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Saturday morning telly
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23-10-2003 2:08pm#1
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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? 0 -
Originally posted by aidan_dunne
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?
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.0 -
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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.0 -
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DJ Kat was on SUPER CHANNEL
otherwise it would imply that SKY had a history of producing half-decent programs...
http://www.anime.dds.nl/Djkat.htm
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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! 0 -
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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?0 -
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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!0 -
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I remember it fondly! Used to try slip home from work a few minutes early to catch it all! Lost the tape which had the aerial camera shot up to and into the castle & the theme tune for the opening creditsOriginally posted by evie
Speaking of Saturday TV in general, does anybody remember the older episodes of Noels House Party?? Genius! I used to love that programme.
Don't suppose anyone has even just that bit on tape? I'd pay to get it. (One of the best camera work I've seen) It is what it's.
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Originally posted by davil
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.
Sorry, I can't help you with this one. Doesn't ring any bells for me, anyway.Originally posted by The_B_Man
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!
Well, let's see. I remember watching DJ Kat around 1987 when Sky One was still called Sky Channel and was an independent station in it's own right, a couple of years before the launch of the whole integrated Sky network of Sky One, Sky News and Sky Movies. So, to answer your question, I would have been about 9 years of age.Originally posted by evie
Speaking of Saturday TV in general, does anybody remember the older episodes of Noels House Party?? Genius! I used to love that programme.
Okay, now, when you say the "older episodes" are we still talking about the Noel's House Party which was broadcast in the early to mid 1990's? From Crinkley Bottom? With bits such as NTV (where they would set up hidden cameras in someone's living room), and the gunge tank thing? Or are we talking about the similar show Noel Edmonds had way back in the 1980's (Christ, I'm really going to show my age now!) called Noel's Late, Late Breakfast Show? My memory of that show is a bit vague nowadays but I do remember it, one thing in particular being a contest where they would get two people to jump in and out of a pair of underpants repeatedly, the winner being the person who managed to jump in and out of it the most number of times in a minute, or something like that.
Now, once again, I have to ask the question, does anybody else remember that, the underpants-jumping thing in particular, or was that something else I imagined or possibly had some sort of weird dream about? Please, somebody tell me you do and I'm not going crazy again! 0 -
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Best Saturday morning programme was the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, although if you wanted something a bit more anarchic there was always Tiswas with the lovely Sally James and her tight t-shirts. Mmmmmm...........
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Originally posted by zaph
Best Saturday morning programme was the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, although if you wanted something a bit more anarchic there was always Tiswas
Glad someone mentioned these 2 before me so I'm not the only one showing my age! 0 -
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Any of you remember MASK, think it was on the Wide Awake Club... I was crazy about that cartoon, cant remember much about it except that the bad dude was called Myles Mayhem, I even had the sticker album ... plus I fancied the girl that used to present it with Timmy Mallet and some other dude, think her name was Machala Strachan, could be wrong...
Also was into Thundercats, Danger Mouse, Transformers (plus the Transformers rip-off cartoon Gobots) ... The were the good days oh yeah, and of course He-man ... cant leave hime out... 0 -
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Originally posted by jester77
Any of you remember MASK
Yep, remember it well. Loved that cartoon and I actually have the theme music on my PC here. Great cartoon.Originally posted by jester77
... plus I fancied the girl that used to present it with Timmy Mallet and some other dude, think her name was Machala Strachan, could be wrong...
Nope, you're right, it was Machala (sp?) Strachan as far as I can remember and you weren't the only one who fancied her, mate.
She was bloody gorgeous. And, if I remember correctly, she used to present "The Hitman And Her" with Pete Waterman. Remember that? The late-night programme on UTV where they'd go around to different nightclubs around the UK.Originally posted by malico
I think i'm the only one that remembers this, as anyone i've asked doens;t remmebr it.... but VOLTRON!! Remember it, with the lions that formed together to form voltrol, similar to ..erm...Power rangers. Except, ya know a cartoon and , good...
Yep, I remember watching that on (I think it was) The Children's Channel many moons ago. A friend of mine had the Voltron toy with all the seperate lions that attached together to make the Voltron figure. Damn cool it was too. When the Power Rangers came on the scene a few years ago I couldn't believe it. The most blatant (and completely crap!) rip-off of Voltron imaginable. They should have just left it as a cartoon instead of trying to turn it into a live-action show with crappy Japanese action sequences.
Now, I know they've recently released new, updated versions of Transformers, He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I wonder if they could update Voltron and M.A.S.K.? Actually, maybe it's better they don't. Maybe they should just leave the classics alone.0 -
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man everyone always remembers them but what about the lesser known classics! the visionaries was one of the best cartoons that'll ever exist! and Dino-Riders! Jayce and the wheeled warriors! and does anyone remember spartacus and the sun beneath the sea? i better stop, all thsi nostalgias getting the better of me! booohooooohooooooo....... 0
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py2006 wrote:Going Live was also good. Its amazing how the only thing thats aged about Philip Schofield is his hair.
Its kinda like Gary Linekar. They just went grey!
Yeah, and Ray D'Arcy as well. Holy crap, what happened to these guys? As you say, it's like they just seemed to go grey overnight. Though, in Ray D'Arcy's case, I'm not surprised really. All those years trying to control Dustin, Zig & Zag, Zuppy, Soky and Snotser, being terrorised by Podge and fighting with Ted all the time would turn anyone grey! But it's funny how within such a short time after he left The Den he turned grey. As I said, it almost seemed to happen overnight. Which leads me to believe that, like Marty Whelan, he may have been dying his hair for years beforehand. 0 -
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