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"I remember that!" best old TV shows

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paranoidwriter waves hello

19:27 / 17.09.05

"V" was great - I loved "V"

Fuck yes! I still remember the jaw dropping, rodent eating scenes.

Mind you, all that business at the end with the little Aryan girl glowing gold at the controls of the mother ship was a bit dodgy. Still, her birth (along with her uglier twin) was absolutely brilliant.

22:05 / 17.09.05

As I moved into early teenagedom I remember having a major crush on Melissa J. Hart from Clarissa Explains It All. Grungey goodness with a sick streak of absurdity running through the middle seasons. Sigh, if only I had a ladder to the window of her heart.

I watched so much Nickelodean back then. Another fave was Are You Afraid of the Dark? Not particularly scary, but good wholesome dark fantasy for the imagination after school. One episode did shit me up, and it involved glasses that let you see another Earth slightly out of tune from ours, populated by black clad humanoids with no faces. Are they were starting to invade.. Brr!

23:40 / 17.09.05

Aw yeah, Centurions! They even had a space elevator in one episode. That BROKE, and they had to do a Death-Star escape from the whipping end of the tube as the thing flailed off into space. And the episode where Doc Terror resurrected Dracula, who took one look at the Centurions and said "Sod this, I'm going back to sleep!". And the final episode when they rehabilitate Doc Terror and his thuggish henchman, and give them pets, and the Doc constructs a tiny flamethrower for his mouse out of a wristwatch and a butane lighter to protect it from his goon's cat...
Heh, heh, you can tell Fred Perry of Gold Digger fame watched all the same shows as us, from ripping off the Death of Prime to having Brianna shout "Power X-treme!" while suiting up to having Ace know Colonel William F. Guile personally...

00:57 / 18.09.05

Have I missed any?

my favourite one; witterquick's.
also fom memory...

sheath these feet in the blinding gale, make swift these legs! o'er land i sail!

i couldnt care less about all those other silly powers, dude.
gimme lightspeed any day over 'wisdom' and all that shit.

09:47 / 18.09.05

If anyone's interested, I've got shitloads of old TV show theme tunes, title sequences etc. on my compute

Hmm. I've been looking for the Mr Rossi theme for years. Never really liked the cartoon, but I loved the theme.

13:59 / 18.09.05

Thanks to this thread, I am now downlo--er... acquiring the complete series of Mysterious Cities of Gold. I can't wait!

Doing some research about it, I've found out about another series that sounds right up my alley. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.

"Long ago, the mystical civilization of Arkadia was one of the most advanced places on Earth, until the end of the world came and forced the land and it's people underground. After that great cataclysm, the Arkadians lived deep in the center of the Earth and created an artificial sun called the Shagma (Tiera in the American version). But one fateful day years later, the Shagma began to fade out. In a desperate act, the Children of this unusual civilization and their ship with a mind of it's own broke into to the secret museum, which was considered forbidden, except for the creatures who are in charge of it."

Anyone ever seen it?

15:03 / 18.09.05

Maid Marian & her Merry Men was the shit. It was basically Blackadder but for kids. All the peasants were dirt poor and mainly ate mud iirc, Robin Hood was a preening poseur & it also had a number of excellent musical sequences. To this day I sing the Pancake Day one on Pancake Day. Why it hasn't been released on DVD I'll never know.

16:53 / 18.09.05

I think it's Pancake Day? Yes it's Pancake Day! It must be Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pancake Day.

I liked the one about mud.

So what did happen when someone conquered the dungeon in Knightmare? Cherielabombe?

18:41 / 18.09.05

I'd love to see 'Automan' and 'Manimal' again...and 'Street Hawk'!

God I loved those old vehicle gimmicky shows. Street Hawk. Blue Thunder (the TV show based on the Roy Schneider movie), Airwolf. Maybe that's why I was obsessed with MASK as a kid. I had everything. Even sent in my proofs of purchase to get that tollbooth station, The Collector, before they released it to the general public.

