It’s mediocre, not awful.
Yep there are bountiful shows from that generation.
BJ and the Bear 🙂
I wonder how Buck Rogers fares, biggy biggy.
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Full MemberWatching 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 always like to think of hollywood moguls looking at all the different directors they could pick for their new marvel blockbuster and then looking at Joe Cornish's career and going "yeah, he's definitely the one"
Colournoise I have Trap Door and Count Ducula downloaded on my laptop 😁
Why isn’t KITT in surveillance mode all the time?
Power saving?
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.
Rear wheel drive, remember. Presumably they'd have to slam the brakes on hard as soon as the driven wheels were on the ramps (or knock it into neutral and coast up I suppose). The speed differential between the car and truck is low.
I tried re watching monkey magic it was dire, might have to look up mork and mindy again too thinking about it
I wonder how Buck Rogers fares
Yes, but, Erin Gray... (sorry, but, had a wall poster as a kid. I was in love.)
Air Wolf was good, but that silly futuristic motorbike one ? Chips was great ! Buck Rogers was good for Erin Gray. And 'The A Team' - that was daft fun.
Street Hawk was the motorbike one. Air wolf has not aged well IMO, I caught an episode the other month and it was terrible.
Rear wheel drive, remember. Presumably they’d have to slam the brakes on hard as soon as the driven wheels were on the ramps (or knock it into neutral and coast up I suppose)
Watch the video - the inertia oddly slows it all down, it doesn't behave like you'd think.
I was hoping one of the STW physicists would explain the physics 🙂
Rear wheel drive, remember. Presumably they’d have to slam the brakes on hard as soon as the driven wheels were on the ramps (or knock it into neutral and coast up I suppose). The speed differential between the car and truck is low.
The last sentence is crucial. Like you say, rear wheel drive, and an auto box make this manoeuvre a (relative) piece of cake; the mass of the car hardly changes velocity at all, only the drive train, which is engineered to do exactly that with ease (imagine a four wheel lock up at speed; similar sudden drive train velocity change). A little chirp of the tyres as they rapidly change rotation speed and you’re done. Probably doesn’t even need much throttle adjustment; rolling resistance suddenly reduces but a gradient is introduced.
What is much more impressive is getting those front wheel drive, manual minis up into the coach on a winding Italian mountain road! Some clever clutch and gear work there.
As much as watching these shows now makes us all cringe, they did all seem to have decent stories (most of the time)...there was an episode story and some had a series story (or the full thing story)...they were decent. Compared to a lot of shows now where it seems completely disorganised...
Suspect I'm watching it all with rose-tinted specs on, but apart from the cheese factor on the costumes, etc. they did have some decent storylines...
ITV4 and Legend seem to be the 2 channels on FreeView to watch for this kind of cheese. FreeVee does some shoes as well...but it does kind of draw you in. I've got less than 1.5 series to watch of Dukes of Hazzard - despite watching it all as a kid, I recall all the characters but have no recollection of any of the stories! I'll be glad when I get this finished as it'll be ticked off and done.
I used to love Street Hawk. It's one of those shows where there were a lot fewer episodes made than you remember. 12? 16? Something like that.
Also I think it was the first ever on-screen appearance of George Clooney.
I forgot the second half of my Knight Rider reply:
It’s mediocre, not awful.
Thing with Knightrider for me was
What irked me, even as a kid, was the oh-so-convenient coincidental upgrades.
Opening scene: Bonnie is in the truck, not nearly greasy enough for 13-year old me, but anyway. "Hey Michael, check this out, I've equipped KITT with a new bear repellent. Because you never know...!" Cut to lingering close-up on 'Repel Bear' button in the middle of the console.
Third act dramatic showdown scene: "look, a bear!" Michael presses the Repel Bear button. Bear is repelled, runs off back into the woods.
Back at FLAG, Wilton's started on the Scotch. Michael quips something about the day being unbearable, everyone laughs. Credits roll.
