TCC memories

doctor evil · 07-08-2003 12:53am

I remenber the programes! Earth Worm Jim something......diddle di and his pal who was the puppy called Peter? who turned into a monster when provoked and he would eat jim and jim would tickle him to turn him back,wasnt that a computer game at first?. Mysterious cities of gold! oh to have it for a ringtone!:D Does any one remenber in the early days the studio was a spaceship? and the presenter was a man with curly black hair?, and there was an old cartoon with pirates!. Who remenbers Eek the cat. I absolutely loved catalacs and dinosaurs and pugwall, ready or not amanda was annoying .Heart break high was the best.Did'nt they use these nature programs for like 5minutes at a time or did I just imagine it?. TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!!!!!!.Theres an old,old thread of cartoons on phantom.Then TCC went down hill and only showed flash gordon *sniff*

La_Gordy · 13-08-2003 9:43pm

My picture was once shown on Veid and Void on the Ratcan rocket if anyone can remember.

La_Gordy · 13-08-2003 9:44pm

Originally posted by Nisara
My picture was once shown on Veid and Void on the Ratcan rocket - anyone remember the Ratcan Rocket??

snickerpuss · 16-08-2003 3:16pm

oh man i loved Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
Earthworm Jim...
Its all coming back to me

La_Gordy · 16-08-2003 3:59pm

Denver The Last Dinosaur anyone??

stormkeeper · 26-09-2003 12:25pm

Originally posted by Ryo Hazuki
Ah, I dont remember that Denver Dinosaur, but I remember A quote from battletech

"I will honour our agreement, to the letter"

It was said by the head of the evil forces (clan wolf guy)

Then the main character (name?) siad, NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

I believe the name you were looking for was Adam Steiner, with regards to Battletech? BT was one of my fave proggies on TCC, I also rememember Denver, Towser, Rhubarb and Custard (on TCC also?), Rude Dog & The Dweebs (I think it was on other channels), Mr Benn, some bald guy in a yellow suit with a name something like Bod? (the theme tune is still doing the rounds somewhere), and I also remember Pugwall, though the funny thing there is I wasn't really into it until I was a bit older. I also remember a few other TV programs that may have been on TCC, such as one where a group of people travelled around the world and did stuff (I remember they had it numbered too, and one of the eppies was in Pisa), but I can't for the life of me remember

I remember another program called "Eighty Days Around the World" with a lion as Phileas Fogg, then there was "Lost Cities of Gold", I remember that quite well actually, and I also remember phoning that Anchorman person once too, but I wasn't really much into leaving addresses on phones, lol

As you can see from my large post above (sorry), I remember a lot of TCC, and even more so when I was looking through this thread, I had the theme tunes of some of the shows going through my head.

Does that make me a crazy person?

stormkeeper · 26-09-2003 12:30pm

Originally posted by doctor evil
I remenber the programes! Earth Worm Jim something......diddle di and his pal who was the puppy called Peter? who turned into a monster when provoked and he would eat jim and jim would tickle him to turn him back,wasnt that a computer game at first?. Mysterious cities of gold! oh to have it for a ringtone!:D Does any one remenber in the early days the studio was a spaceship? and the presenter was a man with curly black hair?, and there was an old cartoon with pirates!. Who remenbers Eek the cat. I absolutely loved catalacs and dinosaurs and pugwall, ready or not amanda was annoying .Heart break high was the best.Did'nt they use these nature programs for like 5minutes at a time or did I just imagine it?. TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!!!!!!.Theres an old,old thread of cartoons on phantom.Then TCC went down hill and only showed flash gordon *sniff*

I remember the ship, and I remember there was a Welsh guy on it too, then there were those other proggies... God, the memories

Anyone remember Mr. Bogus, Dr Fad?

Damn it, every time I look at this thread closer, I remember more stuff! I remember Dr. Snuggles, with his pogostick and yellow and green striped trousers and red bow tie... Damn, I have a perfect image of him in my head, lol

You don't remember Mysterious Cities of Gold (have every episode of that ), Ulysses, He-man, Jayce and the wheeled warriors, She-ra, hell even Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony.

I remember all of those too (yet another addition to this post, yay.... :rolleyes:

superfly · 26-09-2003 12:39pm

was Battletech not on Super Channel along with dodgy european music videos, Rentaghost, Blakes 7 and the music program during the day with 2 voice over presenters and repeating weird images on the screen called "on the air"

stormkeeper · 26-09-2003 12:41pm

I don't remember the Super Channel, so I dunno about BattleTech being on it... I do remember it being on TCC though, along with Bot(s)Master... (I really have to stop, each new post is jogging my memory)

eggshapedfred · 21-10-2003 10:17am

was Battletech not on Super Channel

as well as Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, iirc.

