80's TV show Pyramids/Other World/sci fi/family

bullets

I have gone through a load of 80's and nostalgia sites
and cannot find info on a show that was on years ago.
(It may have been on RTE and only showed a few episodes)

It involved a Family that visited the Pyramids where somehow they
managed to slide through some gateway to another world.
The show revolved around them trying to get back home.

Kinda reminded me of Logans Run. in a futuristic
retro type of way and maybe there were androids and slaves etc.

My memories are very sketchy I do remember some scene
where someone from the other world falls in love with one of the
family members and is looking at some big black wall with amber lights/dots
and they are explaining that the amber lights/dots are their souls.

~B

Dudess

Ooh I love threads about forgotten 80s sci-fi shows! The show of which you speak is actually named in your post:

bullets wrote:

other world

Or to be more specific, Otherworld. It was on RTE in 1985. I remember being fascinated and terrified by it as a wee six-year-old. This "otherworld" was actually governed by a nasty dictator and stuff, so it was pretty scary - well to my six-year-old self. It was actually supposed to have been awful! Here's more info anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_%28TV_series%29

bullets

Ahhh thats the one. I was tearing my hair out trying to remember:
http://www.innermind.com/myguides/guides/otherw.htm
http://members.aol.com/VTWriter/Otherworld.html

I was making a list of all the TV shows I watched while young
it amazed my how many the New guys in work that may be a few
years younger than me had never heard of.

Once I have the list complete I may post it here to see if
peeps remember them all.

I'd love to start collecting old 80's series.
I had some old Streethawk/Manimal/wearwolf/Beauty and the beast/V episodes
but my disc became corrupt and I lost them. Man From atlantis/The Hulk/misfits of science
mann and machine and now otherworld and now on my list of things to find......

~B

monkeyfudge

I'm usually good at remembering these things... but I guess that one passed me by completely as I don't remember it at all.

Dudess

I'm surprised, Monkeyfudge. It lasted a massive eight episodes.

Here's the intro to Street Hawk just for you, bullets. A class act all the way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM
Ran for 13 episodes and was on at the exact same time as Otherworld. Scary. I guess early 1985 just wasn't a good time for piloting new shows.

monkeyfudge

I remember Street Hawk alright. Knightrider... but with a bike instead of a car... they must have spent ages brainstorming that one.

Ever notice how we always got these types of shows in pairs?

Street Hawk / Knightrider
Battlestar Galactica / Buck Rogers
Airwolf / Blue Thunder

bullets

Sound, Must see if I can salvage any episodes of it off disk
I had originally bought the series off ebay but the discs
that came in the post were poor quality DVD-r taped from Bravo
and were full of bad sectors and read errors.

While were on the topic of 80's sci-fi while tidying my desk in work
today I stumbled across the original Automan Novel based on the Pilot
of the TV-show. Another great show to add to the list of things to grab
should they surface on DVD/TV or the web.

~B

Dudess

British sci-fi from the 80s holds more appeal for me.

Here's a discussion I started earlier on said topic. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054963810

Dudess

monkeyfudge wrote:

I remember Street Hawk alright. Knightrider... but with a bike instead of a car... they must have spent ages brainstorming that one.

Ever notice how we always got these types of shows in pairs?

Street Hawk / Knightrider
Battlestar Galactica / Buck Rogers
Airwolf / Blue Thunder

Street Hawk: the poor man's Knightrider. And as someone else suggested recently - Dukes of Hazzard: the poor man's Street Hawk.

monkeyfudge

Anyone remember a science fiction themed game show that was on Channel 4 when it first started up?

It was sort of a precursor to the Crystal Maze.

There was a talking plant on it that would mumble incoherently.

Dudess

Nope. Didn't have Channel 4 til the early nineties. A talking plant - cool. Channel 4 was started by a bunch of leftie arty hippies and there was lots of porny stuff on it. Now it shows Big Brother. D'oh!

monkeyfudge

Yep... You used to get a big red triangle in the corner of films that had sex in them... very handy feature

Not that I was old enough to appreciate it in the 80's or anything though...

