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Round the Twist was an absolute belter of a kids show. I remember the one with the sexy gypsy who turned into a scary old lady and one with a cat hat that made you copy other people
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What about the one where Bronson eats a fish that makes his penis whirl round like a propeller then he enters a swimming contest and wins the contest because his rapidly whirling penis makes him super fast at swimming. I did not make that up. If we are talking wonky eighties/nineties Australian children's tv, what about Pugwall! I used to love hate-watching that show, and I still know all the words to the theme tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7YueVrn_u0 Rondette fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:I honestly only remember two, one I mentioned and a Scottish cow who was a walking endless cow pat joke in I think a C4 or ITV rival to Live & Kicking? I remember bits of that, it was set in a hotel(?) and hosted by Tim Vincent and Gail Porter. The cow was called Morag.
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I remember: Roland Rat - ITV Gordon the Gopher - CBBC Edd the Duck - CBBC Gilbert the alien - ITV Nobby the Sheep - Ghost Train, ITV Zig and Zagg - C4
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There was also another Saturday morning thing that was set on Mars and had some sort of alien puppet thing that liked Guns 'n Roses. e: I don't remember it being called Gilbert but it might have been
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Apr 17, 2018 18:31
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I remember Gilbert being on a few shows. Ghost Train was one? Also, Look-In was the most crucial of all kid mags. Rondette posted:If we are talking wonky eighties/nineties Australian children's tv, what about Pugwall! I used to love hate-watching that show, and I still know all the words to the theme tune. Featuring ‘Michael from Neighbours’ on drums, which was a big deal back then.
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Apr 17, 2018 18:38
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I will donate my firstborn to whoever uploads all the episodes of Delta Wave
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Apr 17, 2018 18:47
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Julio Cruz posted:There was also another Saturday morning thing that was set on Mars and had some sort of alien puppet thing that liked Guns 'n Roses. That one was Parallel 9 or something. There was also Dogsbody the anthropomorphic dog on BBC, I remember it in Space Vets and swear it spread from there.
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Apr 17, 2018 18:51
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EL BROMANCE posted:I remember Gilbert being on a few shows. Ghost Train was one? Because the internet forgets nothing, here’s a dedicated webpage. Apparently Gilbert was on Get Fresh (with Gaz Topp!) and a couple of his own shows. Ghost Train only had Nobby, who went on to Gimme 5 after that finished.
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Apr 17, 2018 18:55
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I loving hated Nobby the Sheep, or maybe I hated that Ghost Train split episodes of The Real Ghostbusters into two and put a 40 odd minute gap between each half. At least it felt that long
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Rondette posted:If we are talking wonky eighties/nineties Australian children's tv, what about Pugwall! I used to love hate-watching that show, and I still know all the words to the theme tune. Oh poo poo. I remember that guy and his tone deaf singing. I wonder if Australia is still pumping out terrible kids tv. As for theme tunes that get stuck in your head. Every now and then I’ll hum the theme tune to Woof! to myself, then spend ages trying to remember what show it was from. https://youtu.be/f6koK0zfbuI
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Yesterday Only Connect gave away five points because they accidentally inverted the order of a first round question. This is the next big scandal to hit the BBC.
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Rondette posted:What about the one where Bronson eats a fish that makes his penis whirl round like a propeller then he enters a swimming contest and wins the contest because his rapidly whirling penis makes him super fast at swimming. I did not make that up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=batGXcgqMSw
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Apr 17, 2018 20:40
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EL BROMANCE posted:Featuring ‘Michael from Neighbours’ on drums, which was a big deal back then. [UK] The Great British programme discussion: Featuring ‘Michael from Neighbours’ on drums, which was a big deal back then.
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Apr 17, 2018 20:43
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Trin Tragula posted:I will donate my firstborn to whoever uploads all the episodes of Delta Wave Here's a two-parter with extra Capaldi! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh04HymOc4A EDIT: Oh man, Youtube is an absolute goldmine these days. Just found Episode 1 of something I thought I'd imagined: Time Riders! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9K5igTuXCg The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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What was the Irish one with the ugly as hell looking goblin puppets?
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The only Round the Twist memory I have is of the episode with the pissing contest.
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Yeah the pissing contest kind of stays with you.
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I was watching some Not the Nine O'Clock News clips on YouTube. This one is still my favourite. Just because of that last line. "Organising plump discos, I suspect!"
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I remember the Round the Twist episode where they got absolutely shat on by seagulls. It was loving gross. Last year I was in Bath and got absolutely shat on by seagulls and it was loving gross, but at least it wasn’t quite as bad as that. Seriously my first thought was that someone had thrown a bucket of water out of a window. I turned to a women behind me and just looked at her in disbelief and she just shrugged and said “seagulls?”
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SeanBeansShako posted:What was the Irish one with the ugly as hell looking goblin puppets? The only goblin-y one I remember is Five Children and It. The 90s were terrible for puppets. Both the Riddlers and the Rottentrolls had ugly as gently caress, creepy characters.
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They might have been Welsh in retrospect the nineties is scarily now a long time ago.
