Saturday morning telly

oneweb

Whatever happened to the good ol' days of Saturday morning television?

Going Live with Philip Schofield, Sarah Greene and Gordon the Gopher has got to have been the best evar! They've been showing some clips of it lately on those TV Years programs.
Live and Kicking was great too.
Then there was also Ghost train, Parallel 9, Motormouth and a good few others.

Well, what do you remember/miss?

Imposter

Originally posted by oneweb
Well, what do you remember/miss?

2 very scary words when combined:

Timmy Mallett.

Yavvy

Well I miss Transformers on the Fun Factory (sky one) but in fairness I think Ant and dec were great even if they are recent and I think Saterday Morning TV is as good as ever

The_B_Man

i never got up in time to see fun facory, but i always uised to watch the DJ Kat Show after it!

aidan_dunne

DJ Kat! :eek: Holy crap, now there's a blast from the past! I thought I was the only person who remembered DJ Kat. Back in the days when Sky One was still called Sky Channel and was being run from Holland, I think. Or something like that!

*waits for one of the people from ICDG to come on and correct me*

Yeah, he lived in a dirty, dingy alleyway basement or something, didn't he, and had a chain around his neck in the shape of a fishbone? And he had some female Dutch co-presenter (who was pretty good looking, if i remember correctly! ) as well. Maybe that's where I'm getting the idea that Sky was still being run from Holland by that De Mol fella at the time and that I'm completely wrong here, that it actually had been bought out by Murdoch at that time but the Dutch girl was still making me think it was still De Mol's operation. Someone from ICDG, please come and clear up all this scatter-brained mess for me!

Oh yeah, back on topic, I remember DJ Kat. And all the other shows mentioned too. I think Saturday morning television started going seriously downhill about the mid - late 1990's. It just hasn't been the same since.

But, oneweb, how could you have possibly left out Anything Goes and Scratch Saturday? Okay, I do know the answer to that, probably because they were pretty crap!

By the way, speaking of Transformers (which was a class cartoon), does anyone remember a cartoon called (I think) Centurions? I think it used to be on the ITV Saturday morning show that had Gaz Top and that green snotty alien thing, if anyone can remember that programme? It was about these guys who wore these suits that they could attach various things to like wings and jetpacks to make them fly and laser cannons and stuff. Anyone remember that cartoon? Anyone? Please? Or am I just imagining things again?

Okie

Originally posted by aidan_dunne
does anyone remember a cartoon called (I think) Centurions? I think it used to be on the ITV Saturday morning show that had Gaz Top and that green snotty alien thing, if anyone can remember that programme? It was about these guys who wore these suits that they could attach various things to like wings and jetpacks to make them fly and laser cannons and stuff. Anyone remember that cartoon? Anyone? Please? Or am I just imagining things again?

I'll direct you over here for all your Centurions needs! I can just about remeber that cartoon, but wasn't the green snotty alien called Gilbert or something, still can't re-call the name of the Saturday morning program though.

aidan_dunne

Okie, I just checked the link you posted in the other thread and that is exactly what I was talking about. Thanks for that, at least now I know I wasn't going mad and that cartoon actually did exist!

And, you're right, the green, snotty alien was indeed called Gilbert and I think that the name of the TV show was "Get Fresh" or something like that. It was based in a great big kind of spaceship thingy and each week it would "touch down" in a different part of the UK. At least, if I remember correctly and my mind isn't playing tricks again, that was the whole idea of the show.

ShaneOC

Swap Shop

Capt'n Midnight

DJ Kat was on SUPER CHANNEL
otherwise it would imply that SKY had a history of producing half-decent programs...

http://www.anime.dds.nl/Djkat.htm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/8375/pics2.htm

davil

You robbed me idea

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=118772&goto=newpost

But I'll let you away with it just this once cos you're talkin aboot the good telly I remember. Although I don't remember much. That wackaday (was it Saturdays?) was something I'd rather forget though.

aidan_dunne

I have to tell you, davil, that I actually have the Wacaday theme tune on my PC here!