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

And back in the very early days of FOX, like literally the first few months it premiered as a national broadcaster, there was Werewolf, which told the story of a college student bitten by a werewolf who seeks out the source of the bloodline in order to cancel the curse. That image of the pentagram on his palm bleeding before his change will always stick with me. When I was growing up none of my friends' fundamentalist Christian parents would let them see it. Haha!

And whoever mentioned Visionaries first...god bless ya.

The Age of Science has ended, and the Second Age of Magic has begun. The world of Prysmos is now inhabited by magical creatures and wizards. The dark age for civilization has resulted in feudal societies being formed which wage war upon one another. Yet thanks to the great wizard Merklynn, 14 Knights have gained magical powers of transformation. The group is divided between the good Spectral Knights and the evil Darkling Lords. Now they battle for supremacy and Merklynn's favor.

Coolest plot ever.

18:49 / 18.09.05

Streethawk was my favourite - "I need a turbo boost", "oka... oh hang on, there's some traffic" "Damn!" "It's okay, it's cleared up, boosting you now" every week. What was the bubblebath in a tube thing in the first episode about again?

Sledgehammer was fun, it went a bit serious towards the end I seem to remember, but it was great when it first came on.

Tour of Duty was also great when it started.

20:26 / 18.09.05

yeah, Tour of Duty was good. CBS really did put out a lot of incredible programs back then. Wiseguy. Airwolf. Scarecrow and Mrs King. The Equalizer. God, Edward Woodward was such a bad ass.

Anybody else remember Misfits of Science? or Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories? or Stingray?

21:37 / 18.09.05

Misfits of Science was fantastic!

How come Monica never used her telekinesis in Friends? Would have helped with lifting all those huge coffee cups...

21:47 / 18.09.05

My favorite short-lived cartoon-toy merchandising tie-in was THE INHUMANOIDS. Three hideously evil gargantuas from the earth's core invade the surface world, prompting a group of scientists to don armored suits and take the battle to them. Along the way they made allies of the tree people and the lava men. One of the aforementioned gargantuas was a several hundred foot tall ghoul, all bones and rampant cannibalism. No wonder Mom never let me buy the toys.

As for prime-time, I'd like to second THE FALL GUY. Post-cybernetic Lee Majors was more likable than his tracksuit incarnation, Heather Thomas easily trumps Locklear for 80s blondes, and to this day I still want one of those pneumatic launch-stuntman-over-wall dealies he had in his truck.

23:02 / 18.09.05

I'd love to see 'Automan' and 'Manimal' again...and 'Street Hawk'!

Err... guys? Manimal and Automan are shown pretty much everyday on Bravo.

MANIMAL! ROWWWRRRR!

01:15 / 19.09.05

UllyseeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEsssssssssssss nooneelsecandothethingsyoudo.

Damn straight!

02:09 / 19.09.05

Conquering the dungeon in Knightmare resulted in the same send off as being defeated by the dungeon except with a certificate and a little statue of a knight, if my brain isn't lying to me.

I was just thinking about maid Marion the other day. Does anyone remember the crystal maze episode, with Robin dressed as Richard O'Brien and playing the harmonica?

Also, I'm looking for the name of a horror series that was, I think, on ITV. The episodes were standalone and the only one I remember was to do with a mirror that some wee guy bought. His reflection was always doing different things from him, like reading comics on the bed when he was coming into the room. He smashed the mirror to let his reflection out, only to be replaced by his evil doppelganger who had fucked up eyes. That one put the shits right up me.

12:16 / 19.09.05

Hmmm thanks Meludreen, very disappointing I'd imagine.

Was the horror series called Goosebumps?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

18:58 / 19.09.05

fuck YEAH pete and pete was great. Hunter S. Thompson! Iggy Pop! What the fuck does it take to impress these people?

That episode when Arty left for good almost made me cry.

19:10 / 19.09.05

The strongest man in the world.

