Wow - Pigeon Street! 😮 "Long distance Clara!" Now there's a blast from the past. I was the right demographic for this as a 3/4 year old in 1981. Great artwork and animation for the time.
A Few Suggestions. For Excellent, Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience. Comedy Documentary where Rhod tries a different job each week. Far Funnier than it has any right to be. For Underrated, Early Doors. Comedy sent in a Manchester Pub Staring Craig Cash, John Henshaw and a Young James McAvoy. As for Rubbish, Full English. Channel 4's poor attempt at a 'Adult' Cartoon in the vein of Family Guy or South Park. Tries way to hard to be Edgy without ever being that funny. Stars Richard Ayoade as the Dad.
Forgotten - Carnal Knowledge, a late night, low budget "sexy" ITV game show featuring Maria McErlane and Graham Norton. It was so bad it was great. Underrated - Mongrels, BBC 3's satirical puppet show. Very funny, D list celebrity studded comedy with Nelson Fox trying to be a middle class fox in a working class pub garden. Excellent - Teachers, well series 1 to 3, 4 was a bit naff as the school changed and they lost some of the best characters. Rubbish - Miranda, for very obvious reasons.
Starsky and Hutch - 70's cool cops, squealing rubber, a bright red Gran Torino with the original go faster stripe, streets piled up with empty boxes to smash through, Huggy Bear, and the most iconic climbing out of a swimming pool in a chunky knit cardie scene, ever! Excellent Tiswas. Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile The Phantom Flan Flinger, Spit the Dog, The Bucket of Water Song, Trevor McDoughnut, Sally James, condensed milk sandwiches, the dying fly, and a young Chris Tarrant. Loved it. Forgotten Space Sentinels Hercules, Mercury, Astrea, robots, Sentinel 1 and outer space. I used to love it as a kid but it's largely a forgot about that one, now.
An underrated show from the early 1990s was the television adaptation of Cluedo. It was hosted by James Bellosi in the first series, Chris Tarrant in the second series, and Richard Madely in the third and fourth series. A stellar cast played the six suspects. Rula Lenska, Christopher Biggins Richard Wilson, Pam Ferris, and Mollie Sugden all featured at some point. A terrible quiz show was Deal or No Deal hosted by Noel Edmonds. There was nothing wrong with the show's format, but the contestant's behavior was often cringeworthy. They thought they could influence the show's outcome, although the contents of the twenty-two identically sealed boxes were only known to an independent adjudicator.
I thought there was only one adaptation for television from the early 2010's. That one was on a channel known once as The Hub, and it was for younger audiences
One I had forgotten about was Monkey Dust which aired on BBC Three. An adult alternative comedy animation which was strangely compelling to view despite its dark humour. Drawn Together was an animation show shown on channel four with different cartoon characters from different eras and styles living together. Quite underrated in my opinion. An excellent series which aired on channel five was LEXX. A sci-fi show which was full of dark humour and creepy comedy whilst dealing with the misadventures of a fugitive crew. The undead Kye, Zev / Xev Bellringer a combined love slave and cluster lizard. Stanley Tweedle, a cowardly traitor who became the captain of the LEXX by accident. LEXX was essentially a giant dragonfly without the wings which served as a living ship.
I have five relatively obscure children's tv programmes I doubt many will remember. 1) Aubrey - the funny little cartoon orange fella from the early 1980's 2) Same time slot as Rainbow and other classics of the era, there was a lesser remembered lunchtime children's programme in the 1980's either on a Thursday or Friday. The intro was a jumping cartoon frog (the intro isn't anywhere near as long as I remembered) It took me years to find. It's called Gammon and Spinach. 3) Very few people recall the fever dream, low budget animation, Madame Gusto's Circus. Bizarre... especially the disjointed movement and strange noises of the 3 legged monkey. 4) Gublins - creepy boring stop motion similar to Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley. 5) ...and finally, a strange but cute French cartoon dubbed into English. I think it aired on a Sunday morning - Robo Story. Most people don't remember it until you say the catchphrase of the bad guy to his subordinate - "You are the lowest of low" Love your channel, keep up the good work 👍
Some more excellent kids shows for you. Let’s Pretend, this was a 1980s show where the presenters made up a story using general household items. Pullover, this was about a soft toy a mum made for her son out of an old favourite pullover, hence the name, and after the boy went to sleep it would come to life and have adventures. King Rollo, an animated series following a childlike king and his friends. This was narrated by Ray Brooks who also narrated Mr Benn. This also reminded me of a forgotten tv series that he starred in Big Deal.
Another perhaps forgotten kids show was Button Moon. Every episode involved Mr Spoon and his family who visited the moon which was in fact a huge button. The rocket they travelled in looked like a Heinz baked bean can.
A comey-drama that I think is excellent and some people might have forgotten about is Teenage Health Freak. This was adapted from the book The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak and it starred Alex Langdon, Liza Walker and Daniel Peacock who some might remember as Mental Mickey in Only Fools and Horses or one of the trio in the Do It All adverts. Another excellent comedy-drama is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, though this is another one I think you might have mentioned before.
Spitting image? Overrated? Blasphemy! But, on to the oh my god i forgot about thats... Attention scum! Simon Munnery as the league against tedium. Very surreal, loved it.
Underrated - 1970s live-action Spider-Man. While it oozes 70s cheese, it's actually a fun and engaging watch. Nicholas Hammond does a great job as Peter Parker. While it wasn't on long, I think it's essential viewing for superhero fans. Luckily all episodes are on UA-cam.
