Childhood Tv Show Favourites Revisited

[Jolly]

II also have fond memories of Bravestar. Class film.

When me and my mates went bowling once, it came to that point where you've got to come up with a 'comedy' name to stick on the telly.

We decided that on this particular trip we'd use names from excellent kids shows.

My mate Dan didn't notice that you couldn't fit the whole of 'Bravestar" in.

For about four years now he's been known to friends and family alike as Bra Vest.

[oli]

I seem to remeber that there was pratically an identical show called Transylvania High.

You'll never guess what the twist was.

I liked Galaxy high but not Transylvania High

I also like Toxic Crusaders and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Let's Pretend was good - i'd forgotten about that

[amanset]

You wouldn't happen to be on Soulseek, would you?

We may be able to organise something at some point. I'll PM you if I find I can leave the machine on for some time.

[DarhkFox]

Id love to see some of the old ones too ie Captain Planet, Widget, Denver the Last Dinosaur.. all the old saturday morning ones.

man those were the days. waking up at 7am, watching cartoons right through till 11am or so. i miss those days =(

[tyler]

errr...yes I only found this topic hidden away because I'm searching for Transformers (PS2) opinions but no-one mentioned He-Man. For shame....

OR Rude Dog & The Dweebs. Tut...

OR The Knomes. Now that was good.

[Jack]

http://www.claws-and-paws.com/thundercats/index.php

[Nanaya]

Sometimes it's better to have loved and lost than never to have bought the DVD.

I used to *love* 'Rent-a-Ghost' when I was small, had the books and everything, but I watched it a couple of years ago on BBC Digital (?), I was shocked at how truly dreadful it was. Mists of time & all that...

Cool kids' programmes which have NOT been ruined by the passage of time (yet);

'Knightmare' (am I the only person who had a huge crush on Tregar?) - 1st series only though, that fucking elf pissed me off

'The Moomins' - soooooooooo cool

'Monkey' - early childhood of course, but this stands up to endless re-watching

'Creepy Crawlies' - way before 'Antz' made bugs cute

I heartily concur with 'Button Moon' as well, Mr. Spoon was the best. I generally preferred the shows which weren't huge, garish adverts for expensive toys, but I did rather enjoy 'Dungeons & Dragons', purely for Eric you understand, the others (except maybe Diana) were complete twats.

[Caleb Newcastle]

'Knightmare' (am I the only person who had a huge crush on Tregar?)

Actually I'll hazard a guess and say yes.

Recently found a Defenders of the Earth DVD for £3 in a local record shop.

Fuck me is it absolute rubbish. The plots follow no logic or coherent narrative, the animation's awful and Ming is an absolute plank of a villain.

At least the theme tune still holds up...

[Comrade]

Anyone seen Galaxy High recently?

I used to love it, I love it, I LOVE IT!.

Galaxy High was class indeed. Anyone remember the episode with the fantastically heavy-handed "Don't take drugs, kids!" subtext?

Oh and Transylvania High was rubbish, mainly because it tried to crowbar in way too many "issues" (Galaxy High pretty much only did it with that drugs episode). It did have Rick Moranis doing the voice for the teacher though.

[Nanaya]

Actually I'll hazard a guess and say yes.

Recently found a Defenders of the Earth DVD for £3 in a local record shop.

Fuck me is it absolute rubbish. The plots follow no logic or coherent narrative, the animation's awful and Ming is an absolute plank of a villain.

At least the theme tune still holds up...

Come on, how many kids' TV presenters got to be miserable, sarcastic gits? That was brilliant. He WAS cool. (Admittedly, I was only 9 or 10)

You're right about 'Defenders of the Earth' though.

And 'Galaxy High' was pretty good too, particularly the platinum planet. Anyone who's ever read the comic "Charm School" knows that the concept is still in use (only with more lesbians and magic instead of aliens).

[Mercury]

I bought the Dungeons and Dragons DVD recently but was very disappointed.

Blakes 7 gets better every year though.

[Caleb Newcastle]

Come on, how many kids' TV presenters got to be miserable, sarcastic gits?

Hint: It's the one on the left...

[FishyFish]

Any of the Ivor Wood / Smallfilms series':

The Clangers

Ivor the Engine

Paddington Bear

Bagpus

etc.

Always fill me with a warm glow of nostalgia...<sigh>

They might've aged, but they've aged in a good way.

Does anyone else remember Jason of Star Command? He used to (occasionally) fight stop-motion monsters, had an arch-enemy in the shape of Dragos and has a small, flying robot companiton called Wiki (or something like that).

Also, while not a programme from my own childhood (more from my eldest son's), Pingu IS TEH B3ST!!! Eastern European animation - you just can't beat it.

Fishy

[Space Renegade Ulala]

[quote name='tyler' date='Jun 30 2004, 12:14 PM'] errr...yes I only found this topic hidden away because I'm searching for Transformers (PS2) opinions but no-one mentioned He-Man. For shame....

OR Rude Dog & The Dweebs. Tut...

OR The Knomes. Now that was good. [/quote]
That's because He-Man was rubbish. Beyond rubbish, even. Complete and utter bobbins.



Which is funny because there's a new series on ITV2 in the mornings and I'm actually rather enjoying it. Liquid Snake is voicing He-Man so there's an improvement right there.

[dunni]

That's because He-Man was rubbish. Beyond rubbish, even. Complete and utter bobbins.

But it was so bad it was funny. Check out the reviews of the first 9 episodes on this site (that link takes you to the ninth episode, links to the other episodes are down the right hand side).

[mattrixdesign]

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