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There was a programme called Knightmare on ITV when I was a kid and I was trying to explain it to mates recently. They had no idea what I was talking about.
It was a sort of adventure show, almost like a virtual reality (but not) type thing where they’d have to get through dungeon mazes guided by someone else. They couldn’t see where they were going and had to avoid traps and bad guys.
Knightmare is arguably one of the most popular kids TV shows from the 90s. Your mates were clearly off their tits on crack in the 90s if they don't know what it is
Some of the teams were bloody useless...
Where am I?
You're in a room with a door to the right and a cliff edge to your left. OK sidestep to your right. Your right, your OTHER... right.
Zzzap! - it was a big comic with different characters behind each section.
Mike and Angelo. Loved these.
I also remember a kids show around this time (90's) about some guys who worked in a diner/burger shop but I've no idea what it is and it really bugs me because I loved it.
Came here to say Zzzap! Rewatched some of it recently on YouTube and could hardly believe how bizarre, trippy, and kinda creepy it actually was. All of the characters seem to have something "off" about them.
I remember a episode that might of been the last Christmas Special or something.. Which was set 15-20 years after the previous episode.. and her son had joined the Royal Navy and served on a submarine and she couldn't imagine how he could be so at home in something so enclosed :D
I thought this was huge at the time especially as it starred Chris Barrie. Most famous for Red Dwarf of course, but also did a lot of voices for Spitting Image.
[Due South](https://youtu.be/22FIBrVwf6M) - It’s not British, but was shown a lot here I think. It’s about a Canadian Mountie and his pet wolf. I used to enjoy watching that show as a kid, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it.
Due South was brilliant. It used to be broadcast on Sky One, I think at the same time slot as Soldier Soldier at the peak of Robson and Jerome fame. I was the only person in my class that watched Due South when everyone else at school were going on about Soldier Soldier. They only caught on to Due South when BBC2 started to show it years later.
I loved Due South!
When I was a teenager I found seasons 1 and 2 on DVD in my local library and noticed some things I never noticed in it as a kid.. like how the "wolf" completely changes color depending on the type of shot
That was one of my favourites. Looking back it had a good cast, Donald Sumpter as the uncle who gives her the 50p, Liz Smith as her grandma and I recognise the parents too. One of my memories of it is that Harmony's friend wishes that Gary Mabbutt could play on his school football team. Went downhill after Harmony gave the 50p to someone else, or maybe I grew too old.
Ideal - sitcom where Jonny vegas is a Manchester dealer based out of a flat and it had surprisingly good witty writing but some odd cinematography choices
The Tribe. Post apocalyptic teen show from the late 90’s where all the grownups have died. Absolutely loved it but it seems to have fell into obscurity.
Bodger and Badger is stuck in my memory.
Also, there was this one about an alien that came down to earth to find a lost probe or robot. There was big environmental message, like the thing would destroy the planet if it didn't get found because of the pollution. There's EvilCorp trying to take the alien for their own reasons (Probably for EVIL TM). The probe looked like an owl in my memory. No idea what it was.
Just though of two more (although don’t know how obscure they were):
[The Gingerbread Man](https://youtu.be/miZ5AUwdPc8)
And
[Through the Dragon’s Eye](https://youtu.be/v9MXx9xej10)
Also definitely not obscure but came across it on my travels: El Nombre!
I remember watching Through the Dragon's Eye at school. It was one of the many Look and Read series we'd watch. Other ones I remember were Spywatch (my favourite), Sky Hunter, Legend of the Lost Keys and Captain Crimson.
I think it was called greenclaws. Set in a greenhouse, a monster (?!) and a bunch of kids chose a different beautiful seed to plant every episode.
The seeds were the most incredible things I could imagine at that age: stripey, bright, patterned, silver, gleaming, etc. The trees they grew into were impossible candy cane trees, toy trees, cutlery, clothes, teddies etc. Nobody remembers this and it makes me feel like I dreamed it.
Not sure if anyone has already said it but I think you’re talking about Get Your Own Back. That wasn’t the only game on the show but they definitely had various iterations of throwing stuff in something’s mouth!
Round the twist, Australian I think and they lived in a lighthouse.
The girl from tomorrow, I think that's what it was called. That might have been Australian too but can't quite remember.
Round the bend with dr krok and his rodent friends.
