TV shows

[Triple]

Apart from Astro Boy, which other tv shows did you watch as a kid growing up? :)

[jeffbert]

Saturday morning: Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Spaceghost and Dinoboy, Marineboy, Pink Panther, Warner Bros cartoons, Woody Woodpecker, Schoolhouse Rock, Snagglepuss, and Astroboy. Oh, I must not forget all the Andersons’ stuff: Stingray, Fireball X L5, UFO, Space 1999. Ok, I know Space 1999 was not a Saturday morning show, but I believe the other two were. Then we got a tv that actually got UHF stations!! Meaning, weekday afternoons were filled Speed Racer, Ultraman, Johhny Sokko, and whatever the local non-network station showed. There was a kiddy oriented Host for the afternoon. Captain 20 tried his best to look like he had just beamed down from the starship Enterprise; this same guy donned a Dracula costume for Saturday night’s “Creature Feature” horror film. I think he called himself “Gore DeVol”. The local ABC affiliate showed afternoon movies from 4 to 6, and about five or six times a year showed “The Battle of the Bulge”, which was my favorite, until I saw Kelly’s Heroes, because it had the most tanks. Kelly’s Heroes seemed to have a real Tiger Tank, but after seeing it on VHS, and pausing, I could clearly see that it (the same one featured in “Saving Private Ryan”) was a T-34 with Tiger make-up.
:D

Scary Shows:
I remember awakening one night to use the potty, and mom and my older sister were watching A. Hitchcock’s “the Birds”. When I now look at the same shows that absolutely terrified me as a little kid, I find them often funny. The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and others I cannot recall terrified me such that even to hear the opening theme music sent me running for the safety of my bed. I always was sure to completely close my closet before climbing into bed, lest a car drive down the street, and light flash across the things in the closet, making them seem to be moving! Oh, to be a kid again! :cry:

What terrified me as a kid:
The thing that most frightened me was quicksand (quagmire). The idea of the earth itself swallowing me was very scary. I remember seeing a Tarzan movie or show, and this guy fell into quicksand. I was too scared to see if he got out! I ran to my room and hid under my covers! I still get a shiver when seeing or reading about it. I was reading “the New Arabian Nights”, which had quite a few short stories in it, one of which featured it. At 43, I would have thought myself too old for such childish fears, but just reading about it made me uneasy. Now my biggest fear is decrepitude. Arthritis is taking its toll.

Playtime:
Nevertheless, when we played with our GI Joes (12 inches tall type), quicksand or quagmire usually played a part. We would sink the victim between the bed and the wall, or sometimes in a sleeve of a coat. Any other GI Joes who were trying to rescue him most often arrive just a wee bit too late! I had about ten figures, including two Johhny West (Marx toys), five or six with the classic scar on the cheek, one like a Johnny West, except that he was a modern American soldier ‘Stoney’, one Captain Action, one with “lifelike hair and beard”, one with “kung fu grip”, and one that was European (had no scar, and had a different face). I had four jeeps: two Rat Patrol with tan and 50 caliber machinegun on tripod, one with searchlight and recoilless rifle, both mounted on tripods (searchlight was in a trailer), the fourth jeep went with the ‘Stoney’.

:D

Then there was my other great love: LEGO bricks. And that was way before they came out with any of these specialty sets. They were just plain old bricks. I did have a set that had gears, but I preferred the simple stuff. We used army men from model kits and built some really large vehicles for them. I was quickly becoming too old to play with the stuff, though.

