[Closed] Lame TV of your childhood

The 'Red hand gang' and then in the school holidays the worst of all TV 'Why don't you' ... rubbish!

But some TV was so lame it was good, like Thunderbirds or Stingray...

[edit] there's more pyrotechnics than I remember.

I still find it staggering that after a bain-storming session at the BBC to discuss their flagship Saturday night prime-time show, someone suggested "why not get a racist, sexist homophobic bigot, who's about as funny as cancer to front it!"

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The Flashing Blade!

There was a fault which meant that there was a considerable loss of picture in the twelth and final episode but they bought and showed it anyway. What a fantastic lack of respect for the viewer! 😀

Keep 'em coming!

Seriously, no matter how bad it was, can anyone honestly say any of it was worse than the f*cking X factory and other such assorted Saturday evening toss?

Anyone remember [b]Scavengers[/b]?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavengers_(game_show)

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Loved it at the time 😉

I never understood the love for:

Grange Hill
T-Bag or T-Shirt or whatever the fun it was called
Why Don't You?
Byker Grove

There. I said it.

Grange Hill
T-Bag or T-Shirt or whatever the fun it was called
Why Don't You?
Byker Grove

Im with you Ox. Live action drama of working class (usually northern) children misbehaving? That's not entertainment.

froths in rage at Stoner 😉
Ps well done

Littlest Hobo
Big John Little John [ what a way to grow]
Rentaghost - just did not like it

give 'em knives and [i]then[/i] film them. That's entertainment.

Transformers cartoons from the 80s - used to love them as a kid but having bought them recently on DVD for my son (who loves the current generation of Transformers), I can see that they're really rubbish - crap animation, odd plots, etc. He loves them, mind...

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The transformers movie (80s again) is even more strange, plot-wise.

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Oscar, Kina and the Laser looks like something I wooduv enjoyed actually. Like something a kid themselves would have dreamed up. About friendship, adventure and helping others. Good stuff.

The worst stuff I can remember was Transformers, He-Man and all the other 'advertising merchandise' type crap that seemed to be rife in the 80s, to the detriment of decent kids' telly. Just encouraged consumerism, and din't help stretch kids' imaginations in any genuinely positive manner.

Sadly that seems to be the model for success; saw some little kids yesterday, singing 'Bob the Builder'. Whilst their parents were busy shopping for crap they don't need instead of sitting reading a book with them or doing something constructive.

For them, it's sadly already too late. 😥

😀

I never quite got [url=

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what do you mean strange makes perfect sense to me that transformer film.....impressive list of voice actors though

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Rubbish but I watched it cos my mum's cousin played the dad.

Jossy's giants was also immensely bad.

Oh and The Crystal Maze is/was awesome. I still sometimes watch repeats on Challenge TV 😆

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'Why don't you'

*Okay, not *real* irony, more the Alanis Morissette brand of *nearly irony*.

But lame television for me?
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But I hated most ITV stuff back then as I do now.

Always had a love hate relationship with the weird euro import series that were on TV on saturday mornings (i think?) and holidays

like [url= http://www.denofgeek.com/television/5407/rubbish_kids_tv_the_legend_of_tim_tyler.html ]the boy who lost his laugh[/url] and heidi and silas:

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Does anybody remember a series called Rebound (circa 1981) about two teens; a boy and a girl who were into gymnastics? I think they solved crimes / mysteries and used their gymnastic skills to getoutof sticky situations.

Junkyard - Member
what do you mean strange makes perfect sense to me that transformer film.....impressive list of voice actors though

More the 80s experimental music and themes that went with it than the film content itself... Very impressive voice-over cast indeed. It was Orson Welles' last film apparently.

saw some little kids yesterday, singing 'Bob the Builder'. Whilst their parents were busy shopping for crap they don't need instead of sitting reading a book with them or doing something constructive.

Believe it or not sometimes parents do have to go to the shops and children like playing with toys.
Surely if we all stopped buying crap we didn't really need then our sport would be dead on its arse.

The Railway Children - I never watched a full episode as they used to send me to sleep. Just thinking about it is making me tired, zzzz!

Anyone remember Nightmare?

Badly executed virtual reality, one kid weard a helmet (blindfold), the others tell him what to do for half an hour whilst the creepy uncle/knight character goads them on.

Yeah, always looked quite cool until you realised that it was just game of kids shouting

forward, back, left, right, quick, nooooooooooooooooo! 🙂

Are you mad? Knightmare was tremendous.

Spellcasting: dee eye ess, em eye ess ess...

*runs off to start a Treguard Appreciation Society*

Cougar - Member

Are you mad? Knightmare was tremendous.

Spellcasting: dee eye ess, em eye ess ess...

*runs off to start a Treguard Appreciation Society*

sorry clubber i missed a wink it is bonkers but my kids love it
Annoyingly the toys are marketed at kids and the films are a 12
We have to play transformers all the time

Rentaghost
The Ghosts of Motley Hall

Both completely dull and generally ****ing shit IMO.

I know I will get lynched but watching the Sweeney and The Professionals now makes you realise that they've not aged well.

