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Dr Who, Inspector Gadget, Astro Boy, Family Ties, Planet of the Apes, Mighty Mouse, Seven Cites of Gold.
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Hethrir wrote:Dr Who, Inspector Gadget, Astro Boy, Family Ties, Planet of the Apes, Mighty Mouse, Seven Cites of Gold.
Do you mean The Mysterious Cities of Gold?
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I'd love to see a lot of the Saturday morning kid's shows from the 70's again, like Shazam!, ArkII, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters...

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innerbrat wrote:
Do you mean The Mysterious Cities of Gold?

THAT CARTOON FUCKING RULED

THE GOLDEN FALCON!!!!!!!!!

RULED!!!!

Oh, and this is OT because it sure as hell didn't cancel early- but Tom Baker's Doctor Who. If anyone can help me find the .mp3 of the theme (1975) then tell me. I don't have Kazaa.
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i just remembered: DANGER MOUSE!!!!

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innerbrat wrote:Do you mean The Mysterious Cities of Gold?
:oops: i was thinking of the c64 game...also meant danger mouse, not mighty mouse...
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Forget old TV! Let's have old MOVIES come back! Let's see Hercules andGODZILLA chuck boulders at dragons once again!!
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I always liked Ghostbusters back in the day.

But, I have always been a M.A.S.H. fan.
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Anyone remember ALF?
Only really remember it cos there one of my friends at school looked a like him.

and here's more

Ulysses 31,
Count Duckula,
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds,
Knightmare,
The Trap Door
and not to forget Thundercats.


Good site for 80's kid's is this 80's Nostalgia.com
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Col. Crackpot wrote:i just remembered: DANGER MOUSE!!!!

oh crumbs DM!
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Galactica, and Tales of the Gold Monkey.

V miniseries were great, the series... uhhh.... hmmm....

MASH, Charlie's Angels, A-Team, and a lot of the others had pretty good production runs and quit after respectable times. It is better than dragging an ailing show out with gimmicks and prop-ups. They tried to drag out Ally MacBeal, for example, when it had already begun to sink and they should have just bowed out gracefully.
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GonK wrote:Anyone remember ALF?
Only really remember it cos there one of my friends at school looked a like him.
Do I remember ALF? ALF WAS FRIGGEN GREAT!
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MacGyver, baby. Damn I loved that show.

Anyone ever watch Hill Street Blues? I remember watching that with my dad when I was a kid... There was another show like that, but I can't remember what it was called...

Oh, I also used to watch Family Ties, He-Man, Voltron, The Smurfs, and David the Gnome!! Ahh, good times.
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Star Trek (TOS).
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Quantum Leap
Masters of the Universe
Alf (cartoon version only)
MacGyver
Hillstreet Blues
Knight Rider


and...

Sledge Hammer!
Man I loved that show as a kid. Now that they are running re-runs of it, I don't really understand what I saw in that show.
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THE MUPPET SHOW!!!!!

OMG, how could I have forgotten that?! It was so fuckin' hilarious! Every Sunday night it came on... Those two critics up in the balcony, and the Swedish Chef, and Beaker, and--and--and--I LOVED IT!! STILL DO!!! Where can I get it on VHS/DVD? :D
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I`d like to see reruns of SWAT,CHIPS,Adam 12,Emergency and some cartoon like Ulysses 31,Capitaine Flam(Captain Future),Albator(Captain Harlock) and thats about it. :mrgreen:
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Shows that were before my time: Early season MASH and All In the Family are better than 90% of what's on TV today. The Honeymooners, the Dick Van Dyke Show (mmmm....Mary Tyler Moore) and I Love Lucy are pretty good, and I love Dragnet (has anyone seen the new one?)

Shows that were on when I was a kid: Married, With Children was great. I miss 80's cartoons...find me something on TV today as good as G.I. Joe. My all time favorite was Dinosaucers, which I think had maybe two seasons and it never even got a toy line (the sculptures were made and possibly the molds, but the show was cancelled before production began). Seriously, that was the best show ever: dinosaurs with spaceships and guns fighting to control the Solar System. Kickass.
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Tales of the Gold Monkey! Great show, cashed in on the Indiana Jones craze, but it worked beautifully on its own.

The Muppet Show. Classic vaudeville that had something for all ages. If the kids didn't get it, the parents did.

Old cartoons: the Original Johnny Quest! The new one wasn't that bad, tho, but the CGI in that computer realm.. BLEH!

There was one Saturday morning (late 70's) cartoon.. can't recall the name of it but the hero was a schoolteacher/witch who had an owl (Arcamedes?) and was helped out by Rick Springfield. He had a new song every episode....

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innerbrat wrote:Do you mean The Mysterious Cities of Gold?
Hell yeah, I remember that. It was playing when I was around three or four... I loved that one. I was always sad when they found another lost city of gold and had to destroy it because of the bad guys following them...
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MacGyver! :D
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RedImperator wrote:I miss 80's cartoons...find me something on TV today as good as G.I. Joe. My all time favorite was Dinosaucers, which I think had maybe two seasons and it never even got a toy line (the sculptures were made and possibly the molds, but the show was cancelled before production began). Seriously, that was the best show ever: dinosaurs with spaceships and guns fighting to control the Solar System. Kickass.
I LOVED THAT SHOW! That had the coolest intro of all the 80's toons. :D

Don't forget "Denver: The Last Dinosaur". :P
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Zaia wrote:THE MUPPET SHOW!!!!!

OMG, how could I have forgotten that?! It was so fuckin' hilarious! Every Sunday night it came on... Those two critics up in the balcony, and the Swedish Chef, and Beaker, and--and--and--I LOVED IT!! STILL DO!!! Where can I get it on VHS/DVD? :D
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Vertigo1 wrote:
RedImperator wrote:I miss 80's cartoons...find me something on TV today as good as G.I. Joe. My all time favorite was Dinosaucers, which I think had maybe two seasons and it never even got a toy line (the sculptures were made and possibly the molds, but the show was cancelled before production began). Seriously, that was the best show ever: dinosaurs with spaceships and guns fighting to control the Solar System. Kickass.
I LOVED THAT SHOW! That had the coolest intro of all the 80's toons. :D
They should bring it back, with me as head writer. I could make that show kick so much ass the other cartoon makers would cry. For starters, the Secret Scouts wouldn't be the biggest pussies in the universe. Second, I'd triple the cast size, mostly by adding a bunch of minor characters, maybe with one new major on each side (the Tyrannos NEEDED a raptor of some sort, at the very least). Finally, it would be all devolvers, all the time. Yeah, it wouldn't make a lick of sense, but think of the mayhem where after a pitched battle half the cast has been devolved back into full sized, pissed off dinosaurs.
Don't forget "Denver: The Last Dinosaur". :P
Denver was okay. The pilot movie kicked ass, but the series wasn't as good as it could of been for a series that featured a dinosaur in Los Angeles.
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Zaia wrote:THE MUPPET SHOW!!!!!

OMG, how could I have forgotten that?! It was so fuckin' hilarious! Every Sunday night it came on... Those two critics up in the balcony, and the Swedish Chef, and Beaker, and--and--and--I LOVED IT!! STILL DO!!! Where can I get it on VHS/DVD? :D
I remember it being on Odyssey (cable channel) for a while. They probably had advertisements for videos.

Have you checked Amazon? They have everything.
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