Largely passing by most people was a show from probably a decade or so ago, "It's Kevin". For people of my generation, Kevin Eldon featured in a lot of comedy programmes and was instantly recognisable, but this was the only time he'd been given his own show. As with a lot of my suggestions, this was a fun, gloriously surreal and silly series. I also got to see one of the very few live solo shows he's ever done at around the same time on a bill with Simon Munnery. Oh, happy days!
Vids and Bits were must watch TV programs for teenage me, UA-cam is too PC to promote content like that now. Spitting Image is like Monty Python in that you have to trawl through a lot of dross for the gems
A brilliant show was Ch4s 'This is David Lander'. It parodied Roger Cook style doorstepping investigative journalism. It ran for two series of twelve episodes. The first and superior series starred Stephen Fry and the second Tony Slattery.
Been a loyal watcher of your channel for a while, but this is the first time I've written. One my favorite underrated shows of all time is "Sheep in The Big City", a Cartoon Network entry from 2000-2002; this surreal comedy was absolutely hilarious because it completely shot the fourth wall down in all aspects. Created by writer Mo Williams and staffed with a variety of super talented voice performers including former MTV VJ Kevin Seal, it was way way WAAAAAY too hip for the room. It sadly only lasted two seasons, but every episode is worth seeing! Thanks for covering "The Edison Twins" on an earlier show too - loved that show, and I was in my twenties when it aired, LOL!
Pigeon Street, Chock-a-block and The Flumps were perfect examples of early 80's lunchtime children's shows. Despite being older than the intended audience at the time, I would still watch these shows during school holidays simply because there was nothing else on! But, they were still entertaining. A show that was often shown alongside Chock-a-block was one called, 'Brick-a-brack', that starred Brian Cant who would choose one letter of the alphabet for each show and revolved everything in his, 'shop', full of nick-knacks, hence the show name, beginning with that letter. Despite being a show for the under 5's, it was very well done. Whilst we're on the subject, there was also, 'King Rollo', made by the same animators as Mr. Benn, (by the looks of it, anyway), that featured a, 'King', who was basically a child in adult form who relied entirely on the characters around him for practically everything. Like all these shows, they remind me of the lazy summer holidays of the early 80's. Spitting Image was good in the early days, as it still had the, 'shock factor', of basically taking the piss out of politicians and celebrities to rely on. But, once it had been on the screens for about 3-4 years, it seemed to go off the boil and they tried more and more bizarre ways to try and maintain it, which never really worked as well. The so-called reboot was a complete waste of time.
Re: "Train 48". If you had a bunch if people just break into LOUD conversations on the Commuter Rail over here in Massachsetts, everybody would stare at you like you'd lost your freaking mind. Keep up the awesome work!
Massive massive thumbs up for Vidz. I loved this as a kid. I know but I stayed up late to watch it and I found it very very funny. I actually forgotten about it until I saw this (born that way lol) So thank you ever so much to whoever suggested it. Thanks for the memories lol I wonder what happened to them?
I remember Pigeon Street and liking it as a child. In 2017 one of the creators of Pigeon Steet, Peter Lang launched a fundraising campaign so that he could finance a new technologically-advanced pilot to try and convince TV bosses to re-commission a new Pigeon Street series. It doesn't look like that has happened yet. Here is a show that I liked as a child but also forgot about: The Secret Life of Toys produced by Jim Henson Productions. The series aired in 1994 and ran for 13 episodes. It was based on a 1986 Christmas special, The Christmas Toy. The Secret Life of Toys was a live action show about a group of toys that came to life in a playroom while the children were away. For years I had only vague memories of watching the Christmas special on a VHS tape I had in the early 90s but had forgot what it was. It was only last year I found out what it was when I asked online if anyone knew what this show was I was trying to remember and one person said The Secret Life of Toys. One show I think is both underrated and excellent is Raising Hope (2010-2014) Set in the same universe as My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope is about 23 year old James "Jimmy" Chance who has a one night stand with a woman, Lucy he saves from her boyfriend and later find out from a news report she is serial killer. She has a child, a daughter named Hope and Jimmy gains custody of her when Lucy is sentenced to death. Jimmy gets help from is family in raising her.
An underrated and partly forgotten program I enjoyed was Empire Road shown by the BBC in the 70s or 80s. It followed the life of a Jamaican landlord and his family, his son fell in love with an Indian lady and the programme shows the cultural differences and difficulties these families faced It starred Norman beaten and Joseph Marcel amongst others, it can now be found in the UK on u formerly known as UK TV play
Great memories, Educating Marmalade (Marmalade Atkins naughty school girl) Murphys Mob (football based). Dodger, Bonzo and the rest ( based in a childrens home).
Excellent - Sesame Park (CBC 1996-2001) - A Canadian version of Sesame Street, it did a great job of capturing the original (i.e. around 1970) spirit of the American show, which had long since been taken over by the Little Red Menace.
When people used to go door to door selling encyclopedias in the mid eighties, there should have been someone doing the same thing with dictionaries as we obviously need a new defention of forgotten then, cos Pigeon Street, The Flumps, Chock-a-block and Dinosaurs are much missed and fondly thought of, but never forgotten about by me.
Oh definitely do something on TV Offal! I still get clips of it stuck in my head: "I know a woman with teeth horse, A talking horse called Ester of course, It's nice, being Ester!!"
The, 'honest obituary', sketches of celebrities who'd just died, (but hadn't), was a good example of the humour of Victor Lewis-Smith. Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Melvin Bragg being 2 good examples.
I remember watching Spitting Image as a teenager during the summer late at night on CBC in Canada. I really didn't get any of the political humor, but I watched it because "they're puppets of real people so they're funny". And I annoyed everyone singing The Chicken Song.😅 But then one night I saw an episode that showed a Louie Armstrong puppet singing a parody of What a Wonderful World called "We've Ruined the World", and it showed disturbing footage of things, like seals being clubbed to death. I got up, turned the TV off and never watched the show ever again.
