With I’m Nearly A Celebrity And Will Eat Kangaroo Anus To Boost My CV imminent and Dancing On ****ing Ice looming like a planet killing asteroid I think it is time that we remember the golden age of really crap television.
I would like to offer up Oskar, Kina and The Laser. The story of a boy, his goose and a talking laser. A program that reminds me of rainy mornnings during 1970s school holidays.
The BFI plot synopsis is as follows…
Oscar, a boy from Barcelona, builds a home-made laser ray machine, and with his friend a goose, Kina, sets off to Galicia to rescue a boy kidnapped by a mob of baddies. The laser machine has a personality of its own, and enables Oscar to become invisible at crucial moments …
I still find it staggering that after a bain-storming session at the BBC to discuss their flagship Saturday night prime-time show, someone suggested “why not get a racist, sexist homophobic bigot, who’s about as funny as cancer to front it!”
There was a fault which meant that there was a considerable loss of picture in the twelth and final episode but they bought and showed it anyway. What a fantastic lack of respect for the viewer! 😀
Seriously, no matter how bad it was, can anyone honestly say any of it was worse than the f*cking X factory and other such assorted Saturday evening toss?
Transformers cartoons from the 80s – used to love them as a kid but having bought them recently on DVD for my son (who loves the current generation of Transformers), I can see that they’re really rubbish – crap animation, odd plots, etc. He loves them, mind…
The transformers movie (80s again) is even more strange, plot-wise.
Oscar, Kina and the Laser looks like something I wooduv enjoyed actually. Like something a kid themselves would have dreamed up. About friendship, adventure and helping others. Good stuff.
The worst stuff I can remember was Transformers, He-Man and all the other ‘advertising merchandise’ type crap that seemed to be rife in the 80s, to the detriment of decent kids’ telly. Just encouraged consumerism, and din’t help stretch kids’ imaginations in any genuinely positive manner.
Sadly that seems to be the model for success; saw some little kids yesterday, singing ‘Bob the Builder’. Whilst their parents were busy shopping for crap they don’t need instead of sitting reading a book with them or doing something constructive.
Does anybody remember a series called Rebound (circa 1981) about two teens; a boy and a girl who were into gymnastics? I think they solved crimes / mysteries and used their gymnastic skills to getoutof sticky situations.
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what do you mean strange makes perfect sense to me that transformer film…..impressive list of voice actors though
More the 80s experimental music and themes that went with it than the film content itself… Very impressive voice-over cast indeed. It was Orson Welles’ last film apparently.
saw some little kids yesterday, singing ‘Bob the Builder’. Whilst their parents were busy shopping for crap they don’t need instead of sitting reading a book with them or doing something constructive.
Believe it or not sometimes parents do have to go to the shops and children like playing with toys.
Surely if we all stopped buying crap we didn’t really need then our sport would be dead on its arse.
Badly executed virtual reality, one kid weard a helmet (blindfold), the others tell him what to do for half an hour whilst the creepy uncle/knight character goads them on.
sorry clubber i missed a wink it is bonkers but my kids love it
Annoyingly the toys are marketed at kids and the films are a 12
We have to play transformers all the time
The professionals was gay man love and gurning, but the worst was starsky and hutch . I’m sure all the huffing and chuffing and rolling over cars was just foreplay for a big , cardigan clad cuddle and homeo erratic smoochles . not to mention the hard to spot car and stereotype black dude pimp .gold
I never understood why this went out at weekends. It was pants as well.
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also pants
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I remember this being drilled into us at school (on the telly on a big stand with wheels on and doors on the front)
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