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Did anyone else watch Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers? I LOVED that show... it had mechanical horses. And a guy that looked like Lando. But, like most kids in the eighties, I loved me some Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe. And, as a gal, I did have to watch the occasional Rainbow Brite, Lady Lovely Locks (ANOTHER show that I LOVED), and She-Ra. Still watch way more cartoons then I should (Avatar anyone?) and watched a ton of the Disney ones (Gummi Bears, Tailspin, Darkwing Duck...).

Posted By: RoeDid anyone else watch Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers? I LOVED that show... it had mechanical horses. And a guy that looked like Lando. But, like most kids in the eighties, I loved me some Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe. And, as a gal, I did have to watch the occasional Rainbow Brite, Lady Lovely Locks (ANOTHER show that I LOVED), and She-Ra. Still watch way more cartoons then I should (Avatar anyone?) and watched a ton of the Disney ones (Gummi Bears, Tailspin, Darkwing Duck...).

C'mon, this thread was just getting classy...

Stay Classy, San Diego.

Posted By: DramI think I had a crush on the ten year old blond boy from the first season

Posted By: Bill

Posted By: DramI think I had a crush on the ten year old blond boy from the first season

Who didn't?

Also: 321 Contact! and Reading Rainbow"Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine and into your brain, and that's where you get shitty ideas from." - Unknown

And Square One, with Mathnet! Oh I miss the oldschool PBS stuff.

time to pull out my Ace Card
so does anyone remember watching this... Picture Pages..time to get Pens and Pencils

being a poor ass family that we were we used old papers from school and sharpie markers and made the sounds ourselves when drawing. this show was on about the same time as "You Can't Do That on Television"

so does anyone remember watching this... Picture Pages..time to get Pens and Pencils

Holy shit Eli, you evil bastard. Nothing to do with Picture Pages, but in the related videos section it had the intro to a show called Kids Incorporated. I used to watch the hell out of that when i was in primary school. It was a show about some kids in a band, singing in what appears to be a diner or a factory that makes rape, i can't tell the difference. I just about had a brain fart when i was watching the intro and saw the cute little cast member Stacy Ferguson and somewhere deep in the geek info recess of my brain made the connection that she is everyone's favourite pants wetting, meth addicted Black Eyed Pea Fergie! I'd call the move from Kids Incorporated to the Black Eyed Peas a career side step at best.

Ha! If memory serves me right, though, the eponymous "kids" had found an abandoned TV station and were using it to broadcast their pirate signal to hack into something or other. And yes I totally remember Picture Pages. And how could I forget You Can't Do That on Television? This is great stuff - keep it coming!

So many to pick from...

Only seen when visiting family in NY, so great because of that: Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (in reruns)

Hanna Barbera dominated most kids' tv for me. A few faves:
Wacky Races
Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
Banana Splits

Sid and Marty Krofft were gods:
The Bugaloos
Lidsville
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
And, tied for the best of all:
H.R. Pufnstuf
Land of the Lost

And, FTW, seen in glorious B&W:
ST:TOS

I loved Morocco Mole! I don't know if these were shown in America as they're british cartoons but some other excellent shows were Danger Mouse, Banana Man, Count Duckula, The Trap Door and i don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet the always awesome Inspector Gadget! I had a couple episodes of Inspector Gadget on VHS before Star Wars: A new hope which my parents had taped off TV for me so whenever i watched Star Wars i'd watch Inspector Gadget before hand. I must've watched that tape a thousand times.

Posted By: FerrosI loved Morocco Mole! I don't know if these were shown in America as they're british cartoons but some other excellent shows were Danger Mouse, Banana Man, Count Duckula, The Trap Door and i don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet the always awesome Inspector Gadget! I had a couple episodes of Inspector Gadget on VHS before Star Wars: A new hope which my parents had taped off TV for me so whenever i watched Star Wars i'd watch Inspector Gadget before hand. I must've watched that tape a thousand times.Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Noone has mentioned Mighty Orbots yet either, a very poor Voltron rip off with a comedy bent to it. Five robots all with wacky personalities join together to form one big robot piloted by a preteen as the last line of defence against evil in the entire universe.

Posted By: FerrosI loved Morocco Mole! I don't know if these were shown in America as they're british cartoons but some other excellent shows were Danger Mouse, Banana Man, Count Duckula, The Trap Door and i don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet the always awesome Inspector Gadget!

Posted By: FerrosI loved Morocco Mole! I don't know if these were shown in America as they're british cartoons but some other excellent shows were Danger Mouse, Banana Man, Count Duckula, The Trap Door and i don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet the always awesome Inspector Gadget! I had a couple episodes of Inspector Gadget on VHS before Star Wars: A new hope which my parents had taped off TV for me so whenever i watched Star Wars i'd watch Inspector Gadget before hand. I must've watched that tape a thousand times.Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Reading Rainbow rocked my world, having Jordi LaForge tell me to read was all i needed. when i was in high school a local punk band covered the theme song.