Games:
Monopoly, Operation, BASH!, checkers, I did not learn chess until middle school. And still my favorite: Scrabble. I have several occasions when I had two seven letter words that also touched triple word scores. But my dad had one word that not only used all seven of his tiles, not only was on one triple word score, but actually spanned two triple word scores. Nevertheless, I think I had the highest score for a single play: 135 points. This was only possible by some other player foolishly playing a word that ended just before the corner space (a triple word score). Thus, I was able to form two or more words with one single play, and both or two of them shared the triple word score space. Sorry to go on for so long, but one thing led to another!! :wahah: :D :P B) ;) :)

[DrFrag]

For cartoons, I used to watch Star Blazers, Battle Of The Planets, Mysterious Cities Of Gold, Danger Mouse, Ulysses 31, Warner Bros, and those short five minute fogeign ones with no names. Like the one with the guy who was a pencil outline and would talk gibberish to the hand that drew him, and Le Croc Note Show.

Other shows I watched were Dr Who, 21 Jump Street, Degrassi Junior High, and Morph. Later on The Wonder Years. I'm sure I used to watch more TV, I just can't remember what.

[jeffbert]

I forgot about Dr. Who, but I had little interest in it. :D

[DrFrag]

Dr Who was cool, in a retro kind of way. My grandma has just knitted me a Dr Who scarfe. :)

The Goodies and Bananaman were others I used to watch. And Monkey Magic, that show rocked.

[jeffbert]

I am surprised that given the boring plots of many Dr. Who episodes, that it lasted so long. OK, so I know of only one episode that I actually watched. This friend of mine is nuts about Dr. Who, and he showed me one that I thought really stank, but was funny in that it stank so much. He assured me that most eps also were quite dull and stupid. The thing had these spiders that somehow controlled people. The sfx were totally lame, and therefore funny, but the plot was too dull! After viewing that, I had no dersire to view other eps.

[DrFrag]

I don't know what it was about Dr Who that made me like it. It's not the kind of series that could be made these days; time travel has been done to death by Star Trek and its kind, always with the focus on temporal paradoxes (Time Cop, 7 Days, etc). As for the "special effects", they worked wonders with their tiny budget. Of course, totally crap by today's standards. I'd love to watch it again though, but only the episodes I've already seen - for old times sake.

[Triple]

Dr Who didn't seem to appeal to me at all and I think part of it was because I found the intro disturbing in a hauntingly retro kind of way...(if that makes sense :huh:)

Anyway, I recall watching shows like Degrassi, 21 Jump St & Monkey Magic too. Plus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield, Babar, The Smurfs. There was He-man as well and a few other morning cartoons that I can't think of right now. :D

[jeffbert]

I can see how a little kid would be frightened by its opening credits sequence. :D

[DrFrag]

I was more scared of that painter from Sesame Street. That guy who was always speeded up and the number he painted always got washed away. Creepy. :huh: :o :( :cry:
;)

[jeffbert]

By the time we got a UHF set, I was way too old for SS, which was on ch 26.

[Brenie78]

Shows I used to watch as a kid was of course Astroboy, but there was Voltron, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Belle and Sebastian, Samuri Pizza Cats, Inspector Gadget (the old series - with Get Smart voice), Ulyesses... There was I'm sure plenty more, but off the top of my head none a re springing to mind :unsure:

[Triple]

http://stcloudstate.edu/~scsu_rha/ alf.jpg

Oh-ho! Remember Alf??

[ozfiz]

i used to love alf, i still have my alf doll ..
shows i used to watch were. fat tulips garden, puddle lane, alias the jestor, sooty and not to forget astro boy.

i was just wondering if anyone remembers sport billy???
http://childrens-web.net/oeuilles/bd/sport_billy.jpg

[DrFrag]

Yes, I think I remember the Sport Billy Showbag more than the TV show.

[dennis_ian]

i guess smurf is one of the best cartoons i watched when i was a child

[Astro Girl]

Thundercats was pretty fab! Really wanted to be Cheetara when I was little! B)

[Danny]

I too have to re-mention some shows..

