90's kids tv Network 2

MisterKipling · 15-03-2013 07:55PM #1

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 · 15-03-2013 07:58PM

The Den FTW

Boombastic · 15-03-2013 07:59PM

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 · 15-03-2013 08:00PM

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

Boombastic · 15-03-2013 08:11PM

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 · 15-03-2013 08:43PM

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 · 15-03-2013 08:49PM

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 · 15-03-2013 09:12PM

jo-maxi ??

ziggy23 · 15-03-2013 09:14PM

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

Boombastic · 15-03-2013 09:14PM

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 · 15-03-2013 09:21PM

Boombastic wrote: »

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

I Luv Crysis · 15-03-2013 09:49PM

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

Larianne · 15-03-2013 10:13PM

That was a weird programme.

Smeggy · 15-03-2013 10:15PM

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

Micky Dolenz · 15-03-2013 10:46PM

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

Boombastic · 15-03-2013 10:47PM

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 · 15-03-2013 10:49PM

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 · 15-03-2013 10:54PM

Peppa Pig ftw.

Rasheed · 15-03-2013 10:58PM

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 · 15-03-2013 11:02PM

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 · 15-03-2013 11:06PM

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 · 15-03-2013 11:13PM

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 · 15-03-2013 11:16PM

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

/old

Micky Dolenz · 15-03-2013 11:18PM

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 · 15-03-2013 11:19PM

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

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

/old

What? They're not that old!

Pompey Magnus · 15-03-2013 11:20PM

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

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

/old

Do you mean James Bond Jnr?

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 15-03-2013 11:22PM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

What? They're not that old!

No, I'm old!

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

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 15-03-2013 11:23PM

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Do you mean James Bond Jnr?

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

Goat the dote · 15-03-2013 11:26PM

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

Miss Lockhart · 15-03-2013 11:27PM

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 · 15-03-2013 11:30PM

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
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90's kids tv Network 2

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