The_B_Man · 22-10-2003 3:32pm

i used to love watchin The Diplodos or whatever it was called with the dinosaurs that could staple and selotape stuff and blow bu bbles and do other stuff!

Does any1 remember the name of the cartoon with the girl who owned a koala and handily had a eucalyptus tree outside her bedroom window?

Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors was cool!

was there sumtin called The Spruce Caboose where animals used a caboose as a clubhouse?

and galaxy high: "Janey was the smartest girl in school, not very popular, not very cool....Two school kids will be chosen from Earth, to go to school in a far off place..." r sumtin along them lines.

ps kevok where did you get them episodes of City of Gold?

segadreamcast · 26-10-2003 12:06am

and galaxy high: "Janey was the smartest girl in school, not very popular, not very cool....Two school kids will be chosen from Earth, to go to school in a far off place..." r sumtin along them lines.

Maaaaaan, I remember that! Barely!

Gravedale High is one I haven't seen mentioned in the last few posts - so I just have to throw that in there.

Pugwall was...good...but it was one of those shows that rested better in my memory. I saw it on vacation recently - and Pugwall (The guy himself) always seemed so much cooler in my head than he was (think of an Australian Zack Morris or something :P)

Eek the cat - ooooo... loved that.

Anyone remember Bobby's World? That seemed to spawn the trend of 'noogies' from his Uncle Ted.

Beakman's World was also shown on that channel wasn't it? That was crazy stuff I tells ya.

Syd_Vicious · 29-10-2003 8:28pm

This is Syd_Vicious speaking...

Ahhh TCC.....so many memories

They showed so many cartoons such as Lampchops, Garfield, Dr. Snuggles, Beverly Hills Teens etc.

Anyone remember a programme where Timmy Mallet had a real-life gameshow with Wolf from Gladiators and another woman (who I thought was fit

)?

TCC did turn crap after a while where they only showed repeats of Earthworm Jim, Bots Master, Gigantor etc.

But one T.V. show I will always remember was on Sky One after DJ Kat was gone for a few years...

I don't remember what it was called but it starred an Adams Family clone of sorts with a talking moose head, the two kids who talked to the camera and did all the competitions and a woman who refused to tell her age. I liked that program a lot but for one reason only - the now infamous...

Grusome Grannies Of Gobshot Hall!!!!!

:rolleyes:

This has been Syd_Vicious speaking...

Sauron · 29-10-2003 8:44pm

its all coming back to me now...I loved Battletech....skeleton warriors,...and Earthworm Jim was Classic......:rolleyes:

Exit · 30-10-2003 12:25am

Eek! before school every single morning!

And to the guy a few posts back, nobody ever thought the Pugwall guy was cool.

honru · 31-10-2003 1:53am

TCC was really, really cool. However, it went downhill pretty fast as the cartoons were ousted in favour of teen soap operas.
In fact, it was like the young people who started watching the very early days of The Children's Channel (which was for little kids) had grown up to the cool cartoons (which was great) but then slowly moved on to the "teen comedies" (Noooooo). In fact, the day that TCC was replaced by Nickelodeon was fortunate, even though I now dispise Nickelodeon with a passion.
I mostly watched German Cartoon Network at the time though, when The Flinstones were on at six o' clock and Dexter's Laboratory had just started production. Ah, those were the days...

Eek the Cat/The Terrible Thunderlizards
Wheres Wally? (anyone remember that theme tune? agh!)
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Rude Dog and the Dweebs
Earthworm Jim

The_B_Man · 12-11-2003 7:13pm

was that dennis the menace program on TCC weekday mornins or am i gettin confused with another channel?

technobob · 12-11-2003 7:24pm

that was on channel 4 methinks

are you on bout the english or US version?

The_B_Man · 13-11-2003 5:18pm

the english one as in dennis and gnasher and the softies n all that lot! it was a real life one, well not real life, it was with puppets. they had the cartoon of it aswell.

lyonsy · 21-11-2003 7:27pm

anyone remember jayce and the wheel masters, roger ramjet ,denver the last dinosaur, dungeons and dragons, here comes the grump?????

lyonsy · 21-11-2003 7:29pm

no it was jayce and the wheeled warriors!!!

Blisterman · 21-01-2004 7:26pm

If any of these shows came out nowadays, we'd think they were crap. I'd love to see them again soon. I emailed TCC asking if they're still running. They should bring out a best of TCC dvd or something.

pugwall · 21-01-2004 11:11pm

I'd love to see Pugwall or Degrassi Junior High again.

Jip · 22-01-2004 9:57am

Originally posted by Blisterman
If any of these shows came out nowadays, we'd think they were crap. I'd love to see them again soon. I emailed TCC asking if they're still running. They should bring out a best of TCC dvd or something.