Marine Boy
Kimba
Monkey Magic
Battle of the Planets
StarBlazers
Mysterious Cities of Gold (this is free to download somewhere..)
Dr Who
and of course Astroboy..

but has anyone mentioned these yet? (sorry if I missed them listed)
Flash Gordon (both the cartoon and the old b&w series)
Korg - 1,000,000 years BC
Land of the Lost

But the cartppn I absolutely LOVED was called Belle And Sebastian. No one seems to know of this one tho. I try Googling for it and all I get is some English Music group that at least said they gotthe name from the cartoon.. but no info on the cartoon. :(

If anyone remembers this one can you post please? I would love to find out more info on it. I only saw a handful of episides when I was movin from sydney to Melbourne like 20 years ago.

I bought a newfoundland because of this cartoon.

[jeffbert]

Flash Gordon (both the cartoon and the old b&w series)

I just recently viewed all three serials on DVD. I really enjoy these and other lame serials, mainly because they are lame. How they expect us to believe anyone could be so dumb, as to let 1 unarmed guy to successfully tackle two armed bad guys? (refers to Cmr. Cody serial) Or that the car that just went over the cliff in the last episode, somehow the guy actually jumped out before it did, and we just failed to notice it until the next ep? :P I am now in the middle of viewing The Undersea Kingdom, which is no less dumb than any other serial. :D

I never even knew there was a Flash G cartoon, though. :o

[Anapan]

Anyone remember a show about a kid on a small planet who caught shooting stars in a net so he could travel to earth?

[Haruka-chan]

Hmmm seeing as there are a lot of older people here....does anyone remember Prince Planet? My Mum has often told me how she loved that show, but there is no release of it anywhere as far as I know :(

From what i remember her telling me, he was a boy from another planet that had a medallion thing around his neck and yelled Prince Planet and held the medallion thingy to er... transform into Prince Planet. And of course save the day or whatever ^^; i have a picture of him at home i downloaded from the net, i'll put it online when i get the chance.


(had to recorrect myself multiple times from writing plant ^^; Prince Plant :P :lol: :D )

[benj20_ph]

:wahah: i watched smurf, voltes five, voltron, shaider, daimos, bioman, sesame street, comic strips, thundercats, he-man, she-ra, denver the last dinosaur, the jetsons, the flintstones, the simpsons, mickey and friends, looney toons, lassie and benji zax and the alien prince!

g.i. joes, super mario bros., finders keepers, and transformers! :lol:

[wildpegasus]

He-Man, Transformers, Smurfs, Hockey Night in Canada, Astroboy, Thundercats, Seeing Things, Murder She Wrote, Bionic Six. We had no cable back than.

[jeffbert]

I just remembered a few more shows. Ranger Hal (http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/hal1.html), I remember it showed cartoons Mighty Mouse, Felix the Cat, and several others. Episodes of both the cartoons worked with my pre-existing fear of vacuum cleaners, having the villains suck the victims into them. I saw this huge gasoline-powered vacuum cleaner at a shopping center, and being 8-10, was sufficiently doubtful that it could suck me up, but nevertheless, decided not to take any chances, and stayed as far away as I could. :D :lol: :wahah:

Wonderama (http://www.tvparty.com/lostwonder.html) was a variety show for kids, that featured cartoons, games, and other diversions.

[jeffbert]

By sheer accident, I just found a page that has a ton of cartoons from my childhood. These people are selling bootleg copies of shows that they assume are in the public domain, but I wonder why they made that assumption. Classic Cartoons for sale or trade! (http://www.matsune.com/wbc/worldsbestweb/cartoonvidlist.htm)

I remember almost all of these. except Colonel Bleep, which was before my time, and He-Man She-Ra Secret of the Sword, which was after my childhood. :lol:

Of particular note,

http://www.matsune.com/wbc/worldsbestweb/cartoo18.jpg
Marine Boy comes to mind. I remember a character named Prof. Flutesnoot, but after searching websites, could not find any reference to him, except as relating to

http://www.matsune.com/wbc/worldsbestweb/archiedevils.gif
Archie :cry: I must be succumbing to Alzheimer's. :cry:


http://www.matsune.com/images/quisp.jpg
was simply one of the best cereals I have ever tasted. I think it is still available via the web and in certain cities. The commercials DVD for these cereals is the only item offered here that I would believe to be in the public domain, though. There was an on-going war between Quisp and Quake, both from Quaker. Why there should be a war between a miner (Quake) and a martian (Quisp), I cannot begin to imagine.