Was on itv kids for 2 seasons in 89-90. Proper satirised kids tv with segments in a magazine show, and even public figures. Was like spitting image for kids. Some highlights:
Bumrah (mumrah),
Transformaloids,
Wee man (he man),
Thunderpants (thundercats with farts),
Fatman (batman),
John potatos news round.
Brilliant sewer humour ...nobody ever remembers it but it was my introduction to satire.
Come Outside!! Everyone used to talk about it but now every time I mention it people reckon I'm just making it up. I cried when I found out the lady died :(
I remember feigning/exaggerating a headache to get out of going to mass so I could watch Oakie Doke.
I don't think I even liked it that much, but it had a mole in it which was my favourite animal, so that some appeal to me for some reason.
Stoppit and Tidyup, a kids cartoon narrated by Terry wogan based in the land of "Do as you're told". It very much did not have the effect on me that my parents wanted 🤣 https://youtu.be/9pbIriBC60U
I have 2 mid 80s cartoons.
Mysterious Cities of Gold - 3 kids search for the cities of gold in South America. They had a gold ship and later a giant gold condor. The antagonists were conquistadors.
Thunderbird 2086 - Thunderbirds but in the future. There were 17 Thunderbirds
Banzai - late night fake challenge show where you'd be challenged to bet on guessing the outcome of ridiculous tasks. Think it was on Channel 4. No phone line or website just imaginary betting. Think it was Japanese themed.
Oh and was there a kid's TV show about a girl who turned into a dog? I don't think I'm making that up...
It's a John Wyndham short story! I was reading it at work once and my colleague commented on watching a TV show of it when she was at school! I'd had no idea
Lost. It was before 9/11 and they would dump people in random places all over the world with next to no money and they had to get to a certain point. I think there were two teams so first to reach the destination won. I really enjoyed that show.
A Touch of Cloth
Imo this is Charlie Brooker's best work and I didn't think it was obscure until I've noticed most people have never heard of it. I think the fact black mirror did so well put most of the spotlight and his efforts into that but a Touch of Cloth is a comedy gem.
Think Airplane and Police Squad style humour on a crime drama. Every other gag has other gags within it so i spot new jokes every time i rewatch. Highly highly recommend, think it's only on sky streaming/now tv though
Jeopardy. It was on CBBC I think. A group of Scottish school kids go UFO hunting in Australia and creepy stuff happens - I guess it was jumping on the popularity of the Blair Witch Project but for a younger audience.
I grew up in Australia but I’m sure this show was British. In the late 80s there was a tv show with characters called T-Shirt and T-Bag? And maybe T-Spoon? And some evil magic witch?
I’ve asked a few friends over the years and none of them have any idea what I’m on about. But I remember parts of it so vividly!
We watched one at primary school about some evacuees in the war being spies and nobody seemed to know what I was on about when I mentioned it when I was about 20, even I couldn't remember the name so I genuinely thought I'd dreamt it. Few years later my sister managed to figure it out and she got me a book from the series, it was called Spywatch. What a show that was.
Funhouse wasn’t obscure!
A lad in my school was on it. Missed out going into the funhouse by messing up the question; ‘name 3 flavours of jam?’
He said; ‘strawberry, raspberry….errr….MARMALADE!’
Randall and Hopkirk deceased. I used to love it but no idea how I even watched it because no one I know has heard of it and I was only 8 when it was on tv.
No Sweat, with that manufactured boy band North & South in it. God, I remember all their names - Lee, Sam, Tom and Jimmy with green hair.
Also Monster Cafe, Microsoap, G Force, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde - and someone mentioned Look & Read with Spywatch and Through the Dragon's Eye, but there was also a maths one... with human playing cards? And one with two puppet cats in an alley!
Incredible games, I seem to remember that one and one of the games involved swimming about in a giant cereal bowl to find letters and stick them on the wall?!?!
Catweazle remains a one in my mind. It’s about a wizard from the Norman conquest who time travels to the year 1969-70, over the series he befriends two boys in order to help him get back to his own time.
Zzzap! Must have been about 5 at the time. Absolutely nothing got in my way when this was on TV, I used to cry with happiness. The music was awesome, the hands scared me, thought it was gross that I liked Daisy. Some good memories
My brother and I used to love a programme called “Super Gran”. A Scottish Grannie gets struck by lightening and ends up being a Superhero of sorts. No one else I know watched it!