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Julio Cruz posted:I remember bits of that, it was set in a hotel(?) and hosted by Tim Vincent and Gail Porter. The cow was called Morag. Fully Booked
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The_Doctor posted:I remember: TV-AM specifically - "ITV" wasn't really a thing at the time. And he ended up on the BBC for more years than ITV though I was too young at the time to have any idea why.
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Listening to the round the twist theme tune reminds me of this medly, created by a Bristol band called Clumsy. https://soundcloud.com/clumsys-tv-theme-medley/clumsys-tv-theme-medley-whole-medley It seems they deleted just about every copy of the song from the internet, I suspect because of the final song they choose to use.
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The_Doctor posted:Here's a two-parter with extra Capaldi! The honourable gentleman will note that I specified all the episodes
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Tsietisin posted:Listening to the round the twist theme tune reminds me of this medly, created by a Bristol band called Clumsy. God drat my nostalgia is in overdrive
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Mr. Squishy posted:Yesterday Only Connect gave away five points because they accidentally inverted the order of a first round question. This is the next big scandal to hit the BBC. So it wasn’t just us that thought that? It was ridiculous to put JK Rowling/Galbraith in the 5 pt spot. For a place in the final too.
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ookiimarukochan posted:TV-AM specifically - "ITV" wasn't really a thing at the time. I mean, it was, but only for branding. Those licences are officially known as “Channel 3” in UK Law. ITV started to use ITV as a branding exercise in... I wanna say late 70s/early 80s. This has been your pedantry and broadcasting correspondent.
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thehustler posted:So it wasn’t just us that thought that? It was ridiculous to put JK Rowling/Galbraith in the 5 pt spot. I was complaining loudly to the missus about this. And she kept complimenting them on their brave guess even though it was incredibly obvious. Still, they won handily SeanBeansShako posted:What was the Irish one with the ugly as hell looking goblin puppets? Zig and Zag? The Morbegs? Bosco? The Late Late Show? WeAreTheRomans fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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SEX BURRITO posted:The only goblin-y one I remember is Five Children and It. The 90s were terrible for puppets. Both the Riddlers and the Rottentrolls had ugly as gently caress, creepy characters. Awww I liked the riddlers! They had weird sort of elfy faces.
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Zig and Zag once interviewed Donald Trump, who even in the midst of bankruptcy, insisted on the byline WORTH $1.5 BILLION. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3zdRsivwk It's weird to see old videos of Trump like this actually. He's still saying the meaningless hyperbole salad he does today, but his brain hasn't turned to pudding yet.
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thehustler posted:I mean, it was, but only for branding. Those licences are officially known as “Channel 3” in UK Law. How did (do?) television franchises work? It is all done by region and time, isn't it?
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Wheat Loaf posted:How did (do?) television franchises work? It is all done by region and time, isn't it? Basically yes. Regions were developed on a geographical basis and then ran for a number of years. Boundaries have changed, regions have been created, regions have been destroyed or merged. Also the breakfast licence is technically a separate station licence for the 6:00-9:25 period for national distribution. Those licences are still individually assigned despite the merged ITV plc holding all but... I wanna say 4 of them? (STV x 3 regions, plus UTV - Channel TV got sold to ITV Plc a few years back so is now part of the big company). Ask me more, I love this poo poo.
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or just visit Transdiffusion @ https://www.transdiffusion.org/ for more history than you can handle. I also love technical questions about how the stations and regions are distributed/linked but last time I tried to make a thread about it nobody cared 
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It might have been The Morbegs it was a sort of rural setting and they lived underground. One of them was sort of a ram? I am also remembering all the SKY Gamesmaster style shows too they had on weekends since we're nostalgia tripping. One of the dudes who showed up does drat good game trivia videos and books now.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It might have been The Morbegs it was a sort of rural setting and they lived underground. One of them was sort of a ram? That’s Roger and the Rottentrolls. Although I remember a more realistic goat headed puppet.
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thehustler posted:Basically yes. Regions were developed on a geographical basis and then ran for a number of years. Boundaries have changed, regions have been created, regions have been destroyed or merged. Also the breakfast licence is technically a separate station licence for the 6:00-9:25 period for national distribution. So, for instance, The Saint was on ITV from 1962 to 1969 while The Avengers was on "ITV/ABC/Thames" from 1961 to 1969. How would that affect a hypothetical TV viewer's ability to see them both in the mid-1960s? I honestly assumed it had always just been the BBC, then ITV, then BBC 2, then Channel Four, then Five. I didn't realise it was as fragmented as it seems: regional variants of the BBC and ITV (insofar as UTV qualifies) are straightforward enough but the other stuff is a bit of a blank. My only foreknowledge is actually a Kim Newman short story, of all things. (His recurring villain, who's a kind of other-dimensional being who takes the form of this Robert Maxwell/Rupert Murdoch media tyrant archetype, tries to manipulate a small production company into competing for the London franchise in the 1980s as part of some byzantine plan.) 
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London Goons of an age will remember Thames TV giving way to LWT on Friday nights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLmWJLPkOE The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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For those interested in all regional channels/ITV then watch ITV in the Face on Vimeo. It’s pretty great. 15 episodes of history and idents that’s surprisingly watchable! https://vimeo.com/130192194 (episode 1)
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