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Mask, Ulysess(spl?) and a few others are all on one of the Fox kids channels in the evenings, I flick back and forward the odd time to check them out. Mask has aged quite a bit but Ulysess still looks great.

khan · 24-09-2004 5:59pm

Hey i just joined up, i love all the old tcc cartoons, does anyone rember Trap door, scared the hell out of me, i really miss them all.

razorfeather · 26-09-2004 12:52pm

THERES SOMETHING DOWNNNNNNNNN THERE!
*TrapDOOR!*

khan · 26-09-2004 1:32pm

Yes thank god someone still has it in there heads! does anyone remember a short cartoon between programs, it was about a vampire with overgrown fangs, but at the end he would always wake up and it would turn out it was just a nightmare???

razorfeather · 26-09-2004 2:06pm

cant say i do ;( kinda conjures up a mental image of soemthing familiar though which may well be it..
but hey do you remember a cartoon with these dogs and cats in it. they lived in a big warehouse or something. i dont think there was any humans as main characters....and there was a mean cat that used to hang outside lookin for trouble? one time he ordered a flea circus and was planning to set them loose on them...?

the name is on the tip of my tongue n i feckin cant think of it, its wreckin my head for months now..!!! HELIP

i think one of the cats was called Gloria!!!

khan · 26-09-2004 2:38pm

jeese no that dont ring a bell, but ill ask around, some of my friends are fairly in tune with all that. How about this one, its a bit of a long shot but i want to get it out there, it wasnt a cartoon but it was about this girl who could travel into a game show through a t.v. in a shoping centre, I remember a silver manican with a bolard hat that would point at a clock or something and then she would go! do you remember anything like that?

I think it was australian!

smuckers · 26-09-2004 4:43pm

I remember a short cartoon in between programmes called Quick and Fluke, anyone remember that? I think it was French.
Khan I vagely remember that but I can't remember the title.
I can't remember the name of this does any remember a show revolving around 2 bros who travelled around Italy?
I remember Pole Position, that was class.

razorfeather · 26-09-2004 4:56pm

lol nah mate cant say i do....probably a bit before my time maybe possibly. damnit. why dont they just have a brilliantly made website with all these things listed it would make it so much easier...

khan · 26-09-2004 9:15pm

No i dont remember it either, sorry about that. Yea there really shoud be a site, what about tcc themselfs are there any connections left with them in this world of nonsense programing???

stormkeeper · 27-09-2004 8:15pm

smuckers wrote:

I remember a short cartoon in between programmes called Quick and Fluke, anyone remember that? I think it was French.
Khan I vagely remember that but I can't remember the title.
I can't remember the name of this does any remember a show revolving around 2 bros who travelled around Italy?

I vaguely remember Quick and Fluke... And the name of that other proggy was Interbang. I remember, coz it was mentioned in this thread ages ago... I also remember making recordings of the eppys at one point, and made sure I never missed one.

stormkeeper · 27-09-2004 8:30pm

khan wrote:

Yes thank god someone still has it in there heads! does anyone remember a short cartoon between programs, it was about a vampire with overgrown fangs, but at the end he would always wake up and it would turn out it was just a nightmare???

I know of the cartoon you speak of, but I can't remember its name.... O_o

N_Raid · 27-09-2004 11:14pm

La_Gordy wrote:

The female presenters name who used to feed those gold fish that kept changing shape probably due to death {brownie points if you remember the goldfishes names}. She had black curly hair and was fairly old. *ponders*

I haven't read the whole thread yet so if this was posted before, sorry. Anyway I can't remember yer womans name but I remember the fish were called Flip and Flap!!! I remeber cos that's what I named my two goldfish when I got them (Later renamed after TCC went off the air)

Another thing: My friends all think I'm crazy cos they can't remember but does anyone remember Widget? He was some sort of purple alien with a big sphere for a spaceship and he could change into loads of different things? Please soemone prove I'm not going mad(der)!

And I was watching Ripleys believe it or not on TV3 and there was this blonde one on it. She does the stuff that's going on outside the studio. Was she in California Dreams? I think she was the bimbo blonde one. If not someone put me out of my misery cos I know I've seen her somewhere before.

smuckers · 28-09-2004 9:31am

Ah yes Widget was ace used to watch it all the time with his sidekick Megabrain. Yes the lovely Kelly Packard played Tiffany in California Dreams.

monkeyfudge · 01-10-2004 12:42pm

When I first remember watching TCC it had a show about a kid in his bedroom and he had a robot called Copernicus. It was an educational show and Copernicus would give the kid all sorts of information by turning the wall at the back of his bed room into a gigantic display screen.

