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Me and mate were talking after watching little kids play Jerry Springer outside my place, and we came to a startling realisation.
TV for kids is rubbish these days.
Those 20+ will remember when I start to talk, and those of you that don’t remember owe it to yourself to try and watch the DVDs so you’ll understand.
There are no action series for kids anymore. And this is why you are now a generation of delinquents and slack-jawed tv babies.
When I were a lad, many hours would be spent playing outside with my mates, we didn’t have computer games back then you see. Oh no, we made our own fun up.
And we had class tv shows to base our fantasy play on.
I’m going to throw a few names out and see who goes “Oh yeah! I forgot about that!”.
Knight Rider – David Hasslehoff, a talking car and Hasslehoff also playing evil twin Hasslehoff. This was a class show, with his car foiling crimes and him generally standing about looking manly and white-afro.
Manimal – Simon McCorkindale was a bloke that had the ability to morph into animals when needed. This usually entailed him turning into a chicken or ferret or equally useless animal. Used a lot of stock footage of nature programmes.
Automan – The only bit I remember is his car that turned right-angles at 120mph.
Tales of The Golden Monkey – a 1940s thing with a bloke in a seaplane searching for treasure, usually getting into adventures utilising a seaplane.
Monkey – Monkey, Pigsy, Tripitaka and Sandy. Chinese kung-fu series with Monkey flying on a pink cloud and using his stick in mad ways. Tripitake was a boy. Or a girl? I could never tell. This programme ruled and survives to this day.
The A-Team – If I need to tell you about this, you are a newborn.
CHIPS – LAPD Motorcycle cop show with Erik Estrada and the other bloke. They rocked, and many mates rode together on their choppers with cards in the spokes.
Magnum – Tom Selleck as Magnum PI. A detective series on Hawaii with ferraris, Higgins and his dobermans Zeus and Apollo. One of the greats.
The Fall Guy – Lee Majors as a stunt-man turned bounty-hunter. And though he’s not the kind to kiss or tell, he’s been seen with ladies. It’s true they hide his body in the hay. A-hey-hey. He might fall from tall building, or trash a brand new car, ‘cos he’s the unknown stuntman that made Eastwood such a star.
Airwolf – Stealth helicopter series with Jan Michael-Vincent and Ernest Borgnine. This was better than Blue Thunder, as proved in Log in The Creek Episode 5
BJ and The Bear – Only I remember this it would seem. The adventures of a long-distance lorry driver and his chimpanzee side-kick. My cat is called BJ in honour of this show.
Buck Rogers – Gil Gerard and his paunch, stuffed into a white silk jumpsuit. He would foil space-villains with the assistance of Twiki (biddy-biddy-biddy) and a woman.
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These shows rocked, and there is nothing like them on today. Where are the action series aimed at kids? You are not learning the difference between right & wrong with action heroes. I think if we still had episodic, hour-long action shows then this world would be a better place altogether.
TV for kids is rubbish these days.
Those 20+ will remember when I start to talk, and those of you that don’t remember owe it to yourself to try and watch the DVDs so you’ll understand.
There are no action series for kids anymore. And this is why you are now a generation of delinquents and slack-jawed tv babies.
When I were a lad, many hours would be spent playing outside with my mates, we didn’t have computer games back then you see. Oh no, we made our own fun up.
And we had class tv shows to base our fantasy play on.
I’m going to throw a few names out and see who goes “Oh yeah! I forgot about that!”.
Knight Rider – David Hasslehoff, a talking car and Hasslehoff also playing evil twin Hasslehoff. This was a class show, with his car foiling crimes and him generally standing about looking manly and white-afro.
Manimal – Simon McCorkindale was a bloke that had the ability to morph into animals when needed. This usually entailed him turning into a chicken or ferret or equally useless animal. Used a lot of stock footage of nature programmes.
Automan – The only bit I remember is his car that turned right-angles at 120mph.
Tales of The Golden Monkey – a 1940s thing with a bloke in a seaplane searching for treasure, usually getting into adventures utilising a seaplane.
Monkey – Monkey, Pigsy, Tripitaka and Sandy. Chinese kung-fu series with Monkey flying on a pink cloud and using his stick in mad ways. Tripitake was a boy. Or a girl? I could never tell. This programme ruled and survives to this day.
The A-Team – If I need to tell you about this, you are a newborn.
CHIPS – LAPD Motorcycle cop show with Erik Estrada and the other bloke. They rocked, and many mates rode together on their choppers with cards in the spokes.
Magnum – Tom Selleck as Magnum PI. A detective series on Hawaii with ferraris, Higgins and his dobermans Zeus and Apollo. One of the greats.
The Fall Guy – Lee Majors as a stunt-man turned bounty-hunter. And though he’s not the kind to kiss or tell, he’s been seen with ladies. It’s true they hide his body in the hay. A-hey-hey. He might fall from tall building, or trash a brand new car, ‘cos he’s the unknown stuntman that made Eastwood such a star.
Airwolf – Stealth helicopter series with Jan Michael-Vincent and Ernest Borgnine. This was better than Blue Thunder, as proved in Log in The Creek Episode 5
BJ and The Bear – Only I remember this it would seem. The adventures of a long-distance lorry driver and his chimpanzee side-kick. My cat is called BJ in honour of this show.
Buck Rogers – Gil Gerard and his paunch, stuffed into a white silk jumpsuit. He would foil space-villains with the assistance of Twiki (biddy-biddy-biddy) and a woman.