Also of note, is the Live-action TV shows page. (http://www.wbcomics.com) Only the pictured shows and #14- come to mind, though.

http://www.matsune.com/wbc/worldsbestweb/diver2.gif
Diver Dan was featured in another show, I think it was Ranger Hal to which I have referred earlier.

http://www.matsune.com/wbc/worldsbestweb/classi1.jpghttp://www.matsune.com/wbc/worldsbestweb/classi2.jpg
Johnny Sokko was really a fun show, with bad guys badly in need of orthodontics.

[Dragonrider1227]

I didn't grow up with Astro since I grew up in the 80s in America, but I did watch alot of Ghostbusters, thundercats, and Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. I also was stuck watching alot of the stuff my older sister would watch like Rainbow Brite. :unsure: So many colors.

[AstroJames2004]

Well, outside of Astro Boy, I had The Flintstones, the Smurfs, Scooby-Doo (the usual diet of Hanna-Barbera required by syndication law), Speed Racer, Looney Tunes, and Tom and Jerry just to name a few.

Also, our condolences to the family of the original "Captain Kangaroo," Bob Keeshan, on his untimely passing due to cancer this past week here in the states. :cry:

[jeffbert]

At 45, I vaguely remember Captain Kangaroo. :cry: RIP captain. :cry: But I distinctly remember Captain Crunch, and I really dislike the current voice!

[Danny]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Nov 7 2003, 02:37 AM
Flash Gordon (both the cartoon and the old b&w series)

I just recently viewed all three serials on DVD. I really enjoy these and other lame serials, mainly because they are lame. How they expect us to believe anyone could be so dumb, as to let 1 unarmed guy to successfully tackle two armed bad guys? (refers to Cmr. Cody serial) Or that the car that just went over the cliff in the last episode, somehow the guy actually jumped out before it did, and we just failed to notice it until the next ep? :P I am now in the middle of viewing The Undersea Kingdom, which is no less dumb than any other serial. :D

I never even knew there was a Flash G cartoon, though. :o
Aw DUDE!!
SWEET!!

These things were the bestest. I loved L4M3 stuff. I didnt know they were on DVD, but I will have to take a look now.

I have a heap of L4M3 movies tho. L4M3 Roxorz.

The pride of my collection right now would have to be Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Honerable Mention goes to Voyage of the Rock Aliens.
I have yet to get Santa Clause Conquers the Martians, but Iam determined to own it asap :D

As for the Flash Cordon Cartoon, it was the same people that did the original He-Man I believe. Also the same people who did the Star Trek Cartoon too, and the Tarzan One that did the rounds at the time. (remember the one? Cheater was a spider monkey instead of a chimp, and wasnt called cheeter but 'orko' or osmething like that).

The reason I say they wre all the same is i am SURE these cartoons all shared generic background Cells, and a LOT of the 'direction shots' were identical among them.

There was one particulat shot among all of these. someone would jump down from somewhere and it would cut to a view of the groung just behind where the feet landed. The legs would hit the ground with the knees bentin out a little and then straightening out, and there would be something center frame.. usually the character or item being chased.

Also, all the characters 'ran' exactly the same way etc.. even in the same direction (from the back of the screen right to front of the screeen left) and in some of them the background was EXACTLY THE SAME!

It was amazing how many times Eternia, deepest Africa, planets in the alfta quadrant, and the current place Flash Gordon was stranded.. were all EXACTLY THE SAME!!

I loved these old shows haha...

[AstroJames2004]

Would that be Filmation by any chance, because they did the same things with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and Archie as well.

