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Old 03-09-2017, 07:23 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default TV programmes from your childhood/youth

Post clips if you have them or just talk about them. Or both.
Rentaghost (children's comedy)

HR Pufnstuff (Children's totally trippy whacked-out fantasy - included a talking flute!)

Monkey! (Children's fantasy based on Asian myths)

Children of the Stones (Super-scary children's horror)
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Old 03-09-2017, 07:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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i can't believe my parents put me through this
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Old 03-10-2017, 04:24 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Monkey! (Children's fantasy based on Asian myths)
Contemplating the DVD box set apart from the fact that it would probably sit unwatched on my shelf and I can't afford it...
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Old 03-10-2017, 05:57 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 03-10-2017, 12:23 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I, too suffered through Timmy the Tooth. I have been DYING to see Children of the Stones ever since hearing the opening theme (because I regularly feel the need to listen to 1970s show opening themes on YT for whatever reason)

My long-term memory is terrible so I cannot remember all the others I endured, but, having been raised by the television, I watched lots of X-Files, Fraggle Rock, Wonder Years, Star Trek, terrifying disaster docudramas like Rescue 911, Xena, Ren & Stimpy and Nick at Nite. And also Gargoyles, Gullah Gullah Island, Moomins (I love moominland with all my heart) and TMNT, but only at friends' houses, sadly.

Anyway here's some very formative scenes:


(I am the pigeon man)


(^Me in 20 years, probably)


TO THIS DAY I am afraid of the very top/bottom of escalators and insist upon awkwardly hopping over it.
(But every Rescue 911 episode was absolute gold. And William Shatner hosted it for some reason??)



I can't find my favorite Are You Afraid of the Dark episode on the youtube but it's here in full-- the dollhouse episode :0

...Does anyone remember those MTV (or VH1?) dating shows that were on in the 90s..? I fervently watched them; I believe one was hosted by Jenny McCarthy, and toward the end of each episode, all the female contestants had to pluck out one of their eyelashes, and.. whoever had the longest one won, I think? So, 9-year-old me began to think that this was a common and acceptable courting ritual. And 12-year-old me loved the Tom Green show for its borderline-unwatchable surrealist horror-type humor.

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Chris Hardwick was on that dating show co-hosting with Jenny McCarthy I remember him being on it but the name escapes me right now.

I also loved Remote Control which was a game show. I think it was also on MTV. They even made a video game version of it that I had on NES.
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I'm not going to post clips because I can't find any good ones, but the first seasons of Batman and Lost in Space.

Most people remember both of those shows as pure camp, but both during their first seasons were dark as all hell.
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Anyway here's some very formative scenes:


(I am the pigeon man)
The pigeon man committed suicide and Arnold didn't want to accept it yo.

Rocko's Modern Life was my **** as a kid.
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I'm not going to post clips because I can't find any good ones, but the first seasons of Batman and Lost in Space.

Most people remember both of those shows as pure camp, but both during their first seasons were dark as all hell.
Surprisingly enough I haven't seen Batman since I was a kid (aside from watching the movie a few years ago), so I can't really comment, but I'm voicing my dubiousness. I do know that it was supposed to be much darker though, but the producer didn't care for comics and so changed the tone to more campy. Clint Eastwood was even supposed to play Two-Face, but that obviously fell through, along with Two-Face even appearing in the show for obvious reasons. ****ing pissed that I was robbed of the greatest Two-Face that never was.
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I remember I used to watch the Adam West Batman when I was really really young on daytime tv.
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