Brilliant TV Shows That Noone Apart From Me Appears To Have Seen

Also on the Chocky/Chocky's Children vibe was a New zealand sci-fi for kids series called Children Of The Dog Star.

toraneko: I'm not sure that stuff you can buy DVDs of on Amazon counts. Of course, with the massive nostalgia, maybe you can buy all of these now.

and on saturday mornings before Swap Shop (i mean before they'd thought of Swap Shop rather than 'before' if you see what i mean) they'd have things like Flashing Blade (badly dubbed drama about, er, french people), White Horses (badly dubbed drama with great theme tune), Robinson Crusoe (badly dubbed drama), Heidi (badly dubbed drama). and programmes about Fencing called something like Cut and Thrust. and horse riding.

andy
all this was fields...

was no one thinking OF THE CHILDREN?

This cartoon was brilliant! For a few short weeks, it was broadcast out of Ottawa late on Saturday nights & then just as suddenly as it appeared, it was gone (*puff*) without a trace.

It finished with the teachers (as Teech-urz) performing a *fantastic* version of "Teenage Dirtbag" at the end of term show.

Tricky blighter, Johnny Memory.

Oh, I see. Point taken.

Last year Biffo was ordered to make Digitiser boring and normal like Ceefax's useless computer games section, as they thought old style Digi wasn't "proper" or something. However! Following falling viewing figures, Teletext Ltd have decided to allow Biffo to be funny again, and Digi will relaunch soon as its old self, hopefully.

I'll be patron saint of the Semi Cool Animated Show here, and say that "Downtown", "Space Ghost Coast To Coast" and "Home Movies" (this last one done by the same ppl as Dr.Katz I believe) are sorely underrated.

"Home Movies" features Brendon Small, an eight year old obsessed with making movies- the two best episodes: the one where Brendon's idea to make "Louie Louie", a movie featuring Luis De Funnes and Luis Pasteur, is rapidly losing popularity due to the competition's musical about Kafka; and the one where his frustration at not being able to do good in history class led to him producing a sci-fi movie with George Washington as the main foe (W also inexplicably has a sidekick called Mr.Paws, who has his own Run-D.M.C.ish theme song- "my name's Mr.Paws, and have a nice day!") The film ends with the hero's inspiring speech that "we will fight evil, wherever it may reside- even if it is our forefathers...or foremothers"

Most endearing semi-obscure TV show EVAH: "Yu-Gi-Ooh", or something like that (japanese anime show.) It's about fighting battles using "Magic:The Gathering" type cards.

Sample dialogue, as remembered by me:

"Oh, Yu-Gi-ooh, if only I could be better at playing cards, I'd be the most popular kid in school!"

"Well, I have an uncle who could maybe teach you..."

"Oh, please, please, please!"

"But playing cards is not for everyone..."

They then go to their uncle, who delivers a long winded speech about how much "rigorous training" and "personal sacrifice" one needs to be good at playing with little dumb battlecards. I cannot even begin to conceive how geeky one must be to have created such a show.

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.

- 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.

galaxy high.

I've met maybe 2 people who remember that one.

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.