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[cosmic_llin]

I suddenly have all this fast internet access and I don't quite remember what I used to do with it...
So I've been YouTubing kids' shows I used to love...
Raggy Dolls, anyone? I always identified with Dotty because she was bossy... Also, it makes me laugh now that all of the dolls were in the Reject Bin because they were poorly made in some way, except for Claude, who was just in there because he was French!
Also, Playdays! Does anyone else remember the thrill of seeing which stop it was going to be? The Tent Stop was my favourite, but I hated the Patch Stop.
Astro Farm, too, what a classic!
Count Duckula!!! Need I say more?
Now, Roger and the Rottentrolls has to be one of the most awesome things ever invented. I don't care if it's for kids, I still love it.
I also used to love Moondreamers, Mike and Angelo, The Dreamstone and T-Bag. Clearly I leaned strongly towards SF&F even as a kid...
I know everyone thinks the kids' TV while they were growing up was the best, but I do think that my generation were pretty fortunate. A lot of our stuff was really intelligent and interesting, and not based around the idea of several primary-coloured blobs roaming around very small sets talking nonsense.
Having said that, now they have stuff like The Sarah Jane Adventures, Raven, My Parents Are Aliens and MI High. So it's not all bad.

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[penguin2.livejournal.com]

I officially hates the internet today. Why? Because yesterday we finally got around to ordering your Very Special Pressie as promised - and the @!@#^*&$#@#!@! order page was broken! And it's a ~cough cough~ very important order page. So Himself wrote to the site owners, because they certainly wouldn't be wanting to lose business, especially these days, and this morning the page is still broken. Waaah!

Be fear not, it SHALL be ordered and sent :-)

[carawj.livejournal.com]

Aaah! The Dreamstone! You are fantastic, because I'd completely forgotten that that existed and I used to love it. I clicked the link, thinking the name was vaguely familiar, and then oh the credits! I had the first episodes on video and watched them so much.

I used to watch Raggy Dolls too, but I don't remember so much about that one except the theme song. And Playdays! And I have a Count Duckula DVD around somewhere!

[deccaboo.livejournal.com]

OMFG. Raggy Dolls. Raggy Dolls. Dolls like you and me... Ahhh, the good old days.

Playdays was good, but after a while it used to always be the tent stop or something because it was cheaper to film :( Was T-Bag about a witch or was that Grotbag? I can't remember. Dreamstone was awesome. I used to like Bucky O'Hare too.

Do you remember Round the Twist? And 'Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left...'? For a while sundays on the BBC used to be lots of Aussie imported stuff, like the above and Ocean Girl. I remember one episode of Round the Twist when the dunny was haunted or something bizarre like that!