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originally posted by jake spike: "...which looked exactly like a turd, so it is indeed "fudge-like"."

touche!

here's another question...

i've been trying to find a decent colour image of an exploding television set. now, maybe it's the search engines i'm using or something, but nothing decent has appeared yet.

you'd think there'd be lots of exploding TV jpegs on the net, wouldn't you?

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Either my memory is fried from watching so much TV or I didn't watch a lot of TV as a kid.

I remember watching Trap-Door followed by He-Man through the week.

Also the A-Team on a Saturday.

And the Dons being involved in cup finals - Excellent TV. Oooh, and the Tennents Sixes, that was ace (it probably wasn't but it seemed it at the time).

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'A Very Peculiar Practise'; ace university medical practise based surreal dark comedy, with Peter Davison, an old Scottish bloke, Barbara Flynn(!!!) and top Tory style bloke. Vvv subversive and spot on at predicting the rise of market forces in Education provision, Ballardesque.

May 11th 1983 European Cup Winners Cup Final, say no more

The Tube

Minder

Only When I Laugh (just kidding, that was shit)

Tripods, did they ever finish that convincingly?

Led Zep live in Copenhagen ( was on one new year)

I started drinking that decade so some details elude me.

What was that one, 'Edge of Darkness', had a nuclear twist in it.

Euro Satire 'The Gravy Train' (feat Alexi Sayle)

other stuff with Alexi Sayle

that drama where people are being smuggled into Western Europe from Poland, but all get killed in a massive cave???

My brain hurts now.

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Guest Jake Wifebeater
Bullseye!

look at what you could have won lads....

Chris Wilkie's (E106 drummer) dad went on the show, and is the proud owner of a Bendy Bully, the lucky bastard.

Oh, another few:

First Class. (school quiz, one of the rounds was to see how far you could go playing Paperboy)

Tenko. (Women POW's in a Japanese camp)

Masterteam. (had the 5.35 slot before Neighbours)

Top Of The World (Eamonn Andrews quiz show)

Albion Market. (shite soap)

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Anybody mentioned Kickstart yet?

Nope - good call, the theme tune was ace!

also fondly remembered...

BJ and the Bear - there's a concept I could dig, a man and his monkey

ALF

Family Ties

Cheers - used to be the only thing on Channel 4 worth watching back in the day

The Comic Strip Presents... (esp Bad News)

The Fall Guy

Think of a number

The Great Egg Race

The Adventure Game - talking aspidistra anyone?

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Cheers - used to be the only thing on Channel 4 worth watching back in the day

Hmm, not sure about that, I remember enjoying The Cosby Show and Roseanne when they first started (yes, they got crap later on). The Wonder Years was goos as well.

Anyone remember Marblehead Manor, on Channel 4 after Neighbours?

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Here's a couple of testers for ya..

The Master - lee van cleef as a ninja master with a young sidekick

Chalkies(?) children - CITV program

The Master was great, the sidekick always got thrown through windows...

Chocky's Children - It's a set of books by the great John Wyndham

Other classics include:

Cover Up - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087093/

Knightmare - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193677/

Macgyver - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/

Street Hawk - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088618/

Automan - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084978/

Rentaghost - started in the 80's but I remember the 80's version http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074045/

Moonlighting - Still one of my favourite shows to this day http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088571/ as is...

The Dukes of Hazzard - no point in linking everyone knows the Dukes...

Mooncat - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343265/

and last but not least some animated stuff:

Button Moon - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227882/

Ghost of Faffner Hall - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370142/

Droids - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088510/

Godzilla (and Godzooky) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177814/

and last but not least...

Dogtanian - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083780/

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Bravestarr.

Eys of the Hawk

Ears of the Wolf

Speed of the Puma

Strength of the Bear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BraveStarr

My fave and my nickname at school.

incredibledisc - you are a genius. I would cry real, real tears if I could watch just one more episode of the Adventure Game. I am instantly transformed back to our first house, sitting with my sister on the setee, eagerly awaiting it to come on. The Red Salamander! All the characters were anagrams of dragon! Very primitive useage of special effects!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Game

Look & Read - school programme but nevertheless absolutley amazing. SpaceBoy had us cowering in the corner of the classroom. As did Dark Towers. Anyone else?

Anyone also remeber Puddle Lane? I remember it was shown on a Thursday lunchtime as I saw it when I went home from school.

There are so many - I rememebr there used to be a cracking site called "Watched It!" I used to go on every lunchtime when I worked for RGU about 6 years but it seems to have dissapeared. It had EVERY 80's show on it.

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