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pkBRONZE Member
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Posted:
Time to reminiss on the 80's shite that was TV.

1: Saved by the bell!........ my god Kelly was HOT! ubblove

2: Dukes of hazard... how kewl was that car!

3: Airwolf.... now who else wanted to fly in that thing?.

4: The Desmonds!...... WARNINGif any one can find any episodes on dvd or the net >>> PLEASE TELL ME i've been searching for years.

5: Bell and sebastian... any one else ever remember this cartoon, i cant find it any where either and i only know two other people that can remember it. BUT I JUST FOUND A WEBSITE! woohoo bell and sebastian.

6: Ski sunday.... now what the F*** was that about?... i hate my dad for endless sufferings of that show and he's never ski'd in his life.


7: the podington peas!.... down at the bottom of the garden... amongst the birds and the bee's... :lol


so i dont want to steel all the good ones!... smile

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nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
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Posted:
Airwolf. Just airwolf.



I lived my life for that programme.



But I could never understand why they called his brother Saint-John "Sinjun". Until I grew up. biggrin

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Posted:
ah, the eighties....
now I am actually old enough to remember, because I was in my teens then (unlike a lot of HoPers), and the most revolutionary things on TV here in holland were:

A) the american TV-day. (late 80s) ok, this might need a bit of an explanation: we had a system with only public networks. we had about 10 different "stations" distibuted over 2 (and later 3) channels. each of them had their own amount of broadcasting time. TV didn't start untill 4 PM and ended around midnight. every "station" had a certain amount of broadcast time, linked to the amount of "members" they had. but because of the odd number of channels on the even number of stations, these stations got about an extra half hour of time every week, which they would fill in the following week.
at one point the station called Veronica started saving up those half hours and got the network to have them use it up on a single day. a big campain introduced this American TV day: 24 hours full of crap shows and commercials (we didn't know commercial-breaks at that time). man, that was an exciting 24 hours of hell!!!! so many bloody commercials...
ok, now we have commercial stations and 24-hour tv ourselves, but oh the horror it predicted... (maybe that's why I don't have TV now?)
B) Pirate TV (early 80s) now this was exciting!!!!! because there was no cable and TV transmissions stopped at midnight, in the early 80s we encountered Pirate TV: unofficial stations that would broadcast after hours from a van. with a wide range of stuff: the most important ones would be the left wing political stations like squatter-networks and anti government activists, these were the true pirates, and some of those stations still have pirate radio show now... but on the other hand you would have stations that would broadcast weird movies and.... porn!!!! porn was really unseen publicly then, and this was the thing the adults used to watch after you'd gone to bed. and that you would want to see too, because it was so forbidden. I can't remember actually being able to sneak in to see some, but my parents (left wingies as they were) did wake me up a couple of times to watch a bit of the more political stuff, because they thought it was a historical important thing, these pirate stations, and they wanted me to have experienced it.

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1. "V", gotta be the coolest sci-fi series ever! I saw it again last year and it was so much fun!

2. agree with pk that the Dukes of Hazard were great...

3. cartoons cartoons cartoons! though there were no Simpsons yet for most of the decade, but I loved Captain Future (did you ever get him in the UK or America??)

4. childrens tv shows. "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and "Löwenzahn", you wouldn't know any of them, but they were at LEAST as good as Sesame Street!

5. I do remember watching the Football World Cup 86 when I was 7. It was great, we were all winding up my mum who got really pissed off whenever the referee decided ANYTHING for the opposite team... and I lost my first tooth while watching it!

6. Star Trek... back then I thought Leonard Nimoy was cool. This was before I heard him singing "Bilbo Baggins".

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ASTRO FAERIEBRONZE Member
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Posted:
I was looking at saved by the bell t shirts yesterday, i loved it, screech was sooo funny.
https://home.mn.rr.com/couplandesque/quizzes/sbtb.htm
Hehe im Lisa turtle biggrin

I actually had my hair cut to look like tiffany amber theissens once hehe:D.

Dungeons and Dragons

Thundercats

Airwolf and dukes yaaaaaaaaay!!!

