I too am scared... that the Americans might try and make a movie or series of S&S...

I prefer to imagine that Russell T Davies will get hold of it and bring it back in style. Some of Steven Moffatt's Dr Who eps have given me great hope that this…

I too am scared... that the Americans might try and make a movie or series of S&S... They'd probably call it The Avenger from U.R.A.N.U.S. or summat...

Nah... American TV appears to be handing out work permits to every reasonably photogenic Anglo-Australian actor they can find, and the mania for 're-booting'…

I partially credit the Muppet Show with my musical education. I think they were so brilliant at using music hall *and* folk *and* rock *and* disco *and* the great American songbook. You never knew what you would hear next. And the band was rad. Bless those beardy stoners.

Sadly the…

I am too scared to rewatch Sapphire and Steel

I too am scared... that the Americans might try and make a movie or series of S&S... They'd probably call it The Avenger from U.R.A.N.U.S. or summat...

yrs wistfully
The Tin Man
__formerly of Oz…

Also, reading further down Curd Nerd's blog page, I discovered why cheese can't be made from human breast milk. Not enough protein = won't curdle.

After that gross but curiously fascinating factoid, how could anyone have doubted Curd Nerd is one of us (gabba hey!)

The Muppet…

I discovered why cheese can't be made from human breast milk. Not enough protein = won't curdle.

Ffs.

I didn't encounter the embedded music. If there's anything more resistable than popups for smileys & ringtones, it's embedded midi music

Nah, you're not ...

I am sorry, really.
I'll go away now.

cheese can't be made from human breast milk. Not enough protein = won't curdle.

I now have a piece of cheese on toast that I can't eat.
:-(

Sorry again, now I feel like a right shit.

Nah, you're not ...

Also, reading further down Curd Nerd's blog page, I discovered why cheese can't be made from human breast milk. Not enough protein = won't curdle.

Steve, you really got the wrong end of the stick there.

Please accept my apologies.
However, in my defence that was not the page that rendered on my screen the other night. What I saw was a guy standing in front of racks of cheese and then the embedded music…

Curd Nerd was able to oblige

Glumps blog reposted...

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=116063310&blogId=498722669

Squee! A Japanese adaptation of a 16th century satirical Chinese fantasy novel, dubbed into English by the BBC (with 13 episodes not dubbed until 2004 due to 'inappropriate content') — what's not to love?

Squee indeed! Great cast, ripping multilayered plots (the monk's horse was really a river monster doing…

He might have got it a bit wrong (the sooner our forums upgrade comes through and lets me close old threads, the better) but I think he was acting in good faith.

Seems that way to me. If there's an element of flogging cheese I've missed it.

Further upstream, way…

Monkey Magic (right after Wooley Valley on Sundays) was crazy!!!

Squee! A Japanese adaptation of a 16th century satirical Chinese fantasy novel, dubbed into English by the BBC (with 13 episodes not dubbed until 2004 due to 'inappropriate content') — what's not to love? When I visit the local branch…

Your site Russ, but in a mode of self justification I would say threadjacking a three year old thread to link to a commercial for cheese is a bit spammy, don't you think? just a bit... cheesy?

He might have got it a bit wrong (the sooner our forums upgrade…

Does anyone remember "The Mysterious Cities of Gold"?
It was a Japanese/French collaboration. Cool anime with Incan themes that had the most awesome synth soundtrack.

I definitely do. It was the first show I recognised as animé, as a 10-year old. MacGyver was the other biggie for me.

Is TVNZ…

Woah, Steve. I think that link was provided in good faith.

Your site Russ, but in a mode of self justification I would say threadjacking a three year old thread to link to a commercial for cheese is a bit spammy, don't you think? just a bit... cheesy?

This specific blog entry you're trying to read is currently set to be private, and only the blog owner can see it.

Well, that came and went with minimal fuss.

check it out at my blog

Ahh, erm.
Spamming is just so coool, trolling even better.
Now let me see.
So. I go to your blog, I see how "Cheesy" it is and I just can't leave it alone.
You are so post moderne, as they say in crap places.…

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=116063310&blogId=456836653

In my day (I guess I'm old enough to say that) Frank flash was a pretender to the crown that had been so admirably filled by Count Homogenized.

I was going to say thank go nobody mentioned Metal Mickey, but it tourns…

I also remember something about a cavekid, somehow caught in our world, living in a rubbish tip.

Stig of the Dump---you can still get the book, audiobook and VHS tape on Amazon!

Was "The Owl Service" ever here in NZ? Set in Wales, an Alan Garner adolescent/spooky tale---extremely good---as were…

The witch from HR Pufnstuf really scared me, as did the Master from Doctor Who.

Stingray was one of my favorites – Aqua Marina!
Monkey…

Hmm, Max Headroom wasn't bad. Some of the continental stuff featuring men in very tight suits and women in immutable hairdos sufficed, but please don't ask me…

Seems to have rolled over to adulthood, I am now an avid listener to all manner of auudio rips of british shows. They are stunningly easy to listen to, something about the…

that "self-sufficiency in the burbs" show whose name eludes me...

