Originally Posted by RLacey

Finders Keepers

Sucked. Get the Picture was so much better.

[RLacey]

I miss Blockbusters.

[Jeysie]

Originally Posted by Henke

Is "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" the one with kids telling scary stories around a campfire (if I remember correctly). That one really ruled. It scared me to death when I was a kid.

Indeed it was, and indeed it did rule. It reminded me of a sort of Twilight Zone for kids... though just in the sense of the story topics being things kids could relate to more, *not* in the sense of the plots being dumbed down (because IMHO the stories were quite well-crafted/presented).

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Henke]

Originally Posted by Jeysie

Indeed it was, and indeed it did rule. It reminded me of a sort of Twilight Zone for kids... though just in the sense of the story topics being things kids could relate to more, *not* in the sense of the plots being dumbed down (because IMHO the stories were quite well-crafted/presented).

Peace & Luv, Liz

I still remember seeing an episode where some kids went into a house and there was a ghost there (or something) of a little girl walking around in her nightdress. That really scared the living daylights out of me.

[Karmillo]

I always watched this

Originally Posted by Henke

I still remember seeing an episode where some kids went into a house and there was a ghost there (or something) of a little girl walking around in her nightdress. That really scared the living daylights out of me.

Scariest episode was the one with that comic book. It was about an evil jester that popped out of the comics and did a lot of Joker shit. Only 100x scarier.

[Huz]

Originally Posted by Karmillo

I always watched this

Oh man, that was ace.

I saw a fancy new computer generated version on the TVs in some electronics store yesterday.

Needless to say, it was rubbish.

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Huz

Oh man, that was ace.

I saw a fancy new computer generated version on the TVs in some electronics store yesterday.

Needless to say, it was rubbish.

I've never understood why they don't just repeat the old ones. I'm pretty sure that the kids making up the target audience wouldn't care that it looks a little old-fashioned (if they even noticed)...

[Karmillo]

Originally Posted by RLacey

I've never understood why they don't just repeat the old ones. I'm pretty sure that the kids making up the target audience wouldn't care that it looks a little old-fashioned (if they even noticed)...

Theyre doing it to allot of old kids shows, today I stumbled upon some Inspector Gadget CG movie with crappy animations, its like everyones hair is solid

[Huz]

Originally Posted by RLacey

I've never understood why they don't just repeat the old ones. I'm pretty sure that the kids making up the target audience wouldn't care that it looks a little old-fashioned (if they even noticed)...

It's completely unfathomable for programmes like Thomas the Tank Engine. They're set in the past, the production values will not have to improved in the intervening years (in the case of the CG version, it actually looked cheaper), and it's not as though the kids are going to notice. To be honest, you could apply this to some (but obviously not all) live-action series, too. Just look at the old, old episodes of Chucklevision still gracing our screens!

I certainly never noticed that Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet were all looking a bit dated when I first saw them as a child - and they're pretty extreme examples! They're set in the "future" (around about now), yet all the characters smoke, use mysterious 60s phrases and in one episode of Thunderbirds, the Traceys go to the most hilarious 'club' ever. The first few seconds of Stingray make a fuss of the fact it's in colour! Wow!

Speaking of which... anything can happen in the next half hour!

And speaking of which again, the CG remake of Captain Scarlet. Urgh. I can see a pattern emerging...

[Kolzig]

Great old shows I used to watch a lot:

Dogtanian
Around the World in 80 days with Willy Fogg
Transformers
GI Joe
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Captain Planet (ok, well this wasn't a great show but I still watched it a lot)
Alfred J Kwak (A really weird animated show with all the Hitler references and such)
Some of the new 80's-90's Disney shows: DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, that one RoboDuck or whatever it was...
Inspector Gadget
Warner Bros' animated series

also a lot more shows that I can't remember right now.


It was kind of funny now that I remember when I was in Florida in 1992, I watched Darkwing Duck and other great new series from our hotel room tv. Then a year or something like that later the shows came to Finland I new a lot about them before anyone else.


One thing is very clear, these days nobody makes good kids shows anymore, everything is just fast made assembly line crap.

[seebaruk]

Definitely, kids shows these days are a joke. At least you can get the old classics on DVD now, so we can re-educate the youth of today.

I think Captain Planet is best avoided though!

[Dasilva]

Originally Posted by seebaruk

Definitely, kids shows these days are a joke. At least you can get the old classics on DVD now, so we can re-educate the youth of today.

I think Captain Planet is best avoided though!

I used to love captain planet. I never missed an episode. It had good morals too.

[Hamham Chan]

The first couple of years of Ducktales we´re really good.But then they had to start ripping off old Carl Barks stories.
These episodes we´re all f***ed up because off the addition of the new characters, like Gizmoduck who wasn´t in the original Barks stories in the first place.Pure s**t.

[Dasilva]

When I have kids I'm definatly buying all classics on DVD so they can watch real classics not rip offs.

[Maquisard]

Originally Posted by Dasilva

When I have kids I'm definatly buying all classics on DVD so they can watch real classics not rip offs.

I would recommend getting shows in a second language you want your kids to learn. I learned English when I was a kid by watching cartoons on Satellite.

[Karmillo]

Originally Posted by Huz

Speaking of which... anything can happen in the next half hour!

And speaking of which again, the CG remake of Captain Scarlet. Urgh. I can see a pattern emerging...

Captian Scarlet was the best out of the lot

...did that say it was filmed in supermarionation?

Originally Posted by Hamham Chan

The first couple of years of Ducktales we´re really good.But then they had to start ripping off old Carl Barks stories.
These episodes we´re all f***ed up because off the addition of the new characters, like Gizmoduck who wasn´t in the original Barks stories in the first place.Pure s**t.

I liked Gizmoduck

...cant really remember all the stuff that went on in ducktails but i do remember I liked gizmoduck and his 'Uni-cycle' leg

[Kolzig]

Gizmoduck was just what I meant with the RoboDuck, it was funny.

So, that character was part of the DuckTales series? I thought that it had it's own series, but I guess I remembered wrong.

[Hamham Chan]

Originally Posted by Kolzig

Gizmoduck was just what I meant with the RoboDuck, it was funny.

So, that character was part of the DuckTales series? I thought that it had it's own series, but I guess I remembered wrong.

Dunno if he had his own series, but he did show up in a couple of episodes of Darkwing Duck.

[seebaruk]

Ah man, my mum was gonna get me Dogtanian series 2 on DVD for Christmas but the queue was too big at HMV, so she got me an umbrella instead And one of her presents was the James Blunt CD which I've been subjected to all day! Still, lunch was ace, and bevvies in my uncles hot tub tonight, ahhh!