[Speedy]

My user name "Speedy" is from the lead character in Samurai Pizza Cats.. Speedy Cerviche. Check out my webpage ( www.freewebs.com/burkeworld ) for all my fanfiction, pictures and links to download episodes of SPC. Speedy Polly and Guido, the three best anime cats out there =^.^= Meow!

http://rks.no-ip.com/images/speedy%20cerviche.jpg SPEEDY
http://www.edoropolis.org/sampizzacat/teyandee/gface.jpg GUIDO
and my Fave Cat ever: POLLY! http://www.edoropolis.org/violet/news/polhearts.jpg

[Anapan]

Haha, one of my favorite shows of all time. Have you seen that episode that wasn't dubbed, where one of the characters keeps yelling Teyandee! every 3 minutes, and all the music sounds like it's from the nintendo game Megaman?

[DrFrag]

Samurai Pizza Cats was so funny! I'd love to watch that again.

"Come over here and stand on this ... uh ... lawn painting."
(there's a big bullseye on the ground)
"Who ever heard of a lawn painting?"
:lol:

[jeffbert]

:angry: This sucks! :angry: I am totally left out of the fun because I was born in '58 instead of 78! :cry:

I had been an avid fan of the Cartoon Network's Chuck Jones show, Toonheads, Late Night Black & White, Tom & Jerry, and several others until I saw all the cartoons more than once. I noted that the quality of most cartoons that started in movie theatres dropped when those same cartoons were made especailly for Saturday morning kids' shows. Loony Toons, and T & J especailly suffered. Kids will watch just about anything as long as there are bright colors and some action, but most adults have higher standards. Not that there were not occasional new cartoons that I found funny. Road Runner usually had me laughing, but newer Foghorn Leghorn, Tom and Jerry, Porky Pig, usually left me bored and disgusted. I tried to watch a few Top Cat cartoons, but found them just plain stupid. I do not know why I no longer find these funny, I know I liked them as a kid. ;)

[Speedy]

Yattaro (Speedy) always yelled "TEYANDEE!" for whenever he was mad, happy or annoyed ^_^ Ahh, good times.

Speedy

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Jan 31 2004, 01:18 PM
Road Runner usually had me laughing, but newer Foghorn Leghorn, Tom and Jerry, Porky Pig, usually left me bored and disgusted.
Yeah, same here. I rarely watch cartoons now that aren't anime.

[Big Astro Fan]

The shows I watched were Battlestar Galactica, Star Blazers, Emergancy, and old Abbott & Costello movies.

[jeffbert]

The shows I watched were Battlestar Galactica, Star Blazers, Emergancy, and old Abbott & Costello movies.

I remember those, in fact, I even remember a cartoon version of Emergency. :lol: I thought the Battlestar Galactica had potential, the Cylons were so cool, but it was just too dumb. Even my 12 year old brother though so.

I really like old movies, and Tutner Classic Movies is one of my favorite channels, so was American Movie Classics, until it began commercial interuptions of the films. :angry: I do not even bother with it now.

[Triple]

My user name "Speedy" is from the lead character in Samurai Pizza Cats.. Speedy Cerviche. Check out my webpage ( www.freewebs.com/burkeworld ) for all my fanfiction, pictures and links to download episodes of SPC. Speedy Polly and Guido, the three best anime cats out there =^.^= Meow!


:lol:
Ahh Speedy...you've brought back a memory that has been long forgotten in my mind! now all i keep thinking of is the SPC theme song (http://www.two4u.com/pizzacats/sound/pizzac.au.gz), esp. when the catty vocalists sing "samurai pizza cats (ooh yeah!)"

[snorkyller]

When I was 7 years old, I was really fascinated by Astro!

When I was young ('83-'90):
- Astro
- Smurf
- Albator
- Goldorak
- The Gold Cities (I don't know the real name in englisj... In french it's "Les citées d'or")

The 3 last were japanese cartoons but I don't know if anyone in USA or elsewhere saw it. Every kids watched it here in Quebec, Canada!!!