The Good Life

As, oddly enough, were a certain flavour of…

What, is she a C-grade crack whore now?

played by Joanne Ridley

http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/images/joanne_ridley.jpg

Space 1999 was pretty cool too.

And Logan's Run.

If I had to go the sci fi way, the little fluffy things that multiplied on star trek was always a giggle. But Space 1999. I've still got my cardboard cut out model of one of those ships, trade me?…

The Tommorrow People – ace of course!

Never liked Blake's 7 – too cheesey for me.

U.F.O. – get the DVD box set!

fun things to do with paper pain and scissors...

I always wanted to know how they cleaned the Lyttelton Tunnel?

Grange Hill, no contest sorry sci fi fans.

Also what about the Glumps, and their historical accounts of the world. Do you know how hard it is to find anything on them on the internet, if anyone finds anything?

the Goodies?

Then we became hooked on…

I must have watched Sesame Street before and after the time when they started making the language-learning slots in Maori. So when…

Secret Valley was another Aussie staple. I know the words to the themesong…

I don't think it ever screened here, but it occured ot me last night, that the very best kids show in the UK, was possibly the simplest.

Jackanory

Might have to look on youtube for the theme tune...

Lucan

Ooooh, the Lost Islands.
Best theme tune ever.

The interweb hath provided. I managed to find a .wav of the opening theme and closing theme of the Lost Islands on this website.

It's a really hearty sea shanty if ever there was one, complete with dramatic flute trills to underscore…

I can attest to…

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/escapenight.htm

Best theme tune ever.

Lockwood asked a question, along the lines of 'what is a name for any living creature beginning with O'. The poor girl replied 'orgasm'…

Didn't he become the Education Spokesman for the National Party?

Worse than that, he was Minster of Education at least once.

when I bittorrented all of the Goodies

I rented The Goodies a few weeks ago, and have to say that I was…

As for It's Academic – being a nerd that I was/am, I tuned in and Lockwood Smith couldn't pronounce to save himself. He'd ask a question…

Like you said, funny about it being primarily for the hearing impaired . I can still recall the music accompanying the segments:

The worker digging with the spade
The burbs with the voice bubbles
and of course the guy in the lab coat

Cheers

I wonder if this is the really scary one I remember of a girl who was hospitalised, and drew pictures of things

It's based on a book called Marianne Dreams, but I think the series had another name... anyway, hunted this down a while back.

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

On the Kiwi front, Ollie Ohlson from After School ... hey, can anyone YouTube Ollie uttering that famous "Keep Cool…

The Muppet Show anyone? I still remember the episode starring Joan Sutherland, with Kermit rushing backstage because he was short one skit, and asking her, with desperation, "Can you tap…

What was that balls NZ puppet show with Knights mucking about in space? I think Dave Dobbyn did the theme song.

That was Space Knights. All I remember about the theme song was it went "Space juuunk, space juuuuuunk". And had something about a finger on a trigger.

"HRPuffnStuff": and "Whitchy Poo", or the Magic Roundabout ???, and "Bill and Ben". Classics all.

And for the Adults "The South Tonight with Rodney Bryant".

Those were the days – i don't think anyone has mentioned that great british classic 'Time Slip' yet, or even…

The last is a BBR arts programme which had all sorts of odd things in it like pictures drawing themselves, and a furry that lived in a grandfather clock that would occasionally zip around the set.

..ah! "Vision On", perhaps? That was definitely a favourite of mine, although at that…

I loved Bab 5, but I always thought that was because it was considerably ABOVE the tradition. Multiple-episode plot arcs. Any kind of plots arcs. And look, there IS a use for Bruce Boxleitner.

Watching ST TOS with my kids is just excruciating,…

Matthew, I think Ark 2000 was maybe called Ark 7?

Hey, looks like we were both wrong. From TV.com:

This is their achievement: Ark II, a mobile storehouse of scientific knowledge, manned by a highly-trained crew of young people.

When I was five, that show was genius.

And big ups to Under the Mountain. I was in love with Theo, and am still frightened of the Wilberforces. In fact I'm still scared of Rangitoto.

What about Fangface and Hong Kong Fooey and Top Cat?

I loved "Under The Mountain". I…

To me, it is the most brilliant, underrated sf show, even though Minbarri ambassador had an implausible Swedish accent and and look of perpetual surprise on her face.

http://www.reelviews.net/master.html

he's Chicago born & bred. Yet he is a huge Blakes 7 fan...

i reckon the Tomorrow People might stump him though.

Andrew: funny you should mention Gabrielle Drake from UFO. For some…

Probably from the obscenely awful puns that proliferated throughout.

Maybe just standard kid-wanting-to-be-seniors syndrome. Whatever the technical term for that is.

I was blobbing out watching an episode on DVD last week and heard the words, Vulpine, Eviscerate, and Perfidious all get used.

Yes, granted it was a particular eat the scenery shakespearian moment, but has the use of language declined so much…

And yes, Blake's 7 was brilliant/appalling. I think I spent a major portion of my…

Did NZ screen some dross called Ace of Wands? If we were to do an equivalent list of the worst kids' shows, I think we really can't go past the Double Deckers, which might have been the UK response to the Partridge Family.

Not sure if they all consistute children's programs, but I did watch them as a kid.…