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Great thread, last month we turned a senior meeting into anarchy by playing the theme tune to flashing blade (whilst the younger members looked on in amazement)
anyone mention this ITV weirdness already?
+1 Blakes 7, really miss it.
Ulysses
Batfink
Dogtagnan
The Family Ness
Danger Mouse
Why Don't You
Wizbit
Round the Twist?
edit: gah, someone else's listed most of them.
TV was *weird* when I was a kid. Fraggle Rock - little pink things living in a cave, with giants living outside. Batfink - a bat that was a superhero. Wizbit - I couldn't even explain now. But when I was a kid we just took it all on board and loved it!
To my embarrassment (and pride) i have the complete box set of VHS cassettes of Blakes 7 - only thing is, i don't have a video player!!! 😳
EDIT - Oooh, The Tomorrow People! Remember playing 'jaunting' in the playground at junior school, we'd stick our fingers in our snake belts then run like buggery across the yard!
The Flashing Blade was cracking.
Zorro
Also used to love when bbc2 did their seasons of old films - charlie chan, tarzan, sherlock holmes, laurel and hardy and the likes. Now that was classic entertainment
Come on you lot: Hammy Hamster surely!
Anybody remember uncle the grumpy plant?
gronda gronda
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one of mine.
I'm sure Blue Peter made a Blakes 7 wrist thingamajig once, probably based on an old bog roll.
And snake belts - fantastic memory recall there. That one almost slipped off into the unconscious until I read that. For some reason I seem to associate that memory with the dawn of the Chinny; a facial expression whereby one would shove one's tongue inbetween the lower teeth and lip forcing the chin area to expand thus creating a look that, although purporting to be a Bruce Forsyth impression, was actually an outright implication that the recipient was a lying git.
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Robert's Robots and Magpie for me please... The Tomorrow people used to scare me...
Ah now, the chinny to us was a way of being a smug git, a way of implying that you were so much better/faster/richer/etc than the recipient - best expressed when you'd just smashed your opponent's conker and stuck your tongue in your bottom lip and made the "eeemmmmgghh" sound whilst pulling an annoying face! 😆
Trap Door
clangers
magic roundabout
thundercats
runaround with mike reed
Indeed, my short and dirty friend, I now recall using it in such a fashion, too. A very versatile little gesture was the chinny.
On things being scary - Bagpuss was actually quite an intimidating beast if you took into account the size of his bloody great gob; terrifying to a small child. Chris Moyles does a good impersonation of the Terror Cat just by existing and we all know that he ate some of the mice when the cameras were turned off. Bagpuss that is, not Moyles...
Edited for the awful spelling of the cat's name.
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when i was a kid, "man in a suitcase", when my kids were kids, "fat tulips garden".
Kickstart, please bring back kickstart.
Of those already mentioned - Trapdoor, Chorlton and the Wheelies and Gilbert's Fridge are standout favourites.
slainte 8) rob
Catweazle,
Captain Scarlet,
Joe 90,
Terrahawks,
Casey Jones,
Baywatch,
Chips,
Charlies Angels,
The Persuaders,
The Clangers,
the Magic Roundabout,
In a word TISWAS.
Absolute anarchy. The phantom flan linger was a taxi driver and Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Dave Gorman, Bob Carolgees and Lenny Henry had such a laugh. To top it all my brother and I were on it for three years. All I can say is the sight of Sally James in leather trousers was an education.
Crackerjack,
Multi coloured swop shop,
Magpie,
How,
Although not being shown now, How actually made it to How 2 until sometime in the 2000s and was then carried forward under the guise of something else using the same presenters if my memory serves correctly. So technically you're correct, Project but it did have a degree of longevity by comparison. That strange, almost immortal Fred Dinenage appeared in both of the How programmes but not the re-named show.
I expect to see him fighting a Kurgan-like figure on a rooftop sometime soon...
isnt fred dinage reading the local news on some down south tv channel
There was one I used to watch, when I was probably a lot older than the intended audience, that had a sheep in it called Bomber Harris (or similar), but I can't remember the name!
I'm sure Blue Peter made a Blakes 7 wrist thingamajig once, probably based on an old bog roll.
You are 100% correct
Does Thunderbirds count, it's not been repeated for a few years.
Watch it with my son on youtube, and Ivor the Engine, Stingray, XL5, keep well away from the the Singing Ringing Tree though, I'm still traumatised 40 years later.
Fingerbobs.
"Yoffi lifts a finger........."
Just a few:
Anyone mentioned UFO?
How's about [url= http://www.thechestnut.com/belle.htm ]Belle and Sebastien[/URL], or am I showing my age!
Anyone mentioned Crackerjack yet?
I could crush a grape!
I'd forgotten about Belle and Sebastien, that theme tune takes be back.
What about White Horses,
Worth it for the them tune alone, and I don't remeber the lead actress looking so hot when I watched first time around
I'd love to see an episode of 3-2-1 again with Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin. Never could fathom those clues out.
Superstars with Kevin Keegan falling off his bike.
It's a knockout - "here come the Belgians" shouts Stuart Hall
Always enjoyed the Banana Splits as a prelude to the Flashing Blade
Hong kong Phooey.
All the old cop shows.. TJ hooker, Dempsey and makepeace, also a yank oneabout some sort of criminal race driver bailed out by a judge type guy snd they fought crime together.. Can't remember the name but the opening sequence had a red sports car (Ferrari or poss Lamborghini) jumping/driving over another car..
Oh aye, no Tales of the Unexpected btw?
Tripods was great, loved the Triffids feature length the beeb did about the same time?
Red Hand Gang was good, was a sorta uk version where the kids hangout was a routemaster?
Oh aye, also, a kids gameshow presented by Bob Carolgees where the kids had to play full size snakes and ladders- not got a clue what that was called..
Just remembered Matt Houston and Tales of the Golden Monkey
was a sorta uk version where the kids hangout was a routemaster?
That was the Double Deckers.
althepal - Hardcastle and McCormick?
I'll stay off this thread now or i'll get nothing done the rest of the day..............
You can't beat a retro-tastic thread such as this 🙂
Here's my 2p for now:
Anyone remember The Changes...
Pretty scary at the time.
Glad someone has mentioned Tales of the Golden Monkey. I loved that show, and no-one I've ever spoken to rememebers it.
Same plot every week, Jake Cutter flies off to meet some undesirables to help out his French chum with the eye patch and dodgy past. Get's caught in a storm, Cutter's Goose (the plane) engines cut out, he crash lands.... bad guys met... fixes plane.....there's a fight in the golden monkey bar..... ace.
Big Jim & the Figaro Club