Forgotten. Animal magic. Who didn't love seeing cute animals along with johnny Morris doing the voices of the animals. Seemingly perfectly accurately as you'd imagine them to talk
I think I'm the only person in my group of friends who remembers Ludwig. It was a foreign animation I think, Ludwig was an egg who rolled on to the screen sprouted arms and legs and played the violin while being spied on my a man in the bushes with binoculars. It's true I swear 😂 Forgotten by everyone but me it seems!
Not sure if you have covered any of these kids TV shows already and most of them if not all of them would probably fit in the forgotten category. Kids TV was so much better then King Rollo Bertha - Roy Kinnear narration Penny Crayon - Su Pollard narration Poddington Peas Stopit And Tidyup - Terry Wogan narration Henry's Cat There was also Portland Bill which i think was made by the same people as Fireman Sam
Around the same time of Chock-A-Block being shown I also remember a series called Bric-a-Brac presented by Brian Cant which I hope to see you unearth on your channel.
A few fantastic shows for your 1. Urban Gothic 2000 a different story every episode with a gothic/horror story 2. Time After Time 1993 a sitcom about a man trying to go straight after get out of prison 3. Me & My Girl 1984 a Sitcom about a Widower bringing up his daughter through the years 🙂👍
Spitting Image was great up to early 90s. No Thatcher. No Reagan. No material. The John Major era was funny for about a year or two but it fell down on most fronts after that. Anyway having spotted it in rhe thumbnail it's not THAT forgotten as it's back on Britbox and sometimes on itv and the revival is actually occasionally very funny.
The Adventures of Long John Silver, Robert Newton reprises his role as the title pirate captain from 1950's Walt Disneys Treasure Island. Made in Australia in 1954 helped establish the idea that the best pirates all had West Country accents. "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" 1976-77, then "Forever Fernwood" 1978-79, a soap opera parody that ran 5 nights a week featured "typical" housewife Mary Hartman, her extended family and the resident of Fernwood, Ohio. Good and forgotten. "Batfink", a 1967 cartoon that parodied both Batman and The Green Hornet. An anthropomorphic bat with super powers, an Asian sidekick with martial art skills and a souped car called The Batilac.
Loved pigeon Street, especially the intro music at the start. Please look up heads and tales BBC children programme and Zig zag BBC school and let's pretend children itv allof them have catchy intros I still hum today both forgotten, very underrated and excellent ❤
I had the subtitles on and just after 00:50 it reads "Pigeon Street an area of flats and terr0r1st houses" ~ are they trying to tell us something? {Apologies I put the numbers in the T word, just in case YT doesn't like it} 😉
Looked at the time the video finished, and I thought those credits must be long. What's at the end? I will remember to watch to the end in future. I loved Spitting Image for a while. I did think it was funny. But then it just seemed to lose it's way in the writing. When things stop being satirical and get mean instead, they've run their life. I recall watching one edition of it in I think 1988 and only laughing twice in thirty mins. So I gave up on it then. I do remember Long Distance Clara. Well she could drive the Sahara! Only character who comes back to me though. The Flumps I had forgotten till now. Was Pootle the one who was always miserable and got his come uppance every time as a result? Chock a Block came back to me when I saw it there. Just for the theme tune. Mention of that Train one reminds me of a probably forgotten soap: Together. A lunchtime one on Itv early in the 80's that ran for two short seasons. The lives of people in a supported housing block of flats. It's claim to fame was that it was all done live. Just because they could. The vote would be forgotten: It was ok for what it was, but I doubt it's well remembered. Also forgotten: Moon Movies. This was Desert Island Discs. In space! The format being an interview, done by Hughie Green. The guest getting to choose what films they'd take with them if they were going to the moon. This went out about 6.30pm on ITV on a weekday evening. According to IMDB only three episodes were ever made. And the series is believed to be lost. I'm not sure either if it was shown anywhere other than in the southern region of ITV. So is this one just me? Love to know. The theme tune was quite good. I didn't remember Vidz. But that reminds me of Revid. Another video review show channel four did. About fifteen mins long episodes around 6pm on a friday night. Presented by Gary Crowley and an American called John Steven Fink. Tried to be hip yoof style of course, but it was quite fun. I would imagine it's: forgotten.
One I forgot about this one but was still good a tv show in the 80s on ITV called Mr Merlin. It was a reworking of the Arthur legendcsetvin modern times as a young mechanic found out he was related to King Arthur. Hope this makes it on to a show. Mark Gibbons
I don't know if this would qualify for one of your lists, but there was a show in the early '90s starring a sock puppet that was the most adorable thing and contained quite possibly the most memorable yet annoying song ever put to music. If you thought baby shark was bad, just try not to sing the song that has no ending. That is not the name of the song because I don't want to get it stuck in my head. I nominate lamb chops play along as not only excellent but possibly forgotten about because it was from 1992 to 95ish. I was way too old to be watching this show, but I don't know anybody my age who didn't watch this show.
