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

i think i remember childrens ward

was why dont you that stupid program they played during the summer holidays on cbbc?

What is Manimal? i'v never heard of it!

Yeh someone already mentioned Why don't You,Alfster.

I know some of the actors from Children's Ward went on to do other things,soaps etc..

Yep WDY was on in the hols,i liked it but i was only about 8!

What about Jossie's Giants? (probably spelt wrong!)

Manimal was a bloke who used to investigate baddies by changing into animals! He only ever did a black panther and a hawk as far as I can remember but when he was changing you only ever got to see his hands and the veins all used to swell up and start writhing. Fairly spooky when you're only bout 8!

Yeah i thought of Why Don't You which i always hated ~ but the last series got a little surreal apparently and i saw on BBC4 the other night that Russel T Davies wrote those last shows.
He also wrote Century Falls and Dark Season which were the first scary shows for kids

So when was Manimal shows,70s,80s??

80's I reckon

Just checked it was made in '83.
Weird they only made 8 eps but i seem to remember it running longer ~it must have been pretty effective to stick in our minds like this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085051/

Try there! It says 1983!

a special mention should also be made about the long farting trombone sound that started off the theme tune to Johnny Briggs and the sausage on a fork that would burst in midway through the opening credits of Grange Hill. Two of my personal favorite moments from kids teevee.

Well i was 9 in '83 but dont remember it at all!

Do youremember Johnny Briggs?

I must have read your mind then pffff!

not hard to do, considering, I don't use it to do much really.

Johnny Briggs with his pet dog Razzle, was up there with SeaView in my book Awesome kiddies naff drama...

Don't remember Johnny Briggs at all.
Any other fans of the fab Educating Marmalade?

How about Mike and Angelo? Anyone remember them? On second thoughts, forget I asked, the programme was s**te.

I dont remember SeaView or Educating Marmalade but i do remember Mike & Angelo!

ditto, and it was s**t!

I didn't watch Jonny Briggs when it became a TV show but I remember Bernard Holley reading the stories on Jackanory

SeaView was about a sad dweeby kid; think curly type perm a la keegan & nhs black glasses, and his older sister moving to and living in a b&b on the coast with their parents. They had loads of amusing 'adventures', although the only one I can remember really, envolved roller skates.

I do remember enjoying watching it though, sad as that may be.

*perhaps I did imagine it?*

There was a very similar thread sometime last year....i'll look and see if i can find it