Childrens TV

[paranoid marvin]

One I eventually managed to track down was 'The Enchanted Castle'. On eBay, Aussie region code so I had to buy a cheap multi-region recorder.

With just about every other kids show I wanted now available on disc or YouTube, my wished are complete.

Shows like The Witches and the Grinnygog, Stig, King of the Castle, Rentaghost, Into the Labyrinth, The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, The Machinegunners, Blakes 7, The Great Egg Race, The Adventure Game, Worzel Gummidge, Chocky, Phoenix and the Carpet, Battle of the Planets, Dogtanian, Play Away, Take Hart, Educating Marmalade, Dramarama, Knightmare, Emu's World, Tiswas etc etc etc.

Youtube is a real godsend for some of these old shows that will commercially (probably) never see the light of day, especially now tha Network have gone.

It would be a real shame for legal bods to actively deter people and deny older viewers a glimpse of their childhood. Not envourage it, but not vome down like a ton of bricks on anyone daring to put up an old episode of Clive Dunne's 'Grandad'.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Worzel Gummidge.
Play School.
Rent A Ghost.

A few of my fave programmes as a child.

Rent A Ghost was pure genius. Obviously filmed on a shoestring budget, with likely equally poor pay cheques for the actors the put up a stirling job and a highly entertaining show, for kids and adults alike.

 

[Pyan]

Rent A Ghost was pure genius. Obviously filmed on a shoestring budget, with likely equally poor pay cheques for the actors the put up a stirling job and a highly entertaining show, for kids and adults alike.

I think of this show everytime I see the BBC's Ghosts patting themselves on the back for being so original...

 

[BAYLOR]

Space Ghost
The Herculoids
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Land of the Lost
Far OutSpace Nuts
The Ghostbusters
Fantastic Voyage
Space Academy
Jason of Star Command
Flash Gordon
Tarzan
Thundar The Barbarian
The Real Ghostbusters
Blackstar
Dungeons and Dragons

 

[beccabear67]

I usually prefer live-action over animation msot of the time. The non-animated SF/F ones I liked best from original run would be
Land Of The Lost (and most things Krofft)
The Phoenix And The Carpet
The Tomorrow People (although there were some really awful ones)
The Girl From Tomorrow (Australian I think?)

Later I got into collecting Network and BBC DVDs of '60s-'80s tv although region 2.

In animation I used to run home from school to watch the latest chapter of Starblazers...
loved Marine Boy before that.

 

[JunkMonkey]

One more needs to be mentioned, which everyone of my generation from the UK will remember, because it was put on every school holiday for years - The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe with Robert Hoffman.

and bang! that's the opening fecking theme tune going round in my head for the rest of the night...

 

[Orcadian]

and bang! that's the opening fecking theme tune going round in my head for the rest of the night...

This'll do the trick.

 

[BAYLOR]

I usually prefer live-action over animation msot of the time. The non-animated SF/F ones I liked best from original run would be
Land Of The Lost (and most things Krofft)
The Phoenix And The Carpet
The Tomorrow People (although there were some really awful ones)
The Girl From Tomorrow (Australian I think?)

Later I got into collecting Network and BBC DVDs of '60s-'80s tv although region 2.

In animation I used to run home from school to watch the latest chapter of Starblazers...
loved Marine Boy before that.

I remember. Gigantor Prince Planet , Astro Boy Marine Boy, Kimba, Speed Racer and many many more .


I loved Star Blazers with it serial story telling . It was a great series. and In some ways it was kind of precursor to Babylon 5.

 

[Danny McG]

One I liked, back in the early 1970s, was a kids comedy series called Pardon My Genie.

A young shop assistant called Hal Adin (groan) is one day polishing a watering can, the genie emerges and cue lots of silly misunderstandings and daft adventures...

I think one of the writers later did most of the writing for Rentaghost.

 

[DustwindDrifter]

Space Ghost, Voltron, Thunder Cats, Super Friends, Muppet Babies, Transformers, Scooby Doo, He-Man, G.I.Joe, Smurfs, Pink Panther, Looney Toons, Inspector Gadget, Fraggle Rock, Visionaries, Captain Nintendo...

Then later, TMNT, Tailspin, Duck Tales, and I think the last cartoon I watched was X-Men.

 

[DustwindDrifter]

I loved jase and the wheeled warriors

Just out of curiosity does anyone remember the cartoon M.A.S.K noone I've asked remembers it

I remember M.A.S.K. I never actually saw the show, but one of my friends in grade school had all the cool cars and trucks that opened up with all the different compartments and weapons and little guys. Yeah the toys were way cool - I remember that much.

 

[Foxbat]

For me Timeslip stood head and shoulders above all other Childrens TV. It was serious science fiction for kids and watching it as one, it was the first time in my life I heard the word 'clone'.

 

[BAYLOR]

Space Ghost, Voltron, Thunder Cats, Super Friends, Muppet Babies, Transformers, Scooby Doo, He-Man, G.I.Joe, Smurfs, Pink Panther, Looney Toons, Inspector Gadget, Fraggle Rock, Visionaries, Captain Nintendo...

Then later, TMNT, Tailspin, Duck Tales, and I think the last cartoon I watched was X-Men.

All very entertaining stuff.


Space Angel old sychovox animated series done in the 1960's but even so it's a terrific show and the animation though limited looks amazing.

Exosquad, ran for 2 season, 1993 to 1995

Roughneck Starship Trooper Chronicles ran for 40 episodes from 1999 to 2000