Tripods

The

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and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realise that we
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_Clare_BRONZE Member
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Posted:
Ermmm...



1. Transformers

2. Thundercats

3. He-Man and She-ra

4. Pink Panther

5. Knightrider

6. Murder She Wrote (lol, i know, but when I was very young my mum allowed my brother and I to sit up and watch it)

7. A-Team

8. The Magic Roundabout

9. (early 80s) Rainbow

10. Willow the Wisp (and Evil Edna, the TV - coincidentally, my mother's name is Edna... lol, hours of fun and games)



PS: Oh god... of course... and Dungeons and Dragons biggrin
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RyGOLD Member
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Posted:
Airwolf totally!!

and V!! You go Birgit! I still remember those poor lab rats getting eaten.. and the white spaceships and the logo which looked alot like the divide symbol..

Thundercats agreed, though I watched an original episode a few months ago, and wasn't impressed. I think it's because I didn't get to see mumm-ra go nuts..

Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon?? I've been trying to hunt that down for ages.. only thing I remember from it was the bad guy on a flying horse and the rollercoaster in the beginning..

Oh and M.A.S.K and He-man were pretty watcable.. and doh! the original transformers too..

spritieSILVER Member
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Posted:
Some of my 80's favorites were

Saved by the Bell (as well)
Beverly Hills, 90210
Who's the Boss?
the show with Kirk Cameron and a family of 5

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Posted:
Written by: pk ....:™


7: the podington peas!.... down at the bottom of the garden... amongst the birds and the bee's... :lol





ooh, i had the theme tune to that, in my head the other day... now it's relodged...

in no particular order....

1/ Greenfingers
2/ Funny Bones
3/ Trap Door
4/ Stop It and Tidy Up
5/ Button Moon
6/ I wish i could remember what it was called but there was a moose in it called Montgomery and a poodle named Porscha.... and there was a caboose... umm
7/ Thundercats

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6/ I wish i could remember what it was called but there was a moose in it called Montgomery and a poodle named Porscha.... and there was a caboose... umm





The Get-A-long Gang!

https://80scartoons.co.uk/


woo... dogtanian, that was good too, and henry's cat..... mr benn!!

*wonders if she spent far too much time in front of the tv as a kid*

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nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
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Written by: Firepoise


2. Thundercats
3. He-Man and She-ra




So true!

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
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JauntyJamesSILVER Member
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Posted:
in the 1980s i bubbled for a bout four months. don't really remember what kinda tv i watched. probably Seseme Street

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TheBovrilMonkeySILVER Member
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Posted:

Not in any particular order:

He-Man. She-ra was rubbish, prancing around on a pink horse, Battlecat was much cooler smile
Ulysses 31 - fantastic, had Ulysses flying around with a lightsaber that was also a pistol trying to get home, like his Greek namesake. I have this on DVD biggrin
Thundercats
Centurions
Pigeon Street
King Rollo
Trapdoor
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.


_Clare_BRONZE Member
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Posted:
Dogtanian and the three Muskateers!!

I forgot about that one!

She-Ra was not rubbish, thank you very much, Monkey. tongue
She was the female equivalent of He-Man and was just as tough. Don't know who would win in a fight between She-Ra and Wonder Woman though biggrin

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MandSILVER Member
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Posted:
My 2 favourites were probably Button Moon and Pigeon Street (early 80s, when I was young).
Which were then closely followed by Transformers and Thundercats.

Trapdoor was always a favourite, and how could you ever forget Fraggle Rock? biggrin

Oh, and Pk... I'm right with you on the Ski Sunday thing rolleyes

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.


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Posted:
Written by: Firepoise


She-Ra was not rubbish, thank you very much, Monkey. tongue
She was the female equivalent of He-Man and was just as tough. Don't know who would win in a fight between She-Ra and Wonder Woman though biggrin




Ok then, the horse was rubbish, it just can't beat a green tiger smile

As to She-ra vs wonder woman, I'd put my money on She-ra. Wonder woman only really has the ability to deflect bullets with her bracers, but She-ra doesn't shoot people, so that power would be useless.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.


