* meaningless to anyone under the age of 35 I should think

I think Rangdo has turned up in my office.

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/The_Adventure_Game

The vortex used to scare the crap out of me.

Its the classic childrens TV show thread … off you go…

fab!!!!

Rachel

/edit – oh poo – that gives away my age, doesn’t it???

I knew what you were talking about before I opened the thread..

I loved that show.. doog yrev, doog yrev.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/

Heinz Wolff. Legend.

Gronda gronda, your highness. Any chance of a green cheeseburger?

brilliant..!
loved the adventure game.

I loved the Adventure Game too.

Our kids have some of these and it prompted me and the wife to talk about The Adventure Game currency puzzle. As a kid I sussed it quite quickly. 😀

I also remember Lesley Judd being a treacherous bitch.

I was genuinely afraid at the time (I was only young) that people really did die if they got evaporated from the stepping stones at the end!

Great game though. Saw it repeated a while back and surprisingly it hadn’t dated too badly.

When I bought my first house I had to buy an aspidistra to sit at the top of the stairs. I still gronda to it sometimes… sad mo-fo, eh.

As a kid I sussed it quite quickly

You know, as a kid it used to frustrate me how stupid the contestants were. In hindsight, I don’t know now whether that’s because I found the puzzles quite easy, or because I’d seen the programme before… (-:

I sound like an old git, but ‘those were the days’!

Seems an altogether more pleasant, less commercial, and more innocent time. Even the music was ever so ‘nice’!

Even as a kid I sussed that it was a great big pile of stinking shit of a tv programme. Only marginally bettered by those “adventure books” that the nerdy kids used to read. 🙂

Don’t you be dissing the Warlock of Firetop Mountain, now…!

cougar – can you get those lime green spined books still?

I used to love them. Had a bout a dozen of them. I was the geeky kid that nasty bullies like DD used to pick on 😉

TV shows we really need remade,

1) The Adventure Game.
2) Knightmare.

and Quattro and Top Deck deserve reprising too!

Me? A bully? Never…just too busy playing hurling and falling out of trees while the geeks stayed in and slowly started the process of world domination 🙂

See, I was a hybrid geek, I started the process of world domination from the comfort of up a tree.

I started the process of world domination from the comfort of up a tree.

Ah I see 😉 You were the one that the fire brigade had to come and help down 😀

Stoner – Member
and Quattro

Oh my……flashback!

Seems an altogether more pleasant, less commercial, and more innocent time. Even the music was ever so ‘nice’

You what?

It was like now, but with less enlightenment, worse technology, crappier music and really stupid hair.

As an 11 year old I used to fancy both the grand-daughters something rotten.

TV shows we really need remade,

1) The Adventure Game.
2) Knightmare.

See Escape From Scorpion Island, Trapped! and Raven – all on BBC/CBBC I believe.

Ah old kids TV….

Can’t help thinking of those little puppets and the broom cupboard. Oh and Gordon moving into Sat morning TV and getting savaged:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxCCqaRgWU[/video]

I also remember Lesley Judd being a treacherous bitch.

Steady on, Lesley’s a good friend of mine. (Unashamedly name dropping…)

Oh, and Susan Stranks with Itsy and Bitsy.
And Leela in Dr Who was a bit of an eye opener too.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=885aUJnKb-Y[/video]

My favourite!!

Quatro?

Welshist!

😯 Nooooooooooo I just like Chorlton and the Wheelies…. I have no speakers at work and can’t even hear what the clip is… sorry 🙁

My favourite!!

You picked the wrong username then.

I loved Chorlton & The Wheelies. I’ve got it on VHS somewhere, it’s aged well. Mind you, it’s a Cosgrove Hall outing, so it’s bound to be good.

GrahamS – Member

TV shows we really need remade,

1) The Adventure Game.
2) Knightmare.

See Escape From Scorpion Island, Trapped! and Raven – all on BBC/CBBC I believe.

My children love Raven.

I have watched it a few times and it is actually quite good.

Raven’s big, booming voice makes me chuckle.

One of the teachers at my daughter’s school is good friends with the games master (is that what you call him?) of Raven and he came into their class one day to talk about the show and getting into television.

My daughter was quite impressed.

Get it right, there was only ever one Quatro…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEHmJ-HuiGo[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4F3QiRcTaQ[/video]

and for the kiddies amoungst us… that was hi-tech for an 80’s advert!
I needed some, but can’t remember ever drinking any..

Was only talking about the Adventure game a couple of weekend back with my [‘old’] m8’s.

ehhhhh??? This is too weird… the “Film scenes you can remember as a kid…” thread got me thinking about a program I used to watch with something called The Vortex (scary) but I couldn’t remember the name of the show. Found the answer on google and then suddenly this thread appears.

And all because someone’s put an aspidistra in the office today.

*hums the Twilight Zone theme tune*

I was mentally scarred by some episodes of this…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6MrjevJWcM&sns=em[/video]

Stoppit and Tidyup

and Gilbert’s Fridge