Thread: The A-Z of Children's TV
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20th Jun 2009, 11:14 AM #26Pip Madeley Guest
U is for Uncle Jack
In 1990 Doctor Who was off the air but its spirit lived on in CBBC comedy-drama Uncle Jack starring Paul Jones (yes, he of Manfred Mann) as Jack Green, an environmentalist trying to save the planet - he would have been right at home in 'The Green Death' and his performance/character were more than a little Doctorish.. he even has a big Pertwee-esque nose! And the show had its very own Rani, in the form of supervillain biologist The Vixen, played by the iconic Fenella Fielding, who is bent double on dominating the world mainly through changing the ecology of the planet.
Four series were originally broadcast between 1990 and 1993, the last going out when I was just 8 years old. I've been lucky to have to seen a couple of episodes recently but I'm dying to get them all... if anyone of you has it, PM me!
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20th Jun 2009, 11:44 AM #27
I remember Dev from Coronation Street as Mustapha Pee-Pee or something like that.
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20th Jun 2009, 11:52 AM #28Pip Madeley Guest
His character was called Jose Cuervo... not as funny
I'd love to see the first series - Edward Brayshaw AND James Bree were in it
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20th Jun 2009, 1:11 PM #29
It wasn't Dev then but there was a character with that name in the fourth and final series...
Imelda Potte ... Natasha Gray
Denis Ashington-Smythe ... Michael Cochrane
Hugo Barley ... John Turnbull
Pearl Barley ... Caroline O'Connor
Imogen Prattalot ... Moyra Fraser
Helen ... Catherine Bailey
Mustafa Pipi ... Stewart Permutt
Saleem ... Rocky Samrai
Decorator ... Nigel Miles-Thomas
Sir Humphrey Morton ... Patrick Marley
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20th Jun 2009, 1:12 PM #30
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20th Jun 2009, 2:04 PM #31Pip Madeley Guest
Classic series! I remember Paula Wilcox in that, thinking she was a bit of a MILF... years before the term was invented
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20th Jun 2009, 5:40 PM #32
V is for Vision On
Probably my favourite programme featuring Tony Hart, as it had a lot more variety than just the artwork.
We're sorry that we cannot return your pictures....Bazinga !
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20th Jun 2009, 7:11 PM #33
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22nd Jun 2009, 10:06 PM #34Pip Madeley Guest
Here's something for Si and Steve...
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22nd Jun 2009, 10:39 PM #35
Reach out with a fist and break out!! I was introduced this series five years ago by a friend and fell in love with it instantly. It's cheap, cheerful, badly acted, but oddly comforting television. As you say it's nothing if not pure entertainment, and contains some of the funniest commentaries to ever grace a DVD.
'In search of some rest, in search of a break
From a life of tests, where something's always at stake
Where something's always so far...'
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22nd Jun 2009, 11:07 PM #36Pip Madeley Guest
I had the pleasure of seeing THE LIVING SKINS episode with a few PSers... hilarious
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23rd Jun 2009, 12:11 AM #37
Yes, The Living Skins is definitely a classic (although the bubble skins look very much like early shell suits!!). If you end up in the position again to pick a Tomorrow People story at a PS Party ask for A Man For Emily - that one is infamous!!
'In search of some rest, in search of a break
From a life of tests, where something's always at stake
Where something's always so far...'
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23rd Jun 2009, 1:22 PM #38
I ain't going to play no story about the doooselum pin to ma friends the Momma!
It's infamous with good reason! It's not even so terrible it's good, it's so terrible it's terrible!
Anyway, moving right along,
W is for Why Don't You
And the majority of times it was on I took the advice of the theme song and stiched off the TV set and went out and did something less boring instead!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Jun 2009, 2:34 PM #39
X is for X-Men, the cartoon series. Well, it's getting hard now.
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23rd Jun 2009, 11:58 PM #40'In search of some rest, in search of a break
From a life of tests, where something's always at stake
Where something's always so far...'
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26th Jun 2009, 3:20 PM #41
Y is for You and Me
I remember the turning brick intro and the adventures of Duncan the Dragon and Alice and Crow very fondly before those young upstarts Cosmo and Dibbs took over and UB40 rearranged the theme in the reggae stylee!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Jun 2009, 12:57 AM #42Pip Madeley Guest
Zzzzap!
Mad CITV show with Sophie Aldred as a witch - very childish and silly but I seemed to watch it a lot back in the day...
Feel free to go round again and choose different shows!
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28th Jun 2009, 10:01 PM #43
I loved that show!
Come to think of it, whatever happened to CiTV? It seems to have melted away...For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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29th Jun 2009, 6:49 PM #44
I think that was one of the services in the news a year or so ago that ITV are doing away with, along with some regional news areas, for budgetary reasons.
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15th Oct 2017, 4:43 PM #45
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Great news Pip, we have found ALL the episodes of Uncle Jack! I uploaded the Loch Noch Monster series, happy viewing! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...eEI_rlM3HfYw8j
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16th Oct 2017, 4:09 PM #46
Serious nostalgia for Uncle Jack. Green issues front and centre too!
OK let's start again?
Art Attack
Neil Buchannan (of No.73 fame (Well I say fame (But then it was at the time, certainly for a youngster like me))) presents a show with an ever-so-slightly morbid title but a very upbeat and joyful tone. Always found this bright and colourful and fun even though as it was 1990 I was a little old for it.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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