Staring down the barrel of 50, much of my time nowadays is spent is spent shouting at PM question time, and the news, not understanding Snapchat, instagram and tiktok. I also spend a good deal of time lamenting the woke shite kids watch these days, shaking my head and feeling blessed that being a 70s, 80s child I had access to excellent TV shows... I would like to suggest the following shows from my childhood as excellent. Battle of the planets... manga style cartoon featuring I think a band of siblings who were secret space hero's who flew about in a ship called the phoenix that could become a giant firebird... All creatures great and small which was driven by the legendary and much missed actor Robert Hardy as the redoutable Siegfried Farnon, along with a very youthful Chrisopher Timothy and even younger Peter Davidson... classic Sunday evening viewing. (I think it was on a sunday) Cities of gold... another excellent cartoon with an epic title track... Dramarama... don't remember much about this but I remember it being great... And falling under the umbrella of OMG I had forgotten about that then I'd go with Johnny weismuller as Trazan in various films from the 30s shown on BBC 2 every summer holiday... stumbled across one of the film s on UA-cam and really enjoyed it and was transported back to the summer hols circa 1980s. Also forgotten 2 by 2 a series about a vet at a zoo... remember enjoying it as a kid... but can't remember much more about it. Lastly OMG forgotten about that one... jossies Giants... a show about a kids football team and their coach...
a forgotten show from 1987 to 1988 is anime space western called Saber rider and star sheriffs use star ship called what transform in to giant cowboy robot voice by Optimus prime Peter Cullen and show cartoon from 1980s called raggy dolls The adventures of a motley collection of rejects from a toy factory, who live in a reject bin there.
JESUS CHRIST! I really had forgotten Chockablock! I was too old for it when it hit screens... But I remember enjoying what I saw of it... OK! Maybe these have been covered before but going to suggest them anyway... RUBBISH / WHAT THE S**DING HELL WAS THAT? (Yes another new category! LOL!) Eurotrash - Channel 4... I cant describe it as I never understood it or why it was so popular! FORGOTTEN: GET FRESH - ITV - I have suggested this one before! A Travelling Kids TV show that used a Sci Fi gimmick of a Spaceship touring the country... Hosted by Gareth "Gaz Top" Jones and Charlotte... I forget her surname... for the first season alongside Gian Samarco who was just coming fresh into teh business after being cast in "the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" - And later season introduced "Gilbert The Alien"... Disgusting Puppet that spread Snot everywhere! FORGOTTEN: Well it would be as it only had ONE SEASON... TX - ITV... Another kids show that was in place of Motormouth and Get Fresh for a short run... Not really much to be said about it, I do recall Sue Robbie was one of its three presenters... EXCELLENT - TISWAS - ITV - Had to include it, Its where my nickname of "Waz" comes from as far as I am aware! LOL! And what's not to love about this show! (My dad suffered bad with Athletes foot and would often "Pick" the loose skin... Almost had a heart attack when Christ Tarrant one Saturday says "And coming up later on the show we have.... ROGER! STOP PICKING YOUR FEET!!!") And Finally, Another FORGOTTEN - DO IT - ITV - In a similar vain to BBC's WHY DONT YOU...? Do It! was a kids show aimed at getting kids to try new activities and such... With such wonders as "Egg in Toast" (Get a Pastry cutter, Cut a hole in teh bread, And then Fry the egg in the hole!) - It mixed things up with a "Story Arc" through each season... But Like Why Don't You...? I think many of the letter's that came from Viewers actually came from the Producers children as NO ONE ever actually wrote in! (Absolutely true by the way... Some of the kids who used to be on WDY confirmed it ... They tried so hard to get viewers to interact but no one did!) Heck, may as well throw WHY DON'T YOU...? in there too! Both are forgotten!
FORGOTTEN : Its Only Rock n Roll was a mid 80s comedy / music program which aired on CBC in the mid 1980s.Its most important significance is it is where most of the ( Canadian ) public first saw Mike Myers heavy metal character Wayne , who had a segment called Waynes Power Minute , where he helped Canadian heavy metal kids on how to keep partying when youre all partied out. A few years later he brought his Waynes World segment to SNL and the rest is hostory
pigeon street, the flumps, chock a block, they don't make like they used to, absolute classics
Wow - Pigeon Street! 😮 "Long distance Clara!" Now there's a blast from the past.
I was the right demographic for this as a 3/4 year old in 1981. Great artwork and animation for the time.
A Few Suggestions. For Excellent, Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience. Comedy Documentary where Rhod tries a different job each week. Far Funnier than it has any right to be.
For Underrated, Early Doors. Comedy sent in a Manchester Pub Staring Craig Cash, John Henshaw and a Young James McAvoy.
As for Rubbish, Full English. Channel 4's poor attempt at a 'Adult' Cartoon in the vein of Family Guy or South Park. Tries way to hard to be Edgy without ever being that funny. Stars Richard Ayoade as the Dad.
Forgotten - Carnal Knowledge, a late night, low budget "sexy" ITV game show featuring Maria McErlane and Graham Norton. It was so bad it was great.
Underrated - Mongrels, BBC 3's satirical puppet show. Very funny, D list celebrity studded comedy with Nelson Fox trying to be a middle class fox in a working class pub garden.
Excellent - Teachers, well series 1 to 3, 4 was a bit naff as the school changed and they lost some of the best characters.
Rubbish - Miranda, for very obvious reasons.
Starsky and Hutch - 70's cool cops, squealing rubber, a bright red Gran Torino with the original go faster stripe, streets piled up with empty boxes to smash through, Huggy Bear, and the most iconic climbing out of a swimming pool in a chunky knit cardie scene, ever!
Excellent
Tiswas.
Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile
The Phantom Flan Flinger, Spit the Dog, The Bucket of Water Song,
Trevor McDoughnut, Sally James, condensed milk sandwiches, the dying fly, and a young Chris Tarrant.
Loved it.
Forgotten
Space Sentinels
Hercules, Mercury, Astrea, robots, Sentinel 1 and outer space. I used to love it as a kid but it's largely a forgot about that one, now.