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These shows rocked, and there is nothing like them on today. Where are the action series aimed at kids? You are not learning the difference between right & wrong with action heroes. I think if we still had episodic, hour-long action shows then this world would be a better place altogether.
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Ah, I had the basic bits near enough, that's ok for me.
I want to make Log in The Woods, it would rule.
Look at the cast:
Wings Hauser
Brian Blessed
Mr T
David Hasslehoff
Colombo
Airwolf
Blue Thunder
The Fonz
Steve Guttenburg
Angela Lansbury
Lou Diamond Philips
Tell me this wouldn't rock.
I want to make Log in The Woods, it would rule.
Look at the cast:
Wings Hauser
Brian Blessed
Mr T
David Hasslehoff
Colombo
Airwolf
Blue Thunder
The Fonz
Steve Guttenburg
Angela Lansbury
Lou Diamond Philips
Tell me this wouldn't rock.
Dedicating a site to the A-team can't be healthy
"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team."
http://members.aol.com/immurdoc/a-team/files.htm
Enjoy! :-)
http://members.aol.com/immurdoc/a-team/files.htm
Enjoy! :-)
This is how "Log in The Creek" was born, we were chatting about rubbish actors and then we discovered Wings Hauser.
Hence "Log in The Creek" with Mr T in it as both Blane the helicopter pilot (ironice A team reference) and as BA Baracus, a member of the rogue A-Team helping out the feral David Hasslehoff
Hence "Log in The Creek" with Mr T in it as both Blane the helicopter pilot (ironice A team reference) and as BA Baracus, a member of the rogue A-Team helping out the feral David Hasslehoff
Sheesh, this sounds like mis-spent youth :) why don't you make your own cartoons? your all funny people, you could make a really daft flash video :) i'm sure everyone would like a ganda.
i'm sure a bird wouldn't be hard to make, you all seem to like road runner......then maybe your chisled chin hero could have a part in it somewhere, you could make a kids klassic kartoon thing.
i'm sure a bird wouldn't be hard to make, you all seem to like road runner......then maybe your chisled chin hero could have a part in it somewhere, you could make a kids klassic kartoon thing.
Goatboy wrote:
Rifts between Peppard and Mr
> T?
I can't exactly remember all the details, but they didn't always see eye-to-eye off camera.
Could have been some artistic differences??
Rifts between Peppard and Mr
> T?
I can't exactly remember all the details, but they didn't always see eye-to-eye off camera.
Could have been some artistic differences??
Yeah I remember the violence thing.
But I also remember, as a kid, not thinkig anyone got hurt because they didn't.
There were explosions and fist-fights, but they always survived and learned their lesson.
Rifts between Peppard and Mr T?
That sucks and yeah, I haven't seen the rest of them since.
Although Mr T should be given an honourary "You are the hero to so many 20-30yr olds that worship you" award.
And if nothing else, it promotes racial harmony, because when I was a kid, I didn't even see Mr T as coloured, he was just the coolest guy on tv and I listened to him.
So many of my mates grew up thinking Mr T was the hippest, most responsible role-model on tv, and it never entered our heads that he was black, therefore anyone else at school was cool because they looked like Mr T (being 8-10yrs old you simplify things like that).
I remember my best mate when I was at primary school, Oakie.
He was a black dude and I remember crying like a girl when my mum told me that I would never be the same colour as he was.
Kids are odd.
But I also remember, as a kid, not thinkig anyone got hurt because they didn't.
There were explosions and fist-fights, but they always survived and learned their lesson.
Rifts between Peppard and Mr T?
That sucks and yeah, I haven't seen the rest of them since.
Although Mr T should be given an honourary "You are the hero to so many 20-30yr olds that worship you" award.
And if nothing else, it promotes racial harmony, because when I was a kid, I didn't even see Mr T as coloured, he was just the coolest guy on tv and I listened to him.
So many of my mates grew up thinking Mr T was the hippest, most responsible role-model on tv, and it never entered our heads that he was black, therefore anyone else at school was cool because they looked like Mr T (being 8-10yrs old you simplify things like that).
I remember my best mate when I was at primary school, Oakie.
He was a black dude and I remember crying like a girl when my mum told me that I would never be the same colour as he was.
Kids are odd.
The demise of the A-Team was really pretty sad.
Talk of complaints about it being too violent, rifts between messrs Peppard & T and the dissapearence of all the actors into t.v movie hell.
Talk of complaints about it being too violent, rifts between messrs Peppard & T and the dissapearence of all the actors into t.v movie hell.
Yeah me too.
And when I heard about Mr T having cancer, I just thought "No! Not The T! Impossible...he just can't"
But he got better and now he's back and still helping out.
I also got a bit choked when Peter Cushing died, he was in my Hammer Horror classics.Christopher Lee is still going, and those two frightened this kid many a time when he should have been in bed.
George Peppard and Peter Cushing, childhood heroes and surprisingly nice ones.
And when I heard about Mr T having cancer, I just thought "No! Not The T! Impossible...he just can't"
But he got better and now he's back and still helping out.
I also got a bit choked when Peter Cushing died, he was in my Hammer Horror classics.Christopher Lee is still going, and those two frightened this kid many a time when he should have been in bed.
George Peppard and Peter Cushing, childhood heroes and surprisingly nice ones.
The day George Peppard died a little piece of me died too:-(
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