Dudess

Yeah, heard about that. It was basically a "gather round, all you perverts"-type invitation. Good device.

dazberry

monkeyfudge wrote:

Anyone remember a science fiction themed game show that was on Channel 4 when it first started up?

It was sort of a precursor to the Crystal Maze.

There was a talking plant on it that would mumble incoherently.

Was it this (it was on BBC)?

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

D.

monkeyfudge

dazberry wrote:

Was it this (it was on BBC)?

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

D.

That's the one alright... I could have sword it was a Channel 4 show... but I was young at the time.

That sure was one angry aspidistra.

Dudess

In terms of plant anger, was it up there with a triffid? Or the plant in Little Shop of Horrors?

aidan_dunne

Dudess wrote:

Here's the intro to Street Hawk just for you, bullets. A class act all the way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM

God, you just have to love those typical 1980's TV show opening titles, don't you? Just like Knight Rider and Airwolf and all those similar programmes, you've got all the cliches in there: the heavy, synth-driven title music; the hi-tech/heavily-armed/extremely fast vehicle introduced to us with some wireframe 3-D computer graphics; the main star with a rediculous sounding name (i.e. Jesse Mach/Michael Knight/Stringfellow Hawke! ); the voiceover guy with the deep voice telling us the backstory to the vehicle and main star. It's all in there, isn't it? All topped off with a large helping of melted, cheesey goodness! I just love it!

billy the squid

I'm surprised no one has given this piece of 80s Sci-Fi a mention. was on RTE in the mid 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QkcZQgOH4

Hannibal_12

aidan_dunne wrote:

God, you just have to love those typical 1980's TV show opening titles, don't you? Just like Knight Rider and Airwolf and all those similar programmes, you've got all the cliches in there: the heavy, synth-driven title music; the hi-tech/heavily-armed/extremely fast vehicle introduced to us with some wireframe 3-D computer graphics; the main star with a rediculous sounding name (i.e. Jesse Mach/Michael Knight/Stringfellow Hawke! ); the voiceover guy with the deep voice telling us the backstory to the vehicle and main star. It's all in there, isn't it? All topped off with a large helping of melted, cheesey goodness! I just love it!

Yeah, I know, I can still smell the cheese, the strongest stilton has nothing on any of these shows. Still though, there's the slight problem of actually staying on a motorbike at 300mph.

aidan_dunne

billy the squid wrote:

I'm surprised no one has given this piece of 80s Sci-Fi a mention. was on RTE in the mid 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QkcZQgOH4

Jaysus, I remember that! It looks like one of those Canadian Film Corporation or Film Board of Canada (or whatever it's called! ) shows that RTE seemed to show all the time back in the 80's. I guess RTE must have been getting them cheap from the Canadians or something so that's why it seemed like nearly every second programme on RTE back then was a Film Board of Canada programme!

RoundyMooney

billy the squid wrote:

I'm surprised no one has given this piece of 80s Sci-Fi a mention. was on RTE in the mid 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QkcZQgOH4

Ah yeah. A young lad, a dog, a hoover, and the baddy couple and their big black chevy van.


Blake's Seven anyone?

bullets

That was a great series.
Benji had a TV series of his own at one stage but I dont know
if it was before or after the alien prince series.

As for Blake 7 I never liked it cos the laser guns did not have
visable laser beams like other sci-fi stuff.

~B

Fanny Cradock

The man. The machine. Street Hawk! What a load. Even as an 8 year old of average intelligence, I saw this show existing far below my intellectual standards. However, Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince did bring a smile to my face. I would have gone through my life never recalling that program, which, on reflection, was probably a good thing. Ah wall!

Blakes 7: quality program. More weird British sci-fi, please.

::Edit::

Speaking of weird British sci-fi, I wanted to insert a link to a children's program about a triangle shaped alien called Chalky or some such, but alas I can't recall the title. I remember the intro music and visuals being very ominous and atmospheric. Any ideas, people?

monkeyfudge

Fanny Cradock wrote:

::Edit::

Speaking of weird British sci-fi, I wanted to insert a link to a children's program about a triangle shaped alien called Chalky or some such, but alas I can't recall the title. I remember the intro music and visuals being very ominous and atmospheric. Any ideas, people?