Of course I remember Wacaday, as well. Started out life as the Wide Awake Club and that was renamed Wacaday shortly afterwards, I think. Let's face it, who could forget the awfulness that was Timmy Mallet, eh? And "Mallet's Mallet", that game he used to play with two kids with his giant sponge mallet (actually, that sounds a bit strange and sick, if you think about it! :eek:). I can even remember the noise it used to make when he'd hit someone on the head with it. It was kind of like:

BONG BONG... DING.... BONG

Of course, even though it was crap we'd still watch it because we were kids and didn't know better, I guess. Though, even though we were kids, we still knew Timmy Mallet was a dickhead!

Sparkle

Has anyone seen the programme on Den Tv on Saturday mornings? OMG bad state of affairs altogether!

aidan_dunne

Can't say I know of the one you're talking about, Sparkle, but you've just reminded me of another god-awful programme they show on The Den in the mornings. Some Australian programme called High 5, or something like that. I saw your man on "The Blizzard Of Odd" taking the piss out of it last night. There's these couple of really hot looking women on it, which is nice, but it's spoilt then by these two really camp guys jumping around the place like a couple of complete sacs! And the whole show and everything is so f**king cheesey and the presenters look like they're really having to force the lines out. As your man said on Blizzard last night, the presenters are probably thinking to themselves, "All my mates are off acting on Neighbours and I'm stuck doing this sh!te!"

Has anyone else seen this load of Aussie bollocks?

Tha Gopher

I remember getting up so early sometimes for the kids shows that the BBC test card was still on and Id be staring at this picture of a girl and IIRC a balloon man playing x and o on a blackboard,just waiting for the bloody programmes to start.

davil

I remember the wide awake club and wackadays and I think at one stage he wore two baseball caps on on either side of his head, what a g*mp!! Anyway do you remember, Mr. Dunne, if there was something in one of his later dodgy shows about a kid being asked questions and if they didn't get enough right a little stick man fell in some goo?????? It's just a vague memory I have, if you could clear this up for me pleez.

aine

The_B_Man

Originally posted by aidan_dunne
....(who was pretty good looking, if i remember correctly! ) as well. Maybe that's where I'm getting the idea that Sky was still being run from Holland by that De Mol fella at the time and that I'm completely wrong here, that it actually had been bought out by Murdoch at that time but the Dutch girl was still making me think it was still De Mol's operation. Someone from ICDG, please come and clear up all this scatter-brained mess for me!

jesus christ, what age were u? i was only young when DJ Kat was on and i didnt even know of the existence of Holland!

evie

Aidan, I have indeed seen the High 5 group on the telly and it is sickenly bad. One of my friends' baby cousins makes her sit down and watch episodes that never end, over and over. Awful stuff altogether.
Speaking of Saturday TV in general, does anybody remember the older episodes of Noels House Party?? Genius! I used to love that programme.
Going live was a favourite on Saturdays and there was also a cartoon on ITV called Samurai Pizza Cats. I am not imaginging this. Look: http://www.two4u.com/pizzacats/what_en.html

oneweb

Originally posted by evie
Speaking of Saturday TV in general, does anybody remember the older episodes of Noels House Party?? Genius! I used to love that programme.

I remember it fondly! Used to try slip home from work a few minutes early to catch it all! Lost the tape which had the aerial camera shot up to and into the castle & the theme tune for the opening credits Don't suppose anyone has even just that bit on tape? I'd pay to get it. (One of the best camera work I've seen)

aidan_dunne

Originally posted by davil
Anyway do you remember, Mr. Dunne, if there was something in one of his later dodgy shows about a kid being asked questions and if they didn't get enough right a little stick man fell in some goo?????? It's just a vague memory I have, if you could clear this up for me pleez.

Sorry, I can't help you with this one. Doesn't ring any bells for me, anyway.

Originally posted by The_B_Man
jesus christ, what age were u? i was only young when DJ Kat was on and i didnt even know of the existence of Holland!

Well, let's see. I remember watching DJ Kat around 1987 when Sky One was still called Sky Channel and was an independent station in it's own right, a couple of years before the launch of the whole integrated Sky network of Sky One, Sky News and Sky Movies. So, to answer your question, I would have been about 9 years of age.

Originally posted by evie
Speaking of Saturday TV in general, does anybody remember the older episodes of Noels House Party?? Genius! I used to love that programme.