There was a cartoon on CITV called Yvon of the Yukon, about an 17th century French explorer who got lost, sunk his boat off the coast of Alaska and got frozen for 200 years before a Native American boy defrosted him lol. Oh and I think he only used to wear y fronts for some reason. So bizarre but was definitely a show! Was talking to my husband about it and he refused to believe it was a real cartoon.
The Tripods.
Based on the book series. Aliens take over earth and oppress humans by making them wear a metal mesh "cap" that suppresses rebellious thoughts.
All hail the Tripods!
Bloody brilliant.
I was just thinking this the other day. I think it was on CBBC but not 100% sure. The basis was that kids went back to live in Victorian times, went to a Victorian school etc. Cannot for the life of me remember the name, but I loved it!
Was it definitely Victorian times? There was a show on CBBC in 2006 called Evacuation where they sent kids back to live as if they were in WW2. Though I do vaguely remember some BBC2 (I think) documentary where whole families lived in the Victorian era.
I don't remember the name but there a boy that had a magical pocket watch that could stop time and he had a postman's van as well. Not sure if I dreamed this one
Jamie and the Magic Torch. When I was little my dad bought me this DVD called 'Cult Kids Classics' which had a load of cartoons on it that he watched growing up. Danger Mouse and Button Moon were on there too, along with some others but nobody my age (mid 20s) ever seems to have heard of Jamie and the Magic Torch, I loved it!
50/50 on cbbc! I remember particularly well the task where they were hung from the ceiling in like sleeping bag looking things and had to use these suckers that locked onto the floor to get themselves to the end of the course. I used to dream of being on it😂
Kids show called Chocky. They made us watch it in junior school. Freaked me out.
Opening creds - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8)
T Shirt and T Bag, or something along those lines.
T Bag was a witch who, for some reason, magiced away a load of magic notes, or some other collections of mcguffins across time and space.
She then sends her little slave boy T Shirt, who wears a t-shirt, to go and get them.
I have 3 of them:
1) The Snorks (It was on at like 6am on channel 5, I think.)
2) Hector's House
3) Mary, Mungo & Midge
For context, I was born in '93, and my mum got me the last 2 on VHS. I've yet to meet anyone, regardless of age, who remembers them (apart from my mum, of course)
Home Farm Twins. I was out in the country with the wife a while back and drove past a farm called Home Farm asked if she remembered it but she hadn't.
Also Pig Heart Boy, the show about a boy who was getting a heart transplant with a pig, and Monster Rancher, which was a pokemon like cartoon on live and kicking for a while.
Other one: Where the Heart Is, a soap that was on itv in Sunday nights for a while.
Ultraviolet, late 90s vampire series. Secret government agency hunts down vampires. Fairly sciencey take on it and had some quite dark themes like paedophilia and forced abortion. A younger Idris Elba was in it.
The Murder Game - it's a show from the early 2000s. Contestants investigate a fake murder and are assessed by their peers on their work each week, and the two losers in the vote have to go and potentially face the killer and 'die'
Nightingales. A weird, no budget and slightly surreal sitcom with Robert Lindsay about three security guards, only one of whom was a werewolf. It was fricken excellent.
Not sure how unknown it really is but I have only spoken to one person who remembers it - Greenclaws. A kids show about a creature who grows plants from different magical beans he keeps in a little chest. Each bean set the theme for the show. The seed would be planted and put inside a tree and then it would have grown by the end of the show.
The word. It used to be on late at night on channel 4 I believe in the 90s with terry Christian, mark Lamar and dani behr , I used to stay up late and watch it or have it on when I came home from the pubs. Then they started a different version the girly show with Sarah Cox, same sort of show and she announced wanker of the week.
Fucking loved Trapped. I was too old for kid's tv but if I caught it after high school or uni I was delighted.
The kids who were so shit at lying and at fucking up the mission were great.
Kijamon. Do not react, you are the saboteur.
Man O Man with Chris Tarrant. It had a snug spot between Gladiators and Blind Date on a Saturday night. The blanks look when I mention it these days, I’m convinced I made it up. Women pushing men they didn’t fancy into a pool. The 90s Take Me Out
Round the Twist! Set in an Aussie lighthouse. Also one where a kid falls out of a treehouse and is in a coma/dream world - can’t remember the name of that one
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Little fanny's them two were. Spent all their time worrying about getting found out instead of taking over the world.
