OK... so... I was thinking about some Cult TV shows and often wondered what happened to the following...

Metal Mickey
Automan
Terrahawks
Roland Rat
The Adventure Game
The Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Why Don't You
The Tripods

To name but a few...

May I add Max Headroom to that list?

Absolutely...

I remember being really miffed when they made the first two books of the Tripods, but not the third...

Bleeding travesty if you ask me!

Although... according to IMDB a version has been announced.

When you say 'wondered what happened to them', what do you mean? Could Terrahawks really be still running after 20-odd years? I mean, we'd have caught up with them technological speaking by now. I myself had my personality loaded into a cute metal sphere just last Wednesday.

Mmmmmm...Kate Jackson. A MILF before the term MILF existed.

Erm, what does MILF mean? I knew it once but I can't remember now.

Mum I'd Like to Fuck...or something to that effect!

Yeah..its Mother. Although I meant it in the sexy mum translation as opposed the actual physical interaction one. I was only a kid at the time

Terrahawks used to freak me out for some reason, but I still watched it every week.

I used to love the DJ Kat show that was played on Sky One when it first got started. It was like Roland Rat for my generation. And it was the first place I saw Power Rangers which was quite entertaining when I was young and had fairly indiscriminate tastes about what I watched.

Likewise. Anyone remember Dooby Duck's Disco Duck Truck? It was a show featuring marrionette animals miming to speeded-up-voice songs (a la Alvin and The Chipmunks).

Vaguely, though I have a better recollection of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Now that was a show.

On the topic of squeaky voiced cartoon characters, did anyone else watch Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers? I loved that show. Although I did often wonder ''Why doesn't anyone find it odd that those rodents are wearing little jackets?''

Forget the jackets, they had a weather balloon powered airship! I loved Rescue Rangers and even had the NES game. Confusingly, the NES game instruction manual says that Gadget is a boy, even though in the cartoon she is clearly a girl. This vexed me as a child, and led me to believe for a while that perhaps Gadget was either a young boy rodent (whose voice hadn't broken), or was a very camp boy rodent. Nintendo do not realise the damage they do to fragile young minds when they do not research and proof read!

Now the tripods were clearly brillaint (and scary, that frog is red, that's natures way of telling you to stay away!)

Other excellenty pieces are: Monkey, Cosmos, He-man and of course Knightmare

Spellcasting m-zero-ar!

I've really gotten back into this show again after catching re-runs on Challenge. Best of all, I am afforded the opportunity to exclaim "Pickle!" in a Tragard style voice whenever our new Kitten does anything naughty (as she is called Pickle. Not after the effeminate elf man from the show, incidentally.)

I loved chip and dale-it was always on on a Saturday morning somewhere between Duck Tales and The Gummi Bears. I didn't find it odd they were wearing jackets but I did find it a bit strange that 'Chip and Dale' in Mickey Mouse cartoons were strangely different from 'Chip and Dale' in Rescue Rangers (and they were sans their little jackets).

They watered down the very essence of the characters for Rescue Rangers, in much the same way as Huey, Duey and Louie in Duck Tales. I hated the slap dash and inconsistent way in which Disney TV shows treated the characters in the 1980s. It appears to spread to most things Disney these days.

Esp that one with Balou the bear flying that plane, I mean, whatever happened to the bear necessities!!??!!

-m0r

Talespin?

Ah, Tailspin! What a shod fest that was! The Rebecca character (the girl bear that owned the compaby that Baloo flew an aeroplane for) always seemed ripped off from Rebecca out of that Cheers to me. They even gave her the same name!

For sheer jobby factorcome good, who could forget Trap Door!?

A big blue blob of plasticine and a talking skull.... genius.

oh! Glubbits!

Im upstair is ungery again!

BERT, FEED ME

The best one of em is the one where boney is dreaming that he has a body

trooly trippy stuff!

-m0r

I always preferred Round the Bend myself - Pzycho the Magnificent was always a highlight in every episode.

And we cannot forget Ulysses, Thundercats and the almighty DOGTANIAN!

And my question about Terrahawks was why don't they show it again on TV?

Zelda

Too scary for kids these days!!

By Far!

-m0r

Was she that scary... I don't honestly remember being that afraid of her...

Now... Evil Edna on the other hand...

