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King Edward 15:25 07-21-2004
Mine has to be Transformers Optimus Prime Rocks I remember crying when he died in the film (and that was only last week )

others i enjoyed were He-man and Dungeons and Dragons.

What are your favorites?

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rasoforos 15:37 07-21-2004
Transformers was cool , He-man was even better,i spent a significant amount of years watching He-man every morning before school , my mother who was also awake to go to work had to tollerate this (to watch He-man that is) for years and years , i think this traumatised her a bit.

However my favorite Kids programs were Looney tunes , and Smurfs.

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King Edward 15:44 07-21-2004
Originally Posted by [b:
Quote[/b] (rasoforos @ July 21 2004,15:37)]However my favorite Kids programs were Looney tunes , and Smurfs.
there was only ever one girl smurf which was something i always found a bit odd

I had loads and loads of the origonal He-man toys and my mum sold the lot at a car boot sale for £15 some of them are worth a bit of cash now days What was the name of the floaty wizard thing?

Thundercats was another good one i forgot to mention.

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Tachikaze 16:02 07-21-2004
the original Johnny Quest
The Thunderbirds
Jungle Emperor (Kimba the White Lion)
Gumby
Bugs Bunny





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rasoforos 16:05 07-21-2004
Originally Posted by [b:
Quote[/b] (King Edward @ July 21 2004,09:44)] What was the name of the floaty wizard thing?
That was Orko

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Teutonic Knight 16:20 07-21-2004
If you didn't like Johnny Quest there's something seriously wrong with ya...

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King Edward 16:20 07-21-2004
Orko thats right, that was bugging me since i decided to start this thread

Tachikaze, what was Gumby? i've never heard of that.

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Teutonic Knight 16:24 07-21-2004
Never heard of Gumby?? Where were you?

He was that green guy with the little dog in claymation that ran around defeating the blockheads (literally)

Every time I watch that show I am further convinced that the writer were on some sort of hallucenagenic drug...

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King Edward 16:33 07-21-2004
Nope im still none the wiser i'll google it and find out what its about.

Im sure most kids programs are drug induced crations. Captian Pugwash, Magic roundabout telley Tubbies, all rather odd (not sure how many of those will have been broadcast on your side of the pond,)

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Teutonic Knight 17:05 07-21-2004
Of the three mentioned I've only seen Telly Tubbies over here, and I must say I find that purple cross-dressing one rather disturbing...

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lancelot 17:16 07-21-2004
Yep, Transformers was no-1 all the way

Closely followed by HE-man, Thundercats, MASK and GI-joe

Jayce and the wheeled warriors, Centurions were also good.

D&D was good, excpet for that damn annoying Unicorn, who was, half of the time; the sole reason the adventurers didnt get to go home.

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frogbeastegg 17:24 07-21-2004
A certain young froggy always loved 'Dogtanian and the Three Muskerhounds', it had swords and sword fighting and history stuff and all that junk about honour and loyalty that frogs are such suckers for. The original series was recently released on DVD.

I also liked Disney's 'The Gummi Bears' because it had swords and sword fighting and history type stuff. I also liked the way the princess never behaved like one...Kalah, that was her name; she did a lot of archery and fought in a tournament in disguise. It was very non-Disney in tone and features the only princess I have ever actually liked, aside from those few I have written myself.

I really loved (and still do) 'Maid Marion and her Merry Men'; it was really funny and it had swords and sword fighting and, well you get the picture. It was like Blackadder does Robin Hood, very witty. Tony Robinson wrote it and played the sheriff of Nottingham. I would kill for this on DVD...

Notice the theme here? At the same time I was reading every single history book I could get my hands on, fiction and non fiction; I was also scorning Cadfael and other 'soppy' books because they didn't have enough knights in them, and they featured romance which was unforgivable. I've mellowed out a lot since then.

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Big King Sanctaphrax 18:58 07-21-2004
Teenage mutant ninja turtles

Transfomers

Thundercats

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English assassin 19:08 07-21-2004
Magic roundabout. No question. And the clangers. Was the whole of children's BBC on drugs in the 70s or what?

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Axeknight 20:25 07-21-2004
On an unrelated note, is there something that happens during the early stages of puberty we haven't discovered yet? I swear you lose the ability to do the transformers toys the second you hit 11. You can't transform them anymore It's not possible Why is that?

Postman Pat was a dude.

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Kraellin 21:21 07-21-2004
lol. you young whipper-snappers. you'd have to do a history search on google to find the shows i remember as a kid...

sagebrush shorty
rin tin tin
the original mouseketeers
the original popeye the sailor show
buster brown, with believe it or not, froggy 'pluck your magic twanger, froggy'
the original lone ranger
hopalong cassidy
kukla, fran, and ollie
tarzan
the little rascals
flash gordon
sky king
sergeant preston and canadian mounted police (or something like that)
lassie

and more that came later, but still pre-date most of you ;)

K.