That was Chocky, also by John Wyndham who did the Triffids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbN-4KLfgQw

Pretty damn terrifying when you were a kid.

The Tripods was another science fiction series from my childhood that I loved.

bullets

Chocky is available from Play.com for 15 YoYo's for all 3 series.
Was a kinda freaky series.

Chocky actually reminded me of another series
It reminds me of another series called Children of the Dog star.


~B

bullets

I am trying to remember a series.
I thought it was Children of the Dog star but
after a search I am wrong. (and thats another great series)

It involved two (non-identical) twins. One was a girl and the
other was a boy called Theo a slightly podgy fellow.

There was a swamp/lake and an old house that they explored
where they discovered bad aliens that were men but later
transformed into worm like things that smelled like steamed cabbage.

There was an underground hide-away under the house with white
slide like things (like water slides without the water)

The twins had to escape and meet up with some old man who turned
out to be a good alien who helped them develop powers. He gave them two
white stones which became warm. (Kinda like a gandalf like character)

In the end they needed to combine their power which resulted in
a red and blue ark of light across the night sky but theo was weaker
than his sister and had to struggle to safe the day.......

Ring any bells ?
it may have been an Australian or New-Zealand made mini series.

I remember it being on around the same year as why dont you series
(why dont you turn of the telivision set and go out and do something
less boring instead)
~B

monkeyfudge

That was "Under the Mountain" and yes.. it was a New Zealand show. If I remember correctly Theo dropped his stone and that's why his arc of light wasn't strong enough.

It's never been released on DVD... but you can find all the episodes on google video.

bullets

monkeyfudge wrote:

That was "Under the Mountain" and yes.

You are Good!! Most people I work with cant remember half
the shows that I would be on about!


~B

P.S. A few other shows that I watched......

http://www.hotkey.net.au/~nval/scifi/mrmerlin.htm
http://www.walkenworks.com/starman/
http://www.streethawkonline.com/
http://www.chuckwagner.com/automan.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/5146/manimal.html
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/sable.htm
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/misfits.htm
http://www.werewolftv.com/main.html
http://www.gregdonner.org/blue_thunder/blue_thunder.html
http://airwolf.tv-series.com/
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/drama/spiderman.htm
http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/spider-man/spider-man.html
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/diffrentstrokes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_%28US_TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(TV_series)
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/morkandmindy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_of_Duty_(TV_series)
http://members.surfbest.net/smallwonder@surfbest.net/SWonTV/SWonTV.html
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/simons.html
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/simons.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_and_Mrs._King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riptide_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Steele
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiseguy
http://www.anorakzone.com/sapphireandsteel/tv/
http://www.wickedlady.com/mfu/
http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/rentaghost/intro.shtml

billy the squid

Some of those I remember, some not.

The Misfits of Science, if I recall used to be on RTE 2 on Fridays. Gloria had telekenetic powers, Johnny b was able to run super fast and shoot lightning from his clasped hands. Don't quote me on it but the black guy used to be able to make himself small?

Blue Thunder used to be on UTV on Saturday mornings. Airwolf was better though because the helecopter in that had more gadgets and gismos. The time it was on i remember because I used to watch Fireball XL5 before it. that was a great show, ancient, and in Black and white, but it kept me entertained for a half hour on saturday.

Only thing I really remember about Scarecrow and Mrs. King is that they drove a wooden panel station wagon and was on RTE one on a saturday night during the summertime.

Remington Steele used to be on Saturdays before RTE started showing Scarecrow. It used to come on after Fame the series.

I hated different strokes. there was a spin off show where the maid Mrs Garret moved to another show, the name of which escapes me, and that was crap too.

Ruu_Old

It was the Facts of Life (spinoff). Remember a few of those, bulletts. I was more of a China Beach fan than Tour of Duty. I think Bravo had it a few years ago, Tour of Duty that is.