Okay, now, when you say the "older episodes" are we still talking about the Noel's House Party which was broadcast in the early to mid 1990's? From Crinkley Bottom? With bits such as NTV (where they would set up hidden cameras in someone's living room), and the gunge tank thing? Or are we talking about the similar show Noel Edmonds had way back in the 1980's (Christ, I'm really going to show my age now! ) called Noel's Late, Late Breakfast Show? My memory of that show is a bit vague nowadays but I do remember it, one thing in particular being a contest where they would get two people to jump in and out of a pair of underpants repeatedly, the winner being the person who managed to jump in and out of it the most number of times in a minute, or something like that.

Now, once again, I have to ask the question, does anybody else remember that, the underpants-jumping thing in particular, or was that something else I imagined or possibly had some sort of weird dream about? Please, somebody tell me you do and I'm not going crazy again!

Exit

I think he's talking about Noel's House Party. I loved that show. Watched it every week. The thing I liked about it was that it was live. Noel would pop up during the credits for the previous show telling you what was coming up, and it just felt like anything could happen, especially when somebody would get the giggles, or the staff would play a prank on Noel that he wasn't expecting, or somebody would turn up at the door that he wasn't expecting.

Zaph

Best Saturday morning programme was the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, although if you wanted something a bit more anarchic there was always Tiswas with the lovely Sally James and her tight t-shirts. Mmmmmm...........

aine

Originally posted by evie
Speaking of Saturday TV in general, does anybody remember the older episodes of Noels House Party?? Genius! I used to love that programme.
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Wait 'til I get you home! That was the business!!

Busy Hands

Some of Noel's gotchas were class as well, okay there was some drivel, but the majority were very well put together and carried out. Poor old Richard 'Countdown' Whitely was made look a right fool ..... even for him.

Capt'n Midnight

Noel Edmunds - all fun & games till someone gets killed ...

Kolodny

Originally posted by zaph
Best Saturday morning programme was the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, although if you wanted something a bit more anarchic there was always Tiswas

Glad someone mentioned these 2 before me so I'm not the only one showing my age!

aine

Originally posted by Busy Hands
Some of Noel's gotchas were class as well, okay there was some drivel, but the majority were very well put together and carried out. Poor old Richard 'Countdown' Whitely was made look a right fool ..... even for him.

Ant and Dec have taken up where he left off....some of their 'gotcha' type skits on Saturday night takeaway were fantastic!

oneweb

Originally posted by aine
Ant and Dec have taken up where he left off....some of their 'gotcha' type skits on Saturday night takeaway were fantastic!

Saturday Night Takeaway is brilliant! Can't wait for it to come back. They won a National Television Award during the week!

littleninja

Originally posted by Okie
I'll direct you over here for all your Centurions needs! I can just about remeber that cartoon, but wasn't the green snotty alien called Gilbert or something, still can't re-call the name of the Saturday morning program though.

I remember that show... used to love watching that cartoon and the programme was called Ghost Train *sigh* what a blast from the past that is!!!

Does anyone remember Number73 that Neil Buchannon used to present with Sandi Tozphig (or whatever her name is... I cannae spell it... its pronounced tocksfig I think)

jester77

Any of you remember MASK, think it was on the Wide Awake Club... I was crazy about that cartoon, cant remember much about it except that the bad dude was called Myles Mayhem, I even had the sticker album ... plus I fancied the girl that used to present it with Timmy Mallet and some other dude, think her name was Machala Strachan, could be wrong...
Also was into Thundercats, Danger Mouse, Transformers (plus the Transformers rip-off cartoon Gobots) ... The were the good days oh yeah, and of course He-man ... cant leave hime out...

Kalina

Originally posted by aine
em...what about Padjo's Junkbox?!!! remember the mad scientist? 'believe it if you like!!!@

I remember that, good show. They changed it after a season or 2, to Pajo and the Salty Frog- that was a boat wasn't it?

sceptre

Originally posted by Kalina
I remember that, good show. They changed it after a season or 2, to Pajo and the Salty Frog- that was a boat wasn't it?

They changed it to The Whole Shebang first (Christy Moore was there for a last song on Pajo's junkbox). I think the Salty Frog thing was a show during the week (or else it was after I was far too old to watching)

malico

I think i'm the only one that remembers this, as anyone i've asked doens;t remmebr it.... but VOLTRON!! Remember it, with the lions that formed together to form voltrol, similar to ..erm...Power rangers. Except, ya know a cartoon and , good...

