I've also added all the tunes into a huge playlist on my Youtube channel, so if anyone wants to listen to all the theme tunes at any time, they can find them here....:)
Can't believe I'd forgotten about this one, another classic...
this was one of the first mp3s I ever downloaded. remember finding it on audiogalaxy and thinking how awesome it was that you could download not just songs but theme tunes as well from the internet. that was back in about 1998 so it probably took half an hour to d/l :lol:
Bill Beaumont came and gave a talk at our school. There's a pub nearby that's named after him.
Actually it's more of a carvery / restaurant type deal now. Opened in the late 80s and it was dead posh originally, but it was on the border of a decent area and a council estate, and some of the more unsavory characters started going there, so the well-to-dos buggered off, and it went downhill.
Didn't help that the landlords kept changing as no-one wanted the aggro of chucking out the meatheads, so the previously barred muppets kept sneaking back in. Used to go in with my mates until I moved here, as the ale was fairly cheap and not so bad.
Last time I visited it had been bought out and they'd ripped out the pub seating and chucked out the pool table and turned it into a straight-up restaurant with no real bar area to speak of (couple of stools for people to grab a drink while waiting for a table, but that's about it). Obviously the 'ooligans aren't really into fine dining, so that solved that problem for them.
Anyway, I digress. (Quite a lot it seems.)
Quite a lot of 80s interview clips from Wogan on YouTube, but none of the earlier titles, as these are from 1992.
("Look! Look! We've discovered rendering and morphing! Isn't it AMAZING?" **5 years on** "Oh. No, it wasn't really, was it? 'The Lawnmower Man' ? Take it out and burn it! ")
Speaking of japanese shows, there were another one aired here in 1977 or 78, 'The Water Margin' ('La Frontera Azul' in Spain), maybe someone could remember it:
This show frightened the **** out of when I was a child. Loved it though. :)
That's a brilliant program, though perhaps too slow for modern viewers, since it's all about the build up, and much of the horror is left to your imagination. That's partly why modern horror films are so rubbish, because they show you all the gory stuff instead of letting you imagine it (whatever you can imagine is always more frightening than what you can see on screen). That and the fact that modern horror films usually revolve a group of not too likeable twenty-somethings in a clich?d setting, with little character definition and a tired and predictable plot.
Sorry, I rambled off topic there. Anyway, Sapphire and Steel is still first class, I bought the DVDs some time back (they did six series, one story per series) and was really pleased to find that the program was every bit as good as I remembered.
it really is. I watched some of them a year or two and it was as creepy as I remembered. The man with no face from Adventure 4 was still as bloody frightening as he was when I was 6.
And next video is about an obscure cartoon from 1981 and 82, starring Naranjito, the mascot of the Fifa World Cup 1982 in Spain. A cute little orange dressed with the national team shirt...
Not for me. At my primary school this was a yay we get to watch telly instead of doing school work. The only downer was that then we had to write about it.
I remember the telly been wheelied in on it's Unicol standard council issue TV stand like it was the 'precious thing of the school' (other than our one Link 480z).
I remember the telly been wheelied in on it's Unicol standard council issue TV stand like it was the 'precious thing of the school' (other than our one Link 480z).
Oh yeah, our primary school only had the one telly as well. They'd often merge two classes together to watch something, or stick us all in the big hall with the telly up front on full volume.
As for the 480z, I remember I once told the key-eating monster from the lake on 'Granny's Garden' to "f**k off" when he asked if he could eat my key, and the game locked up and said "please get your teacher", so I reset the computer and pretended that it had crashed.
And in the spirit of bad language, here's Christopher Lillicrap in 'Flicks'
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this was one of the first mp3s I ever downloaded. remember finding it on audiogalaxy and thinking how awesome it was that you could download not just songs but theme tunes as well from the internet. that was back in about 1998 so it probably took half an hour to d/l :lol:
Bill Beaumont came and gave a talk at our school. There's a pub nearby that's named after him.
Actually it's more of a carvery / restaurant type deal now. Opened in the late 80s and it was dead posh originally, but it was on the border of a decent area and a council estate, and some of the more unsavory characters started going there, so the well-to-dos buggered off, and it went downhill.
Didn't help that the landlords kept changing as no-one wanted the aggro of chucking out the meatheads, so the previously barred muppets kept sneaking back in. Used to go in with my mates until I moved here, as the ale was fairly cheap and not so bad.
Last time I visited it had been bought out and they'd ripped out the pub seating and chucked out the pool table and turned it into a straight-up restaurant with no real bar area to speak of (couple of stools for people to grab a drink while waiting for a table, but that's about it). Obviously the 'ooligans aren't really into fine dining, so that solved that problem for them.
Anyway, I digress. (Quite a lot it seems.)
Quite a lot of 80s interview clips from Wogan on YouTube, but none of the earlier titles, as these are from 1992.
("Look! Look! We've discovered rendering and morphing! Isn't it AMAZING?" **5 years on** "Oh. No, it wasn't really, was it? 'The Lawnmower Man' ? Take it out and burn it! ")
Speaking of japanese shows, there were another one aired here in 1977 or 78, 'The Water Margin' ('La Frontera Azul' in Spain), maybe someone could remember it:
Miss Marple
Once Upon A Time - Man
Storybook International
Manimal
The Little Green Man
Rainbow
Let's Pretend
That's a brilliant program, though perhaps too slow for modern viewers, since it's all about the build up, and much of the horror is left to your imagination. That's partly why modern horror films are so rubbish, because they show you all the gory stuff instead of letting you imagine it (whatever you can imagine is always more frightening than what you can see on screen). That and the fact that modern horror films usually revolve a group of not too likeable twenty-somethings in a clich?d setting, with little character definition and a tired and predictable plot.
Sorry, I rambled off topic there. Anyway, Sapphire and Steel is still first class, I bought the DVDs some time back (they did six series, one story per series) and was really pleased to find that the program was every bit as good as I remembered.
Seriously no love for the Superstars?
We also missed this one:
And has this had a mention?
Aye, we've had Danger Mouse! ;)
Some Mother's Do 'ave 'em
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Terry & June
Only When I Laugh
Never The Twain
Butterflies
(I have 2 sisters)
(Sorry about the bloke wanking on about Austin Rover for 5 minutes beforehand)
Fraggle Rock
Muppet Babies
The Storyteller
Not for me. At my primary school this was a yay we get to watch telly instead of doing school work. The only downer was that then we had to write about it.
I remember the telly been wheelied in on it's Unicol standard council issue TV stand like it was the 'precious thing of the school' (other than our one Link 480z).
Oh yeah, our primary school only had the one telly as well. They'd often merge two classes together to watch something, or stick us all in the big hall with the telly up front on full volume.
As for the 480z, I remember I once told the key-eating monster from the lake on 'Granny's Garden' to "f**k off" when he asked if he could eat my key, and the game locked up and said "please get your teacher", so I reset the computer and pretended that it had crashed.
And in the spirit of bad language, here's Christopher Lillicrap in 'Flicks'
That's...unlocked something.
Must-complete-mission.
Weird I could've sworn his fro was bigger than that? :lol:
C.A.T.S Eyes
Captain Zep
The Boy Who Won The Pools
Saturday Banana
Hey Look Thats Me
The Goodies
The Adventure Game
Razzmataz
Tiswas
Swap Shop
Going Live
Saturday Morning Superstore