According to Russell T. Davies, Allsorts "was so cheap, with so little time, I wrote an episode in which Box bet them they couldn’t sit still for 15 minutes. So they did. For 15 minutes. (The episodes were 15 minutes long.)" Long story short, if the show seems like people desperately throwing half-formed ideas at a screen to fill time while running around in a blind panic, that's because that's exactly what happened.
1. I thought i was the only one who heard the 'almost the rainbow theme tune' bit 2. did i miss something where aunt jemima was a euphemism for menstruating? 3.the box saying 'she'll get a flap in her mouth' made me laugh far harder than it should have done
I've never suffered through the horror of Allsorts, I may be slightly too old. Certainly makes you appreciate how well-made Rainbow and Sesame Street are.
I did a panto back in 1992 in Winchester in my Teens with Andrew Wightman 'Bonzo' from Allsorts as Dick In Dick Whittington He was really great in it, really funny performer & singer. I hadn't heard of the show, but each night he would come on and say ' There's 'All sorts' of things for us to see in London' to a massive round of applause.
I was in it as several different roles, mainly bit parts, my uncle was directing it. it was a 1980 script updated with Gladiators spoof as the fight between King Rat & Dick Whittington. hope u had fun
Andrew Wightman later went behind the camera after Allsorts, producing Stars In Their Eyes. He replaced Jane McNaught as producer after the latter went on to produce Coronation Street. Jane Cox though went on to a bigger role, when she got the part of Lisa Clegg (later Dingle) on Emmerdale, a role she played from 1996 to 2019.
@@andrewbarton2590 After watching this, it reminded me where I have seen Andrew Wightman before - it was in a Nursery Rhymes kids video with Janet Ellis. Used to watch it with my son 20 years ago.
@@katewolfspirit6722 I think he did a few of those. There was a VHS I watched over and over as a kid called 'A Day Full of Songs'. Skimming through it on UA-cam a few months back I saw in the credits one of the unseen children providing the singing was Sophie Ellis-Bextor (then aged about 14). So the fact Janet Ellis had some involvement isn't too surprising!
The way that Wikipedia bit about a revival was written was in the style of Fanon Wikia editors: they make up potential crossovers for, like, "Thomas the Tank Engine vs. Sonic and Spongebob go to The X Factor and Fortnite!!", and detail the episodes, guest stars, plot (usually just characters turning up in sequence), and I'd always interpreted that this is mainly the work of autistic preteens in the online sandpit, a more innocent and organic version of Spiderman And Elsa. A few months ago I found an enthrallingly detailed, completely fictional series of The Masked Singer. That Allsorts has attracted this kind of attention is making me reassess the demographic.
I suspected it was something like that, but couldn't put my finger on it. It sounds like the Gen Z version of my notebooks as a kid detailing the match results of an imaginary WWF/WCW crossover.
Another example of that (since removed from IMDB) was what can only have been the work of an autistic older fan of Gerry Anderson, or else a particularly lazy troll, who smushed together characters (regular and guest, some of the latter definitively killed in earlier episodes) in two uninspired, dull-toddler-has-a-little-too-much-tartrazine fake episodes of UFO. It probably also has a lot to do with the recent(ish) phenomenon of Pooh's Adventures.
A hugely irritating programme. I remember the theme tune causing me to want to throw things at the telly. Still, could be worse, could be The Riddlers. Stuart, you're brilliant as always. Never stop.
Please check out Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared. It nails this uneasy, something not quite right, sense you get from old kids shows so perfectly, but adds a layer of psychological horror just for good measure
/ok, so is it me, or is Jiffy's leaving song clearly the inspiration for Matinee, by Franz Ferdinand? It's like Buffalo Soldier/Banana Splits all over again.
I have seen many things in my life, but never a drunk 'shaking poos out of his trouser legs'. PLEASE tell me that's just an exaggeration for humour, Stuart. PLEASE TELL ME.
Christ, that box sounds like Angela Rayner 😂
I have no memory of this, must have been so mind numbingly crap nothing stuck
According to Russell T. Davies, Allsorts "was so cheap, with so little time, I wrote an episode in which Box bet them they couldn’t sit still for 15 minutes. So they did. For 15 minutes. (The episodes were 15 minutes long.)" Long story short, if the show seems like people desperately throwing half-formed ideas at a screen to fill time while running around in a blind panic, that's because that's exactly what happened.
1. I thought i was the only one who heard the 'almost the rainbow theme tune' bit
2. did i miss something where aunt jemima was a euphemism for menstruating?
3.the box saying 'she'll get a flap in her mouth' made me laugh far harder than it should have done
"Sounds like the local pill dealer reeling off his menu..." 😂
That's the most blatant tune robbery since WCW closed
They all got their start on Allsorts; Russell T. Davies, Jimmy Hart.
I've never suffered through the horror of Allsorts, I may be slightly too old. Certainly makes you appreciate how well-made Rainbow and Sesame Street are.
Love the note change on the EastEnders theme, laughed out loud to that.
Spent the last 30 years telling people about a show with a magical talking box - no one believed me. Now I know I was telling the truth
I did a panto back in 1992 in Winchester in my Teens with Andrew Wightman 'Bonzo' from Allsorts as Dick In Dick Whittington He was really great in it, really funny performer & singer.