The professionals was gay man love and gurning, but the worst was starsky and hutch . I'm sure all the huffing and chuffing and rolling over cars was just foreplay for a big , cardigan clad cuddle and homeo erratic smoochles . not to mention the hard to spot car and stereotype black dude pimp .gold

I never understood why this went out at weekends. It was pants as well.

I HATED that bast**d bear. I was scared of that blue thing with twigs sticking out of its head too.

Just remembered this;

the little kid in the dungaree's doesn't half look like my 2 kids did at that age 🙂

Barnaby The Bear

Franco-Polish kids TV bought on the cheap by the Beeb.

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What a ###t.

In contrast, this was MINT

'vrrrrooootdoootdooooottt...etc'

Battle of The Planets did indeed rock. Was Zoltar a woman?

Hermaphrodite.

(True fact!)

I never quite got Mary Mungo and Midge but really liked it.

I remember a mouse standing on a dog's nose to gain access to the floor selection buttons in a lift. Or did I dream that?

EDIT - Harry - can't believe you've just called BB a ###t.

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I reckon Chief Anderson out of Battle of the Planet's movember effort deserves a mention.

Pipkins anyone? It was some really manky puppet called Hartly Hare. Dreaaadful stuff looking back on it.

Saw Rhubarb and Custard on a DVD at my sisters house and boy was that a freaky show. Still quite enjoyed it though.

Even at the time and as a small child I knew that Seaside Special was drivel.

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Good Lord - I used to really, really fancy Cathy from Grange Hill.

Would've loved a threesome with her and Trisha Yates but wasn't aware of such possibilies aged 11.

I used to adore Pipkins when I was very young. Barely remember it now. Topov the monkey, Humphrey Cushion and all that.

Cougar - Humphrey the Cushion was the banana scoffing soft furnishing from Hickory House.

Seaside Special

I once at Glastonbury got wasted with SS regular Bobby Crush's nephew who was a friend of a friend. Sadly killed in a RTA shortly after. 😐

Anyone remember a kids program about some kind of elves/sandman type things at the bottom of the graden, would have been early 90's. Theme tune gave me nightmares!

And no, not the sandman/'IT', probably later than that.

Cougar - Humphrey the Cushion was the banana scoffing soft furnishing from Hickory House.

Holy hell, that's a blast from the past. I think I'd either eradicated that show from my memory or merged it with Pipkins.

Good grief.

Cougar - Member

Hermaphrodite.

(True fact!)

Most of this was better than what came before; it was a good day when they killed off Muffin the Mule.

If the bloke who did the voice for Zoltar (US version) was still alive today he would be 105!

How old does that make you feel?

Both Mark from BOTP and Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) were voiced by the same guy. Zoinks!

Bannana splits, bears dressed up,

Rent a ghost,

cracker jack,

Terrahawks,

The Profesionals,

The Prisoner,

Minder,

www wrestling,

swop shop,

Noels house party,

opportunity knocks,

animal magic,

Why dont you do something more interesting instead, a real prograsme filmed in liverpool in otterspool park,

Double deckers, not real ones but kids on a bus i think,

and lots more absolute drivel so many crap programes then as opposed to now with more channels.

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Five children and it?

Champion the Wonder Horse was bloody awful.

And Robinson bloody Crusoe, White Horses and sodding Heidi.

Do we get a new series of Junior Kickstart?
No, here's some toss from the Childrens Film Foundation.

Always liked anything by Oliver Postgate though, man was a god.

Black Beuty,

Lassie,

The Muppets,

Seasame Streeet,

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Battle of the Planets is brilliant - I bought the DVD of that too and my son loves it even though he's too young to really understand it... I loved it so much when I was a kid that hearing the theme music now still sends a shiver of excitement down my spine 😳

Both Mark from BOTP and Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) were voiced by the same guy. Zoinks!

He also does transformers - Casey Karem http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440487/

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i'll have NOTHING bad said about knightmare!!! (i feel sorry that all the actors couldn't get into rada/as they blatantly wanted to do Shakespeare 🙂 but this was abysmal

i hope that godzilla (the real japanese godzilla i mean) pays the creators of this travesty a visit and scorches their behinds with his atomic breath (it's the least they deserve 😡

Casey Karem

Casey Kasem - presented "America's Top 10" too, compulsive morning viewing, that.

"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."

Champion the Wonder Horse was bloody awful.

And Robinson bloody Crusoe, White Horses and sodding Heidi.

More 60's ****

Belle & Sebastien
Casey Jones
Skippy
Flipper
anything on watch with mother
Jackanory

But to make up for it we did have all the Gerry Anderson progs ... Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Fireball XL5

Mr Benn

[b]The Greatest American Hero.[/b]

I can't do it right now, but you simply MUST youtube it and watch the opening credits/listen to the theme song.

It is utterly painful, but a necessary cultural experience.

Anyone remember a kids program about some kind of elves/sandman type things at the bottom of the graden, would have been early 90's. Theme tune gave me nightmares! And no, not the sandman/'IT', probably later than that.

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How about this

The 'Red hand gang'

did they show that in Norn Oireland?

Huck Finn complete cack in my opinion
Heidi
Raggy dolls
And lastly that Rodd hull shite