h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Watch it? I have all of Dogtanian on DVD!

The Adventure Game looks amazing! I'm definitely checking that out when I get home! I was a bit too young to see it the first time round, since I was being born just as it was.

-G

Thunderbirds was a manky half arsed rip-off of "Battle of the Planets" now there was a show that rocked.

Tiswas, was simply groundbreaking it exposed people to proper bands not just teeny fodder and introduced the zoo format to TV long before any of the post modern audience aprticipation shows of the 1990s.

My absolute favourite which was class from start to finish was the story of an egg that came forth froma rock as old as time. From that egg came forth Monkey, "the spirit of Monkey was irrepressable!"...cue

"Born from an egg on a mountain top,
Funkiest monkey that ever was.
He knew every magic trick under the sun,
he's the god in everyone, lets have some fun!

Monkey magic, Monkey magic."

When it came down to a schedule clash between Mokey and Emmerdale farm I poisoned my great grandmother with laxatives.

one love

The programmes that I remember most are Magpie and Blue Peter, perhaps as fairly long running.
I was in the audience of Magpie and at the very front and got nervous of being called to do something. The person who I swapped with had to hold a very big snake!

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Stingray, Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds were quite interesting and things like Space 1999 stuck in my mind later, although Space 1999 wasn't really a kids programme, nor was an episode of Avengers in which a skellington was found in a space capsule which landed which really spooked me out!
Dr Who was quite scarey too, that crab like thing inside Darleks and the Cybermen really got to me, again not strictly kid's programmes.

Dr Who
The Tomorrow People
Space 1999 (enjoying that on cable channels now)
UFO
The Clangers (enjoying that on video now)
Spiderman (100% guaranteed to get all the kids inside even on the sunniest days)

Oooh, your Space 1999 reminds me of The Fantastic Journey. It used to be on on a Saturday morning, right before Space 1999! Roddy McDowall in another dodgy TV programme!

I'm showing my age now, aren't I?

you're not as old as me - and I'd totally forgotten that one!

I also loved the 42 year long Robinson Crusoe thing that we got in the holidays

Noggin the Nog, obviously.

"By the power of Greyskull!"

Here you are then Sho...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_pt0P9iAQM&feature=related

...although my favourite was The Flashing Blade...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZEDNkZ2L4

Ah Radox! I showed some of those Robinson Crusoe clips to the Gruesome Twosome a few weeks ago and they are aghast that we lived in a black & white world "in the olden days"

And I forgot the big one. All the girls loved White Horses...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6z8GUywyc

Never could quite into White Horses, probably because it was on *every* summer holiday during my childhood

Quite liked Follyfoot, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgyxhe849k&feature=related

and Timeslip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9OjzL8WeSc

and Ace of Wands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAAyt7-yQ8w&feature=related

and Children of the Stones (bought this on DVD recently - not sure it's stood the test of time though )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8tui_jUfWw&feature=related

I loved Timeslip, but Children of the Stones frightened me.

I've got the original VHS release of Children of the Stones. It's the worst piece of editing ever! They joined all the episodes together to make one story but didn't edit out the episode recaps at the start of each new ep, so every so often the plot repeats without warning. My could have done a better job of it.

Btw, does anyone remember a series called 'Sky' from early 70s? It was about a boy who had blonde hair and solid blue eyes (a bit like the black, taken over by the Vorlon type eyes in Babylon 5). He was supposed to be representing the force of good and there was a Master like character that was the evil force. I've never seen it since its first broadcast and assumed it was because there were too many objections from the church due to the religious references (I think it was suggested that Sky could have been Christ reincarnated but I don't remember enough to be sure).

I do remember though that the ending was good. I can't recall if it was a boy or girl involved so I'll just say the kid. The normal kid who was caught up in it had to give something to Sky to save the world, but the other force told him that he was really the good one and was just trying to put things back as they were intended to be. If the power was given to Sky it would cause the planet to become more and more industrial, eventually destroying the Earth. It ended with the kid being faced with the choice of which future to choose and the final episode cut to end titles without us ever knowing which choice he made.

I would love to see that show again. It was seriously

OT: That sounds quite a bit like the CLAMP anime/manga series 'X/1999', at least in terms of plot. Interestingly, the manga (comic) version of that is also missing a conclusion: the writers suddenly halted it at the penultimate volume for reasons that were never fully explained.

Well that depends where my childhood ends.

If I'm allowed to still be having my childhood (at 49) I offer Bear Behaving Badly:-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLmpIHIf3A

or Trapdoor:-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc

PP

Postman Pat

I do indeed remember Sky, Radox and yes, it was rather cool. Can't find much about on the interwebby thingy, though, even IMDB is very scant...

On a similar note does anyone remember The Changes? Broadcast around the same time as Sky?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/changes/intro.shtml