Other greats included
Pole Position
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and of course
Ulysees

Hell yeah

aidan_dunne

Originally posted by jester77
Any of you remember MASK

Yep, remember it well. Loved that cartoon and I actually have the theme music on my PC here. Great cartoon.

Originally posted by jester77
... plus I fancied the girl that used to present it with Timmy Mallet and some other dude, think her name was Machala Strachan, could be wrong...

Nope, you're right, it was Machala (sp?) Strachan as far as I can remember and you weren't the only one who fancied her, mate. She was bloody gorgeous. And, if I remember correctly, she used to present "The Hitman And Her" with Pete Waterman. Remember that? The late-night programme on UTV where they'd go around to different nightclubs around the UK.

Originally posted by malico
I think i'm the only one that remembers this, as anyone i've asked doens;t remmebr it.... but VOLTRON!! Remember it, with the lions that formed together to form voltrol, similar to ..erm...Power rangers. Except, ya know a cartoon and , good...

Yep, I remember watching that on (I think it was) The Children's Channel many moons ago. A friend of mine had the Voltron toy with all the seperate lions that attached together to make the Voltron figure. Damn cool it was too. When the Power Rangers came on the scene a few years ago I couldn't believe it. The most blatant (and completely crap!) rip-off of Voltron imaginable. They should have just left it as a cartoon instead of trying to turn it into a live-action show with crappy Japanese action sequences.

Now, I know they've recently released new, updated versions of Transformers, He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I wonder if they could update Voltron and M.A.S.K.? Actually, maybe it's better they don't. Maybe they should just leave the classics alone.

littleninja

AH yes, how could I forget about MASK and Ulysees, they used to keep me entertained for hours on Saturday and Sunday mornings, I think there are still some of those sets where you get to colour in the pictures with crayons lying around the house from way back in the day (I think it's a MASK one). Bring back cartoons like Ulysees I say, ah how I miss watching shows like that, kinda nice not having to worry about work, bills etc, etc, etc.

Also was into Thundercats, Danger Mouse, Transformers (plus the Transformers rip-off cartoon Gobots) ... The were the good days oh yeah, and of course He-man ... cant leave hime out...

Thundercats was one of my fave shows really, I loved watching it, used to have the theme tune on the computer but had to reformat so lost the lot :mad: Dangermouse was a must for all kids to watch really, but does anyone actually KNOW what that white thing Baron Greenback was always holding and stroking ACTUALLY was????
They have made remakes of both Transformers and He-Man now, I think He-Man looked better before they remade the series tbh, but then you could say the same for any of the cartoons that were remade at later dates really.....

BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL CARTOONS!!!!!

riverniallio

man everyone always remembers them but what about the lesser known classics! the visionaries was one of the best cartoons that'll ever exist! and Dino-Riders! Jayce and the wheeled warriors! and does anyone remember spartacus and the sun beneath the sea? i better stop, all thsi nostalgias getting the better of me! booohooooohooooooo.......

thejuggler

RTe has done a good few saturday morning shows over the years. The first (to my knowledge) was anything goes. Presenters included Aongus McAnally David Heffernan and Mark Fitzgerald (make and do expert who appeared on many of RTEs childrens tv shows)
Then came Pajos junkbox with Rosemary Henderson and Ray Keane (I think) on puppeteering duties
Then came Action station Saturday and Scratch Saturday with Brian Graham, Bryan Redin and Mary Kingston.

They gave up for a few years after that and the latest effort (who's name escapes me) has been running for about 3 years now.

I also remember the Fanta Roadshow Chart which was a teenage disco which used to travel aroudn the country. andy Ruane was the presenter on this later followed by Tony Fenton. TG4 have done a similar series in recent years.

Angus MacGyver

back in my day saturday morning telivion consisted of watchig the clock on the telivision and listening to that song, "i know an old lady who swallowed a fly" week in week out till somebody showed up at rte to press play. cant even remember what programs were on.

muletide

Anyone remember HR Puffenstuff still scares the bejesus out of me especially that witch

j22

Live and Kicking was the business. Talking about nowadays on Saturday morning, i once sen a programme called Dick and Dom and they went into places such as art galleries and libraries and started saying bogey. They kept saying bogey until they got progreesively louder and they get kicked out. It is absolutely hilarious.

