90's kids tv Network 2

MisterKipling

Hi, i'm trying to find the name of a kids tv show that was made by rte. I can only remember very very vague details. I think it ran for one season. There were puppets that resembled ghosts and i think there was a boat. And i think they looked like fish...and lastly they were spirits or ghosts.....straining my memory but thats all i can remember...would love to be able to check an old rte guide from early 90's....hope someone can remember and put me out of my misery...

donvito99

The Den FTW

Boombastic

This? It's the only clip I can find

Strange things happen at the guest house. There is a talking stuffed toy called Otto with murderous intentions, a cracked painting of two girls in Victorian bathing suits that leads to another dimension and a freaky weird band that has something to do with the older brother.

There were imaginary friends, inter-dimensional portals, high stakes of good and evil and the sense that something catostrophic is at work just beneath the surface of your domestic setting and all the other things that matter to a child.

MisterKipling

sweet jeebus....i don't believe it!! YES.....do you know how many years thats been wrecking my head!! THANKYOU!!!!

Boombastic

IH8TXT:) wrote: »

sweet jeebus....i don't believe it!! YES.....do you know how many years thats been wrecking my head!! THANKYOU!!!!

No worries It was one of my favourites at the time, I'd love to see a few episodes of it now. There is a severe lack of clips of it on the internet

It was made by Lamerts, the same people who made the wonderly wagon (I think - off to google it)


I've just discovered there were 95 half hour episodes :eek: why the lack of clips??

http://homepage.eircom.net/~evalundin/productions.htm

Sergeant

The extraordinary highs reached by The Den in providing quality children's television was coming to an end by the early 90's, as Ray D'Arcy took over from the far superior Ian Dempsey.

The correlation between a rise in juvenile delinquency and Dempsey's decision to leave is obvious.

Miss Lockhart

I loved Rimini Riddle. There was a big thread about it over on the TV forum a while ago I think. Such a weird plot for a kid's show.

fryup

jo-maxi ??

ziggy23

Rimini Riddle freaked me out especially Vera was that her name?

Boombastic

Some of the plots were mad

The girls often helped the children with problems (not problems as in 'why don't boys like me', but as in 'my toy is murderous')


Otto was disguised as an otter (disguised, you say? read on...), and he would talk when nobody else was around. He often did things telepathically (like fling knives at the children, and turn to the camera when everyone on screen was sleeping) while others weren't watching, and made Leo look completely insane when he blamed his teddy. Otto was originally sent from another dimension, full of creatures (Mommos? Momos?) who wanted to EAT the children. Otto had a change of heart, so another 'Otto' was sent to kill the children. The old Otto was desperately afraid of the new Otto

suicide_circus

Boombastic wrote: »

The Fat Catastrophes.....that's honestly probably the best name for a band i've ever heard.

I Luv Crysis

Woah, the writers of that show were on some crazy amounts of acid.

Larianne

That was a weird programme.

Smeggy

I've also been trying to remember this show for yonks, thanks!

Micky Dolenz

It would be really cool if we had a TV forum or an all things retro forum.

Boombastic

I keep thinking it wasn't on the den, but on a Sunday evening. Does anyone else agree? I can't rightly remember but this show was on the same day

southcentralts

First thing that sprang to mind was this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybg0l2Alaw

so long ago, best tv intro of the ninties.

Mr Benevolent

Peppa Pig ftw.

Rasheed

Boombastic wrote: »

I keep thinking it wasn't on the den, but on a Sunday evening. Does anyone else agree?

Yeah I was just thinking that. Was it on around the same time as Glenroe or thereabouts?

Boombastic

Rasheed wrote: »

Yeah I was just thinking that. Was it on around the same time as Glenroe or thereabouts?

Can't really remember but evening time, Glenroe & where in the World were always watched in our house so sometime before that.

Rasheed

Boombastic wrote: »

Can't really remember but evening time, Glenroe & where in the World were always watched in our house so sometime before that.

Yes they all fitted in around our bath times and finishing homework for the Monday!

Miss Lockhart

It's funny how these weird little programmes can stick in your mind. I often think of Rimini Riddle. And another one, think it might have been a six parter or something, about an Irish boy searching for his sister who had been missing for years with gypsies in the Camargue in France. That often pops into my head too.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Jesus, anyone remember Eerie Indiana, Echo island, Indiana Jones Jnr, California Dreams....

/old

Micky Dolenz

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Jesus, anyone remember Eerie Indiana, Echo island, Indiana Jones Jnr, California Dreams....

/old

Not really, but I think my younger sibling used watch them.

/even older

Miss Lockhart

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Jesus, anyone remember Eerie Indiana, Echo island, Indiana Jones Jnr, California Dreams....

/old

What? They're not that old!

Pompey Magnus

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Jesus, anyone remember Eerie Indiana, Echo island, Indiana Jones Jnr, California Dreams....

/old

Do you mean James Bond Jnr?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

What? They're not that old!

No, I'm old!

Oooh Sweet Valley High......niiiiiice!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Do you mean James Bond Jnr?