An underrated show from the early 1990s was the television adaptation of Cluedo. It was hosted by James Bellosi in the first series, Chris Tarrant in the second series, and Richard Madely in the third and fourth series. A stellar cast played the six suspects. Rula Lenska, Christopher Biggins Richard Wilson, Pam Ferris, and Mollie Sugden all featured at some point. A terrible quiz show was Deal or No Deal hosted by Noel Edmonds. There was nothing wrong with the show's format, but the contestant's behavior was often cringeworthy. They thought they could influence the show's outcome, although the contents of the twenty-two identically sealed boxes were only known to an independent adjudicator.
I thought there was only one adaptation for television from the early 2010's. That one was on a channel known once as The Hub, and it was for younger audiences
No the ITV version is available on UA-cam
Thanks for the suggestion, it's in tonight's new video 👍👍
Pigeon Street wow 🙂👍
Does anyone remember Crystal Tips and Alistair .
I know I watched Crystal Tips and Alistair. Not much else comes back, but It definitely rings a bell.
@@paultapner2769 Good memories young no worries age of innocence all sunshine and rainbows 🙂👍.
One I had forgotten about was Monkey Dust which aired on BBC Three. An adult alternative comedy animation which was strangely compelling to view despite its dark humour.
Drawn Together was an animation show shown on channel four with different cartoon characters from different eras and styles living together. Quite underrated in my opinion.
An excellent series which aired on channel five was LEXX. A sci-fi show which was full of dark humour and creepy comedy whilst dealing with the misadventures of a fugitive crew. The undead Kye, Zev / Xev Bellringer a combined love slave and cluster lizard. Stanley Tweedle, a cowardly traitor who became the captain of the LEXX by accident. LEXX was essentially a giant dragonfly without the wings which served as a living ship.
I have five relatively obscure children's tv programmes I doubt many will remember.
1) Aubrey - the funny little cartoon orange fella from the early 1980's
2) Same time slot as Rainbow and other classics of the era, there was a lesser remembered lunchtime children's programme in the 1980's either on a Thursday or Friday. The intro was a jumping cartoon frog (the intro isn't anywhere near as long as I remembered) It took me years to find. It's called Gammon and Spinach.
3) Very few people recall the fever dream, low budget animation, Madame Gusto's Circus. Bizarre... especially the disjointed movement and strange noises of the 3 legged monkey.
4) Gublins - creepy boring stop motion similar to Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley.
5) ...and finally, a strange but cute French cartoon dubbed into English. I think it aired on a Sunday morning - Robo Story. Most people don't remember it until you say the catchphrase of the bad guy to his subordinate - "You are the lowest of low"
Love your channel, keep up the good work 👍
Loved Robo Story and for years I had no idea what it was called. All I could remember was the robot who kept saying “I want to rust” 😁
Some more excellent kids shows for you.
Let’s Pretend, this was a 1980s show where the presenters made up a story using general household items.
Pullover, this was about a soft toy a mum made for her son out of an old favourite pullover, hence the name, and after the boy went to sleep it would come to life and have adventures.
King Rollo, an animated series following a childlike king and his friends. This was narrated by Ray Brooks who also narrated Mr Benn. This also reminded me of a forgotten tv series that he starred in Big Deal.
Thanks for the suggestion, it's in tonight's new video 👍👍
I used to love the late night programmes on channel4. There was a punky cooking show called Get Stuffed, probably in the forgotten category.
I was just about to mention Get Stuffed. That was another programme that was UA-cam type content before UA-cam was a thing
Remember "Cheesy Peas"? 😂+🤮
Spitting image was loved by everyone about in the eighties of a relatively young age
Damn, humming "Long distance Clara" and thinking "Not the Mamma"
Another perhaps forgotten kids show was Button Moon. Every episode involved Mr Spoon and his family who visited the moon which was in fact a huge button. The rocket they travelled in looked like a Heinz baked bean can.
Remember it well. Peter Davison and his then wife Sandra Dickinson wrote and sang the theme tune
A comey-drama that I think is excellent and some people might have forgotten about is Teenage Health Freak. This was adapted from the book The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak and it starred Alex Langdon, Liza Walker and Daniel Peacock who some might remember as Mental Mickey in Only Fools and Horses or one of the trio in the Do It All adverts.
Another excellent comedy-drama is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, though this is another one I think you might have mentioned before.
Spitting image? Overrated?
Blasphemy!
But, on to the oh my god i forgot about thats...
Attention scum!
Simon Munnery as the league against tedium.
Very surreal, loved it.
Vidz was like youtube channel before there was youtube.
Underrated - 1970s live-action Spider-Man. While it oozes 70s cheese, it's actually a fun and engaging watch. Nicholas Hammond does a great job as Peter Parker. While it wasn't on long, I think it's essential viewing for superhero fans. Luckily all episodes are on UA-cam.
Oh yes this was absolutely brilliant
Largely passing by most people was a show from probably a decade or so ago, "It's Kevin". For people of my generation, Kevin Eldon featured in a lot of comedy programmes and was instantly recognisable, but this was the only time he'd been given his own show. As with a lot of my suggestions, this was a fun, gloriously surreal and silly series. I also got to see one of the very few live solo shows he's ever done at around the same time on a bill with Simon Munnery. Oh, happy days!
Vids and Bits were must watch TV programs for teenage me, UA-cam is too PC to promote content like that now. Spitting Image is like Monty Python in that you have to trawl through a lot of dross for the gems
A brilliant show was Ch4s 'This is David Lander'. It parodied Roger Cook style doorstepping investigative journalism. It ran for two series of twelve episodes. The first and superior series starred Stephen Fry and the second Tony Slattery.