Rockee

Aw, the memories! Im not saying this cos im a bit older now, but i think that irish kids today dont have it as good as we did back in the day when it comes to irish kids programmes. I was born in 81 and I think any of yiz born around then would agree! Someone was wonderin about the professor on pajos jukebox. He was called professor knowitall and his factorama...kinda like albert einstein with a brown-haired afro! He used to "FLY" around Ireland in his hot air balloon, Id say it looks hilarious nowadays. Any of yiz remember a talking pigeon on pajos jukebox called Amelia? She spoke with a Cork accent! Wacky ****! Transport us back to those days! ;-D

wideangle

[COLOR="Red"]Scrap Saturday with Angus Mc A Nally anyone?[/COLOR]

py2006

Hmmm, only 1 other person has mentioned No.73! I used to love that programme!

Can't really remember much about it now other than the red door with the big numbers 73 on it.

The wide awake club and Whack a day I remember well.

Going Live was also good. Its amazing how the only thing thats aged about Philip Schofield is his hair.

Its kinda like Gary Linekar. They just went grey!

starn

oneweb wrote:

Whatever happened to the good ol' days of Saturday morning television?

Going Live with Philip Schofield, Sarah Greene and Gordon the Gopher has got to have been the best evar! They've been showing some clips of it lately on those TV Years programs.
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Does anyone rember the morning Sarh Greene accedentilly ate Jason Donovans tonsills. They were being given away as a pize but green though the were sweets and ate them

Chris P Duck

I use to love Physiquiz with Kevo on a saturday morning.

Then the ultimate dream came though when my school was on it and I was in the audience. At the end we all got to run down and play the games but thats where I had my biggest disappointment. As soon as the credits stopped we had to clean up after ourselves. But we got a club milk and a can of coke for our efforts so not a bad days work after all. Before hand we had chips and chicken in the RTE canteen.

Rockee

Chris P Duck wrote:

I use to love Physiquiz with Kevo on a saturday morning.

Then the ultimate dream came though when my school was on it and I was in the audience. At the end we all got to run down and play the games but thats where I had my biggest disappointment. As soon as the credits stopped we had to clean up after ourselves. But we got a club milk and a can of coke for our efforts so not a bad days work after all. Before hand we had chips and chicken in the RTE canteen.

Brilliant, my school was on it too except they got club milks and 7up. Ah, the felcro balls and the frizbees! Cliona Ni Bhuchailla was the quiz master on that show...where is she now? Also Kevo disappeared after a brief stint on 'The Works!'

aidan_dunne

py2006 wrote:

Going Live was also good. Its amazing how the only thing thats aged about Philip Schofield is his hair.

Its kinda like Gary Linekar. They just went grey!

Yeah, and Ray D'Arcy as well. Holy crap, what happened to these guys? As you say, it's like they just seemed to go grey overnight. Though, in Ray D'Arcy's case, I'm not surprised really. All those years trying to control Dustin, Zig & Zag, Zuppy, Soky and Snotser, being terrorised by Podge and fighting with Ted all the time would turn anyone grey! But it's funny how within such a short time after he left The Den he turned grey. As I said, it almost seemed to happen overnight. Which leads me to believe that, like Marty Whelan, he may have been dying his hair for years beforehand.

Bettyboop

the monkey's always monkeying around
the osmonds cartoon

DublinWriter

Tha Gopher wrote:

I remember getting up so early sometimes for the kids shows that the BBC test card was still on and Id be staring at this picture of a girl and IIRC a balloon man playing x and o on a blackboard,just waiting for the bloody programmes to start.

...usually to the sound of an orchestral version of 'Girl from Ipanemia'.

Oh thank God! It wasn't just me! Oh thank you!

I also remember mitching off school a lot and watching the BBC and ITV's 'Programmes for Schools and Colleges'. How ironic is that.

...young boys in the park...saturday afternoon...jumpers for goalposts...isn't it....

MayoDayo

Anyone remember the Rimini riddle

YellowBucket

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