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starfleet…

I have a 12″ vinyl copy of Brian May, Eddie van Halen and others doing the Starfleet the theme. Drink, Ebay and a credit card were involved……

The Pink Windmill, with Emu and Grotbags, ace!!

Also liked Kickstart and Paddle’s Up.

Wizbit?

re ‘water margin’ I’ve got the boxed set ! bought of ebad years ago.fantastic !!!

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The adventure game was one of my faves

Anybody remember uncle the grumpy plant?

Kung Fu

“When, Grasshopper…”

Overall message – only use violence after you’ve exhausted all other options. Still sound advice IMHO.

Space 1999 – the future is polyester and crimplene based.

Barbapapas
Champion the wonderhorse

Has anyone mentioned

and

I loved the weapons/props

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?

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+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!

http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/

THe Wombles

Stingray

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!
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Anybody remember uncle the grumpy plant?

gronda gronda

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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.

Street hawk

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.

Bagpuss…

Moyles…

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.

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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.