Yeah, that's definitely one for the excellent category!
Thanks for the suggestion, it's in tonight's new video 👍👍
Been a loyal watcher of your channel for a while, but this is the first time I've written. One my favorite underrated shows of all time is "Sheep in The Big City", a Cartoon Network entry from 2000-2002; this surreal comedy was absolutely hilarious because it completely shot the fourth wall down in all aspects. Created by writer Mo Williams and staffed with a variety of super talented voice performers including former MTV VJ Kevin Seal, it was way way WAAAAAY too hip for the room. It sadly only lasted two seasons, but every episode is worth seeing! Thanks for covering "The Edison Twins" on an earlier show too - loved that show, and I was in my twenties when it aired, LOL!
Pigeon Street, Chock-a-block and The Flumps were perfect examples of early 80's lunchtime children's shows. Despite being older than the intended audience at the time, I would still watch these shows during school holidays simply because there was nothing else on! But, they were still entertaining. A show that was often shown alongside Chock-a-block was one called, 'Brick-a-brack', that starred Brian Cant who would choose one letter of the alphabet for each show and revolved everything in his, 'shop', full of nick-knacks, hence the show name, beginning with that letter. Despite being a show for the under 5's, it was very well done. Whilst we're on the subject, there was also, 'King Rollo', made by the same animators as Mr. Benn, (by the looks of it, anyway), that featured a, 'King', who was basically a child in adult form who relied entirely on the characters around him for practically everything. Like all these shows, they remind me of the lazy summer holidays of the early 80's.
Spitting Image was good in the early days, as it still had the, 'shock factor', of basically taking the piss out of politicians and celebrities to rely on. But, once it had been on the screens for about 3-4 years, it seemed to go off the boil and they tried more and more bizarre ways to try and maintain it, which never really worked as well. The so-called reboot was a complete waste of time.
Vidz reminded me of another programme that was on late on ITV called The Web Review. Late 90's I think. It was great fun! Forgotten/excellent
Re: "Train 48".
If you had a bunch if people just break into LOUD conversations on the Commuter Rail over here in Massachsetts, everybody would stare at you like you'd lost your freaking mind.
Keep up the awesome work!
I love how someone nominated three of the best known 80s preschool shows as forgotten 😂
Massive massive thumbs up for Vidz. I loved this as a kid. I know but I stayed up late to watch it and I found it very very funny. I actually forgotten about it until I saw this (born that way lol)
So thank you ever so much to whoever suggested it. Thanks for the memories lol
I wonder what happened to them?
"Wherefore art thou Stephy boy?" 🎶
I saw Stef in a Glasgow pub around the time Vidz was on. He is one of the tallest people I have ever seen.
They repeated Pigeon Street and the Flumps when I was a youngster and I thought they were both adorable.
I remember Pigeon Street and liking it as a child. In 2017 one of the creators of Pigeon Steet, Peter Lang launched a fundraising campaign so that he could finance a new technologically-advanced pilot to try and convince TV bosses to re-commission a new Pigeon Street series. It doesn't look like that has happened yet.
Here is a show that I liked as a child but also forgot about: The Secret Life of Toys produced by Jim Henson Productions. The series aired in 1994 and ran for 13 episodes. It was based on a 1986 Christmas special, The Christmas Toy. The Secret Life of Toys was a live action show about a group of toys that came to life in a playroom while the children were away. For years I had only vague memories of watching the Christmas special on a VHS tape I had in the early 90s but had forgot what it was.
It was only last year I found out what it was when I asked online if anyone knew what this show was I was trying to remember and one person said The Secret Life of Toys.
One show I think is both underrated and excellent is Raising Hope (2010-2014) Set in the same universe as My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope is about 23 year old James "Jimmy" Chance who has a one night stand with a woman, Lucy he saves from her boyfriend and later find out from a news report she is serial killer. She has a child, a daughter named Hope and Jimmy gains custody of her when Lucy is sentenced to death. Jimmy gets help from is family in raising her.
I’ve suggested Raising Hope for underrated a couple of times. It’s a great show.
Having Pigeon Street here is a real coup coup ...
An underrated and partly forgotten program I enjoyed was Empire Road shown by the BBC in the 70s or 80s. It followed the life of a Jamaican landlord and his family, his son fell in love with an Indian lady and the programme shows the cultural differences and difficulties these families faced
It starred Norman beaten and Joseph Marcel amongst others, it can now be found in the UK on u formerly known as UK TV play
Thanks for the suggestion, it's in tonight's new video 👍👍
Great memories, Educating Marmalade (Marmalade Atkins naughty school girl) Murphys Mob (football based). Dodger, Bonzo and the rest ( based in a childrens home).
Excellent - Sesame Park (CBC 1996-2001) - A Canadian version of Sesame Street, it did a great job of capturing the original (i.e. around 1970) spirit of the American show, which had long since been taken over by the Little Red Menace.
When people used to go door to door selling encyclopedias in the mid eighties, there should have been someone doing the same thing with dictionaries as we obviously need a new defention of forgotten then, cos Pigeon Street, The Flumps, Chock-a-block and Dinosaurs are much missed and fondly thought of, but never forgotten about by me.
Oh definitely do something on TV Offal! I still get clips of it stuck in my head:
"I know a woman with teeth horse,
A talking horse called Ester of course,
It's nice, being Ester!!"
The, 'honest obituary', sketches of celebrities who'd just died, (but hadn't), was a good example of the humour of Victor Lewis-Smith. Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Melvin Bragg being 2 good examples.