I'm sure it was on right next to Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

Also, COPS hasn't been mentioned yet. It was the cartoon about a bunch of mechanically enhanced cops who had to go up against a bunch of ecentric super villians. I remember one bad guy was called Brain Drain and he had a glass skull so you could see his brain. And also there was a female crook called Miss. Demeanor (get it?)

monkeyfudge · 01-10-2004 12:49pm

smuckers wrote:

Ah yes Widget was ace used to watch it all the time with his sidekick Megabrain. Yes the lovely Kelly Packard played Tiffany in California Dreams.

It was certainly the best of the enviromental cartoons that came out.

Never thought much of Captain Planet and the Smoggies...

smuckers · 01-10-2004 1:49pm

Yea I remember Cops, I remember one baddie gal was called Nighshade but I can't remember the name of the lead goodie, he was a black guy.

johntf008 · 18-10-2004 11:29pm

Telly Cat? Brilliant! On before school, they used to have sketches involving a big monkey, telly cat had a sling, and there was a female cat who was ve-ery sexy...

Also, the TCC Express (The Steve And Danny Show) came to an end one memorable Sunday afternoon, as the train pulled into a station, Steve and Danny got off, said goodbye to each other, and went their seperate ways. I remember it being terribly emotional.

But they soon came back with The NEW Steve and Danny Show! It was studio based, and the only thing I remember is a game where you had to guess whether the next card ws higher or lower and I remember one prize would always be a giant pair of novelty glasses.

The End

TCamen · 20-10-2004 11:51pm

Doyle was a high school star, everybody thought he'd go real far.
But he didn't get the things from the classes he took.
You know he just wasn't interested in his books.
Aimee was the smartest girl at school, not very popular, not very cool.
Two kids will be chosen from Earth to go to school at Galaxy High.
Traveling millions of miles through space, to go to school in a far out place. Aimee is the sweetheart, Doyle's got a lot to learn. Here at Galaxy High.

Whenever I hear Pugwall mentioned I can't but say: Marmaloide!!

Didn't see 'The Dreamstone' mentioned anywhere so I'll put it down as one of the cool TCC shows I remember!
Also 'Round The Twist'...Have you ever, have you ever felt like this, strange things happen, are you going round the twist?

TCamen · 20-10-2004 11:55pm

Also: wasn't Prince Valiant on TCC?

WellyJ · 23-10-2004 7:06pm

Anyone remember Bobby's World?

The kid with the big feet and the catchy theme tune?

hardCopy · 25-10-2004 4:46pm

smuckers wrote:

Yea I remember Cops, I remember one baddie gal was called Nighshade but I can't remember the name of the lead goodie, he was a black guy.

Think the lead guy was called Bulletproof, cause he had a metal torso.
Long-Arm had an extendable arm with a handcuff on the end,
Main-Frame was the chick who worked their computer

Sarah B · 24-11-2004 4:50pm

Can't believe you're all talking about TCC

I worked there for two years and left just before the station shut down (yes, sadly the company went bust after Nickelodeon arrived).

I have many happy memories of all the programmes you're talking about as we used to have it on the office 24 / 7!

The lady with the dark hair was the very lovely Carol Chell (who spoke to everyone, no matter their age, like a 5 year old and swore like a trooper when drunk!).

So many of the presenters and my friends have gone on to do bigger and better things - Ortis went on to CBBC, Konnie Huq is on Blue Peter and loads of the guys behind the scenes are now quite big important people in the world of broadcasting (sadly not me!).

My childhood tape recorder found a new life when it became part of the RatKan II set and I somewhere I have various promo tapes listing all the programmes and in particular my favourite, Link Anchorman.

Would love to hear from anyone else that remembers the channel.

S x

SoupyNorman · 25-11-2004 1:00pm

I've read the whole thread and I hav'nt seen M.A.S.K yet!!!!!!!

also
Pole Position with the two talking cars..
http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/poleposition5.jpg
http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/poleposition5.jpg
http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/poleposition2.jpg

Thundercats
http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/thundercats2.jpg
http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/thundercats3.jpg

look at the memories...http://www.vandegrift.net/evert/retro.html

Zombienosh · 25-11-2004 1:02pm

dun dun dun!!!!!!!!

skeleton warriors!!

great show

and battletech

khan · 13-12-2004 1:24am

Hey sarah, thats crazy, so how long did you work there, what was it like behind the screen??

WellyJ · 15-11-2005 2:40pm

What the??

Kingp35 · 15-11-2005 4:35pm

WTF was that about? Great thread by the way. So many great TCC memories.

Why hasnt anybody mention Bravestarr yet? "Strength of the bear","Speed of the puma" and all that. It was my favourite show as a kid and would love to get it on DVD but they havent released it yet!

TCC memories

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