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Post by Kingoji on Oct 26, 2009 19:38:11 GMT
I know, technically 70's, but I was not around then, and I watched this. Nyah!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2009 19:59:58 GMT
That Godzilla intro started off well until they brought in a clumsy baby Godzilla!
Now onto another (probably not too classic) cartoon from the 80's
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Post by Kingoji on Oct 26, 2009 20:19:55 GMT
Everybody hates Godzooky.
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Post by legios on Oct 26, 2009 20:49:17 GMT
"Up from the depths. Thirty Storeys high! GODZILLA!"
At last we reach something that I remember watching in the early eighties! I have vivid memories of watching the Godzilla cartoo when I was younger. I was too young to be allowed to see the films when they were shown on TV so my only prior exposure to Godzilla had been the Marvel comic. It was therefore fantastic to see something that looked Godzilla-y on my television. Of course, one had to put up with the boring humans andwith Godzooky before one got a few moments of giant monster glory. But that just meant that one treasured it that little bit more.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 26, 2009 20:59:19 GMT
Everybody hates Godzooky. I don't. -Ralph
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Post by Kingoji on Oct 26, 2009 21:14:26 GMT
Well, he hates you.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 26, 2009 21:16:53 GMT
Damn him!
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Oct 27, 2009 10:04:01 GMT
Okay... Gummi Bears!
Aired mid-eighties to early nineties, sez wikipedia.
Awesome show. When I heard that in Kingdom Hearts the ship was made from Gummi blocks I was so hoping for a cameo, but alas, I was to be disappointed...
And P.S. Godzooky hates everyone. He now lives alone in a trailer park surrounded by photos from his time on the show refusing to do interviews. He's a bitter wee creature.
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Post by Nigel on Oct 27, 2009 16:51:26 GMT
I've been waiting for G to come around, because that is the home of my pre-Transformers favourite: The Get Along Gang.
I loved this series. I had the toys and even had my birthday listed in the comic once.
The cartoon still stands up well, as evidenced by the fact that my nephews, nieces and other children that have been at my house over the years (and there have been many as my mother was a childminder for the best part of twenty years) enjoyed the videos long after the series ceased broadcasting.
Also appearing in G: Greenclaws and G-Force (and I mean G-Force, not Battle of the Planets). A couple of classics there.....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2009 17:44:24 GMT
I was actually going to post Greenclaws myself because I can remember it vividly during my dinnertimes at home in the 80's.
My selection for today though has to be the only thing worth getting up for on a Saturday morning.
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Post by Nigel on Oct 27, 2009 18:37:45 GMT
"Oh one if you're outside London, eight double one, eight oh five five." Strange how some things stick in the mind.
There's oddly little on the internet about the Gordon the Gopher spin-off series; all that's on the first few pages of Google is a small BFI entry dating it as 1991. It's not even on IMDB.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2009 19:58:50 GMT
There's an intro or something of it on Youtube but I haven't bothered to watch it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2009 13:38:57 GMT
Now for a little known Jim Henson puppet show that I can remember watching back in 1989.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 8:44:02 GMT
Now for an obscure kids show I watched in the early 80's called Get Up and Go and starring puppet Mooncat.
The show only lasted a few years before the puppeteer found greater success with Roland Rat and the show was replaced by Puddle Lane.
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Post by Nigel on Oct 29, 2009 14:53:32 GMT
Does anyone remember Gran, one of those stop motion series in the style of Postman Pat? (Which reminds me, I think we left Fireman Sam off the F list.) The one thing about it that sticks in my mind is a story in which Gran tried roller skating. I think it might have been in a comic strip rather than in the programme itself. I must have thought the idea of (my) Gran in roller skates was funny or something as I can remember I told my own Gran about it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 16:30:14 GMT
I was actually thinking of Gran this morning and was going to put a Youtube video of it up later on. It was in the same stye as Postman Pat because it was made by the same people.
We also had starting in the late 80's Garfield & Friends. I can't seem to find the original intro for that show on Youtube despite there being quite a bit of Garfield stuff on there. Also, we had the much maligned Filmation Ghostbusters show on TV as well.
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Post by Nigel on Oct 29, 2009 17:18:25 GMT
"Friends are there to get you started, to give you a push on your way."
I didn't mention Ghostbusters because I thought (incorrectly, I see) that it was a 70s series.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2009 10:22:00 GMT
The live action TV series was the 70's but the cartoon was the 80's - not that I could care much anyway because neither are too clever.
A live action show that was made in the 80's however was Galloping Galaxies. This was a kids show set on a spaceship and the ship had a robot voiced by Kenneth Williams in one of his last ever roles. Wikipedia says it was made in 1985. Alas, there are no Youtube videos of the show though.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2009 23:54:49 GMT
I remember loving it at the time.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 0:10:03 GMT
I've only just remembered this one - The Giddy Game show!
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Post by Kingoji on Oct 31, 2009 7:53:05 GMT
I'd been trying to remember the name of that one for a while now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 11:44:03 GMT
Just checked on the end credits for this show and discovered that the voices include Bernard Bresslaw and Richard 'Slartibartfast' Vernon.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 19:46:03 GMT
Nigel mentioned earlier Greenclaws. This is the first part of one episode (there are quite a few on Youtube) and has to be seen to be believed. If you like Frank Spencer you will like this!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 11:35:26 GMT
Now onto another Look and Read show. This one is from 1988 and called Geordie Racer. Keeping with the trend of hiring actors who would later make it big in other shows this one stars Kevin Whatley a.k.a Inspector Morse's sidekick Lewis.
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Post by Kingoji on Nov 1, 2009 12:18:09 GMT
I just remembered a 'C' show that I think we all missed as well...
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Post by blueshift on Nov 1, 2009 12:56:49 GMT
Oh COME ON GUYs, I am ashamed of you all!
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Post by Kingoji on Nov 1, 2009 12:57:45 GMT
Didn't we get Gobots under 'C', as Challenge Of The Gobots?
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Post by blueshift on Nov 1, 2009 13:01:34 GMT
...MAYBE
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 16:35:12 GMT
Didn't we get Gobots under 'C', as Challenge Of The Gobots? We did because I posted it. As for the Centurions I mentioned it after the event but didn't post a video of it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 11:48:07 GMT
We are now onto H and we'll start off with a cat that doesn't seem to have an actual name.
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