The Repel Bear button is never mentioned again. Six episodes later they're up to the fetlocks in a wild bear infestation going "hey KITT, how about putting up a smoke screen?"
TBH I'm a bit partial to Miami Vice always had good music and shiny cars, and a nice kit car for the hero and oddly even when he had the real Testerossa the chases would also be a kit car of that as the real deal wasn't reliable enough for the tougher driving scenes.
What irked me, even as a kid, was the oh-so-convenient coincidental upgrades.Opening scene: Bonnie is in the truck, not nearly greasy enough for 13-year old me, but anyway. “Hey Michael, check this out, I’ve equipped KITT with a new bear repellent. Because you never know…!” Cut to lingering close-up on ‘Repel Bear’ button in the middle of the console.
Q Branch has been equipping 007 with those convenient "you will use it in this film but never again" gadgets for decades!
Anyway, MacGyver used to suffer from the same except that stuff was never issued to him, he simply "found" them conveniently nearby...
"What I needed right now was 24 truck tyres, an air compressor, 4 barrels and some double sided sticky tape..."
Holy shit, look at that truck workshop right next to me - what are the odds?!
Pretty ****ing high MacGyver, pretty ****ing high. And miraculously with JUST enough time to make the contraption before the Caricatured Bad Guys show up.
On Knight rider there's not that many real cars around as there was a de-rail of a train carrying firebirds and they were given to the production company on the proviso that they were crushed after use.
So only the original season 1 cars survived, they even had a massive rubber cover they put over it so they could keep driving thru walls and have it unmarked.
MacGyver used to suffer from the same except that stuff was never issued to him, he simply “found” them conveniently nearby…
See also, bad guys locking up the A-Team.
Another thing I noticed as a kid, in The Incredible Hulk, Banner hulked out precisely twice every episode. No more, no less. I wonder if there was a production reason for that?
Back at FLAG, Wilton’s started on the Scotch.
Devon, not Wilton. Blast.
Tried watching Knight Rider and The A Team again a few years ago to see if they lived up to my childhood memories. All I can say is my parents must’ve been dosing me with mescaline or LSD as a kid. I remember action and excitement and not **** all happening for half an hour. Mediocre at best.
Ah, The A Team.... those car drivers never did get the hang of dodging those bushes that rather amazingly always made the cars do barrel roles.
Sesame Street was way ahead of its time I think. Very diverse and some really wacky but well done animation throughout.
Hell, it's still being made, that must say something.
I still have PTSD from watching the final episode of Blake's 7 all those years ago. I took that really personally, as did every other boy at school I think. Can't comment on the girls, was too bloody scared to talk to them at that age.😁
Not a kids show as such but I used to like The Professionals, its still repeated on some obscure channel, it's not held up well either.
For pure childhood magic I still love Bagpuss. Great characters and little stories and a huge dose of sentimentality which I'm ridiculously prone to these days.
I used to like The Professionals, its still repeated on some obscure channel, it’s not held up well either.
No, it has not.
Ahhh no one’s mentioned Minder and the gratuitous stripper shots that were used regularly.
Itv4 shows them...I like The Professionals, hasn't aged as badly as the US shows - hasn't escaped it either but isn't as bad.
If you want to look back and wonder what on earth was going on in kids TV in the 80s, there was an episode of Rentaghost on telly a few weeks ago. It's on the iPlayer now. I loved that show as a 7 year old and it's all pretty innocent stuff but it didn't pass muster with my kids.
I still have PTSD from watching the final episode of Blake’s 7 all those years ago. I took that really personally, as did every other boy at school I think. Can’t comment on the girls, was too bloody scared to talk to them at that age
Blake’s 7 was actually pretty progressive with the portrayal of female role models thou 🙂
I hated the ending thou.
Tom & Jerry, Itchy & Scratchy isn't it. That bloody upstart SpongeBob!
