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    @Nepia said in Old TV Shows:

    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Old TV Shows:

    Anyone mentioned the Mad Dog Gang?

    Never heard of it, although a quick wiki suggests it came out when I was 3, although I may have caught a replay at some stage but drawing a blank.

    @canefan said in Old TV Shows:

    Brilliant weird though

    Yep. An 80s childhood in NZ was cool - so different to now.

    I got the book for some reason and then they were syndicating it on Aus TV when I was about 12. God knows why. It was pretty shit.

    Another one was Terry and the Gun Runners. What pissed me off though was that the hero, ie Terry, kept getting captured.

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Old TV Shows:

    @Nepia said in Old TV Shows:

    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Old TV Shows:

    Anyone mentioned the Mad Dog Gang?

    Never heard of it, although a quick wiki suggests it came out when I was 3, although I may have caught a replay at some stage but drawing a blank.

    @canefan said in Old TV Shows:

    Brilliant weird though

    Yep. An 80s childhood in NZ was cool - so different to now.

    I got the book for some reason and then they were syndicating it on Aus TV when I was about 12. God knows why. It was pretty shit.

    Another one was Terry and the Gun Runners. What pissed me off though was that the hero, ie Terry, kept getting captured.

    Terry Teo had Billy T and Piggy Muldoon in it. 🙂

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    #165

    V and Buck Rogers

    The old 'Sunday Horrors'

    Barbara Eden was also in Harper Valley PTA

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    For all the old bastards here are shows (not already mentioned) that I remember being keen on during my childhood. The reality was though only one Channel until 1974 and two after that so you watched whatever was on or did other shit - sport, playing in the bush behind the neighbours, bulrush, endless battles until girls, booze and drugs took over.

    Flintstones
    Lost in Space
    F Troop
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    Top Cat
    High Chaparral (Monolito was a cool dude)
    Monkees
    Hawaii 5-0
    Man From Uncle
    Twilight Zone
    Bonanza
    Get Smart (99 was the first woman to stir my loins)
    Invaders
    Mission Impossible

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    @dogmeat said in Old TV Shows:

    For all the old bastards here are shows (not already mentioned) that I remember being keen on during my childhood. The reality was though only one Channel until 1974 and two after that so you watched whatever was on or did other shit - sport, playing in the bush behind the neighbours, bulrush, endless battles until girls, booze and drugs took over.

    Flintstones
    Lost in Space
    F Troop
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    Top Cat
    High Chaparral (Monolito was a cool dude)
    Monkees
    Hawaii 5-0
    Man From Uncle
    Twilight Zone
    Bonanza
    Get Smart (99 was the first woman to stir my loins)
    Invaders
    Mission Impossible

    I think all those were around/repeated during the 80s bar High Chaparral, F Troop, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Invaders.

    I watched a lot of Bonanza with my Dad as a kid.

    I think 99 was high on my stirring loins list too as a young fella.

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    @Nepia There was an episode where X Ray Vision was the centre of the plot. For some reason this rendered 99's outer clothes invisible but for some reason (DAMN) her bra and knickers were impervious to the X-Ray. Neverthless my loins decided immediately that semi naked women were a really, really good thing

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    @Nepia I just googled her, she was born in 1933!!

    But yes, very hot in her day.

    @dogmeat Twilight Zone, used to love them, some were scary AF, some just weird.

    A couple that stood out: the gremlin on the wing of the plane (they made an episode of Simpsons with Bart seeing it on the school bus)
    The shadow under your bed.

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    @Nepia said in Old TV Shows:

    @dogmeat said in Old TV Shows:

    For all the old bastards here are shows (not already mentioned) that I remember being keen on during my childhood. The reality was though only one Channel until 1974 and two after that so you watched whatever was on or did other shit - sport, playing in the bush behind the neighbours, bulrush, endless battles until girls, booze and drugs took over.