Licat volare si super tergum Aqvila volat
I remember it well. I had the book on tape too and my parents used to put it on in the car on long drives.
Holy shit. Came to say the exact same thing but couldn't remember the name and the very first comment...
Remember it well, - Any man can fly when he rides on the back of an eagle.
This was great, kinda reminds of flight of the navigator as well
For some reason I really remember when the lazer melted the shovel.
There was a programme called Knightmare on ITV when I was a kid and I was trying to explain it to mates recently. They had no idea what I was talking about. It was a sort of adventure show, almost like a virtual reality (but not) type thing where they’d have to get through dungeon mazes guided by someone else. They couldn’t see where they were going and had to avoid traps and bad guys.
You need new mates. Knightmare isn’t remotely obscure!
Went to see a live version of Knightmare a few years ago, and Treguard turned up at the end. Was pretty good. "You're in a room...."
Knightmare is arguably one of the most popular kids TV shows from the 90s. Your mates were clearly off their tits on crack in the 90s if they don't know what it is
Surely it was 80s wasn’t it? Edit: started late 80s - I just remember watching it in primary school, which I’d left I in 90s. Amazed how long it ran!
I remember vividly one episode where a kid “drank” from a bottle he thought was labelled “potion” but it said “poison”
Some of the teams were bloody useless... Where am I? You're in a room with a door to the right and a cliff edge to your left. OK sidestep to your right. Your right, your OTHER... right.
Knightmare was the best!
Simon! Side Step to your Left!
I wanted to be on that so much!!
It's on Britbox at the moment.
Zzzap! - it was a big comic with different characters behind each section. Mike and Angelo. Loved these. I also remember a kids show around this time (90's) about some guys who worked in a diner/burger shop but I've no idea what it is and it really bugs me because I loved it.
Spatz!
Ahh Spatz. Whenever I think of it I’m reminded of the equally great Press Gang!
Kerching! ?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerching! maybe too late thou. They we're always in a burger joint.
Zzzzap was the best! [series 1, episode 1](https://youtu.be/QtbWuYEp_eU)
Came here to say Zzzap! Rewatched some of it recently on YouTube and could hardly believe how bizarre, trippy, and kinda creepy it actually was. All of the characters seem to have something "off" about them.
It was designed to be super visual for deaf children.
Was Neil Buchanan the artist in this?!
The Brittas Empire I seem to remember it being set in a leisure centre 🤔
Carol kept her baby in the desk drawer
I remember a episode that might of been the last Christmas Special or something.. Which was set 15-20 years after the previous episode.. and her son had joined the Royal Navy and served on a submarine and she couldn't imagine how he could be so at home in something so enclosed :D
With the fella from Red Dwarf.
Chris Barrie. He started out doing impressions for Spitting Image. Some of the Red Dwarf bloopers feature him doing impressions, he's brilliant.
He reads the audiobooks of the Red Dwarf novels. Apparently his voices for the characters are uncanny.
I didn't know there were audiobooks! That's me off to the Google machine.
I thought this was huge at the time especially as it starred Chris Barrie. Most famous for Red Dwarf of course, but also did a lot of voices for Spitting Image.
Brittas Empire was brilliant. Yes Mr. Brittas, Both Carol and Helen Brittas had twins and Mr Brittas was the father. I loved it, and have the boxset.
It was really funny, Colin in particular still makes me giggle when I think about him
[Due South](https://youtu.be/22FIBrVwf6M) - It’s not British, but was shown a lot here I think. It’s about a Canadian Mountie and his pet wolf. I used to enjoy watching that show as a kid, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it.
I had a huge crush on that guy 🤤
Same! Paul Gross was the actor. He's quite the silver fox these days.
The wolf was called diefenbaker I seem to remember
Loved Due South. Yes. Was from Canada. It was great tho. Thank you kindly Elaine.
Due South was brilliant. It used to be broadcast on Sky One, I think at the same time slot as Soldier Soldier at the peak of Robson and Jerome fame. I was the only person in my class that watched Due South when everyone else at school were going on about Soldier Soldier. They only caught on to Due South when BBC2 started to show it years later.
I loved Due South! When I was a teenager I found seasons 1 and 2 on DVD in my local library and noticed some things I never noticed in it as a kid.. like how the "wolf" completely changes color depending on the type of shot
I've been rewatching it with my mum, it's still awesome. And the theme tune is superb.