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ShadesPanther 21:45 07-21-2004
Fireman sam
Playdays
Teenage mutant hero turtles
Thunderbirds
Scooby doo
Tin Tin
Thomas the tank engine
Postman Pat
Transformers

and a few more I think I am forgetting

EDIT: more added :)

Rosie and Jim
Sooty and Sweep (the earlier creations. How many different types are there 10?)
Spiderman
X men
Iron man
The Incredable Hulk
Tom and Jerry
Loony tonns (all of them :D)





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Big King Sanctaphrax 22:07 07-21-2004
Sooty ruled It was awesome when Mathew Corbet was still there.

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frogbeastegg 22:08 07-21-2004
Originally Posted by [b:
Quote[/b] (Kraellin @ July 21 2004,21:21)]buster brown, with believe it or not, froggy 'pluck your magic twanger, froggy'
I did a quick search and found this; that froggy is an imposter It isn't even an amphibian, it's a gremlin

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The Blind King of Bohemia 23:21 07-21-2004
Thundercats

Transformers (robots in disguise)

Action force or G.I Joe

Batman the animated series

X-men

Spiderman(the good series not the shite one)





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Leet Eriksson 01:19 07-22-2004
The old popeye,the old bugs bunny,the old tom and jerry,He-man and Transformers.

I remember watching a friggin old cartoon called Private Snafu if anyone knows of it

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Kraellin 03:41 07-22-2004
beasty-baby,

when i was a kid, it was a frog. so, it'll always be a frog to me ;) if it looks like a frog, walks like a frog and quacks like a frog ... :)

and thanks for that page i would have never even thought, really, to look that up. it was sooo long ago :)

K.

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RisingSun 05:37 07-22-2004
Thomas the Tank Engine

Transformers

Tom and Jerry

Popeye

And how can you forget Mighty Mouse? How?

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King Edward 08:32 07-22-2004
Its Amazing how many program's i had forgotten about but it all comes flooding back after reading peoples replys.

Todays Transformers Random fact is : The guy who does the voice of Optimus Prime is the same guy who did the voice of Ey-orr in Winnie the Poo.

Kraellin, i think i have heard of only about 4 of the show you listed

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TonkaToys 09:16 07-22-2004
This will date me...

Six million dollar man
Any of the original Tom & Jerry, Tasmanian Devil (appearances in Bugs Bunny etc), Road Runner cartoons.
DangerMouse

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Axeknight 12:24 07-22-2004
Originally Posted by [b:
Quote[/b] (Kraellin @ July 21 2004,21:21)]'pluck your magic twanger, froggy'
Truly the age of innocence

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Fragony 13:06 07-22-2004
When I was young there was a show called Purno de Purno (pun intented), it was a riot. Crazy [stuff] like a lady that said she could taste the difference between 200 sorts of urine.

'hmmmm this is of a rabbit'
'hmmmm this is of a 75 year old woman'

I had to wake my mother when it started as well

Oh and dokter Krankenstein was cool as well, a satire on frankenstein, I will never forget the episode that he was mad because he didn't have a peepee.

My fellow dutchies MUST remember the sundaymorning vpro programs





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Beirut 14:40 07-22-2004
{You can really tell the difference in ages by what people are posting.)

Johny Quest
The Banana Splits
Bugs Bunny
Sea Lab 2020
HR Puff & Stuff
Land of the Giants
Star Trek
The Marvel Comics cartoons with Captain America, Aquaman, Iron Man, and all the others.

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The Blind King of Bohemia 15:22 07-22-2004
Iron man was cool. Always found war machine more cooler though

Also when i was really young i watched charlie chalk, anyone remember that? Clown with loads of weirdos on an island. Well i liked it anyroad

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Ser Clegane 15:25 07-22-2004
Originally Posted by [b:
Quote[/b] (Tachikaze @ July 21 2004,10:02)]Jungle Emperor (Kimba the White Lion)
I really loved that one when I still went to elementary school

One of my other favourites was Biene Maja (The bee Maja). I remember that I had my older brother writing an angry letter to the TV station, demanding an immediate rerun after the series was finished (I hated the Pinocchio cartoon that replaced it just for the fact that ir replaced Biene Maja )

When I was in the US as a teenager I loved the Transformers (but I actually liked the new Trasnformers more) and was actually quite jealous that we did not have this kind of cartoons when I was smaller.

I have to admit that I still like to watch some of the old muppet scenes of Sesame Street - some of the Ernie & Bert or Cookie Monster (?) scenes are in a way brilliantly absurd.





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