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

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The mysterious cities of gold (la,la-la-la-la, someday we will find, the cities of go-old). My friends dad looks like Mendoza but he hasn't got a flying golden condor.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

mysterios cities of gold? featuring a kid called Esteban? was amazing at the start but got slightly trippy towards the end. IIrc then TV cream has a lot of stuff on it.

― chris, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It was one of those cartoon series that never seemed to end though, like Around the World with Willy Fog. I was so disappointed when he got back to London and he just ended up getting married or something.Great theme tune though (Fog is my name, and I can play with my life in any way, that's what they say).

― Jonnie, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Eighty days around the world, we'll find a pot of gold, and stick it up a tradesman's entrance." As the playground version went.

― Trevor, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah I hate that and some smug bastard at school would always lie and say he'd seen the last one. Jason and the Wheeled Warriors. Will he ever find his dad? I saw the one where he did. No, honest.

― Ronan, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

all you ever wanted to know about < A href="http://www.whimsy.demon.co.uk/gold/">mysterious cities of gold

― chris, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

fucking html, it's shit. anyway, the address in that shoddy bit of html is the mysterious cities of gold website. sorry

― chris, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cult Toons-the best show ever! 'Help help! Here come the (edit) Furry Animals (/edit) Help help! Here come the (edit) Furry Animals (/edit) Help help! Here come the (edit) Super Furry Animals (/edit) Let's split!'

And then they'd have that BRILLIANT 10 second Gary Coleman show afterwards- 'Hey hey! Looks like all the kids are present and accounted for-(Edit) (Gary explodes) (Testcard)' 'This exercise sure is hard work!' 'What she talking about? this jogging stuff is a breeze! (Edit) (Gary explodes) (testcard)' I used to have 2 episodes of that,but they were wiped over. :(:(:(

― Billy Hicks, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

five months pass...

try this one (cartoon)....

theres a man sitting at a table with an egg. He begins to tap the top with the back of his spoon....just as he taps, there is a knock at the door....."Just a minute, I'm a coming", he says in a italianish accent. He gets up, goes to the door....there is no one there. He returns to the chair and is back at tapping his egg. ::KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK, at the door again. "Who is it?" he says, "Just a minute, I'm a coming"....He is clearly frustrated to fing no one at the door..... Back to tapping on the egg...each tap puts a crack in his ceiling until finally the roof caves in and the cartoon fades with a scream...............

― rc, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ronan LIES! I just tort they never made it... i saw one where he finds his dad but then he turns out to be a plantguy.

also: ulysses 31

― Bob Zemko, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

*Peter Noone joke to thread*

― Pete, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did anyone like Dark Skies? Fot the uninitiated, imagine the paranoia of the X-Files, multiply it by a lot, add in some counterfactual history and sprinkle with some J.T. Walsh. Shame it only lasted one series. Very good brain candy.

― Nathan Barley, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked it but it took too long to get going - and always be wary of a TV show which has four decades of history to get through and only deals with two years in its first series (it was a bit JFK and Jackie O in the Invaders as well).

― Pete, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

None of my mates remember Terrahawks. Am I the only one, or are they just missing some part of their memory..? I totally heard of Monkey, despite being too young to have ever seen it, I think they even reviewed Monkey on Vids.. 'Ah but it is the sacred turd of truth'

'Away, Steffy Boy!'

― Chris Makin, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Totally life-changing kid's cartoon: The (Seven?) Cities Of Gold - about a boy who inherits a mysterious half-medallion that is a partial key to the ancient Inca cities etc. etc. with flying golden crane-plane and alien guys with wings in their heads. Does anyone remember this?
I totally remember this one, except I think my memory is heightened by the fact that my mother made me take ipecac because I'd just downed an entire container of cold medicine--I watched the "Seven Cities of Gold" as I was anticipating an entire day-long vomiting fest. As for television shows, I remember for years I used to wish I could revisit some series (or movie) called UNICO, then about five years later I found a video for sale. Anyone else remember UNICO?

― Mandee, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Umm, hello people, Strangers with Candy? Excellent. Amy Sedaris, sister of David Sedaris, is a demented comedic genius. I think Comedy Central shows reruns of it Sunday nights at 2am, well, they used to.

I'd like to give props to my Nickelodeon favorites: Pete and Pete (The N has started showing reruns) Salute Your Shorts Hey Dude (with Ben Stiller's wife, whoever that nitwit is)

I also miss Parker Lewis Can't Lose, the Critic, Dr. Katz, and especially News Radio with my man Dave Foley. All of these fond TV memories are breaking my heart.

― Lindsey B, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Salute your shorts and Hey Dude are two different shows.

― Lindsey B, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

mandee, surely thats 'the mysterious cities of gold', the one with esteban and, um, tia?

