zimmerman Posted November 18, 2001 Report Share Posted November 18, 2001 So I'm sifting through a bunch of old videos filled with random shit I used to tape off tv when I was in jr high. Anyhow, I came across an episode of READ ALL ABOUT IT!! Holy shit, do you remember this show,about these kids who ran an independent community newspaper out of their cottage where it had this talking computer named Otto and a self-typing printer named Theta, and let's not forget the most fucked up part regarding that freaky transporter that took you to and from that mystical doomed planet Trialviron that was run by the sinister DUNEEDON. Man, that show was sooo warped for it's time. What boggles my mind is that it was targeted for little kids?!?!? Dude, I used to have nightmares over that show. Anyhow, just had to get that out. Anybody happen to have a stack of episodes on tape? Anybody remember other golden shows on tv O back in the day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted November 18, 2001 Report Share Posted November 18, 2001 Holy shit, what a flashback! Duneedon, that silver freaky floating head bad dude. How did that plot eventually end? If I remember correctly, it had some sort of educational spin too. Didn't Duneedon have a human counterpart? Trippy.As for anothers, my TVO flashbacks include Fables of the Green Forest, Doctor Who and this history cartoon show.Thanks for the memories, Zimmerman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 oh ya, it took the description for me to remember but i do, at first i thought you were talking about "Read Along" with Boot and Pretty...i remember another newspaper one but i dont' quite remember it, it had adults with a mean old boss and a pretty girl reporter with a bumbling nerdy guy reporter, but i dont' quite remember, it was all about spelling too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 OMIGOSH! those shows were it. all i watched(on my own accord because the shows were so trippy) when i was a kid(and i appreciated trippy when i was a kid...just differently) was TVO and PBS. we didn't have cable.anyone remember doctor snuggles? readalong? Square one? the show where the kid goes to bed, opens a trap door in his floor and slides down to a crazy dreamworld with baloons and his pet dog? what was it called?? anyhow, loads of great kids shows were made in the 70's and 80's and get no recognition. thanks, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 You're the first person ever to mention that show. It pops in my head every once in a while. Our grade 7 teacher used to play the show for us every week. Dunneedon's laugh was hysterical. Everything I know about the war of 1812, I learned from that show.I'd love to watch that episode you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 There was a British show about some Kid with a magic flashlight (I think he called it a torch)Read all about it Discover all the news Read all about it Track down all the cluesThat song will haunt me now for days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 i'm a bear called jeremy, i can do most anything, i can play and i can sing, yes sir, yes sir, doh rei me ! when he heard me sing, the king of birds said to me, here's for you dear thing, A whistle that goes tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet... tweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Actually, there was a series that if i could find now, i would be very very happy cuz i think about it at least twice a year trying to figure out how i would get it...it was like a year long animated series on PBS or something where we follow this family and it's descendents all the way from cavemen times to modern times - each week was a little further along in history but the same people were the descendents of the ones we watched last week. And if one was ceasar and he was to get stabbed, he got stabbed. It opened with that heavy classical piece -- ah damn i can't remember.... i mourn for that show, it's very stange....oh well, i'll make myself feel better -- i'll just go watch barba poppa, the teletubbies of my day clickity click. -- barbazoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogatthestation Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 I always liked mathmakers with Andy Andy from Cheers and some show with a kangaroo detective...I think it also had a math theme to it... I think I liked math when I was young... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPhish Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 I loved the math kangaroo too. I was trying to discribe that show to someone a long time ago and they thought I was crazy. I was begining to wonder if it was a figment of my imagination...thank for the reassurance. Does anyone remember the show with the Mooose and Beaver ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 oh my god!! i totally forgot about the kangaroo! right on! that was a good one! Actually i have a sinking feeling that Andy Andy was the one on the reporter show i was talking about earlier too...i hated moose and beaver actually, but weren't they at camp cucumber or something? i always had a suspicion that moose was Alex from polka dot door ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Since we're talking random TVO flashbacks, I'll throw out two of my faves:The Undoctor ------------ This one starred Judy Merrill (prominent SF author and editor) and could be viewed as a precursor to "Prisoners Of Gravity". It was SF, with Judy's own brand of insightful commentary. (I may have the title wrong; IIRC, "The Undoctor" was Judy's segment at the end of some show about SF. Can anybody help?)Fast Forward ------------ IIRC, this one was hosted by David Stringer (of "Half A Handy Hour", "The Acme School of Stuff", and son of Omer Stringer of Beaver Canoe fame) and dealt with computers and coming technological trends. Guests included Isaac Asimov and Alvin Toffler. I think it was pre-PC and even before BBSs became popular. I wish TVO would start re-running this stuff, not as information, but as nostalgia...Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reba Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 another casualty of my mother giving away our tv.....a childhood without these memories..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabidmonkey Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 another casualty of marijuana ... a life without these (or any memories) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Don't forget the ever popular Bits and Bytes with Billy Van and Luba Goy and those wonderful animations that showed the innerds of the microcomputer. I remember making my first BASIC program thanks to that show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Just found this link.http://www.papmag.net/cgi-bin/frontend/frontend.pl?page=story&sid=73 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 This is fucking freaking me out. No kidding you had nightmares about that shit. That shit is like set up for giving you nightmares. Dr. Snuggles gave me nightmares too, especially this one where they go out into the middle of the ocean and there's like this evil lair with all these vines growing over it- that one is scaaaarrry. Remember Dr. Snuggles camel buddy up in the clouds? And how one time they patched up the rainbow with the rainbow patching machine Dr. Snuggles invented?I think the other newspaper show someone was thinking of might have been the Bloodhound Gang which was kind of similar without the Read All About It creapiness.Jeremy was a wicked show to. And Simon with the piece of chalk, I think that must have been the basis of Mike Myers 'Don't look at my bum' character Simon.Don't forget Barbapapa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Clickity-click! Barba-trick!!! LOVE THAT SHOW!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunkyb Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Its all about Todays special. A mannequin, a talking mouse and a puppet security guard.What about the friendly giant...old skool shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmerman Posted November 20, 2001 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 too many flashbacks here, who remembers this one? here's the premise: this live-action show (as opposed to puppets or animation) starred this modern scruffy street kid who travelled through time with this magic trunk. Anyhow, along his travels he meets up with this old timer from the early 1900's who sold medicine (but I think it was moonshine) out of his carrage. Anyone remember the show's title? Just thought I'd throw in one more: who remembers the LETTER PEOPLE?!?!? theme song: "come and play with the letter People, Come and meet the whole family, Words are made out of Letter people, A B C D, follow Me" love that fucking song! one more: Harriet's Magic Hats (how corny was that?). oh oh, and let's not forget Heather Conky, the host for Report Canada! Conky?!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentlemonkey Posted November 20, 2001 Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 did anyone mention... the greeeeeeen forest.. the greeeeeeeen forest. the stories you read about all come. to. LIFE! there were more lyrics but that'll all i remember.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPhish Posted November 20, 2001 Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 I am not sure if this was tvo or not; "brush your teeth, round and round circle square up and down a small soft tooth brush the round about way will keep you gums healthy and prevent tooth decay so brush very carefully three times a day brush round and round"Hey does anyone remember the name of the computer on Today's special??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted November 20, 2001 Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 This one was of a really primitive cartoon type character and he didn't say anything, he just talked like Charlie Brown's teacher or whatever, and he walked along this line, and sometimes this pencil would come in and erase the line and draw something new. and he would bitch at the hand that was drawing it... I'm not stoned. Honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmerman Posted November 20, 2001 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 yeah Blane, I totally recall that one. Not sure what it was called, but I think it used to be on First Choice (movie cable) used as filler in between films?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.p. Posted November 20, 2001 Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 How 'bout "Electric Company"? I rediscovered it in the past year late night on satalite tv. It's like an earlier, hipper, gheto version of Sesame Street. Morgan Freeman is one of the stars. It's fuckin' cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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