My favourite bit ever was when Little Pete and Ellen's dad got into an annoyance war. Pete convinces Artie to push Ellen's house 1 inch to the right. Dad comes home, goes to put the key in the lock

>THUNK<

Ellen's dad:

Bestworst choice of casting for a parent ever.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

20:52 / 19.09.05

The villians were always top-notch, too. Older pete's nemesis Endless Mike Hellstrom was a lot of fun.

Younger pete had the best named villians, in my opinion. Pitstain, and his henchmen Drawstring, Nightbrace, and Hairnet. And the rock, paper, scissors horror that was Papercut, origami master and right little bastard.

I have got to get those DVD's. That show made my own suburban life feel so much weirder.

22:02 / 19.09.05

Holy crap! Just started watching Dark Season and it's great. Yes it has all the usual BBC kids drama sets and slightly-too-old teenagers but it has an incredible level of threat and a wonderful undercurrent of "don't trust the man" cynicism (slightly undermined by having the man in a trenchcoat and black shades). Nice RTD throwaway gags and everything.

[Disclaimer: this post may be influenced by huge doses of painkillers. Ow. My back.]

23:31 / 19.09.05

For cube: Mr Rossi soundtrack.

...and, ow, back problems. Get well soon, man.

03:47 / 20.09.05

Inhumonoids - when the cadavar whispered 'decompose', was fun.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:22 / 20.09.05

It was ruined slightly by the fact that he was also called D'Compose, so it was never made clear whether he was just trying to remember his own name.

Holy crap! Just started watching Dark Season and it's great.

And this is the part where I offer anything for a copy of Dark Season.

10:00 / 20.09.05

acquiring the complete series of Mysterious Cities of Gold
argleargleargle I need broadband...

I was singing the Maid Marian theme just the other day and thinking of how much better it was than Robin of Sherwood (even with the early dark haired Robin), whatever happened to the actress? I had a weird crush on her for years.

10:11 / 20.09.05

Dark Season- Russel T Davies goodness- it looks ace! And provokes vague half memories, like so many of these things do.

Not the Fall Guy though, I remember that well- I used to get a ten pence mix of sweets froom the SPAR and watch it every Friday night with my Mum, oh happy days. What can you get for ten pence now, eh?

11:54 / 20.09.05

Quantum, having discussed Maid Marian & her Merry Men down the pub, anecdotal evidence suggests that many people had disturbing crushes on her in their youth. Though there was the competing view that suggested that Rose was more crushworthy.
I don't know what happened to the actress, but the actor who played Robin appeared in series 1 of Black Books as Fran's boyfriend who she tried to crush through the awesome power of the snub.

12:19 / 20.09.05

Maid Marian was indeed the bomb. The Actress playing Marian was Kate Lonergan. Enjoy reliving your 10-year old crush.

What about the framing the went around the TV shows. Remember Wackaday with Timmy Mallet? I saw him once in my shopping centre. It was awesome. I think the best kids TV moment I remember was when Philip Schofield had the BRAND NEW Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles figures in the Broom Closet, and I wished I could just reach in and take them. *sigh*

12:21 / 20.09.05

Not just me then. I blame her for my attraction to blonde dreadlocks...

I just thought of TONY FRICKIN' HART! And then JOHNNY MORRIS of ANIMAL MAGIC fame! Remember The Gallery, with the mental hospital music and the shit, shit pictures?

Morph and Chad? Frickin' genius, Tony Hart should start his own cult, the Art Attack dude can suck my plums.

And 'Why Don't You?' what was that about?

12:21 / 20.09.05

How about Robin of Sherwood, with Richard O'Brien as the eeeeeeeevil sorceror?

12:24 / 20.09.05

Mmmmmmm, Kate Lonergan, my only weakness...

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:27 / 20.09.05

And 'Why Don't You?' what was that about?

Russell T Davies. He was the person who introduced the plotlines, with Sue Denim and the computer and all that stuff.

Tryphena Absent

12:28 / 20.09.05

Cube, where did you find Dark Season?

12:28 / 20.09.05

Robin of Sherwood was the model of a perfect society according to some.

Tryphena Absent

12:29 / 20.09.05

See how nonchalantly I said that. Like it really didn't matter. Hahaha.

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