Kids television just aint what it used to be !

Zwillinge

Agreed!

The only decent prrogrammes are SpongeBob and Invader Zim (If it was ever on)
Was sitting with my Goddaughter for afternoon and Dora the Explorer came on, I thought "Oooh, we get to learn something" But nah...you get a word or three and then repetitiveness, the same thing over and over again. Then the Wiggles came on and I felt wrong watching it. I wanted to shield my innocent goddaughter from this.

Bring back King Rollo!!
Alf
Babar (well maybe not, it was real "sure it's on, i'll watch it"
Beverly Hills Teens
Captain Planet
Care Bears
Dr. Snuggles
Dungeons and Dragons
Duckula
Gummi Bears
Jetsons
My Little Pony
TMNT
Transformers
Warner Toons

My favourite shows when I was a lad:
Transformers
M.A.S.K
Starcom- this show had amazing toys!
He Man
The Visionaries
Ninja turtles
Marshall Bravestar
The Centurions
Batman animated series
There was another show based on a racoon but I can't remember the name of it!

dr.bollocko

I actually went to see the lighthouse from this show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjp7D0SW-9k

However the soupdragon will always have my heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3rWghGSm4Y

20somethings

When I get older I swear to myself that I will NOT say things like "IN MY DAY TV WAS SO MUCH BETTER".

I'd love to have been a kid for Hannah Montana or the Fairly Odd Parents.

Ross_Mahon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9c2K4Jl5LI

How can you get more manly than a guy called Jack Tenrec with Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mDQ-Yg6AME

I think Mr T needs no explanation, he had these little talks before the show started, Telling the kids that they are punks if they bully...Was hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMU1_ctXthM

Stench Blossoms

Johnson and friends was my favourite

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

syklops

Alot of the good stuff has already been mentioned, but I have a few that weren't. I dont know the names for all of them, so I will describe them and see if anyone remembers them.

I used to like the carebears. I know it wasnt cool, but still I liked it.
Do you remember Maxi? It was a cartoon, but it was like an animated version of Clueless or Saved like the Bell. I know your all thinking I am nuts, but I was about 6 at the time and it was the first tv program that I watched set in california. I think it was california, but basically all the girls were hot, and the guys were cool, and they all went to school in their own cars etc.

There was one about a cat and it started with a real life cat being chased by the neighbourhood dog, and he would run up a tree and start to daydream, and when he started to dream it turned into a cartoon, and it was usually either robin hood, or a star trek themed episode, or I think there was a sort of musketeers episode aswell. The animation style was similar to the Hanna Barbara cartoons.

Someone mention Thomas the tank Engine, but do you remember Tugs? It was the same sort of animation but instead of trains, they were tugboats. It was soooo cool. There was always some sort of storm, of a tanker ran a ground of something. It was brilliant. There were only a few episodes.

That annoying 118 118 ad just came on the TV while I was writing this with the ghostbusters theme. Did anyone mention the ghostbusters yet? I think the cartoon far surpassed the movies. I still love the movies but for different reasons. Ghostbusters Extreme was good too but not as good as the original.

They tried to recreate "The real ghostbusters" twice under different names. There was the Godzilla cartoon series which was a spin off of the movie, about 4 people who went round catching monsters, and the Men in Black cartoon which was a spin off of the movie, which was about a group of people who went round catching monsters. Even the animation style was similar to the ghostbusters. Neither lasted though, surprise surprise.

Do you remember one about the gargoyles on top of a cathedral in new york? There were 4 of them and they were named after various parts of new york. One was called bronx. And they came alive at dusk. Dont really remember much else.

Erm, there are two i am trying to remember about dreams, one was Captain Zed and the Zee zone. He flew around in a pillow spacecraft, and patrolled childrens dreams to make sure they didnt get nightmares. And they had these sheep in the control room, and it was styled around a WWII RAF radar
station, where they push sticks with flat bits on them around a map to show where the bad guys are. The other one i am trying to remember involved green creatures, and it had something to do with dreams, and the intro was one of them floating around in a bubble with a woman singing. I know it sounds vague but I cant remember much else about it.

Ill be back when I have thought of more.

yoshytoshy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmABsTi1-k

thebigcheese22

Hey I'm shocked and disgusted more people haven't mentioned the bets kids cartoon EVER - Anamaniacs! Twas hilarious like, when I watch it now it still cracks me up!
But RTE stuff for children today is crap, like morbegs etc, its politically-correct crap which patronises kids rather than stimulating them

chamlis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBf3L4rSS9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llD4wEX2vXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6_6aIKCok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0ZJgb-VX4

Incidently, I probably learned more Shakespeare off Gargoyles than I ever did in school.

syklops

Legend.