― gareth, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yep parker lewis - that was cool, odd tom petty fixation that all the kids had

gruey on bbc - that was good

the harlem globetrotters cartoon

sport billy (thought id imagined that one so many people looked at me with blank faces)

― born clippy, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was was listening to Herbie Hancock's 'Fat Albert Rotunda' alb yesterday - anybody ever seen the cartoon show? Not sure it's ever been shown in the UK...

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

does anyone remember the show starring chainsaw from summer school about aliens coming down to earth and trying to get laid?!!?

― chaki, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

Does anyone remember a program with "Chatter" the chimp? It had a theme song with the line "...Chatter! What's the matter with you?"

Saw it only when living in Detroit. Could it have been a Canadian program?

― Ray, Sunday, 8 September 2002 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chatter chatter

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 8 September 2002 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

How about a cartoon set in some European mountains with a boy and a big white-ish dog called Sebastian? I was obssessed with it - WHAT IS ITS NAME???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 8 September 2002 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Har har.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 8 September 2002 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

vids is a program that none of the people i know seem to have heard of. it was class. does anybody know if it's coming back, because i'd rather have it than the other shite that they plonk on c4. i saw nigel doing a review of a film on the sci-fi channel. does this mean the end? also knife and wife was great (by none other than mr biffo of digi fame. (whats happened to it recently, it's become as monged as bernard mannings shitsleeve.

― cunty elliot spamjavelin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tim Tyler: the boy who lost his smile (traded with the evil baron, eventually recovered with help from a nun and a chef - was dubbed); Patrick Packard (ridiculously complex - also dubbed); Chocky; Chocky's Children; some forerunner of the Crystal Maze where they had to cross 'the vortex' and would disappear if they stepped on the wrong 'square'; Vicky The Viking; Dance Energy with Normski.

― michael w., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Welsh bloke from Vids was doing an Edinburgh Festival round up show on ITV recently.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Spaced. I love this show but apparently I'm the only person on the PLANET who has seen it.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

michael: the crystal maze thing is The Adventure Game, which I can't believe hasn't had a thread of its own.

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.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um, it's on ABC on Saturday nights at 11:10 pm. It's just that everyone else goes out on Saturday nights and so they miss it.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

spaced has a big following here. there's a web site and a yahoogroup dedicated to it. start a thread if you like. i could probably goss about it for a bit, esp as Jessica S is on my wife list.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.spaced-out.org.uk/

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

nice one, andrew. it was one of those shows that you go through life thinking you may have dreamt.

― michael w., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I cannot watch it because of its video effect dishonesty.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

i have vague recollections of this:
http://www.btinternet.com/~sarsen/children/index.html
spooky childrens thing about standing stones. scared me silly.

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...

― koogs, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Flashing Blade was scripted by Russel T Davies! it was meant to be funny. (i might be misremembering this). Children of the Stones scared me shitless for months afterwards. I saw it again about 4 years ago (friend has it on video) -- it is v funny and still a teensy bit scary. I think gareth thomas might have been in it.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

No one else in the world was a Mighty Max obsessive.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

"it's right to fight for what you want/to live the way you please/for life and love and happiness/and all that you believe"

was no one thinking OF THE CHILDREN?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kevin Spencer

There's something wrong with that kid

Kevin Spencer

His head don't work, it never did

Kevin Spencer

He's a schizophrenic alcoholic teenage sociopath!

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.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sunday afternoons, autumn outside and it's The Ghosts of Montley Hall about 3 or 4 ghosts trapped in a stately home and unable to leave. Don't remember too much about it and no one else remembers it. On after Glen Michaels Cavalcade in Scotland.

― mms (mms), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

No-one I know watched Rule The School, in which a bunch of real-life teachers were taught young people stuff (e.g. text messaging, playing pooter games) by a bunch of teenagers. It was top quality. THe amazing thing was how quickly the kids started acting like adults and the adults started behaving like children.

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

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

it still is on on comedy central, kevin spencer that is

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark: Motley Hall.

Tricky blighter, Johnny Memory.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

anything chris morris does is adored by me and ignored by everybody else in my school, but maybe that's to do with the fact i live in Wales, where they love rugby and the buggery of lambs, the sick fools.

― novsa, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

graham i was a mighty max obsessive!!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does anyone else remember 'Nobody's House'? It featured Kevin Moreton as a spooky Victorian street urchin haunting a 1970s house, and scared me witless.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 09:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Flashing Blade was only supposed to be funny when it was reddubed by starange Brando referencing Saturday morning kids show On The Waterfront. Kate Copstick = not funny.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 10:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

ON the waterfront! that was the Russel Davies redubbed Flashing Blade thing I was thinking of. http://tv.cream.org/arksat.htm

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't know, as a kid I found the name "Kate Copstick" hilarious.

Oh, I see. Point taken.

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

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