I lived for the Disney Shows... and Are You Afraid Of The Dark (which my sister found all the episodes on DVD and got me for christmas), Alex Mack, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts and a show called Breaker High that NO ONE knows about...



those shows made my childhood fantastic...

My nephew now watches Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, and Talespin b/c my sister got them on DVD for him so he could be as cultured as we were growing up haha

As a kid I watched anything on Nickelodeon: Pete and Pete, All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Rugrats, and Kenan and Kel. And who could forget Salute Your Shorts and Clarissa Explains it All?
I was also HUGELY into TMNT and Batman: The Animated Series.

If it's already been mentioned i apologise but Saved by the bell was just the quintessential pre-teen, early teen years show. Zak and Slater having the worst school yard fight i've ever seen, the girl from showgirls before she was a dirty tramp and who can forget Screech and Principal Belding, the greatest comedy team since Abbott and Costello.

Are you afraid of the dark was fantastic, it actually scared me...

Posted By: FerrosScreech before he was a dirty tramp

Posted By: dougWacky Races
Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
Banana Splits

Posted By: JanellAlex Mack, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts

Posted By: Arcys

Posted By: dougWacky Races
Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
Banana Splits

Yes. Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la! Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la!

Posted By: JanellAlex Mack, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts

I loved Alex Mack! It was only a few years ago, but I realized that, as a kid, I really wanted to have sex with her. Hey Dude was awesome, and Salute Your Shorts was a mainstay of my child hood. Pete & Pete is one of the best shows ever! I also remember watching Wild and Crazy Kids! a lot. Also, "Who loves orange soda? KEL LOVES ORANGE SODA! I do, I do, I doo-ooo!"



I AM OLMEC AND STANDING TO MY LEFT IS MY TOOL, KIRK FOGG.Ahh! After 10,000 years I'm finally free! It's time to conquer Earth!

Posted By: Dram

Posted By: Arcys

Posted By: dougWacky Races
Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
Banana Splits

Yes. Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la! Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la!

Posted By: JanellAlex Mack, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts

I loved Alex Mack! It was only a few years ago, but I realized that, as a kid, I really wanted to have sex with her. Hey Dude was awesome, and Salute Your Shorts was a mainstay of my child hood. Pete & Pete is one of the best shows ever! I also remember watching Wild and Crazy Kids! a lot. Also, "Who loves orange soda? KEL LOVES ORANGE SODA! I do, I do, I doo-ooo!"



I AM OLMEC AND STANDING TO MY LEFT IS MY TOOL, KIRK FOGG.Ahh! After 10,000 years I'm finally free! It's time to conquer Earth!

Legends of the hidden temple was hardcore. I loved the end where they climbed a huge tetnis-infected razor-wire strewn mountain of furious torture.

Posted By: Arcys

Posted By: dougBanana Splits

Yes. Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la! Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la!

Posted By: doug

Posted By: Arcys

Posted By: dougBanana Splits

Yes. Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la! Tra-la-la! Tra-la-la-la!

Four banana, three banana, two banana, one.
All bananas playing in the bright warm sun.
Flippin like a pancake, poppin like a cork
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork.

Speaking of Legends of the hidden temple, who else watched "Finders Keepers," a show on Nick where you had to destroy a mock house full of crap to find certain items?

I also LOVED Nick Arcade. I was all "How do they put them IN the video games?!?!?!? HOW!?"

"You have 30 seconds to get 10 rings in Sonic The Hedgehog......GO!!"

I absolutely loved Rugrats, watched a lot of the Spielberg shows when they came over to the U.K. (mostly Freakazoid and Pinky and the Brain), B:TAS, Doug, TMHT, Blue Peter, SMART, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Wacky Races, Pokemon, Digimon, Smurfs, Spiderman, the god awful Incredible Hulk (which had a strangely redeeming intro though the only word said in it was "HULK") and x-men. Think that just about covers it, though there was this one King Arthur related animated show that used to air in the morning on CBBC, sometime during the late 90's I think, that i'm hoping some other Brits could possibly remember.

Posted By: his holiness though there was this one King Arthur related animated show

King Arthur and the Knights of Justice. That had to be my top guilty pleasure of Saturday morning cartoons.

I don't think it was the football player one it was way too serious for that storyline though as an idea that does sound pretty awesome though, also I forgot to mention Animals of Farthing Wood.

Posted By: his holinessalso I forgot to mention Animals of Farthing Wood.

Being a Brit born in the seventies I watched some shit that would blow your mind, including but not limited to -

Bagpuss
The flumps
Bod
Danger Mouse
The Trapdoor
and of course the greatest show of all time knightmare

Danger Mouse was great - I actually bought Season 1 from Best Buy and it holds up fairly well. Knightmare looks outstanding! See above for the American attempt at bluescreen/VR gameshows - "Nick Arcade". Not even close.

My childhood shows consisted of Barney in the toddler years, which may be why I'm so warped now.

I also watched Buffy as a child with my dad. Watched Hey Arnold and The Weekenders.

Now I watch Disney shows and Joss Whedon's stuff, and since I'm still sort of a child, I guess that counts?

Trapdoor was good but scared the hell out of me with its general freakiness.