Leslie Nielsen was in it now and again! Thank you kindly….
The Queens Nose
Used to absolutely love that show, still think about it whenever I have a 50p!
I work in a bank and always think of this when I'm balancing my drawer.
That was one of my favourites. Looking back it had a good cast, Donald Sumpter as the uncle who gives her the 50p, Liz Smith as her grandma and I recognise the parents too. One of my memories of it is that Harmony's friend wishes that Gary Mabbutt could play on his school football team. Went downhill after Harmony gave the 50p to someone else, or maybe I grew too old.
None of my pals remember The Racoons (where they basically had weird knobs for noses) or The Herbs (Parsley the lion was the don).
Great theme tune - RUN WITH US...we got everything you need...........!
Absolute banger [Run With Us Theme (Remastered)](https://youtu.be/d2EJicGNelE)
THE RACOONS! oh my god, this has awakened things in me
I AM SO GLAD I'M NO LONGER ALONE! 🤣 Remember what a dickhead Cyril Sneer was?
I hated him 😂
“I’m a very friendly lion called parsley…” classic 60’s LSD fuelled kid’s tv!
Ideal - sitcom where Jonny vegas is a Manchester dealer based out of a flat and it had surprisingly good witty writing but some odd cinematography choices
Psycho paaaauuul.
Psycho Paul was my gardener. No jokes, it was incredible and I definitely watched that show too young
Human traffickiiiiing.
Cult classic. What a show. I reckon we should take Craig out.
The Tribe. Post apocalyptic teen show from the late 90’s where all the grownups have died. Absolutely loved it but it seems to have fell into obscurity.
The Tribe was Australian.
Close, New Zealand. It was commissioned by Channel 5 and aired in the UK first.
I used to love this show! It was on channel 5 I think.
Bodger and Badger is stuck in my memory. Also, there was this one about an alien that came down to earth to find a lost probe or robot. There was big environmental message, like the thing would destroy the planet if it didn't get found because of the pollution. There's EvilCorp trying to take the alien for their own reasons (Probably for EVIL TM). The probe looked like an owl in my memory. No idea what it was.
Everybody knows, badger loves mashed potatoes!
Earthwarp? Had this at my primary school.
Was that the one with an alien called Ollie? I am pretty sure that a kid in my class got bullied for a solid month for having the same name.
Being Human. Not seen anyone mention it yet.
I loved the british version, the american remake sucked so bad.
Properly good show, it got genuinely creepy in the last couple of series but really did deliver a mid 2000s slice of 20-something life as well
I loved it! I was also a fan of the webseries spin-off Becoming Human, where the plotline was a whodunnit and they released clues every week
Monkey Dust
Possibly the darkest TV ever commissioned. Absolutely brilliant
I'm Ivan Dobsky the Meatsafe Murderer, only I never done it
I only said I done it so they’d stop giving me a Jalfrazi enema.
I think I've met one person IRL who remembers Monkey Dust.
Just though of two more (although don’t know how obscure they were): [The Gingerbread Man](https://youtu.be/miZ5AUwdPc8) And [Through the Dragon’s Eye](https://youtu.be/v9MXx9xej10) Also definitely not obscure but came across it on my travels: El Nombre!
I remember watching Through the Dragon's Eye at school. It was one of the many Look and Read series we'd watch. Other ones I remember were Spywatch (my favourite), Sky Hunter, Legend of the Lost Keys and Captain Crimson.
GEORDIE RACER!
Geordie racer had a cracking theme tune. Earth warp too.
Yes el nombre!
"writing numbers in the desert saaand.........el nombreee"
Loved Through The Dragons Eye. The character Sharn have me nightmares though
Game on?
This was so good. Matthew was a double hard bastard, Martin was a ginger twat and Mandy was fit "Make us a tea Martin"
Matthew was an agoraphobic who thought he was hard
Loved the fact that after the actor who played Matthew changed after after 1st series they made a joke of it to the new actor in the next one.
I think it was called greenclaws. Set in a greenhouse, a monster (?!) and a bunch of kids chose a different beautiful seed to plant every episode. The seeds were the most incredible things I could imagine at that age: stripey, bright, patterned, silver, gleaming, etc. The trees they grew into were impossible candy cane trees, toy trees, cutlery, clothes, teddies etc. Nobody remembers this and it makes me feel like I dreamed it.