Yep....also young Indiana Jones Chronicles, mixing the two up!

Goat the dote

Got eerie Indiana boxset. Wasn't as good as I thought it was. Or as scary!!

Miss Lockhart

I found some info on a blog that says it was shown on Saturday morning (this is what I remember as I watched it in my aunt's house where I was sent every Saturday) and repeated on Sunday evening.

Boombastic

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

No, I'm old!

Oooh Sweet Valley High......niiiiiice!

Ha Saturday morning I think. I loved that, I had all the books and everything

And
Biker Grove

Larianne

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

It would be really cool if we had a TV forum or an all things retro forum.

Or a grumpy old fart forum.

Larianne

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

I found some info on a blog that says it was shown on Saturday morning (this is what I remember as I watched it in my aunt's house where I was sent every Saturday) and repeated on Sunday evening.

Yeah. It was on at a weird time on Sundays, like 5.30pm. Got the shivers there thinking about that.

Agricola

That Eerie Indiana is on US Netflix I believe.

Christ hard to believe its been 21 years since Rimini Riddle. What a weird kids show!

Heres one I couldnt get answered before. Anyone remember a program on in D'arcys time, think it used to be last thing on at 5.30. About an old fella living in the Australian bush. He had a wind turbine and a dog I think. Looked like he was an oil well worker or something. Ray and Dustin used to take the piss out of it about how bad it was.....

niamhg13

OMG what is the name of that programme-that weird thing saying not the mama

Praetorian Saighdiuir

niamhg13 wrote: »

OMG what is the name of that programme-that weird thing saying not the mama

Wasit Dinosaurs or something?

SEPT 23 1989

Well if memory serves me correctly it was Robin of Sherwood followed by the The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Haughton scored and we won Italia 90

Boombastic

niamhg13 wrote: »

OMG what is the name of that programme-that weird thing saying not the mama

See post 16, there's a clip of it titled 'Not the mama' it was called dinosaurs


I'm the baby, gotta love me!

niamhg13

Sharkey and George-the crime busters if the sea!!!

mcmoustache

Agricola wrote: »

Heres one I couldnt get answered before. Anyone remember a program on in D'arcys time, think it used to be last thing on at 5.30. About an old fella living in the Australian bush. He had a wind turbine and a dog I think. Looked like he was an oil well worker or something. Ray and Dustin used to take the piss out of it about how bad it was.....

You've sent my brain into a spin...

He had a pig called josephine...

Damn you, Agricola! I'm supposed to head out but now I can't until I figure this out.

mcmoustache

It was Scrap Iron Pete or something like that. Google is not being helpful here at all...

Damn it. Last bus is soon.

Chancer3001

member chico chico the rainmaker?

little (indian??) shrunken head that lived in a box.

No idea of a plot.

Was on before Wurzel Gummidge

jpm4

Agricola wrote: »

That Eerie Indiana is on US Netflix I believe.

Christ hard to believe its been 21 years since Rimini Riddle. What a weird kids show!

Heres one I couldnt get answered before. Anyone remember a program on in D'arcys time, think it used to be last thing on at 5.30. About an old fella living in the Australian bush. He had a wind turbine and a dog I think. Looked like he was an oil well worker or something. Ray and Dustin used to take the piss out of it about how bad it was.....

Am pretty sure I remember that one, though I remember him being pegged as a windmill repair main? It was really bizarre and rather tragic in hindsight. For no obvious reason I seem to remember the last episode had him move to some city to work as a theater handyman or something. Good career move I think.

Agricola

jpm4 wrote: »

Am pretty sure I remember that one, though I remember him being pegged as a windmill repair main? It was really bizarre and rather tragic in hindsight. For no obvious reason I seem to remember the last episode had him move to some city to work as a theater handyman or something. Good career move I think.

You could be right. Maybe thats why wind turbines spring to mind for me. I think I only said oil well worker because he was always dressed in old rags and filthy!

Boombastic

Scrap Iron Pete rings a bell, but nothing more

Chancer3001 wrote: »

..........

Was on before Wurzel Gummidge

I can remember how to speak worzelee from an episode he thought Aunt Sally to


WorzelHWorzeEWorzeLWorzeLWorzeO


is Hello :pac:

Chancer3001

girl from tomorrow with her hairband that could move stuff??

every episode seemed to be about water

3ndahalfof6

Fooking AH is to serious these days, were suppose to make them bleed not comfort the bleeding, coolieoooooooo.

Chancer3001

Im sorry, I dont speak Spanish

niamhg13

the girl from tomorrow,I remember that film,did Jenny's mother own a shop!

KKkitty

Chancer3001 wrote: »

girl from tomorrow with her hairband that could move stuff??

every episode seemed to be about water

It was called a transducer wasn't it?

Boombastic

niamhg13 wrote: »

the girl from tomorrow,I remember that film,did Jenny's mother own a shop!

It was a series, but you're right jenny's mam had a shop/deli. Jenny used to work there on weekends. Alana was the girl from tomorrow. The year 3000 to be exact. :

ETA: The Kelly Deli was the name of the shop