, feeling tired once again. That was back when ITV was called Thames.

I think I, along with millions of others, had a massive crush on Charlotte Coleman thanks to Marmalade Aitkins. I still have a thing for ginger-girls to this day.
 
 
Triplets
17:00 / 17.09.05
MANDRAKE!
 
 
Brigade du jour
18:58 / 17.09.05
If anyone's interested, I've got shitloads of old TV show theme tunes, title sequences etc. on my computer. PM me if you want a copy of any of them. Free of charge, of course!

"Out of the sky, his rockets ignite ..."
 
 
Triplets
19:14 / 17.09.05
Defenders of the Earth: It's Flash Gordon and the Phantom fighting Ming the Merciless. In Space. Pulptastic.

Man and mach-ine! Pow-er x-treme! Centurions. Cool cartoon and let's face it, a marketing stroke of genius. You have three characters with a meta-gimmicks of customisable armour, letting you give them different schticks depending on the episode. Need your meat and potatoes working class archetype to turn into a walking bulldozer? No problem! Need your Dirk Benedict-ripoff flyboy ace to become a scout plane? Already been shipped! Need kids to buy three sets of the same character? I have sex in my Ferrari.

The only thing they should have done was have Doc Terror (and his cyborg companion Hacker!) steal blueprints from Skyvault and construct their own exo-frames. Fuck, you could give Terror his own Anti-Skyvault: The Underbase!
 
  

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