No wonder the greens got into power if we were all watching captain planet as kids. Doesn't it seem a bit dated now? The chick with the water was from the Soviet Union. LOL.

I have remembered a few more. Muppet Babies and David the Gnome. Do you remember the one with the racoons? And the pigs? And the older pig who smoked all the time and was loaded. Cyril Sneer? Was it called the racoons?

There was a cartoon about a group of heros. One was called the black panther, and the fought in jungles?? Cant remember the name. But it was really good.

banshee_bones

for me it was Care bears, captain planet, looney tunes and the old batman stuff adam west style!!! great stuff!

chamlis

I think Cyril Sneer and his son Cedric were Ardvarks(sp?) or Ant Eaters. May or may not be the same thing...
The weird thing about the Racoons was that there were at least two episodes where there was no music or sound fx track, so all you had were voiceovers. Really weird.

Now if only I could use my rediculously specific memory for anything that doesn't remotely benefit me in any way, for good.....

syklops

chamlis wrote: »

I think Cyril Sneer and his son Cedric were Ardvarks(sp?) or Ant Eaters. May or may not be the same thing...
The weird thing about the Racoons was that there were at least two episodes where there was no music or sound fx track, so all you had were voiceovers. Really weird.

Now if only I could use my rediculously specific memory for anything that doesn't remotely benefit me in any way, for good.....

Cyril Sneer and Cedric were deffinitely some other creature, but I cant remember what.

Batman the Animated Series was terrific. It was really dark but really good. The toys were good too.

Do you remember Biker Mice from Mars? I though that was great. It was on channel 4 really early on Sunday morning. And I used to get up for it, and after it was Football Italia which I hated, but there was nothing else on at that time in the morning other than David Frost, or some dodgy documentary. Then after football Italia it was either Little House on the prairie or the Henderson Kids.

Wow its amazing what you remember.

chamlis

DANGER BAY!

"duh duh de duh de! duuh dee doo dee doo de dooooo. nah nah neh noo nah!"

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Acacia wrote: »

And for nostalgia's sake- \o/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk

You can't beat the 90's teen dramas/sitcoms though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ltiqJgf24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7YueVrn_u0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meD8-BGc6oY

The theme tunes suck now!

syklops

chamlis wrote: »

DANGER BAY!

"duh duh de duh de! duuh dee doo dee doo de dooooo. nah nah neh noo nah!"

I have no idea what that is meant to sound like.

Wasnt there a helicopter that could land on water in that?

Thought of a few others:

Bananaman
The raggy Dolls
Family Ness

Did anyone mention Postman Pat yet?

IvySlayer

mike65 wrote: »

One of the great "joys" of RTE scheduling in the old days was that they would somehow end up with gaps to be filled with something and that usually meant a cartoon from either Warners Bros or Hanna/Barbera so stuff like Mr Magoo, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker and Tom & Jerry were on several times a week.

Classic Coyote V Gravity moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz65AOjabtM

Made me snicker. I used to love that show

Meep Meep!

I used to watch Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, Earthworm Jim, Catdog, Angry Beavers, Looney Tunes, Popeye, Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Thomas the Tank Engine.

Although I was watching Little Einsteins with my niece earlier, it rules!

Ruu_Old

Smoggies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-icMm18-SI

Denver the last dinosaur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1fUqSQFdAI

Teddy Ruxpin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMNZqRH2n7A

We could be here a while if I went on, I have work today. Another one was Dungeons and Dragons, the final episode never was made (though an audio track and script is available)

syklops

ANd around the world in eighty days with Willy fogg. And I used to tell my mother it was on and she would say "I think you mean Phileas Fogg", and I would tell her she was being silly.

How wrong I was.

syklops

Do you remember:

The Fiddley Foodle Bird?

And for nostalgia's sake.

Im off to watch the Man U match. I will be back on later with whatever I think of while there.

pablomakaveli

Just remembered Earthworm Jim which was funny. I remember seeing it on tv recently but can't remember which channel.

The Tick is brilliant as well. I recently watch those episodes again and think they are even funnier.

Overheal

Florence Thankful Music wrote: »

That was truly a great series

And then lest I forget this crud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XdoMP23EKE

There were very good reasons for its cancellation, but at least the robots looked cool.

This one had an even shorter shelf life than that, and I just couldnt get past the talking dog

rainbowtrout

ariba ariba andele!!!


speedy gonzales


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i6g76wrF8A



also really liked She-ra


for the honour of Greyskull..............


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR65P73X5GI

Riddle101

X-Men
Spider-Man
Ren and Stimpy
Batman
Earthworm Jim
Hey Arnold

K-9

Anybody mention Inspector Gadget?