Saturday morning telly

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

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, 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.

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!

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?

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.

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!

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.

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)