Of course "The Simpsons"
And I remember "Ronin Wariors" in summer of '96 (I think). It was really great. I would like to see it again!

[DrFrag]

The Gold Cities was called Mysterious Cities of Gold in Australia. It was only shown a few times and didn't have a big following, but it's pretty good quality even by today's standards.

I haven't heard of Albator or Goldorak, but did you ever see Le Croc Note Show? We had that in Australia and I don't think it was even translated.

[snorkyller]

Yeah DrFrag! We had "Le Croc Note" show. I didn't like it : pretty boring :)
I think it's from France.. So it's not surprising that we had it...

I can't believe anyone know Goldorak and Albator!!! :)

ALBATOR ("Captain Harlock" in english) The pirate of space!!!: REALLY GREAT!!!!!
http://www.noos.org/anime/albator/ico/albatork7_2.jpg

GOLDORAK ("Grandizer" in japanese)
http://www.vex.net/~guru/goldorak/gold2.jpg

And I wonder if anyone know this one... A little boy lost, without his family. He's always crying... :lol:
http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/thumb150/1204.jpg

All from japan...

(Ronin Warriors = Samuraï Troopers)

[ozfiz]

just want to know does anyone remeber. "Techno Man". my bf used to love it was he was younger.

http://www.msu.edu/user/spanomar/tekno.gif

[jeffbert]

Captain Harlock

I enjoy all I can find about Captain Harlock, Q Emeraldas, etc, but have not been able to find anything that puts them all together. I want to know all the titles that are related to this, and the order in which I should view them. :o

[DrFrag]

I missed Techno Man and it hasn't been shown here in 8-10 years, but I still hear it talked about. It must have been pretty popular.

[Danny]

Actually, Mysterious Cities of Gold got a complete uninterrupted run here in Aus at least once on Aunty (thats our ABC commercial free station bayed for by our taxes, in case anyone overseas is interested) and I watched every episode. It was a japan/france co-production I believe.

It is freely available for download now and easy to find on the web for those of you with ADSL. Something to do with the company that created it no longer existing and no one buying the rights to the show.. or some legal thing like that. Just stick it into GOOGLE and you will find it all over the place.

Another Japanese/french co-production that I was absolutely spellbound by around 15 years ago and have never seen again since was called BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. It was about a boy who befriended a huge white dog that lived in the wood near his village. The villages thought the dog was a monster or something and so the boy had to meet with her in secret.

Apparently a Musical Band from England named themselves after this cartoon they loved it so much, and they are very popular in europe so I am lead to believe. GOOGLE gets more hits for the band than the show tho. I would love to be able to see goth these series again.

*sigh* if only ADSL was available to me.. :(

[snorkyller]

The Mysterious Cities of Gold ("Les mystérieuses citées d'or" here)
http://www.emissions.ca/media/images/citesdor1.jpg
The Mysterious Cities of Gold ran almost every year during 10 years here in french Canada. It was by far one of the most listened series!

Belle and Sebastian ("Belle et Sébastien" here)
http://www.emissions.ca/media/images/belle_et_sebastien.jpg
:wahah: You bring me good memories. I forgot this one! We watched it pretty much here in the '80!!!! I remember that the dog was call "the white demon" ; at least in french (exact translation) ;) :huh:

It seems that in Australia, it was REALLY similar to here.... at least for our french public tv station (radio-canada), 'cause english canadians didn't watched that... I think they watched more US stuff... Just too bad for them!!! :P :lol:

[DrFrag]

Mysterious Cities of Gold was shown at least twice in Australia, the second time was around '86/'87.

[Loüßëãr]

I loved both those shows when they were on here...cities of gold was on about 5.00pm i think & Belle & sebastian was mornings. I remember when belle was drugged & sebastian thought she was dead :cry: :cry: :cry: It was soo sad...but I forgot about those...they were gr8