QuoteNot by me at least it's not!
One of the top half dozen shows ever made.
RTE used to have The Larry Sanders Show on late at night. An underappreciated show.
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Not by me at least it's not!
One of the top half dozen shows ever made.
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Petrocelli - how logn did it take him to build that house !
Minder - Classic
bagpuss
Crackerjack
Grange Hill
Swap shop
Mister Ben
Grandstand
Dickie davies on ITV
Frank Bough highlights on a wednesday
and listenign to live second half commentary on a battered old wirelss of liverpool vs borrusia semi final or european cup 1978
Anyone else remember a Canadian kids television program called "You can't do that on Television" It was sort of set in a fictional school and for the most part the cast were all kids, if you said "I don't know" you got a bucket of slime dumped on you and they used to buy burgers off of a lad named Barf!...it was brilliant, its going back a long time though, it used to be on TCC (The Childrens Channel - for those who've only ever known Digiboxes!)
This was in my top 3, along with Pugwall (the reaon I got a guitar) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose.....Some top quality viewing there!
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You show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser - Vince Lombardi
I don't remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose at all, though a couple of the actors look familiar. Pugwall and You Can't Do That on Television were favourites though.
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Cant Believe no ones mentioned MASK the ultimate 80's 25min commercial for a toy manufacturer
Ultimate? Twenty minutes into the animated Transformers film, the entire cast is dead, and have been replaced by new toys for the kids to pester their folks to buy. It's one of the most cynical things I've ever seen.Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
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Starcom runs MASK & Transformers close, the toys were manufactured to try and create an interest in the space program amongst kids, when they didn't do so well the cartoon was made to sell the toys, fresh with some new badies and the nifty Magna Lock feature...terrible to watch & only marginally better to play with the toys!
You show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser - Vince Lombardi
Transformers brings back a lot fond memories for me as a kid. I watched that every day countless times, lost count count of the amount of toys I had, loved Optimus Prime etc... My dad brought me to see the cartoon movie in the mid-80's at one of the cinemas on O'Connell street. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but when Optimus Prime died, I cried.I was devastated for weeks after that. It remains the only time I have cried watching a movie, though I may have blubbered a bit during the Watership Down film.
Just a wee bit of trivia with that cartoon movie - Orson Welles provided the voice of the planet devouring transformer.
Other cartoons I was into at that time were: He-Man, Thundercats, Mask (took it's cue from the transformers) or the Gobots (shameless Transformers rip-off). It's amazing how seeing or hearing something from your youth brings back so many memories - go to youtube and type in the theme tune for these cartoons. Happy days!
Saturday afternoon - Knight Rider, The A-Team and Air Wolf. I loved those shows. You have to hand it to the 80's in one regard - TV theme tunes, it definately had the best.
Incidentally, there was a cartoon my younger brothers were into in the early 90's called Captain Planet. One episode was based in Belfast - ****in' hilarious. Type it into Youtube.
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Remember seeing that year ago just looked it up again its classIncidentally, there was a cartoon my younger brothers were into in the early 90's called Captain Planet. One episode was based in Belfast - ****in' hilarious. Type it into Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9tg4NZbyhY
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Dont know if its been mentioned before but I'd love to see Space: Above and Beyond re-aired
I picked up the DVDs a while back (it's available in region 1 only, I think). It had a good pilot episode and a handful of other good ones, but overall it's not great. Shows with so few episodes (it has, what, 20?) are rarely syndicated.
You can't spell failure without FAI
Anyone remeber Pingu?Im not ashamed to admit to buying it on dvd few years ago.They are for kids but they are still hillarious.
Oh bliss!!
The Wild Thornberry's was another programme I liked watching. From a younger generation but those programmes of the 90's. Endless endless re runs of Sabrina.
don't think i saw these mentioned? Space 1999 with martin landau:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DF9nDJZrdA
Starfleet (the japanese puppet program with the X-bomber and evil commander makara):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMCJf9D8nY
and we can't forget G-force?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E1ecxwcWE
aww yeahh
zombie/thread killer..
And the nifty soundtrack from Brian May and Friends.
Grew up on G Force. Battle of the Planets as it was in my day.
Loved the Fiery Phoenix.
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Anyway, mentioned a good few before that were criminally ignored in that post, and then cynically mentioned by others later, but I don't think these have come up yet, bar Brushstrokes which I think Ash mentioned but well deserves a linkie anyway:
Hardcastle & McCormick
Manimal - God this was terrible! But I did have a thing for Melody Anderson back in the day...
Baa Baa Black Sheep - Oh man I absolutely adored this show!
The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew - loved them both, like Revels you didn't know which one you were getting, but ahhh, Pamela Sue Martin...
The Odd Couple - infinitely better than the film
Brushstrokes - loved this too, Jacko was one of sitcomlands's most likeable characters
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Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.
ha! indeed. i had it on mute watching it at workAnd the nifty soundtrack from Brian May and Friends.
zombie/thread killer..
Around the time of the X Files there was a darker series called Millennium. Featured Lance Henriksen as Frank Black who could see into the minds of serial killers. I borrowed the first series a while ago but not got around to watching again yet.
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