I hadn't heard of the show, but each night he would come on and say ' There's 'All sorts' of things for us to see in London' to a massive round of applause.
I think I may have attended that very panto as a sprog!
I was in it as several different roles, mainly bit parts, my uncle was directing it. it was a 1980 script updated with Gladiators spoof as the fight between King Rat & Dick Whittington. hope u had fun
Andrew Wightman later went behind the camera after Allsorts, producing Stars In Their Eyes.
He replaced Jane McNaught as producer after the latter went on to produce Coronation Street.
Jane Cox though went on to a bigger role, when she got the part of Lisa Clegg (later Dingle) on Emmerdale, a role she played from 1996 to 2019.
@@andrewbarton2590 After watching this, it reminded me where I have seen Andrew Wightman before - it was in a Nursery Rhymes kids video with Janet Ellis. Used to watch it with my son 20 years ago.
@@katewolfspirit6722 I think he did a few of those. There was a VHS I watched over and over as a kid called 'A Day Full of Songs'. Skimming through it on UA-cam a few months back I saw in the credits one of the unseen children providing the singing was Sophie Ellis-Bextor (then aged about 14). So the fact Janet Ellis had some involvement isn't too surprising!
Man in his 30s in sideways baseball cap and earing...did he play bass for EMF?
The way that Wikipedia bit about a revival was written was in the style of Fanon Wikia editors: they make up potential crossovers for, like, "Thomas the Tank Engine vs. Sonic and Spongebob go to The X Factor and Fortnite!!", and detail the episodes, guest stars, plot (usually just characters turning up in sequence), and I'd always interpreted that this is mainly the work of autistic preteens in the online sandpit, a more innocent and organic version of Spiderman And Elsa.
A few months ago I found an enthrallingly detailed, completely fictional series of The Masked Singer.
That Allsorts has attracted this kind of attention is making me reassess the demographic.
I suspected it was something like that, but couldn't put my finger on it. It sounds like the Gen Z version of my notebooks as a kid detailing the match results of an imaginary WWF/WCW crossover.
Another example of that (since removed from IMDB) was what can only have been the work of an autistic older fan of Gerry Anderson, or else a particularly lazy troll, who smushed together characters (regular and guest, some of the latter definitively killed in earlier episodes) in two uninspired, dull-toddler-has-a-little-too-much-tartrazine fake episodes of UFO. It probably also has a lot to do with the recent(ish) phenomenon of Pooh's Adventures.
A hugely irritating programme. I remember the theme tune causing me to want to throw things at the telly. Still, could be worse, could be The Riddlers.
Stuart, you're brilliant as always. Never stop.
"But then she just starts making sandwiches" cracked me up haha! They must have been making bits of this show up as they went along : D
Thanks so much for uploading this video to UA-cam
Weird hearing Lisa Dingle talk like that
With ol' Rusty being the script editor for this, I can see Box being an early version of Cassandra.
The chap who played Jiffy was later in the best Typhoo advert ever.
“I’m so depressed… feeling blue…”
7:44 "we called them a Geronimo"
" wish I hadn't eaten so many sandwiches " 😂😂😂
Remember this so much, except the box! Keep this videos coming!
I thought I had never seen it until the box came on 🤣🤣
" what about the Aids ! "
4:43 This *has* to be the inspiration for TMWRNJ's Curious Orange segments.
17:12 not necessarily, Box may not have a urethra and anus but rather a cloaca instead.
Like a box turtle.
Please check out Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared. It nails this uneasy, something not quite right, sense you get from old kids shows so perfectly, but adds a layer of psychological horror just for good measure
DHMIS is superb! So weird, bizarre and disturbing but also incredibly appealing and watchable!
i had that old man condom ad on a vhs at one point! so funny!
Geronimo!
Pretty sure that box was taken advantage of.
Was that the theme from Woof! Teenwolf on a CITV budget.
Yes, I think so. The one with Liza Goddard, she was in EVERYTHING back in the 80s!
10:55 Creepy side-eye - searching for the right camera?
I had completely blocked Allsorts out of my mind until watching this video.
Oh God it's all coming back
I remember the opening theme but seem to have largely repressed everything else.
Driver's piss bottle 😂
Was the resident irritant, Jiffy, also the owner of RADIO ROO, or am i mistaken ? That kangeroo completely dominated that relationship.
/ok, so is it me, or is Jiffy's leaving song clearly the inspiration for Matinee, by Franz Ferdinand? It's like Buffalo Soldier/Banana Splits all over again.
I have seen many things in my life, but never a drunk 'shaking poos out of his trouser legs'. PLEASE tell me that's just an exaggeration for humour, Stuart. PLEASE TELL ME.
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There is a scenario not dissimilar in an Irvine Welsh book , I think it's Filth.
Subscribed for the Legz Akimbo reference! Box really was a shit character.
Looking at Bonzo, this looks like a prelude to gimme gimme gimme
My sister was terrified of Bonzo and used to cry and make me turn it off.
16:25 A Smiths cover in a kids show?
Isn't that the woman of emmdale farm
is it just me... or does everyone have massive chins on All Sorts?
Jiffy was an absolute cun
Russell T Davies as script editor, no wonder the show was fucking terrible.
Why does Lisa Dingle sound so posh?