And on topic again, I will beat someone else to it and mention Knightmare!
I am positive every child in Britain wanted to be on this show.
And on topic again, I will beat someone else to it and mention Knightmare!
I am positive every child in Britain wanted to be on this show.
@BooDooBoo just clicked what your avatar is lol.
Avenger Penguins. I donāt remember much about this. Was it just a British knock-off of Biker Mice From Mars?
Bad Influence. ITV videogames show following in the footsteps of C4ās GamesMaster. Pretty cheesy but still quite a nostalgia kick to watch again for the old games news and footage. Most memorable for its Datablast - a rapid fire hit of news, chart info, cheats etc that ran during the closing credits. The idea was to tape it on your VCR then look at the pages frame by frame to read them.
Dark Season - BBC teatime drama series from Russell T Davies. I havenāt seen this since first broadcast so Iām not sure how well it holds up but I remember finding it creepy as a kid.
Brum - show about the adventures of little car. Thereās a neighbouring town of mine with a shop that STILL has a mechanical ride-on Brum outside.
Nooooo! Not a sinister British Childrenās show!
GET AWAY FROM ME CENTURY FALLS!
Hell yeah, Button Moon 4 LYFE yo.
Cockleshell Bay reprazent!
Later era Cosgrove Hall struggled a good bit around that time, their identity got a bit lost in chasing the US market.
I remember this more in concept than form, but I do remember that Violet is in Micromachines because she did this show.
Oh, also Nam Rood? Who I think was Fred Dinage?
It holds up really well! Itās certainly dated, but it could easily be brought up-to-date and appeal to a Stranger Things type crowd, itās also odd because every 10 minutes you go āOh! Thatās Kate Winsletā and then forget for a bit.
It feels like itās a story where The Doctor didnāt turn up so the people already there had to get on with it, just like The Thing does.
Big Finish are doing audio dramas based on it.
I hated Brum. He was supposed to be in the panto I saw one year, but he broke down the night I went to see it and we got some B.S. random Sooty knock-off instead.
Brum should have done it FOR HIS FANS, sure they say it was because he was just a cheap robot and broke down, but Iāve always suspected heād gotten into the Manchester rave scene and just couldnāt get out of bed that day.
I mentioned all of the Japanese puppet variety shows that aired on NHK, including my favorite out of 4, made for kids a few times before, butā¦
SCREW IT. If I talked about them before, Iām gonna do it again, just to reach out to you guys. Plus, it was also the longest reply Iāve ever wrote on my puppet thread.
I was in the area so I checked to see if he was still there and yup, still trucking along.
I swear, if thereās ever a nuclear apocalypse itāll just be cockroaches and this little bugger that survive.
Why has The Adventures of Pete and Pete not been brought up yet? Not even by me? I genuinely believe it is one of, if not the best childrenās show of all time. A world that works on child logic and yet a very well-constructed and believable world despite that.
Plus, so many amazing guest stars! Iggy Pop on a kidsā show playing a serious sort of conservative father? Not to mention people like Steve Buscemi, Alicia Keys and even Patty Hearst!
The ringing pay phone episode is absolutely incredible.