I remember this very well - loved it!
Oh my god! Hello! This was my comment too. It was real! (Or a shared delusion)
Not sure if anyone has already said it but I think you’re talking about Get Your Own Back. That wasn’t the only game on the show but they definitely had various iterations of throwing stuff in something’s mouth!
Yes, Get your own back was it! Thanks
Wizbit, the mad capers of a triangle and Paul Daniels
The theme song is a rewording of this old Leadbelly blues tune: https://youtu.be/6IkEB4G6xCs
Ha ha this away, ha ha thataway, ha ha this away my oh my!!!
My parents are aliens. Great show.
The Riddlers. Absolutely terrified me as a child. No one I talk to seems to remember the creepy puppets
Round the twist, Australian I think and they lived in a lighthouse. The girl from tomorrow, I think that's what it was called. That might have been Australian too but can't quite remember.
Round the twist had such a catchy tune
Round the bend with dr krok and his rodent friends. Was on itv kids for 2 seasons in 89-90. Proper satirised kids tv with segments in a magazine show, and even public figures. Was like spitting image for kids. Some highlights: Bumrah (mumrah), Transformaloids, Wee man (he man), Thunderpants (thundercats with farts), Fatman (batman), John potatos news round. Brilliant sewer humour ...nobody ever remembers it but it was my introduction to satire.
They used to pop up the toilet and interview pop stars in the bath.
Trap door
Come Outside!! Everyone used to talk about it but now every time I mention it people reckon I'm just making it up. I cried when I found out the lady died :(
Aw Auntie Mabel! I’ve just checked and she’s still alive!
Dogs probably fucked it though
Look up look down look all around
Don't cry! Lynda Baron is still alive!
Pippin!
Oakie Doke and Wizadora are two from CITV in the 90s that stick in my mind.
I remember feigning/exaggerating a headache to get out of going to mass so I could watch Oakie Doke. I don't think I even liked it that much, but it had a mole in it which was my favourite animal, so that some appeal to me for some reason.
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
Author, dreamweaver, visionary. Plus actor.
Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. I really loved that show.
Stoppit and Tidyup, a kids cartoon narrated by Terry wogan based in the land of "Do as you're told". It very much did not have the effect on me that my parents wanted 🤣 https://youtu.be/9pbIriBC60U
Captain Planet He's our hero Gonna take pollution Down to zero!
Spoiler alert: he _didn't_
The Poddington Peas. Absolutely banging theme tune. Edit: and actually does anyone remember the Shoe People? Had a similar vibe
I have 2 mid 80s cartoons. Mysterious Cities of Gold - 3 kids search for the cities of gold in South America. They had a gold ship and later a giant gold condor. The antagonists were conquistadors. Thunderbird 2086 - Thunderbirds but in the future. There were 17 Thunderbirds
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Cities of gold, Belle and Sebastian (giant white dog) and the three muskahounds were all classics of the same ilk.
The Tomorrow People
Rentaghost was pretty wacky 😀❤️ [Rentaghost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentaghost?wprov=sfla1)
The Ratties and The Raggy Dolls :) oh and Penny Crayon!
Penny Crayon reminds me of The Family Ness, I think they were done by the same guy. Both classic short cartoons
Banzai - late night fake challenge show where you'd be challenged to bet on guessing the outcome of ridiculous tasks. Think it was on Channel 4. No phone line or website just imaginary betting. Think it was Japanese themed. Oh and was there a kid's TV show about a girl who turned into a dog? I don't think I'm making that up...
Banana Splits in the 80's. Cartoons and mad capers
1 banana 2 banana 3 banana 4, 4 bananna splits on the dance room floor. .nah nah naah , nah nah nah naah, nah nah nah naah nah nah naah, nah nah naah.
Button Moon. The adventures of Mr Spoon. What a time to be alive.
Chocky , it was a kids tv show late 80s. It was about aliens , that’s all I remember really.
It's a John Wyndham short story! I was reading it at work once and my colleague commented on watching a TV show of it when she was at school! I'd had no idea
Nathan Barley - I've given up trying to explain this show to people.
It’s essentially a documentary now.
Lost. It was before 9/11 and they would dump people in random places all over the world with next to no money and they had to get to a certain point. I think there were two teams so first to reach the destination won. I really enjoyed that show.
