Thanks, IMDB. Was this the first drag sitcom? I have no recollection of the trip to England, but I definitely remember the fella dressed up as a gal. I was seven.
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― Pretty Boy Freud, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
- Japanese looking toon, called Watu-Watu - it began at the bottom of the sea with these bird-fishes that came out of shells (giant scallop shells) and they would help people out on the surface with various things.
- also remember The Cartoon Network dada style montages - they were amazing, did you see the "and that Sun is - Velma!" ones where Velma out of Scooby Doo was the link between all these different cartoons...
- on Glen Michaels Cavalcade - a toon about cars and motorbikes and other vehicles that had eye-headlamps etc and they drove themselves about & The Hunter - the detective doggy & one with similar characters to Pole Position but there were loads more of them and they did more than just race.
Rude Dog and the Dweebs + the in-between toon with the rhyming cats on rollerskates
The Red Hand Gang
Timmy's Super T-Shirt
Stookie
Cities of Gold - that was on for so many weeks that I'm amazed anyone of a certain age group with a TV could possibly have failed to see it!Remember how Mendoza would jump off the top of a Galleon and land okay onto the paved port below?
Remember - Around the World with Willy Fogg? And he was a lion?
The song 'Mr.Bobdobalina' that was on America's Top Ten with Casey Casem a few times.
Euro cartoon with big St.Bernard dog was none other than -
Belle & Sebastian, like the band called themselves after.
I also watched Dark Skies - that was good that. I think there were a few extra episodes, or different versions of some episodes of that series. I identified with Frank Black (why did they name him after The Pixies?).
Parker Lewis was definitely a class show. Don't make 'em like that these days.
A Roswell High rip-off, Atlantis-something, on UK Channel 5 not long ago (not even old!) - sarcastic version, pretty funny.
Terrahawks - for sure. The Zeroids were well cool, those silvery spherical dudes.
And the Fat Abbot show - that was great.
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― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 August 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
galaxy high.
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― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
I've met maybe 2 people who remember that one.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 August 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
I watch this one too! In fact, I'm gearing up to watch the program tonight, at surprise, 11 p.m.
Also:
Vinyl Justice, The Naked Cafe: I know the former was mentioned earlier. Remember these two VH1 programs? I used to love to watch these programs as well.
The Voyage of the Mimi: A young Ben Affleck (whom I wanted to befriend as a little girl) tools around in a working ship with his gruff grandfather. It was the perfect viewing for a very young child. No one else seems to have stumbled onto this program purely for entertainment purposes. Shame.
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― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 August 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link
you can download the title sequence from ludwig herehttp://tv.cream.org/themes/themes3.htm
things i vaguely remember:nora & nellie - weird cartoon, set on an ark?the owl service - children in wales with magical plates.rentaghost - before it had the meekers and madam popov and thatbloody pantomime horse, i've got recollections of a quite different kind of show, three ghosts living in a hotel and being quite evil and scary.oh, and kelly monteith. he had a show on bbc2?
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― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 11 August 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link
not so long ago shows that i loved: 'it's like, you know'-- chris eisenberg playing his crabby (wondeful) self, and jennifer grey playing jennifer grey. the worst part was the running gag about people kind of recognizing JG but not quite getting it until she said 'nose job.' still, a great show.
'two stupid dogs'. was on cartoon network and was so so so funny. i don't think it's on anymore, and the only other person i knew that liked it was my friend rob.
― colette (a2lette), Monday, 11 August 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 August 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, I was big Downtown buff. Me and my flatmates used to watch it every thursday, but no one else seems to know about it. I remember me and my flatmate having discussions about how we totally related to the characters: I was like the shy bespectacled dude and she was like the not-so-social Chinese girl. That show was a million times more credible than any live-action show about "young adults".
Does anyone remember this: "Cap-tain Pla-net, he's a he-ro!" Did Captain Planet have the best eighties-style mullet or what:
http://www.turner.com/planet/static/graphics/captain.gif
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
I've seen The Great Space Coaster... always hated it.
I remember watching this game show all the time where kids play video games and have to score a certain amount of points in 60 seconds or something. It was on USA and no one ever knew what I was talking about, but I saw it on the Video Game Channel (or whatever) when I had digital cable. So I didn't make it up!
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
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― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 11 August 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
Yikes, Kelly Monteith. He was shit.The thing on the ark was Noah and Nelly (hence the ark) - she used to knit everything, including (I think, but my mind may be playing tricks again) the smoke out of the funnel. Do arks even have funnels?
The Cops was utterly fuXoring great :)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
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― stevem (blueski), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:53 (twenty years ago) link
I don't think I saw more than a couple episodes of this, but I was a big fan cos I thought Capt. Planet was a turquoise Macguyver with superpowers.
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:38 (twenty years ago) link
I'd read that upon finding out the show was cancelled they hurriedly shot a final episode in which the lead character has a heart attack and dies. Wonder if that ever aired..
― daria g (daria g), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
I haven't read the entirety of upthread. Anyone mention On the Air, the summer replacement sitcom Mark Frost and David Lynch did after Twin Peaks? Probably even stranger as a sitcom than Twin Peaks was as a soap opera.
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
The other show was by that Alex Winters guy who was either Bill or Ted, I forget. The only sketch I remember wasn't very funny, but he played a "flying gimp."
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
Nope. I absolutely loved that show and went so far as to burn all 13 episodes to VCD
It was the last one aired on Fox, but there were four more episodes that Trio aired when they reran the series last year. Oh, and the lead character survived the heart attack.
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― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that was called The Idiot Box, but that was the name of the course I taught on television, so I might be mixing. It was close, though (and it was Bill, yeah). That had a lot of good moments.
I kinda sorta vaguely remember the pirate thing ... almost.
Oh, my next entry: PROFIT, for the love of God. (Another one Trio's done, I know, but I've never had Trio available).
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
Children's BBC.......
"we're called Jossy's Giant's
football's just a branch of science"
lol!
― Tesla, Friday, 15 August 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
did you mean 'Morris Minor and the Majors' song Stutter Rap?
"well no-one's ever seen what I mean
from the age of ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-nineteen..."
?
They had another release, I think it was the same band anyway, 'John Kettley is a weatherman, a weatherman, a weatherman,
John Kettley is a weatherman
and so is Michael Fish!
and so is Ian McKaskill!"
etc.
― Tesla, Friday, 15 August 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
They *did* have another song, though. It went:
This is the chorusIt goes around and around, and gets into your brainThis is the chorusAnd thirty seconds from now, you'll hear it again
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
I'm pretty sure the John Kettley is a Weatherman was their song too.
Never heard of the chorus one tho'. But they obviously had other releases and B sides, etc.
From what I recall they looked like a sort of spoof of The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy during that time.
― Tesla, Friday, 15 August 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
'John Kettley Is A Weatherman' was credited to Tribe Of Toffs - i vaguely recall them on TOTP, and the singer didn't resemble Tony Hawks at all - they sounded Scottish anyway
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
B.Aff was in that?? We watched that in 5th-grade science class!!
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