I remember watching Spitting Image as a teenager during the summer late at night on CBC in Canada. I really didn't get any of the political humor, but I watched it because "they're puppets of real people so they're funny". And I annoyed everyone singing The Chicken Song.😅 But then one night I saw an episode that showed a Louie Armstrong puppet singing a parody of What a Wonderful World called "We've Ruined the World", and it showed disturbing footage of things, like seals being clubbed to death. I got up, turned the TV off and never watched the show ever again.
Forgotten. Animal magic. Who didn't love seeing cute animals along with johnny Morris doing the voices of the animals. Seemingly perfectly accurately as you'd imagine them to talk
What about Noah and Nellie...all aboard the Skylark!
The Flockton Flyer, another forgotten series
I loved Pigeon Street as a lil kid, in the 80s.
Oh and Mooncat,
I think I'm the only person in my group of friends who remembers Ludwig.
It was a foreign animation I think, Ludwig was an egg who rolled on to the screen sprouted arms and legs and played the violin while being spied on my a man in the bushes with binoculars.
It's true I swear 😂
Forgotten by everyone but me it seems!
Not sure if you have covered any of these kids TV shows already and most of them if not all of them would probably fit in the forgotten category. Kids TV was so much better then
King Rollo
Bertha - Roy Kinnear narration
Penny Crayon - Su Pollard narration
Poddington Peas
Stopit And Tidyup - Terry Wogan narration
Henry's Cat
There was also Portland Bill which i think was made by the same people as Fireman Sam
Around the same time of Chock-A-Block being shown I also remember a series called Bric-a-Brac presented by Brian Cant which I hope to see you unearth on your channel.
A few fantastic shows for your
1. Urban Gothic 2000 a different story every episode with a gothic/horror story
2. Time After Time 1993 a sitcom about a man trying to go straight after get out of prison
3. Me & My Girl 1984 a Sitcom about a Widower bringing up his daughter through the years
🙂👍
Me and my girl was absolutely terrible
@@neilold7291 All I remember is that Tim Brooke-Taylor from "The Goodies" was in it as the dad's skirt-chasing co-worker.
I really enjoyed Me and My Girl.
Loved Dinosaurs! Never seen it all, but apparently had a really sad ending.
Yeah Dinosaurs wasn't bad. It was fun. Strange ending though. Very dark last episode.
Spitting Image was great up to early 90s. No Thatcher. No Reagan. No material. The John Major era was funny for about a year or two but it fell down on most fronts after that. Anyway having spotted it in rhe thumbnail it's not THAT forgotten as it's back on Britbox and sometimes on itv and the revival is actually occasionally very funny.
The Adventures of Long John Silver, Robert Newton reprises his role as the title pirate captain from 1950's Walt Disneys Treasure Island. Made in Australia in 1954 helped establish the idea that the best pirates all had West Country accents.
"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" 1976-77, then "Forever Fernwood" 1978-79, a soap opera parody that ran 5 nights a week featured "typical" housewife Mary Hartman, her extended family and the resident of Fernwood, Ohio. Good and forgotten.
"Batfink", a 1967 cartoon that parodied both Batman and The Green Hornet. An anthropomorphic bat with super powers, an Asian sidekick with martial art skills and a souped car called The Batilac.
Dinosaurs, I don't think I've ever laughed so much at a US comedy show. It looks hilarious and I bet there's more than a bit of irony in it.
Vidz was ace! Had loads on VHS until I had a recent purge of old stuff 🙄
Pigeon Street was nice tv. unlike the horror that was Orm & Cheep, Moondial and Worzel Gummidge.
I love Jon Pertwee, but I hated Worzel Gumidge with a vengeance.
Vids! I loved vids! Nigel was hilarious!
Loved pigeon Street, especially the intro music at the start. Please look up heads and tales BBC children programme and Zig zag BBC school and let's pretend children itv allof them have catchy intros I still hum today both forgotten, very underrated and excellent ❤
I never liked Spitting Image either. They spent so much time and money on the puppets, they forgot to make it funny.
I had the subtitles on and just after 00:50 it reads "Pigeon Street an area of flats and terr0r1st houses" ~ are they trying to tell us something?
{Apologies I put the numbers in the T word, just in case YT doesn't like it} 😉
The joy of auto-captions. It should read "terraced". A row of houses with shared side walls.
Looked at the time the video finished, and I thought those credits must be long. What's at the end? I will remember to watch to the end in future. I loved Spitting Image for a while. I did think it was funny. But then it just seemed to lose it's way in the writing. When things stop being satirical and get mean instead, they've run their life. I recall watching one edition of it in I think 1988 and only laughing twice in thirty mins. So I gave up on it then.
I do remember Long Distance Clara. Well she could drive the Sahara! Only character who comes back to me though. The Flumps I had forgotten till now. Was Pootle the one who was always miserable and got his come uppance every time as a result? Chock a Block came back to me when I saw it there. Just for the theme tune.
Mention of that Train one reminds me of a probably forgotten soap: Together. A lunchtime one on Itv early in the 80's that ran for two short seasons. The lives of people in a supported housing block of flats. It's claim to fame was that it was all done live. Just because they could. The vote would be forgotten: It was ok for what it was, but I doubt it's well remembered.
Also forgotten: Moon Movies. This was Desert Island Discs. In space! The format being an interview, done by Hughie Green. The guest getting to choose what films they'd take with them if they were going to the moon. This went out about 6.30pm on ITV on a weekday evening. According to IMDB only three episodes were ever made. And the series is believed to be lost. I'm not sure either if it was shown anywhere other than in the southern region of ITV. So is this one just me? Love to know. The theme tune was quite good.
