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

'Away, Steffy Boy!'

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.

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)

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

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.