― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― 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.
― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 11 August 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 11 August 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link
― hellbaby (hellbaby), Monday, 11 August 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 11 August 2003 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 11 August 2003 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 11 August 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link
― 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?
― joni, Monday, 11 August 2003 09:43 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― 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.
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
― 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!!
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 15 August 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
John Kettley is a weatherman a weatherman a weatherman John Kettley is a weatherman and so is Michael Fish
Simon Parkin's always larkin Eric Lane is the same Jonothan Ross collects moss and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley is a weatherman
Lester Piggot couldn't dig it David Icke rides a bike Richard Keys has got no knees and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley is a weatherman
Debbie Thrower's got a lawnmower Johnny Marr he plays guitar David Steele lives in Keele and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley is a weatherman
Chuck Knox has blue socks Andy Crane has got no brain Bernard Davy left the navy and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley is a weatherman
John Kettley is a weatherman a weatherman a weatherman John Kettley is a weatherman and so is Michael Fish and so is Billy Giles and so is Ian McGaskill so is Wincy Willis
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 16 August 2003 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
― james nope, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:45 (twenty years ago) link
Big shout out back in time to ailsa -- there is a listing on TV Cream so we're not hallucinating. It bugs me that nobody remembers this - it was Nigel Kneale (Quatermass fella) attempting what felt like a sitcom and it had Rula Lenska in it too.
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
I loved:The Mighty Orbots (cartoon. I knew it was silly, but I liked it. And the way the robot team ran when they were heading for action was funny and I would mimic it to entertain myself)
Clyde the Frog (bizarre frog marionette with a strange woman's voice. public television. often on around midday when i was home sick from school. clyde would always fuck up and use the opposite of good judgment and by doing so would teach the kids a lesson. Like he'd get cocky and decide not to use hand signals while riding his bike and end up being mangled by a car. It all looked so strange. wish i had a tape.
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
Fans of Action should check out the Illeana Douglas episode of Jay Mohr's podcast where they tell all the inside stories about the show and how messed up things were behind the scenes.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 September 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
omg was Crooooooooow our first sock puppet - and none other than Ned Raggett at that?!
― free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Friday, 21 September 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link