I didn't remember Vidz. But that reminds me of Revid. Another video review show channel four did. About fifteen mins long episodes around 6pm on a friday night. Presented by Gary Crowley and an American called John Steven Fink. Tried to be hip yoof style of course, but it was quite fun. I would imagine it's: forgotten.
Don't forget Murun Buchstansagur!
what was that weird C4 series aired after pub closing with people cooking shitty meals????
Get Stuffed. Anyone for "Cheesy Peas"?
@@jaysmith2858 how rude... I only asked.....lolol
One I forgot about this one but was still good a tv show in the 80s on ITV called Mr Merlin. It was a reworking of the Arthur legendcsetvin modern times as a young mechanic found out he was related to King Arthur. Hope this makes it on to a show. Mark Gibbons
I remember seeing this.
Thank You! So Much!
I don't know if this would qualify for one of your lists, but there was a show in the early '90s starring a sock puppet that was the most adorable thing and contained quite possibly the most memorable yet annoying song ever put to music. If you thought baby shark was bad, just try not to sing the song that has no ending. That is not the name of the song because I don't want to get it stuck in my head. I nominate lamb chops play along as not only excellent but possibly forgotten about because it was from 1992 to 95ish. I was way too old to be watching this show, but I don't know anybody my age who didn't watch this show.
Not one minute in and I'm five years old again!
Staring down the barrel of 50, much of my time nowadays is spent is spent shouting at PM question time, and the news, not understanding Snapchat, instagram and tiktok. I also spend a good deal of time lamenting the woke shite kids watch these days, shaking my head and feeling blessed that being a 70s, 80s child I had access to excellent TV shows...
I would like to suggest the following shows from my childhood as excellent.
Battle of the planets... manga style cartoon featuring I think a band of siblings who were secret space hero's who flew about in a ship called the phoenix that could become a giant firebird...
All creatures great and small which was driven by the legendary and much missed actor Robert Hardy as the redoutable Siegfried Farnon, along with a very youthful Chrisopher Timothy and even younger Peter Davidson... classic Sunday evening viewing. (I think it was on a sunday)
Cities of gold... another excellent cartoon with an epic title track...
Dramarama... don't remember much about this but I remember it being great...
And falling under the umbrella of OMG I had forgotten about that then I'd go with Johnny weismuller as Trazan in various films from the 30s shown on BBC 2 every summer holiday... stumbled across one of the film s on UA-cam and really enjoyed it and was transported back to the summer hols circa 1980s.
Also forgotten 2 by 2 a series about a vet at a zoo... remember enjoying it as a kid... but can't remember much more about it.
Lastly OMG forgotten about that one... jossies Giants... a show about a kids football team and their coach...
Some good ones there 👍👍
a forgotten show from 1987 to 1988 is anime space western called Saber rider and star sheriffs use star ship called what transform in to giant cowboy robot voice by Optimus prime Peter Cullen and show cartoon from 1980s called raggy dolls The adventures of a motley collection of rejects from a toy factory, who live in a reject bin there.
You absolute legend!
Totally disagree with you about Spitting Image though.
Dinosaurs was great 😃
Captain Power
Dinosaurs is terrible. Try kids program Creepy Crawlies
Trap Door?!?
JESUS CHRIST! I really had forgotten Chockablock! I was too old for it when it hit screens... But I remember enjoying what I saw of it...
OK! Maybe these have been covered before but going to suggest them anyway...
RUBBISH / WHAT THE S**DING HELL WAS THAT? (Yes another new category! LOL!) Eurotrash - Channel 4... I cant describe it as I never understood it or why it was so popular!
FORGOTTEN: GET FRESH - ITV - I have suggested this one before! A Travelling Kids TV show that used a Sci Fi gimmick of a Spaceship touring the country... Hosted by Gareth "Gaz Top" Jones and Charlotte... I forget her surname... for the first season alongside Gian Samarco who was just coming fresh into teh business after being cast in "the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" - And later season introduced "Gilbert The Alien"... Disgusting Puppet that spread Snot everywhere!
FORGOTTEN: Well it would be as it only had ONE SEASON... TX - ITV... Another kids show that was in place of Motormouth and Get Fresh for a short run... Not really much to be said about it, I do recall Sue Robbie was one of its three presenters...
EXCELLENT - TISWAS - ITV - Had to include it, Its where my nickname of "Waz" comes from as far as I am aware! LOL! And what's not to love about this show! (My dad suffered bad with Athletes foot and would often "Pick" the loose skin... Almost had a heart attack when Christ Tarrant one Saturday says "And coming up later on the show we have.... ROGER! STOP PICKING YOUR FEET!!!")
And Finally, Another FORGOTTEN - DO IT - ITV - In a similar vain to BBC's WHY DONT YOU...? Do It! was a kids show aimed at getting kids to try new activities and such... With such wonders as "Egg in Toast" (Get a Pastry cutter, Cut a hole in teh bread, And then Fry the egg in the hole!) - It mixed things up with a "Story Arc" through each season... But Like Why Don't You...? I think many of the letter's that came from Viewers actually came from the Producers children as NO ONE ever actually wrote in! (Absolutely true by the way... Some of the kids who used to be on WDY confirmed it ... They tried so hard to get viewers to interact but no one did!)
Heck, may as well throw WHY DON'T YOU...? in there too! Both are forgotten!
FORGOTTEN :
Its Only Rock n Roll was a mid 80s comedy / music program which aired on CBC in the mid 1980s.Its most important significance is it is where most of the ( Canadian ) public first saw Mike Myers heavy metal character Wayne , who had a segment called Waynes Power Minute , where he helped Canadian heavy metal kids on how to keep partying when youre all partied out. A few years later he brought his Waynes World segment to SNL and the rest is hostory