Ouch – revisiting childhood tv shows

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Could be the last STW mystery of 2022 !

The Twitter post has been deleted. It had a picture of a talking JJ Evans doll. The TV show was groundbreaking in that it featured a Black family, but JJ became the most popular character with the "dyn-o-mite" catchphrase and that's what it's remembered for.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/talk-1975-times-jj-evans-jimmy-walker-457332853

Was the Good Times TV show ever on in the UK?  I don't remember it at all.

I don’t remember it at all.

You were blessed. When I was a kid, I thought it was hilarious. Now, it's just embarrassing. Probably not as bad as It Ain't Half Hot Mum though, but I wouldn't bet money either way.

I tried to watch MASH the film . Not a pleasant experience.

I’m gutted that my favourite childhood show was so damn racist, when viewed with 2022 hindsight.

I loved dem Duke boys and their wacky adventures in a car that may as well have had a swastika on the roof and 88 on the doors…

Watching the Adam and Joe show with other ACTUAL adults in the room was a chastening and humiliating experience. Trying to explain why there were multiple soft toys copulating on screen to my 70 year old aunty was .. difficult.

I loved dem Duke boys and their wacky adventures in a car that may as well have had a swastika on the roof and 88 on the doors…

Jeezus, that show has not aged well at all. Aside from the racist thing, it's just lame. I'm pretty sure I could outrun their car chases in a 40-year old Astra 1.3. I still have fond memories of Catherine Bach though.

Pick the right shows and never have to feel guilty. Still love this now and I'm in my 50s.

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We put police academy on a while back as we thought it'd be funny to watch with the kids. I don't think it lasted more than 5 minutes. Absolutely shocking. Pick an ism, they were all there from the start!!

We put police academy on a while back as we thought it’d be funny to watch with the kids.

Homer Simpson: STEALING! How could you? Why do you think I took you to see all those "Police Academy" movies, FOR FUN? I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE LAUGHING, DID YOU?

My favourite shows as a kid were mostly the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson ones - Torchy the Battery Boy, Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds.

Oh, and Doctor Who.

Definite lack of ‘isms in those.

Pick the right shows and never have to feel guilty. Still love this now and I’m in my 50s.

We grew up in a bit of a golden age, didn't we. Do 40-somethings, 30-somethings, 20-somethings have similar classics?

I watched the first episode of Allo Allo the other week, fully expecting to hate it. It pains me to say it but.... I found it pretty funny still! At least it was merciless in taking the pish out of all nationalities including the Brits.

Me and my 11 year old mates thought Eddie Murphy - Delirious was the funniest thing ever.  That hasn't aged well.  The ice cream and G.I. Joe gags are still filed away in my mind, somehow.

Still enjoy him in 48 Hrs, Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop, though.

The first couple of series of Allo Allo aren't completely terrible.  I think the appearance of the gendarme is where it started to go downhill fast.

Me and my 11 year old mates thought Eddie Murphy – Delirious was the funniest thing ever. That hasn’t aged well.

He's still aged better than Bill Cosby. Jello puddin eating mother***.
Link to sweary Eddie Murphy skit.

We grew up in a bit of a golden age, didn’t we. Do 40-somethings, 30-somethings, 20-somethings have similar classics?

Yeah, just different ones. My kids grew up with things like Phineas and Ferb, Sponge Bob and Adventure Time - all great cartoons and certainly up there with classics like Dangermouse.

Was the Good Times TV show ever on in the UK? I don’t remember it at all.

Me neither, I do remember it ain’t half hot thou for being very shite.

I do remember catching the what must have been the dying embers of the black and white minstrels shows which my young brain also couldn’t comprehend how people thought it was entertainment which also my parents thought was shite as well.

I think as I liked the sci-fi and 2000ad the views were a little bit more forward thinking on this material.

A lot of the sit coms to me were just not funny then,it’s definately a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

I tried to watch "Cities of Gold" again. The episodes were 10 minutes long including 2 minutes of titles and a 3 minute recap.

TBH I did watch something as an old fart that I wanted to watch as a kid that was always advertised in the us comics I’d get, spaceship Yamamoto which wasn’t too bad whereas g-farce was pretty bad and I couldn’t watch more than 2 episodes so to keep my childhood memories intact.