    Flintstones
    Lost in Space
    F Troop
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    Top Cat
    High Chaparral (Monolito was a cool dude)
    Monkees
    Hawaii 5-0
    Man From Uncle
    Twilight Zone
    Bonanza
    Get Smart (99 was the first woman to stir my loins)
    Invaders
    Mission Impossible

    I think all those were around/repeated during the 80s bar High Chaparral, F Troop, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Invaders.

    I watched a lot of Bonanza with my Dad as a kid.

    I think 99 was high on my stirring loins list too as a young fella.

    Original Thunderbirds and Stingray were great, and up to now unmentioned was this classic POW!!

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    @canefan In another thread recently I mentioned that my favourite of them all was Captain Scarlett. I liked Joe 90 too. TBH, Thunderbirds is probably my least favourite of them all despite being the massive one.

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    @Nepia I used to really like Space 1999. the ships looked like proper wrecks but I thought they looked super cool

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    @taniwharugby yeah bro, that was terrifying.

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    We always used to watch That's Incredible and Solid Gold. Cathy Lee Crosby was easy on the eye

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    #175

    Have we done terrahawks? Or was it terror hawks? With the spaceships and noughts and crosses?

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    @Paekakboyz said in Old TV Shows:

    Have we done terrahawks? Or was it terror hawks? With the spaceships and noughts and crosses?

    fuck yes that was awesome!!

    Other after schools
    Pole Position
    Gargoyles
    Cops

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    @canefan Ripleys Believe it of Not.

    A number of people on 'Thats Incredible' went on to make names for themselves (Tiger Woods)

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  • Chris B.C Offline
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    #178

    Don't think Cheers has had a mention - I watched a lot of it again on the Jones channel and it had aged well.

    Never as good after Diane left.

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  • dogmeatD Offline
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    @canefan I think I was too young to appreciate the campiness of Batman

    @Nepia Didn't like Joe 90 Capt Scarlett was the best I vaguely remember watching Supercar which was Andersons first series at a friend of my parents

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    This was in the days as I said of one channel and even adults would watch the shows "isn't it clever you can barely see the strings"

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    @dogmeat said in Old TV Shows:

    I think I was too young to appreciate the campiness of Batman

    Batman was on Friday nights at about 7pm (I guess) and we'd always have takeaways, usually from the Greek fish and chip shop (my Mum was raised Catholic) and then later from the KFC across the road. I as allowed to buy lollies from the dairy while we waited and I always used to get the money (the NZ coin ones) lollies. That's now tied completely into Batman with me.

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    @dogmeat UFO was my favourite from the Andersons. I loved Skydiver, which was a submarine whose front launched to become the coolest fuckoff anti-alien fighter plane. Ed Straker's car was also pretty cool.

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    I'll be surprised at this one, but anyone remember Lancelot Link Secret Chimp? On on Sunday afternoons and it had a cast of dressed up chimps smoking and drinking like a debauched PG Tips. They'd never be able to make it now.

    Others they wouldn't dare make: Love Thy Neighbour, which had a black family and a white one living next to each other. The wives were best friends but the black guy called the white one Honky while the white guy (Jerry Booth??) called him Nig Nog. That was pretty much the extent of the "comedy". I recall the black lady was hot, the white one not so much.

    Some Mothers Do Have Em, which I remember being hilarious but my memory may be faulty on that front. The main character's effeminacy would get called out now I feel.

    Dick Emery Show, his cross dressing wouldn't pass for comedy as what's funny about trans people?

    The Black and White Minstrel Show. This was still showing in NZ periodically when I had left home to go flatting, so late 70s. What the fuck were they thinking? Used to be on Saturday night prime time in the 60s.

    Till Death Us Do Part. The satire would go over people's heads and just be construed as straight out racism

    Curry & Chips. Despite 2 geniuses of UK comedy being in it (Spike Milligan and Sykes) there's no denying the whole premise was just one long "Paki" joke

    It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Browned up white actors playing Indians? Not in 2019. Nor is calling the camp character Gloria a poofter

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