Kids television just aint what it used to be !

Overheal wrote: »

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Ah, Power Rangers was awesome.

Bosco was class...and Animaniacs...used to love Looney Toons as well.

I remember when kids 1 or 2 years younger than me started going mad for barney when it came on....even then, i found it slightly disturbing :eek:

Also: used to be addicted to dexters lab

For the younger kids there was Rosie and Jim and Sesame Street

And John he drives the boat!!

Thursday at about 5.00 for literally years on end!

One of the great "joys" of RTE scheduling in the old days was that they would somehow end up with gaps to be filled with something and that usually meant a cartoon from either Warners Bros or Hanna/Barbera so stuff like Mr Magoo, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Woody Woodpecker and Tom & Jerry were on several times a week.

Classic Coyote V Gravity moment

Alot of the good stuff has already been mentioned, but I have a few that weren't. I dont know the names for all of them, so I will describe them and see if anyone remembers them.

I used to like the carebears. I know it wasnt cool, but still I liked it.
Do you remember Maxi? It was a cartoon, but it was like an animated version of Clueless or Saved like the Bell. I know your all thinking I am nuts, but I was about 6 at the time and it was the first tv program that I watched set in california. I think it was california, but basically all the girls were hot, and the guys were cool, and they all went to school in their own cars etc.

There was one about a cat and it started with a real life cat being chased by the neighbourhood dog, and he would run up a tree and start to daydream, and when he started to dream it turned into a cartoon, and it was usually either robin hood, or a star trek themed episode, or I think there was a sort of musketeers episode aswell. The animation style was similar to the Hanna Barbara cartoons.

Someone mention Thomas the tank Engine, but do you remember Tugs? It was the same sort of animation but instead of trains, they were tugboats. It was soooo cool. There was always some sort of storm, of a tanker ran a ground of something. It was brilliant. There were only a few episodes.

That annoying 118 118 ad just came on the TV while I was writing this with the ghostbusters theme. Did anyone mention the ghostbusters yet? I think the cartoon far surpassed the movies. I still love the movies but for different reasons. Ghostbusters Extreme was good too but not as good as the original.

They tried to recreate "The real ghostbusters" twice under different names. There was the Godzilla cartoon series which was a spin off of the movie, about 4 people who went round catching monsters, and the Men in Black cartoon which was a spin off of the movie, which was about a group of people who went round catching monsters. Even the animation style was similar to the ghostbusters. Neither lasted though, surprise surprise.

Do you remember one about the gargoyles on top of a cathedral in new york? There were 4 of them and they were named after various parts of new york. One was called bronx. And they came alive at dusk. Dont really remember much else.

Erm, there are two i am trying to remember about dreams, one was Captain Zed and the Zee zone. He flew around in a pillow spacecraft, and patrolled childrens dreams to make sure they didnt get nightmares. And they had these sheep in the control room, and it was styled around a WWII RAF radar
station, where they push sticks with flat bits on them around a map to show where the bad guys are. The other one i am trying to remember involved green creatures, and it had something to do with dreams, and the intro was one of them floating around in a bubble with a woman singing. I know it sounds vague but I cant remember much else about it.

Ill be back when I have thought of more.