It’s a pity that they didn’t reboot Blake’s 7 tbh, I think that would make an entertaining series on greater than 70’s budget 🙂

I'm watching Dukes of Hazzard on FreeVee...first series stands out as slightly off (on a number of things) but as they wanted to get this aimed at kids it was tamed down...however, Catherine Bach was absolutely stunning and as a 7 year old it was completely missed, however, even now I'm captivated by the car.
Watching it now, it hasn't aged well. But compared to other stuff at the time it wasn't bad bad, just off.
Allo Allo - absolute classic but did run a bit longer than needed, but just brilliant as it poked fun at everything in equal measure.

TBH dukes of hazard was a a pantomime romp with car stunts and everyone loved the car stunts. The sexiness of Daisy and the confederate thing was just lost to us kiddies.

I watched the first episode of Allo Allo the other week,

Vicki Michelle in black stockings still does it for me now.

Hallo little old lady!

I sometimes wonder what's on nowadays that will be seen as unacceptable in the future.
I found Little Britain hilarious back in the day but now- how was it ever allowed?

I used to love watching MacGyver when I was a young teenager but that just looks lame now. The tech, the stunts, the caricature bad guys...

A lot of what was tech back then is now so old I reckon it'd go completely over the heads of anyone under the age of about 25!

The sexiness of Daisy and the confederate thing was just lost to us kiddies.

Hallo little old lady

Chorton and the wheelies was very surreal, did my me laugh as it was always how we said hello to mum. More of a joke as she never got the little old lady was the witch.

Jamie and his magic torch.

We had our two now teenagers watching the Clangers the original version when they were small, I've robbed them of a future thread but they would happily sit and watch over and over.

Dangermouse isn't problematic these days, is it? Watched it with my daughter about five years ago and thought it stood up very well.

I tried to watch “Cities of Gold” again. The episodes were 10 minutes long including 2 minutes of titles and a 3 minute recap.

I remember thinking it was tedious because of this when I was a kid.

It’s a pity that they didn’t reboot Blake’s 7 tbh,

They did, kinda. Big Finish did a run with most of the (surviving) cast.

We had our two now teenagers watching the Clangers the original version when they were small,

The Clangers were always small.

the confederate thing was just lost to us kiddies.

I haven't watched it since I was a kid. Aside from the car's name and its roof, was there much of a 'Confederate thing' at all?

I enjoyed watching CHiPs on ForcesTV when it was on - it still had a sunny Californian optimism that made America so attractive in the 70s and 80s. What a change from now.

It’s a pity that they didn’t reboot Blake’s 7

A friend was approached to design a reboot recently  but dont know if the production has got the green light.

Aside from the car’s name and its roof, was there much of a ‘Confederate thing’ at all?

Well the car was the star so that name and flag were pretty central. Although I don't think, particularly in the UK, that the flag was considered a "racist" thing. Well to me it wasn't.

However, in hindsight it was bizarre that the show did not have 1 black character.

There are 4 distinct programmes missing from any streaming platform. They are The A-team, Airwolf, Knight Rider & Street Hawk. And to a lesser extent Quantum Leap. Oh boy!
Also worthy of mention is Manimal and Automan! 😂

However, in hindsight it was bizarre that the show did not have 1 black character.

actually, there were nineteen, including a few intermittently recurring characters. (Not a DoH nerd, I came across the fact whilst googling) A sheriff of a neighbouring county was black, and portrayed as somewhat more competent than Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane (a low bar, admittedly).

This is a higher black character/episode average than friends and Seinfeld, set in New York, interestingly.

Says a lot about American culture, that.

This is a higher black character/episode average than friends and Seinfeld, set in New York, interestingly.

That is interesting and also is the fact that I never noticed.

Wasn't it "midsomer murders" that actually had a rule barring black characters for about 12 series before anyone realised and exposed it.

I have been watching Knightrider on one of the lesser known freeview channels and it's awful. Why isn't KITT in surveillance mode all the time? He only goes into it when he is told to "keep his scanners peeled". He drives into a bear trap in one episode, how did he not notice that?

I have been watching Knightrider on one of the lesser known freeview channels and it’s awful.

It's mediocre, not awful.

Thing with Knightrider for me was that I could never understand how KITT drove up the ramp onto the moving truck. It's kind of like the opposite of the airplane on the conveyer belt thing. It's been bugging me for decades. I'm assuming they just winched it up in real life.

Thing with Knightrider for me was that I could never understand how KITT drove up the ramp onto the moving truck.

Nah they just drove it up, I think one of the YouTube shows did it to see if you could.

Super persuit mode anyone.

Costcutting TV trivia for the day...

The sound of KITT's turbo boost is the same as the Viper launch noise in Battlestar Galactica.