Evil Edna was the scary biscuit too!, and she was a TV, wierd messages being sent there.

I'd say the scariest kiddie villian I can remember is that red haired misfit from the Moomins, not really a villian I know, but scary, and the least scariest is of course Skelator.

-m0r

Hmmm cult/crap it's a fine line. How our memories are tinted by the rose spectacles of nostalgia.

Well... it can't be worse that some of the shite that is on TV now...

Give me Automan over The OC any day of the week!

What!?!? He's a man wearing pants and knee high boots and he has a skull for a head! It doesn't come any scarier than that!

Anyone remember a show called Captain N? They were essentially half an hour adverts for Nintendo games dressed up as a cartoon. That had the least scary villain of all time; an Eggplant.

Now you mention it, I do, was it on after or around 'Galaxy High'?

-m0r

Yes! Brilliant. Someone else remembers!
"Galaxy High! Galaxy High!"
They were on before Top Banana, starring a giant three headed puppet called Hilda. Remember that?

No, after Galaxy High I was dragged into town with my mum, my nana, my aunt and my little sister. See how many women were involved in my childhood, it's a wonder I'm straight!

The chart show with the sesame street styled pinball machine and rollercoster thingy was cool though!

-m0r

Now you've got me... I've no idea what you're talking about...

Followed by 'Movies, Movies, Movies', which later became 'Movies, Games, and Videos'. It still kept it's garish, epileptic-fit-inducing, looped visuals though.

My favourite shows as a lil' girl include

- The Biskitts which was about tiny dogs in costumes who lived in a swamp and TV Cream describes thusly "VERY SHODDILY-DEVELOPED cartoon had a gang of minature dogs outwitting "villainous" King Max and comedy jester Shecky. They had some kind of sub-Asterixian strength potion as well, if memory seres right, although it might as well not bother here, as it was shite." Rosetinted view of mine there.

- Behind the Bikesheds cos of Palace Hill which was fecking ace!

- the Adventures of Penelope Pitstop

- The Adventure Game - gronda gronda!

- The Moomins - fuzzy felt version from Poland i mean.


I also loved more adult fare like The Avengers, The Addams Family, The Man from Uncle and *erm* Dempsey and Makepeace (don't ask).

Sefi x

I remember that, it was quite bizarre from what I can recollect (which is not that much actually).

Noggin the Nog - that was an ace programme.

NOGGIN ROCKED!

Argh! take her away, take her away!! (Red headed scarey thing)

Dempsey and Makepeace eh? I remember an episode of that were they deep fried a guys hand in a chipshop (not them, the baddies).

Speaking of which

Tales of the Unexpected

Now that was cool!

-m0r

I thought you'd like that one.

EDIT Noggin The Nog

Noggin

And Tales of the Unexpected used to freak me out!

I vaguely remember a show called Bottle Boys, which was a sit com about milkmen. It may or may not have starred Jim Davidson or Robin Asquith. The title theme went #Bottle Boys, Bottle Boys; Up with the lark; Who cares if it's raining?; Who cares if it's dark?#.

One thing that I'm sure featured Davidson was a sit com called 'Home James', where he played a cheeky chauffer. It also featured a young Maureen Holdsworth from Corrie.

Are these shows cult? Probably not. I'm just relaying the oldest, shabbiest programmes my brain can remember now, aren't I?

'Bottle Boys' starred King Of The Mullet, Robin Asquith and was bloody dreadful.

'Home James' was even worse. Cult is nearly the right word to describe the main star.

Do you remember 'High Street Blues'?

#High Street - Low Street - Blow yer blimin' nose Street Bluuuuuees#





No. Never heard of it.

I remember Home James... It was the sequel to Up The Elephant and Round the Castle.

I actually went to a shooting of an episode of Home James... One of the most unfunny evenings of my life!

Then you witnessed history in the making!
My mother in law (to be) once went to a studio taping of 'Shelley'. Oddly enough she said that wasn't very funny either.

It was a bit boring actually, and they had some crappy Jim Davidson wannabe stand-up "comic" trying to warm up the croud in between takes...

Someone should come and interview you. Your historically important experiences from that studio taping will surely make a fine extra on the Home James complete series 1-3 box set DVD.

Now that made me snort my coke!