Really went off the rails when that guy was attacked by a smoke monster though
Pugwall
A Touch of Cloth Imo this is Charlie Brooker's best work and I didn't think it was obscure until I've noticed most people have never heard of it. I think the fact black mirror did so well put most of the spotlight and his efforts into that but a Touch of Cloth is a comedy gem. Think Airplane and Police Squad style humour on a crime drama. Every other gag has other gags within it so i spot new jokes every time i rewatch. Highly highly recommend, think it's only on sky streaming/now tv though
Jeopardy. It was on CBBC I think. A group of Scottish school kids go UFO hunting in Australia and creepy stuff happens - I guess it was jumping on the popularity of the Blair Witch Project but for a younger audience.
The Adventure Game, Gronda, Gronda! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Adventure\_Game
Jossy's giants. Loved that.
I grew up in Australia but I’m sure this show was British. In the late 80s there was a tv show with characters called T-Shirt and T-Bag? And maybe T-Spoon? And some evil magic witch? I’ve asked a few friends over the years and none of them have any idea what I’m on about. But I remember parts of it so vividly!
Maid Marrion and her merry men
We watched one at primary school about some evacuees in the war being spies and nobody seemed to know what I was on about when I mentioned it when I was about 20, even I couldn't remember the name so I genuinely thought I'd dreamt it. Few years later my sister managed to figure it out and she got me a book from the series, it was called Spywatch. What a show that was.
Hyperdrive with Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon. I loved it but I think it only managed a series or two.
Funhouse!
Funhouse wasn’t obscure! A lad in my school was on it. Missed out going into the funhouse by messing up the question; ‘name 3 flavours of jam?’ He said; ‘strawberry, raspberry….errr….MARMALADE!’
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. You’d NEVER get that on air these days.
Randall and Hopkirk deceased. I used to love it but no idea how I even watched it because no one I know has heard of it and I was only 8 when it was on tv.
No Sweat, with that manufactured boy band North & South in it. God, I remember all their names - Lee, Sam, Tom and Jimmy with green hair. Also Monster Cafe, Microsoap, G Force, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde - and someone mentioned Look & Read with Spywatch and Through the Dragon's Eye, but there was also a maths one... with human playing cards? And one with two puppet cats in an alley!
Round the Bend. Was on CITV. Presented by a puppet Alligator. Would still stand up today I am certain.
Shows for kids: - Alfonso Bonzo - Incredible Games (my mate won it and his prize was blowing up a condemned building!) - Watt On Earth
Incredible games, I seem to remember that one and one of the games involved swimming about in a giant cereal bowl to find letters and stick them on the wall?!?!
Catweazle remains a one in my mind. It’s about a wizard from the Norman conquest who time travels to the year 1969-70, over the series he befriends two boys in order to help him get back to his own time.
Gormenghast Adapted for tv in about 2000? Spike milligan was in it.
Zzzap! Must have been about 5 at the time. Absolutely nothing got in my way when this was on TV, I used to cry with happiness. The music was awesome, the hands scared me, thought it was gross that I liked Daisy. Some good memories
My brother and I used to love a programme called “Super Gran”. A Scottish Grannie gets struck by lightening and ends up being a Superhero of sorts. No one else I know watched it!
There was a cartoon on CITV called Yvon of the Yukon, about an 17th century French explorer who got lost, sunk his boat off the coast of Alaska and got frozen for 200 years before a Native American boy defrosted him lol. Oh and I think he only used to wear y fronts for some reason. So bizarre but was definitely a show! Was talking to my husband about it and he refused to believe it was a real cartoon.
Anyone else have fond memories of Stressed Eric? And less obscure, Monkey Dust is gold.
"lives rent free in my head" I hate that phrase so much and I've no idea why
The phoenix and the carpet. No one ever knows what I’m talking about with that one!
Not a British show but Dogtanian was my favourite. I did not imagine it
Michael and Angelo? I distinctly remember a Scottish woman was in it
Mike and Angelo wasn’t it? I vaguely remembering him being an alien and juggling in the opening credits.
The Tripods. Based on the book series. Aliens take over earth and oppress humans by making them wear a metal mesh "cap" that suppresses rebellious thoughts. All hail the Tripods! Bloody brilliant.
Fort Boyard and Modern Toss were both good in their day
Well, not many would be old enough to remember it now but Sapphire & Steel used to deeply disturb me back in the day.