_Clare_BRONZE Member
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Oh my god! Mand! I totally forgot about Fraggle Rock!

Cast your cares away, worries for another day, let the music play, ahem.

Ahhh. The doozers... so sweet.

And Monkey, yes, I admit... the green tiger was pretty cool. The horse/unicorn was a bit naff. She should've had a panther or something.

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Poddington Peas
She Ra (i used to have pencil case, and book about her, wonder where they went?)
Funny bones
Shoe People (sh sh sh... shoe people.... biggrin)
Transformers
Care Bears
.. thats all the ones i loved that i can remember at the moment

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_Aime_SILVER Member
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Posted:
I was only alive for 2 years of the 80's rolleyes

vanizeSILVER Member
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Posted:
Macross!

-v-

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spritieSILVER Member
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Posted:
some cartoons that I forgot are...

ducktales (and really any of the WB animated cartoons that came on around the same time...tailspin and I can't remember the names of some of the others).
the smurfs
the gummi bears
the snorks (if that was what their show was called...they lived under water and had bent tubes coming out of their skulls)

ASTRO FAERIEBRONZE Member
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Posted:
paw paw bears?? anyone remember those,

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pkBRONZE Member
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Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
i remember the paw paw bears!////

gee i can remember so much of the shite that was on the box back in the 80's!.


CITIES OF GOLD!!!!!!!!!!! how much did that rock too!



SF ..... thanks darlin.... glad im not alone for once with that one...



common no takers for the Desmonds???? yells "porkpie" in an odd cockney jamaican accent. hehe

_Clare_BRONZE Member
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Posted:
Lol, was the Desmonds the 80s?! Seriously?! I thought it was the early 90s...

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pkBRONZE Member
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Posted:
1989-1994



6 series 71 episodes.




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_khan_SILVER Member
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Posted:
Written by: Firepoise


Ermmm...

1. Transformers
2. Thundercats
3. He-Man and She-ra
4. Pink Panther
5. Knightrider
6. Murder She Wrote (lol, i know, but when I was very young my mum allowed my brother and I to sit up and watch it)
7. A-Team
8. The Magic Roundabout
9. (early 80s) Rainbow
10. Willow the Wisp (and Evil Edna, the TV - coincidentally, my mother's name is Edna... lol, hours of fun and games)

PS: Oh god... of course... and Dungeons and Dragons biggrin




OMG, looking at your list of favorite shows, I think I love you!! ubblove

I also loved Magnum P.I., Battle of the Planets (though I think it was produced earlier than the '80s) and Star Trek, TNG (which rolled over into the '90s). Also there was a British show I loved called The Tomorrow People -- was that actually the 70's? egads I'm old.

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_Clare_BRONZE Member
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hehehehe. Mucho thanks blueboy biggrin

We clearly have great taste ubblol

I think it was also around the 80s (I was around 7 anyways) my dad insisted I watch the Beatles Yellow Submarine cartoon movie. The psychedelic part disturbed me greatly - the same effect as the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang biggrin

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Mysterious Cities of gold, the first TV show I watched end to end - remember the big golden condor?! Any of the french/japanese co-ops were ace, Dogtanian, and Belle and Sebastian...

Anyone remember Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors? Fight Plants, theyre EEEEVIL...

Roobarb and Custard?

All of the above...

Firepoise, I have got Yellow Submarine on VHS, and my g/f refuses to watch it cos it scares her...

MUUM-RA the ever living!!!! Argh how scary? I found myself in high school drawing his pyramid on the front of my Maths book...

Street Hawk? That was the Airwolf rip-off on a motorbike... Interestin fact - Jan-Michael Vincent (Airwolf) went on to star in soft-porn movies...

Bullseye? Sunday evening will never be the same...

God the list goes on!

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RyGOLD Member
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Posted:
Hmm.. does anyone else remember Go-bots or Visionaries?

pkBRONZE Member
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why dont they bring back the good old days?.... there is only so much tweenies and doug i can stand..... rolleyes

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hmmm..
McGuyver
Inspector gadget
Zoobily Zoo
Fraggle Rock
I was kinda young in the eighties....

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