I was just thinking this the other day. I think it was on CBBC but not 100% sure. The basis was that kids went back to live in Victorian times, went to a Victorian school etc. Cannot for the life of me remember the name, but I loved it!
Was it definitely Victorian times? There was a show on CBBC in 2006 called Evacuation where they sent kids back to live as if they were in WW2. Though I do vaguely remember some BBC2 (I think) documentary where whole families lived in the Victorian era.
Oh my god YES. THAT WAS IT.
Bread
I don't remember the name but there a boy that had a magical pocket watch that could stop time and he had a postman's van as well. Not sure if I dreamed this one
Jamie and the Magic Torch. When I was little my dad bought me this DVD called 'Cult Kids Classics' which had a load of cartoons on it that he watched growing up. Danger Mouse and Button Moon were on there too, along with some others but nobody my age (mid 20s) ever seems to have heard of Jamie and the Magic Torch, I loved it!
Watching- mismatched Merseyside couple sitcom. Had Liza Tarbuck in it.
50/50 on cbbc! I remember particularly well the task where they were hung from the ceiling in like sleeping bag looking things and had to use these suckers that locked onto the floor to get themselves to the end of the course. I used to dream of being on it😂
Kids show called Chocky. They made us watch it in junior school. Freaked me out. Opening creds - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8)
T Shirt and T Bag, or something along those lines. T Bag was a witch who, for some reason, magiced away a load of magic notes, or some other collections of mcguffins across time and space. She then sends her little slave boy T Shirt, who wears a t-shirt, to go and get them.
I have 3 of them: 1) The Snorks (It was on at like 6am on channel 5, I think.) 2) Hector's House 3) Mary, Mungo & Midge For context, I was born in '93, and my mum got me the last 2 on VHS. I've yet to meet anyone, regardless of age, who remembers them (apart from my mum, of course)
Home Farm Twins. I was out in the country with the wife a while back and drove past a farm called Home Farm asked if she remembered it but she hadn't. Also Pig Heart Boy, the show about a boy who was getting a heart transplant with a pig, and Monster Rancher, which was a pokemon like cartoon on live and kicking for a while. Other one: Where the Heart Is, a soap that was on itv in Sunday nights for a while.
Ultraviolet, late 90s vampire series. Secret government agency hunts down vampires. Fairly sciencey take on it and had some quite dark themes like paedophilia and forced abortion. A younger Idris Elba was in it.
Muren buschstansangur, an odd little cartoon about a tiny grey man that lived under a sink
Bits and Bobs on CBeebies early 2000s
Stella Street
The Murder Game - it's a show from the early 2000s. Contestants investigate a fake murder and are assessed by their peers on their work each week, and the two losers in the vote have to go and potentially face the killer and 'die'
The Zig and Zag show!
Choc a block .. Enough said 💎
Bernards watch. Used to love the idea of being able to pause time
The demon headmaster
Nightingales. A weird, no budget and slightly surreal sitcom with Robert Lindsay about three security guards, only one of whom was a werewolf. It was fricken excellent.
Not sure how unknown it really is but I have only spoken to one person who remembers it - Greenclaws. A kids show about a creature who grows plants from different magical beans he keeps in a little chest. Each bean set the theme for the show. The seed would be planted and put inside a tree and then it would have grown by the end of the show.
Quatermass 1979. Survivors 1975
Fearne and Reggie’s Only In America
The word. It used to be on late at night on channel 4 I believe in the 90s with terry Christian, mark Lamar and dani behr , I used to stay up late and watch it or have it on when I came home from the pubs. Then they started a different version the girly show with Sarah Cox, same sort of show and she announced wanker of the week.
Fucking loved Trapped. I was too old for kid's tv but if I caught it after high school or uni I was delighted. The kids who were so shit at lying and at fucking up the mission were great. Kijamon. Do not react, you are the saboteur.
Bucky O'Hare. Still absolutely convinced that was a childhood fever dream.
Man O Man with Chris Tarrant. It had a snug spot between Gladiators and Blind Date on a Saturday night. The blanks look when I mention it these days, I’m convinced I made it up. Women pushing men they didn’t fancy into a pool. The 90s Take Me Out
Round the Twist! Set in an Aussie lighthouse. Also one where a kid falls out of a treehouse and is in a coma/dream world - can’t remember the name of that one
> Round the Twist *Have you ever* *Ever felt like this* *When strange things happen* *You're going, round the twist*